The Wilmington daily Republican., 1902-03-24

of some men impulse, emotion, self.
ishncss, and the whole system of
thesr redemption falls. In the pray
er meeting they will pray like Peter
and sing like saints, but at home they
are not lit to live with.
There are preachers who are like
giants in courage when they are 60
ing to a good appointment, but are
weaklings when they meet reverses.
No single generation is or ever has
been ready to grasp the thought OF do
the will OF God.
Here is u conference Of preachers.
Christ is here. lie is asking each
one:'Are you willing to take the hard,
est work for My sake? What answer
can you make to His ques-
ton? Remember this: God can only
Use those who will let Him. Here
and there God finds man lie can use
any where, and he takes that man
and puts him 10 years ahead of the
others: and what happens then? His
fellows assault and pelt him and
strive to drag him down and back.
But God is with him and lie knows
God, and God lives in him and keeps
him, and there he stands and burns
and blazes until the rest come up to
him.
God never retraces His step. What
He does once He does for all ages.
Generations break, men fail, but God
provides for the non breaking of His
revelation Of divine truth. That the
truth may be preserved God has
broken it into bits and puts it into
human hearts; men have put it into
words and built it into all laugua ges.
AS II glass is not the water, but
only II vessel that contains it, so the
Word Is only Il cup that holds the
idea.
God has put His revelation of d.
vino truth into human language that
its contents may be held for the safe
ty of the generations to come. God
docs not teach rules 50 much as pril-
ciplc: men may out grow a rule, but
the principle will remain to guide
thought and life and build character.
There are things in the writings of
Shakespeare that cannot be translat-
ed into German: there are words in
other writings that cannot be render
cd into English.
But not 50 with the Word of God.
The Bible has been translated into
every language Of Garth. Ga u Shelf
in my library is a row of Bibles, each
in different language.
! sometimes get the blues. DO you
ever get them: When l get blue and
discouraged | just 90 in there and
look at those books until get happy.
| was converted in English, but |
have seen men converted in Chinese. |
preached at Pcliin, China, one day to
- young men, and l6 of them came
to Christ and were saved. spoke
through an interpreter, for not one
OF them knew u word Of English. |
told a man one day about it, and
when said not one of them could
understand what was talking about
he said Amen
! preached one day in Bulgaria. Az
ter little while u great, big fellow
began to make demonstrations. |
asked my Interpreter what was the
matter. lie sad: This fellow says he
walked 200 miles to get a look at
Jesus Christ, and that he has gotten
such a view Of him.
This is a miracle, and he wants to
know what to do. ! said: Tell him to
Shut his eyes and keep quiet aud talk
to Jesus Christ. In a little while be-
came excited again. l sad, What is
the matter with him now? The in
tcrprcter said: lie says he is 50 hap
py he cannot keep quiet. | said:
Then let him shout.
IL preached at aconGcrcncc in Den.
mark. and when vas through the
Interpreter had to 90 to bed. At one
time preached for seven ministers
into the funnel of phonograph and
told the sweet story Of Christ and
the woman at the well. The Danish
translated it into Danish
and repreached it into another ma
chine. 1t was taken to the bedside
of the dying woman and led Der to
Christ. Said the dying woman as
she listened to the beautiful story:
81 didn't know that Jesus Christ 10y
ed people like that
"iou may search this earth from
pole to pole, but you can never find
outside of Gods Word any power that
can lift Il human soul up out OF dark
ness or shoot the light of Heaven
the midnight Of sin. If
you would learn how to preach the
Gospel look into the face Of Jesus
Christ. 1t is not always what We say
but how we say it that does gool or
larm. Many Il preacher has Iedged
Up his way fora whole year by aharsll
word in his first sermon. @ Shepherd
Ind Bishop of us all, teach us how to
10 things right. There are men