Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-06-07

age. 1 have read a book advocating him
as a great emancipation and refOrmer. /
was not surprised at the book, for have
heard of a pamphlet in defense of Judas
IscaTiot. suppose it may set forth the
idea that he was out Of money and needed
the 80 pieces of silver. and the money was
not spent for himself, but to open a re-
spectacle graveyard. ] would not be sur
prised to find a book in honor of satan.
the chief miscreant of the universe. We
all admire industry, and there is no more
industrious being than satan. But when
a man tells me Napoleon was a refOrmer
and emancipation would like to take him
out and show him $4,000 cOrpses in the
Russian snow banks and ask him if he
likes that, and | would show him the
grave trenches OF those who fell in the
year 1893 during the Napoleonic wars.
Only 10000 men butchered in four
mOnthsi | would ask him how he likes
that The country is beautiful, and
would ask our friend to cross with me to
Leipsic and examine the grave trenches
opened there Only l01. $50 fallen on both
sides! That is all. Come on, my friend,
and see the further work of the great
emancipation and refOrmer at BOrOdinO,
which | had an opportunity of looking at
last summer Only 100000 dead men as
a result of the battle! Pass by as hardly
worth looking ut Austerlitz, where the
work Of our refOrmer left $4,000 of the
slain. and come to Waterloo, to find that
only $4,000 dead men were left on the
ield Alas for the work of this great
emancipation and reformPr He turned
Europe into u charnel house and filled Eu-
rope with widowhuOd and orphanagc and
childlessnCss. Though be was the brilliant
man of the ages. would il not have been
! better for the world if he had died in his
cradle six weeks after he was born
\ Compare that with the man who had one
/ talent and that the talent of invention.
| He was born on a farm in Spencer,
! Mass, in 1919. He went to the district
/ school in the winter and never had any
other literary advantages. He became Il
| machinist. In 1916 he came on to a bat
| tleheld where more women have been
| slain by the needle than in the wars
! spoke Of men were slain by the sword
| Elias Howe! He could not make an ora
ton. He could not marshal a host. He
could not write u constitution. But he
could cOntrive a sewing machine. which
said to millions of beggared. cOnsumptve
bent over, half blinded sewing women
Go free! Take back your health! iecov
er your eyesight! Come down out of thai
garnet! Go freew
Phe Talent of PersuasiOn.
Is your talent that of persuasion? Max,
good use of it. We all have it to somt
extent, yet none Of US thinks OF it as
talent But it is the mightiest of talents
Do you know that this one talent vii
fetch the world back to God? Do yot
know it is the mghtiest talent of tn,
high heavens? Do you know that it il
the one talent chiefly employed by all tn,
angels Of Cod when they descend TO on
world-the talent of persuasion? Do yoi
realize that the rough lumber lifted int
cross on the hill back of Jerusalem
was in persuasion rs well as sacrifice
That is the only. absolutely the only. per
suasion that will ever induce the human
race to stop its march toward the cit,
Of destruction and wheel around an,
start for the city of light. Now may tn
Lord this moment show each one OF u
that to a greater or less extent we hav
that one talent Of persuasion and impe
us to the right use of it. You say yo
J cannot preach a sermon. but cannot 20
persuade some one to go and hear SCI
mon? You say you cannot sing, but car
not you persuade some one to go an
? bear the choir chant on Christmas 0
Easter morning? Send a bunch Of Gov
ers to that invalid in the hospital. with
message about the land where the inhal
G itants never say, II am sick" There
a child Of the street. Invite him into tn
mission schnol There is a man who ha