The San Francisco call., 1897-07-10
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with us all along the Journey, and the
symbolic crosses rose again.
Then came the idea of how sin skaters
life and Christ blesses it, and story of a
woman at Atlantic City whom he had
seen picking up dead sea shells along the
beach, quickly and deftlv painting them
there and selling the transformed things
of beauty to the strollers. He had bought
one on which she had painted calm sea,
a sunrise lighting it in glory, and large
ship and little shallop floating safely in
the placid waters. He drew the shell and
picture quicker than he descrl bed it, and
then as he talked on he put a cross in
place of the rising sun and described the
transforming glory of the rising sun OF
righteousness on Iife's sea, on which the
frailest little boat (childnood) or the stout.
est bark (manhood) could safely speed.
The truth that better life depends on
ones own choice was enforced in q
moment with picture of a bee lowering
between flower and spiders web. and
then be showed so much more powerfully
than with words alone that Christ was not
far away from the human wreck that sig
nailed TO him. The crowd saw watery
waste of three or four green sweeps of the
crayon and a wreck TO which one lone
mariner clung. Afar off on the horizon
he saw black speck and hope was borne
within him. Perhaps it was steamer,
and if he bolsted signal they would see
him as the sea was swept with glasses.
The black speck grew under the fast wig
Cling crayon and an ocean greyhound
ioomed up near the wreck and lifeboat
put out. So Christ was the weary sinner S
only hope. The man on the wreck had
nothing to lose and all to gain by hoisting
his signal of distress, so man has nothing
to lose by welcoming Christ, and he gets
lhe brightest, truest, sweetest out OF life.
This was the manner of Mr.. Pierce s
first chalk talk here The men gave him
hearty cheers OF appreciation and scram-
bled for his pictures when he finished.
Irving NJ. Scott was so delighted that he
arranged for another one next Monday
noon, when the 1000 and more workmen
and others may hear him again
Men see tAe truth, says Mr.. Pierce.
"They may forget the words, but they
never forget the picture. To me it is so
simple that [ marvel that so few mlnIste
are doing It,"
Besides the daily chalk talks for which
he is down OF the program he plans a
big one in one of the Submerged dis
tricts of the City, with wagon and a
choir from the Philadelphia delegation.
Mr.. Pierce is an evangelist" having no
conventional pastorate, but leading the
greatest practical Christian work being
sustained in any city in the world. He is
connected with Grace Baptist Temple OF
PHILADELPHIA, of which DR.. Russell Con-
well is pastor and which has the largest
mem bership and congre CATION in America
This temple carries on the largest rescue
N isSion work in the world. MI. Pierce is
the head of this work, and of the great
work of the Sunday Breakfast Associa-
ton. This is q free Samaritan hospital
in which thousands are yearly treated
free; the Temple College has had over
5000 students in the past year, and among
other features OF this practical work of
salvation is Wanderers exchange. Two
thousand fallen men have been helped
from the depths of life.
Mr.. Pierce talks daily to crowds who
are charmed by his ''chaiK talks" but
his genius for simple illustration of the
truth is so great that he is constantly en-
gaced TO illustrate weekly the current
Bible and Sunday-schcol lessons which
nearly all denominations pursue together
Every week his illustrations appear in
many of the most widely circulated inter
national and nterdenominational papers
devoted to Sunday-schoos ana Bible
classes. He thus reaches weekly million
and a half readers. and thousands of
teachers and ministers weekly reproduce
his sym bolic illustrations on black boards.
He fills an exceptionally wide field in his
two lines of Christian WORK.
"The sweetest thing in this life is to
raise a broken life to brightness, to love
and to God" he says, and this purpose
fills him to the uttermost.