The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-06

tt'tht .tfiitffl fHlDiOytu DIV all the 0n0nlQ
Of God when they descend to 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 well as
sacrificey That is the only, absolutely the
only, persuasion that win ever induce the
human race to stop its march toward the
city OF destruction and wheel around and
start Tor the city of light. Now may the
Lord this moment 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 a sermon,
put cannot you persuade some one Ia ro
ana hear sermon? You saw Won cannot
sing, but, cannot you persuade some one
10 go and hear the choir chant on Christ
mas or Easter morning? Send a bunch Of
flowers to that invalid in the hospital
win message about the land where the
inhnabitants never say. "T am sick"
There is a child OF the street. Invite
MN INTO the mission school There is a
man who has lost his fortune in specula-
non. Instead OF ieering at his fall 20 and
tell him Of riches that never take wings
and fly away. Buckle on that one talent
OF persuasion, o man, o woman. and
you will do work that heaven will cele.
brate 10000 wears.
hShb AAftOOO WOTuS OF moan WEN
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 it reaches so far up and 80
tar, 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. IL has at times
crowded all the twelve gates of heaven
L. 4 II
path of death of the last pedestrians. = IL
Will yet chime so loudly and gladly that
all the toiling bells of sorrow will abe
drowned with the music. 1t is piled up in
the Bibles climax and peroration, "And
the spirit and the bride say come, and
let him that heareth say come, and let
him that is athirst come" Have it ON the
point OF your pen, have. il on the tip of
your tongue. Monosyllables are miphtier
than polysyllables, and that word come"
IS the mightiest of monosyllables. Shakes
peare says of one of his characters, "She
speaks poDiards, and every word stabs."
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 plentitude and pow
er of one of those words.
David Garrick, the dramatist. said he
would give 100 guineas if he could say
oh, as George White6eld said it. What
might we not give il only we could say
come" as Jesus said it? Some one has
said that syllables govern the world. and
l think that one syllable might save the
world. But l cannot particulari7e. What
ever be your one talent, cultivate it.
Once fully realize that you have some
thing with which to enhance heaven and
take hold of the eternities, and it will
add new bank of keys to the music of
your soul. You are ordained to some KIND
OF work by the laying on of the hands of
the Lord God Almighty.
If you cannot do anything else. go
around and feel sorry Tor somebody. When
some one asked. What is the secret of
swer was, "His power of sympathy" And
there are 100000 people who have the
same qualification if they only knew it.
sympathy If you cannot restore the
child to that bereft parent or the fortune
to that bankrupt fnancier or health TO
that confirmed invalid or an honorable
name to that wrecked character, you can
at at least feel sorry for the misfortune or
Sympathy II you have not the means
to do anything else, go and sit down and
cry with them. That is the way 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 and all heav-
en- is made up resurrected bodies Joined to
rsnsomed 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. If
so. l 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.
full as they were great. In this division
will pass before the throne all the Martin
Luthers. the John Knoxes, the Wesleys,
the Richard Cecils. the Millions, the
Chrysostoms, the Herschells, the Lenoxes,
the George Peabodys, the Abbott Law
rences and all the consecrated Christian
men and women who were great in litera-
ture, in law, in medicine, in philosophy,
in commerce. Their genius never spoiled
them. They were as humble as they
were gifted or opulent. They were great
en-. Their surprising and magnificent tai
ents were all used for the worlds better
ment 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, "To another
ten" l stand and watch the other divi-
sions as they go by, division after divi-
siOH, uutu tne largest Oh all tne uiNisious
comes in sight. 1t is a hundred to one, a
thousand to one, ten thousand to one,
larger than the other divisions. 1t is
made up of men who never did anything
but support their families and give what.
ever of their limited means thav could
spare for the relief of poverty and sick
ness and the salvation of the world, moth
ers who took good care of children by
example and precept starting them on the
teachers who sacrificed an afternoons
siesta 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
gospel who on niggardly stipend preached
in the backwood meeting houses, souls
fer, yet suffered with so much cheerful pa
tience that it became helpful lesson to
all who heard of it; those who served
God faithfully all their lives and whose
name never but once appeared in print,
and that time in the three lines of the
death column which some survivor paid
for, sailors who perished in the storm
while trying to get life line out TO the
drowning, prosecuted and tried souls who
endured without complaint malignity and
abuse, those who had only ordinary equip
ment for body and ordinary endowment
Of intellect, yet devoted all they had to
holy purposes and spiritual achievement.
AS / see this, the largest Of all the divi-
sions, from all lands and from all ages,
pass in review before the King ON the
great white throne am reminded of the
wonderful parable OF the talents ana
more especially Of my text, "ro another
one"