The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-01

1neY have scant wages. Perhaps they are
diseased, or have physical infrmities so they
are hindered from doing a continuous days
work. A city missionary finds them up the
dark alley, with no fire, with thin clothing
with very coarse bread They never ride In the
street car; they can not afford the cents.
Ihey never see any pictures save those In the
snow windows on the street from which they
| are often jostled and slooked at by some one
who seems TO say in the look: "Move on what
are you doing here looking at picturesF'
PATIENT IN MUCH EVILS.
let many OF them live on mountains of
transportation. at their rough table He who
led the 5000 breaks the bread. They talk
often Of the good times that are coming.
lhls world has no charms for them, but
heaven entrances their spirit. They often di-
vac their scant crust with some torlorn
wretch who knocks at their door at night
and on the blast of the night wind, as the
door opens to let them in is heard the voice
OF Him who said: Il was hungry and We fed
me-" No cohort of heaven viii be too bright
TO transport them. By Gods help they have
vanquished the AssyrIan host. They have
divided among them the spoils Lame, lame,
yet they took the prey
was riding along the country road one
daY and saw man on crutches. lOVertook
him. He was very old. He was going very
slowly. At that rate it would have taken
him two hours TO go a mile. l said;
'aMouldn't you like to rider He said
Ihank you, would. God bless you"
When he sat beside me, he said "You see,
am very lame and very old but the Lord
all my children. The Lord gave them and
the Lord had right to take them away
Blessed be His name, | was very sick and
haq no money, and my neighDOrs came in
ana took care OF me, and l wanted nothing.
| suffer great deal of pain, but then l have
SO many merces left The Lord has been a
good Lord to men And before we had got
far was 10 doubt whether was giving him
a ride or he was giving me ride He said:
Nov, if you please, I'll get out here. Just
help me down on my crutches, If you please
God bless you. Thank you sir. Good morn
Ing. Good morning. You have been feet to
the lame, sir, YOU have, Good morning.
SWarthy men had gone the road that day. 7
DO not know where they came out but every
hObble Of that old man was toward the shin.
ing gate. With his old crutch he had struck
many Sennacherib of temptation which has
mastered you and me. Lame, so fearfully
lame, so awfully lame; but he took the prey
THE ORPHANS AS HEROES.
step further: There are in all cOmmuni-
ties many orphans. During our last war and
In the years Immediately following how many
children we heard say; 20, my father was
killed In the war;" Have you ever noticed
| fear you have not-how will those children
have turned out! Starting out under the
greatest disadvantages, no orphan asylum
could do for them what their father would
have done had he lived. The skirmsher sat
one night by the light of fagOts In the swamp
writing letter home when a sharpshOOter's
bullet ended the letter which was never fold
ed, never posted and never read
Those children came up under great disad-
vantage. No father to fight their way for
them Perhaps there was in the old family
Bible an old yellow letter pasted fast which
told the story Of that fathers long march
and how he suffered in the hospital, but
they looked still further on in the Bible and
history n I'D ic 4ba
Father Of the fatherless and the widows por-
tiOn and they soon took their fathers place
in that household. They batted the way for
their mother. They came on up and many
of them have IL the years since the war
taken positions In church and state. While
many of those who suffered nothing during
those times have had sons go out into lives of
Incidence and vagabOndage, these who
started under so many disadvantages be :
cause they were so early bereft, these are the
lame who took the prey.
THE ONLY TRUE wORKMEN.
A step further: There are those who would
like to do good. They say: so! If only had
wealth, or If had elOQuence, or If had high
social position how much | would accomplish
for God and the church," | stand here to-
day to tell you that you have great opportu-
mites for usefulness. Who built the pyra-
midsa The king who ordered them built2
No; the plain workmen who added stone af-
ter stone and stone after stone Who built
the dikes of Holland! The government that
ordered the enterprisea No; the plain work
men who carried the earth and rung their
trOWelE lon the wall. Who are those who have
bu lit these vast cities! The capitalists! No;
the carpenters, the masons, the plumbers the
plasterers, the timers, the rOOfers, depend
ent on q days wages for livelihood. And SO
in the great work of assuaging human suffer
ing and enlightening human ignorance and
hating human iniquity. In that great work,
the chief part is to be done by ordinary men,
with ordinary speech, In an ordinary manner
and by ordinary means. The trouble Is that
in the army Of Christ we all want to be cap
tains and colonies and brigadier generals.
We are not willing to march with the rank
and file and to do duty with the private sol
der. We want to belong to the reserve corps
and read about the battle while warming our
selves at the camp fires, or on furough at
home. our feet on an ottoman, we sagging
back into an arm chair.
AS you 90 down the street, you see an ex-
cavatiOn and four or five men are working,
and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the
rail looking over at them. That is the way it
is in the chuich of God to-day; where you
find one Christian hard at WORK, there are
fifty men watching the job.
LABORING IN LowLY PLACES.
0 my friends, why do you not go to work
and preach this gospel You say: II have no
pulpit" You have. 1t may be the carpen-
tcr's bench, it may be the masOn's wall The
robe in which YOU are to proclaim this gospel
may be n shoemaker's apron. But woe unto
you if you preach not this gospel somewhere,
somehow! If this world Is ever brought to
Christ it Will be through the unanimous and
long continued efforts Of men who, waiting
for no special endowment, 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 talents, or
no talent at all, is doing great work, and so
"the lame take the prey
There are thousands Of ministers Of whom
YOU have never heard--in log cabins at the
west, in mission chapels at the east-whO are
warning against the legiOns Of darkness, sue
cessfElly warning Tract distributors. month
bv month undermining the ctadels of sin.
You do not know their going or their coming;
but the fcotfal of their ministry are heard
in the palaces of heaven. Who are the work
ers in our Sabbath schools throughout this
land to-day Men celebrated, men brilliant
men of vast estAtet For the most part, no t
that at all. ] have noticed that the chief
characteristic OF the most Of those who are
successful in the work i that they know their
Bibles, are earnest in prayer are anxious for
lie salvation Of the young. and Sabbath hv
"a bbath are willing to sit down unObseryed
And tell of Christ and the resurrection
These are the humble workers who are re-
cruting the great army OF Christian youth
not by might, not by power, not by profound
argument not bv brilliant antithess, but by
the blessing Of God on plain talk, and humble
story and silent tear. and anxious look. The