The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-03-17

aid with eyerv Joint and With evc-v muscle

asd with every joint and wit evc1v muscle
saying to US Lay hold and do something.
But how Often it Is that men with physt.
.cal strength do NOT serve Christ! They are
like u ship full manned and fully riGged
capable OF vast Tonnage, able to endure al
stress OF wc.:heI', yet swinging idly at :he
docks when these men ought to be crossing
and rccrossinS the great ocean OF hHnan
suffering and sin with Gods supplies Of
mercy. How often it il that physicn
strength is used in doing positive damage
or in luxuriens ease, when, with sleeve.
rollod up aai bronzed bosom, fearless .
| the silas.. OF opr sition, 1t ought to bt
laying l~,ld with al its might and Juggling
| away - li:t u this sunken wreck OF
world.
It tisamost shameful fact that much 0
the business OF the church and OF the world
| must be done by those comparatively inva-
lid. Richard Baxter. by reason OF his DIS
| eases, all his days sitting in the door OF the
tomn, yet writing more than one hundred
volumes and sending out ar influence for
Gou that will endure AS long as The
Saints Everlasting Rest;" Edward Payson.
never knowing a we'll day, yet how he
preached and how he wrote, helping thou
snts OF dying souls like hims OF to swim In
4 sea of glory. And Robert MeCheyne,
talking skeleton, vet you know what he
did in Dundee and how he shook Scotland
with zeal tor God; Philip Doddridge, adj
vised by his friends. because Of his illness,
s0t to enter the ministry, yet you know
what he did for TIE Rise and Progress OF
Religion" in tho church ani in the world
Wilberforce was toll by his doctors that
10 could not live a fortnight. yot ut that
very time entering upon philanthropio En-
arprises that demanded the greatest en-.
iurance and persistence; Robert Hall, suf.
'erias excruciations, so that often in tho
1ulp pit while preaching he would stop and
e down on II sofa. then getting up again
. preach about heaven until the giories OF
he celestial city dropped on the multi
.Gde, doing more work. perhaps, than al
most any well man in his day.
Oh, how often is it that men with great
physical endurance are not as great In
moral and spiritual stature! While thers
ire achievements FOR those who are bent
Ill their days with sickness achievement;
u patience, achievements OF Christian en-
!Gran.e-I call upon mon OF health, men
If muscle, men OF nerve, men OF physical
bower, to devote themselves to the Lord.
Behold also, in the story OF my text, H.
ustration OF the fact Of the damage that
trength can do il it be misguided. 1t
GEMS to ne that this man spsnt great
leal of his time in doing evil, this Samson
II my text. To pay u bet which he had
ost by the guessing OF his riddle he ro5s
md kills thirty people. Ee was not only
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;hicf, and q type OF those men in all ages
II the world who, powerful In body or mini
" any faculty OF social position or wealth,
AVE used their strength for iniquitous
purposes.
1t is not tho small, weak mon OF the day
ybo do the damage. These small men who
20 swearing and loafng about your stores
md shops aud banking houses, assaling
Christ and the Bible and tho chureh-thsy
10 not do tho damage. They have no In
luence. They are vormin that you crush
Sith your foot. Bat 1t is tho giants OF the
my, the misguided giants, giants in phys
cal power, or giants in mental acuMen.
u giants In social. position, or giants
II wealth, who do tho damage. The
nen with sharp pens the stab re-
igion and throw poison all through
our literature, the men who uso tie power
II wealth to sanction iriauity and bribe
ustice and make truth md honor bow to
heir golden scepter. Misguided giants
ook out for them! In the middle and lat
:er part Of tho last century no doubt there
we're thousands Of mon in Ps,is and Edin-
3urRb eni Lon IN wlA hated God and
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