The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-06-07
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER. :
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In the grand review Of heaven, when
the regiments pass the Lord Of Hosts,
there will be whole regiments of nurses
and Sabbath school teachers and tract
distributors and unpretending workers,
before whom as they pass the kings and
queens of God and the Lamb will lift
flashing coronet and bow down in rec
ognition and reverence. The most Of the
Christian work for the worlds reclama-
ton and salvation will be done by peo-
pie Of one talent and two talents, while
the ten talent people are up in the astro-
nomical observatories studying other
worlds, though they do little or nothing
for the redemption of this world, or are
up in the rarefied realms Of "higher
criticism trying to find out that Moses
did not write the Pentateuch or to prove
that the throat of the whale was not
large enough to swallow the minister
who declined the call to Nineveh and
apologizing for the Almighty for certain
inexplicable things they have found in
the Scriptures. 1t will be found out at
the last that the Krupp guns have not
done so much to capture this world for
God as the oxgoads.
A Victory with Pitchers.
Years ago / was to summer in the
Adirondacks, and my wealthy friend,
who was great hunter and fisherman,
said, ~ am not going to the Adiron-
dacks this season, and you can take my
equipment and will send it up to Paul
Smiths. /" Well, it was there when ar
rived in the Adirondacks, splendid
outfit, that cost many hundreds of dol
lars, a gorgeous tent; and such elabo-
rate fishing apparatus; such guns Of all
styles of exquisite make and reels and
pouches and bait and torches and lunch
baskets and many more things that l
could not even guess the Use of. And
my friend of the big soul had even writ
ten ON and engaged men who should ac-
company me into the forest and carry
home the deer and the trout. If the
mountains could have seen and under
stood it at the time there would have
been panic among the antlers and the
fins through all the "John Browns
Tract. Well, l am no hunter, and not
a roebuck or game fish did injure.
But there were hunters there that sea-
son who had nothing bat plain gun
and rug to sleep on and coil of fish
ing line and box of ammunition and
bait, who came in ever and anon with
as many Of the captives of forest and
stream as they and two or three attend
ants could carry. Now, I fear that many
Christian workers who have most elabo-
rate educational and theological and
professional equipment, and most Won
derful weaponry, sufficient, you would
think, to capture whole community or
awhole nation for God, will in the last
day have but little except their fine
tackling to show, while some who had
no advantages except that 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.
What made the Amalekites run be-
fore Gideon's army? Each one of the
army knew how much racket the break
ing of one pitcher would make. So 800
men that night took 200 pitchers and
lamp inside the pitcher, and at a given
signal the lamps were lifted and the
pitchers were violently dashed down.
The flash of light and the racket of the
800 demolished pitchers scrt tie enemy
into wild fight Not much Of a weapon,
you would say, is II (: okel pitcher, but
the Lord made that awT"l crash Of
crockery the means Of triumph for his
people. And there is yet to be battle
with the pitchers. Tie hight Ct the
worlds dissipation may Ect darker and
darker, but after awhile, in what watch
Of the night lnow not, ali the ale
pitchers, and the wine lits,.o.s, ard the
beer pitchers, and the whis'ly pitchers
Of the earth will be hurlnd into dclnoli-
ton by converted inebriates and Chris
tian reformers, and at that awful crash
Of internal crockery the Amalekitish
host Of pauperism and loaferdom and
domestic quarrel and cruelty and assas-
sination will fly the earth. Take the
first weapon you can lay your hands on.
Why did David choose the sling when
he went at Goliath and Goliath went
at him? Brought up in the country, like
every other boy, he knew how to man.
age sling. Saul's armor was first put
on him, but the giants armor was too
heavy. The helmet was clapped on him
as an extinguisher, and David said, II
cannot go with these, for have not
proved them. And the first wise thing
David did after putting on Saul's armor
was to put it off. Then the brook Elah,
the bed Of which was dry when saw
it and one vast reach Of pebbles, fur
nished the five smooth stones of the
brook with which Goliath was prostrat-
ed. Whether it be a boy 8 sling or bro
ken pitcher or an oxgoad, take that
which you can manage, and ask God for
help, and no power on earth or in hell
can stand before you.
Exhortation to Grid on the Armor.
Go out, then, I charge you, against
the Philistines. We must admit the odds
are against us-600 to one In the mat
ter of dollars, those devoted to worldli-
ness and sin and dissipation, when COM
pared with the dollars devoted to holt
ness and virtue-600 to one. The houses
set apart for vice and despoliation and
ruin, as compared with those dedicated
to good, 600 to one. Of printed news
paper sheets scattered abroad from day
to day, those depraving as compared
with those elevating are 600 to one.
The agencies for making the world
worse compared with the agencies for
making the world better, 600 to one.
But Moses in his song, chants, "How
should one chase thousand, and two
put 10000 to flight?" and In my text
one oxgoad conquers 600 uplifted battle
axes, and the day of universal victory
is coming, unless the Bible be fabrica-
ton and eternity myth and the chart
OTIS Of God are unwheeled on the golden
streets, and the last regiment of the &C.
lestial hosts lies dead on the plains Of
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