The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-18

from the propulsiye power OF Christ In
life. Looking abroad at the scattered.
Maynard people looking close at hand
and coming into touch with the concrete
misery OF the alley, n thing filled His
thought, Gwslled in His breast, shons in
His eyes, rrng from His lips: "We must
work-the night cometh." A main difn-
Guilty with us Is that We have forgotten to
whom our time belongs.
1t 10 said that great quantities OF
mummfes have been ground up for COM
mercial purposes . This is shocking. But
IL Is q serious question whether an atom
of usefulness ID not better than a pyra-
mid OF potential energy. Our thinking
shops are gorged with truth. We have
tons Of principles and theories. We need
Christ TO say 10 us: "Work-the night
Sprinkling my lawn n day ! became
aware of q rainbow rising before me. /
ceased my work TO loo at the glory, and
10! it was gone! The sun had been shin
ing across the spray made in my own gar
den. The truth Is nigh thee. Seek 1t
not afar OFF.
THE GLORY HAS COME TO THE WORKER,
and shines through the work. Great is
the mystery OF Goodness, but the beauty
Of II 10 Respondent In common hearts
and homes. Who did sin, this man or
his parents, that he was born blind? No
matter. They both sinned, perhaps. But
he Is near, and blind; he Is in an image
OF fallen glory; he is somebody to work
over and with. Bring to him the light
OF the glory Of God in the face OF Jesus
Christ. Ideal lie the present-not the east.
The good old times were never good
till they were gone. Do not SIT aud sigh
for the heavenly Jerusalem, but make
your work a spring OF peace and Joy for
men. Up! The finger of God touches
you; make you day golden; make your
hoarfa fa0 Mag. ynnr land hnIu. unur
houses homes in Bethany; your work
shops Swallowed by Him Of Nazareth;
your truth incarnate; our religion per-
sonal; your work q religion; and your
Christ alive for ever more!
Every man knows enough to be a saint.
1t Is the trouble with Us that we are los
ing TOO much time in studying the history
OF evolution, and letting its wheels stop
their golden revolutions in our lives.
Loo not too much at the ape-like man.
There IN q black evolution. Work out
today your own salvation. Do not let
your science grovel; do not ALLOW it 10
dwell In filth and passion and the de-
graduation of the has been.
SEEK FOR THE
1t Is as much a legitimate object of
science TO study the highest man as the
lowest, and let not the shame rest upon
this age OF directing our attention alto
gether to a comparison between beast and
man. Who did sin that this man is SO
low? Nay, that is not the question. Who
shall pray and suffer; who shall show
forth the excellepcies of God; who shall
make manifest in him the works of God,
that he may be changed into the same
image, from glory unto glory.
The night cometh! Reckon not your
gains; deplore not your losses; the night
cometb! Get ahead now. In the effort to
remember do not turn a vacant eye upon
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ture. The future Is born out OF the pres
ent. 1t will contain nothing that the
present does not give to ii. The germ
of all that shall be is In today. Wo must
work, for the night cometh.
Why not see the rain in this
cloud? Why not observe the
flor ABOUT U OWN AFFAIRS?
~ There must we offer ourselves, every
one an Isaac; every one a cruciied spirit
for the present day agonies.
Alas for the man who seems always out
of his element; who feels out of place;
who says he was born out of his genera
ton. The night comethl Thi S Is the
only life we have. Washington and his
family. and Milton and his daughters
may look very well upon the walls Of
our homes, but those people are dead.
Idealize your own family life and not
wait for the generation that has forgot
ten our faults TO d it. Spiritual shiftless-
ness Is never transformed in spite Of it.
self. II Christ can'dwell in any home He
can dwell in yours and mine. We cannot
work somewhere else; we canot adjust
Providence; we must maket the best OF
1t, and the most of 1t.
A live magazine bears the name sour
Day. Why so egotistic? Why 40 mar
ROW. Because you cannot be your broth
er, nor your father, or grandfather. Ii is
our day. Work. Work because the blind
are around us; work because We have the
poor with US. Now rs the time to seal
the precious ointment. and bestow it
upon them, for Christ no longer demands
IL. Here is the place for the carpet, and
the cynic, and the visionary and tho dill
ettante tu.make-somethipg of themselves.
Heaven will be a poor place to begin.
Some one has said that the conditions
are mo- favorable for the development OF
q devout and Christlike life. We will
mend the conditions? defy you to men
tion one great worker for whom the con-
ditions were favorable, judged by the
same standards. Great men are they who
succeed where they are, not where they
wouid like to be. Moses thought the
CONDITIONS WERE NOT RIGHT;
jeremiah failed so his contemporaries
said; Elijah's successes were like a few
showers after a long drought. These
men and their righteous conquerers could
.O tNs1 t1SAa a'o wv ~
we look back, their field looks hard. Yet
somehow they have left names, charac-
tiers for righteousness; peaks in the des-
ert OF history, glory CLEANS in the gray
sky OF ages. They saw the shadow of
the night, and they did not pray for the
nineteenth century, for a home in a
Prohibition town, a better climate or az
age OF books. They worked. for their
night drew on. From the present sins,
the present home, from these conditions
must we be saved, and from them we
must save our neighbors.
That matchiess face shining alone in
the night at the garden of Gethsemane,
that heart which beat so warm and true
when soldiers had a fire TO mellow their
chilled frames, that face and that eye shone
and beat In the darker night than we see,
and from those hard conditions and that
lonely our He brought to light the su-
pernal glory that cometh from God only.
From that chill morning He sent out q
beam of warning light that blazes even
here.
Next Sunday evening the second address