The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-06-14

| What power ala tho evangelist Orihe
to bear to capture that town for right
eousness? Not one brilliant epigran
did he utter. Not one graceful gesture
did he make. Not one rhetorical eli
max did he pile up. But there wal
something about him that people had
not taken in the estimate when
they prophesied the failure OF that
work. They had not taken into the
calculation the omnipotence OF the
Holy Ghost. 1t was not the fash OF a
Damascus blade. 1t was God before,
and behind, and all around the OK.
goad. When the people say that crime
will triumph, and the world will
never become converted because OF the
seeming insufficiency of the means en-
ployed, they count the six hundred
armed Philistines on one side, and
Shamgar, the farmer, awkwardly
equipped, on the other side; not real
lzing that the chariots of God
are twenty thousand strong, and that
all Heaven, cherubic. seraphic, archan-
gelic, deific, is on what otherwise
would be the weak side. Napoleon.
the author of the saying God is on
the side of the heaviest artillery"
lived to find out his mistake; for at
Waterloo, the one hundred and sixty
guns of the English overcame the two
hundred and fifty guns of the French.
God is on the side of the right, and
one man in the right will eventually
be found stronger than six hundred
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
the thought that in Gods service it is
best to 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
and greaves OF brass,
and catapults. and ballistae, and iron
scythes fastened to the axles of
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
10 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-
,cution. Some In Gods service will
10 best with the pen; some with the
voice; some by extemporaneous speech,
'or they have the whole vocabulary of
The English language half way be-
,ween their brain and tongue; and
others will dosbest with manuscript
spread out before them. Some will
erve God by the pillow, raising wheat
md corn, and giving literally of what
hey sell to churches and missions,
ONE as merchants, and out of their
Profits will dedicate tenth of the
lord; some as physicians, prescribing
or the worlds ailments, and some as
.ttorneys. defending innocence, and
rights that otherwise would
lot be recognized; and some as sailors,
lelping bridge the seas; and some as
eachers and pastors. The kingdom
f God is dreadfully retarded by so
many of us attempting to do that
which we can not do; reaching up for
or falchion, or bayonet, or
cimeter, or Enfield rifle, or Paixhan's
un, while we ought to be content
With an ox-goad.
Go out. then, charge you. against
he Philistines. We must admit the
dds are against us-six hundred to
ne. In the matter of dollars, those
evoted to worldliness, and sin, and
when compared with the
ollars devoted to holiness and virtue
TX hundred to one. The houses set
part for vice. and despoliation, and
uin, as compared with those dedicated
0 good, six hundred to one. Of print
d newspaper sheets scattered abroad
rom day to day, those depraving as
with those elevating. are siz
undred to one. The agencies for MAX
lg the world worse, compared with the
gencies for making the world better,
TX hundred to one. But Moses, in his
ong, chants "How should one chase
thousand, and two put ten thou
and to fight" and in my text one OK,
Dad conquers six hundred uplifted
and the day of universal
ictory is coming, unless the Bible be-
fabrication, and eternity a myth.
nd the chaiiots of God are unwheeled
n the golden streets, and the lass
,giment of the celestial hosts lies
cad on the plains of Heaven. With us,
r without US, the work will be done.
b. get into the ranks somewhere,
rmed somehow; you with needle;
on with pea; you with good book
ou with loaf of bread for the hun.