Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-06-07


spread out before them: Some will
serve God by the plow, 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 tenth 70 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 broadsword or fall
chion or bayonet or scimeter or Enfield
rife or Paixhan's gun, while we ought
TO DO 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 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 statis-
tics.
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 unpretending workers,
before whom as they pass the kings and
queens Of God and the Lamb will lift
flashing ooronet and bow down in rec
ognition 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 obseryatories studying other
worlds, though they do little or nothing
for the redemption Of this world, or are
up in the rarefed 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
inexplicable things they have found in
the Scriptures. 1t will be found ont 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 was TO summer in the
Adirondacks, and my wealthy friend,
who was a great hunter and fisherman,
said, II am not going to the Adiron-
dacks this season, and you can take my
equipment and l will send it up to Paul
Smith s." Well, it was there when ar
rived in the Adirondacks, splendid
outfit, that cost many hundreds Of dol
lars, a gorgeous tent, and such elabo-
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 L
could not even guess the use Of. And
nv 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. II the
mountains could have seen and under
stood it at the time there would have
been panic among the antlers and the
fins through all the John Brown ;
Tract. Well, / am no hunter, and not
a roebuck or a game fish did inJure.
But there were hunters there that sea-
SON who had nothing but a plain gun
and rug to sleep ON and a coil OF tsh-
ing line and box Of ammunition and
halt. who came in ever and anon with
as many of the captiyes Of forest and
stream as they and two or three attend
ants could carry. Now, fear that many
Christian workers who have most elabo-
rate educational and theological and
professional equipment, and most won
derful weaponry, sufficient, you would
think, to capture a whole community or
whole nation for God, will in the last
day have but little except their fine
tackling to show, while some who had
no advantages except that which they
got in prayer and conservation Will, by
the souls they have brought TO the shore
of eternal safety, prove that they have
been gloriously successful as fishers OF
men, and in taking many who, like the
hart, were painting after the water
brooks.
What made the Amalekites run be-
fore Gideon's army? Each one OF the
army knew how much racket the break
ing of one pitcher would make. So 300
men that night took 800 pitchers and a
lamp inside the pitcher, and at gwen
signal the lamps were lifted and the
pitchers were violently dashed down.
The fash Of light and the racket of the
500 demolished pitchers sent the enemy
into wild flight. Not much Of weapon,
YOU would say, is broken pitcher, but
the Lord made that awful crash OF
crockery the means Of triumph for his
people. And there is yet TO be a battle
with the pitchers The night OF the
worlds dissipation may get darker ana
darker, Dul dlAcI aNhAAcf a. "HNN 49,
of the night l know not, all the ale
pitchers, and the wine pitchers, and the
beer pitchers, and the whisky pitchers
If the earth will De hurled into demoh-
tion by converted inebriates and Chris
tian reformers, and at that awful crast
Of internal crockery the Amalekitisf
host of pauperism and loaferdom and
domestic quarrel and cruelty and assas
sination will fly the earth Take th'
first weapon you can lay your hands on
Why did David choose the sling whei
he went at Goliath and Goliath Wen
at him? Brought up in the country, lik'
every other boy, he knew how to man
age a sling Saul's armor was first pu
on him, but the giants armor was to-
. heavy. The helmet was clapped on hin
as an extineuisher, and David said, :"
cannot go with these, for have no
8 proved them" And the first wise thin
$ David did after putting on Saul's armo
: was to put it Off Then the brook Elah
= the bed Of which was dry when ] saw
Q it and one vast reach Of pebbles, fur
: nished the five smooth stones Of tn