Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1895-03-15

is 80 warm they are not tempted to fiery
liquids. The great Roman armies never
drank anything stronger than water tinged
with vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants Is most
mighty, and millions succumb. When a
mans habits go wrong, the church drops
him; the social circle drops him; good in-
fuence drops him; We all drop him OF al
the men who get on traok, but few ever get
IN again: Near my SUMMER residence there
Is life saving station on the beach.
There are all the ropes and rockets, the
boats, the machinery Tor getting people OF
shipwrecks. One summerI saw there fifteen
or twenty men who were breakissting after
having just escaped with their lives and
nothing more. Up and down our coasts are
built these useful structures, aud the mari
ners know 1t; add they feel that X they are
driven into tho breakers there will DO apt
from shore to come rescue. The
churches Of God ought to be 80 many life
saving stations, not 50 much to help those
who are In smooth waters, but those who
have been shipwrecked. Come, let US run
out the lifeboats! And who will man them2
We do not preach enough to such men.
We have not enough faith in their release.
Alas, II when they come to hear US we are la
bOn0uSlY trying 10 show tho difference be-
tween SublHpssdslism and supralapsarian-
ism, while they have a thousand vipers OF re-
morse and despair coiling around their nm
mortal spirits.
The church Is not chiefly for goodlsh sort
OF men whose pFoolivitie3 are all right, and
who could get TO heaven praying and sing
ing IN their own homes. 1t is Oh the beach
TO help the drowning. Those bad casee are
the cases that God likes to take hold of. He
can save big sinner as we'll as a small sim
ner, and when a man calls earnestly to God
for help He will go out TO deliver such a one.
II 1t wore necessary, God would come down
FROM the sky, followed by all the artillery OF
heaven and a million angels With drawn
swords. Get 100 such redeemed men In each
of your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally
Warm-hearted and enthusiastic.
Furthermore, the destitute children OF the
streets offer field OF werk comparatively
unocoupied. The uncared for children are
In the majority in most OF our cities. Their
condition was well Illustrated by what boy
In this city said when he was found under q
CAT gn8Wilg q bone and some one said to
him, "Where do you Hve2" aud he answered,
Don't live nowhere, sirl'' Seventy thousand
OF the children OF New York City can neither
read nor write. When they grow up, II uu-
reformed, they Will outT0te your children,
and they will govern your children. The
whisky ring will hatch out other whisky
rings, and grog5hops will kill with their hor-
rid stencil public sobriety, unless the church
Of God rises up with outstretched arms and
intolds this dying population in her bosom.
Public schools cannot do 1t. Art galleries
cannot do 1t. Blackwelrs Island cannot do
1t, AlmshouseS cannot do it. New York
Ton1bs cannot do II. Sing Sing cannot do It.
People OF God, wake up to your magnificent
mission! You can do 1t. Get somewhere,
somehow, to work!
The Prussi8n cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavalry mount hV putting their left
foot into the stirrup- L don't care how you
mount your war charger II you only get into
this battle for God, and get there soon, right
stirrup, or left stirrup, o. no stirrU9 at all.
The unoceupied fields are all around us, and
why should We build on another mans foun-
dalton?
have heard Of what was called the
'thunder legion" 1t was in 49, part Of
the Roman army tc which some Christians
belonged, aud their prayers, II was said, were
answered by thunder and lightning aud hail
and tempest, which overthrow an invading
army aud saved the Empire. Aud would to
God that you could be 50 mighty In prayer
and work that you would become q thunder
ing legion before which tho forces OF sin
might be routed and the gates OF hell made
to tremble. All aboard now on the gospel
shipl II you cannot be a captain or a first
command to climb the ratline5 Heave away
now, lads! Shake out the reefs In the fore
topssil! Come, o heavenly wind, and fill
the canVasl Jesus aboard will assure our
safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon US for
ward. Jesus on the shining shore will well
come US into hsrbor. ''And Sd ii came to
pass that they all escaped safe to land"
Srike at Trenton, N. J.
Over three-fourths of the 700 en-
plOyes in the wooden Mills of Samuel
X. Wilson, at Trenton, n. J., have
quit work because their employer had
not restored the second 10 per cent re-
duction to which they were subjected
last summer. The striking employees
declare that they were promised the
restoration would take effect the first
Of the year.