Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-01

used TO 20 tnrcuSu lnc oft@St ft&1ts
through the body OF the warrior and
out through the baekplate. What a ,
symbol OF that Gospel which Is sharp .
cr than n two-edged sword. piercing /
20 the dividing asunder OF soul and .
body and of the joints and marrow /
Would 10 God we had more faith in
that Gospel The h6mblest man in the !
world. n he had enough faith in IL. /
could bring hundred souls to Christ
perhaps 500. Just in proportion as
this age seems 20 believe less and less
in 81. l believe more and more IN II.
What arc men about that they viii
not accept their own deliverance?
There is nothing proposed by men
that can do anything like this Gospel
Again. il YOU want 20 be skillful in
spiritual archery you must hunt in
unfrequcnted and secluded places.
Why does the hunter go three or
four days in the Pennsylvania for
csts or over Raquette lake into the
wilds of the Adirondacks2 II is the
only way 90 do. The deer are shy,
and one bang" Of the gun clears the
forest. From the California stage
you see. as you go over the plains,
/ here and there coyote trotting
along almost within range of the
gun-sometimes quite within range
/ of It, No one cares for that. IL is
worthless. The good game is hidden
! and secluded. Every hunter knows
that So many of the souls that will
/ be of most worth for Christ and of
most value 20 the church are Sc
cluded. They do not come in our
way. You will have TO go where they
are. Yonder they are down in that
! cellar. Nonder they are up in that
garret-far away from the door Of
any church. The Gospel arrow has
not been pointed at them. The tract
distributor and the city missionary
sometimes just catch glimpse of
them. as "A hunter through the trees
gets a momentary sight OF par
fridge or roebuck. The trouble Is we
are waiting for the game 10 come TO
MS. We are not good hunters. We
are standing on some street or road
! expecting tina; the timid antelope
viii come up and cat out OF our hand
We are expecting that the prairie
fowl viii light on our church stecple
IL is not their habit. II the church
should wait 10000 900 Of years for
the world 20 come ia and be saved
70 will wait i'm vain. The world vii
not come.
What the church wants now Is q
lift IFS feet from damaslS ottoman'
and put thcm I'm the stirrups. The
church wants not so many cushions
| as "a wants saddlebaCs aud arrows
we have got 10 put aside the gowI
and the kid gloves and put on tn
hunting shirt. We want a pulpit Ol
| wheels. We have been fishing 81
long In the brooks that ran unde
: / the shadow OF the church that tn
p fish know as. and they avoid tn
z hook and escape as soon as We com
3 90 the bank. while yonder is Uppe
y Sa-anac and Big Jumpers lake. wher
0 the first swing OF the Gospel ne
Q would break IL FOR the multitude O
T the fishes. There l. outside work {
S be done. Wha; is IL that I see in IN
ID bacl<wo0dS? IL is a tent. The hunt
$ ers have made clearing and campo
X out. What do they care If they has
y wet feet or il they have nothing la
IS a pine branch for pillow or for III
e northeast storm? II q moose in III
D. darkness steps into the lake to drinl
e they hear IL right away. IL loo
"a cry in the midnight. they hear
\ So ia the service Of God we ha'
" exposed work. We have got 70 cam
r out and rough IL. We are putting a
d our care on the comparatively fe
people who 60 To church. What al
a we doing for the millions who
ID not Gomez Have they no souls2 Al
F. they sinless that they need no pa
r. don2 Are there no dead in the
,r houses that they need no comfor
IN Are they cut of from God 10 60 in
,e eternity. no wing TO bear them,
Ia | light 20 cheer them. no welcome
le greet thcm2 I hear to-day surgir
RS up from the lower depth OF our citi
he groan that comes through o.
IL Christian assemblages and throu,
H. our beautiful churches, and il bio
re- out all this scene from my eyes I
IN day. as by the mists OF a great ;
ar agara. for the dash and the plum
AZ Of these great torrents of life drc
in | ping down into the fathOmless a
En- laundering abysm of suffering a
- woe. ! sometimes think that Just
ae God blotted out the churches OF tt
he atira and Corinth and Laodicea
cause Of their sloth and stolidity
be viii blot out American and Engli
be Christianity and raise on the ruins
as stalwart. wide-awake missiona
he church that can take the fun mes
on ing OF that command: go We In
tn all the world and preach the Gosl
ef TO every creature. He that believe
Ia and is baptized shall be saved.