New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-06

often divide their scant crust with some for
Torn 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: 81 was hungry and
ye fed me-" No cohort of heaven will be
TOO bright to transport them. By Gods
help they have yanquished the Assyrian host.
They have divided among them the spoils.
Lame, lame, yet they took the prey.
/ was riding along the country road one
took him. lie was very old. He was gong
very slowly. At that rate it would have
taken him Two hours to so mile. said:
S.Wouldn't you like to ride" He sald:
.'Thank you / would. God bless you"
When he sat beside me he said: You see, /
am very lame and very old, but the Lord has
4 been good Lord to me. / have buried all my
/ children. The Lord gave them and the Lord
4 had Alright to take them away. Blessed be His
name. I was very sick and / had no money
and my neighbors came in and took care Of
me and / wanted nothing. / suffer great
i deal with pain, but then / have SO many
mercies left. The Lord has been good
Lord to me-" And before we got farI was
in doubt whether / was giving him a tide
i or he was giving me ride He said: 'sNoW,
il 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
A ing. Good morning You have been feet to
the lame, sir, you have. Good morning.
| Swarthy men had gone the road that day. /
i 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
down many a Sennacherib of temptation
| which has mastered you and me. Lame, so
fearfuly lame, SO aWfully lame; but he took
the prey.
A step further: There are in all commune
tiles many orphans. During our last war
and iii tie years lmme diately following Low
many children we heard say: ooh! my
| father was killed in the war; Have you
| ever noilced-I fear you have not how we'll
these children have turned out? Starting
| under the greatest disadvantages, no orphan
asylum could do for them what their father
would have done had he lived. The Skin
misher sat one night, by the light of fagois,
| in tie swamp writing letter home, when a
sharpshooter's bullet ended the letter which
was never folded, never posted, and never
read.
Those children came up under great dis
advantage. 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
/ they came to the story OF how God is the
Father of the fatherless, and the widows
| portion, and they soon took their fathers
| place in the household. They battled the
| way for their mother. They came on up,
and many OF them have In the years since
the war taken positions in church and state.
] While many who suffered nothing during
| those times have had sons go out into lives OF
/ incidence and yagabondage, these who Start.
1 ed under so many disadvantages because
they were so early bereft these are the lame
i that took the prey.
A step further: There are those who would
like to do good. They say: .'Oh, if only
! had wealth, or, if | had eloquence, or, if [
had high social position, how much 1 would
/ accomplish for God and the churchW / stand
| here to-day to tell you that you have great
Opportunities for usefulness
Who built the pyramids? The king who or
dered them built? No; the plain Worklnen WHO
i added stone after stone and store afterstone.
/ Who built the bikes of Holland? the govern
ment that ordered the enterprise? No; the
plain Workmen who carried the earth and
RUG their trowel on the WILL. Who are
those who have built these vast cities? The
| capitalists? No; the carpenters, the masons,
the plumber, the pasterers, the timers, the
roofers, dependent on days wares Tor
! liylihood. And so in the great work of as
! sua ging human suffering and enll9htening
human ignorance and halting human iniqul-
ty. 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 captains and colo.
/ nels and brigadier generals We are not
i willing to march with the rank and file and
do duty with the private soldier. We want
to belong to the reserve corps, and read
about the battle while warmin ourselves at
4 the camp fires or on furlough at home, our
I feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into
an armchair.
AS you go down the street you see an eN-
caEation and four or five men are working,
! and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the
/ rail looking over at them. That is the way
4 in no rtl of TO
find one Christian hard at work there are
4 fifty men watching the job.
Oh! my friends. why do you not 90 to
work and preach this gospel? You say: Il
/ have no pulpit" You have. 1t may be
the carpenters bench, itmay be the mason's
wall. The robe in which you are to proclaim
this gospel may be 81 oemaker's apron.
But woe unto you if you do not preach 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 nospecial endowment
consecrate to God what they have. Among
the most useless people in the world are
men with ten talents, while many one with
only two talents, or no talent at all, is doing
4 Il great work, and so s.ihe lame take the
i prey
There are thousands Of ministers of whom
f you have never lie lrd-in log cabins in the
west in mission chapels at the east-who are
Warning against the legions of darkness, Sue
cessfuily warning. Observation-Disclosures, month
by month undermining the citadals of sin.
You do not know their going Or their COM
ingg but the footballs OF their ministry are
heard in the palaces of heaven. VINO are
the workers in our Sabbath schools through
out this land to. day? 1Ien celebrated, men
brilliant men of vast estate? For the most
part, not that at all ] have noticed that IL e
chef characteristic of the most OF those who
are successful in tie work is that they know
their Bibles are earnest in prayer, are anXi-
Gus for the salvation of the young, and Sab
: bath after Sabbath are willing to sit down
unobs aryed and tell OF Christ and the resur-
rectIen. These are the humble workers who
are recruiting the great army of Christi IN
: youth not by might, not by POWER, not by
profound argument, not by brilliant antith-
!, esis, but by the blessing of God on plain talk,
and humble sorry, and silent tear and anxi-
Gus look. The lame take the prey
Oh, this work of saving the youth of our
country--how few appreciate what tits!
This generation tramping on to the grave
we will soon all be gone. What next
An engineer OH a locomotive going across
the western prairies day after day saw a
little child come out in front of a cabin and
J, wave to him. SO he got fn the habit of way
!, ing back to the little child, and it was the
to l,i,,, to fl,ir o.,,,,o