Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1889-09-26


work? Christian mothers, and they
are still giving them to US. Let US
have more individual workers, for
the harvest truly is great but the
laborers are few.
More individual workers, more
men and boys, mothers and daugh-
ters for Christ and Sunday School
work, and fewer advocates of their
individual ideas of L g God ought
to have made things and how his
holy word ought to read.
David had the right idea of in
dividual work when he went in
the strength of Israel's God-yet
opposed by his jealous brothers
and individually slew the Giant
who had defied his God. Give US
a few more Davids and the thous-
and defiant Giants of Missouri will
be slain. Israel had one Giant to
slay-Missouri has a thousand. I
would first have the Giant of de-
nominational antagonism behead-
ed +; then the Giant of intemper-
ance would fall, and of gambling,
and of unholy desecration of the
Lords day; the Giant of Sunday
base ball, within the sound of your
hundreds of city church towers !;
the Giant of unholy pride of dude
ism, and a thousand other isms
born of the devil. All Giants,
defying Sunday School influences,
poisoning your boys, running your
girls-all Giants, to be slain by in
dividual work. l got good idea
of individual work last week from
a little boy in the infant class in
my Sunday School. His teacher
told the class, while taking up
collection for foreign missions, that
children who did not 60 to Sunday
School were heather children. On
his way home from Sunday School
he met two bright little Jew boys ;
he asked them if they went to
Sunday School and they teld him
that they did not. At dinner that
day he said: "Papa, I found two
heathens and if mother will fix
something to eat in basket I'll
take it to them" But mother
told little Ed. that they were rich
people and well educated, but that
he could go to see them and see ifhe
could not get them to go to Sunday
School. He went and the happiest
boy at our Sunday School last Sum
day was little Ed. with his two
bright little heathens, as he took
them to be. He guarded them
with Jealous eyes for fear they
would get away from him, for they
had never been to a Sunday School
before. Children are good agents
for Sunday Schools; their little
hearts twine so tenderly and SO
closely together. With an hours
acquaintance they love one an
other more dearly than we do in
years of intimate association. Let
US start them all out on a similar
mission to little Eds, and let the
thlrty-four thousand Sunday School
officers and teachers in Missouri
go in another direction on the same
business. Look out that they do
not bring in two recruits to our
one for the grand army of the fu-
ture salvation of the world.
Millions of dollars and years of
toll were almost uselessly spent
by our missionary boards in foreign
lands before they found that the
children of these heathens should
be the first objects of their care ;
that through them was the nearest
and surest way to converting the
adults. A beautiful lesson of phi
lanthropy and personal Christian
work is given US in the history OF
the United States Government
maintaining squadron off the
western coast of Africa for years
at an annual cost of S25O,OO to
prevent African slave trade. My
dear Christian friends, if our gov.
eminent can spend this much te
prevent the enslavement upon oul
shores of a heather people, what
ought we Christians to contribute
to the prevention of the enslave.
ment of our own dear boys ano
girls? We want collection for this
State work we want an individual
collection--this legltimately comes
under head of personal work. We
want money. Come, Baptist broth
er, you who have held close com
munion with your money; come
| Methodist brother, you whose
money has been operated upon by
the Holy Spirit ; come, brethren oi
my own church, you whose money
has been baptized for the remission
of your sins; come, my Presby'
|terian brother, you whose money
has been predestinated and foreor'
dained from the beginning of the
world to do great good, let US
have it; we need it to do home
missionary work with. Now you
have chance, in a practical way,
to let your light SO shine thai
others seeing your good work will
be constrained to glorify God.
| Oh, let US individually con-
lsecrate ourselves anew to this most