Connecticut western news., 1893-12-21

celebrated, men brilliant, men of vast
 estate? For the most part, not that at all. have noticed that the chief charac- teristic of the most of those who are suc-
 cessful in the work is that they know their Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are | anxious for the salvation of the young,
 and Sabbath by Sabbath are willing to
 sit down unobserved and tell of Christ
 and the resurrection. These are the humble workers who are recruiting the great army of Christian youth-not by
 might, not by power, not by profound
 argument, not by brilliant antithesis,
 but by the blessing of God on plain talk,
 and humble story, and silent tear, and anxious look, ''the lame take the prey" Oh! this work of saving the youth of
 our country-how few appreciate what it is! This generation tramping on to | the grave-we will soon all be gone. | What of the nexti
 NOT TALENTS, BUT EFFORT. | An engineer on a locomotive going across the western prairies day after day | saw little child come out in front of a
 cabin and wave to him. So he got in the habit of waving back to the little
 child, and it was the days joy to him to I 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 belated and it came on to the dusk of the evening. As | the engineer stood at his post he saw by | the headlight that little girl on the track,
 wondering why the train did not come, | looking for the train, knowing nothing
 of her peril. A great horror seized upon the engineer. He reversed the engine. He gave it in charge of the other man on | board, and then he climbed over the en- zine, and he came down on the cowcatch- CT. He said, though he had reversed the engine, it seemed as though it were go-
 ing at lightning speed, faster and faster,
 though it was really slowing up, and
 with almost supernatural clutch he caught that child by the hair and lifted
 it up, and when the train stopped and
 the passengers gathered around to 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 we'll done." l But want you to exercise some kindness and some appreciation toward those in the
 community who are snatching the little ones from under the wheels of tempta- ton and sin-snatching them from under
 laundering rail trains of eternal disaster,
 bringing them up into responsibility in
 this world and into glory for the world
 to come You appreciate what the en-
 gineer did. Why can you not appreciate
 the grander work done by every Sabbath
 school teacher and by every Christian worker?
 Oh, my friends, Iwant to impress upon
 myself and upon yourselves that it is not the number of talents. we possess, but
 the use we make of them.
 God has royal family in the world.
 Now, if I should ask, "Who are the
 royal families of history" you would
 say, ''House of Hapsburg, House of Stu art, House of Bourbon" They lived in
 palaces and, had great equipage. But who are the Lords royal family? Some
 of them may serve you in the household,
 some of them are in unEghted garrets,
 some of them will walk this afternoon down the street, on their arm a basket
 of broken food; some of them are in the
 almshouse, despised and rejected of men; yet in the last great day. while it will be found that some of us who fared
 sumptuously every day are hurled back
 Into discontinue, they are the lame that
 will take the prey.
 One step farther: There are great many people discouraged about getting to heaven. At my desk in The Christian Herald office am in daily receipt of nu
 merous letters from people brought up
 in good families, and who had Christian parentage, but who frankly tell me that | they are astray thousand miles from the right track and fear their case is hopeless. My brothers, it is to you I want to preach now. have been looking for you will tell you how you got astray. It was not maliciousness on your part. It was perhaps through the geniahty and sociality of your nature that you | fell into sin. You wandered away from your duty; you unconsciously left the
 house of God; you admit the gospel 10 be true, and yet you have so grievously
 and so prolongedly wandered you say
 rescue is impossible.
 It would take week to count up the
 names of those in heaven who were on l earth worse than you tell me you are. They went the whole round of iniquity; | they disgraced themselves; they dis | graced their households; they despaired | of return because their reputation was | gone; their property was gone; every | thing was gone. But in some hour like this they heard the voice of God, and | they threw themselves on the divine compassion, and they rose up more than conquerors. And tell you there is the
 same chance for you. That is one reason why like to preach this gospel, so free
 gospel, so tremendous gospel. It takes
 man all wrong and makes him all right. In 8 former settlement where I preached, member of my congregation | quit the house of God, quit respectable circles, went into all styles of sin, and
 was slain of his iniquity. The day for l his burial came, and his body was brought to the house of God. Some of
 his comrades who had destroyed him
 were overheard along the street, on their way to the burial, saying, Come, let us | go and hear Talmage damn this old sin | nerp Oh! had nothing but tears for
 the dead, and had nothing but invita- tions to the living. You see, could not l do otherwise. Christ Jesus came to l seek and save that which was lost" Christ in his dying prayer said, Father, forgive them," and that was a prayer for you and prayer for me.
 PERSONAL APPEAL.
 Oh, start on the road to heaven today.
 You are not happy. Phe thirst of your
 soul will never be slaked by the fountains
 of sin. You turn everywhere but to God for help. Right where you are, call on
 him. He knows you; he knows all about
 you. He knows all the odds against
 which you have been contending in life.
 Do not go to him with long rigmarole
 of g prayer, but just look up and say,
 "Helpi Helpr'
 Yet you say. tMy hand trembles so