Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-07

anecdotes. and the general chill gives Tay
before a strange warmth.
4 classical hearer Wno took the hrsi honor
81 Yale and who j. a prince Of propri-ties
hnts hi spectzeies becoming din with o
moisture suggestive - tear worldly
mother. who had been bringing az her sous
ant daughters In utter g1dlrs,n-s- puts her
handkerchief O. her ewes and hel,in- % weep.
Highly educated men who came e. sritici-,s
and pick 10 pie,'ss and mud fault bow 90 their
g0ld-heA lei caar-, What l. that sound
from under the gallery Il l. "A sob. and
rol,s are catching aud all along the wall aud
all an ani doWn the audience there Is deep
emotion. - that when al the clo-s 81 thu
service anxious souls are invited t. especial
seats or tn. inquiry room, they come az by
scores and kneel and repent and risc ~
hardened: the whole town H. shaken and
places Of evil amusement are sparsely at
tended and rum holes lose their patrons. and
the churches arr throng-i, and the whole
community i cl-an>sd AMI elevated aud r.
ioiced. What power did the evangelist bring
10 bear 10 capture that town for righteous
ness 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 about him that Iro-
pie had not taken in the estimate when they
prophesed the failure Of that work. They
had not taken into the calculation the om-
impotence oithe Holy Ghost. II WAS not the
flash of q Damascus blade. Ii was God. be-
fore and behind and all around the oNgoad.
When people say that crime VIII tri-
umph and the world will never he con-
verted because OF the seeming INSULT
cheney Of the means employed they count
the 600 armed Pnilistines on one side AMI
Shamgar. the farmer. awkwardly equipped.
on the other side. not realizing that the
chariots Of God are 30. 900 and that all heaven.
cherubic. Seraphic. arcdangeic deiiic. is on
what otherwise would he the weak side.
Napoleon the author of the saving, God j.
on the side OF the heaviest artillery lived
to find out his mistake. for at Waterloo the
100 guns OF the English oyercame the go
guns Of the French. God is on the side Of
the right. and one man in the right will
eventually he found stronger than GOO men
in the wrong In all estimates of any kind
Of Christian work do not make the mistake
every day IN 'de of leaving out the head Of
the universe.
Again. my subject springs upon ms the
thought that in Gods service II is best to use
weapons that are particularly suited to us.
Shamgar had, like many of Us. been brought
up on farm. He knew nothing about jaye-
kl- and bucklers and helmets and breast
plates and greaves Of brass and catapults
and ballistT and iron Scythes fastened to the
axleS Of chariots. But he was familiar with
the fail of the thra~hiug floor and knew how
to pound with that, and the AK of the woods
and knew how II hew with that, aud the
0xeuad OF the plowman aud knew how To
thrust with that. Aud 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 hest with the pen; some with
the voice: some 10y eNtempOraneouS speech
for they have the whole vocabulary ut 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 pOw, raising
| wheat and corn and giving literally of what
they sell to churches and missions; some "a
merchants. and out Of their profits will dedi-
cate tenth to the Lord; some ~ physicians,
/ prescribing for the worlds ailments; and
some rs attorneys defending innocence and
obtaining rights that otherwise would not be
recOgniZed: and some Rs 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 cannot do:
reaching up for broadsword or falchiun or
bayonet or scimeter or Enfield rife or Paix-
hans gun, while We ought to be content
| with an OxgOad. | 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 IA quiet way in homes and
| schoolhOuses and in praying circles aud by
sick beds and up dark alleys saying the saw
ing word and doing the saving deed. the ag-
gregation of their work oyerpowering the
most ambitious statistics
In the grand review Of heaven, when the
regiments pass the Lord of Hosts, there will
he whole regiments of nurses aad sabbath
school teachers and tract distributors and
unpretending workers, before whom rs they
pass the kings and queens Of God and the
Lamb will lit flashing coronet and bow
down In recognition and reverence. The
most Of the Christian work for the world 5
reclamation and salvation will be done by
people Of one talent and two talents, while
the ten talent people are up in the astronOm-
ical obseryatorieS studying other worlds,
though they do little or nothing for the re.
demptiOn of this world, or are up in the
raretied realms Of higher criticism trying
to find out that Moses did not write the
Pentateurh or to prove that the throat of
the whale was not large enough To swallow
the minister who declined the call to Nine
yah aud apOl0giZing for the Almighty for
certain ineXplicabe 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.
Years ago was to summer in the Adiron.
dacks, and my wealthy friend who was Il
great hunter and fisherman, said, Il am not
going to the Adirondacks this season, and
you can take my equipment and | will send
it up to Paul Smiths Well. it was there
when arrived in the Adirondacks. splen.
did outfit, that cost many hundreds OF dol
lars. a gorgeous tent, and such elaborate
llshing apparatus: such guns Of all STYLES 81
exquisite make and reels and pouches and
hait and torches and lunch baskets and
many more things that | could not
even guess the use of. And my
friend of the big soul had even writ.
ten on and engaged men who should nc
company me into the forest and carry home
the deer and the trout Ii the mountains
time there would have been panic among
the antlers and the fins through all the
John Browns Tract. Well, | am no
hunter. and not Il roebuck or a game FISH
did injure. But there were hunters there
that season who had nothing but plain
gun and rug 10 sleep on and coil OF tish
ing line and IA box of ammunition and bait
who came in ever and anon with ~ many o
! the captives of forest and stream as they
! and two or three attendants coulC
l carry. Now, | fear that many Chris
: tian workers who have most elahO
, rate educational and theological and prOtes
siOnuI equipment and most wonderful wea
] pOnry sufficient. You would think, to cap
ture whole community or whole Nation
for God, will in the last day have but littl
9 except their fine tacklng to show. Will
| some who had no advantage except tina
3 which they got in prayer and conservation
! will, by the souls they have brought to thu
shore Of eternal safety, prove that they, havt
1 been gloriously successful as fishers Of men
= and in taking many who, like the hart, wer
= painting after the water brooks.
e What made the Amalekites run hefor
d Gideon's army? Each one Of the army kney
! how much racket the breaking of one pitche
Il would make. So 800 men that night too
9 800 pitchers and a lamp inside the pitcher
: and at II given signal the lamps were LITE