Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-06-19

present arc graduates Of the highest female
Feminarfes, and ono slip In grammar or one
mispronunciation win result in suppressed
| giggle. Amid the general chill that pre-
vades the house the unpretendinS evangelist
opens bis Bible and takes for his text. "Lord,
that my eyes may be opened" Opera glasses
in the gallery curiously scrntinike the
Speaker. He tells in plain way the story Of
the blind man, tells two or three touching
anecdotes, and the general chill gives wav
before a strange warmth.
classical hearer VINO took the first honor
ut Yale and who Is a prince Of propriettes
finds his spectacles becoming dim with
moisture suggestive OF tears. A worldly
mother, who had been bringing up her sons
and daughters In utter godlessnese. puts her
handkerchief to her eyes and begins to weep
Highly educated men who came to eriticise'
and pick 10 pieces and ind fault bow on their
gold-headed canes. What is that sound
from under the gallery? 1t Is n sob, and
all up and DOWN the audience thsre Is dean
emotion, 30 that when at the close Of the
servfce anxious souls are invited to especial
seats or the inquiry room, they como mp ~
| scores and kneel and repsnt aAd r1ss ND
pardoned; the whole town Is shaken and
places Of evil amusement are spa1sely at
tended and rum holes lose their patrons, and
The churches are thronsed, and the whole
community is cleansed and elevated and re-
joiced. What power did the evangelist bring
ness2 Not one brilliant epigram did he ut
ter. Not one graceful gesture did he make.
Not one rhetorical climax did he pile up.
But there was something abouthtm that peo-
pie had not taken In the estimate when they
prophesied the failure of that work. They
had not taken into the calculation the om-
impotence ofthe Holy Ghost. 1t was not the
flash OF a Damascus blade. 1t was God, be-
fore and behind and all around the oxgoad.
When people say that crime will tris
n raVNr0 0YaA fheA XXI rr-th
verted because of the seeming insuf1i-
cheney OF the means employed, they count
the 900 armed Philistines on one side and
ShamSar, the farmer, awkwardly equipped,
on the other side, not realizing that the
chariots Ct God are 80, 900 and that all heaven.
cherubic. seraphtc, archangelic, deiflc, is on
what otherwise would be the weak side
Napoleon, the author of the saying, "God Is
on the side OF the heaviest artillery" lived
to find out his mistake, for at Waterloo the
leo guns Of the English overcame the $50
guns OF the French. God is on the side OF
the right, and one man in the right will
eventually he found stronger than 600 -len
In the wrong. In all estimates Of any kind |
Of Christian work do not make the mistake
every day made Of leaving out the head OF
the universe.
Again, my subject springs upon us the |
thought that in Gods service It Is best to use
weapons that are particularly suited to u.s.
Shamgar had, like many Of US, been brought
up on farm. He knew nothing about iave-
Inns and bucklers and helmets and breast
plates and greaves OF brass and catapults |
and ballistR and iron scythes fastened to the |
axles OF chariots. But he was familiar with |
The fail otthe thrashing floor and knew how
20 pound with that, and the AK Of the woods |
and knew how to hew with that, and the |
oxgoad Of the plowman and knew how to
thrust with that. And you and will do |
best to use those means that we can best
handle, those weapons with which we caa |
make the most execution. Some In Gods |
service will do best with the pen; some with
me voice; some by extemporaneous speech, |
tor they have the whole vocabulary Of the |
English language half way between their |
brain and tongue, and others will do best |
with manuscript spread out before them. |
some will serve God by the piow, raising |
wheat and corn and giving liberally of what |
they sell to churches and missions; some as |
merchants and out OF their profits will dedi- |
cate a tenth to the Lord; some as physicians.
prescribing for the worlds ailments; and !
sOme as attorneys, defending innocence and |
obtaining rights that otherwise would not be |
recognizedS and some rs sailors, helping |
bridge the seas; and some rs teachers !
and pastors. The kingdom of God |
IS dreadfully retarded by so many OF US |
attempting to do that which We canuvt do,
reaching up for broadsword or falchion or |
bayonet or scimeter or Enfield rifle or Paix- |
hans gun, while we ought to be content |
with an o1goad. thank God that there are |
tens OF thousands Of Christians whom you |
never heard of and never will hear of until |
you see them in the high places Of heaven,
who are now in q quiet way In horr and |
schoolhouses and in praying circles | by |
sick beds and up dark alleys saying tie saw |
ing word and doing the saving deed. the ag- I
yregation OF their work overpowering the !
most ambitious statistics.
In the grand review of heaven when the !
regiments pass the Lord Of Hosts. there will |
te whole regiments of nurses aad Sabbath |
school teachers and tract distributors and |
unpretendfnS workers. before whom as they
pass the kings and queens Of God and the
Lamb will lift flashing coronet and bow
down IN recognition and reverence. The
most of the Christian work for the worlds |
reclamation and salvation will be done by |
people of one talent and two talents, while |
the ten talent people are up in the astronom- |
though they do little or nothing for the re- |
demptiou OF this world, or are up in the |
rarei1ed realms Of "hi9her criticism" trying |
30 find out that Moses did not write the |
Pentateuch or to provo that tho throat of |
the whale was not large enough to swallow |
the minister who declined the call to Nine |
yah and apoloSizing for the Almighty for |
oertain inexplicable things they have found |
In the Scriptures. It will be found out at
the last that tho Krupp guns have not done |
50 much to capture thisworld for God as the |
oxgoads.
dacks, and my wealthy friend, who was a |
great hunter and fisherman. said, II am not |
going to the Adirondacks this season, and
you can take my equipment and will send |
it up to Paul Smiths" Well 1t was there |
when arrived in the Adirondacks, a splen-
did outfit, that cost many hundreds OF dol |
lars, gorgeous tent, and such elaborate
fishing apparatus; such guns Of all STYLES OF
exquisite make and reels and pouches and
bait and torches and lunch baskets and
%sny %oss RSsss things t that Il could nd mot
friend Of the big soul had even writ
ten On and engaged men who should ao
company me into the forest and carry home
the deer and the trout. II the mountains
could have seen and understood it at the |
the antlers and the fins through all the |
"John Browns Tract" Well, I am no
hunter. and not q roebuck or Z game fish |
did injure. But there were hunters there |
that season who had nothing but . plain |
gun and rug to sleep on and q coil of fish |
who came in ever and anon with as many OF |
the captives OF forest and stream as they
and two or three attendants could |
carry. Now. fear that many Chris |
tian workers who have most elabo- |
rate educational and theological and profess |
sional equipment, and most wonderful wea-
ponry, sufficient, you would think, to cap
ture whole community or q whole Nation |
for God, will in the last day have but little |
except their fine tackling to show, while |
some who had no advantage except thai |
which they got in prayer and conservation |
will, by the souls they have brought to the |
shore Of eternal safety, prove that they have
been gloriously successful as fishers OF men,
and in taking many who, like the hart, were
painting after the water brooks.
tiWhat made the Amalekites run before !
Gldeon's army? Each one Of the army knew |
how much racket the breaking of one pitcher |!
would make. So 800 men that night took
800 pitchers and lamp inside the pitcher,
and at a given signal the lamps were lifted
ana the pitchers were Violently dashed
down. The fas;, Of light and the racket o.
the 800 demolished pitchers sent the enemy
into wild flight. Not much of a weapon. |
Won would saw IA a broken nircher hui