The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-06-15

men In the wrong. In all estimates OF
any kind of Christian work, do not
make the mistake every day made OF
leaving the Head Of the universe.
Again, my subject springs upon us
tho thought that In Gods service 1t 10
best 20 use weapons that are particu-
larly suited to us. Shamgar had, like
many of us, been brought up on
farm. He knew nothing about jave.
Inns, and bucklers, and helmets, and
breastplates, aand greaves, of brass.
and catapults, and ballistae, and iron
scythes fastened to the axles OK
chariots. But he was familiar with
the fail of the threshing floor, and
knew how to pound with that; and
the AK of the woods, and knew how
to hew with that; and the OK.
goad of the plowman. and 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 ex-
ecution. Some in Gods service Will
do best with the pen; some with-the
voice; some by externporaneous speech.
for they have the whole vocabulary OF
the English language half way be-
tween their brain and tongue; and
others will do best with manuscript
spread out before them. Some will
serve God by the plow, raising wheaS
and corn, and giving literally of what
they sell to churches and missions:
some as merchants, and out OF their
profits will dedicate tenth of the
Lord; some as physicians, prescribing
for the worlds ailments, and some as
attorneys, defending innocence, and
obtaining rights that otherwise would
not be recognized; and some as sailors,
helping bridge the seas; and some as
teachers and pastors. The kingdom
of God is dreadfuily retarded by So
many of us attempting to do that
which we can not do; reachiug up for
broadsword, or falchion, or bavonet, or
scimeter, or Enfield rife, or Paixhan's
gun, while we ought TO be content
with an ox-goad. 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 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 taeir work overpower-
| ing the most ambitious statistics. In
| the grand review of Heaven, when the
| regiments pass the Lord of Hosts,
there will be whole regiments OF
nurses, and Satbath-school teachers,
and tract distributors, and unpretend-
| ing workers, before whom, as they
pass. the kings and queens Of God and
the Lamb will lift flashing coronet,
| aud bow down in recog milton and rev.
erence. The most of the Chris
tian work for the worlds recla-
nation and salvation will be-
done by people of ono talent,
and two talents, while the ten-talent
people are up in the astronomical OBJ
servatcries studying other worlds.
! though they do little or nothing for
the redemption of this world; or are up
| in the rarified realms of ''higher criti-
cismr trying to find out that Moses did
not write the Pentateuch, on. to prove
| that the throat of the whale was not
large enough to swallow the minister
| who declined the call to Ninevah, and
apologizing for the Almighty for GER
tain inexplicable things they have
found in the Scriptures. 1t will be
found out Mt the last that the Krupp
| guns have not done so much to capture
this world for God as the ox-goad.
Go out, then, charge you, against
the Philistines. We must admit the
odds are against us-six hundred to
one. In the matter of dollars, those
devoted to worldliness, and sin, and
dissipation, when compared with tho
| dollars devoted to holiness and virtue
ak hundred to one. The houses set
apart for vice. and despoliation, and
ruin, as compared with those dedicated
| to good, six hundred to one. OF print
ed newspaper sheets scattered abroad
from day to day, those dcpraving as
| compared with those elevating, are six
hundred to one. The agencies for maxi
ing the world worse, compared with the
six hundred to one. But Moses, in his
song, chants "How should one chase
a thousand, and two put ten thou
sand to fight" and in my text one OK
goad conquers six hundred uplifted
battle-axes; and the day of universal
victory is coming, unless the Bible be
a fabrication, and eternity myth.
and the chariots of God are unwheeled
on the golden streets, and the last
regiment of the celestial hosts lies
dead on the plains of Heaven. With US,
or without us, the work Will be done.
Oh. get into the ranks somewhere,
armed somehow; you with a needle;
you with pen; you with good book;
you with loaf of bread for the hum
cry; you with vial of medicine for
the sick; you with pair of shoes for
the barc:ooted; you with word Of en-
couragement for the young man trying
to get back from evil ways; you with
some story of the Christ who came to
heal the worst wounds and pardon the
blackest guilt, and call the farthest
wanderer home. say TO you as the
Waterman of London used to say at
night to the householders, before the
time OF street lamps came: "Hang out
your lightr Hang out your light r.
Timely Caution.