The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-10

rxll The humblcst man, II ne nau
enough faith in 1t, could bring nun.
dred souls to Jesus perhaps 500. JUST
In proportion as this age seems 70 ~
lieye less and less in IT, ! belive moro
and more in 1t. What are men aoons
that thew will not accept their own de,
liveranc? There is nothing proposed
bv men that can do any thing IKE
this Gospel. The religion OF haipn
Waldo Emerson was the philosophy
of icicles; the religion OF Iheo-
dore Parker was sirocca OF the oes-
ert covering up the sold with uly
sand; the religion of Renan was INC
romano of believing nothing; the re-
lipion of the Huxlcys and the Spencers
merely a pedestal on which human
philosophy sits shivering in the nlgnt
of the soul, looking up to the STARS,
offering no help to the nations INA.
cronch and groaA at the base. Tell
me where there is one man VINO mas
rejected that Gospel for another VINO
Is thoroughly satisfied, and helped,
nd contented in his skepticism, ana
win take the car tomorrow and rlde
6oo miles TO see him. The full power
of the Gospel has not yet peeh
touched. AS sportsman throws up
his head and catches the ball NY
ing through the air, just SO easliy
will this Gospel after awhile ca.cn
this round world flying from it's orbit
and bring it back to the heart OF
Christ. Give it full swing, and it VIII
pardon every sin, heal every wound
cure every trouble, emancipate every
slave. and ransom every nation. ie
Christian men and women who go out
this afternoon to do Christian work.
as you go into the Sunday schools the
Law preaching stations and the penl-
tentiaries, and the asylums, want
Won to feel that you bear in your mana
a weapon, compared with which the
lightning has no speed, and avalanches
have no heft, and the thu nderbolts OF
Heaven have no power; it is the arrow
of the omnipotent Gospel. Take care
full aim. Pull the arrow clear back
until the head strikes the bow! Then
let it fly! And may the slain OF the
Lord be many!
Again, if you want to be skillful in
spiritual archery, you must hunt In
unfreouented and secluded places.
Why does the hunter go three or four
DAYS in the Pennsylvania forests OF
over Raquette lake into the wilds OF
the Adirondack? 1t is the only why
to do. The deer are shy, and one
s.bang" of the gun clears the forest
From the California stage you see, as
| you go over the plains, here and there
a coyote trotting along, almost with
| in range of the gun-sometimes
quite within range of it. No one
cares for that; it is worthless. The
| rood game is hidden and secluded
| Every hunter knows that. So, many
4 of the souls that will be Of most worth
| for Christ and of most value to TIT
church are secluded. They do no
come in your way. You will have t.
go where they are. Yonder they al
down in that cellar; yonder they ar
up in that garnet. Far away from tn
door of any church, the Gospel arrow
has not been pointed at them. Th'
tract distributor and city missionar,
sometimes catch glimpse OF them
as hunter through the trees gets
momentary sight of partridge o
a roebuck The trouble is, we ar
waiting for the game to come to US
|; We are not good hunters. We ar
standing in some street or highwa
, expecting that the timid antelope wi
, come up and eat out of our hands
/ We are expecting that the prairi
fowl will light on our church steepl'
t 1t is not their habit. If the churc
\ should wait 100000 of year
| for the world to come in and 3
, | saved, it will wait in vain. TIL
| world will not come. What the churc
e wants now is to lift its feet from dan
r ask ottomans, and put them in til
(: stirrups We want a pulpit on wheel
The church wants not SO much cusl
3 ions as it wants saddle-bags and a
f rows. We have got to put aside IL
J, gown and kid gloves, and put on I'll
t hunting shirt. We have been fishin
: so long in the brooks that run undo
i the shadow of the church that the us
+ know us, that they avoid the hook, an
e escape as soon as we come to the ban
o while yonder is Upper Saranac an
It Big Tupper's lake, where the FIR
IS swing of the gospel net would brea
e 1t for the multitude of the fishes.
There is outside work to be don
d What is that see in the Lakewood
n It is tent. The hunters have made
i clearing and camped out. What
d they care if they have wet feet, or
}. they have nothing but a pine bran
TT for pillow, or for the northeast storl
1t If moose in the darkness steps in
re the lake to drink, they hear it rig
ID away. If loon cry in the moonlig
he they hear it. So in the servi
w of God we have exposed wol