The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-03

who fed the hONi breaks the nr.ul They
talk often of the good times coming This
world has no charm for them, but heaven
entrances their spirit They often divide
their sclnt crust with some forloru wretch
who knocks 90 their door at night, and ON
the blast of the night wind ~ the door
opens to let them in, is heard the voice Of
him who said 81 was hungry, and he fed
me" No cohort Of heaven will be too
bright to transport them. by Gods help
they have vanquished the Assyrian host.
They have divided among them the spols.
Lame, lame, yet they took the prey
INCIDENTS FOR ILLUSTRATION.
was riding along the country road one
day, and | saw man on crutches. over
took him. He was very old lie was go
ing very slowly. At that rate 1t would have
taken him two hours to 20 a mile. | said,
"Wouldn't you like to ride?' He said:
THANK you, | would God bless you
When he sat beside me, he said: You sec,
am very lame and very old, but the Lord
has been n good Lord to me. | have buried
all my children. The Lord gave them, and
the Lord had a right to take them away.
Blessed be his namel | was very sick, and
] had no money, and my neighbors came
In aud took care of me, and wanted moth
ing | suffer a great deal with pain, but
then have so 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 n ride or he was
giving me a ride He said: Now, If you
please. I'll get out here. just help me
down on my Srutches, 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.
/ l do not know where they came out, but
every hobble of that old man was toward
the shining gate. With his old Crltch he
had struck down many IA Seunacherib OF
temptation which has mastered you and
me. Lame, so fearfully lame, so awfully
/ lame but he took the prey
A step farther: There are in all commu-
mites many orphans. During our last war
and in the years Immediately following
how many children at the north and south
we heard say, "Oh, my father was killed in
the war;" Have you ever nOticed-l fear
/ YOU have not-how well those children have
turned out9 Starting under the greatest
disadvantage, no orphan 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 letter
home, when a sharpshoOter's bullet ended
the letter which was never folded, never
posted and never read. Those children
came up under great disadvantage. No
father to fight their way for them. Per.
haps there was in the old family Bible an
old yellow letter pasted 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 fatherless and the widow
portion and they soon took their fathers
place in that household.
They battled the way for their mother
They came on up, and many of them have
already in the years since the war taken pc
sitions in church and state north and south.
While many of those who suffered nothing
during those times have had sons 20 out
into lives of Incidence and vagabondage
these who started under so many disadvan
tages because they were so early bereft
these are the lame who took the prey.
A step farther: There are those who
would like to be good. They say, "Oh if
only had wealth, or if had eloquence, or i
| had high social position, how much
would accomplish for God and the church!
| stand here today to tell you that you have
great opportunities for usefulness.
Who built the pyramids? The king who
ordered them built? No; the plain work
men who added stone after stone and ston,
after stone Who built the bikes of Hol
landS The government that ordered thu
enterprise? No; the plain workmen WHIT
carried the earth and rang their trowels OF
the wall. Who are those who have bull
these vast citiesY The capitalists No; tn
carpenters, the masons, the plumbers, tn
plasterers, the timers, the roofers, depend
ent on a days wages for a livelihood. An,
so in the great work of assuaging humal
suffering, and enlightening human igno
rance, and hating humanin iquity. In tina
great work the chief part is to be done b,
ordinary men, with ordinary speech, in al
ordinary Mariner and by ordinary means.
The trouble is that in the army of Chris
we all want to be captains and colonies AM
brigadier generals. We are not willing t
march with the rank and file and do dut
with the private soldier. We want to bt
long to the reserve corps, and read abOu
the battle while warming ourselves at tn
campfires or on a furlough at home, ou
7 feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back int
an armchair.
AS you go down the street you see an e.
cavation, and four or five men are workin
and perhaps 20 or 80 leaning on the rail lool
ing over at them. That is the way it is i
the church of God today-where you fin
one Christian hard at work there are [
men watching the job.
MINISTERS WITHOUT PULPITs.
Oh, my friends, why do you not go
work and preach the gospel You say,
have no pulpit" You have. 1t may
the carpenters bench; it may be the mi
sons wall. The robe in which you are I
! 81 10 ahn
apron But woe unto you if you preach NJ
, this gospel somewhere, somehow! If tn
world is ever brought to Christ, it will |
through the unanimous and long continue
efforts of men who, waiting for no speech
endowment, consecrate to God what the
have. Among the most useless people
the world are men with ten talents, Will
many one with only two talents, or Il
, talent at all, is doing great work, and s
: 1.-The lame take the prey"
There are thousands of ministers
! whom you have never heard-in log cabir
at the west, in mission chapels at theeast-
, who are warning against the legons {
darkness-successfully warning; tract di
tributors month by month underminin
the citadels of sin. You do not know the
going or their coming, but the footballs {
their ministry are heard in the palaces c
heaven. Who are the workers in our Sal
, bath schools throughout this land today
Men celebrated, men brilliant, men Of vas
i estatef For the most part not that at all.
! | have noticed that the chief character
istic of the most of those who are success
full in the work is that they know thei
Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxiou
for the salvation of the young, and Sab
bath by Sabbath are willing 10 sit dow
unobserved and tell of Christ and the resur
rection. These are the humble worker
who are recruiting the great army of Chris
tian youth-not by might not by power
not by profound argument, not by bril-
liant antithesis, but by the blessing of Coo
, on plain talk and humble story and silen
, tear and anxious look. The lame take tn
prey"