The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-08-28

che Church OF uea would wake ND "a
an adaptability OF work. We must adj
init the simple met that the churches of
Jesus Christ in this day do not reach
the great masses. Therc arc 80, 600 peo-
pie in Edinburgh who never hear tho
Gospel There are 1000, 900 people in
London who never hear the Gospel.
There are at least 500, 900 souls in the
city of brooklyn who come not under
the immediate ILLUSTRATIONS of Christ's
truth. And the Church of God i'm this
day, instead of being place full of liv-
ing epistles, read and known of all men,
is more like "dead-lettcr" post office.
But" say the people, "thc world lie
| going TO he converted; you must be pa
tent; the Kingdoms of this world are to
become the kingdoms OF Christ"
Never, unless the church of Jesus
! Christ PUTS on more speed and energy
! Instead of the church converting the
/ world, the world is converting the
church. Here is great fortress. How
shall it be taken? An army comes and
sits around about it, cuts off the sup
plies, and says: "Now we will Just
wait until from exhaustion and starva-
ton they will have to give up" Weeks
and months, and perhaps year. pass
along, and finally the fortress surren-
ders through that starvation and cx-
haustion But, my friends the for.
tresscs of sin arc never to DC taken in
that way. If they are taken for God it
will be by storm; you will have TO bring
up the great siege guns Of the Gospel TO
the very wall and wheel the flying
artillery into line, and when the armed
infantry of Heaven shall confront the
battlcmcnts you will have to give the
quick command: Forward! Charged"
All, my friends, there is work for you
to do and for me To 90
in order to this grand ac-
complishment! Here is pulpit, and
clergyman breaches in IT, Your pulpit
is the bank. Your pulpit is the store.
Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your
pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit Is the
house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the
mechanics shop. l may stand in this
place, and, through cowardicc, or
through self-secking, may keep back
the word i ought to utter: while you,
with sleeve rolled up and brow be-
swcatcd with toll, may utter the word
that will jar the foundation of Heaven
with the shout of great victory. Oh,
that to-day this whole audience might
feel that the Lord Almighty is putting
upon them the hands of ordination.
Every one, go forth ana preach this
Gospel. You have as much right to
preach as / have, or as any man has.
Only find out the pulpit where God will
have you preach, and there preach.
Hedley Wears was a wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God
came to Him. He became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They scoffed
at him and said you are hypocrite;
you are as bad as ever you were" Still
he kept his faith in Christ, and after
awhile, finding that they could not |
turn him aside by calling HIM n hypo-
critic, they said to him: ''Ch, you arc
but n fanatic" That did not |
disturb him. He went on performing |
his Christian duty until he had formed |
all his troops into n Bible class, and
the whole encampment was shaken
WAbh BlCoChCC VI 'IDL pO hive
lock went into the heather temple in
India while the English army was
there, and put n candle into the hand Of
each of the heather gods that stood
around in the heather temple, and by
the light of those candles, held up by
The idols, Cen Havelock preached the
temperance and judy
ment to come. And who will say, on
earth or in Heaven, that Havelock had
not the right to preach.
In the minister's house whore / pre-
pared for college there was man who
worked, by the name of Peter Croy.
He could neither read nor write, but he
was man of God. Often theologians
would stop at the house-gravc thcolo-
yians-and at family prayers Peter Croy
would be called upon to lead; and AL
hose wise men sat around, wonder
struck at his religious efficiency. When
lie prayed he reached up and seemed to
axe hold of the very throne of the
Almighty, and he talked with God I'M
ii the very Heavens were bowed down
nto the sitting-room Oh, IL were
lying | would rather have plain Peter
roy kncel by my bedside and com
mend my immortal spirit to God than
One heartless ecclcsiastic, arrayed in
ostly canonicals Go preach this Cos. {
'el. You say you are not licensed In ,
he name of the Lord Almighty. this :
norning | license you. Go preach this
it in the Sabbath I
chools, in the prayer meetings. in the I
highways, in the hedges. Woe be unto {
on If you preach it not. q
! remark, again, that in order To be
ualitied To meet your duty in this par.