The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09


 1ts.oo0 men butchered in four months, would ask him how he likes that. The country IS beautiful, and 1 would ask our friend to cross with me to Leipsic and examine the grave trenches opened there. Only 10l,7s0 fallen on both sides! That Is all. Come on, my friend. and see the further work of the great emancipator and reformer at Borodino. which I had an opportunity of looking at last summer. Only l00.- 0oe dead men as a result of the battle! Pass by as hardly worth looking at Austerlitz. where the work of our re- former left 42.000 of the slain. and come to Waterloo. to find that only 50.e00 dead men were left on the field. Alas for the work of this great eman- eipator and reformeri He turned Flu rope into a charnel house and filled Europe with widowhoood and orphar- age and childlessness. Though he was the brilliant man of the ages would 1t 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 q farm in Spencer, Mass, in 1S1s He went to the district school in the winter and never had any other literary advantages. He became a ma chinist. In 1S46 he came to q battle- field where more women have beeen slain by the needle than in the wars 1 spoke of men were slain by the sword. Elias Howe! He could not make an oration. He could not marshal A host He could not write constitution. But he could contrive a sewing machine, which said to millions of besgared, consumptive. bent-ovsr. half blinded sewing women: Go fres! Take back your health. Recover your eyesight! Come down out of that garrett! Go free!"
 Make Good Use of Your Talent.
 Is your talent of that persuasion? Make. good ues of 1t. We all have 1t to some extent. yet none of us thing of it as a talent. But it is the mfghtiest of talents. Do you know that this one talent will fetch the world back to God? Do you know it is the mightiest talent Of the high heavens? Do you what is employed by all the angels of God when they descend to our world-the talent of persuasion? Do you realize that the rough lumber lifted into a cross on the hill back Of Jerusalem was in persuasion as well as sacrifice> That is the only. absolutely the only, persua- sicr that will ever induce the human race rn stop its march toward the city or destruction and wheel around and start for he city of light. Now may the Lord this mometn show each one of us that to a greater or less extent we have that one talent of persuasion and impel us to the right use of 1t. You say you cannot preach a sermon, but cannot you persuade some one to 20 and hear sermon? You say you can- not sing. but cannot you persuade some one to go and hear the choir chant on Christmas or Easter morning ?Send a bunch of flowers to that invalid In the hospital, with message about the land where the inha apitants never say: T am sick There Is child of the street. Invite him into the mission school There is man who has lost his fortune in speculation. Instead of jcerAlg 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. Q woman and you will do work that heaven will cele- brate 10000 years.
 Among the 1l4,000 words of Noah Webster's Voca bulary and the thou sands of words since then added to our
 English vocabulary there is one out mastering word the bower of which cannot be estimated, and it reaches so far up and so far down. and that Is the word come. It has drawn more people away from the wr1rg and to- ward the right than any word l now think of. IL has at times crowded all the twelve gates of heaven with fresh arrivals. 1t will yet rob the path of death of the last pedestrians. It will yet chime so loudly and gladly that all the toliing bells of sorrow will be drowned with the music. 1t is piled up in the Bibles climax and peroration, A,,l aIx t.,;N and let him that heareth say eome, and let him that is athirst come" Have it on the point of your pen, have it on the tip of your tongue. Monosyai- fables are mightier than polysyllables, and that word come" is the might ast of monosYllabies. Shakespeare says of one of his characters. "Sne speaks piniards. and every word staos We may say of others. they speak words which are of balm ard music, dre i'siIt and life. Master one of those weeds. harness one of those words, prole". ono Of those words. prove the full iIlen.tLGe and power of one of those wor Is. David Garrick. the dramatist. said ha would give 100 guineas if he could say. oh" as George Whitefield said 1t. What might we not give if we :11i1 say "come" ss Jesus said it? some ere has said that syllables govern the world. and l think that one syllable might save the world. But cannot Iurticu- larize. Whatever be your one talent. cultivate it. Once fully realize that you have something with which to enhance heaven and take hold of the eternities. and it will add a 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 somebody. When some one asked. forces power?" the answer was His power of sympathy" And there are 10, ,000,000 people who have the same qualification if they only knew it. Sympathy! If you cannot restore the child to that bereft parent or the for tune that bankrupt financier or health to that confirmed invalid or an honora- ble name to that wrecked charac ter you can at least feel sorry for the misfortune or the bereavement or the suffering. Sympathy! If you have not the means to do anything 4lse. so 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 heaven is made up, resH:ecc el bodit joined to ransomed souls, and The gates which were so long open a"e shut there may he some day when al the | redeemed may pass in review ba fore