The Progress., 1897-01-23

mon.enr just fl my lips and express the
.-;nmnb of my soul, and ! cry out: Who
art thou, 0 great mountain? Before Le-
rpbhabel thou shalt become plain.
Use For shovels
NV experjences with the shovel are that
ron cannot do much by one push of that
;n,n,smept, and that after you have been
digging with it an hour what You have
occomnlished seems very little, but just
% along by the place where they are build
ing a railroad through u mountain and
see what a great work 200 shovels can do
and know that while there are 900 shoV-
els at work on this side of the mountain
there are 200 busy on the other side, and
all have to do is to manage my own par
ticuIar shovel. 1t cheers ME to think that
AGAINST this old mountain of sin there are
hundreds of thousands and millions OF
shoyels this moment busy, and we are all
at work under the one engineer who came
down from his throne in heaven to oversee
and help the removal Of that mountain
md who has contracted to have it done I
have seen the contract, and he Is we'll paid
for It, The compensation promised by the
throne of heaven is, II Will give thee the
heather for thine Inheritance and the ut
termost parts of the earth for thy posses
sion." The reason SO many OF us are iClo
Is that we want a bigger shovel or we
ic engine. No, brother. Stick TO your
shovel. Dig away In your Sabbath classes.
Dig away in your missions. Dig away in
your homes. Dig away in your pulpits.
Do the work next to you. Do not spend
too much time looking 1T the great size Of
the mountains or at the way others use
their shoscls. All that you can accomplish
toward the removing of that mountain
will bc with your own particular shovel.
IN Hc1
met on him, dropping clear down over his
ears even unto his shoulders. But when
he got in his hand the boys sling, how
well he used i'll If you do rot understand
Greek, do not attempt to tell the people
what the text is il the original. If you Go
not understand Latin, attempt no drafts
upon Latinity. You who want to help in
the removal Of the mountain hold on TO
your shovel. Much time has been lost by
the fact that many of the sharpest shovels,
instead OF being used for the removal Of the
mountain, have been used in fighting each
other.
The great Presbyterian church was
nightly hindered by the fight that for
years went on between old school shoveis
and new school shovels, and it was not IN
til the meeting Of the general assembly at
F1stsburg 30 or 40 years ago that many
good men made up their minds that shov-
- NNS AAoe 'AAa0S w A4SHS "4ll), DOt W Olk
with. Many of the old theologians Went
around with handaged foreheads which
had not been struck by the swords in the
battle for God, but by the shovels of eccle-
sastical imbroglio. They had special adj
Mlratlon for that psalm of David which
SAD, Blessed be the Lord which teacheth
my hands to war and my fingers to fight"
30 also the Methodist church had n battle
Oh shoVels over the questions of lay delega-
aon and womanly representation. ! am
gao 20 say that most of the ecclesiastical
pagliises in all denominations are dead
aho that they had big funerals.
put there are SO many shoveis now
Hghtly engaged that no statistics can
count them l tell you the mountain Is
gohiinS down It is coming down rapidly
Is"ili all come down. There are those
VIM near or Tea0 these words who will
gig upon its complete prostration, for
wiz is tfe use of my keeping back any
!ohgef the full statement of the fact,
SHien have somewhat delayed through
,a",ui sermonic strategy, the fact that the
h,n 'u uoa Almighty, III the full play Of
nse oinnlpotence, viii accomplish this su-