The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-08

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voice Of Him who said: 81 wa hungry ant
ye fed me-" No cOLOrt of heaven will bt
too bright to transport them. BY Cor
help they have ~yanquiShCd the Assyrian host
They have divided among them The spOiIs
Lame, lame, yet they JCo@ the prey.
] was riding along the country road ont
day and | law a man on Crutchcs. / over
took MIN. lie was very old. He was golug
very slowly. At that rate it would have
taken him Two hours to 90 a mile. ! said
"WOuldn't YOU like TO Tide?" lie sad.
''Thauk you ! would. God bless YOU
When he sat beside me he SAID: You see,
am very lame and very old, but the Lord has
been a GOOD Lord TO me. have buried all my
children. The Lord gave them and the Lord
had Il right to take them away. Blessed he His
name. ] was very sick and ] had 10 i Oney
and my ~neighDUrs came in and too. are OF
me and | wanted nothing. ! suffer a great
deal with pain, hut then | have so many
mercies left. The Lord has been a good
Lord TO me-" And before we got tar | was
in GOubt whether l was giving him Il hide
or he was giving me 4 ride . lie said: "NOw,
il you please, I'll get out here. Just help
NE down on my CrUtcACs, 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 n OTninT,'
Swarthy men lad gone the road that Gay. |
do not know where they came ont, but every
hObbIe OF that old man was toward the shin
NIX EdLf. " III a. olA Z I ~ Il III htlAl ~ 1 N
down many a SenuacEeIib OF temptation
which has mastered you and me. Lame, so
l~earfully lame, 80 aWtully lame; but he took
the Prey.
A step further: There are in all commun-
itIes many orphans. During or last war
and in tie cars mme diateIy following low
many children we heard say: "Oh! my
father was killed in the war Have YOU
ever nOICed-I fear you have not how weh
these Childi IN have turned out: Starting
under the greatest disadvantages, nc orphan
asylum could Go for them what their father
would have done had lie lived. The Skin
misher sat one night by the light Of tagO.S,
in Il { swamp writing a letter home, when a
shurpShootcI's bullet ended thu letter (which
as never folded, never posted, and never
read.
Those children came up under great dis
advantage, No father to fight their way for
them. Perhrps 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 bow God Is the
Father of the fatherlcss, and the widows
LOrtion, 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
tho war taken positions in church and state.
While many who suffered nothing during
those times have had sons 20 out into lives OF
Incidence and va~gabOndage, these who sttrt-
ed under so many disadv8ntl ges because
they were so early bereft, these are the lame
that took the prey.
A step further: There are those who would
like to do good. They say; 'Oh, if l only
had wealth, or, If / had elOqucpce, or, il |
had high social position, how much l would
accomplish for God and the church !" l stand
here Today TO tell you tnat you have great
opportunities for usefulness.
Who built the pyramidsg The king who or
derGu them builtl No; the plain wOrkmen who
added store after stone and store after stone.
Who built the bikes Of Hoilandy the govern
ment that ordered the enterprise? No; the
plain wOrkmen who carried the earth and
! ung their trowel o. the WILL. Who are
those who have built these vast cities? TIL
capitalists? No; the carpenters, the mascnS,
the plumber, the pIasterers, the timers, the
T~Oofers, dependent on 4 days wages tor Il
livelihood. And so in the great work of as
smuggling human suffering and enlIghtening
human ignorance and haltiug human intquI-
ty. In that gleat 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 tine army Of
Christ we all want to be captains and colo.
nels and brigadier generals. We are not
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 waTmin ourselves at
the camp fires or on furlOugh at home, ON
feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into
an armchair.
As you 20 down the street you see an ex-
c~ayation and four or five men ars working,
and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the
rail looking over at them. That Is the way
it Ii a. tie church Of God to-day; where YOU
finyl one Christian hard az work there are
fifty men watching the job.
oh! my friends. why do you not 60 to
work and preaeh this gospel? Yon say: 81
/ have no pulpit" lon have. IL may be
the carpenters bench, it may be the mason's
wall. The robe In which youaret TO proclaim
tnis gospel may be a sfoemaker's apron.
But Voc unto you If you do not preach this
gospel somewhere, somehow If this worll
Is ever brought TO Christ it viii be through
the unan and long continued efforts Of
men who, waiting for nospeeial endowment,
eonseerate to God what they have. Among
the most useless people In the world are
men with ten talents, while many q one with
only two tateIt., or no talent at all, Is doing
u great work, and so s.the lame a the
prey"
There are thousands Of ministers Of whom
you have never lie lrd-in log cabins in she
west, in mission chapels at the cast-who are
warning AGAINST the legiOns Of darkness, sue
eessfully warning. Observation-Disclosures, month
by month undermining the citadals of sin.
lou 10 MOI KNOW tlelE kOiHE vi lltll t0ii-
ing; but the footballs OF their ministry are
heard tn tae palaces Of heaven. VINO are
the workers IN our SABBATH schools through
ont this land to.days Men celebrated, men
brilliant D Ell Of vast estatet For the most
part, aot that at all. / have noticed that tie
cInef characteristic of the most Of those who
are successtul IN the work IS that they knew
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 rived and tell OF Christ and the resur-
recticn. These are the hubble workers who
are recruiting the great army Of Christi in
youth -not by might, not By POWER, not by
profound argument not bv brilliant aniith-
esis. hut By the blessing Of God on plain talk,
ard tumble s'cry, and silent tear, and anxi-
Gus look. The lame take the prey
Oh, this work Of saving the youth OF our
cOuHtry-how few appreciate what IL isl
This generation tramping On lathe grave
we will soon all be gone. What nexts
An engineer on s locomotive going across
tile western prairics day aiter day saw q
little child come out IN front Of d cabin and,
wave 10 him, 50 he got In the habit Of WAY
ing Rasb - sha little child, and II was the
day. Joy I'd him 10 see this little one come
ont IN font Of tho cabin door and wave 10
him, while bio answered baek.
One nay the train was belated, and Itcaane