Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-24
EDUCATION FOR THE SERVICE.
WGrls of Christianity Requires the
Host, Euu ipmcnt.


Hest Equipment.
| Rev. J. X. McClurkin. d. D., pastor of the
! Shadyside United Presbyterian church,
Pittsburg, then spoke as follows:
Comrades of Our Christian Union, Broth
ers and Sisters in the Work of Christ: ! am
speaking tonight under the guidancGSe of GU, our
for the service of Christ. That life which
most nearly fulfls it's mission of service |
God. Such. q life, is aimed by His, spirit,
hurled BY His power, makes its mark upon
impression ,forgGod and humanity. Such a
life is stone still kept of God after the
simiitude of the King and placed by. Him
| as a living stone in the temple of God for
This is the divine side of life. 1t is the
side that reveals to us the deepest meaning
and the highest glory Of life. s , 1t f0lloWs s;%s
accord with the divine, to make our lives
a success, to enter Alright the open doors
we are entrusted, we must first of all know
what God calls for. However keen our
thought. however clear our forethought,
Der of our souls the questioning voice, Lord,
what wilt Thou have, me do?" At some
supreme moment in the very outstart of
our lives we should meet our God and
say. Speak, Lord, for Thy servant hear
Tonight, in the sunset glow of this mag
nifcent convention when our hearts are
overhowing with love and with joy, when
when we feel that God is near, let us make
these few moments together tell for earth
and for heaven. Let us ask rcverently and
thoughtfully, What would He have us be?
What does he thS ass at o' our hands h today? ~
Hearken, do you hear the answer? Meet
for service, thoroughly furnished for work
equipped, prepared, educated; this Is the
call of God to us, emphasized by the keen
demands of the present and accentuated by
the splendid possibilities of our age.
God wants no untempered mortar for His
M bIlillinR stand forever
He has use for the keenest Damascus blade
in this warfare because the issues of eter-
nifty are to be determined by the movements
/ admit that shallow thinking and i'm
have about them sometimes magnetic
glow which lifts them into momentary
prominence. ! admit that Gods kingdom
tellect by, the power of culture. /
admit that here and there a person has
arisen, mighty in word and deed without
being polished upon the hard emery wheel
of n tedious educational process. Spurgeon
began to preach at at ,,g l6 AT II Alexander
of his day; at 30 the brain of George Gill
lespie gave that wonderful definition of God
in our catechism, definition deep as
the ocean, but as clear as the crystal
brook; at $2 Alexander had conquered the
gary; at q Joan Of Arc had led her armies,
fought her battles, and died at the stake,
EXCEPTIONAL PRODIGIES.
There have been exceptional phenomena
on the other hand, neither these fascinating
examples of almost spontaneous develop
ment nor the inviting glitter of half pre-
pared thought can for a moment silence the
voice of God as he calls TO us for maturest
preparation. They do not change the fact
that in all ages God has laid the mightlest
interests of his kingdom upon the shoulders
of those whom He has most carefully pre-
pared in heart and life.
God opens his tory with a nation of slaves,
Through their Jaws He will speak to the
W9rd a. to the na5 Of dHns time ThrGngh n Ss their
But first, their. leader must spend forty
years in .Egypt TO learn the things that are
seen. Afterwdrd, forty years In the desert
to see the thihgsfthat are not seen. After
eighty years o1 Noses Is ready
three years He himself trains those disc-
pies along the walks Of Galilee. But who
Shall take upGthe work when even the be-
to the FatheTos house? DO you see that
young students sitting at the feet Of CANA
and then edufatsl for three years in the
desert semndry OF Arabia. Paul is pre-
pared 10 lay the foundations of the king
dom in the western world. The early
church soon needed clearer conception OF
That deep iSstteEy the adorable i3 e,3 Trinity
learned Aiexahdfian deacon, Aithanasius,
and by his Sntellectual acumen, God led
the thought Of man, probably as far as it
a little farther on, and the. church of
God needs deeper CONVICTION Of sin. But
fashioning for years upon the anvil
Through him God shows the church her
and there has refused TO bow with the
PROSTATE multitude of Gods people.
Time would fail to tell how in the sixth
century the scholarly COLUMBIA Illuminated
Scotland with Gods word, How the learned
Wiclif in the fourteenth century gave the
light of the scriptures to the plowboys
of Britain. The time has come for the
light to break In Germany, Is Luther, the
valiant, the chiyalrous Luther whose faith
"a nd inneTial
ence, sufficient? No. God must also have
Luther the patient, plodding, hard work.
have become of reformation thought in
Europe. had II not been for the logic and
learning of Calvin?
our own century opens with the hallowed
name of Carey, the missionary. Eyangei-
zation has become the watchword OF its
the ramparta OF healhen natlons our her.