The Yale expositor., 1901-06-07

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 moment show
each one of us that to greater or
less extent we have that one talent OF
persuasion and impel us to the right
use OF it. You say you cannot preach
sermon, but cannot you persuade
someone TO go and hear a sermon?
You say you cannot sing, but cannot
you persuade some one to go and hear
the choir chant on Christmas or Eas-
ter morning? Send bunch of flowers
to that invalid in the hospital, with a
message about the land where the in
habitants never say Il am sick" There
is child of the street. Invite him into
the mission school. There is a man
who has lost his fortune in speculation.
Instead of jeering at his fall go and
tell him OF riches that never take
wings and fly away. Buckle on that
one talent OF persuasion, o man, wo-
man, and you will do a work that
heaven will celebrate 10000 years.
The Final Review.
After the resurrection day and all
heaven is made up, resurrected bodies
Joined to ransomed souls, and the gates
which were so long open are shut there
may be some day when all the redeem
ed may pass in review before the great
white throne. If so, | think the hosts
passing before the King will move in
different divisions. With the first divi-
sion will pass the mighty ones of earth
who were as good and useful as they
were great In this division will pass
before the throne all the Martin Luz
theirs. the John Knoxes, the Wesleys,
the Richard Cecils, the Millions, the
Chrysostoms, the Herschells, the Len
oxes, the George Peabodys, the Abbot
Lawrences, and all the consecrated
Christian 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 opu-
lent. They were great on earth and now
they are great in heaven. Their sur
passing and magnificent 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 parable of the talents. ITO another
ten" | stand and watch the other di-
visions as they go by, division after di-
vision, until the largest of all the d.
visions comes in sight. 1t is a hundred
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 support their families
and give whatever of their limited
means they could spare for the relief
of poverty and sickness and the saliva
ton 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 young
immortals, 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 mig
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
thence that it became helpful lesson
10 all who heard of it; those who serv-
cd God faithfully all their lives and
whose name never but once appeared
in print and that time in three lines Of
the death column which some survivor
paid for, sailors who persisted in the
storm while trying to get the life line
out to the drowning, prosecuted and
tried souls who endured without COM
plant malignity and abuse, those who
had only ordinary equipment for body
and ordinary endowment of intellect,
yet devoted all they had to holy pur-
poses and spiritual achievement AS
see this, the largest of all the di-
visions, from all lands and from all
ages, pass in review before the King
on the great white throne / am re-
minded of the wonderful parable of
the talents and more especially of my
text, ITO another one"