The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-26


/ and heart and sympathy and under ene
benediction and perpetual presence d
Christian minister.
That sermon of the future VIII De an
everyday sermon, going right down IN
to every mans life, and 1t VIII teach
him to vote, how to bargain, now "
plough, how to do any work ne Is car.
ed to- how to WELD trowel and pen anu
pencil and yardstick and plane. Anu
1t will teach women how to preslue
over their households, and how to eu-
ucate their children, and how to imi-
tate Miriam and Esther and Vashti,
and Eunice, the mother OF Timothy;
and Mary, the mother of Christ; and
those women who on Northern ana
Southern battlefelds were mistaken by
the wounded for angels Of mercy fresh
from the throne Of God
Do you exhort in prayer-meeting?
Be short and be spirited. Do you teach
in Bible class? Though you have to
study every night, be interesting. Do
you accost people on the subject of re-
ligion in their homes or in public
places? Study adroitness and use COM
mon sense The most graceful, the
most beautiful thing on earth in the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, and if you awk-
wardly present it, it Is defamation. We
must do our work rapidly and we must
do it effectively. Soon our time for
work will be gone. A dying Christiapk
took out his watch and gave 1t to u
friend and said: Take that watch,
have no more use for 1t; time is ended
for me; eternity begins" o my friends,
when our watch has licked away for
us for the last moment, and our clock
has struck for us the last hour, may
1t be found We did our work well. that
we did it in the very best way; and
whether we preached the Gospel in
pulpits, or taught Sabbath classes, or
administered to the sick as physicians,
or bargained as merchants, or pleaded
the law as attorneys, or were busy as
artisans, or as husbandmen, or as me-
chanics, or were like Martha called to
give a meal to hungry Christ, or like
Hannah TO make a coat for prophet,
or like Deborah to rouse the courage
OF some timid Barak in the Lords con-
fiict, we did our work in such a way
that it will stand the test of the judg-
ment. And in the long procession OF
the redeemed that march round the
h. fftInd thorn
many there brought to God through
our instrumentality and in whose res
cue we are exultant. But, o you UNI
saved! wait not for that coming SER
mon. 1t may come after your obse-
quies. 1t may come after the stone
cutter has chiseled our name on the
slab fifty years before. Do not walt
for a great steamer OF the Cunard or
White Star line to take you off the
wreck. but hail the first craft with
however low a mast, and however
small bulk, and however poor rud-
der and however weak captain. Bet
ter a disabled schooner that comes up
in time than a full-rigged brig that
comes up after you have sunken. ln-Y
stead of waiting for that coming ser-e
mont may be twenty, fifty years off
take this plain invitation of man
who. to have given you spiritual eye
sight. would be glad to be called the
spittle by the hand of Christ put on the
eyes of blind man, and who would
consider the highest compliment Of
this service, If at the close five hum
dred men should start from these doors
saying, Whether he be sinner or no,
| know not. This one thing l know,
whereas | was blind, now l see."
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in their autumnal
fight. hastier than eagles to their prey,
HE you to a sympathetic Christ. The
orchestras of heaven have already
strung their instruments to celebrate
your rescue.
And many were the voices around the
throne;
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his
own.