The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-20


called to do, how to WELD trowel and pen
and pencil and yardstick and plane. And
It will teach women how to preside over
their households and how to educate their
children and how to initiate Miriam and
Esther and vashti and Eunice. the moth
er of Timothy, and Mary, the mother Of
Christ, and those women who on north
ern and southern battle6elds were mis-
taken by the wounded for angels Of mer-
~, fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, have to tell you, the religious
discourse Of the future will be reported
sermon. If you have any idea that print
ing was invented simply to print secular
books, and stenography and photography
were contgived merely to set forth secular
ideas, you are mistaken. The printing
press is to be the great agency Of gospel
proclamation. 1t is high time that good
men, instead of denouncing the press,
employ it to scatter forth the gospel Of
Jesus Christ. The vast majority Of peo-
pie In our cities do not come to church,
and nothing but the printed sermon can
reach them and call them to pardon and
life and peace and heaven.
So l cannot understand the nervous
ness Of some of my brethren of the min
istry. When they see newspaper man
coming in, they say, "Alas, there is re-
porter!" Every added reporter is 10000,
$4,000, 100000 immortal souls added to
the auditory. The time will come when
all the village, town and city newspapers
will reproduce the gospel Of Jesus Christ,
and sermons preached OH the Sabbath
will reverberate all around the world,
and, some by type and some by voice,
all nations will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian work,
not only upon theological students and
young ministers, but upon all who preach
the gospel and all who exhHt in meet
ings and all Of you il you are doing your
duty. Do you exhort in prayer meeting?
Be short and spirited. Do you teach in
Bible class? Though you have to study
every night, be interesting. Do you accost
people on the subject Of religion in their
homes or in public places? Study adroit-
ness and use common sense. The most
graceful and most beautiful thing on
earth is the religion of Jesus Christ, and
il you awkwardly present it it is defama-
ton. We must do our work rapidly, and
for work will be gone.
The End of Time.
A dying Christian took out his watch
and gave it to friend and said: Take
that watch. l have no more use for it.
Time is at an end for me, and eternity
begins" Oh, my friends, when our
watch has licked away for us the last
moment. and our clock has struck for
US the last hour, may it 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,
OF pleaded the law rs attorneys, or were
busy as artisans or husbandmen or as
mechanics, or were, like Martha, called
to give meal to n hungry Christ, or
like Hannah, to make coat for proph-
ct, or like Deborah, to rouse the courage
of some tinid Barak in the Lords con-
Rict, we did our work in such way that
it will stand the test of the judgment!
And in the long procession Of the redeem
cd that march around the throne may it
be found that there are many there
brought to God through our instrument
tality and in whose rescue we cxult. But
let none of us who are still unsaved, wait
for that religious discourse of the fu-
ture. 1t may come after our Obsequies.
1t may come after the stonecutter has
chiseled our name on the slab 80 years
before. Do not wait for great steamer
OF the Cunard or White Star line to take
you off the wreck, but hail the first craft,
with however low mast and however
s'uall hulk and however poor a rudder
and however weak captain. Better
disabled schooner that comes up in time
than IL full rugged brig that comes up
after you have sunk.
Instead of waiting for that religious
discourse of the future tit may be 40, 80
years off, take this plain invitation of
a man who to have given you spiritual
eyesight would be glad to be called the
spittle by the hand Of Christ put on the
eyes of blind man and who would con-
slider the highest compliment of this
service if, at the close, 800 men should
start from these doors saying: whether
he be n sinner or no, l know not. This
one thing | know-whereas l was blind,
now | see."
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in their autumnal
flight, hastier than eagles to their prey,
HE you to sympathetic Christ. The
orchestras of heaven have strung their
instruments to celebrate your rescue:
And many were the voices around the throne.
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own.
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