Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-01-04

aikes of Holland? The government
that ordered the enterprise? NJ" the
| plain workmen who carried the earth
and runr their trowel on the wal.
VINO are those who have built these
vast cities? The capitalists? No; the
rarpe lters. the masons, the plumbers
the pa ,.erers. the. timers, the rooiers'
dependent on days wares for ilVe-
| Tho L. And so in the great work OF
assua sins human suffering AMI en-
| tightening human ignorance and mart
| ing human iniGu tv. In that grea
work tha 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 ranN
and file and do duty with the private
soldier. We want to belong TO the re-
seaye 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
an armchair.
As you 90 down the street you see an
excavation aud four or five men are
working. and perhaps twenty or thirty
leaning on the rail looking over at
hem. That is the way it is in the
church OF God to-day where you iind
one Christian at work there are nifty
men watching the job
Oh! my friends, why doyou not go to
!, orS and preach the gospel? You say
4 have no pulpit" You have. 1t may
be the carpenters bench, it may be the
nason's wall. The robe in which yon
ire 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
he unanimous and long-continued ef-
,orts of men who. waiting for no spe-
.ial endowment consecrate TO God
what they have. Among the most use
ess people in the world are men with
zen talents, while many one with only
two talents. or no talent at all. is doing
, great work, and so the lame take
The prey" There are, thousands OF
/ Minister'S Vi W AObl NON 'ASf~
aeard-in log cabins at the west, in
mission chapels at the east-who are
warning against the legions of dark
less. successfully warning. Tract dis
ributors. month by month undermin-
MO the eitadels of sin. You do not
xnow their going or their coming; but
he footballs of their ministry are heard
n the palaces OF Heaven. Who are
The workers in our Sabbath schools
throu ghout this land to-day? Men
celebrated men brilliant, men OF vast
estate? For the most part, not that at
all
They have noticed that the chief
characteristic of the most of those VINO
are successful in the work is that they
know their Bible, 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 res direction. These
are the humble workers who are re-
,ruiting the great army of Christian
vouth-not by might not by power,
not bv profound argument. not by
brilliant antithesis. but by the bless
inqs OF Col on plain talk, and humble
story. and silent tear. aud anxious
. look. "The lame take the prey"
O. this work of saving the youth OF
our country-how few appreciate what
it is, This generation tramping on to
! the prave-we will soon all be gone.
What of the next?
An engineer on a locomotive going
! across the western prairies day after
, dav saw little child come out in front
of a cabin and wave TO him; ST. he got
in the habit of waving back TO the lit
tie child. and il was the days JOY tc
, him TO see this little one come out in
! front of the cabin door and wave &c
him. while he answered back. One day
, the train was belated and it came on
! To the dusk of the evening As the en-
Oiueer stood at his post he saw by I'll
/ headlight that little girl, wondering
o WHY the train did not come, looking
4 for the train Knowing nothing of hei
4 neril. A great horror seized upon the
n engineer. He reversed the engine. He
, gave il in charge of the other man OF
beard. and then he climbed owe
I the engine and he came down on tbs
cowcateher He said though he re
i vsrsed the engine. it SCENE as though
!. il were going at lightning speed
I faster and faster though it was really
I slowing up, and with almost super
!. natural clutch he caught that child b
!. the hair and lifted it up, and whei
G the train stopped and the pas
g sengers gathered around to se'
: what was the matter there the old en-
rineer lay, tainted dead away the Ii,
r tie chill alive AMI in his swarth,
> arms" OH you say, that was wei
+ done" But | want you to eyercis
I some kindness and some appreciation
+ toward those in community who az
r snatehing the little ones from made
the wheel of temptation and sin
1 snatching them from under laundering
r rail trains of eternal disaster brini
n them up into responsibility in TIN
: world and into glory for the world {