Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-08

and we will attend to ours They do
not know that God sees every cheat
they have practiced in the last six
years: that he can look through the
iron wall of their freproof safe; that
he has counted every dishonest dol
lar they have in their pocket, and that
day of Judgment will come. These
| inconsistent Christian men Will SIT on
the Sabbath night in the house OF GOD
singing at the close of the service
Rock of Ages Cleft for Me-" and then
when the benediction is pronounced
shut the pew door and say as they go
out: Goodbye, religion. I'll be PACK
next Sunday"
There are many Christians who say:
1--WE are willing to serve God, but we
do not want to do 1t in these spheres
about which we are talking, and IL
seems so insipid and monotonous. II
we had some great occasion, II we had
lived in the time OF Luther, II we had
been Paul's travelling companion, II
we could serve God on a great scale,
we would do 1t, but we can't in this
everyday life" There is, however,
| field of endurance and great achieve
ment, but 1t is in everyday life. There
are Alps to scale, there are Tablespoons
to swim. there are fires to brave, but
they are all around us now. This is
the hardest kind of martyrdom to bear.
1t took grace to lead Latimer and
Ridley through the fire triumphantly
when their armed enemies and their
friends were looking on, but 1t re-
quires more grace now to bring men
through persecution when nobody Is
looking on. could show you in this
city woman who has had rheumatism
for twenty years and has endured more
suffering and exhausted more grace
than would have made twenty martyrs
pass triumphantly through the fire.
II you are not faithful in a grand mis-
sion. II you cannot stand the bite of
midge, how could you endure the
breath of a basilisk?
Do not think that any work God
gives you to do in the world is on too
small scale for you to do. The whole
universe Is not ashamed to take care
of one little flower Plato had fable
which have now nearly forgotten,
but 1t ran something like this: He
said spirits of the other world came
= back to this world to find body and
find a sphere of work. One spirit came
) and took the body Of king and did
] his work; another spirit came and took
} the body of poet and did his work;
g after awhile Ulysses came, and he
S said: why, all the fine bodies are
| ic In Il N
t There is nothing left for me-" AnC
d some one replied, "Ah, the best one
e has been left for you" Ulysses said
!. whats that?" And the reply was
= "The body of a common man, doing {
: common work and for common re
n ward" A good fable for the world anC
|. Just as good fable for the church
S Whether we eat or drink or what
d soever we do, let us do it to the glor,
: OF God.
- Again, we need to bring the religion
e of Christ into our commonest trial:
o For severe losses, for bereavement, fo
e trouble that shocks like an earthquak
g and that blasts like storm, we pre-
scribe religious consolation; but, bus
is ness man, for the small annoyances {
h last week how much Of the grace {
lie God did you apply? Oh" you sa,
lie these trials are too small for such al
g plication." My brother, they are shal
10 ing your character, they are sourin
III your temper, they are wearing out yol
at patience and they are making you lie!
Iy and less of man. l go into scull
g tors studio and see him shaping
t. statue He has chisel in one har
We and a mallet in the other, and he Civ
1t a very gentle stroke-click, click, clicl
ct | say, why don't you strike harder
Il "Oh," he replies, that would shaft
at the statue. | can't do 1t that way.
ID must do it this way" So he works @
es and after awhile the features con
g. out, and everybody that enters the st
ke dio is charmed and fascinated. We
rd God has your soul under process of d
OF velopment. and it is the little ammo
ances and vexations of life that a
ne chiseling out your immortal nature.
c. is click, click, clickl | wonder wi
ut some great providence does not cor
to and with one stroke prepare you 4
r. heaven. All, no. God says that Is n
st the way. And so he keeps on by strok
IN of little annoyances, little sorrows, 1
ce tie vexations, until at last you shall
ry a glad spectacle for angels and
or men. 1t is the little troubles OF Il
re that are having more effect upon y
an than the great ones A swarm of
,ir Gusts will kill q grainfield sooner tn
ID. the incursion of three or four catt
et You say "Since lost my child, sine,