Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-28

camp nres, or on furlough at home, our
feet upon IN ottoman, we sagging back
into an arm chair.
As you 60 down the street, you see an
excavation and four or five men are WORK.
Ing, and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning
on the rail looking over at them. That Is
the way 1t IL in the church Of God e. day;
where you flnd one Christian hard at
work, there are fifsy men watching the
job.
o., my friends, why do you not 20 to
work and preach this gospel7 You say:
~ have no pulpit" You have. Il may
be the carpenters bench, 1t may be the
mason's wsll. The robe in which you
are to proclaim this gospel may be 8 shoe
makers spron. But woe unto You II you
preach not this gospel somewhere, some
how. II this world Is ever brought to
Christ, II will be through the unanimous
and
LONG CONTINUED EFFORTS
OF men who, waiting tor no special en-.
dowment, consecrste to God what they
have. Among the most useless people In
the world are men with ten talents, while
many ore with only two talents, or NO
talent ct all, is doing q great work, and
80 "the lame tske the prey"
There are thousands OF ministers of
whom you have never heard-in log cabins
at tie west, in mission chapels at the
east-who are warning against the lie.
gions OF darkness, successfully warning.
Tract distributors, month by month un-
dermining The citadels of Gin. You do
not know their going or their coming;
but the FOOTBALLS OF their ministry are
heard in the palaces OF heaven. Who are
the workers in our Sabbath schools
Throughout. this Land to-dsy? Men cele-
brated, man brilliant, neu OF vast eststs?
For the most part, no. that a. all. l
have noticed that tbs chief characteristic
OF the most OF those wno ere successful
in the work is that they know their Bibles,
are earnest in prayer, are anxious for the
salvation Of the young, and Sabbath by
Sabbath are willing to Sit down unob-
served and tell of Christ and the resur-
rection. These are the humble workers
who sre recruiting the great army OF
Christian VOuth-not by might, not by
power, not by profound argument not by
brilliant antithesis, but by the blessing OF
God on plain talk, aud humble story, and
silent tear, and anxious look. "rhe lame
take the prey"
o.! this work of saving the youth Of
our country-how few appreciate what it
is! This generation tramping on to the
grave-we will soon all be gone. What
mex?
An engineer on q locomotive going
across the western prairies day after day,
saw little child come out in front OF
cabin and wsve to him; so he got In the
habit OF waving back TO the little child,
and it wes the days joy to him to see
this little one come out In front Of the
cabin door and wave to him, while
HE ANSWERED BACK.
One day the train WAS belated and 1t
came on to the dusk of the
evening. As the engineer stood
at his post he cav OF the headlight that
little girl on the track, wondering why
the train did not Gomez looking for the
train, knowing nothing of its peril. A
great horror seized upon the engineer.
He reversed the engine. He gave it in
charge OF the other man on board, and
then he climbed over the engine, and he
came down on the cowcatcher. He SAID,
though he had reversed the engine, 1t
seemed IS though 1t were going st light
mig speed, faster and faster, though it
was reslly Glowing up, and with almoss
supernatural clutch he caught that child
by the hair and lifted 1t up, and when the
train stopped and the passengers
gathered around to see what was the mat
ter, there the old engineer lay, tainted
dead away, the little child alive in his
swarthy arms.
"Oa!" you say, "that was well DONE"
But want you tU exercise come kindness
and some appreciation toward those In
who are snatching the little
one from under the wheels Of temptation
and sin-snatc ling them from under
rail-trains Of eternal disaster,
bringing them up into respectability in
this world and into glory for the world
to come. You appreciate what the engi-
neer did; why can you not appreciate the
grander work done by every Sabbath
school teacher this afternoon?
Oh! my friends, wasn't to impress up
on myself and upon yourselves that 1t is
not the number Of talents we possess,
but the use we make Of them.
God has q royal family in the world.
Now, il should ssk: "Who are the
royal families OF history" you would
cay: "House of Hspsburg, House Of
Stuarts, House Of Buurbons."
THEY LIVED IN PALACES,
and had great equipsge. But who are
the Lords roya! family? Some Of them
may serve you in the household,
some Of them are .7fn unlighted gsrrets,
some OF them win walk this afternoon
down the street, en- their arm basket Of
broken food !. some of them are In the
despised and rejscsed OF men,
YET in the last great day, while it will be
found. that some Of us who Jared sump-
tu6usly every day are hulled back into
there are,the lame that will
take the prey.s
One step further. There are great
many people discouraged about getting to
heaven. You are brought up in good
families, you had Christian 'parentsge;
but you frankly tell me,shat you axe
Thousand miles away from the right track.
My. brother, you are the one want to
preach to this morning. / have been
looking for you. will tell You how you
got estray. II was not righteousness on
your part. II was perhaps through the
geniality and socialItY Of your nature that
you fell into sin. You wandered away
from your duty, you unconsciously left
the house OF God; you admit the gospel
to be true and yet you have 80 grievously
and go prolongedly wandered, you say
T. L.