The Progress., 1898-09-10
THE WORK OF TODAY.
WE SHOULD LIVE FOR OUR OWN TIME
AND GENERATION.

Practical Ways and Means Of Serving tn
human Ears Gods Part Has Bee
Done, 1t IL Oar Turo 20 Act Da,
and the Deed
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Ciatl3rj
WASHINGTON, sept l.--i1 this discours,
DR.. TaImage changes our Lifetime from
meaningless generality to practical help
fulness to IN" People unw living, text
Acts xiii, 81, David, after he had served
his own generation by the will of God. fell
on sleep"
That h Il text which has for a long time
been running through my mind Sermons
have time to be born Us we'll as u time &c
dio--a cradle no well as u grave David,
cowboy and stone singer and fighter and
dramatist and blank verse writer and
prophet, did his best for the people of his
time, and then went and laid down on the
southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound
slumber which nothing but an archangolic
blast can startle David, after he had
serve his own generation by the will OF
Sod, fell on sleep" II was his own gen.
Grafton that he had servcd-that is, the
people living at the time he lived And
have you ever thought that our response
bilities are chiefly with the people now
walking abreast Of usY There are about
four generations to century now, but in
olden time life was longer, and there was
perhaps only one generation to century.
Taking these facts Into the calculation, I
make rough guess and say thai there
have been at least 1870 generations of the
human family. With reference to them
we have no responsibility We cannot
teach them, we cannot correct their mis-
takes, we cannot soothe. their sorrows, we
cannot heal their wounds. Their sepul-
cheers are deaf and dumb to anything We
might say to them. The Last regiment of
that great army has passed out OF sight.
We might halloo as loud as wo could not
one Of them would avert his head to see
what we wanted. admit that I am IN,
sympathy with the child whose father had
suddenly died, and who In her little even
Ing prayer wanted to continue to pray for
her father, although be had gone into
heaven, and no more needed her prayers.
and, looking UP into her mothers face,
said: "Oh, mother, cannot leave him all
outl Let mo say thank God that had
good father once, so can keep him In my
prayers. ~,
The Coming Generations,
But tho $50 general to'ls have passed of
Passed up. Passed down. Gone forever.
Then there arc generations to come otter
our earthly existence has ceased We shall |
not see them, we, shall not hear any Of |
their voices, we will take no part In their
conversations their elections, their e-ou.
tons, their catastrophes, their triunphs
We.will In nowise affect the $50 genera
tions gone or the $50 generations to come,
except as from the galleries OF HEAVIER the
former generations look down and rejoice /
az our victories or as we may, by our be-
havior, start influences, good or bad, that
shall roll on through the advancing ages
But our business is, like David, TO serve
our own generation the people now liv-
ing, those whose lungs now breathe and
whose hearts now beat And, mark you,
1t is not silent procession, but moving.
1t rs forced march" at "a miles q day,
each hour being mile Going with that
CELEBRITY, 1t has got to he quick service On
our part, or no service at all. We not only
cannot teach the $50 generations past and
Will not see the 1870 generations to come.
but this generation now on the stage will
soon be of, and we ourselves will be off
with them The fact is that you and I
Will have to start very soon for our work.
or 1t will be ironical and sarcastic for any
one after our exit to say of us, as It was
said OF David, After he had served his
own generation by the will OF God he fell
on sleep"
What Can We Doe
l Well now let us look around earnestly,
rayerfully, IN common sense way and
ee what we can Go for our own genera.
zion. First Of ali, let us see to it that. as {
Iaf as we can, they have enough to eat
The human body is so constituted that I
Snree times day the body needs food ss !
much as lamp needs oil, as much as a I
locomotive needs fuel To meet this want c
God has girdled the earth with apple or. a
rhards, orange groves, wheathelds and ]
oceans full of fish, and prairies full of cat '
lie' And Notwithstanding this, l will I'm. Q
aertake TO say that the vast majority of l
me human family are now suffering either I
lor lack OF food OF the right kind of food, ]
lAir civilization Is all askew, and God a
'niy can set it right Many of the great. g
'st estates of today have been built out of o
ne blood and bones of unrequited toll. j
n oiden times for the building of forts d
mo towers the inhabitants of Ispahan had r
Q contribute 10000 skulls, and Bagtlad 8
1900 human skulls, and that number of "
,eople were compelled to furnish the g
kuiis But these two contributions added "
ogether made only 10000 skulls. while
nto the tower OF the worlds wealth and
omp have been wrought the skeletons of 1,
mounted numbers Of the half fed popu. NJ
ATOMS OF the earth--millions of skulls =,
Don't sit down at your table with five h.
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