St. Tammany farmer., 1901-04-20
the wfsos<s inkhorA thai sRs
n Rzekiel's vis1ool

While you recognise the d
eui.hed ones who have dipped into
the inkstand Of the worlds evsn& e
tion do net forget that there are nu.
dreds Of thousands Of unknown men
and women who are engaged n m
conspicuous ways doing the ssn
thing! How many anxious mother.
writing to the boys in town. nov
manv sisters writing encouragement
to brothers far away! How many ~
valids bolstered up in bed, the inAnoL.
ON the stand at their side, writing ies.
tiers of coincidence to tAbss worss O.
than themselves! They are hying IA
the time kind words, gosPei wo
helpful words, saving words. eA -
evangelistic inkhorn into service =,
the early morning, when You feel 49,
and you are grateful for the prof.
tion during your sleeping hour =.
write before you retire at close OF oeS
to those who all night long viii % ~
ing: would to God it were MORN
ing!" How many bruised and ois
pointed and wronged souls OF ea1'n
would be glad to get q letter from y0u'
Stir up that consolatory inkhorn.
All Christendom has been waaune
for great revivals Of religion to stars
from the pulpits and prayer meet
ings. I now suggest that tns
greatest revival Of all time may
start . concerted and ORGANISE
movement through the hkhorns
of all Christendom. each writer uP-
ping from the inkhorn nearest h1m =
letter of gospel invitation. gosPea
hope. gospel warning. gospel I'M
struction. The ink in al ready on
hundred thousand tables, and bes1de
it are the implements with whicn 70
dip it out. Why not. through sucn
process, have millions Of souls brougns
to God before next summer? BY let
ter you could make the invitation
more effective than by word OF mouth.
The invitation from your lips may d
argued back, may evoke querulous
reply, may be answered by joke, bus
. good, warm. gospel letter. writtenis
prayer and started with prayer ane
followed by prayer, will be read owes
and over again and cannot be an
swered in . frivolous way. 1t viii
speak from the table by day and night
or, if pettishly torn up. viii. In its
scattered fragments, speak louder
than when it remained whole. Within
arms reach Of where you nit there
may be . fluid that you may put ON
wing with message Of light and love.
The other angels spoken Of in my
text were destroying angels, and each
had what the Bible calls "slaugh-
ter weapon" in his hand. II was
lance or battleax or . sword. God
hasten the time when the last lance
shall be shivered and the last bat
tleax dulled and the last sword
sheathed, never again to leave tho
scabbard, and the angel OF the text.
who. Matthew Henry says. vas ths-
Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from the
full inkhorn Of His mercy, give . ssv.
ing call to all nations. That day may.
be far on, but it il helpful to think
Of its coming. Al DR.. Raleigh de-
clared that when so miles ct sea
cn the coast Of New England the
cattle on board the ship, ~ well n
himself, scented the clover ON the
New England hills, 80 we. amid al
the tossing waves Of the. worlds con-
troversies, inhale the redolence Of the
white lilies Of universal peace. Il
it not time that the boasted inven-
ton Of new and more explosive and
more widely Devastating weapons Of
death be stopped forever and the
Gospel have chance and the ques-
tion be not asked: "How many shots
can be fired in . minute?" but 'How
many souls may be ransomed In .
day?" The world needs less powder
and more grace, fewer fortresses and
more churches, less power to destroy
and more power to save. Oh, am
sick Of the war cries and the extin-
guished eyesight and the splntered
bones and the grave trenches 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 inkhornl Oh.
for the stopping of, the science Of
assassination, that crime Of crimes.
that woe of woes, that horror Of hor.
rors, that hell of hells-war, which
this moment stands reeking with
blood and washing itself in tears
and blaspheming the heavens and
pushing OF the edge of this life men
who have as much right to live ~
you and I have and blasting homes
in which there dwells N much lowell
ness as in our own! Would that the
merciful angel Of my text take the
last weapon Of war and fling it OF
and fling it down with such force
that it 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 home
steads it has destroyed and il now
destroying, hate it, I denounce 1t.
I curse it!
II our Bible is true-and no other
book that WAS ever printed IL ~
true as that book, which Moses be-
gan and John Anished-then the time
Will COAuC WHEEL 0AA tAAC WG0RO08 V1
cruelty will stop and the inkhorns
of evangelization will have their way.
In the museums of the world the
carbine and the cannon and the bomb
will be kept AZ curiosities, and chill
dren will be incredulous a. parents
tell them that civilized nations once
employed such instruments of death
and more incredulous when told by
their parents that the army that
killed the most men was considered
the most glorious army. The red
horse Of carnage that St. John saw
in vision, and the black horse OF
famine, and the pale horse Of death
will be stabbed, and the white horse
of prosperity and peace, mounted by
the King Of Kings, win lead the
great army with banners. Through
the convicting. converting, sanctify-
ing power Of the Eternal Spirit may
we all march in that procession.
Hail, thou Mighty Rider Of the white
horse in the final triumph! Sweep
down and sweep by, thou Angel Of