St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
A HELPING WORD.
Beginning the New Year With
Christian Cheer for One Anoth.

er.
Rev. W. J. Lhamon, pastor Of the
Church of Christ, last evening preached
from the text:
"They helped every man his neighbor; and
every one said to his brother, he of good
cheer. SO the carpenter encouraged the
goldsmith. and he that smootheth with the
hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying
of the soldering, it is good" Isaiah, xii, q
and z.
A helping word Is as good as help
ing hand. ''Soldiers, remember that
from these pyramids forty centuries
Contemplate Your deeds" That was
the speech with which Napoleon helped
his men TO win the battle of the pyra-
mids. "Charge in the name of the Most
High" cried Cromwell. and then his
IrOnsides swept everything before them.
Drawer and more brotherly words can-
not be found than those of Noses fare
well address: BE strong and of good
courage; fear not, nor he affrighted at
them; for the Lord thy God. He it is
that doth go with the; He will
not fail thee nor fOrSake thee"
The Bible heroes never count on defeat
they are heroic to the heart, and their
language is always in the style of vic
tory. Paul's whole life is p8an. and
his last words are shout. The Bible
is book of hope and inspiration, and,
therefore, of happiness. Christ is the
worlds best Optimist. Ii you would be
thoroughly miserable go and learn from
the books of the infidelS. Instead of
your clear sky of faith they will give
a phiosophic fog of agnosticsm, and
instead of victory they will promise you
only the moss that grows on dead mems
bones.
Our text suggests how me may help
one another: The carpenter encour-
aged the goldsmith, and they
said of the welding, it is good" There
was no professional Pathfinder in all
that company. Nobody had a wet
blanket to throw over their little fire of
enthusiasm; there was nobody to say,
You can't do it-you can't do it.
They had good words for each other.
Are there none to say of repentance,
ut is gOod?" OF hating efforts
at Righteousness, at is gOod?''
Are there none to overlook the
faults and praise the prattle of
babes? Ii the heart is loyal the hands
may be excused for accidental miss
ticks. and the feet for occasional slips.
Church treasurerS are human, and the
soprano singer may pitch' the piece a
nalf step TOO hlgh, ana the organise
may strike false note once year, and
even the preacher MAY occasionally get
his nominative case caught onto prep
ositiOn. What then? Are we not all
worshiping, and does not God hear the
praise of the hearts of His people rising
in richest music to His throne spite of
all our human discords? While you
are censuring the work or the worship
it may be that the recording angels are
whispering to one another. 1t is good.
o. you carpenters in Christ's workshop,
will you not encourage the gOldsmiths
who are there beside you? And you
goldsmiths. you will not despise the
blacksmiths, but you will say of the
welding, 1t is good. Robert Browning
mas thoroughly Christian sentiment i'll
these words:
ats wiser being good than bad,
Its safer being meek than fierce,
| It's filter being sane than mad.
My own hope is a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
| That after last returns the first;
That which began best can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once prove accursed.'