Connecticut western news., 1901-03-21

brought up "Discourses Of Redemp-
ton" Austin Phelps dipped into 1t
and brought up THE Still Hour" Mark
Hopkins dipped into it and brought up
Evidences of Christianity" Thomas
Guthrie dipped into 1t and brought up
1.-THE Gospel In Ezekiel" John Cum
ming dipped into it and brought up
1.-THE Apocalypse" Oh, the opulence Of
Christian literature! Oh, the mighty
streams Of evangelistic power that have
poured from the writer's inkhorn that
appeared in Ezekieps visioni
While you recognize the distinguish
ed ones who have dipped into the ink
stand of the worlds evangelization do
not forget that there are hundreds of
thousands of unknown men and wom-
en- who are engaged in inconspicuous
ways doing the same thing. How
many anxious mothers writing to the
boys in town! How many sisters writ
Ing encouragement to brothers far
away! How many invalids bolstered
up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at
their side, writing letters of coincidence
to those worse off than themselves!
They are flying all the time kind words,
gospel words, helpful words, saving
words. Call the evangelistic inkhorn
into service in the early morning, when
you feel well, and you are grateful for
the protection during your sleeping
hours, and write before you retire at
close of day to those who all night long
will be saying, would to God it were
morningp How many bruised and
n TOD nd Of
earth would be glad to get letter
from you! Stir up that consolatory
inkhorn.
Waiting For Revivals.
All Christendom has been waiting
for great revivals of religion to start
from the pulpits and prayer meetings.
l now suggest that the greatest revival
of all time may start from concerted
and organized movement through the
inkhorns Of all Christendom, each
writer dipping from the inkhorn near
est him letter of gospel invitation,
gospel hope, gospel warning, gospel In
struction. The ink is all ready on a
hundred thousand tables, and beside 1t
are the implements with which to dip
it out. Why not through such process
have millions of souls brought to God
before next summer? By letter you
could make the invitation more effect
i've than by word Of mouth. The invi-
tation from your lips may be argued
back, may evoke querulous reply, may
be answered by a joke, but a good,
warm, gospel letter, written in prayer,
| and started with prayer, and followed
by prayer, will be read over and over
again and cannot be answered in a
frivolous way. 1t will speak from the
| table by day and night, or, IL pettishly
| torn up, will in its scattered fragments
speak louder than when it remained
| whole. Within arms reach of where
you sit there may be fluid that you
may put on wing with message Of light
! and love. Oh, for the swift flying an
| gel Of mercy which Ezekiel saw In
vision with a writer's inkhorn by his
side"
The other angels spoken of in my
| text were destroying angels, and each
had what the Bible calls a slaughter
weapon" in his hand. 1t was lance
or a battleax or q sword. God hasten
the time when the last lance shall be
shivered, and the last battleax dulled,
and the last sword sheathed, never
again to leave the scabbard, and the
angel Of the text, who Matthew Henry
says was the Lord Jesus Christ, shall
from the full inkhorn Of his mercy give
saving call to all nations. That day
| may be far OF, but 1t Is helpful to
think of its coming. AS DR.. Raleigh
| declared that when 80 miles at sea on
the coast Of New England the cattle on
board the ship as well as himself
scented the clover on the New England
hills, 30 we amid all the tossing waves
| Of the worlds controversies inhale the
redolence Of the white lilies Of univer-
sal peace.
Stop Wars Horrors.
| Is it not time that the boosted inven-
ton of new and more explosive and
more widely devastating weapons of
death be stopped forever, and the Cos
pei have a chance, and the question be
not asked, How many shots can be
fired in a minute, but How many souls
/ may be ransomed in day? The world
needs less powder and more grace, few
er fortresses and more churches, less
| power to destroy and more power to
save. oh, am sick of the warcrles,
and the extinguished eyesight, and the
| splintered bones, and the grave trench
es, and the widowhood and orphanage
and childlessness which sob and groan
and die in the wake Of the armies on
both sides Of the sea! Oh, for less of
the slaughter weapon and more Of the
evangelizing inkhorn! Oh, for the stop
| ping of the science Of assassination,
that crime of crimes, that woe of woes,
that horror Of horrors, that hell of
hells-war, which this moment stands
reeking with blood, and washing itself
in tears, and disappearing the heavens,
and pushing off the edge Of this life
| men who have as much right to live as
you and have, and blasting homes In
| which there dwells as much loneliness
as In our ownl Would that the merci-
full angel Of my text might take the last
weapon Of war and fling 1t of and
fling 1t down with such force that II
shall clang on the lowest round Of the
perdition where the first keen edge OF
human strife was sharpened! War! In
the name of Almighty God and of all
the homesteads 1t has destroyed and is
now destroying, 1 hate it. I denounce
it. 1 curse 1t.
Book of Truth.
If our Bible Is true-and no other
book that was. ever printed Is as true
as that book, which Moses began and
John finished-then the time will come
when all the weapons of cruelty will
stop, and the inkhorns Of evangelical
ton will have their way. In the mu-
seums Of the world the carbine and the
cannon and the bomb will be kept as
curiosities, and children will be incred-
ulous as parents tell them that civiliz-
ed nations once employed such instru-
ments Of death and more incredulous
when told by their parents that the ar.
my that killed the most men was con-
sidered the most glorious army. The
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