Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-05

WHAT an example he Is TO the young.
what an honor TO his household. what
pillar to the church OF God. what a
specimen of truth and integrity and all
roundness of character! Is there any
comparison in usefulness between
that man with the one talent of hon
esty and the dashiDg operators of the
money market?
The chief work Of the people with
many talents is TO excite wonderment
and 10 startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? No use
At all. / have not so much interest in
the one man out of the million as L
have in the million. Get the great
masses of the world right and il does
not make much difference about what
the exceptional people are doing.
Have all the people with one talent en-
listed for God and Righteousness, and
let all those with five or ten talents mi
CRATE to the north star or the moon,
and this world would get on splendid
~. The Woodworking, industrious
| classes OF America are all right and
would give no trouble, but it is the
genius who gives up work and on a
big salary goes around TO excite dis
satisfaction and embodiment. the
genius who quits work and steps on
the stage or political platform, eats
beafsteak and quail on toast and
causes the common laborers, com
PEELED TO idleness, to put their hands
into empty pockets and eat gristle and
gnaw bones. The world would be
nightly improved if it could slough
OFF about 5000 geniuses. for there are
more than that on our planet. Then
the man or woman Of one talent would
take possession of the world and rule
it in common sense and Christian
way. There would be less to amaze
and Startle, but more to give equipoise
TO church and state and world. ITO
another one"
Among the $4,000 words of Noah
Webster's vocabulary and the thou
sands OF words since then added to our
English vocabulary there is one out
mastering word the power of which
cannot be estimated, and it reaches so
far up and so far down, and that is the
word come" 1T has drawn more peo-
pie away from the wrong and toward
the right than any word | now think
| or. 1t has at times crowded all the
! II gates of Heaven with fresh arriv-
ais. II VIII yet rob the path of death
OF the last pedestrians. II will vet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
| tolling bells of sorrow will be drowned
! with the music. 1t is piled up i'm 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
/ nf
] tip Of your tongue. Monosyllables are
mightier than polysyllables, and that
word come" is the mightiest Of mon
osyllables.
After the resurrection day and all
Heaven is made up, resurrected bod
les joined to ransomed souls, and the
gates which were so long open are
shut there may he 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 useful as they were great.
! In this division will pass before the
| throne all the Martin Luthers. the
John KnoNes, the Wesleys, the Rich
ard Cecils, the Millions, the Chrysos-
toms. the Herschells, the Lenoxes
the George Peabodys, the Abbot Law
FENCES and all the consecrated Chris
tian 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 opulent. They were great on
earth. and now they are great in
! Heaven. Their surprising and mag
niticeHt talents were all used for the
worlds betterment. As they pass i'm
review before the King on the great
white throne to higher and higher
rewards it makes me think of tho
! parable of the talents: "To another
ten ! stand and watch the other
! divisions rs they 90 by. division after
division, until the largest of all the
| divisions comes i'm sight. 1t is a hum
! dred to one, n thousand 10 one. ten
| thousand TO one, larger than the
| other divisions. II is made IN of
men who never did anything but sun
| port their families and give whatever
| OF theIr limited means they could
| spare Tor the relief Of poverty and
| sickness and the salvation 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
VINO sacrificed an afternoons siesta
Tor the listening class OF yo lg inn
! mortaIs. women who declined the
making OF homes for themselves that
\ they might take care Of father and
mother in the weaknesses OF old ace.
ministers OF the Gospel who on nip-
gardIy stipend preached in the back.
woods. meeting houses. souls who for
long years did nothing but suffer.
yet suffered with so much cheerful
patience that il became a helpful les.
son TO all who heard Of it. those who
.rrLnn God lnlLLluLIN IN Lh..- H.