The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-04-12
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by his fellow jewellers, who try to got
him to bed, or take him home, where
he falls fat in the entry. Do not wake
up the children. They have had ans
grace enough Do not let them know
it. Hush it up But sometimes 1t can
not be hushed up, when the rum touches
the brain and the man becomes thor
oughly frenzied.
o, II the rum touches the brain you
cannot hush it up. You do not see the
worst In the midnight meetings great
multitude have been saved. We want a
few hundred Christian men and women
to come down from the highest circles
OF society to toll among these wander
ing and destitute ones, and kindle upa
light in the dark alley, even the glad
ness Of heaven.
Do not go from your well-filled tables
with the idel that pious talk is going
to stop the gnawing Of an empty stom-
ach or to warm stoclkingless feet. Take
bread, take raiment, take medicine as
we'll as take prayer. There is great
deal Of common sense in what the poor
woman said to the city missionary
when he was telling her how she ought
TO love God and serve him. "Ohl" said
she, "if you were as poor and cold as !
am, and as hungry, you could think oi
nothing else"
A great deal Of what is called Chris
tian work goes for nothing for the sim
pie reason it is not practical; as after
the battle of Antietam a man got out
of an ambulance with bag of tracts,
and he went distributing the tracts,
and George Stuart, one of the best
Christian men in the country, said to
him, What are you distributing tracts
for nowP There are three thousand
men bleelsing to death. Bind up their
wounds, and then distribute the tracts. "
We want more common sense in
Christian work, taking the bread OF
this life in one hand, and the bread OF
the next life in the other hand. No
such inapt work as that done by the
Christian man who during the last
war, went into hospital with tracts,
and coming to the bed of man whose
legs had been amputated, gave him a
tract on the sin of dancingl | rejoice
before God that never are sympathetiC
words uttered, never prayer offered,
never Christian almsgiving indulged
in but 1t is blessed.
There is a place in Switzerland,
have been told, where the utterance o.
one word will bring back score O
echoes; and have TO tell you this morn
ing that a sympathetic word, a kline
word, generous word, helpful wort
uttered in the dark places of the towr
will bring back ten thousand echoe
from all the thrones Of heaven.
Are there in this assemblage thi
morning those who know by experienc
the tragedies of midnight in town?
am not here to thrust you back witt
one hard word. Take the bandag
from your bruised soul, and put on
the soothing salve of Christ's gospe
and Of Gods compassion. Many hav
come see others coming to God thi
morning, tired Of the sinful life. cr
up the news TO Heaven. Set all tll
bells ringing. Spread the banquet Ut
der the arches. Let the crowned head
come down and sit at the jubilee
tell you there is more delight in Heave
over one man that gets reformed by th
grace of God than over ninety and min
that never get off the track. could Civ
you the history, in a minute, Of one {
the best friends ever had. Outside
my own family, never had bettC
,, friend. He welcomed me TO my hon
/, I. at the west He was Of splendid pc
sonsl appearance, and he had an ardC
! Of soul and warmth OF affection thi
made me love him like brother.
saw men coming out OF the saloons ar
gambling hells, and they surroundC
my friend, and they took him at Il
= = weak point, his social nature, and
saw him going down, and had 70
talk with him-for ! never yet saw
man you could not talk with on u
subject of his habits II you talked vii
him in the right way. l said to hir
"Why don't you give pyour bad habi
u and become Christian?" rememb
now Just how he looked, leaning ov,
u his counter, as he replied: II wish
: could. oh! sir, / should like TO be
= Christian, but l have gone so far astr'
. : l can't get back"
u u So the time went on. After awhi
y the day OF sickness came. was sur
. moned TO his sicl5-bed. hastened.
u took me but very few moments TO &
u there. was surprised as went in.
% saw him in his ordinary clothes, full
% dressed, lying on the top Of the bed
% gave him my hand, and he seized
u !, convulsively, and said: "0hl how gil
I am 10 see you. Sit down there"
Q sat down, and ho said: "Mr. Talmag
q just where you sit now, my moth
y sat last night She has been de
'r twenty years Now. don't want y
10 10 think am out Of my mind, or tina
y am superstitious; but, sir, she sat the
20 y last night just as certainly as you
N there now-the same cap. and aprc
a. and spectacles II was my {
81 mother-she sat there" Then
= turned TO his wife and said: 81 wi
"a you would take these strings off l
" bed; somebody is wrapping strir
40 around me all the time. ! wish y
"a would stop that annoyance" She 50
IN ''There Is nothing here" Then 81
70 Il was delirium. He said: just VIII
y, you sit now my mother sat, and I
30 said, Roosevelt, wish you would
~ better--I wish you would do bett,
,g I said, Mother, l wish / could do b
80 ter. / try TO do better, but cal
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