The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-15
speak word for Christ in the store and in your place of business?
 Tell About the Headers.

speak a word for Christ in the store and in your place of business?
 Tell About the Headers.
 Furthermore, you should not hesitate to testify for Christ in your place of bus mess, because you would not have dumb lips In reference to any physical cure which you knew about as you now are silent In reference to the divine cure of sin. Suppose that today orfe of the em- ployes of your store was afflicted with the dreaded disease of cancer. Supposing that a couple of years ago you had been cured of the same disease by a certain medicine of certain doctor Would you not immediately go and tell him about the wonderful cure? If necessary, would you not take this physician to the sick mans house and insist that he try this cure? You would do that, yet among the blood curdling sins and the blasphemies of your store you do not think it is your bounden duty to tell about the Christ who cleansed you from all sins. Do you mean to tell me that you have a right to keep your lips dumb and not invite those sim full employees to your church and prayer meeting, where they can hear the sweet message of divine love?
 A still more concrete illustration will show the application of the principle for
 
 today I should read an autograph letter from Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rocke- feller or Baron Rothsehild or some other multimillionaire to this effect:
 As the winter is coming on, l feel it to be my duty to help the poor and the unfortunate. Therefore please announce as soon as possible that next Sunday my representatives will be with you and that they will give a ten dollar bill to every man. woman and child who comes to your service so that they can buy bread?"
 What would be the result of my read ing such letter as hat? Why, you would carry the news everywhere. You would go out of your way to speak to every one you ever knew. You would say to all the buyers and the sellers of the store Come up to our church next Sunday. Tell all of your poor friends about the good news. Bread, bread! There is going to be free bread for every one" And on next Sunday morning the streets about this church would be crowded And everywhere the cry would be raised: Bread, breadl Free bread, free bread!' If you would carry Tar ana wide such an earthly promise or Car nepie or A Rockefeller. will you not car ry at least as far and wide the promise of a heavenly King? If you would gladly and willingly tell your buisness friends and employers and employees about a bread which can give life to the physical body. will you be dumb in reference to that spiritual bread of life which Christ offers to all who come to him?
 To Give Testimony at Home.
 would that the dumb lips of Christian t.stimopv might be unloosed by our own Arosides among our loved ones, as we'll as among the strangers dwelling outside the four walls of our home. I place this spiritual obligation upon my own heart and life as well as upon yours. There is many a minister who Is so anxious about the souls of his congregation that some times he overooks the souls destinies of his own children and brothers and sisters and parents. Some time ago I buried a noble man of God named Rev. William E. McCrea. In conversation with me one day he said that the sweetest moment of all his life, not excepting his own con- version. was when he was able to lead his own venerable father to the foot of the cross. His father was a moral, and, from a worldly standpoint, a good man, but not a professing Christian, and though he had a son in the ministry. yet no one for years had ever asked the fa- ther to give himself in love to the Lord Jesus Christ. But one day Rev MT. Me Crea, after he had been five years in the ministry, came to his father and said Father. do you not want to become a Christian? Do you not want to take mothers Christ and my Christ as your Christ? Do you not want me to pray with you now?'' The tears started from the old mans eyes; his lips quivered. He shook with emotion as he answered;