The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-13

! hew with that; and the ox-goad Of the
plowman, and he 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
can make the most execution. Some
in Gods service will do best with the
pen; some with the voice; some by Ok
temporaneous speech, for 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
plOw, raising wheat and corn and Civ
ing literally of what they sell to the
churches and missions; some as mer-
chants, and out Of their profits will
dedicate a tenth to the Lord; some las
physicians, prescribing for the worlds
ailments; and some as attorneys, de-
Tending innocence and obtaining rights
that otherwise would not be recog-
niZed; and some as sailors, helping
bridge the seas; and some as teachers
and pastors. The kingdom Of God is
dreadfully retarded by so many of us
attempting to do that which we can
not do; reaching up for broadSword or
falchion or bayOnet or scimeter or
Enfield rifle or PaiXhan's gun, while
we ought to be content with an OK
gOad. l 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 Il
quiet way at homes and school houses
and in praying circles and by sick
| beds and up dark alleys, saying the
saving word and doing the saving
deed; the aggregation of their work
OverpOWering the most ambitious sta
tistlcs. 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 rnDretend-
ing 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 reyer-
cnce. The most of the Christian work
for the worlds reclamation and sal
walton will be done by people 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 moth
ing for the redemption Of this world;
or are up in the rarified realms of
"higher criticism" trying to find out
that Moses did not write the Penta-
touch or to prove that the throat of the
whale was not large enough to swal-
low the minister who declined the call
to Ninevah, and apologizing for the
VhtU a n hi In
things they have found in the Scrip
lures. 1t will be found out at the last
that the Krupp guns have not done
as the ox-goau.
Years ago I was to summer in the
Adirondacks and my wealthy friend,
who was a great hunter and fisher
man, said, Il am not going to the Adj
rondiacIs this season and you can take
my equipment and 1 will send it up
to Paul Smiths. Well, it was there
when l arrived in the Adiroudiacs, a
splendid outfit that cost many hun
dreds of dollars, 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 many
more things that I could not; even
guess the use Of. And my friend of
the big soul had even written on and
engaged men who should accompany
me into the forest and carry home the
deer and the trout. If the mountains
could have seen and understood 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 roe-buck or
a game fish did 1 injure. But there
were hunters there that season. who
had nothing but plain gun and rug
to sleep on and coil of fishing line
and box of ammunition and bait,
who came in ever and anon with as
many of the captives Of the forest and
stream as they and two or three at
PENDANTS could carry. Now,I fear that
many Christian workers who have the
most elaborate educate and theo-
logical and professional equipment
and most wonderful weaponry, suffi-
cient, you would think to capture a
whole community or a whole nation
for God, will in the last day have but
little except their fine tackling to
show; while some who had no adj
vantages except that which they got
in prayer and conservation. will. by
the souls they have brought to the
shore of eternal safety, prove tina,
they have been gloriously successful
as nshers Of men, and in taking many
who were painting after the water
brooks. What made the Amalekites
run before Gideon's army? Each one
of the army knew how much racket
the breaking Of one pitcher would
make. SO 300 men that night took
300 pitchers and lamp inside the
pitcher and at a given signal the lamps
were lifted and the pitchers We're VIC
lently dashed down. The flash of the
light and the racket of the 800 de-
mOlished pitchers sent the enemy into
wild flight. Not much of a weapon
you would say, is a broken pitcher
but the Lord made that awful crash
of crockery the means Of triumph fol
his people. Ana there is yet to be 8
battle with the pitchers. The nigh
of the worlds dissipation may sc
darker and darker, but after awhile
in what watch of the night I know
not, all the ale pitchers and the wine
pitchers and the beer pitchers and thu
whisky pitchers of the earth will bt
hurled into demolition by converted
inebriate and Christian reformers, ant