The Newtown bee., 1894-08-03

you yourself have baked for the hungry has more true charity about it than a hundred loaves which you dole out as the agent of some society; one earnest word that comes straight from your heart has more sympathy about it and will do more good in quieting sorrow than whole library of sermons which you tell some disconsolate soul to read. 1 It is long, slow process, this con- verting of the world through human means but it is the only way it will be done. Oh, the billion souls that still sit in the dark shadows of heathen- dom How the burden presses upon every Christian heart! But who is to | lift the burden? Shall God give us Bibles already translated into the heath- 1 en tongues? Shall He furnish money in
 some miraculous way? No; it is just by the contribution of the few pennies by
 the little child over there-the pennies saved in denial of some pet pleasure,
 and by the patient working of some
 faithful servant here, and by the con- | tinued
 PRAYING OF SOME DEVOTED WOMAN
 there, that all this work is to be done.
 My friends, ,are not most of us too prone
 to be always living in the future, to be
 spending our time in dreaming of what
 we might do, if we had more money,
 if we were more eloquent, if we had the
 talents of some one else. Why there are
 no ''ifs" in Gods way of dealing with
 us, nor in the account which He will
 exact of us by and by. The man who
 had only one talent was certainly not blamed because he had only one talent,
 but because he did not use the one
 which he had; and it was said to the
 everlasting credit of the woman at the
 house of Simon the leper, who poured
 an alabaster box of ointment of spike
 nard upon Jesus head, and it stands as
 her chief distinction to day, "She hath
 done what she could." Oh, let us never
 be ashamed of bringing what we have
 into the service of Jesus, mirth-loving
 spirit, Il rich musical voice, the ability to
 say interesting things in an interesting
 way, any talents, all talents Let our
 only concern be, and let the blush man. tie cur cheek only when we keep back :, part of what was really ours to bring. The great day of judgement, that day
 for which all other days were made, moves majesticaily on. Hark, it thun. ders; and timid little girl steps for. ward to say: ''Dear Lord Jesus, 1 was . lO nr
 young and so frail; but used to go out
 into the green fields and gather the wilG , flowers for my invalid mother; and
 used to sit in the morning by my father!
 bench as he worked in making shoes
 and I would sing to him some old song , that he dearly loved to hear. This, u know, was not much; but my strengti
 would allow me to do no more.'' Thel V our wonderful High Priest and Mercifu
 Judge, with an expression of love upol V His beautiful face, sweetly smiles to say '' "Come, ye blessed of my Father, come
 enter into your rest and roam the swee fields of Eden forever by the crysta o stream; here your weakness shall b i' made strong, and sweeter flowers tha earth ever knew shall fil your cage q hands," Hark it tbunders; and ther d comes forward another to state his case |, and he says: "Lord, while I was O IT, earth, accumulated great store, an d l built barns and houses and filled ther ,s with everything
 70 THAT WOULD MINISTER TO MY EASE;
 and, as my fortune increased, 1 builde - yet more, l tore down the old and erect ed more largely and more magnificently s Little of my goods 1 bestowed on other: =. for I needed all to increase my own es ,r tate.'' And the sweet smile on the fac of the Judge upon His throne, that ha ,a just rested upon the little girl, change
 into frown, at which the assemble , multitudes tremble, as He says: ID. ;. part from me, for ye are not of Mine; ~ never knew you"
 =, Let us not, then, fret about the word
 we cannot speak, and the money W 1 cannot give, and the friends we cannt ~ ~ reach with our cheer, ,and the days we cal not work, and the souls we cannot win, ,an < the good we cannot do; that does nt s+ concern us at all, let us simply make - our earnest endeavor to do all that N - can.
 a "Give ye them to eat;" and, if you o~ your work earnestly and we'll, you ma - always be sure of the very best of hell ,h CTS. How many times the supply { m loaves and fishes gave out, as the disc ~ pies passed them among the seate when the supply was exhausted, the '' came back to Jesus, and there the bres " did not fail and the giving forth of fish, - did not stay, until the hunger of u t great multitude was filled. Brethre a' ,, the day draws toward evening this is = desert place; the perishing, starvir ', multitudes are round us everywher, - and still rings forth the cry from u = Master, sGive ye them to eat" Don .a say your store is too scanty, don't sa - there is nothing you can give; dor - complain that your strength is too smal :. Do your duty, men and women; let , not generalize about it. do your duty ' this community, do your duty in th :. church. If each one of us were real ne giving all that he had to give in time, T, money, in strength, oh,~the work tn Y we should do! Five loaves fed t q thousand, little one became stror
 nation, in the olden time two put t,
 thousand. to flight; and if we only came VI Jesus for fresh supplies of strength, ou we went forward only Gin His Name