The Monitor-register., 1897-03-12
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a transport. When I see a man bound
hand and foot in evil habit emanicipat-
ed, / rejoice over it as though it were
my W emancipation.
Why Clergymen Are Long Lived.
When in one communion service, such
throngs of young and old stood up and
in the presence of heaven and earth and
hell attested their allegiance to Jesus
Christ, [ felt a joy something akin to
that which the apostle describes when
he says, Whether i'll the body l cannot
tell, OF out of the body l cannot tell;
God knoweth." Oh, have not ministers
a right to rejoice when a prodigal comes
home? They blew the trumpet, and
of the host? They pointed to the full
supply, and ought they not to rejoice
when thirsty souls plunge as the hart
for the water brooks? They came forth,
saying, All things are now ready
ought they not to rejoice when the prod
igal sits down at the banquet? Life in
surance men will all tell you that min
listers of religion, as a class, live longer
than any other. 1t is the statistics of
all those who calculate upon human
longevity that ministers of religion, as a
class, live longer than any other. Why
is it? There is more draft upon the
nervous system than in any other pro-
| fession, and their toll is most exhaust
ing. 1 have seen ministers kept on mis-
cradle stipends by parsimonious congre-
cations who wondered at the dullness of
the sermon when the men of God were
perplexed almost to death by questions
of livelihood and had not enough nutri-
tious food to keep any fire in their tenn
permanent. Nofuel, no fire. Ihave N
times seen the inside of the life of many
of the American clergymen, never ac-
/ cepting their hospitality because they
cannot afford it, but l have seen them
struggle on with salaries of $500 or 5000
a year-the average less than that
their struggle well depicted by the west
ern missionary who says in a letter;
''Thank you for the last remittance. I'm
til it came we had not any meat in our
house for one year, and all last winter,
although it was a severe winter, our
children wore their summer clothes"
And these men of God l find in differ
ent parts of the land struggling against
annoyance and exasperations innumer-
able, some of them week after week en-
| forfaininn oOopfS xyha houo ~oorc ar
lightning rods to sell and submitting
themselves to all styles of annoyance,
and yet without complaint and cheerful
of soul. How do you account for the
fact that these life insurance men tell
us that ministers as a class live longer
than any other? 1t is because of the joy
of their work, the joy of the harvest
field, the joy of greeting prodigals home
to their Fathers house Oh, we are in
sympathy with all innocent hilarities.
We can enjoy a hearty song and we can
be merry with the merriest. but those of
rs who have toiled in the service are
ready to testify that all these joys are
tame compared with the satisfaction of
seeing men enter the kingdom of God.
The great eras of every ministry are the
~outpourings of the Holy Ghost, and !
thank God l have seen 16 of them.
Thank God, thank God!
A Great Communion,
notice also when the prodigal comes
bacEsA earnest Christians rejoice. Il
you stood on Montapk point and there
was a hurricane at sea, and II wRs blow-
ing toward the shore, and a vessel
crashed into the rocks, and you saw peo-
pie get ashore in the lifeboats, and the
very last man got on the rocks in safety,
you could not control your joy. And it
is a glad time when the church of God
sees men who are tossed on the ocean of
their sins plant their feet on the rock
Christ Jesus. Oh, when prodigals come
home, just hear the Christians sing.
just hear the Christians pray. 1t is not
a stereotyped ~supplication we have
heard over and over again for 90 years,
but a putting of the case in the hands OF
God with an importunate pleading. No
long prayers. Men never pray at great
length unless they have nothing to say
and their hearts are hard and cold, All
the prayers in the Bible that were an
swered were short prayers. "God be
merciful TO me a sinner" Lord, that
I may receive my sight" Lord, save
me, or I perish"
The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer
at the dedication of the temple, less than
eight minutes in length according to the
ordinary rate of enunciationl And just
hear them pray NOW that the prodigals
| are coming home. Just see them shake
hands. No putting forth of the four tips
of the fingers in a formal way, but a
hearty grasp where the muscles Of the
heart seem to clinch the fingers Of one
hand around the other hand. And then
see those Christian faces. How illumi-
| nated they arel And see that old man get
up, and, With the same voice that he
sang 30 years ago in the old country
meeting house, say, "Now, Lord, lettest
thou thy servant depart in peace, for
mine eyes have seen thy salvation"
| There was a man of Keith who was
hurled into prison in time of persecu-
ton, and one day he got off his shackles,
and he came and stood by the prison
door, and when the jailer was opening
the door with on stroke he struck down
the man who had incarcerated him.
Passing along the streets of London, he
wondered where his family was. He did
not dare to ask, lest he excite suspicion,
but, passing along a little way from the
prison, ne saw a Keith tankard, a cup
that belonged to the family from gener-
alton to generation-he saw 1t in a win
dow. His family. hoping that some day
he would get clear, came and lived as
near as they could to the prison house,
and they set that Keith tankard in the
window, hoping he would see it, and he
came along and saw it and knocked at
the door and went in, and the long sep
arated family were all together again.
Oh, If you would start for the kingdom
OF God this hour, think some Of yeu
would find nearly all your friends and
nearly all your families around the holy
taDkard Of the holy communicates.
theirs, mothers, brothers, sisters-around
that sacred tankard which commemo-
rates the love of Jesus Christ our Lord.
1t will be a great communion day when
your whole family sits around the sacred
tankard. One IN earth, One in heaven.
Once more I remark that when the
prodigal gets back the inhabitants of
heaven keep festal. I am very certain of
it. Ii yeu have meyer seen a telegraph
chart, you have no idea how many cities
are connected together, and how many
lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of