The morning times., 1896-06-29

here and there, coyote trottug alCng,
aiinost within range OF THE gun sometimes
| quite within range of it.
No one cares Tor that; it is worthless.
| The good game is hidden aud secluded.
Every hunter knows that. Sc, many OF
the souls that will be or most worth for
Christ and ur most value to the Church, are
secluded. They do not come in your
way.
| You will have TO 60 where they are.
Yunder they are down in that cellar;
yonder they are up in that garret. Far
away from the door Of any church the
Gospel arrow has not been pointed at
| them. The tract distributor and city mis-
sionary sometimes Gu tch glimpse OF
them, as the hunter through the trees gets
| mentary sight OF u partridge or Il rue
buck. The trouble is, We are waiting ior
| the game to come to us. We are not good
hunters. We are standing in sCme street
or highway expecting that the tiDid ante
lope will come up and eat out Of our hands.
THE EVIL OF DRINK
l remark, further, If you want TO sue.
ceed i'll spiritual arcnery you must have
courage. lf the hunter stand with trem-
bling hand or shoulder that flinches with
fear, istead or his taking the catamount, the
catamount takes him. What would become
of the Green!ander If, when out hunting
for the bear, he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberg? What would
have become OF Du Chaillu and Living
| stone in the African Jhicket, with u IainU
heart and a weak knee? When a panther
comes within twenty PAGES or you ana IL
has its eye on you and it has squat ted
for the fearful spring, STEADY uhere!'
Courage, U, ye spiritual archers! There
are great monsters in lDlquity prowling
all around about the community. Shall we
not in the strength of God go forth and
combat them? We not only need more
heart, but more backbone. What is the
Church of God, that it should fear To lcoS
III the eye any transgression? There Is the
Bengal tiger or drunkenness that pro wis
around, and instead of attacking IL, how
many of us hide under the church pew or
the communion table? There is 50 much
invested IN IL we are afraid to assault il;
millions OF dollars in barrels. in watts in
spigots, IN corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables and
chased Ice-coOlers, and in the strychnine
and the lcgwood, AMI the tartaric acid and
the nuX vomca, that go to make up our
pure American drinks.
l looked with wondering eyes on the
heidelberg tun." 1t is the great liquor
vat or Germany, which is said To hold 500
hogshcads of wine, and only three times in
a hundred years it has been filled. Bat as
l stood and looked at 1t, / said to myself:
That is Dothing-SOO hogslIcads. Why our
American vat holds .. 500 900 barrels of
strong drinks, and we keep 200 GOO men
with nothing todo but to see that tits filled"
Oh! TO attack this great monster of in
temperance, and the kindred monsters of
fraud ana unclean ness, requires You to rally
all your Christian courage. Through the
press, through the pulpit, through the plat
form, you must assault 1t. Would to God
that all our American Christians would band
together, not for crack -brained fanaticism
but for holy Christian reform.
If Mithridates liked bunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors.
what enthusiasm ought we to have who
are hunting for immortal souls! If Domi-
tianus practiced archery until he could
stand a boy down in the Roman amphi-
theater, with hand out, the fingers like
that, and then the king could shoot an
arrow between the fingers without wound
ing them, TO what drill and what practice
ought not we to subject ourselves in order
TO become spiritual archers and mighty
hunters before the Lord,' But let me
say. you will never work any better than
you pray. The old arcbers took the bow
put one end of it down beside the foot
elevated the other end. and it was the rule
that the bow should be Just the size of the
archer, If it were Just his size, then he would
go into the battle with confidence Let
me say that your power to project good
In the world will correspond exactly to
your own spiritual stature. In other words
the first thing In preparation for Chris
tau work is personal consccration.