The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-02-14
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our tongue. Samsons in body, we ought
to be giants in moral power
But while you find great many men
who realize that they ought to use their.
money Alright and use their intelligence
Alright how few men you find aware OF
the fact that they ought to use their
physical organism Alright. With every
thump of the heart there is something
saying Work, work. and lest we
should complain that we have no tools to
work with God gives us our hands and
feet, with every knuckle and with every
joint and with every muscle, saying to us,
Lay hold and do something"
But how often it is that men with ply
steal strength do not serve Christ. They
are like ship full manned and full rig
ged. capable of vast tonnage, able to en-
dure all stress of weather, yet swinging
idly at the docks, when these men ought
to be crossing and recrossing the great
ocean Of human suffering and sin with
Gods supplies Of mercy. How often it
is that physical strength is used in doing
positive damage or in luxurious ease,
when, with sleeves rolled up and bronzed
bosom, fearless of the shafts of opposi-
ton, it ought to be laying hold with all
it's might and Juggling away to lift up this
sunken wreck of world.
Giants in Body and Soul.
Wherefore was told by his doctors
that he could not live fortnight, yet at
that very time entering upon philanthropy
ic enterprises that demanded the great
est endurance and perseverance, Robert
Hall, suffering excruciations so that often
in his pulpit while preaching he would
stop and lie down on a sofa, then getting
up again to preach about heaven until the
glories Of the celestial city dropped on the
multitude, doing more work perhaps than
almost any well man in his day.
Oh, how often it is that men with great
physical endurance are not as great in
moral and spiritual stature. While there
are achievements for those who are bent
all their days with sicSness-achieve
ments of patience, achievements of Chris
tian endurance call upon men of
health, men of muscle, men of nerve, men
of physical power, to devote themselves
to the Lord. Giants in body, you ought
to be giants in soul.
Behold also in the story Of my text il
lustration of the fact of the damage that
strength can do If it be misguided. 1t
seems to me that this man spent Il great
deal of his time in doing evil-this Sam
son of my text. TO pay bet which he
had lost by the guessing of his riddle he
robs and kills thirty people. He was not
only gigantic in strength, but gigantic in
mischief and type of those men in all
ages of the world who, powerful in body
or mind or any faculty of social position
or wealth, have used their strength for
Ubiquitous purposes.
1t is not the small, weak men of the
day who do the damage. These small
men who go swearing and loafing about
your stores and shops and banking
houses, assailing Christ and the Bible and
the church-they do not do the damage
They have no influence. They are vermin
that you crush with your foot. But it is
the giants Of the day, the misguided gil
ants, giants III physical power, or giants
IN mental acumen, or giants in social po-
sltlon, or giants in wealth. who do the
damage-the men with sharp pens that
stab religion and throw their poison all
through our literature, the men who use
the power Of wealth to sanction iniquity
and bride justice, and make truth and
honor bow to their golden scepter. Mis-
guided giants-look out for them, In the
middle and latter part of the last century
no doubt there were thousands of men
in Paris and Edinburgh and London who
hated God and blasphemed the name of
the Almighty; but they did but little mis-
chief-they were small men, insignificant
men. Yet there were giants in those
days. Who can calculate the soul havoc
of Rousseau, going on with very en-
thuslasm of iniquity, with fiery magma
ton selzlng upon all the impulsive ma
lures of his day, or David Hume, who
employed his life as a spider employs it's
summer, in spinning out silken webs to
trap the unwary, or Voltaire, the most
learned man of his day. marshaling a
great host of skeptics and leading them
out In the dark land of infidelity, or Glib
bon, who showed an uncomfortable
grudge against religion in his history of
one OF the most fascinating periods of the
worlds existence-'The Decline and Fall
Of the Roman Empire''-a book in which
with all the splendors of his genius, he
magnihed the errors of Christian disci-
pies, while with a sparseness of notice
that never can be forgiven he treated of
was not worthy?
Understanding Ones Power,
Oh, men of stout physical health, men
of great mental stature, men of high So
clal position, men of great power of any
sort, want you to understand your pow
er, and l want you to know that that
power devoted to God will be crown on
earth, to you typical of a crown in heav-
en-, but misguided, bedraggIed in sin, adj
ministratiye of evil, God will thunder
against you with his condemnation in the
day when millionaire and pauper, master
and slave, king and subject, shall stand
side by side in the Judgment and money
bags and judicial ermine and royal robe
shall be riven with the lightnings.
Behold also how q giant may be slain
of woman. Delilah started the train of
circumstances that pulled down the tenn
pie of DagOn about Samson's ears. And
tens of thousands of giants have gone
down to death and hell through the same
destinations. 1t seems to me that it is
high time that pulpit and platform and
printing press speak out against the i'm
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