The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-12

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how it appears in the earth. We know
that love seeks with total stIf.forgetful
ness the happiness CT the object loved,
and so long as we know what it does and
how it behaves itself in the social fabric,
we ought to be quite content. And / want
you to notice at this point wherein love
ls superior to the most eloquent speech
Eloquent speech may mean self advertise.
ment. Love always means self efiacement.
The oift-in question:" says the brilliant
Drummond, IN his book entitled the
Greatest Thing in the World" and which
[ commend to you to read, "was once
splendid and dazzling. 1t was a brilliant
faculty s i drawing all LEY eyes to the speaker peal r
sloquence by which a man sways the
mind and thrills the hearts OF his hearers.
Now you can see how a man without love,
possessing such power, gives to himself
advertisement, and the ia Z IS that some
Of the most brilliant orators of fame, and
among them occupants of pulpits, are SO
fond of themselves and glory so r1uch in
their eloquence, that they forget the other
elements that go to make up manly Chris
tian character. And j want to say to
you that the man possessing that eloquencc
Is in constant danger. The attraction
which he has for the people always tends
to centre his mind upon himself; and by
and by he gets to be greater il he is not
aware, than the Master Himself whom he
processes to serve and represent.
Love, on the other hand, is self-efface
ment. Love goes forth in benefcent min
istry, alleviating the wounds of broken
lives all around. In perfect harmony
with this thought is the teaching OF the
marvellous sermon in the mountain, in
which He says: Even so, let your light
shine before men that they shall see your
good works and may glorify your Father
in heaven" The word so is to be en-
phasized as indicating the manner of the
shining. Light may be held 50 close to
the eyes as to dazzle the eyes; light may
world as to dazzle the eyes of the world.
You are not to see the shining one, but
you are to see the fruits, the results of the
shining. This is the way with the old
sun itself. You. look out upon the lawns
in the parks and tine country side, and l
have never seen the parks more beautiful
than when l visited them soon after my
arrival in this city few days ago. You
look out upon the grass and the growing
grains and the vegetation and the flowers
and you feast your eyes on the beauty and
the wealth of the carth's surface; and you
begin to say, whence came all this; who Is
The worker: who produced all this; and
you undertake to look up at the sun shin
ing yonder in the zenith of the heavens.
And the o.d sun, for your termerity, will
1art his red hot fire into your eyes and
VIII leave mark upon you that you will
aot forget for many a day. Do not look
at me; look at the grass; look at the grow
Ing grain; look, at the trees.-looli at the
work, not at the worker. So with God
Himself No man has seen God at sny
lime; we see Him only in Jesus Christ
No man has seen God the eternal, at any
time; but we count the stars that bejem
.he dome above us, when the great daylight
is gone, and the more we study them the
more are we thrown back on the teaching
Of our childhood, when we learned to
sing: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how
wonder what you are, up above the world
so high like a diamond in the sky" You
see the stars and the glory of them trans
ports your wondering soul, but you do
not see Him. who made and keeps the
stars. II God is invisible in Himself He
is not invisible in His ministry. You
and /, beloved, who have been born anew,
are sons and daughters of God, and we
please Him most when like Him, we efface
ourselves and are seen only in the benefi-
cent ministry of our lives, in our homes,
in our communities, in our churches, in
our city, in the world. Then under this
gree ter value to the church and to the
world than the most eloquent speech Now
:. may not say that eioquence is not valu-
able. No one of us would refuse it il
proffered to us. may not say-neither
would Paul say-that eloquence, evan the
gift of tongues, was anything to be de.
spised. In the apostolic age it served 20
attract the attention of men to the divine
manifestations among the sons oe men; and
t was greatly coveted because of this
'orce resident in it. Put i we 1t .;ou to
notice that only few people can be e.o-
quent and the great majority of us in re-
gard TO speech will have tc exhibit reality
hnr han. nln
our generation in the most practe man.
ner available to us. Now l night estab!
llsh this point by argument and by decam-
alton, but L prefer to give you n few illus
trations, to fastcn what l mean in our
mind.
A woman over here in New =, o-k City,
some years ago, came to the City l-ission
Society and sought the secretary. "I
would like to do something for God. / am
not. e;,guent in speech, but think /
could distribute tracts among the poor
and needy. Give me a suitable supply and
l Will render this service to my Lord"
She was supplied abundantly On going
down the street she saw a policeman tax,
ing poor woman to the station; she
learned the facts in the woman's case and
when the woman was to be- discharged.
When she came out she was met by this
good woman, who threw her arms around
her neck and kissed her; and the woman
said: MY God! Why did yor do tha
No one has kissed me since my mother
died; why did you do that" And the
humble Christian woman said: II do not
know, unless it was Jesus sent me to do
it." Without going into further detail.
let me say that that life was redeemed
the kiss of that Christian woman, whose
heart was full OF love for her kind. This
is the kind l mean. No eloquent preach.
ing from the most brilliant preacher that
you have ever had in the city could have
reached that life as did that kiss. That
reminded her of her departed mother. A
poor young girl was dying in the city OF
I'aris and on seeing a Christian woman
who was a stranger to her, sfid to hei:
~ You know l hate you Christie rs. You
have nothing to give but good advice.
You build fine institutions for us when we
have fallen, but you do nothing for us
to keep us from being thrown into the
path OF temptation" And no one but
that good woman, acting with Miss Hunt
IN her benehcent work in the gay city of
which she uttered those words. By and
by this woman won her into the kingdom
OF God. and just before she died said tc
the Christian woman, who represented for
the first time Christianity unto her: LET
me die on something that is yours. Won't
you let me put my head on your pillow
/ would like to die with my head on such a
pillow as your pure head has rested on" 1t
was granted. That is what mean. That is
the ministry that Is open 20 love. Over
yonder in the city OF Detroit, reporter
called little bootblack in the street to
polish his boots. The little fellow came,
but as he got out his brush and was
about to begin a big, brusk fellow came
along and said: "YOu 90 away Jimmy;