News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-29

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you might this afternc on go into Your place
of prayer, and kneel before God, and
bring down upon your soul, and the souls OF
others, blessing so vast that it would take
eternal ages to compute it: "Oh," you say,
Il haven't f!eetness of speech. l can
talk well. l can't utter what L want to
say" My brother, can you not quote
one passage of Scripture! Then, take
that one passage of Scripture; carry
it with you everywhere; quote IL under
passage of Scripture vol may harvest a
thousand souls for God. am glad that the
chief work of the Church il this day is being
done by the men of one talent. Once in a
while, when great fortress is to be ia ken,
God will bring out a great field piece and
rake all with the frey hail of destruction
But common muSketS do most of the hard
fighting. 1t took only one Joshua, and the
thousands of common troops under him, to
drive down the walls of cities and, under
wrathful strokes, to make nations fly like
sparks from the anvil 1t only took one
for Swift erland, one John Knox
for Scotland, one Calvin for
France, and one John Wesley for England
D0rcaS as certainly has a mission TO serve as
Panl has a mission to preach. The two mites
dropped by the widow into the poor-bo will
be as much applauded as the endowment of
college, which gets a mans name into the
ne wSpaperS. The man who kindled the fire
under the burnt Offering in the ancient temple
had a duty as Imperative as that of the
high priest, in magnificent robes, walking
into the Holy of Holes under the cloud of
Jehovah'S presence. Yes, the men with one
talent are to save the world, or it will never
be saved at all, The men with five or ten
talents are tempted to toll chiefly for them
selves, to build up their own grelt name,
and work for their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
AMI do nothing for the alienation of the
worlds woes. The cedar of Lebanon and
ing on the mount lin seems to hand down the
storms out of the heavens to thu earth. but It
bears no fruit while some dwarf pear tree
has more fruit on its branches than it can
carry. Better to have one talent and put it
to full use than five hundred wickedly
neglected.
Ny sub 'ect teaches me that there is 60
ing to come day of solemn settlement.
When the old farmer of the text got home,
ne Immediately called all the servants about
him and said: Here is the little account l
have been keeping. | want to see your ac-
count. and we will first compare them, and
L pay you what owe you and you'll pay me
what you owe me. Let US have a settlement"
Tho day viii come when the Lord Jesus Christ
viii appear, and viii say to you: NV hat
have you been doing with my property F!
What have you been doing with my facul-
t.esl What have you been doing with what
| gave you for accumuative purposes"
There will be no escape from that settle
ment. Sometimes You cannot get a settle
ment with a man, especially If he owes you.
He postpones and procrastinateS and says:
'Pll see you next week, or "pll see you next
month p" The fact is, he does not want to
settle. But when the great day comes of
which l am speaking, there will be no escape.
We will have to face all the bills.
have sometimes been amazed to see
how an accountant will run up or
ten or fifteen figures in a line, and
attempt to add them up, and | ad them
two or three times, [ make them different
each time. But have admired the way an
accountant will take long line of figures,
ami without a single mistake, and with great
announce the aggregate Now, in
the last great settlement, there will be
n correct account presented. God has
kept a long line of sins, long line of broken
long line of profane words a long
line Of discarded sacram9ntS, a long line of
privle res. They will all be added
up, AMI before angels, and devils, and men,
the aggregate will be announced Oh, that
will be tine great day of settlement. have
10 ask the question: Am L ready for
t." 1t is of more importance to me to
answer that question in regard to myself
than in regard TO you: and it IS of more
Importance for YOU to answer it in regard to
yourself than in regard to me. Every mau
Tor himself on that day. Every woman for
herself on that day. ''lf thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thySelf: if thou soonest,
IF the last day as an occasion of vocfora-
iona great de mo0StratiOn of power and
1cInp: buG there viii b. on that day, | think,
few moments of entire silence. L think
an overwhelming silence.
hnll it will be such silence as the earth
never heard. 1t will be at the moment when
III nations are listening for their doom.
l learr, also from this parable IF the text
hat our degrees of happ mess in heaven will
he graduated according to cur degrees of
usefulness on earth. Several of the COM
mentatoTs agree in making this parable the
iame one as i'll Luke, where one man was made
ruler over fl re cities and another made ruler
over two citjes Would it be fair and right
that the pro. essed CHI istian man who has
lived very nea" the line between the world
md the Chur ch-the man who has often
his Chr istan characteristic
nan who has never spoken out
for God-the man who has never
been known as a Christian only on
days-the man whose great
strn geie has been to see hey cry. l91ailch Of ti2c
rand and glorious a seat in heaven as the
nan who gave all his energies of body, mind
nd soul to the service of God: The dying
iief entered heaven, but not with
be same startling acclaim as that
hitch greeted Paul, who had gone
trough maltreatmC nts into the kingdom of
lory. One star di Gers from auther star in
lory and thev who toll nightly for Christ
n earth shall have n far greater reward than
hose who have reI dered only half a service.
Some of you are fastening on toward the
evgara of the rig lteouS. 1 want 20 cheer
on up at the thong hit that there will be some
ind of a reward waiting for you. There are
christian people in this house who are very
ear heaven. This week some of you may
Ass out into the light of the unset
ing sun. l saw a blind man going
long the road with his staff, and he
ept pounding the earth and then
tamping with his foot lsaid to him: What
10 you do that fOr!' ''Oh. " he said, 81 can
ell by the sound of the ground when [ am
lear a dwelling." And some of you can tell
" the sound of your earthly pathway that
-Ou are coming near to your Fathers house.
congratulate you. Oh, weather beaten
Toyagers. the storms are driving you into the
arbor. just as when YOU were looking for a
riend, you came up to the gates of his house.
nd you were talking with the servant, when
our friend hoisted the window and shouted
Come in come M Just SO. when YOU come
alking with death, the black porter at
he gate, methiDks Christ will hoist the
wind Ow and say: Come in! come in viii
make thee ruler over en- cities" In antIci-
patton of that land | do not wonder that
Augustus Toplady. the author of Rock OF
Ages declared in his last moment: 81 have
nothing more to pray for: God has given
ne everything Surely no man can live on
artn after the glories Ihave witnessed" Oh,
ny brothers and sisters how sweet it will be.
LfJcr the long wilderness march, to get home
That was bright moment for the tired
love in the time OF the DELUXE when it
ound its way safely into The window OF
he ark.