The Monitor-register., 1897-09-24
TO SHINE AS STARS.
HOW THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS WILL
BE REWARDED ABOVE.

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BE REWARDED ABOVE.
DR.. Talmage breaches q Sermon Full OF
Hope For Discouraged Toilers In the
Lords Vineyard Christian Constelia.
ions That Will Beam on Forever.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-This dis
course flashes a bright light into the life
Of Christian workers and offers a sub.
lime hope for all those who are discour-
aged in their attempts to do good. DR..
Talmage's text is Daniel xii, 3, "They
that turn many to righteousness shall
shine as the stars forever and ever"
Every man has a thousand roots and
a thousand branches. His roots reach
down through all the earth. His branch
es spread through all the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with hand,
with foot. His silence often is loud as
thunder and his life is a dirge or a dox'
ology. There is no such thing as mega
tive influence. We are all positive in
the place we occupy, making the world
better or making it worse, on the Lords
side or on the DEVILS, making up rea-
sons for our blessedness or Punishment,
and we have already done work in peo-
ping heaven or hell. 1 hear people tell
Of what they are going to do. A man
who has burned down a city might as
well talk of some evil that he expects to
do, Or a man who has saved an empire
might as we'll talk of some good that he
expects to do. By the force of your evil
influence you have already consumed
infinite values, or you have by the pow
er Of a right influence won whole king
doms for God.
1t would be absurd for me, by elabo-
rate argument, to prove that the world
is off the track. You might as well
stand at the foot of an embankment,
amid the wreck of a capsized rail train,
proving by elaborate argument that
something is out of order. Adam tum-
bled over the embankment so centuries
ago, and the whole race, in n long
train, has gone on tumbling in the same
direction. crash crash The only ques-
ton now is, By what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? By what ham
mel may the fragments be reconstruct
ed? I want to show you how we may
turn many to Righteousness and what
will be our future pay for so doing.
Charm of a Right Example.
First, we may turn them by the
charm of q right example. A child com
ing from a filthy home was taught al
school to wash its face. It went home
SO much improved in appearance that
its mother washed her face, and wher
the father of the household came home
and saw the improvement in domestic
appearance he washed his face. The
neighbors, happening in, saw the change
and tried the same experiment, until
all that street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the whole
city felt the result Of one schoolboy
washing his face. That is a fable by
which we set forth that the best way to
get the world washed of it's sins and
pollution is to have u own heart and
life cleansed and purified. A man with
grace in his heart and Christian cheer
fulness In his face and holy consistency
in his behavior is a perpetual sermon,
and h sermon differs from others in
that 1t has but one head and the longer
it runs the better.
There are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth of iniuui-
ty chatter. There are happy men who
go into a sickroom and by a look help
the broken bone to knit and the excited
nerves drop to a calm beating, There
are pure men whose presence silences
the tongue of uncleanness. The might
lest agent of good on earth is a consist
emit Christian. l like the Bible folded
between lids of cloth or calfskin or
morocco, but l like it better when, in
the shape of a man, it goes out into the
world a Bible illustrated. Courage is
beautiful to read about, but rather
would l see a a with all the world
against him confident as though all the
world were for him. Patience is beau
tlful to read about, but rather would 1
see a buffeted soul calmly waiting for
the time of ~deliverance. Faith is beau
tlful to read about, but rather would
find a man in the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw every
thing. Oh, how many souls have been
turned to God by the charm of q bright
examplel
When, in the Mexican war, the
troops were wavering, a general rose in
his stirrups and dashed into the enemy's
lines, shouting, MEN, follow me!''
They, seeing his courage and DISPOSE.
ton, dashed ON after him and gained
the victory. What men want to rally
them for God is an example to lead
them All your commands to others te
advance amount to nothing as long as
you stay behind. To affect them Alright
you need to start for heaven yourself,
looking back only to give the stirring
cry of "Men, followl''
The Power of Prayer.
Again, we may turn many to right
eousness by prayer. There is no such
detective as prayer, for no one can hide
away from it. 1t puts its hand on the
shoulder of q man 10, 900 miles off. 1t
alights on a ship midatlantic. The
little child cannot understand the law
of electricity or how the telegraph oper-
ator, by touching the instrument here,
may dart a message under the sea to
another continent, nor can we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch Of a Christians prayer shall in
stantly strike a soul ON the other side
of the earth. You take ship and go to
some other country and get there at II
O'Clock in the morning. You telegraph
to America and the message gets here
at Q o'clock the same morning. In other
words, it seems to arrive here five hours
before it started. Like that is prayer.
God says, Before they call l will
hear" To overtake a loved one on the
road you may spur up a lathered steed
until he shall OUTRAGE the one that
brought the news to Client, but a pray
er shall catch it at one gallop. A boy
running away from home may take
the midnight train from the country
village and reach the seaport in time to
gain the ship that sails on the morrow,
but a mothers prayer will be ON the
deck to meet him, and in the hammock
before he swings into it, and at the cap
stan before he winds the rope around,
and ON the sea, against the sky, as the
vessel plows ca toward it. There is a
mightiness in prayer. George Muller
prayed a company of poor boys to-
gether, and then he prayed up IN asy-
lum in which they might be sheltered.
He turned his face toward Edinburgh
and prayed and there came $1,000. He
turned his face toward London and
prayed and there came $1,000. He
turned his face toward Dublin and
prayed and there came 81, 1000. The
breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the
clouds off the sky, and it was dry
weather. The breath of Elijah's prayer
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