The Monitor-register., 1896-12-04


What if a military academy should keep
its students from age to age in the mess
room and the barracks? No, no! They
are wanted at Montezuma and Chapul-
tepec and South Mountain and Mission
airy Ridge. and the church is no place
for Christian to stay very long. He is
wanted at the front. He is needed in
the desperate charge of taking the para
pets. The last great battle for God is
not to be fought on the campus of COL
lege or the lawn of church. 1t is to be
fought at Missionary Ridge. Before this
century quits us let us establish the hab-
it of giving the forenoon of the Sabbath
to the churches and the afternoon and
the evening of the Sabbath to gospel
work in the halls and theaters and
streets and fields and slums and wilder
nesses of sin and sorrow. Why do Chris
tians who have stuffed themselves with
1.-THE strong meat of the word' and all
gospel viands on Sabbath forenoons want
to come up to second service and stuff
themselves again? These old gormand-
1zers at the gospel feast need to get
into outdoor work with the outdoor Cos
pei that was preached on the banks of
the Jordan and on the fishing smacks of
Lake Galilee and in the bleak air of As
syrian mountains. 1 am told that
throughout all our American cities the
second Sabbath service in the majority
of churches is sparsely-yea, disgrace
fully-attended and is the distress of the
consecrated and eloquent pastors who
bring their learning and piety before
pews CHASTITY for their inoccupanoy.
What is the providential meaning? The
greatest of all evangelists since Bible
times recently suggested that the even
ing services in all the churches be turned
into the most popular style of evangel-
lstic meetings for outsiders. Surely that
is an experiment worth making If that
does not succeed, then it does seem to
me all the churches which cannot secure
sufficient evening audiences ought to
shut up their buildings at night and go
where the people are and invite them to
come to the gospel banquet
Help One Another.
Let the Christian souls, bountifully
fed in the morning, go forth in the aft
ernoon and evening to feed the multi
tudes of outsiders starving for the bread
of which if a man eat he shall never
again hunger. Among those clear down
the gospel would make more rapid con-
quest than among those who know SO
much and have so much that God can
not teach or help them. In those lower
depths splendid fellows in the rough,
like the shoeblack that a reporter saw
near New York city hall. He asked
boy to black his boots. The boy came up
to his work provokingly slow and had
just begun. when a large boy showed
him aside and began the work, and 4tna
reporter reproved him as being a bully;
and the boy replied: ''Oh, that's all
rigLt am going to do it for 'im.- You
see, he's been sick in the hospital more'n
amonth, SO us boya Earn in and give i'm
lift. " "DoAIkEhe boys help him?,
asked the renDf sAsYes, sir. When
they ain,t got nd JOB themselves, and
Jim gesR one, they turn in and help i'm,
for he a7nSt strong yet, You see. .How
much percentage does he give youg1
said the reporter. The boy replied: II
don't keep none of it.. amt no such
sneak as .that.s,All the boys give up.
what his job. I'd like to
fcatch Making on sick boy,
Twould IN ~ 5er gave him a IS
cent pieceAss Eou keep 10 cents
for yourself alsS The rest to Jim. Z =
Cant do it, his customer.
Here, JiIn4s souls as that:
strew all tic N II dspths 81 the cities
and, get them converted 4to God, this
would be the LIST full century of the
worlds sig.a1 but little work of evan
COLLATION. wSdl be left for the next
century. Before this century expires fes
therebe a combinea effort to save the
gEeat cities of America and Great Britt
Esain and Of all Christendom. What an
aSvft7t JlBingsSs woisl Abes &axs you, o
tglBaAG reeutI1d1zk bequeataffa the COM
| ing century, as yet innoc6n And unscar-
red with g sinsls sin or bnpdsned with
zaingi - the; blasphemy, the laVass
lessnesss s5d atheism, the profigacy
the woes 81 great cities still unevange1-.
lied! -sa.ss~ .As.s.ss. ]
What we oughtsto see, o dying CEN
iiEeury, is re7i rel gion that would
iiRrap We ooRf 5aent Is in nfiagrat lions Of
religious awakehings and thats would
make legislation and merchandise and
all styles of worldly business wait awhile
ukthe telegraph Offices andAtha. .tele-
phohe of4lessEbecause they are d. 56d
with telling Che story Of .citias. 8 -
tiorts borfsifi = ,3,sxeS sgnsrls aiI fbs ceI,.
turies closed with soyngthii3es stre,man.s
dous. Why NAV not this century, close
in fine salvation of American 7 donnt
know whether our theolooica1 fr;as,as.
who hayextndied the subient mora thar
| 1 have ~ right or wrong when thew
say Chrl come in IS ner $ sa 80
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