The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-02-21

mon" II the wheat In the churches
should be put into hopper. the first
turn OF the crank would make the
chan ny. | tell you. Some OF these
men are great sticklers for gospel
\ preaching. They say: You stand
there in bands in surplice and gown
and preach-preach like an angel-and
we will stand out here and attend TO
business. Don't mix things. Don't
/ get business and religion in the same
bucket You attend 10 your matters.
and We will attend TO ours" They do
not know that God sees every cheat
they have practiced ian the last six
years: that he can look through the
iron wall OF their flreproof safe; that
/ he has counted every dishonest dol
| lar they have In their pocket. and that
q day OF judgment will come. These
| inconsistent Christian men will sit on
the Sabbath night I'm the house OF God
/ singing al the close OF the service
Rock OF Ages Cleft for Me" and then
when the benediction is pronounced
shut tho pew door and say as they go
out: Goodbye. religion. IN be back
next sunday"
think that the church OF God and
| the Sabbath are only an armory where
We are to get weapons. look upon
/ the church OF Christ and the Sabbath
day as only the place and time where
and when we arc 20 get armed for
Christian conflict. but the battlefield Is
on Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday.
Thursday. Friday and Saturday. st.
/ Martins" and "Lenox" and "Old Hun
| drcd" do not amount 10 anything
unless they sing all the week. \ SER
mon is useless unless we can take IL
with us behind the pillow and tho coun-
/ ter. The Sabbath day Is worthless II IL
lasts only twenty-four hours.
There are many Christians who say:
/ we are willing TO serve God. but We
/ do not want TO DO Il In these spheres
/ about which we are talking. and II
seems so insipid and monoionous. II
/ We had some great occasion. II We had
lived Ia the time OF Luther, II We had
been Pauls travelling companion, x
we could serve God on great scale.
I we would do u. hut We can't IN this
everyday Hfc." There Is. however a
field OF endurance and great achieve
meut. but IL Is In everyday life. There
/ are Alps TO scale there are Tablespoons
20 swim. there are fires to brave. but
they are all around Us now. This Is
the hardest kind OF martyIdom 90 bear
II took grace 10 lead Latlmcr and
Ridley through the FIRE trlumphnntly
when their armed enemies and their
friends were looking on. but - re-
quiros more grace now Co brins men
through persecution when nobody Is
looking on. | could show YOU In this
city a woman who has had rheumatism
for twenty years and has endured more
suffering and exhausted more grace
than would have made twenty martyrs
pass tsiumphantly through the FIRE.
! II you are not faithful in grand mis-
sion. II you cannot stand the bite 90 n
nudge. how could you endure the
breath Of basilisk7
DO not think that any work God
! gives you 10 do In the world Is on too
small a scale for you TO do The whole
| universe Is not ashamed TO take care
!
which have now nearly forgotten.
but It ran something like this: lie
said spirits OF the other world came
back 20 this world 20 ind a body and
dnd a sphere OF work. One spirit came
and took the body OF a king and did
his work. another spirit came and took
I the body OF poet and did his work.
after awhile Ulysses came and he
aid: why all the fne bodies are
taken. and all the grand work Is taken.
There "a nothing left for me- And
some one replied. All. the best one
has been left for you" Ulysses said.
What's that?" Aud the reply was.
The body OF common man. doing 4
common work and for a common re-
ward" 4 good fable for tho world and
Just as good fable FOR the church.
whether We eat or drink or what
socver We do. let us do IL TO the glory
OF God
Again. we need 20 bring the religion
OF Christ into our commonest trials.
For severe losses. for bereavement. foF
trouble that shocks like an earthquake
and that blasts like storm. VIC pre-
scribe religious consolation. but. bust
ness man. for the small annoynncos oi
last week how much OF the grace oi
God did YOU apply? oh" you say
these trials are too small for such ap'
plicatlon" My brother. they arc shap-
ing your character. they arc sourinf
your temper. they are wearing out your
patience, and they arc making you les
and less OF n man. | 30 into a SOUP
tors studio and see him shaping Q
statue. lie has n chisel In ono hand
and a mallet I'm the other. and he gives
very gentle stroke-click. click, click
I say. why don't you strike harder
oh" he replies. that would shatteI
the statue. | can't do II that way.
must do Il this way" So he works ON
and after awhile the features come
out. and everybody that enters the stu
dio Is charmed and fascinated. Well
God has your soul under process % De
yolopment. aud II Is the little annoy