Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-25

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zaS WHAT AID cHAEs sos AIEeLED.
Ifta~ s6e-t ia lie ehurch~s should he put
into hogpe<. tbs aFst tara of tbs crank
w0aia ns4ks tie chat fF tell you Some
Il tas@e us1a are great sGieAiers, for lioepsl
pxaacAizz. Fhef say Z" Yea stand there IN
esAnis and s9rpsee AID gown and preach
preach lie al angel, and sc sil stand ous
hero ansl skssad - business. DDat mix
things. Doat get business and religion Ia
the sxEns backe1 You attead t. your
matters aad ws vii attend 10 Ours. +"
They do uet know that God sees every
chest they have pF&cticed Ia the last slx
years, that BE can look through the iroe
wall Of their nrepreof safe. that he has
eoansaa every dishonest dollar they have
IN their pocket. and that a day 81 iuds-
Essat viii eonie. These iuconsistent Chris
tan men viii 80 on the sabbath night in
tns house Of God singing At the close ~
the ssrviee. '-Rock q AgeA. cleft for nae. -
and thea when the beneslies.0a is pro-
noanced shut the pew door aai say a.
they 30 out. ''GOosiby. religion. TN be back
next SUNDAY"
think that the Church Of God and the
Sabbath are only an armory where we arc
TO get weapons When war comes il a man
wants 20 tight for his country he does not
90 10 Troy or Springfield 20 do battling
but be gees there Tor swords and masketS
/ look upon the Church Of Christ and the
sabbath day as only the place and time
where and when We are TO get armed for
Christian conflict: but the battlefield Is on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. st. Martins" and
"LenSx" and "Old Hundred" do not
amount 10 anything unless they slug all
the week A sermon Is useless unless We
| can take il with us behind the pillow and
the counter. The Sabbath day is worthless
IL IL last ONLY tweaty- four hours.
There are many Christians who say:
I'VE are willing 10 serve God. but we tio
not want 70 DO it Ia these spheres about
which we are talking: and IL seems so in
1 sipid and monotonous. ii we had some
/ great occasion, IL we lad lived IN the time
I Of Luther, II we had been Paul's travelling
7 companion. IL we could serve God on a
! great scale. we would do il. but we cans
I in this everyday life" | admit that a
! great deal OF the romance and knight err
rantry OF life have disappeared before the
( advance Of this practical age. The ancient
+ temples OF ROuen have been changed into
I storehouses and smithies- The residences
/ Of poets and princes have been turned into
/ brokers shops The classic mansion Of
/ Ashland has been cut up into walking
+ sticks. The groves where the poets said
/ the gods dwels have been csrtcd out for
/ firewood. The muses. that we used 20 read
about have disappeared before the emf
Z grants ax and the trapper's gan. and that
man who il waiting for "a lie bowitched Of
wonders will never tina it,
THE GREAT FIELD OF DAILY LIFE.
There is. however. "A field for endurance
aud great achievement. but It is ia every
I day lie. There are Alps to scale, there are
Tablespoons 10 swim. there are fires 10
brave. but they are all around us now.
This Is the hardest kind OF nartyrdom 70
bear. Ii took grace to lend Latimer and
Ridley through the fire triumphantly
when theiraraled enemies and their friends
were looking on; bat 1t requires more
grace now 10 bring Eaen through persecu-
tion. when uohody is looking on. | could
show You Ia IL IS city q woman who has hai.
rheumatism Tor twenty years, who has Ell
dnred more sIffersns, a.l exhausted more
grace than would have made twenty mar
tyrs pass triumphently through the Gre.
II you are not faithful in an insignlhcan:
position in life. you would no. be faithful
in grand mission. IL you cannot stand
the. bite Of a nudge. how could you endure
the breath OF bssillsk'
Do not think that any work God gives
you to do in the world Is on too small =
scale for You 20 do. The whole universe il
not ashamed to take care Of ono little
flower | say: what are you doing down
here IN the grass. you poor little iiowerl
Are you not afraid nights, You VIII bc
neglected. you viii die Of thirst. you will
not b. fed. Poor little fiowsr" "No.
says star. ''Ill watch over It tonight"
No" says cloud. "Ill give it driak."
NO" says the sun, "Pl warm it in my
bosom" Then ! see the pulleys going, and
the clouds sre drawing water. aud 1 say.
What are you doing there, o cloudss
And they reply. I'VE are giving drink "a
that hower"
Then the wind rises and comes bending
down the wheat and sounding its psalm
through the forest, and | cry. WHITTIER
away on such swift wing. o wind" And
Il replies. we are going 60 cool the cheek
Of that flower" And then how down and
say. will God take care OF the grass OF
the fields" Ind flower ut my foot 70
spends, "Ycs, he clothes the lilies OF the
/ field and never yet has forgotten me, q
/ poor little fower" Oh. when I see tbs
I great heavens bending themselves 20 what
seems iasi Tulhcant miniStratiOus, when
End ont that God does not forget any bios
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winter, | come to the conclusion that VS.
eau afford TO attend to the minute things
IN life AMI that what we do we ought e
do we'll. since there ia "a much perfection
IN the const raction of a spiders eye as Ia
tie conformation Of Gsuing galaxiesl
pial0 had fable wuich | have now
nearly forgotten. but e ran sOnething like
this. He snid spirits of the other world
came back % this world 20 find a body and
fnd a sphere az work. One spirit can't
and took the body ~ = king aud did hi.
WORK Another spirit cesns and took ths
holy 81 poet and did h,s work. Aftei
awhile Ulysses came. aud be said, "Nhy
All the fns bodies are taken, and all Tia
grand work IA taken. There j. nothing LEFT
fos re" Aud some one vep,ied. All tbs
hes. one has been left FOR you" Ulysses
saia. What's that" And the reply was
The body ~ "a common man. dong n com
mon wo~k ard for common .ewartl.'
good fable fee the world snd ias, - good 2
I faaie Ter the churca Whether We eat 81
drink. o. whatsocver ws 90. LET "a do IL q
ths glory q 8si
THg hfTrta FoxEs SPOIL THE vTNEs
Again. re nsed 90 bring the religion oi
Christ into our cosamonsst trials. For So
vera losses. for tfsreavenent. for trout BIZ
that shecss like an earthquake and thai
biasss lks = storm, We prezesibs reibgiou'
CONSOLATION; bus, bastnsss man. for th'