The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-02-10


an excavation and four or five men
are working. and perhaps twenty or
thirty leaning on the rail looking over
at them. That is the way it is IN the
Church of God to-day; where you md
one Christian hard at work there are
fifty men watching the job
Oh. my friends, why do you not 60
to work and preach the Gospel? You
say, 81 have no pulpit" You have.
It may be the carpenters bench, u
may be the mason's wall. The robe IN
which you are to proclaim this Gospel
NAV be a shoemaker's apron. But WOO
unto you if you preach not this
Gospel somewhere, somehow! IL
this world is ever brought TO
Christ it will be through the
unanimous and long-continued efforts
of men who, waiting for no special en-
dowment, consecrate to God what they
have. Among the most useless people
in the world are men with ten talents
while many one with only two tai
ents, or no talent at all, is doing
great work, and SO 'sthe lame take the
prey"
have noticed that the chief char
acteristic of the most of those who are
successful 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 resurrec-
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who are recruiting the great army
of Christian youth-not by might,
not by power, not by profound argu-
ment, not by brilliant antithesis, but
by the blessing of God on plain talk,
and humble story, and silent tear, and
anxious look. s'.The lame take the
prey"
q 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 next?
An engineer on a locomotive going
across the western prairies day after
day saw little child come outin front
of 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 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 even
| ing. AS the engineer stood at his pos,
he saw by the headlight that little girl
, on the track, wondering why the train
for n
, 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 engine, and
{ he came down on the cow-catcher. He
said, though he had reversed the en-
Q CINE, it seemed as though it were going
q at lightning speed, faster and faster,
9 though it was really slowing up, and
4 |swith almost supernatural clutch ne
n caught that child by the hair and lifted
it up, and when the train stopped and
h the passengers gathered around to see
y what was the matter, there the old en-
n gineer lay, tainted dead away, the lit
e tie child alive and in his swarthy arms
l ssOhr' you say, shat was well done.
: But want you to exercise some kind
u ness and some appreciation toward
e those in community who are snatch
J. ing the little ones from under thu
d wheels of temptation and sin-snatch
e ing them from under laundering rail
:. trains of eternal disaster, bring then
into responsibility in this world ant
It into glory for the world to come. Yo'
| I, he 4. w I,
n can you not appreciate the grande
h work done by every Sabbath-schoo
y teacher and by every Christian worker
h Oh! start on the road to Heaven to
20 day. You are not happy. The thirs
lie of your soul will never be slaked b
the fountain of sin. You turn every
n where but to God for help. Righ
II where you are, call on Him. He know
" you, He knows all about you. II
he knows all the odds against which yo
h! have been contending in life. Do nc
!" go to Him with a long rigmarole {
III prayer, but just look up to Him an
We say; HELP! help!'
It. Yet you say: My hand trcmbles {
m from my designations, can't even tax
sr hold of hymn book to sing" Do nj
ne worry about that, my brother; / wi
hit give out hymn at the close SO familis
a you can sing it without a book. BIZ
rs YOU say: 81 have such terrible habi
as on me, cant get rid of them" N
er answer is: Almighty grace can brea
err up that habit and will break it II
hit But you say: 1.-THE wrong did was
re one dead and in Heaven now, and
Id can't correct that wrong" You ca
Id correct it. BY tho grace of God go j
II. to the presence of that one, and Il
al; apologies you ought to have made {
he earth make in Heaven.
of "Oh!" says some man, "if l shou
err try to do right, if should turn avn
ey from my evil.doing unto the Lord,
Iat would be jostled, would be driy,
Tor back; nobody would have any symr
nd thy for me- You are mistaken. Hel
he in the presence of the church on ear
in and in Heaven, give you to-day t
Tn. right hand of Christian fellowshi
ed God sent me here to-day to preach tn
ad and He sent you here to hear this: Il
nd the wicked forsake his way and the .
Ter righteous man his thought, and
icy him return unto the Lord, who will ha
;he mercy, and unto our God, who W
abundantly pardon" Though you m
no have been the worst sinner you m