The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-12-20

dikes Of Holland? The government
that ordered the enterprise? No; the
, plain workmen who carried the earth
| and rung their trowcl on the wall.
Who are those who have built these
vast cities? The capitalists? No; the
carpenters, the masons, the plumbers,
the plasterers the timers, the roofers,
dependent on days wages for live
! lihood. And so in the great work OF
assuaging human suffering and en-
tightening human ignorance and halt
ing human iniquity. In that great
work the chief part is to be done by
ordinary men, with ordinary speech,
in an ordinary manner and by ordi-
nary means.
The trouble Is that in the army OF
Christ we all want to be captains and
colonels and brigadier generals We
are not willing to march with the rank
and file and do duty with the private
soldier. We want to belong TO the re-
seave corps and read about the battle
while warming ourselves at the camp
fires, or on furlough at home, our feet
upon an ottoman, we sagging back into
nm armchair.
/ AS you 20 down the street you see an
excavation and four or five men are
working and perhaps twenty or thirty
leaning ON the rail- looking over at
them. 7. That is the way tits in the
church of God to-day; where you find
one Christian at work there are fifty
men watching the job.
Oh! my friends why do you not go to
work and preach the gospel? You say:
81 have no pulpit" You have. 1t may
be the carpenters bench, 1t may be the
mason's wall. The robe in which you
are to proclaim this gospel may be
shoemaker's apron. But woe unto you
II you preach not this gospel some
where, somehow? If this world is ever
brought to Christ, it will be through
the unanimous and long-continued Of
forts Of men who, waiting for no spe-
cial endowment, consecrate to God
what they have. Among the most USE
less people in the world are men with
ten talents, while many one with only
two talents, or no talent atall, isdoing
, n great work, and so "the lame take
the prey" There are thousands OF
ministers of whom you have never
, heRrd-in log cabins at the west, in
/, mission chapels at the east-who are
warning against the legions of dark
ness, successfully warning. Tract dis
!. tributors, month by month undermin'
, ing the citadels of sin. You do not
know their going or their coming; but
= the footballs OF their ministry are heard
4 In the palaces of Heaven. Who are
the workers in our Sabbath-schools
throughout this land to-day? Men
A celebrated. men brilliant, men OF vast
q estate? For the most part, not that at
s nll.
;. They have noticed that the chief
= Characteristic Of the most OF those who
. . are successful in the work Is that they
know their Bible, are earnest in prayer,
arc anxious for the salvation OF the
! young, and Sabbath by Sabbath ar9
! willing TO sit down unobserved and tell
!, of Christ and the resurrection. These
. are the humble workers who are re-
: cruit!nc the great army of Christian
4 youth-not by might, not by power
i not by profound argument, not by
= brilliant antithesis, bat by the bless
a ings of God on plain talk. and humble
: story, and silent tear, and anxious
y look. 'The lame take the prey"
: o, this work Of saving the youth o.
|, our country few appreciate wha
g II Is! This generation tramping on t.
the grave-we will soon all be gone
Al What Of the nextP
" An engineer on locomotive goint
i across the western prairies day afte
I, day saw little child come out in from
- of cabin and wave TO him; 50 he go
In the habit OF waving back to the lit
a tic child, and IL was the days JOY L
him TO see this little one come out II
n front of the cabin door and wave :
=. him. while he answered back. One da.
:, the train was belated and II came oI
n TO the dusk OF the evening. AS the en-
= rincer stool at his post he saw by tn
nj headlight that little girl woudcrin
nf why the train did not come, loo'sin
~ for the train. knowing nothing of he
N peril A great horror seized u2on III
on engineer lie reverse the cl nc. II
On gave Il In charge Of the Other maa o
"a board, and then he climbed ovc
nj the engine and he came down on tn
cowcatcher. ITe said, though &c r,
Il, yersed the engine, It seemoi - Tag
No IL were going at lightning specs
M faster and faster, though II was rea!l
n, slowing up, and with almost supe
10. natural clutch he caught that child b
~ the hair and lifted 1t up, and whe
ve the train stopped and the pa
We sengers gathered around to SC
,t what was the matter, there the old el
nm Rineer lay, tainted dead away, the Ii
u, tie child alive and in his swarth
ho arms" "ohr' you say, that was we
n, done" But l want you to exercii
AZ. some kindness and some appreciate
10, toward those in community who n
~, snatching the little ones from und'
"a the wheel Of temptation and sin
M, snatching them from under thunderir
~, rail trains OF eternal disaster, brir
In them up into respectability In th
~ world and into glory for the world
a, come. You appreciats what the ems
bs neer did; why can you not apprecia
,ar the rrandcr work done by every Sa
,ls bath-school teacher and by every Chr
,od tian worker?
H. o. nv friends, want TO impress u
W. .,, ,nvself and upon yourselves that