The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-17

our physical hearing. Our splrltual
taste ought to be as clear as our tongue
Samsons in body, we ought to be giants
in moral power.
Idt while yca And c great many mon
who realize that they ought to use their
money Alright and use their intelligence
Alright how few men you find aware OF
4he fact that they ought to use their
physical organism Alright. With every
thump of the heart there is something
saving: "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,
saving to us: Lay hold and do some
thing"
But how often it is that men with
physical strength do not serve Christ.
| They are like ship full manned and
full rugged, capable of vast tonnage,
able to endure all stress of weather,
vet swinging idly at the docks, when
these men ought to be crossing and re-
crossing the great ocean of human sur
fering and sin with Gods supplies OF
mercy. How often it is that physlcal
strength is used in doing positive dam
age or in luxurious ease, when, with
sleeves rolled up and bronzed bosom,
fearless of the shafts of opposition, II
ought to be laying hold with all its
might and Juggling away to lit up TINS
sunken wreck of world.
1t is a most shameful fact that much
| 90 4lrNf h,,1,0h and of the
world must be done by those compare
lively invalid Richard Baxter, by rea-
son of his diseases. all his days sitting
in the door of his tomb, yet writing
more than 100 volumes and sending out
an influence for God that will endure
oslonpas the Saints Everlasting Rest
Edward Payson, never knowing a wei!
dav. vet how he preached and how he
wrote, helping Thousands OF dying
souls like himself to swim in the sea OF
glory. And Robert McCheyne, walk
ing skeleton. yet you know what he dld
in Dundee and how he shook Scotland
with yea! for God. Philip Doddridge'
advised by his friends because OF his III
ness not to enter the ministry. yet you
know what he did for the "Rise and
Progress of Religion" in the church OF
the world.
It is not the small, weak men of the
dav who do the damage. These small
men who 90 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 giants. giants in physic
al power, or giants in mental acumen
or giants in social position, or giants in
wealth, who do the damage--the mer
with sharp pens that stab religion anc
throw their poison all through our lit
erature, the men who use the power o.
wealth to sanction iniquity and bride
Justice. and make truth and honor bow
to their golden scepter. Misguided 81
l ants-look out for them! In the middle
and latter part of the last century M
doubt there were thousands of men il
e Paris and Edinburgh and London WHIT
S hated God and blasphemed the name o
the Almighty; but they did but littl
E nlischief-they were small men, inslg
/. nificant men. Yet there were giants il
:, those days. Who can calculate the sou
: havoc of a Rousseau, going on with
n very enthusiasm of iniquity, with fer,
I Imagination Selling upon all the impul
i sive natures of his day, or David Hume
! who employed his life as spider EN-
e ploys its summer, in spinning out silk
r en- webs to trap the unwary, or Noltaire
e the most learned man of his day. mar
S shaling a great host Of skeptics ant
e leading them out in the dark land OF in
fidelity. or Gibbon, who showed an un
n comfortable grudge against religion il
IL his history of one of the most fascinat
{ ing periods of the worlds existence
= "The Decline and Fall of the Roma
" Empire"-a book in which, with all tn
It splendor of his genius, he magnified tn
# errors of Christian disciples, while wit
" sparseness of notice that never can b
h forgiven he treated of the Christian he
d roes of whom the world was no
q worthy?
II oh, men of stout physical health
e men of great mental stature, men
It high social position, men of great pow
IS er of any sort, want you to under
J. stand your power, and want you t
" know that that power devoted to Go
D. will be a crown on earth, to you typict
): of a crown in Heaven. but misguided
l. bedraggled in sin, administrative c
p, evil, God will thunder against yo
n with His condemnation in the day whe
millionaire and pauper, master an
v slave, king and subject, shall stan
m side by side in the judgment an
q money bags and judicial ermine an
a. royal robe shall be riven with the ligh
1t nings.
is The trouble is that when people writ
h or speak upon this theme they are az
" to cover it up with the graces of belle
l. lettres, so that the crime is made a
le tractive, instead of repulsive. Lord b.
V. ron in Don Juan" adorns this erin
d, until it smiles like May queen. Micl
elet, the great French writer, covers
If up with bewitching rhetoric until
Of g!ows like the rising sum- when it ougf
To to be made loathsome as smallpox no
Il pital. There are to-day influence
ID abroad which, if unresisted by the pu
tv pit and the printing press, will tur
g our modern cities into Sodoms and G.
s. morrahs, fit only for the storm of I'll
re and birthstone that whelmed the citit
d. of the plain.
Of You who are seated in your Christia