The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-13

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the bay to light others into harbor:
perhaps to show how glorious 4 sunset
may come after a stormy day
r. 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 accom-
paish more coed than they ever did in
the meridian OF their life. Il makes
Us feel strong 10 see aged men and
women all up and down the pews,
their faces showing they have been on
mountains Of TRANSPORTATION. We
want in all our churches more men
IKE Moses, men who have been
through the deeps and climbed up the
sheIled beach on the other side. We
wan aged Jacobs. who have seen lad
ders which let down heaven into their
dreams. We want. aged Peters, who
nave been at PentecostS, n aged
auls. who have made Felix tremble.
There are here and there those who feel
IKE the woman Of 90 years who said
10 tontenelle. who was So years Of
age. Death appears TO have forgotten
u.s." Hush aid Fontenelle. the wit,
putting HIS finger to his lip. No. my
friend. you rave not been forgotten.
Q VIII be called at the right time.
Meantime. be holly occupied.
Let the aged remember nat by in
creased longevity OF the race men are
not as old al 60 as they used TO be at
30 not as Did al 20 as they used 10 be
at 90, not as old at so as they used 10
be at 20. Sanitary ~precaution better
Understood, medical science further
advanced: laws Of health more thor
oughly adopted; dentistrv continuing
for longer time successful mastica-
ton; homes and churches and court
rooms and places Of business better
Ventlated-an these have prolonged
IIe. and men and wo1ne In the close
OF this century ought not to retire I'M
til at least ID years later than in the
opening of the I'll Do not put
the harness off until you have fought
a few more battles. Think Of Moses
starting out for his chief work an
o~ctogenarian; 40 years OF wilderness
life after 40 years of palace life, yet
just beginning.
Ihere lies dying at Hawarden. Eng
land, one Of the most wonderful men
that ever lived since the ages of time
began their roll. He is the chief citi-
zen of the whole world. Three times
has he practically been king of Great
Britain. Again and again coming
from the house of which he
had thrilled and overaWed by his elo-
qUence, or Saturday. on Sunday morn
ing reading prayers for people, with
Illuminated cOuntenance and brim-
ming eye n r~esounding voice, say
ing: Il believe in God the Father Al
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only son our
Lord"
The world has no other such mar
to lose as Gladstone; the church has
no other champion to mourn over. /
snail never cease to thank God that
on Mr.. Gladstone's invitation / visited
him at HaWarden and heard from mis-
W lips his belief in the authenticity
of the Holy Scriptures, the divinity of
Jesus Christ 2nd the grandeurs of the
world to come. AT his table and in the
walk through the grounds | was i'm
pressed as ] 4 never was before, and prob
ably will never he again, with the
majesty of a nature all cOnsecrated to
God n the worlds betterment. In
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
affair? M%aItchless William E. Glad
stone!
Still further, watch this spectacle Of
genuine courage. No wonder when
Moses scattered the rude shepherds he
won Z~ipporah's heart. What matter
ed it to Moses whether the cattle Of
the seven daughters of Jethro Were
driven from the troughs by the rude
ueTUSI1en !! "A sense OF justice nTeu MS
courage, and the world wants more of
the spirit that will dare almost any
thing to see others righted. All the
time at wells OF comfort, at wells of
JOY, at wells of religion and at wells
of literature there are outrages prac-
ticed, the wrong herds getting the first
water. Those who have the previous
right come in last if they come in at
all. Thank God We have here and
&h 0~o ~ W. ~ n r,,n ~ %o ~n% fy,L~ =. oh > =
l ann so glad hat when God has an
especial work to do he has some one
ready to accomplish it. Is there a Bible
to translate, there is a Wyclif to trans
late It; If there is a literature to he en-
ergized, there is a Shakespeare to en-
ergiZe it; if there is an error to smite,
there is a Luther to smite it; if there
is to De a nation freed, there is a
Moses to free it. But courage is need
ed in religion, in literature, in states
manship, in all spheres, heroics to de-
fend Jethro's seven daughters and
their focks and put to fight the inso-
lent invaders. And those who do the
| brave work will VIII somewhere high
reward. The loudest cheer Of heaven
is to be given ito him that overcom-
| eth"
HOW GOD CALLS.
Still further, see in this call of Moses
that if God has any special work for
| you to do he will find you. There was
| Egypt and Arabia and Palestine with
their crowded population, but the man
the Lord wanted was at the southern
point of the triangle Of Arabia, and he
picks him right out, the shepherd who
kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-
law, the priest n sheik. So God will
not find it hard to take you out from
the 1000, 900, 600 of the human race if
he wants you for anything especial,
There was only just n man qualified
| Other men had courage like Moses
other men had some of the talents OF
Moses: other men had romano in
their history, as had Moses; other mer
were impetuous like Moses, but no 9th.
er man had these different qualities in
the exact proportion as had Moses, an6
God, who makes no mistake, found thu
right man for the right place. Do no
fear you will be overlooked or thai
when you are wanted God cannot fine
you. He knows your NAME, your fea'
lures, your temperament and you