Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-12-21

fuI IN the work Is that they know their
Bibles, are earnest In prayer. are anxious
for the salvation OF the young. and Sab
bath by S,-bbath are willing 10 sit down
unobserved and tell Of ChristAnd the resur-
rection. These are the humble workers
who are recruiting the great army Of Chris
tian youth--not by might, not by power,
not by profound argument. not by bril-
liant antithesis, but by the blessing of God
on plain talk and humble story and silent
tear and anxious look. THE lame take the
prey"
Oh, this work Of saving the youth Of our
country-how few appreciate what 1t isl
This generation tramping on to the grave
we will soon all be gone. What Of the
nexti
An engineer on a locomotive going across
the western prairies day after day saw
little child come out in front Of q cabin and
wave to him. So he got in the habit of wav-
ing back to the little child, and it was the
days joy to him to see this little one come
out in front of the cabin door and wave to
him while he answered back. One day the
train was belated, and 1t came on to the
dusk of the evening.
As the engineer stood at his post he saw
by the headlight that little girl on the
track, wondering why the train did not
come, looking for the train, knowing moth
ing Of her peril. A great horror seized upon
the engineer. He reversed the engine. He
gave 1t in charge of the other man on board.
and then he climbed over the engine, and he
came down on the cowcatcher. He said,
though he had reversed the engine, it SEEM
ed as though it were going at lightning
speed, faster and faster, though it was real
ly slowing up, and with almost supernatu.
raj clutch he caught that child by the hair
and lifted it up, and when the train stopped
and the passengers gathered around to see
what was the matter there the old engineer
lay, tainted dead away, the little child alive
and in his swarthy arms
"Oh," you say, that was we'll doneI' But
want you to exercise some kindness and
some appreciation toward those in the COM
munity who are snatching the little ones
from under the wheels of temptation and sin
-snatchinR them from under laundering
rail trains of eternal disaster, bringingthem
up into respectability in this world and into
| glory for the world to come. You appreciate
what the engineer did. Why can you not
appreciate the grander work done by every
Sabbath school teacher and by every Chris
tian worker?
Oh, my friends, l want to impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that it is not
the number of talents we possess, but the
use we make of them.
THE ROYAL FAMILY.
God has a royal family in the world.
Now, if / should ask, "Who are the royal
families of history" you would say,
"House of Hapsburg, house of Stuart
house of Bourbon" They lived in palaces
and had great equipages. But who are he
Lords royal familyP Some of them may
serve you in the household; some of them
are in unlighted garrets; some of them will
walk this afternoon down the street, on
their arm basket of broken food; some OF
them are in the almshouse, despised and re-
jected Of men, yet in the last great day
while it will be found that some of us who
Jared sumptuously every day are hurled
back into discontinue, they are the lame
that will take the prey.
One step farther: There are great many
people discouraged about getting to heaven
At my desk in The Christian Herald Office
[ am in daily receipt of numerous letters
from people brought up in good families
and who had Christian parentage, but who
frankly tell me they are astray, Thousand
miles from the right track, and fear theil
case is hopeless. My brothers, it is to you
want to preach now. have been looking
for you. Twill tell you how you got astray
1t was not maliciousness on your part. L
was perhaps through the geniality and so
ciality of your nature that you fell into sin
You wandered away from your duty; yol
unconsciously left the house of God. Yo,
admit the gospel to be true, and yet yol
have so grievously and SO prolongedly wan
dered you say rescue is impossible.
1t would take week to count up tn
names of those in heaven who were OF
earth worse than you tell me you are. The,
went the whole round Of iniquity; they dis
graced themselves; they disgraced thei
households; they despaired of return be
cause their reputation was gone, thei
property was gone, everything was gone
But in some hour like this they heard tn
voice of God, and they threw themselve
on the divine compassion, and they rose VI
more than conquerors. And l tell yol
there is the same chance for you. That i
one reason why like to preach this gospel
SO free q gospel, so tremendous gospel. ]
takes man all wrong and makes him al
!, right.
In former settlement where preache,
a member OF my congregation quit tn
house of God, quit respectable circles, wen
into all styles of sin and was slain of hi
iniquity. The day for his burial came, an,
his body was brought to the house of God
Some of his comrades who had destroye'
him were overheard along the street OF
their way to the burial saying, Come, lie
us 90 and hear Talmage damn this old sin
ner" Oh, l had nothing but tears for th
dead, and had nothing but invitations t
the living. You see could not do Other
wise. "Christ Jesus came to seek and say
, that which was lost" Christ in his dyin
prayer said, Father, forgive them," an
that was a prayer for you and praye
} for me.
Oh, start on the road to heaven today
You are not happy. The thirst of your sou
viii! never be slaked by the fountains c
sin. You turn everywhere but to God fo
: help Right where you are, call on hin
He knows you. He knows all about yor
He knows all the odds against which yo
have been contending in life. Do not go
him with long rigmarole of prayer, bu
JuSI look up anu say, help! nelpE
WORDS OF EXPLOITATION.
Yet you say, my hand trembles s
!. from my dissipations can't even take hol
of a hymnbook to sing" Do not worr
about that, my brother. will give out
hymn at the close so familiar you can sin
: it without book. But you say, II hav
such terrible habits on me can't get ri
of them" Ny answer is, Almighty grac
can break up that habit and will break
up" But you say, 1.-THE wrong l did wa
to one dead and in heaven now, and can
correct that wrong" You can correct i
BY the grace of God, go into the presenc
of that one, and the apologies you ought
! have made on earth make in heaven.
! "Oh," says some man, 'if should try
do right, if should turn away from m
evil doing unto the Lord, would be jostlet
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