The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-06-07

- - .-tr+--t fNNAAN w, LNk Always lln-
prove the disposition. and there are a
great many dlsagreeabie folks Some OF
them forget that they were ever vouns
themselves, and they become untidy in
their habits and wonder how. when their
asthma or rheumatism Is 20 bad. other
people can laugh or sing and 90 on as they
DO. The daughter IN that family bears
cu the peevshness and unreasonable be-
haylor OF senlkty without answering back
or making any kind OF complaint. Ii YOU
should ask her what her five talents are
or her one talent Is, she would answer
that she has no talent at all Greatly
mistaken Is she. Her one talent is 70
forbear and treat the childishness of the
old a. well As she treats the childishness
oI the young. She Is no musician, and be-
sides there may not be a piano in the
house. She cannot skil,fully swing a Gro.
quet mallet or golf stick Indeed, she
seems shut IN 20 see what she can do
with a ladle and broom and brush and
other household implements. She is the
personlheatlon OF patience, and her re
ward VIII be as long as heaven. Indeed,
much Of her reward may be given on earth.
She IL IN a rough college, from which she
may after awhile graduate into brightest
domesticity. She Is heroine, though at
present she may receive nothing but
scoldlng and depreciation Her one talent
OF patience under trial will do mere good
than many morocco covered sermons on
patience preached to-doy from the tas.
seled cushion of the pulpit.
Is your talent that or persuasion? Make
good Use of it. We all have il 10 some
extent, vet none OF US think of il as a
talent. But it Is the mightiest Of talents
DO You know that this one talent will
fetch the world back to God? Do YOU know
II Is the mightiest talent of the high
heavens: Do. yol know that 1t is the one
talent chiefly employed bv all the angels
OF God when they descend 70 our world
the talent of persuasion?
DO you realize that the rough lumber
lifted into cross on the hill back of
Jerusalem was in persuasion as we'll as
sacrifice? That is the only, absolutely the
only, persuasion that will ever induce the
human race TO stop its march toward the
city OF destruction and wheel around and
start for the city Of light. Now may the
Lord this monent show each one of us
that TO a greater or less extent we have
one talent Of persuasion and impel US to
the right use OF it,
You say you cannot preach n sermon
but cannot you persuade some one 10 go
and hear a sermon? You say you cannot
sing, but cannot you persuade some one
TO 60 and hear the choir chant on Christ.
mas or Easter morning? Send a bunch Of
flowers TO that invalid in the hospital,
with a message about the land where the
inhabitants never say. Il am sick"
There is a child of the street Invite
him into the mission school. There is a
man who has lost his fortune in specula.
ton. Instead of ieerlnc at his fall 60 and
tell him of riches that never take wings
and fy away. Buckle on that one talent
OF persuasion, O man. q woman. and
YOU will do a work that heaven will cele-
brate 10000 wears.
Among the ll4,O00 words OF Noah Web
ster's vocabulary and the thousands Of
words since then added TO our English
vocabulary there is one administering
word the power of which cannot be es-
timated, and II reaches so far up and so
far down, and that is the word come"
IL has drawn more people away from the
wrong and toward the right than any
word ] now think of. It has at times
crowded all the twelve gates of heaven
with fresh arrivals. II will yet rob the
path of death OF the last pedestrians. II
will vet chime so loudly and gladly that
all the toiling bells of sorrow will be
drowned with the music. II is piled up in
the Bibles climax and peroration, "And
the spirit and the bride say come, and
let him that heareth saw come, and let
him that is athirst come" Have II on the
point OF your Den, have IL on the tip of
your tongue. Monosylab.es are mightier
than polysylables. and that word come"
Is the mightiest of monosyllables Shakes
peare says of one OF his characters, "She
speaks poniards, and every word stabs." F"
We may say OF others, they speak words
which are Of balm and music. are light and
life Master one Of those words, harness
one of those words project one OF those
words prove the full pient!tude and row
er of one of those words
II YOU cannot do anything else. 60
around and feel sorry Tor somebody. When
some one asked. What is the secret of
William Wilberforce's power?' the an.
swer was, His power OF sympathy" And
there are 100000 people who have the
same qualification If they only knew It.
Sympathy! II you cannot restore the
child % that bereft parent or the fortune
20 that bankrupt hnancier or health 70
that confirmed invalid or an honorable
name TO that wrecked character, yol can
at least feel sorry for the misfortune or
the bereavement OF the suffering.
Sympathy If YOU have not the means
to do anything else. go and sat down and
cry with them. That is the wav Christ
did when He went out TO the desolated
home in Bethany and the sisters told
their sad story. He cried with them. Oh,
cultivate that one talent of sympathy!
After the resurrection day aud all heav.
en- Is made up. resurrected bodies Joined 10
ransomed souls, and the gates which were
so long open are shut. there may be some
day when all the redeemed may pass in
review before the great white throne. IL
90. | 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 use.
ful as they were yrcat. In this division
will pass before the throne all the Martin
Luthers, the John Knoxes, the Wesleys,
the Richard Cecis, the Millions. the
Chrysostoms. the Herschells, the Lenoxes,
the George Peabodys, the Abbott Law
rences and all the consecrated Christian
men and women whQ were great IN iitera-
ture, in law, IN medicine, in philosophy,
IN commerce Their genius never spoiled
them They were as humble as they
we're gifted or opu!ent They were gr-at
on earth. and now they are great in heav-
en- Their surprising and magnihcen; tai
ents were all used for the worlds better
meat As they pass IN review before the
King on the great white throne TO higher
and higher rewards II makes me think OF
the parable of the talents, 10 another
ten" | stand and watch the other divl'
sions "a they 20 By, division after dlyl-
SION until the largest ot all the divisions
comes in sight. IL IL a hundred to one, a
thousand 20 one, ten thousand 70 one,
larger than the other divisions. II ~
made up OF men who never did anything
but support their families and give what.
ever Of their limited means they could
spare for the relief OF poverty and sick
ness and the salvation o. the world, moth
ers who took good care Of children by
example and preceut starting them on the
road % heaven. millions % Sabbath-school
teachers who sacrificed an afternoon .
sicsta for the listening class Of young i'm
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
g7spel who on nivzarily stipend preached
in the backwood meeting hoIses, souls
who for long wears did nothing bat sui