The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-16

love me, I'll try to be good" An, thtrt is it-heart in Christ's service. Broth erliness is what the soul on the outside wants to feel ..,.. We talk about the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. prefer to think of the fatherliness of God and the brotherliness of man. These sug- gest interest, concern, activity. We sometimes hear it said that the multi tudes are hungerlng for the gospel. They don't want your gospel. Some months ago I had distributed through the streets of my parish invitations to | come and hear the gospel. In day or | two I received one of them by mail, written across the face, ITO hell with your gospel"
 The unsaved don't want our Christ, but they cannot long withstand broth erliness. Heart will win sooner or lat CT. But we cannot sit ih our comforta- ble churches and piously sing Throw Out the Life Line" Love leaps into the pillows and grapples the drowning soul. Love leaves the safe shelter of the ninety and nine and goes out with its Christ into the black darkness of the perilous wilderness, among rocks and fallen trees, amid whirling storm and jagged lightning gleams, and finds the one and brings it home. Heart does that, even unto the sacrifice of ease and pleasure.
 5 Supreme and unswer'ving loyalty to Jesus Christ. This is implied, in what I have said, but I want to em- phasize it. We should count it joy that we are Christians and be eager | that it be known Thomas Ellwood was one day coming out of meeting among a hostile crowd, when some one called out, Don't stone that man; he / is not a Quaker.,3 See his fur cap?" | Snatching his cap from his head in- stantly, he threw it on the ground, ex- claiming, T am a Quaker"
 Are we as ready to acknowledge that we are Christians? Do you, young peo- ] pie, always show your colors as eagerly when among unbelieVers? Are you as proud of the fact that you are Chris tian? There have been those who .sglo- | red in being followers of Jesus Christ, | Sanctus of Vienna endured all human tortures gladly, answering all questions with Christianus sum. So also the martyr Lucian. l "Of what country are you?" | "I am a Christian" ,.s What is your occupation?" | 'I am a Christian"
 "Who are your Darents"' | q am a Christian.
 These were the dying words of Poly carp.
 In a wreck near Battle Creek, Mich. 1 in 1893, a woman was pinned under the
 timbers and burned in spite of all eff
 forts to release her. Her last words,
 uttered with holy fortitude were, T am Christian"
 1 From the day when the roar of the
 wild beast in the amphitheater was in-
 terrupted by the proud utterance,
 Christianus sum; from the days when the martyrs upheld their courage by
 this name as they bathed their hands
 without a shudder in the pickering fire
 the idea of all patience, of all heroic
 constancy, of all missionary enterprise,
 of all philanthropc effort, of all cheer
 full self-sacrifice for the common bene-
 fit of mankind, is in that name" Gar rar)
 Glory, then, in that you are Chris l tians, and implicitly obey your Lord. With loyal soldiers Jesus will take this
 world, and it will be your highest joy
 that you had some part in the con- 1 quest.
 And now I speak of some of the in | centives to personal work.
 1 1. It was the Masters way. He had l T l the world-but His work was largely with individuals. He did most effective
 work in personal interviews. What
 vital truth He declared In that mid night conversation. with Nicodemus l At noon He found an opportunity to awaken the conscience of a sinful wo- man at the well of Samaria. With | Zaccheus, Mary Magdalene, Matthew,
 the rich young ruler: with Martha, | Mary, and Lazarus, and with many others, He had face-to-face talks. The
 book of the Acts is chiefly on record of dealings with individuals John Wes- | ley had a favorite aphorism, "The
 world is my parish,'' but this did not prevent him from ministering to the
 prisoners in the jail at Oxford, nor | from talking opportunely with a young
 man at funeral Busy as he was, he
 could find time to stop at Bristol and ] talk with three wandering souls there
 MT Moody has said that his best work
 is done in the inquiry room. What op-
 portunities there are for this personal
 work! The daughter of Jairus is sick. Mary Magdalene waits kindly word, I Thomas is in doubt, Matthew, the pub
 Hcan, wants to be told of the Lord,
 Lazaraus is dead, and his sorrowing
 sisters sit in the shadow of their deso-
 lation and grief. Go. and in the name
 of Christ minister unto them.
 Tt is the way the Master went; should not the servant tread it still?" 2-God looks after the results.
 It is not by might, nor by power, but