Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-07
NUMBER 10.

smaller nails for smaller work, car
pet tacks for fastening carpets,
/ sprigs for their own work in the
shoe factory, etc, aud finishing
nails so that no nails should appear
driven out of sight and covered
with putty and paint. So in the
life of the church, we need the
large spikes for heavy work, holding
mighty interests together, and con-
trolling vast enterprises, etc, such
as Luther, Whitfield, Wesley and
hosts of others. Then we have
smaller ones for smaller work, filing
Iup places of less notoriety, never
coming into great distinction alike
free from great praise aud greater
! blame.
Each class of nails are equally
useful. lay stress on the word
equally" for mean il. We could
do as well without spikes as we
could without fourpenny or six
penny nails, but we can't do we'll
without either; don't want To try,
neither shall We ever have TO, for as
long as there is plenty of iron ore,
SO long shall we have all sorts of
nails. The value of each is decided
hy the situation each is to be placed
I'm. What would our ladies say to
fastening down carpet with great
spikes? They would say, take those
great ugly things out of here, If you
don't, why, we will soon pitch them
out They are NO use at all Neither
are they for laying down carpet.
Spugs or carpet tacks would oe
useless for fastening hugo umbers
togetuor, etc. each must be put TO
Iits proper use and thcn all is we'll.
So la church work. There is place
for each; let US find it aud then we
shall fuldlI our life's duties. This
is one of the principal things TO tind
out IN all life Get where you be-
long
Some of US art ike the finishing
nails, out of sight, but none the less
useful. The world may know moth
ing Of Us, our names never in the
papers, but God knows whore We
are, and inscrIbes our names IN the
Great Directory of the heavens.
The strength of stone wall ls
emluently ia the interior; not so
much in the visible stones, which
may present an attractive appear
ance on either side of the wall, but
/ in those broken stones which fill up
t the creyioes between, So IN the
church of God, IL IS as much the
. quiet unseen workers which form
the strength of Iion's bulwarks, as
those whose names are abroad IN
the earth.
| must not omit one thing how
ever, for it is "one" for US: Small
Z nails, that is carpet tack, Is as
sharp as q spike if not so long aud
large. Anyone wanting 70 try the
experiment can, aud the decision
will be for the tack. | tried it once
unknowingly, ! was soon decided
afterward, however. The cIlnklng
81 tHe Two UllltH llVlH thN NANY" "
hand has been heard through the
centuries; and wherever the gospel
has been preached or shall bo pro-
claimed, the aroma from the broken
box of frankinceuse has or snail MI
the atmosphere Of all Christian
lands. o workers in our small
Sabbath schools, remember you are
training up ,aose who shall beoome
gigantic men and women for God;
the SamueIs and Elijahs, the Pauls
and Johns of Chrlstendom. Like
slumbering volcanoes, ready to burst
forth with mighty upheayaIs, 80
apparently dormant in the souls Of
your scholars, are forces which shall
shake the moral world, and hasten
on that day when the nations shall
bow to sceptre Of an all-conqoerlng
Gospel.