The weekly examiner., 1901-07-06

afford an outshining equipage, but
 what an example he is to the young. what an honor to his household. what pillar to the church of God, what specimen of truth and integrity and all
 roundness of character! Is there any
 comparison in usefulness between
 that man with the one talent of hon.
 esty and the dashing operators of the
 money market?
 The chief work of the people with
 many talents is to excite wonderment and to startle and electrify the world. What use is there in all that? No use at all. have not so much interest in the one man out of the million as I have in the million. Get the great masses of the world right and it does not make much difference about what the exceptional people are doing.
 Have all the people with one talent en-
 listed for God and righteousness, and
 let all those with five or ten talents mi
 grate to the north star or the moon,
 and this world would get on splendid
 ly. The hardworking, industrious
 classes of America are all right and
 would give no trouble, but it is the
 genius who gives up work and on big salary goes around to excite dis
 satisfaction and embr roilment, the
 genius who quits work and steps on the stage or political platform, eats beafsteak and quail on toast and causes the common laborers, com pelled to idleness, to put their hands into empty pockets and eat gristle and gnaw bones. The world would be 5rr1,+ z s+ IL off about 5000 geniuses, for there are more than that on our planet. Then the man or woman of one talent would
 take possession of the world and rule it in common sense and Christian way. There would be less to amaze and startle, but more to give equipoise
 to church and state and world. 'sTo another one"
 Among the '114,00o words of Noah Webster's vocabulary and the thou sands of words since then added to our English vocabulary there is one out mastering word the power of which cannot be estimated, and it reaches so far up and so far down, and that is the word "come." It has drawn more peo- pie away from the wrong and toward the right than any word I now think of. It has at times crowded all the 12 gates of Heaven with fresh arriv- als. It will yet rob the path of death of the last pedestrians. It will yet chime so loudly and gladly that all the tolling bells of sorrow will be drowned with the music. It is piled up in the Bibles climax and peroration: "And the Spirit and the bride say. Come, and let him that heareth say, Come and let him that is athirst come" Have it on the point of your pen, have it on the tip of your tongue. Monosyllables are mightier than polysy1lables, and that word scome" is the mightiest of mon osyllables.
 After the resurrection day and all Heaven is made up, resurrected bod ies joined to ransomed souls, and the shut there may be some day when all the redeemed may pass in review before the great white throne. If so, I think the hosts passing before the King will move in different divisions. With the first division will pass the mighty ones of earth who were as good and useful as tEey were great. In this division will pass before the throne all the Martin Luthers, the John Knoxes, the Wesleys, the Rich ard Cecils, the Miltons, the Chrysos- toms, the Herschells, the Lenoxes, the George Peabodys, the Abbot Law rences and all the consecrated Chris tian men and women who were great in literature, in law, in medicine, in philosophy, in commerce. Their genius never spoiled them. They were as humble as they were gifted or opulent. They were great on earth, and now they are great in Heaven. Their surpassing and mag nifcent talents were all used for the worlds betterment. As they pass in review, before the King on the great white throne to higher and higher rewards it makes me think of the para ble of the talents: 'sTo another ten.'' I stand and watch the other divisions as they go by, division after division, until the largest of all the divisions comes in sight. It is a hun dred to one, thousand to one, ten thousand to one, larger than the other divisions. It is made up of men who never did anything but sup port their families and give whatever of their limited means they could spare for the relief of poverty and sickness and the salvation of the world, mothers who took good care of children by example and precept starting them on the road to Heaven, millions of Sabbath school teachers who sacrificed an afternoons siesta for the listening class of yos-1g inn mortals, women who declined the making of homes for themselves that they might take care of father and mother in the weaknesses of old age. ministers of the Gospel who on nig- gardly stipend preached in the back woods, meeting houses, souls who for long years did nothing but suffer, yet suffered with so much cheerful pa tiance that if hecame a belnf,,I lac