The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-24

Ia piecos these literary ph.Hs. no~
il these men will not Doe converted lo
God. then they must Zoe u,s'i, ca.
Again. learn from iul, subject WhAi "a
large amount of the church resources is
actually hidden and buried ana mle-
veloDed The Bible iutimatc- That that
was "a very rich land this land of israel
T. SAYS. .The stones are iron, ANA oar vi
the Mills thou shalt dig brass, ana Nct
hundreds of thousands OF dollars worth
OF this metal was kept unucr lhr mus
Well that is tuc difficulty WIN ,nt
church of God at this day. lIS talent Is
not developed. If oue-aai OF It's energy
could be brought out 10 might take the
public iuiauities of the day by the throat
and make them bite the dust. IT human
eloQuence were cOnsecraied 10 the l-ofu
Jesus Christ IL could i'm few years per
suade this whole earth TO surrender 10
God There is enough undcNeOped thrls-
tian energy in the United States 10 brlng
the whole world To Christ; but 10 IS buried
under strata of indifference and under
whole mountains of slOth. Now. IS 1T not
time for the mining 10 begin, and the
pickaxes to plunge, and for TINS buried
metal to be brought out and put INTO the
furnaces and be turned INTO hoWltZers
and carbines for the Lord S host, The
vast majority of Christians in TINS DAY
are useless. The most OF the Lord pat
TALON belong to the reserve corps. The
most of the crew are asleep in the ham
mOcks The most of the metal is under
the hills Oh, is il not time for the
Church of God TO rouse up ana under
stand that we want all the energies, all
the talent and all the wealth enlisted for
Christ's sake2 | like the nickname that
the English soldiers gave to Blucher, the
commander They called him "Old For
wards We have had enough retreats
in the Church of Christ; let US have a
glorious advance And l say to you now,
as the general said when his troops were
affrighted Rising up in his stlrrups, his
hair flying in the wind he lifted up his
voice until 20, 900 troops heard INN, cry
ing out: Forward, the whole line!"
Again I learn from this subject, that
we sometimes do well TO take advantage
of the worlds sharpening Instruments
These Israeites were reduced to tile,
and so they went over to the garrison OF
the Philistines to get their axes and their
goads. and their ploughs sharpened. The
Bible distinctly states in the context
that they had no other instruments now
with which to do this work, and the Is
raelites did right when they went over
to the Philistines to use their grindstOnes.
MY friends, is it not right for us TO en-
plOy the wOTld's grindstOnesl Ii there be
art if there be logic, If there be business
faculty on the other side, let US 90 over
fact is, we fight with too dull weapons,
and we work with too dull implements.
We hack and we maui when we ought to
make a clean stroke. Let US 90 over
among sharp business men, and among
sharp literary men, and ind out what
their tact is, and then transfer it to the
cause of Christ If they have science
and art it will do us good TO rub against
it, In other words: let US employ the
worlds grindstones. We will listen to
their music, and we will watch their acu-
men, and we win use their grindstOnes;
and we will borrow their philosophical
apparatus to make our experiments, and
we will borrow their printing presses to
publish our Bibles, and we will borrow
their rail-traiEs TO carry our Christian
literature and we will borrow their ships
to transport our missionaries. That was
what made Paul such a master in his
day. He not only got all the learning he
could get of DR.. Gamaliel, but afterward,
standing on Mars Hill, and in crowded
thoroughfare quoted their poetry, and
graspe1 their logic, and welded their
eloquence, and employed their mythology,
until Dionysius the AreOpagite, learned
in the schools of Athens and Heliopolis,
went down under his tremendous powers.
That was what gave Thomas Chalmers
his power in his day. He conquered the
worlds astronomy and compelled IL to
ring out the wisdom and greatness of the
Lord. until for the second time, the morn
ing stars sang together and all the sons
of God shouted for JOY. That was what
gave to Jonathan Edwards his influence
in his day He conquered the worlds
metaphysics and forced it into the ser
vice of God until not only the old meet
ing-hOuse in Northampton, Massachusetts,
but all Christendom felt thrilled by his
Christian power Well now, my friends,
On F,,1..
Do not let them lose their edges. We
want no rusty blades in this fight We
want no coulter that cannot rip up the
glebe We want no axe that cannot fell
the trees. We want no Goad that cannot
start the lazy team. Let us get the very
best grindstones that we can find, though
they be in the possession of the PhiliStineS,
compelling them to turn the crank while
we bear down with all our might on the
swift-revolving wheel until all our ener-
gies and faculties shall be brought up to
a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge.
Again: my subject teaches us on what
a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts
a man. Yes; these Philistines shut up
the mines, and then they took the spears
and the swords, then they took the black
smiths, then they took the grindstones,
and they took everything but a file. Oh,
that is the way sin works; it grabs every
thing. 1t begins with robbery, and it
ends with robbery. 1t despoils this fac
ulty and that faculty, and keeps ON until
the whole nature is gone Was the man
eloquent before, it generally thickens his
tongue. Was he fine i'll personal appear
ance, il mars his visage. Was he affuent,
it sends the sheriff to sell him out. Was
he influential. it destroys his popularity
Was he placid, and genial, and loving; it
ma1es him splenetic and cross; and so
utterly is he changed that you can see he
is sarcastic and rasping, and that the
Philistines have left him nothing but a
file. o, 1.-The way Of the trangressor is
hard" His cup is bitter. His night is
dark. His pangs are deep. His end is
terrific. Philistine iniquity says to that
man: Now, surrender to me and | will
give you all you want-music for the
dance, swift steeds for the race imperial
couch to slumber on, and you shall be re
freshed with the rarest fruits, in baskets
of golden filagree." He lies. The music
turns out to be a groan. The fruits burst
the rind with rank poison The filagree
is made up of twisted snakes. The
couch is a grave Small allowance OF
rest; small allowance of peace; small al
lowance of comfort Cold, hard, rough
nothing but a file So it was with Vol
taire, the most applauded man Of hi:
day:
The Scripture was his textbook, whence h,
drew
Bon mots to gan the Christian and the jew,
An iutfdel when we'll hut what when sick