The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-02-16

N"' PHHsica4 hearing. Our sliritua
taste ought TO be as clear as our tongue
SamSons in body. we ought 10 be giant,
IN moral power.
hut while YOU find a great many mel
VINO realize tha, they ought 10 use theil
money Alright and use their irtelligepc,
afisEt how few men YOU find aware O,
the fact that they ought to use ,heil
physical organism Alright. With ever,
thunp of the heart there is sometime
saying: Work. work" and lest VT
should complain that we have no tools
to work with God gives us our hands
ana feet, with every knucklc ard with
every joint and with every muscle.
saying 10 us: Lay hold and do some.
thing"
But how often il is that men with
physical strength do not serve Christ.
They are like a ship full marred and
full rugged. capable of vast tonnage.
able to endure all stress of weather,
Yet swinging idly at the docks. when
these men ought to be crossing and re-
crossing the great ocean of human SUI
fering and sin with Gods supplies of
merry. How often ii is that physical
strength is used in doing positive dam
age or IN luxurious ease, wien, with
sleeves rolled up and brorzed bosom.
fearless Of the shafts CT oUnosition,. it
onght to be laying hold with all its
-.
might and Juggling away to lift up this
suhken wreck of a WORLD.
1t Is a most shameful fact that much
Of the business of the church and Of the
world must be done by those compare
tlNflN Invalid. Richard Baxter, by rea-
son OF hlS diseases. all his days sitting
IN the door Of his tomb, yet writing
more than 100 volumes and scndirg out
influence for God that will endure
"SIohga>the saints Everlasting Rest
td"aro PoNSon, never knowing a well
"aN' yet how he preached ard how he
wrote, helpirg thon,ands Of dying
souls Ike himself to swim in the sea Of
glory. And Robert McCheyre, a walk
n%~skcieton, Yet NoT know what he did
m Dundee and ho" he shook Scotland
'ith yea! for God. Philip Doddridge,
by his friends BECAUSE Of his H.
ness not to enter the ministry, yet You
>hoW what he did for the Rise and
'rogreSs of Religion in the church of
ne world.
1t Is nor the small. weak men Of the
'aH WHO 90 the damage. These small
nen who 90 swearing and loating about
our stores ana shops and banking
lonSes. aSSaillng Christ ard the Bible
me chufch-theV 90 not do the
Ianla@e' lhrE have confluence. They
re vermin that you crush with your
0 But II Is the giants OF the day.
misguided giants. giants in physic-
power, or giants in mental acumcn,
r giants IN social position, or giants in
who do the damage-the men
nm sharp pens that stab religion and
their poison all through Il lit
nature, me men VINO use the power of
'ea'th to sanction %irlquity and bride
and make truth and honor bow
their golden sccpter. Misguided gi-
out forthem! In the middle
latter part of the last century NJ
cunt there were thousands of men in
and Edinburgh and London who
ated Goo and ~bsaSphemcd the name Of
le Almighty: but they did but little
l~srhief-thcy were small men. insig-
lticant men. Yet there were giants in
nose days. Who can calculate the soul
woe OF a Rousseau. going on with a
Try enthusiasm of iniquity. with fiery
SEEING upon all the impul-
We natures OF his cay or David Hume.
no employed his life as a spider en-
oys its m in spinning out silk
webs &c trap the unwarN. or Noltaire.
g most earned mar OF his day. mar
aI,nr a great host OF sk'ptics ard
idlng them mi in III" dark land ofin- {
or GIbbon' who showed m I'M i
%rudge against religion in $
history OF n OF the most f%aScinat- !
2 PERIODS OF the worlds existence
ne ns''lhe ana ran OF the homan ,
np're Il DOCK III winch with all the 4
'eno"r OF ms genus ne magnlfled the y
'orS OF 'ffIs1'an dlsclples' Whiie with +
P~arFeneSs 0 not'ce mat never can be @
given ne 'rea'eo OF 'he 'hr'stlan he i,
: OF VINO" 'he world was not
run! "
H. n'n VI s'o"' Ph|s'cai health, n
y VI great i'eh'a' stature men OF G.
Z" S'''"i Pos''ioh' men OF great pow n
', any SUN ""n' you 10 "hder- ST
III !o"' power ana ! want you 10 /,
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pe crown on ear'h' 70 you typical It,
" cro"h III fiea'en, h", misguided \,
raegied IN SIN administrative OF
, uod Will thunder against you T.,
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i'oha.Fe ana Pa"Per' master Il or
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