The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-06

last DAYS were spent ike princes
Do you think my Lord is going t.
turn off His old soldiers because the5'
are weak and worn and because they
tainted by the brook Besor? Are they
going to get no part of the spoils
of the victory2 Just look at them. Da
you think those crevices in the face arc
wrinkles? No; they are battle scars
They fought against sickness, they
fought against trouble, they fought
against sin, they fought for God, they
fought for the church, they fought for
the truth, they fought for Heaven.
When they had plenty of money then
names were always on the subscription
list When there was any hard work
to be done for God, they were ready to
take the heaviest part of it. When
there came great revival, they were
ready to pray all night for the anxious
and the sinstruck They were ready
to do any work, endure any sacrifice,
do the most unpopular thing that God +,
demanded of them. But now they can
not 90 further. Now they have physi-
cal infirmities Now their head trou-
bles them. They are weak and faint
by the brook Besor. Are they to have
no share in the triumph? Are they to
get none of the treasures, none OF the
spoils of conquest? You must think
that Christ has very short memory If
you think He has forgotten their serv-
ices.
Fret not, We aged ones. Just tarry
by the stuff and wait for your share OF
the spoils. Yonder they are coming.
hear the bleating of the fat lambs and
l see the Jewels CLINT in the sun. 1t
makes me laugh to think how you Will
be surprised when they throw a chain
of gold over your neck and tell you to
90 in and dine with the King. see
YOU backing out because you feel I'M
worthy. The shining ones come up on
the one side, and the shining ones come
+ up on the other side, and they push
q YOU on, and they push you up, and they
- saw: "Here is an old soldier Of Jesus
q Christ, and the shining ones will rush
9 out towards you and say: Yes, that
!, man saved my SOUL or they will rush
~ out and say: "Oh, yes she was with me
in the last sickness" And then the cry
will 90 round the circle" Come in, come
!, in come up; we saw you away down
:, there, old and sick and decrcpit ano
: discouraged because you could not &C
a to the front but AS his part is tina
goeth down to the battle, so shall hi
-, part be that tarrieth by the stuff
~ There is high consolation, also, in thi
"A for aged ministers. / see some OF then
A. here to-day. They sit in pews in ou
-. churches. They used to stand in pul
pits. Their hair is white with tn
blossoms of the tree of life. Ihel
names marked on the roll OF the gel
eral assembly or of the consociatioI
Emeritus. 3" They sometimes hear
IN text announced which brings to min
sermon they preached fifty yea
a ago on the same subject. The
ret preached more gospel on S4Oo ye;
TX than some of their successors prea'
he on $1,000. Some Sunday the old mi
. n lister is in church, and near by
w, another pew there is husband al
n" wife and row OF children. Al
ill. after the benediction the lady com
lily up and says, doctor, you don't kn'
yht me, do you?" Well he says, "yo
e is face is familiar, but cannot call y
sis bv name why" she says, you b;
uld tized me and you married me and y
will buried my father and my mother a
we sisters" "Oh, yes" he says, my c.
The sight isn't as good as it used to b
ong There are in all our churches-the
am roes of 1920, the heroes Of 1882, the
TX | roes of 1857. BY the long grave trer
lp." that cut through half Il century, ii
bv have stood sounding the rcsurrecti
ong They have been in more Sebastor
. is than YOU ever heard of. Sometir
, is they get little fretful because Il
am cannot be at the front. They hear
ffer. sound of the battle and the old '
, to horse champs his bit, But the o.
nee ministers OF religion, this day stand
at in the brunt of the fray, shall have
God more reward than those retired We
ncnt ans MY father, my father, the cl
walk lot of Israel and the horsemen th
WINS. Of" "As his part is that goeth &c
sing to the battle, so shall his part 6e
eli tarrieth by the stutf.
n is Cheer up, men and women, Of III
d so preciated services. You will get
has reward, if not here, hereafter. w
him. Charles Wesley comes up to judgm
ONE and the thousands of souls which
1t is waited into glory through his sc
tx in shall be enumerated, he will take
their throne. Then John Wesley will C
and I'D to Judgment, and after his II
her has been mentioned in connection
It for the salvation of the millions of S
Vt for brought to God through the Method
look, which he founded, he will take
augh throne. But between the two thr
and of Charles Wesley and John We
very there will be throne higher
ands, either, on which shall sit Susal
c gal Wesley, who with maternal &C
le tri- Grafton in Epworth rectory, Iii
scene shire, started those two souls on
n God triumphant mission of sermon
rifces song through all following ages.
grand what day that will be for many
S part rocked Christian cradles with VI
tie, SO foot and who patched worn-out
1y the ments and darned socks, and out
small income made the children
n this Portable for the winter. What
once that will be for those to whom
nd the world gave the cold shoulder
u col called them nobodies ana Degrt
years, them the least recognitlon' ana
Sc two weary and worn and sick, faint'
veter- the book Besor. Oh, that will
n and mighty day when the Son OF
. Let shall distribute among them the