Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-08-03

" hen Napoleon was engaged in one 0
his great wars, you remember that tn
town Of Ratisbon was taken. He depa
ted his chief marshal to do this work
Ratishon was a walled town, PRACTICAL,
irnpregnable. Napoleon saw that it wa
the KEY to the situation. The marsha
commissioned his officer to do the work
He drew up his soldiers before the tow
and called for volunteers. Immediatel,
the number of men called for stepped
forward. They were ordered TO the
charge and CALAMITY made the assault
Every soldier fell back from the walli
dead. Not man returned to tell the
story of their gallant assault.
Again the officer called for volunteers
and again they stepped forward, more
slowly than at first, but ss.ll a sufficient
number, all that had been called for
Again they rushed to the walls. again
they made the assault, and again every
man fell back dead. Not living SOU
returned to tell the story of the struggle.
/ Again the officer called for volunteers.
Not man stirred. They looked upon
the pile of the dead that lay beneath the
walls, and no man would venture ta
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 VIII make the charge, and there
could not be piled before them money
enough to induce those soldiers 10 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 stand
ara bearer, turning 10 the men. he said to
them with his face flashing with the cleo
trio fire Of his great personality, Sol
diers, l viii show you that a marshal Of
France was once a grenadier" Snatch
ing a scaling ladder in the other hand, he
rushed toward the walls. Instantly a
hundred brave men had leaped from the
ranks, snatched the ladder from his hands
and the standard and hurrying the mar
shall to the rear with shout they rushed
to the walls, scaled them successfully and
took the town with scarcely the loss Of a
single lifel
Wealth is power over menz1power to
command men. Money may OF may not
signify this power. There are hours in
the lives of men that it has no power to
command.
THE CHRISTIAN AND BRUTE WAR.
Let us be sure that no Christian can
engage in the modern brute war of
money for money in itself That strug-
gle and all that it signifies l would ar
raign and impeach in the name of the
widow and the orphan; in the name of
the hungry, and the homeless, and the de-
spairing; 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 its struggle for money in itself
Men may forget humanity in that strug-
gle. 1t may be impossible for the Chris |
tian today TO convince the world that |
the world is wrong. 1t may be impos-
sible for us TO revolutionize at once the |
methods of a social organization which |
makes the seeking of money and the ae-
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 confusion, the disorder
about him. In thus playing his own part
he will bring the world at last into har-
nony, just as that singer in the choir
brought order out of disorder, harmony
)ut of diseord. A great musician hap
pening in a church one Sunday found the
,hoir in discord. He stopped his ears TO
ieep out the din, and through the dis
ord caught the single note of sweet
oprano voice in that choir, singing the
ong in perfect tune. She did not at
empt to drown the voices Of the others,
ither those of the choir ont of tune or
he congregation that fioundered help
tSslN III tue tHhIA u lbiiuW. sic tllll-
,ly sang her own part, in her own time,
n her own way. She was singing it TO
leader unheard by others. She was
eeping time to the harmony of her own
oul.
SO struck was he by the weird effect of
his voice, singing in the midst Of the
in and roar, that he removed his hand
rom his ear to listen. Sweeter and
weeter grew the voice until presently
ne of those in the choir nearest caught
be note from her and joined in perfect
Ime. In a few moments the whole choir
-ere IN tune and this voice leading. and
hen the congregation were IN perfect
armony, and then the great church ,
was flooded with glorious
Melody that swept every soul with re-
stless power.
So the Christian is called upon TO play
is part. So he is called upon to sing
is divine oratorio of the ages. The
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