Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-09
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and he became the Rev. M
Champion, one of the most distin-
guished missionaries in heather
lands; for years wondering who did
for him The Christian kindness, and
not finding out until in bundle oil
books sent him TO Africa he found the
biography of Brainerd Taylor and a
picture os him, and the missionary
recognized the face in that book as the
man who. at the watering trough for
horses, had said the thing that saved his
soul. What opportunities you have had
In the past What opportunities you
have now! What opportunities you
will have in the days to come! Put on
your hat, oh woman, this afternoon,
and go in and comfort that young
mother who lost heI babe last sum 1ler.
Put on your hat, oh man, and go over
and see that merchant who was com
PEELED yesterday 10 make an assign
ment, and tell him of the everlasting
riches remaining for all those who
serve the Lord. Can YOU sing? tic
and sing for that man who cannot get
we'll, and you W Ii help him into
heaven. Let it be your brain, your
tongue, your eyai your ears, your
heart, your lungs, your hands, your
feet, your body. your mind, your soul,
your life, your death, your time, your
eternity for God, feeling in your soul;
"To this end was l born" u may be
helpful TO some if | relate my own ex-
perience in this regard. started for the
law without asking any divine dkec-
lions lconsu ted my own tastes. liked
lawyers and court rooms and Judges
a. inn 4 in, hoe t.,V
the Frelinghuysens and the Bradleys
OF the New Jersey bar, and as assistan
of the county clerk, at sixteen years OF
age, i st arched titles, naturalized for
eigners. recorded deeds, received the
confession of Judgments swore wit
nesses and iuries. But after n while
l felt call to the Gospel ministry and
entered it, ind i felt some salts.
faction in the work. But one
summer, when ! was resting al
Sharon Springs, and while seated
in the park of that village, l said to
myself, ''If have an especial work to
do in the world | ought to find il out
now and with that determination
prayed as | had never before prayed,
and got the divine direction, and wrote
it down i'll my memorandum book, and
1 saw my life-work then as plainly as
l see it now. o, do not be salts
fed with general dire tions, Get
specific dirsc tons. 10 not shoot
at random. Take aim and fire
Concentrate. Napoleon success in
battle came from his theory of break
ing through the enemys ranks at one
point, not trying 10 meet the whole
line of the enemy's force by a similar
force. One reason why he lost Water
loo was because he did not work his
usual theory, and spread his force out
over a wide range.
Oh Christian man, oh Christian
woman, break through somewhere.
Not general engagement for God. but
a particular engagement, and made in
answer to prayer. If there are Il teen
hundred III i ion people in the world
there are sixteen hundred million differ
ent missions to fulfil, different styles OF
work to do, different orbits in which tc
revolve, and fycu do not get the divine
direction there are at least fifteen hun.
dred and ninety nine million possibili.
ties that you will make a mistake. On
your knees before God get the matter
settled so that you can firmly say: ''TC
this end was | born"
in the seventeenth century, all
Europe was threatened with a wave Of
Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was es
pecially besieged The King and his
court had fed, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed un
less the King of Poland, John
Sobieski, TO whom they had sent
for help, should with his army
come down for the relief, and
from every roof and tower the inhabit
ants of Vienna watched and waited
and hoped until on the morning Of
September IL, the rising sun threw ar
unusual and unparalleled brilliancy
1t was the reflection on the swords anC
shields and helmets of John Sobiesk
and his army coming down over the
hills to the rescue, and that day. moi
only Vienna, but Europe, wa,
saved And see you not, Oh
We souls. besieged with sin and sorro W
that light breaks in, the swords anC
the shields and the helmets of divine
rescue bathed in the rising sun o.
heavenly deliverance? Let everything
else go rather than let heaven go.
What strange thing it must be tc
feel ones self born to an earthly
crown. but you have been born for .
throne on which you may reign after
the last monarch of ali the earth shall
have gone to dust. / invite you Il
start now for your own coronation, tC
come in and take the title deed!
10 your everlasting inherit
ance. Through an impassion
ed prayer take Heaven and all of it:
raptures What a poor farthing Is al
that this world can offer you compared
with pardon here and life immortal be-
You'd the stars, unless this side OF
them, there tie a place large enough
and beautiful enough and CRANE
enough for all the ransomed. Wher
ever it be, in what world, whether
near by or far away, in this or som,
other constellation hail home of light
and love and blessedness, Through
the aton!ng mercy of Christ, may W.
all get there.