The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-16

scale;" but IL you go into a factory covering
many acres, n you find thousands Of bandi
pulling On thousands Of wheels, and shut
ties flying. and the whole scene b~ewilderina
with activities, driven by water, or stea.n,
Or electric power, you conclude that the fac
tory was put up to do great work and on {
vast scale. Now, | look at you, and II !
should find that you had only one faculty Of
body, only one muscle, only one nerve, II
you could see but could not hear, or could
near and not see, IL you had the use Of only
one foot or one hand, and. as to your higher
nature, il you had only one mental faculty,
and you had memory but no Judgment, or
with only one capacity, I would say moi
much is expected OF you.
But stand up, o man, let me look you
yquarely in the facet Eyes capable Of sec
ng everything. Ears capable OF hearing
everything. Hands capable Of grasping
svervthinR. Mind with more wheels than
my FACTORY ever turned, more power than
Corliss engine ever moved. A soul hat will
,utlive all the universe, except heaven. and
would outlive all heaven IL the life Of other
mmorta1s were a moment short Of thu
sternal. Now, what has the world q right
20 expect from your What has God fright
70 demand of your God Is the greatest Of
economists in the universe, and He makes
nothing uselessly, and for what purpose did
he build your body, mind and soul as they
ire builtf
There are only two beings In the universe
Who can answer that question. The angels
10 not know. The schools do not know.
Your kindred cannot certainly know. God
Knows, n you ought to know. A factory
running at an expense of $500 900 Q year,
and turning out goods worth seventy cent?
: yySSss:- :%--cc;G;iiaa ssSSss 70 70 sch 20 is.cccc:s.::s.;
IS you, o man, with such semi-infnite
equipment doing nothing, or next to moth
ng, in the way Of usefulness. "What shall
| dor you ask: My brethren, my sisters do
There's some path Of Christian usefulness
open. 1t may be a rough path, or 1t may be
, smooth path, a long path or q short path.
1t may be on a mount of conspicuity or In q
valley unobserved, but it Is a path ON
which you can start with such faith and
mch satisfaction and such certainty that
you can cry out in the face OF
sarth and hell and heaven, ITO this end was
qualifications. Philip the Conqueror gained
lis greatest victories seated on q mule, and
4 you wait for some caparisoned B~ucephalus
70 ride into the conflict you will never get
INTO the world wide fight at all. Sampson
,lew the Lords enemies with the jawbone of
the stupidest beast created. Shamgar slew
tx hundred of the Lords enemies with an
u SOdu. ChucT oDu opitt16 Cukou VIC o5luu
mans eyes in the New Testament story. Take
Ill the faculty you have and say: 70 Lord,
acre is what l have. Show me the field and
pack me up by o~mnipotent power. Any
where, anyhow, any time for God"
Two men riding on horseback came to a
trough to water the horses. While the
horses were drinking one of the men said to
The other a few words about the value of the
ioul, and then they rode away, and in oppo-
ite directions. But the words uttered were
The salvation of the one to whom they were
Uttered, and he became the Rev. Mr.. Cham
oiop, one of the most distinguished mission
lries in heather lands, for years wondering
b did for him the Christian kindness, and
aot finding out until. In q bundle Of books
tent him to Africa, he found the biography
If Brainerd Taylor int a picture Of him, and
The missionary recognized the face in hat
book as the man who, at the watering trough
Tor horses, had said the thing that saved his
poul. What opportunities you have had in
The past. What opportunities you have
low. What opportunities you will ave- In
The days to comel
Put on your hat, oh, woman, this after
loon, and go in and comfort that young
mother who lost her babe last summer. Put
IN your hat, oh, man, and go over and see
hat merchant who was compelled yesterday
10 make an assignment, and tell him of the
everlasting riches remaining for all those
who serve the Lord. Can you singh Go and
ling for that man who cannot get well. and
you will help him N heaven. Let 1t be
your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your
sars. your heart, your lungs, your hands,
your fest your body, your mind, your soul,
your life. your death, your time. your eter-
aity for God, feeling in your soul, ITO thh
and was l born"
It may be helpful to some IL I rscite my
own ex~periencein this regard. l started for
the law without asking any divine direction.
| consulted my own tastes. Ihkei lawyers
courtrooms and judges and Juries and
{ reveled In hearing the ~Frelinghuyseus and
the Bradleys of the New Jersey bar, and as
assistant OF the county clerk, at sixteen
years of e 7 searched titles, naturalized
foreigners, recorded deeds received the con-
fession of Judgments swore witnesses and
juries and grand juries. But after awhile l
felt a call to the Gospel ministry and entered
it, and I felt som satisfaction in the work
But one summer, when l was resting at
Sharon Springs, and while seated in the park
II that village, / said to myself, III | have
m especial work to do in the world / ought
20 find it out now" and with that determfn-
alton I PRAYED as I he'd never before prayed,
and got the divines direction, and wrote it
in my memords6um book, and l saw
nv life work then as plainly as / see it now.
Oh, do not be satisfied with general direc-
IlO1S. pcb SpcSukGh ~ CSstoAS W.
rauiom Take aim mt fire. Concen-
Napoleon's success in battle came
his theory OF breaking through the
enemy's ranks at one point, not trying to
meet the whole line of the enemy's force by
a similar force. One reason why he LOST
Waterloo was because he did not work his
usual theory, and spread his force out over
wide range. oh, Christian man, oh, Chris
tan woman, break through somewhere.
Not a general engagement for God, but .
particSlar engagement, and made in answer
to PRAYER, II there ara sixteen hundred
people in the world, then there are
sixteen hundred million different missions to
fulfill. different styles Of work TO do, differ
emf orbits in which to ~revolve, andif you do
not get the divine direction there are at least
fifteen hundred and n~inety-niue million pos
sibilities that you will make a mistake. On
yolr knees before God get the matter settled
50 that you can firmly say, T this end was
| BORN
And now / come to the climacteric con-
As near as l can tell. you were
built for a happy eternity, all the disasters
which nave happened to your nature to be
overcome by the blood OF tho Lanb III You
will heartily accept that Christly arrange
n,ent. We are all rejoiced at the increase
of human longevity. People live, as near as
/ can observe, about ten years longer than
they used to. The modern doctors do not
bleed their patients on all occasions as did
the former doctors. In those times il man
had fever they bled him, If he had con-
sumption they Dlel him, IL be had rheuma
tism thew bied him, and if they could not
make out exactly what was the matter they
bled him. Olden time p~hlebotolny wa
deaths coadiutor. All this has changed.
From the way ! see people Skipping aboua
at eighty years of age, ! conclude that life
insurance companies will have to change
their table of risks, and charge a man nS
more premium at seventy than they used u
do when he was sixty, n no more premium
at ATTY than when he Was forty By the ad'
yanceinent of medical science and the widei
acouaintance with the laws Of health, am
fine fact that peonle know hetta- how u
take care OF themselves m lie 10 pro
loneed. But do you realize what, after an
il the brevity of our earthly statef In the
times when people lived seven and eight
hundred years, the patriarch Jacob said thai
his years were few.
Looking at thslife OF the youngest person
in this assembly and supposing be lived TO
be q nonagenarian, how short the time and
soon gone, while banked up in front OF US Ia
an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not
figures enough to expressits length or height
For a happy eternity you were o unless
you run yourself against the divine inten.
lions. II standing in your presence my eye
should fall upon the feebiest soul here asthat
soul will appear when ths world let's it up.