The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-20

800 passengers and advertised TO arrTvs
at a certain hour IN a certain day. SLOW
up to let them get two minutes soonel
Of their own or any one eise's welfare
| dependent On whether they arrive ono
minute before Il O'Clock or one minute
a railroad superintendent TO mount be-
side the engineer on a locomotive TO re
aIize how many evils OF recklessness
there are in the world-funeral process
| sionS whipping up TO get across before
the cowcatcher strikes the hearse. man
of family. with wife and children be-
made a close calculation as to whether a
stroke from the locomotive would put
them backward or forward in the jour
ney TO the village grocery: raveie on
a railroad bridge. hoping that he could
get to the end OF the bridge before the
train reaches il. You have no right TO
Yut your life in peril unless by -sAch ex-
posture something is 10 be gained for 9TH
ers. What inbecility In thousands Of
Americans during our recent America
Spanish war, disappointed because the
surrender came so soon and they Col.Id
not have the ant OF being shot
at San Juan nil or brought down with
the yellow fever and carried on a litter
to transport steamers already so many
floating lazarettos instead of thanking
God that they got no nearer to the
slaughter than Tampa or Chattanooga
or the encampment at their own state
capital: mad at the government. mad at
God, because they could not get to the
front in time to join the 1000 corpses
that are now being transplanted from the
tropics to the national cemeteries of the
United States. Exposure and daring are
admirable when duty calls, but Keep out
OF peril hen nothing practical and use
full is to be gained for your family or
your country or your God. l admire the
David of my text as he suppresses HIM
self and enters the gate of his castle a.
much as l admire him when with his
four fingers and thumb clutched into the
grisly locks of Goliath's head, which he
a decapitated, and Saul admiringly
asks, Whose son art thou, young MANI"
and David, blushing with genuine mod
servant, Jesse. the B~ethlehemite."
HELP OTHERS.
Now, here is another important point.
AS there are so many people in the
world who amount to little or nothing
you ought to augment yourself, and if
not able, like David to be worth 1900
mand Gods reinforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
twice as much as some others. Pray
as much Instead of spending your time
finding fault s With Others substitute
ton and default. In any church there
are ten members worth all the other
thousand. In every great business firm
there is one man worth the other three
partners. In every legislative hall, state
or national. there are five men worth
all the other 50 or 100. Take the sug-
gestion of my text and lgmen YOUR
self. Make your one taIent do the work
of two, or you five talents do the work
of ten, or your ten talents do the work
agement. Multiply the number oi boosts
you can give to those who are trying to
climb. Instead of being one man in a bat
talon by your faith in God and new
conservation be a whole regiment. 1 like
the question of a general of a small army
when some one was counting the num-
Der of officers and soldiers of the oppos-
ing forces and the small number of their
own army, and the general cried out in
indignation, How many do you AXE me
to be at least two men in this battle for
Goo and Righteousness.
The daily papers say that my old
friend Jeremiah C. Lanphier: of New
they are mistaken. That man can never
die. He will live as long as heaven
lives. He was the father of vitalized, Wv
established the MONDAY Fulton street
prayer meeting; famous throughput
than any DEVOTIONAL meeting since the
world began. He introduced the little bell
on the prayer meeting table which al
ways tapped when prayers were too
prolix or exhortations too long winded.
Finding that many business men are
from u noon to 1 o'clock at compare
at IL O'clock of the ard Of September,
1857, there would begin a prayer meeting
of n hour in the small upper room of
the Reformed church, on Fulton street,
New York, Lanphier went to that room
at II O'Clock and sat alone. At 1880
O'Clock a man entered, and others came
The meeting on the following MONDAY
numbered 20, and the next day 40. Then
the meeting became too large for the
room, and it was taken into the main
auditorium. and for Al years that ser
vice has been the religious centre Of
Christendom. Requests for prayer from
and the prayers offered been answered
sometimes with a resound that was heard
throughout Christendom. Hundreds of
that Bethesda and been healed. That
in which it is sstimatsd 500 600 souls were were
cember 18th, his soul assembled, I think
he was met at the gate of heaven by a
wsieom ing thnong as mighty as as,I hat nat
five centuries. Humble and without any
p~retension and without anything brill
liant in his make up, through faith in
the earth and e~nraptured the heavens
He was worth 1000, yea Q 1000. ordinary
Christian workers. Dea old friend Lam
phier, how I loved you!
WORTH TEN THOUSAND.
When the consul general came in his
Official rOWDOaC TO take US OIL our SIcdt
steamer in the harbor of ~Constantinople.
there were many things I wanted to see
in that city of multiform entertainments,
but most of all 1 was anxious to see that
architectural charm of the ages, the
st. S~ophia-once a church, but now a
mosque. I do not wonder that when La
maritime saw it he thanked God, and Pou-
queville felt himself lifted into some 9th
er world. What pillars of p~orphyry, and
walls of m~alachite, n lowering arches,
and galleries which seemed to have
alighted from heaven instead of being
built up from earth! Mosaics and mother
Of pearl, and seraphim with wings be-
| dfamonded, and dome which scoops the
sky and staggers with its height and
| circumference all those who gave into
it until they can look nc more, but each
succeeding time you look it seems high
er and wider and grander and more SUI
p~ernatural. All the then known world
| taxed to furnish the splendor of the
| mosque, and. many of the great blocks
Of stone brought from Alexandria. from
! Marbles veined and starred n striped
and interlaced; and the whole building
adorned with depths of blue, and white
| ness of snow. and glow of fire, until al