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d.rlr, are admirable when duty call,.

God. l admire the David OF ms text
as he suppresses himself and enters the
gate OF his castle as much as | admire
him when with his four fingers and
thumb clutched into the grizzly locks
OF Goiisth's head. which he had d. capi-
lated. and Saul admiringly asks:
Whose son art thou. young mar 2" and
David. Flushing with genuine mo2esty,
~respoVds: 81 am the son of thy servant,
Jesse, the Bethlehemite."
Oh, the world needs a day of iudy.
ment TO give many OF the stay at homes
proper recognition. In the different
wars the sons wen to the front and on
ships deck or battlefield exposed their
lives and earned the admiration OF the
country. But how about the mothers
and fathers who through long years
taught those sons the noble sentiments
that inspired them to go and Their gave
them up. when perhaps a few words of
earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and IN the homesteado The
day of final reward will reveal the self
sacrifice and the fidelity of thousands
who never in all their lives received one
word of praise. Oh. We unknown. We
faithful and Christian and all enduring
stay at homes. | have no power now to
do you justice. but ! tell you of one who
has the power. and of the day when He
will put it forth. 1t will be the dav
when The thimble, and the ladie, and the
II y, ,.r ,,naItn n,I tla .,- I.,l ..1
the spinning wheel, and the scythn. and
the ~,hrashing machine, and the ham.
mer. aud the trowel. and the plow, will
come to as high an a~ppreciation.as Il
'4-ponnder, or the sword. or the batter.
ing ram that pounded down the wall.
or the flag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
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. andif
not able. like David. to be worth TO- goo
times more than others. YOU can COM
inand 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, substi- |
tute your fidelity for their derel'ction 4
and default. In any church there are |
ten members worth all the other 1000. |
In every great business firm there is /
one man worth the other three part |
ners. In every legislative hall. state or |
rational. there are five men worth all
the other so or 100. Take the sGgges-
ton of my text and augment yoarself.
Make your one talent do the wLrk of
two, or your five talents do the work of |
ten, or your ten talents do the work Of
70 Multiply your words of ehcour-
agement. Multiply the number Of
boosts you can give TO those VITO are
trying to climb. Instead OF being one
man in a battalion, by your faith in
God and new conservation he a whole
regiment. | like the question of ID gen.
eral of a small army when some one
was counting the number of officers
and soldiers of the opposing force and
the small number of their own army, |
and the general cried out in indigna-
ton: How many do you take me 10
be" David was 10000 men. You
ought to be at least two men in this
battle for God and Righteousness.
The daily papers say that my old
friend Jeremiah c. Lanphier. of New
York, is dead at 80 years of age. But
they are mistaken. That man car new
er die. He will live as long as Heaven
lives. He was the father of vitalized, |
visiied and arousing prayer meetings.
He established the MONDAY Fulton
street prayer meeting. famous through
out Christendom. and more honcred of
God than any devotional meeting since
the world began. He introduced the
little bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were prolix or exh%ortantions too long
winded. Finding that many BIT ,iness
men are from II noon TO one o'clock
at comparative leisure. he widely n
nonnced that at 12 O'Clock of the 2a3d OF
September, 1857, there would |, yin a
prayer meeting of one hour in the small
upper room of the Reformed church
on Fulton street, New York. Lanphier
went to that room at IL o'clock and sat
alone. AT 1880 a man entered and
Others came until there were siX wor-
shippers present. The meeting m the
following MONDAY numbered 25, ard
the mex day 40. Then the meeting be.
came too large for the room. and it was
taken into the main auditorium, and
for Al years that service has been the