The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

their gala ! assault.
Again the officer called for volun-
teers, and again they stepped for
ward, more slowly than at first, but
still sufficient number, all that had
been called for. Agair they rushed
to the walls, again they made the
assault, and again every man fell
back dead. Not living soul re-
turned to tell the story of the strug-
gle. Again the officer called for vol
unteers. Not man stirred. They
looked upon the pile Of the dead that
lay beneath the walls, and no man
would venture to make the charge.
Now you may bring before that line
of men all the money on this earth,
and you may offer it to them if they
will make the charge, and there could
not be piled before them money
enough to induce those soldiers to
charge over that pyramid of the dead.
over those walls.
But you remember what happened.
The marshal himself, seeing these
two fruitless charges and seeing the
failure of the officer to enlist for the
third assault, rushed himself before
the line, and snatching the standard
from the standard bearer, turning to
the men, he said to them with his
face flashing with the electric fire OF
his great personality, "Soldiers, I
will show you that a marshal OF
France was once grenadier!"
Snatching scaling ladder in the
other hand, he rushed toward the
walls. Instantly q hundred brave
men had leaped from the ranks,
snatching the ladder from his hands
and the standard, and hurrying the
marshal to the rear with a shout
they rushed to the walls, scaled them
successfully and took the town with
scarcely the loss Of single life!
Wealth is power over men-power
to command men. Money may or
not signify this power. There are
hours in the lives of men that it has
no power to command;
soasfs7Tz7 AID BRUTE wAa:
Let as be.sare that no Christian
can engage in the modern brute war
of money in itself. That struggle
and all that it signifies 1 would ar
raign and impeach in the name 1of
the widow and the orphan; in the
name of the hungry, and the home
less, and the despairing; in the name
of the weak, and the downtrodden,
and the oppressed; in the name OF
your potter's field and its clustering
institutions. Christianity means
weakness ruling strength. The
work of the Christian is not to seek
money for itself, of itself. The world
may be mad in it's struggle for
money in itself. Men may forget
humanity in that struggle. It may
be impossible for the Christian
today to convince the world that tie
world is wrong. It may be impos
sible for us to revolutionize at once
the methods of a social organization
which makes the seeking of money
in itself the end and aim of life.
THE DIVINE oRAToRIo.
However this may be, it is the
duty of the Christian to live his life,
to play his part, to sing his own
song, whatever be the chaos, the con-
fusion, the disorder about him. In
thus playing his own part he will
bring the world at last into harmony,
just as that singer in the choir
brought order out OF disorder, har.
mony out of discord. A great musi-
clan happening in a church one Sun
day found the choir IN discord. He
stopped his ears to keep out the din,
and through the discord caught the
single note of sweet soprano voice
in that choir, singing the song in
perfect tune. She did not attempt
to drown the voices of the others,
either those of the choir out Of tune
or the congregation that foundered
helplcssly in the effort to follow.
She simply sang her own part, in
her own time, in her own way. She
was singing it to a leader unheard
by others. She was keeping time to
the harmony of her own soul.
So struck was he by the weird
effect of this voice, singing in the
midst of the din and roar, that he
removed his hand from his car 20
listen. Sweeter and sweeter grew
the voice until presently one Of those
in the choir nearest caught the note
from her and Joined in perfect time.
In a few moments the whole choir
were in tune and this voice leading,
and then the congregation were in
perfect harmony, and then the great
church building was flooded with a
glorious melody that swept every