Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-03
TIE MAN TO FILL THE GAP.
He Is Needed in This Day and
a Generation.
SERMON BY REV. BURLINGTON
Existence of a Frightful Gap in
Morals.
The Man to FIN tile Gap is the Man who Is
Needed, and tie is Se~dvd in wiimington
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Io-day7-Shprp CritiGfsm OF a Telegraph
| Company's Works. the Alan Among Us 2
| AT Bethany BAPTIST Church Sunday
might, the pastor, the Rev. O. 9. Bud
diugton, preached sermon With local
| application. taking for his text Ezekiel,
| %, 30. as follows. "And sought for
man amoog them that should mako up
the hedge. ana stand 10 the zap before
me for the land thlt Il should not ue-
stroy IT, but found none"
Morals in Israel were on the down
! hill grade and well nigh at the buttum.
The people we're as the tlross OF silver;
the prophets had formed conspiracy
of lies; the priests were unclean and
Sabbath desecrators; the princes were
oppressors and robbers, and all together
fearful gaps bad beon mada Ia the
morals vi the people, and the Lord was
looking for man tn fill it.
1t was frighttui gap, Frightful he.
cause it was in morals. We have To
Gently read of the gaps mHrla hy the
floods in the Louisiana leyees, and how
homes were deatoroyed and lives lost.
Decoration Day is suggestive of the
gaps made In the ranks where the
brave men stood generation ago whose
graves We honor to- day. Great gaps
have heeu made in the ranks of Coils
servants, so that his people have cried
out IN the wordsio ono OF Old, Help,
Lord, for the gody man perisheth. !"
But worse than any and all OF these is
the gap to which Gods prophet calls
attention TO in this text. This was a
gap caused by the downfall of religious
leaders Of the people. They were looked
upon as the moral hedges. and defences
of the people. A place where We are
shown that not law nor education but
religion is the safe guard of the people.
But when the leaders yielded to sin
and broke away, then the multitude
with goddess recklessness rushed
through the gap. No longer restrained
or rehuked By their religious teachers,
the nation was fast fastening to it's
doum.
The man wanted to fill the gap, as
seen by the prophet, was wanted to
stand before the people, to Febuke, no.
strain, exhort and turn them back. He
was wanted to fill the gap Such gaps
are here yet and the men to fill them
are wanted. They telus how in some
callings the ranks are filled up. They
say it is hard to lind q place for boy
to learn a trade. or to got him into a
store. or established in professional
calling. | suppose it is true. But
there are gaps here to be filled. We
could well advertise in every paper and
post at every cross road, Wanted a
man to fill gap" 1t may be the Lord
, would first look for a man to fill gap
by bringing to account some Will
mington churches. Would that some
prophet of God would rise with clear
| I,-ia Nf ~ n-iII Nl ;,,
sweetness of spirit suggest to good
brethren whether the place SOM of
them take their services to on Sunday
night, and tho themes they discourse
upon are really BEST for spiritual good
OF this city,
! There was gap for some luan to FL
the other day by rising up with earnest
: protest against the imposition practices
upon this public in the name of the
+ Western Union Telegraph CO. Ii it was
: a party to the scheme, it was sorry
n business for that great company to lent
3 itself to practicing fraud and imposing
!, anxiety aud needless Inconvenience
upon the people of this city, iu ordeI
n to advertise brass hand to desecratt
e the lord Day at Union Park, hy sell
ing the ssrvice of their messenger boy
!. wearing the company uniform, and
the obnoxious advert isem ment written ol
. one of the company Il blanks and en
! rlosed in the regulation envelope.
say there Id a gap hera for some mar
= to ill by leading in righteous crusad,
T. against such iniouitous procedure. A
complaint has been lodged with tht
: uresidant of tha company, and care
< returned saying tho ease will he imme
+ diataiy and fully Investigated.
NbarA n ta. t,, Nln EIla,f aI
the nther day, ipsrhaps every day,
when tho Aeklan divorce case wal
granted by that astonishing process
known only 10 Delaware legiaatora
Q The man wnnto,l To I'LL that gap il
n leading successful opposition to TOT
d nefarious procedure did not Rppuar Il
!, he in that Legislature.
:. These present day gaps offer 0ppor
z tunity fnr honorable distinction. 4
. common impression prevails that tint
10 has gone by for heroic service. Perhap
q they thought so in the days of E2eSlsl
II May be they were telling what gran,
% opportunities there were for Moses AM
I. Samuel. So they think row that tn
). martyrs are all killed; the saints are al
10 canoni2ed; the monuments all erscted
ts and the great men all dead. Not so
to Ii ] mistake not there 10 opportunit
70 for honorable distinction, and il Coz
l. can find man TO fill the gap, thor
will be generation to come along ye
and sing the praises of that great ma,
- who lived at the beginning of tn
~ Twentieth Century. The kind OF ma
Is wanted to fill the gap is indicated b.
10 tue fact that no was a man wanted b
!, the Lord. a man tho Lord wants mus
"a be Gods man. Only such man ca
'u stand in the gap. lie is man who wi
D. have to stand alone, for the others viii
all be going through the gap whils b
stands there. lie will have to ha of
N material to oppose tho crowd. lie mus
nj he Il man who has first Dedicated hi
IN life to God. lie must he possessed G
~ God'a spirit. lie must he gctuated b
~ Christ motives with selfish conjidera
an tiona left out. lio must Ee streugthene
by Christ's power for his own strengtl
will not avail. lie must he willing t
forego the popularity Of the mutitud
i'll for the time heing. This man of Go
re is to be the man Of tho future. Honor
is able distinction is to be in this sphere
q The day for great generals has gone ly
s. Tho extension of Christ's kingdom wi
lead to EXTERN nation uf war. The her
nf thu cnming generation is he wh
Of does most for his fellow, and he will d
$, this who goes forth in the spirit an
1n strength of his Lord.
ty sought for man among them,
Ii SAYS the text Here was where th
20 Lord was looking for him right anon