Woodruff County news., 1901-09-19

that has 10000 Ioayes will have throngs, throngs, throngs.
 Oh my brethren in the Christian ministry, we must somehow get our shoulders under the burden of the people on the Lords day and give them a good stout lift, and we can do it. We have it all our own way. It is a great pity if with the floor clear and no interruption, we cannot dur ing the course of an hour get our hymn or our prayer or our sermon under such momentum we can, by the help of God, lift the people, body, mind and soul, clear out of their sins, tempta tions and troubles.
 Why should we go away to get an illustration of the vicarious suffering of Jesus Christ when at Bloomfield, N. J., two little children were walk ing on the rail track and a train was coming; but they were on a bridge of trestleworlz, and the little girl took her brother and let him down through the trestlework as gently as she could toward the water, very carefully and lovingly and cautious ly, so that he might not be hurt in the fall and might be picked up by those who were standing near by; while doing that the train struck her, and hardly enough of her body was left to gather into a funeral casket? What was that? Vicarious suffering. Like Christ. Fang for oth- CTS. Woe for others. Suffering for
  the use of our going away off to find an illustration in past ages when in Michigan a mail carrier on horse back, riding on, pursued by those flames which had swept over a hun- dred miles, saw an old man by the roadside, dismounted, helped the old man on the horse, saying: "Now, whip up and get away?" The old man got away, but the mail carrier perished. Just like Christ dismount- ing from the glories of Heaven, to put us on the way of deliverance, then falling back in the flames of sacrifice for others. Pang for others. Woe for others. Death for others. Vicarious suffering. What is the use
 
 tory to find an illustration of the fact that it is dangerous to defy God when in the Adirondacks I saw flash of lightning and bolt so vivid I said: "That struck something very near?" A few hours afterward we found that two farmers that Monday morning had been seated under tree, the one boasting how that the day before-on the Lords day-he had got his hay in and so cheated the Lord out of that part of the time anyhow, and both of them laughing over the achievement by which they had wronged the Lord of His holy day, when the lightning struck one dead instantly, and the other had been two weeks in bed when we left the Adirondacks and has become an invalid, l suppose, for life. He did not make as much out of the Lord as he thought he did. Was it any less an illustration for my soul because I met the clergyman on his way home from the funeral, and he told me of the facts and said the body of the man who had been destroyed was black with the electricity?
 o Christian workers, we have got to freshen up. What is the use of our going back in the Christian clas sics to find an illustration of the vic- torious Christian deathbed when my personal friend, Alfred Goodman, a few years ago went away in as i'm perial grandeur as did Edward Pay son? Is it any less an illustration to me and to you because 1 met him a few weeks before in front of Trinity church, Broadway, and I said: Goodman, you look as if you were working too hard?" Where in all the classics is there such story as that of Goodman when, in his last moment, he cried: T am sweeping through the gates washed in the blood of the Lamb?"
 Oh, fellow Christian workers, what is the use of our being stale and obsolete and ancient when all around us are these evidences of Gods grace, Gods deIiverance, Gods mercy and Gods wisdom? We have got to freshen up in our sermons, freshen up in our songs, freshen up in our zeal, freshen up in our consecra ton, and if we do it, my brethren and sisters, we will no more have to coax people to come to church than if you throw corn on the ground you have to coax pigeons to come and eat it, no more than you would have to coax a tired horse to eat oats you throw in his manager. Yes, we must freshen up in our Sunday schools and in our prayer meetings and in our pulpits.
 It is high time that the church of God stopped writing apologies for the