The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-04

Vocabulary there Il one administering
word the power Of which cannot be esd
mateds audit naches so far up and so far
down, and that is the word come lt
has drawn more people away from the
wrung and toward the right than any
word / now think Of II has at times
crowded all the IL gates OF heaven with
fresh arrivals. II will yet rob the path OF
death Of the last pedestrians. 1t will yet
chime so loudly and gladly that all the
tolling bells OF sorrow will be drowned
with the music. II is piled m in the BIZ
ble's climax and peroration. And the
spirit and the bride say come. end let him
that heareth say come. a2d L.: him that is
athirst come" Have il o. the point OF
your pen, have il on the tip Of your
tongue. Monosyllables are mightier than
polysyllables, and that word come is
the mightiest OF monosylIables. Shake
speare says of one of his characters, she
speaks poniards, 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, har-
ness one OF those words, project one OF
those words. prove the full plenitude and
power of one Of those words. David Gar
rick, the dramatist, said he would give
100 guineas il he could say "oh" as
George Whitefeld said il. What might
we not give if 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 | cannot particularize. Whatever be
your one talent, cultivate it. Once fully
realize that you have something with
which to enhance heaven and take hold
of the pfnrDiriaS and ~ ~in odd a naw
bank of keys 10 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. II you cannot do anything
else, go around and feel sorry for some
body. When some one asked, What is
the secret Of William Wilberforce's DOW
err" the answer was. His power of sym
pathy.' And there are 10000, 600 people
who have the same qualification if they
only knew it. Sympathy II you cannot
restore the child to that bereft parent or
the fortune to that bankrupt financier or
health to that confirmed invalid or an
honorable name to that wrecked charac-
ter, you can at least feel sorry for the
misfortune or the bereavement or the suf-
fering. Sympathy. IF you have not the
means TO do anything else. go and sit
down and cry with them. That is the
way Christ did when lie went out to the
desolated home in Bethany and the sis
tiers told their sad story. He cried with
them. Oh, cultivate that one talent of
sympathy!
The Final Review.
After the resurrection day and all heav-
en- 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 redeemed 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 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
knoxes. the Wesleys. the Richard Ce-
ellis, the Millions, the Chrysostoms, the
Herschells. the Lenoxes. the George Pea
bodys, the Abbott 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
opulent- 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, T another ten" l stand
and watch the other divisions as they go
by, division after division, until the lar
! gest of all the divisions comes in sight.
1t is a hundred to one, q thousand to one,
ten thousand to one, larger than the othe.
divisions. 1t is made up of men who
never did anything but support their
families and give whatever of their linn
tied means they could spare for the re-
lief Of poverty and sickness and the sal
walton 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 teach
ers who sacrificed an afternoons siesta
for the listening class of young immor-
tails, 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 preach
ed in the backwoods meeting houses.
souls who for long years did nothing but
suffer. yet suffered with so much cheer
full patience that il became q helpful les.
SUI lO dl WHO uedTu Oh II, t0OSe WHO
served God faithfully all their lives and
whose name never but once appeared in
print and that time in the three ines 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 complains
malignity and abuse, those who had only
ordinary equipment for body and ordi
nary endowment Of intellect. yet devo:"!
all they had TO holy purposes and spirit
al achievement. As | see this. thu Llr
gest of all the divisions. from all !a-:,i>
and from all ages, pass in review hrtn.s
the King On the great white throne ! "a:
reminded of the wonderful parable of IL.
talents and more especially of my text
ITO another one"
copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch. y. Z