Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-01-06

W tnO AlOnb tfAhV W JSeN
corpses that are now being transported
from the tropics to the national ceme-
teries Of the United States. Exposure
and daring are admirable when duty
calls but keep out of peril when moth
ing practical and useful is to be gained
for your family or your country or your
God ! admire the David Of my text as
he suppresses himself and enters the
gate Of his castle as much as admire
him when with his four fingers and
thumb clutcbed into the grisly locks Of
Goiath's bead. which he had decapi-
tated, and Saul admiringly asks,
"Wbose son art thou, young mani"
and David. bushing with genuine
modesty, responds, 81 am the son Of thy
servant, Jesse, the Bethlehemite. "
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 10, 600
times more than others, you can COM
mand Gods reinforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
twice as much as some others. Pray
twice as much, read twice as much,
give twice as much, go to church twice
as much. Instead Of spending your time
finding fault with others, substitute
your superior fidelity for their derelio
tion 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 90 or 100. Take the sug-
gestion Of my text and augment your
self. Make your one talent DO the work
Of two, or your five talents do the work
Of ten, or your ten talents 10 the work
Of 20. Multiply your words Of enoour-
agement. Multiply the number Of boosts
you can give TO those who are trying to
climb Instead Of being one man in a
battalion by your faith in God and new
conservation be a whole regiment. l
like the question Of general Of a small
army, when some one was counting the
number Of officers and soldiers Of the
opposing forces and the small number
of their own army, and the general
cried out in indignation, "How many
do you take me to be-" David was 10.-
600 men. You ought to be at least two
men in this battle for God and right
eousness.
The daily papers say that my old
friend jeremiah G. Lanpbier Of New
York is dead at 90 years Of aga But
they are mistaken. That man can never
die. He will live as long as heaven
lives. He was the father Of yitalized,
vivifed aud arousing prayer meetings.
He established the noonday Fulton
street prayer meeting. famous through
out Christendom and more honored of
God than any devotional meeting since
the world began. He introduced the lit
tie bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were too prolif or exhortations too long
winded. Finding that many business
men are from ~ noon TO o'clock at
comparative leisure, he widely announc-
ed that at ~ o'clock Of 23d Of septem-
Der, 1857, there would begin prayer
meeting Of one hour in the small upper
room Of the Reformed church. Oh Full
ton street, New York. Lanphier went
to that room at IL O'Clock and sat alone.
At half past l2 a man entered, and 9th
ers came until there were six worship.
ers present. The meeting on the follow
ing 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 II
years that service has been the religious
center Of Christendom. Requests for
prayer from all parts of the earth have
come there. and the prayers offered been
answered sometimes with a resound
that was heard throughout Christen'
dom. Hundreds of thousands of souls
have stepped into that Bethesda and
been healed That meeting started the
great revival of 1858, in which it is es'
timated 500, 600 souls were converted
When Monday morning, Dec. 26, bis
soul ascended, | think he was met at
the gate of heaven by a welcoming
throng as mighty as that which has
greeted any admitted soul for five cen
turies Humble aud without any pre-
tension and without anything brilliant
in his make up, through faith in Cod
and concentrated prayer he shook tbs
earth and enraptured the heavens he
was worth 10000. yea 100, 600, ordinary
Christian workers. Dear old friend
Lanuhier, how loved you!
Worth Ten Thousand.
When the consul general came in his
official row boat TO take US off our great
steamer in the harbor Of Constantinople.
there were many things ! wanted to see
in that city of mul,ilorm enchantmen,s,
but most of all was anxious to see that
charm of the ages, the
st. Sophia-once a church, but now
mosque. | do not wonder that when
Lamartine saw il he thanked God and
felt himself lifted into some
other world. What pillars Of porphyry,
aud walls of malachite. and lowering
arches. and galleries which seemed to
save alighted from heaven instead OF
oeing built up from earth Mosaics and
mother of pearl. and seraphim with
wings bediamonded, and dome which
scoops the sky and staggers with its
height and circumference all those VINO
gaze into 1t until they can look no
more, bat each succeeding time you
look il seems higher and wider and
grander and more supernatural. All the
then known world taxed to furnish the
splendor Of the mosque, and many OF
- II .k.ro from