Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-10

valley unobseryed, but it is path on
which you can start with such faith and
such satisfaction and such certainty thai
you can cry out in the face Of
BORN" Do not wait for extraordinary
qualifications. Philip the Conqueror gained
his greatest victories seated on a mule, and
IL you wait for some caparisone1 Bucephalus
to ride into the conflict you will never get
into the world wide fight at ALL Sampson
slew the Lords enemies with the jawbone OF
the stupidest beast created. Shamgar slew
six hundred of the Lords enemies with an
OK goad. Under God spittle cured the blind
mans eyes in the New Testament story. Take
all the faculty you have and say: 80 Lord,
here is what have Show me the field and
back me up by omnipotsnt power. Any
where, anyhow. any time for Col"
Two men riding on horseback came to a
trough to water the horses. While taa
horses were drinking one of the men said to
the other few words about the value of the
soul, and then they rode away, and in oppo-
site directions. But the words uttered vera
the salvation Of the one to whom they were
uttered, and he became the Rev. Mr. Cham
pion, one of the most distin guished mission
aries in heather lands for years wondering
who did for him the Christan Kindness. ami
not finding out until, in bundle of books
sent him to Africa, he found the biography
of Brainerd Taylor and a picture of him, aud
the missionary recognized the face in that
book as the man wac, at the watering trough
for horses, had sal the thing that saved his
soul. What opportunities you have ha / in
the past. What opportunities you have
now. What opportunities you will have in
the days to comet
Put on your hat oh, woman, this after
noon, and go in and comfort that young
mother who lost her babs last SUNNI Pat
on your hat, oh, man, al 60 over ami sea
that merchant who was compelled yesterday
to make an assignment and tell him o. the
everlasting riches remaining for all those
who serve the Lord Can you sing? Go and
sing for that man who cannot get well, aud
you will help him into heaven. Let it be
your brain, your tongue, yodr eyes, your
ears, your heart your lungs, your hands,
your feet, your body, your mind your soul,
your life, your death, your time, your eter-
nifty for God, feeling in your soul TO this
end was born
own experiencein this regard. / started for
the law without asking any divine direction.
l consulted my own tastes. like | lawyers
and courtrooms and judges and juries, and
| reveled in hearing the Frelinghuysens an
the Bradleys OF the New Jersey bar, AMI as
assistant of the county clers, at sixteen
years Of age, l searched titles, naturaliz3d
foreigners, recorded deeds, received the con
fession of judgments, swore witnesses AMI
juries and grand juries. But after awhile
felt call to the Gospel ministry and entered
it, and l felt some satisfaction in the work.
But one summer, when | was resting at
Sharon Springs, and while seated in ths PARK
of that village, | said to myself, '1f have
an especial work to do in the world l ought
to find it out now, and with that determin-
alton prayed as | had never before prayed,
aud got the divine direction. and wrote it
down in my memorandum book and / saw
my life work then as plainly as | see it now.
Oh, do not be satisfied with general direc-
tons. Get specific directions. Donot shoot
at ran lom Take aim and fire. Concen-
trate. Napoieon's success in battle came
from his theory of breaking through thu
enemyS 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
tian woman, break through somewhere.
Not general engagement for God, but a
particular engagement, and made in answer
to prayer. Ii there are sixteen hundred
million people in the world. then there are
sixteen hundred million different missions to
fulfill, different styles of work to do, differ
ent orbits in which to revolve, andif you do
not get the divine direction there are at least
fifteen hundred and ninety-nine million pos.
sibilitiss that you will make mistake On
your knees before God get the matter settled
so that you can firmly say, ITO this end was
l born
And now l come to tho climacterc con-
sideration. As near as l can tell. you were
built for happy eternity, all the disasters
which have happened to your nature to be
overcome by the blood of the Lamb if you
will heartily accept that Christly arrange
ment We are all rejoice1 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 a fever they bled him. if he had con-
sumption they ble1 him, if he had rheuma.
tism they blel him, aud il they could not
make out exactly what was the matter they
blei him. Oiden time phlebotomy was
deaths coadjutor, All this has changed.
From the way see people skipping about
at eighty years age, l conclude that life
insurance companies will have to change
their table of risks, and charge man nc
do when he was sixty, and no more premium
at fifty than when he was forty. By the adj
yancement of medical science and the wide,
acquaintance with the laws of health, ono
the fact that people know better how t.
take care of themselves, human life is pro-
longed Bat do You realize wlat after all,
Is tho br9vity of our earthly state? In the
times when people lived seven AMI eight
hundred years, the patriarch Jacob sal that
his years vera few.
Looking at the life of the youn yest person
in this ass ambly and surprising he lived to
be a nonagenarian, how short the time aud
soon gone. while banked up in front of us is
an eternity 50 vast that arithmetic has NOT
figures enough to express its length or height
For happy eternity you were born unless
you run yourself against the divine intan-
tons. II standing in your presence my eye
should fall upon the fee5lest soul here as that
soul will appear whsn the world lets it up
and heaven entrances it, | suppose would
be 50 overpowered that | should drop down
as one dead
You have examined the family Bible AMI
explored the family records, aud you may
have daguerreotypss OF soma of the kindred
of previous generations, you have had pho
togrsphs taken of what you were in boyhooi
or girlhood, and what you were ten years
later, and it is very interesting to any one
to be able to look back upon pictures Of what
he was ten or twenty or thirty years ago;
but have you ever had picture taken of
what you may be and what you will be if
you seek after God and feel the Spirits re-
generating power? Where shall plant the
camera to take the pictures l plant it on
this platform. direct 1t toward you. Sit
still or stand still while l take the picture.
1t shall be an instantaneous picture. There!
have it. 1t is done You can see the pic
ture in its imperfect state and get some idea
of what it will be when thoroughly de
ve'oped.
There is your resarrectei boiy, SO bril-.
liant that t be monday sun is patch of mid
night compared with it. There is your soul,
so pure that ali the forces of diabolsm couli
not spot IL with an imperfection. There is
your beng, SO mighty and so swift that
flight from heaven to Mercury or Mars OF
Jupiter AMI back again to heaven would not
weary you, and world on each shoulder
would not crush you An eye that shall
never feel fatigue. A brow that shall
never throb with pain, You are young
again, though you died of decrepitude
You are well again, though you coughei or
shivered yourself into tn, tomb You
every day associates ara the apostles ami
prophets, and martyrs, and most exalted
souls, masculine or feminine, of all the CEN
turtles. The Archangel to you no EN-
barrassment. God Himssl your pre-
sent and everlasting joy. That is
an instantaneous picture OF what you NAV
be, and what | am sure some of you will be- |
you realize that it is an imperfect picture,
my apology is what the apostle John sail
ut doth not yet appear what we snail be-
ITO this end was born" If / did not
think so l would be overwhelmed with
melancholy.
The world does very well for little wa:ia,
eighty, or hundred or hundred and fifty
years, and l think that human longevity
may yet be improved up to that proIonga
ton, for now there is so little room between
our cradle and our grave we cannot accom-
plish much, but who would want to dwell
in this world for all eternity Soma think
this earth will finally be turnei into a