Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-03
day made of leaving out the head Of the
Humble Weapons.

| Humble Weapons
Again. my subject springs upor us
the thought that in God's service it is
best to use weapons that are particular
| ly suited to US Shamgar had. like many
! of us, been brought up on farm He
knew nothing about javelins and buc-
klers and helmets and breastplates and
greaves of brass and catapults and bal
listae and iron scythes fastened to the
axles of chariots. But he was familiar
with the fail of the thrashing floor and
knew how to pound with that. and the
ak of the woods and knew how to hew
with that, and the oXgoad of the p1ow-
man and knew how to thrust with that.
And you and I 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 extemporaneous
speech, for they have the whole vocabu-
larry 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 pillow, raising wheat
and corn and giving literally of what
they sell to churches and missions :;
some as merchants, and out of their
profits will dedicate a tenth to the
Lord; some as physicians, prescribing
for the worlds ailments; and some as
attorneys, defending innocence and OBJ
tanning rights that otherwise would not
be recognized and some as sailors, help
ing bridge the seas; and some as teach
ers 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 broadsward or fall
chion or bayonet or scimeter or Enfield
rife Or Pafxhan's gun, while we ought
to be content with an oxgoad. I 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 a quiet way in homes and
schoolhouses 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 Stats
tics
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
ignition 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
things they have found in
the ScripturesS 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 I was to summer in the |
and my wealthy friend, |
who was a great hunter and fisherman,
said, 81 am not going to the Adiron-
dacks this season, and you can take my |
equipment and [ will send it up to Paul |
Smith - Well, it was there when | ar
rived in the Adirondacks, q splendid |
outfit, that cost many hundreds Of dol !
lars, gorgeous tent, and such elab0 !
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 I
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
fms through all the "John Browns
Tract. Well, am no hunter, and not
Z roebuck or a game fish did injure.
But there were hunters there that sea
son who had nothing but a plain gun
and q 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
1erful weaponry, sufficient, you would
n MIN q
4 whGae nation for God, will in the last
lay have but little except their fine
5ackling to show, while some who had
40 advantages except that which they
got in prayer and conservation viii, by
the souls they have brought to the shore
Of eternal safety, prove that they nave