The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-12-21

vhnqufsned tue A~svrian uos'. lucy naNe
lame, yet they took they prey.
A step farther There Are In all communi-
ties many orphans During our last war and
I'm the years Immediately following, how
many children at the North and South We
heard say. lob. my father was killed In the
war" Have you ever neticed-r fear you
have not-how well those children have
turned out2 Starting under the greatest dis
advantage, no orphan asylum could do for
them what their father would have done had
he lived.
The skirmisher sat one night by the light
or ragots IN tho swami, writing letter
home, when q sharpshooter's bullet ended
the letter which was never folded, never
posted and never read. Tpose children came
up under great disadvantages. No father TO
ight their way for them. Perhaps there was
In the old family Bible an old yellow letter
pasted fast, which told the story o, that
iather's long march and how he suffered ih
the hospital. But they looked stu iarther
on In the Bible, and they came TO the story
OF how God Is the Fatherl OF the fatherless
and the widows portion, nd they soon took
their fathers place In that household.
They battled the way fortheir mother. They
came on up. aud many OF them have already.
In the years since the war, taken positions IN
church and State. North and South. While
many OF those who suffered nothing during
those times have had sons 70 ont into lives
OF Incidence aud vagab0ndage. these who
s.arysu Inder so many disadvantages because
they were so early bereft, THESE are the hme
who took the prey.
A step farther Theirs are those who
would ike 20 do good. They say, "Oh. II |
only had wealth, or II I hid eloquence, or u
| had high social positian' now much l
would accomplish for Coz and the church
! stand here to-day to tell You that you nave
grpat Opporfunittes for usefulness.
Who built the pyramids( The King who
ordered them built? No tine PLAIN worknen
who added stone after stone and stone after
stone Who built the dikes OF Holland! !
The government that orderedth enterprise! !
No the plain workmen VINO carried tne
earth and rang their troYels on the wall.
Who are those that built these vast cities
Tho capitalists2 No; the carpenters, the
inasons, the plumbers. tpo plasterers, the
timers, the rooiers, dependent on day 5
wages for a livelihood. And so In the great
work OF assuaging human suffering and en-
tightening human ignorapce ana haiting
human iniqulty. In that great work, tho
chief part Is TO be done by ordinary men,
with ordinary speech. IN hn ordinary man
ner. and by ordinary meanf
The trouble is that in TIE army OF ohrist
we all want 10 be captains ana colonies ana
brigadier generals We are not willing 20
march with the rank and tile and do duty
with the private soldier we want TO belong
TO the reserve corps and redd about the bat-
tie while warming ourselvo7 nj the camphres
or on furlouch NJ home, pr ieet upon an
ottoman. we sagging back Ato an armchair.
As you go down the stree you see an ex-
,avation. and four or five men are working
and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on tho
rail looking over at them. Ihat Is the way
Il Is In the church OF God to-dRN. Nhere
you find one Christian harl at work, there
are fifty men watching the lob
Oh my friends, why do you not GO to
work and preach the gospeP You say. Il
nave no pulpit" You have II may bc the
carpenters bench. II may Ne the mason
wall. The robe in which yoJ are TO proclaim
his gospel may be sh,AemaEers apron.
But woe unto you II you pre- ich not TINS goS-
oel somewhere. somehow. ~ TINS world ~
sver brought to Christ II wi bc through tho
unanimous and long-continned Efforts OF
men who, waiting for no special endowment,
.onsecrate TO God what the Aave. Among
he most useless people IN v, Aworld are men
with ten talents. while ma II Zone with only
TWO talents, or no talents toing y
great work. and so .thf prey.
There arc lirvus..A ssStI -.sss.s, | ON
gou have never heard in log cabin the
West in mission chapels at the East-who are
warning against the legions OF darkness, sue
,essfully warning. Tract distributors, month
BY month undermining the citadels OF sin.
ng. but the footballs OF their ministry are
heard In tho palaces OF heaven. Who are the
workers In our sabbath schools throughout
his land to-day? Men celebrated, men brill
liant. men of vast estate? Forthe mos, part.
9ot that az all.
have noticed that the chief characteristic
81 the most Of those who arcsurcessful In the
work is that they knowthe Bibles. are earn
est In prayer, are anxious for tine salvation
u the young, and Sabbath 10y sabbath ara
willing TO sit down unohseryed and tell OF
Christ and the resurrection. These are the
humble workers who are recruiting the great
army OF Christian youth-not by night not
by power, not by profound argument not by
brilliant antithesis. but 10y the blessing of
God on plain talk. and humble story. and si-
ent tear, and anxious look, 'the lame take
the prey
oh this work Of saving the youth OF our
,ountry-how few appreciate what II IS '
This generation tramping on TO the grave --
we will soon all be gone. What OF the next?
An engineer on q locomotive going across
The Western praries day after day saw u little
rhild come out In front OF a cabin and wave
10 him. So he got in the habit OF waving
back to the little child. and II was the day
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 belatcd and II came
| on TO the dusk OF the evening. As the eng-
neer stood at his post he saw by the head
/ light that little girl on the track. wondering
why the train did not come looking for the
! train, knowing nothing of her peril. Agreat
horror seized upon the engineer He re-
versed the engine. Hegave itin charge ofthe
/ other man on board, and then he climbed over
| the engine. and he came down on the cow
catcher. He said, though he had reversed the
/ engine. 1t seemed as though IL were going at
| lightning speed. faster and faster, though II
was really slowing up, and with almost SUI
| pernatural clutch be caught that ohild by
| the hair and lifted II up, and when the train
| stopped and the passengers gathered around
| 10 see what was the matter, there the old en-
| gineer lay, tainted dead away. the little
! child alive and in his swarthy arms.
"Oh," you say, ''that was well done" But
! I want you TO exercise some kindness and
some appreciation toward those In the COM
munitv who are snatching the little ones
from under the wheels OF temptation and sin
--snatching them from under laundering
rail trains OF eternal disaster, bringing them
/ up into responsibility In this world and into