The Brookhaven leader., 1890-11-20

the kingdom of Christ Will you say
II do not have any way Of influencing
my child" / answer you have the
most tremendous line of influence open
right before you. AS you write lot
tor, and there are two or three
routes by which it may go, but you
want it to go tho quickest route,
and you put on it "via Southampton"
or via San Francisco" or via Mar
seilles," put on your wishes about your
child, via the throne of God" How
long will such q good wish take to get
to its destination Not quite as long as
the millionth part of q second. / will
provo it. The promise Is: Before they
call ! will answer" That means at
your first motion toward such prayerful
exercise the blessing will come, and IL
the prayer be made at ten o'clock al
night it will be answered five minutes
before ten. Before they call will
answer"
But we must hu rry on, for the mula
teers and baggagemen have been Or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight at
Bethel. 1t is already getting so dark
that we have to give up all idea Of
guiding the horses and leave them to
their own sagacitv. We ride down
amid mud cabins and into ravines where
the horses leap from depth to depth.
rocks below rocks, rocks under rocks
Whoa! Whoa! We dismount in this
place, memorable for many things in
Bible history, the two more prominent
theological seminary, where of old
aAn iatn nd for
dream. The students of this
Bethel Theological Seminary were
called Sons of the Prophets" Hero
the young men were fitted for the min.
istry, and those of US who ever had the
advantage of such institutions will
everlastingly be grateful. and in the
calendar of saints, which l read with
especial affection, are the doctors OF
divinity who blessed me with their
care. l thank God that from these
theological seminaries there is now
coming forth a magnificent crop oi
young ministers, who are taking the
pul pits in all parts of the land. hail
their coming and tell these young
brothers to shake off the SON.
nolence OF centuries, and get
shelves of theological discussions which
have no practical bearing on this age.
which needs to get rid of its sins and
have its sorrows comforted. Many OF
our pulpits are dying of humdrum.
People do not go to church because they
can not endure the technicalities and
profound explanations of nothing, and
sermons about the eternal generation
of the Son." and the difference between
blapsarianism and supralapsarism,
and about who Melchisideck wasn't.
There ought to be as much difference
between the modes of presenting truth
now and in olden time, as between o
lightning express rail-train and
canal boat Years ago. l went up
to the door of a factory in
New England. On the outside door
saw the words: mo admit
tance." l went in and came to another
door over which were written the words:
mo admittance" OF course l went in.
and came to the third door inscribed
with the words mo admittance." Hav'
ing entered this, l found the people in4
side making pins, useful pins and moth
ing but pins! So over the outside door
of many of the churches has been prac.
tically written the words, mo admit
tance." Some have entered. and have
come to the inside door and found this
words, mo admittance." But persist
ing, they have come inside, and found
us sounding out our little niceties of be-
lief, pointing out our little difference oil
theological sen ntiment-making pins!
But most distinguished was Bethel
for that famous dream which Jacob had,
his head on collection of stones. He
had no trouble in this rocky region in
finding a rocky pillow. There is hardly
any thing else but stone. Yet thepeo
pie of those lands have a way of draw
ing their outer garment up over thoir
head and face, and such pillow l sup
pose Jacob had under his head. The
plural was used in the Bible story,
and you will find it was not pillow
of stone, but of stones, l suppose,
so that if one proved to be of un-
even surface he would turn over in the
night and take another stone, for with
such. hard bolster he would often
change in the night Well, that night
God built in Jacobs dream long
splendid ladder. the feet of it on either
side of the tired pilgrims pillow. and
the top of it mortised in the sky. And
bright immortals came out from the
castles of amber and gold and put their
shining feet on the shining rungs Of the
ladder, and they kept coming down and
going up, a process ion both ways.
1 suppose they had wings, for the
Bible almost always reports them as
having wings, but this was ladder on
which they used hands and feet to en-
courage all those of us who have no
wings to climb. and encouraging US to
believe that il we will use what wo
have. God will provide way, and ii we
will employ the hand and the foot He
will furnish the ladder. Young man,
do not wait for wings! Those angels
folded theirs to show you wings are not
necessary. Let all the people who
have hard pillows-=hard for sickness or
hard for poverty or. hard for persist-
ence-know that a hard pillow is the
landing place of angels They seldom
descend to pillows of elder down. They
seldom build dreams in the brain OF the
one who sleeps easy. 1a is
notice that those angels either in
coming down or going up on Jacobs
ladder, took 1t rung by rung. They did
not leap to the bottom nor jump to the