Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-06-07

way for their motser. They came on I'M
ana many OF them have m the years sinee
We war taken positions in church aad state.
hiie many who suffered hoihine during
toese times have had sons go cut into lives al
indolence and vAgabondase, these who sttrt.
90 under so many disadSans tgss because
tne1 We're so early b1reft, these are the Lame
that took the prey.
A step further: There are those who womb
Ike % do good. they say; 'soh, il i only
, hsuI Weatih. OF. II had eloquenee, or, il /
had igh social position, how Hueh / would
accomplish for God and the ehsnchp ~ / stand
mere Today 10 tell YOU that you have great
OPT ortintties for usefulness
W ho built the pyramids. The King who or.
oered them builty No; the plain workmen who
added STOKE after stone and $50: after stone.
Who built the bikes Of Hollgauds The yo5ern.
ment that ordered the enteraTises No. lie
plain workmen who carried the earth and
iuug their trowel on the wall. WHO are
those who hav1 built these vast citiess The
capitalists. No; the carpenters, the mascus.
the piumber, the piasterers, sbe timers. th.
Iooiers, dependent On days wages Tor a
ilsllhood. And 50 in the great work OF a.
suaging human suffering and enllghtening
human Ignorance and hating human iniqui-
". In that gieat work the chief part Is TO be
aone by ordinary men, with ordinary speech.
IN an ordinary manner, and by ordinary
means. The trouble is that in the army Of
nels and brigadier generals. We are not
willing TO march with the rank and file and
90 duty with the private soldier. We want
70 belong TO the reserve corps, and read
about the battle while warming ourselves AT
The camp fires OF on furiough at home, our
feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into
an armchair.
As you go down the street you see an ex.
eayation and four or five men ar, working.
ana perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the
rsll looking over at them. That is the way
u Is In the church OF God to-day; where Won
md one Christian hard a: work there are
nifty men watching the job.
On my friends, why do you not 90 to
work and preach this gospel, You saw: 81
have no pulpit" You have. IL may be
the carpenters bench, IL NAV be the mason's
wall. The robe In which YOU are to proclaim
THIS gospel may be sioemaker's apron.
But woe unto YOU IL you do not preach this
gospei somewhere, somehow Ifthis worll
i ever brought to Christ il will De through
tle unanimous and long continued efforts OF
men who. waiting for no special en- iowment,
consecrate to God what they have. Among
the most useless people In the world are
men with ten talents, while many a one with
only two talent, or no talent at all, Is doing
great work, and 30 ''ihe lame take the
prev
There are thousands Of ministers Of whom
You have never Leird--in log cabins in the
west, IN mission chapels at the east--who are
warning against the legions of darkness, sue
eessfuiiy warning. Tract-distributors, month
Sy month undermining the citadaIs of sin.
hou do not know their going or their conn.,
ing; but the footballs of their ministry are
heard In tine palaces of heaven. Who are
the workers in our sabbath schools through
out this land to-day. Men celebrated, men
brilliant Ell Of yfst esjatey For the most
pari, not thst at I'll. have noticed that tie
chef characteristic OF the most OF these vino
are silece sSiu. in TIE work is that they know
their bibles. are esrdest In PRAYER, are anxi-
Gus for the salvation OF the Young, and Sab
bath after Sabbath are willing 10 sit down
unobs rived and tell OF Christ and tie resur-
rectltn. These are the humble workers W ho
are recruiting the great army Of Christi IN
youth-not by might, not by rover, not by
profound argument, not by brilliant aniitii-
ess, but by the blessing of God on plain talk,
AID humble sory, and silent tear, and anxi-
Gu. look. The lame take the prev,
On, this work of saving the youth of our
eountrv-how few APPRECIATE what IL Isl,
This Eenei alton tramping on TO the grave
we will soon all be gone. What nexts
An engineer ON a locomotive going across
the western prairies day after day saw a
little child coune out in front of cabin and
wave TO him. 80 he got in the haDit of way-
ing back TO the little child, and il was the
days joy to him TO see this little ono come
hi.u, while he answered back.
One day the train was belated, aud it came
on TO the dusk of the evening. As the-en-
gineer stood at his post he saw by the head
Iighs that little girl on the track. wondering
why the train did not come. looking for the
train, knowing nothing Of IT. peril. A great
horror seized upon the engineer. He re.
yersed the engine. He gave IL in charge Of
the other man on board, and then he climbed
over the engine, ard he came down on the
cow-eatcher. He said, though he had re-
sersed the engine IL seemed as though il
were going at lightning speed, faster and
faster, though IL was really slowing up; and
with almost supernatural clutch he caught
that child by the hair and lifted 1t up, and
when the train stopped and the pas engtr.
gathered around 10 see what was the matter.
There the old engineer lay. tainted dead
away, the little child alive and In his swar.
thy arms.
ssohr you say, sthat was vel dcne y
But / want you 10 exeri se some kindness
and some appreciation toward those in
community who are snatching the little ones
from under the wheels of temptation and sin
-srstehing them from under laundering
rail-lrains Of eternal disaster. bringing them
up into responsibility 10 this world and into
glory for the world to come. You appre-
eiate what the engineer did; why can you
no; appreciate the grander work dose by
every sabbatf-school teacher this afternoon?
0h,my friends, want 70 impress upon myself
and upon yourselves that IL is rot the mum
Der of talents we possess, but the use we
make OF them.
God has royal family in the world. Now,
II should ask, Who are the ROYAL famiiles
Of historyfn you would say, III u,e Of Hsps-
bury, house OF Stuarts, house of Bourboas.'
They lived IN palaces and had great equip
age. But who are the Lords royal family:
Some Of them may serve you in the house
bold, some OF them are in uniighted ganets,
some OF them will walk this afte moon down
the street, on their arm a basket of broke 1
food; some Of them are IN the almshoase.
despised and rejected OF men, yet in the last
great day. while il will he found that some
OF us who Jared sumptuously every day are
hurled back into diScomiturt, there are the
lame that will take the prey.
One step further: ] here arc great many
people Discouraged about getting 10 heaven.
You are brought up in good iamiiles, you
had Christian parentage. but you frankly
tell me thai GU are thousand miles away
from the night track.
Ny brother, YOU are the one | want TO
preach TO this morning. i have been look
ing for yeu. want TO tell you how you got
zstray. 1t was not righteousness on your
part. II was perhaps through the geniaLty
and sociability Of your nature that you tell
into sin. You wandered away from your
duty, you unconsciousIy left the house OF
God; you admit the gospel 10 be true, and
yet you have 90 grieyously and 50 Pc ong-
eddy wandered you say rescue is iInl oss.-
bic.
names OF those In heaven who were OF earth
worse than you tell me YOU are. They went
the whole round Of iniquiiy, they diser tc-d
the mselyes. they disgraeed their hoIsebo q,
they despai ell OF return because their rep
tation was gone. their property was gone,
everything WIS gone; but In some hour IKE
this they heard the voice OF God and threw
themselves on the divine compassion. end
they lose up more than eonqu' rors. And l
tell YOU there Is the same chance for you.
That is ore reason why like to preach tais
gospel, 50 tree a gospel, so tremendous a
gospel. It takes a man all wrong and makes
him all right.
in a former settlement who're ! preached
a member Of my congregation quit the hou.e
of God. quit respectable circles went into
all STYLES of sin, and was slain Of his inll-
uity. The dry for his burial came, ana ms
body was brought into the house OF GOD.
some OF his comrades who had destroyed
him were overheard along the street. on me
way TO the burial, saying: "Cone. let iis 20
and hear Talmage damn tins old siDneh
Obi 1 had nothing but tears for the eea !,
and | had nothing but invitation, Tor me
living. You see could not do otherwiss.
..Chriet Jesus cane to seek and 10 save tiiit
which was lost" christ in his dying PRAYER
said: Father. forgive tlem," and thai was
a prayer for yoI and for me. GU. t'ft on
the: road TO heaven to-day You are l'ot
happy. The Thirst Of your sou VIII heNtr
be sIaked by the fountains OF SIN On Turn
eyeryybere but 10 God for Lelp. Right Were
YOU are, call on Him. He know You. lie
knows all about you. He knows all the ODDS
against which YOU hsve been eenlendlng IN
life. DO not 90 to Him with long rigna-
Iole of a prayer, but just look up and say
"Heip. Help.'
lint Won say: .'My hama trembes 50 from
INV dissipation, yan't even take hold -
bynanbook 20 sing" DO MT worry aoout
that, my brother; | viii give out hsilih ~
the close sc familiar you can sing IL without
a hook But YOU say: 1.-THE wrong did
= -, - -, ,t..d and In heaven now, and