The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-05-14

at all. of your great grandfather, but
God sees those who were on their
knees in ) Q as we'll as those on their
knees in 1895, and the blessings he
promised the former and their de-
scendants have arrived or will arrive.
What are we doing by prayer and by
a holy life for the redemption of the
next 400 years? Our work is not only
with the people of the latter part of
the nineteenth century, but with those
in the closing of the twentie tn CEN
tury, and the closing of the twenty
third century. For 400 years, If the
world continues to swing until tina
time, or if it drops, then, notwith-
standing, the influence will go on in
other ATTITUDES and longitudes of Gods
universe.
No one realizes how great He is for
rood or for evil. There are n
ings out, and rebounds, and reverbera-
lions, and Celebrations of influence
tina cannot be estimated. The 50 or
100 years of our earthly stay is only a
small part of our sphere. The flap of
the wing of the destroying angel that
smote the Egyptian oppressors, the
wash of the Red sea owe the heads of
the drowned Egyptians, were all full
ailments Of promises o u centuries
old. And things occur in your life and
in mine that we cannot account for.
They may be the echoes of what was
promised in the sixteenth or eighteenth
century. Oh, the prolongation of the
divine memory!
Notice, also, that Moses was 80 years
of age when he got this call to become
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he had lived in palaces as a prince;
another 40 years he had lived in the
wilderness of Arabia. Like Moses,
you may have your chief work to do
after SO. 1t may not be in the high
places of the field, itmay not be where
q strong arm and an athletic foot and
a clear vision are required, but there
is something for you yet to do. If
aged men do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let them sit around
in our churches and pray, and perhaps
in that way they may accomplish more
good than they ever did in the meridi-
an of their life. 1t makes us feel strong
to see aged men and women all up and
down the pews, their faces showing
they have been on mountains of trans
fgurations. We want in all our
churches more men like Moses, men who
have been through the deeps and
climbed up h shelled beach on h
other side. We want nged Jacobs,
who havo seen ladders which let down
Heaven into their dreams. We want
aged Peters, who have been at Pente-
costs, and aged Pauls, who have made
Felix tremble.
There lies dying at Hawarden, Ing,
one of the most wonderful men that
ever lived since the ages of time began
their roll. lie is the chief citizen Of
the world. Three times has he prac-
tically been king of Great Britain.
Again and again coming from the
house of commons, which he had
thrilled and overawed by his ~eloquence
on Saturday, on Sunday morning read
ing prayers for the people with illu-
mined countenance and trimming eyes
and resounding voice, saying: II be-
lieve in God the Father Almighty,
maker of Heaven and earth, and in
Jesus Christ, His only son, our Lord"
The world has no other such man to
lose as Gladstone; the church has no
other such champion to mourn over
l shall never cease to thank God that
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him at Hawarden, and heard from his
own lips his belief in the authenticity
of the Holy Scriptures, the divinity of
Jesus Christ and the grandeurs of the
world to come. At his table and in the
walk through his grounds 1 was i'm
pressed as l was never before, and
probably will never be again, with the
majesty of a nature all consecrated to
"a - A. -ro-lls, hok,1o T..
the presence of such a man what have
those to say who profess to think that
our religion is a pusillanimous and
weak and cowardly and unreasonable
Matchless William E. Glad
stone!
Still further watch this spectacle of
genuine courage. No wonder when
Moses scattered the rude shepherds he
Zipporah's heart What mattered
it to Moses whether the cattle of the
seven daughters of Jethro were driven
from the troughs by the ride herds
men? Sense of justice fred his cour-
age; and the world wants more of the
spirit that will dare almost anything
to see others righted. All the time at
wells of comfort, at wells of Joy, at
wells of religion and at wells OF litera-
ure there are outrages practiced, the
wrong herds getting the first water.
Those who have the previous right
in last, If they come in at all.
But courage is needed in religion, in
in Craftsmanship. in all
spheres; heroes to defend Jethro's
sever daughters and their hocks and
put to flight the ~insolent invaders.
And those who do the brave work will
win somewhere high reward. The
cheer of Heaven is to be given
ito him that OVercometh."
Still further, see in this call OF
that If God has any especial
work for you to do He will find you.
were Egypt and Arabia and
Palestine with their crowded popula-
ton, but the m a the Lord wanted was
at the southern point of the triangle
Of Arabia, and He picked him right
out, the shepherd who kept the flock
of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest
and sheik. So God will not find it hard
to take yop out from the 1000, 000, 900
of the human race If He wants You for
anything especial. There was just
one man qualified. Other men had
like Moses; other men had
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men had in their history. as
had Moses; but no other man had these
different qualities in the exact proper
ton as had Moses; and God, who
no mistake, found the right
man for the right place. Do not fear
you will be overlooked, or that when
you are wanted God cannst find you.
He knows your name, your features,
your temperament, and your char
and in what land, or
city, or ward, or neighborhood, or
you live. He will not have
to send out scouts or explorers to find
your residence or place of stopping,
and when He wants you He will make
1t as plain that He means you as He
made it plain that He needed Moses.
You see, religion is q tremendous per-
sonality. We all have the general
call to salvation, We hear it in songs,
in sermons, in prayersi we hear it year
after year. But after awhile, through
our W sudden and alarming illness,
or the death of a playmate, or the
decease of a business partner, or the
demise of a next-door neighbor, we
get the especial call to repentance, and
a new life and eternal happiness, and
we know that God means us. Oh, have
you noticed this way in which God
calls us twice7 Two failures of invest
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