The Newtown bee., 1894-08-03

rebellion against Him and serV- ing the gods of the heathen can only bring His displeasure and wrath; but the hosts of Assyria and Egypt and must be the human arrows for His smiting. And again, in New Testament days, only Christ could change the water into wine; but ser wants must draw the water and fill the waterpots to the brim. Only He, at whose own glorious disentombment the grave was to lose it's victory and death it's sharp sting, only He could speak the word that would
 CALL LAZARUS FROM THE TOMB; but human hands must roll away the stone from the entrance of the grave, and human hands must unloose the en- swathing bands and let the disimprison- ed one go free.
 "Give ye them to eat," said Christ to His disciples, and they went to work with their scant store. That day on the hillside by Lake Gennesaret was a won- derful day in many respects. Many were healed, healed of long and painful diseases; and many, too, were healed in a far higher and better Eay-many on this day took sides with Jesus, seeing in Him one who brought to them refresh ment for sin-sick soul; and, through His teaching, they were beginning to find that they had soul, and that this soul had never-dying thirst for never endirg life. This day in many respects was wonderful day: but to none was it more wonderful than to the disciples themselves it discovered them to them selves, it told them of their power. That great miracle was a great object lesson. It was a great prophecy of what their future work was to be-a giving, themselves giving, of what they received from God. "Give ye them to eat," that was the message now; ''go ye to every creature,n that was the fare well message from the Savior.
 We sometimes wonder why Christ did not do more than He did in making pro- vision for the future spread of His king. dom. The issue was stupendous; fol His work all the ages that had beer were preparing, upon His work all the ages that should be depended: and yet He left it's continuance to "unlearneC and ignorant men selected from Jht fishing smacks of Galilee; He wrote nc book, He even seemed careless about tht | permanent keeping of the words He hat spoken and the deeds He had done; H' left no body of laws to regulate the gov ernment and administration of Hi church the principles of His teaching which were long after His death gather ed together and set down in writing, ar so elastic and liberal that many denomi nations have sprung up, each claimin, that it has given the right interpretatio
 to them.
 Now all this was so, just becaus
 Christ so wonderfully contided His ir
 terests in the hands of men and becaus
 He so marvellously believed in mer
 THIRTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE
 here were spent in making ready Hin
 self for His work, and the remainin
 three years in making ready His disc
 ples for their work: and then bravely
 confidently, completely, He intrustt
 the fortunes of His work to them; an
 they passed them on to Paul and St,
 phen and Titus and they to Chrysostol
 pI I har 1 Nnc clar Y,
 Robertson; and, when their work wa done, they passed on the sacred trust
 you and to me.
 There is a secret in all this. It is ths
 the living energies of living men are th
 greatest power in the world. Nothin can compare in the production of goo
 with truth and love, compassion an
 purity, gentleness and tenderness, e,
 pressed in a human life. The pows
 that makes for peace and righteousne:
 is not the power represented in u
 bowling of winds, the rumble of eartl quakes, the hum of machinery; nor i.
 in carefully framed creeds, nor in fai sounding names. It is in consecrate
 human lives.
 If God sees fit to work with us, if speak it most reverently) God cann work without us, do you not see how
 ennobles our work? What is the grea est honor conferred upon man? Ju
 this, that he can be co-laborer vii
 God. I do not know the occupation
 the angel host of Heaven; they hyn Gods praises, but there must be oth employment befitting their noble power , But this I know: the brightest serar that burns before the blazing throl might we'll envy the work that God h. |, committed to you and to me. What your work? Teaching that Sunds , school class, your pupils noisy and res less and seemingly wholly unappreci , tive of your toil? No matter; you a right in line with the work that Chri
 came here to do. What is your wor
 pastor? Is it to labor in some out-of-th way corner of the Masters vinegar
 where the ground has been gone ov
 many times before, where the hope
 plenteous harvest is small, where d e couragements attend you on every sid e where there are few to stay up 70 t hands? No matter; wherever there e one soul that may be reclaimed to | t Savior, there is work that would { tract the archangel from about u n throne and the Christ from the skie e and at the successful accomplishments < which all the host of the Heavenly chc , WOULD SING IN LoUDEsT MEASURE. l My friend, are you feeling this pri' [ lege? Do you covet every chance v,