The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-18

communities who toll nightly for q live
lh55d. they have scant wages. Per
baps they are diseased. or have physical
iuhrmiues so they are hinjared from
. doing continuous days work. 4 city
missionary finds them up the dark alley.
with no IRE, with thin clothing, with
. very coarse bread They never ride in
. the street carr they cannot afford the .
. cents. They never see any pictures save
. those IN the show window on the street,
from which they are often t9s-et. and
/ looked at by some one who seems t. say
! in the look, 'AIove on, what are you doing
/ here looking az pictures
Yet many OF them live on mountains Of
/ TRANSPORTATION At their rough table he
Z who fed the five thousand 0reaAs the
/ bread. They talk often of the good
/ times that are coming. This world has
no charm for them. but heaven entrances
/ their spirit They often divide their
( scaut crust with some fOrlorn wTet 10
/ who knocks at their door at night, and
on the blast Of the night wind. as the
door opens TO let them IN. is heard the
voice Of him who said. Il was hungry and
he fed me- No cOhOrt of heaven will be
too bright to TRANSPORT them BY Gods
( help they have yauQuished the Assyrian
I host. They have divided among them
/ the spolS. Lame, lame, yet they took
the prey.
was riding along the country road one
day. and ! saw a man on crurChes. /
overlook him. He was very old. He was
going very slowly. 1T that rate IL would
have taken him two hours to GO mile
l said Wouldn't yOu like to ride" He
said, Thank YOU. ! would. God bless
you When he sat beside ne ne said,
You see. am very lame and very Old,
but the Lord has been good Lord TO me.
] have buried all my children The Lord
gave them and the Lord had a right 10
take them away. Blessed be his name
7 was very sick, and had no money. and
my EeighOCr came i'm and took care of
me, and [ wanted nothing. I suffer great
deal with pain. but then / have 50 many
mercies left. The Lord has been a good
Lord TO me And before we had GOT far.
! was in doubt whether was giving him
ride or he was giving me a ride, He
said, Nov, if YOU please, RI get out
here. just help me down on my crutches,
if you please. God bless you Thank
you, sir. Good morning. Good morning.
You have been feet to the lame, sir, you
have Good morning"
Swarthy men had gone the road that
day. ] do not know where they came out,
but every hObble of that old man was
toward the shining gate. With his old
crutch he had struck down many a Sen
nachefib Of temptation which has mas
tered you and me. Lame. so fearfully
lame, so awfully lame; but he took the
prey.
A step fartherl There are in all com
munltles many orphans. During our last
war and in the years Immediately follow
ing, how many children at the north and
south we heard say, "Oh! my father was
killed in the war" Have you ever no
ticed-I fear you have not-how well
those children have turned out, Starting
under the greatest disad vantage. NO or
phan asylum could do for them what their
father would have done had he lived
The skirmisher sat one night by the light
OF fagots, in the swamp, writing a letter
home, when sharpshooter's bullet ended
the letter which was never folded
never posted and never read. Those
children came up under great disad-
vantage. No father to fight their way
for them. Perhaps there was in the old
family Bible an Old yellow letter pastel
fast, which told the story of that fathers
long march, and how he suffered in the
hospital; but they looked still further on
In the Bible, and they came TO the story
of how God is the father of the father
less and the widows portion, and thet
soon took their fathers place in that
household. They battled the way for
their mother. They came on mp. and
many Of them have already, in the wears
since the war. taken positions in church
and state north and south While many
on those who suffered nothing during
those times have had sons 90 out into
lives Of incidence and vagabondage. these
VINO started under so many diSadVaut-
ages because they We're 50 early bereft,
these are the lame who took the prey.
step farther: There are those who
would like TO do good. They say: sob!
if l only had wealth, or il I had
elOquence, or if / had HIGH social posi-
ton, how much I would accomplish for
God and the church !" l stand here to-day
to tell you that you have great opportun-
tiles for usefulness.
Who built the pyramids The king who
ordered them built} No; the plain work
men who added stone after stone and
stone after stone. Who built the dikes of
Hollands The government that ordered
the enterprise2 No the plain wOrxmeu
who carried the earth and rung their
tFOwel on the wall Who are those who
have built these vast citosl The capital
lists! No; the carpenters the masons
the plumbers, the plasterers, the timers,
the roofers, dependent on days WAGES
for livelihood. And so in the great
work of asSuaging human suffering and
enllghtening 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 ordinary means
The trouble is that in the army of Christ
we all want to be captains and colonels
and rigadier-generals. We are not will
ing to march with the rank and file and
! do duty with the private soldier We want
TO belong to the reserve corps, and read
about the battle while warming ourselves
at the camp fires, or On furlough at home.
| our feet upon an ottoman, we saugipg
! back into an armchair.
As you go down the street you see an
excavation and four or five men are work
ing, and perhaps twenty or thirty lean
ing on the rail looking over at them.
That is the way it is in the church Of
God to-day; where you fin / one Christ AN
hard at work, there are fifty men watch
ing the job.
Oh! my friends why do you not 90 to
work and preach the gospel You say. 81
have no pulpit You have. 1t may be
the carpenters bench. il NAV be the
mason's wall. The robe in which YOU
are 10 proclaim this gospel may be shoe
makers apron. But woe unto YOU if YOU
preach not this gospel somewhere, some
how! If this world is ever brought to
Christ, it will be through the unanimous
and long continued efforts of men who,
waiting for no special endowment, con
secrate to God what they have Among
the most useless people in the world are
men with ten talents, while many a one
with only two talents, or no talent at all.
IS doing great work, and 50 1.-THE lame
take the prey"