The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-11-14
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works? And in what direction do
they follow them-up or down? And
do they follow on foot or on the wing?
And how long will they follow before
they catch up? More appropriate
funeral text for all such religious dead.
beats would be the words in Matthew
25:s: Our lamps are gone out" One
would think that such Christians would
show at least under whose banner they
are enlisted. In one of the N~apoleonic
wars a woman, Jeanette by name,
took her position with the troops and
shouldered a broomstick. The colonel
said, "Jeannette, why do you take such
a useless weapon into the ranks?"
"Well," she said, Il can show at least
which side l am on
Now, the object of this sermon is to
stir at least o~ne-fourth of you to an
ambition for hat which my text pre-
sents in blazing vocabulary, namely, a
passion for souls. To prove that it is
possible to have much of hat spirit, l
bring the conservation of $500 foreign
missionaries. 1t is usually estimated
hat there are at least 5000 mission
re 1 make a liberal allowance,
III OlAl OiCLS may NC bGl Oto bAho
~sionaries out of the 5000, but l do not
believe there is one. All Engl sh and
American merchants leave bombay,
Calcutta, Annoy and Pekin as soon as
they mako their fortunes, Whya Because
no European Or American in his senses
would stay in hat climate after
monetary inducements had ceased.
Now, the missionaries there are put
down OIL the barest necessities, and
most of them do not lay up 81 in &c
years. Why, then, do they stay in
those lands of intolerable heat, and
cobras, and raging fevers, the Their.
mometer sometimes playing at 100 and
14o degrees of oppressiveness, IL, OOO
miles from home, because of the un-
healthy climate n the prevailing inn
mortallities of those regions compelled
to send their children to England, or
Scotland, Or America, probably never
to see them agains Oh, blessed Christi
a it be anything but a passion for
souls? 1t is easy to understand all this
frequent depreciation of foreign mis-
sipnaries when you know that they are
all opposed to the opium trathc, and
that interferes with commerce; ana
then the missionaries are moral, and
that is ar offense to many of the mer-
chants-not all of them, but many of
them-who, absent from all home re-
s~traint, are so immoral hat we can
make only faint a!lusion to the mon
strpsity of their denominations. Oh, !
would like to be at the gate of Heaven
when those missionaries go in, to see
how they will have the pick of coro.
nets, and thrones, and mansions on the
best streets of Heaven. We who have
had easy pulpits and loving congrega-
tions, entering Heaven, will, in my
opinion, have to take our turn and wait
for h Christian workers who, amid
physical sgfferings and mental priva.
ton and environment of squalor, have
done their work; and on the principle
that in proportion as one las been self
sacrificing and suffering for Christ's
sake on earth will be their celestial
preferment
In his world God never does his best.
He a hang on the horizon grander
mornings than have ever yet been kin.
died, and rainbow the sky with richer
colors than have ever been arched, and
attune the oceans to more majestic
d~oxologies than haver yer yet been at
tuned; but as near as l can tell,
and l speak it reverently, Heaven
is the place where God has
lone his best. He can build no
greater joys, lift no mightier splen.
doris, roll no loftier anthems, march
nc more imposing professions, build no
greater palaces, and spread out Inc in
~terjoin n wave no more transporting
magnifcence. / think Heaven is the
best Heaven God can construct, and it
is all yours for the SERIOUS asking,
How do you Like the offer2 Do you
think it is really worth acceptingq If
so, pray for 1t.
Get not up from hat pew where you
are sitting, nor move one inch from
where you are standing. before you get
a full title for it, written in the blood
of the Son of God, who would have all
men come to life present inc everlast-
ing. If you have been in military life
you know what soldiers call the
''long ROLL" All the drums beat
1t because the enemy is ap.
preaching, and all the troops must
Immediately get into line. What sour
rying around the camp and putting of
the arms through the straps of the
knapsack and saying "Good-by" to COM
rades you may never meet againi
Some of you Germans or Frenchmen
may a heard that long roll just be-
fore Sedan. Some OF you Italians may
have heard that long roll just before
Bergamo. Some of you northern and
southern men may have heard it
just before the battle of the
Wilderness. You know it's stirring
and solemn meaning; and so l sound
the long roll to-day. beat this
old gospel drum that has for centuries
been calling thousands to take their
places in line for this battle, on one
side of which are all the forces beatihc
and on the other side all the force de-
moniac. Here the long roll-call:
"Who is on the Lords side?" Quit
yourselves like men," In solemn
march for God, and hap
piness, and Heaven. So glad am
I that 1 do not have to "wish N.Y.
self accursed," and throw away my
Heaven that you may win your Heaven,
but that we may have a whole conven-
ton of Heavens-Heaven added to
Heaven, Heaven built on Heaven-and
while l dwell upon the theme / begin
10 experience in my OWN poor self that
which / take to be something like a
passion for souls. And now unto God
the only wise, the only good, the only
Anoat he glory forAvari Amant