Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-08-15

The fellowship oi kindred minds Is like tc
that above
But though we may not he able to de
fine this Christian love, we know II when
we see it, when we hear II. and we know
how 1t appears IN the earth. We know
that love seeks with total ~-if-for-etiul
ness the happiness II the object loved.
and 50 long we know what II does and
how l. behaves itself in the social fabric
we ought 10 he quite content. And want
you to notice II this point wherein love
| is superior L. the most e.oquent speech
Eloquent speech may mean SELF advertise
ment Love always means sell placement
| The "ift III question. SAYS the brilliant
| Drummond. in his book entitled 'Ine
Greatest Thing in the World, and which
! | commend To YOU to read, was once
| splendid and dazzling. 1t was brilliant
faculty drawing all eyes to the speaker
| and all ears To his voice" Ii Is the gIit OF
eloquence by which a man sways the
mind and thrills the hearts OF his hearers.
Now you can see how man without love:
possessing such a power. gives to himself
advertisement, and the fact Is that some
| Of the most brilliant orators OF fame. and
| among them occupants OF puipItS, are 80
fond OF themselves and glory so much III
| their eloquence, that they forget the other
! elements that 20 to make up a manly Chris
tian character. And | 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 Ia be greater il he is not
aware, than the Master Himself whom he
processes to serve and represent.
| Love, on the other hand. Is seiI-eitace-
ment. Love goes forth in benciiccnt min
/ istry, alleviating the wounds OF broken
lives all around. In perfect harmony
| with this thought is the teaching OF tie
/ Master Himself. You remember that
/ Saru,au in tho mountain
which He says: Even so. let your light
| shine before men that they shall see your
! good works and may gloriiy Your Father
1 in heaven" The word so is to be en-
! phas;zed as indicating the manner OF the
shining. Light may be held 50 close to
/ the eyes as to dazzle the eyes; light may
/ be held 50 close before the eyes OF the
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 ont upon the lawns
have never seen the parks more beautiful
than when ] visited them soon after my
arrival in this city iew DAYS ago. on
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
4 the worker: who produced all this; aud
you undertake TO look up at the sum shin
1 ing yonGer in the zenith OF the heavens.
/ And the old sun, for Your tcrmer;y, will
Hart his red hot fire into Your eyes and
will leave mark upon You That you viii
aot forget for many day. Do not look
It me; look al the grass; look at the grow
Ing grain; look AZ the trecs-look at the
work, not ut the worker. So with God
Himself. No man has seen God at any
lime; we see Him only in Jesus Christ.
4 ~ 4 nj Mt any
time: but we count the stars that helem
The 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
20 high ike 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
are sons and daughters of God, and we
please Him most when like Him. we efface
ourselves and are seen only i'll 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
first point. we say again that love Is OF
gre: ter value to the church and to the
world than the most eloquent speech. Now
may not say that eIoquence Is not valG-
able. No one OF us Would refuse it ii
proifered to us. | may not say-neither
would Paul say-that c.oq1ence, even the
gift OF tongues, was anything to be de-
spised. In the apostolic age it ser. ed 20
attract the attention cf men to the divine
manifestations among the sons O.: me1; and
t was greatly coveted becaIse or this
'orce resident in it. Put l VIZ 1t you TO
notice that only few people can be eio-
- . @E
gard 70 speech will have &c exhibit reality
.alher than eloquencc in speec and serve
our generation i'll the most pracl ! man
ner available to us. Now / night estab-
hsll this point 10y argument and b. declam-
alton, but / prefer to give you few illus
trations, to fasten what / mean III our
mind.
a woman over here in New Ao:k City,
some years ago. came to the City Mission
Society and sought the secretary. Il
would like TO do something for God. / am
not. ca ,quent Ill speech, but l think /
could distribute tracts among the. poof
and needy Give me Il suitable supply and
/ will render this service to my Lord"
She was supplied abundantly On going
down the street she saw policeman tax,
ing poor woman to the station; she
went to the station house and I'll, re
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 yo'. do tina
/ No one has kissed me since ms mother
died: why did you do that" And the
humble Christian woman aid: Il 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 | 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. \
poor young girl was dying IL the city OF
Haris and on seeing a Christian woman
who was a stranger to her. said 20 hei:
You know | hate You Christians. 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
! Paris, understood the dying energy with
/ 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
| pillow as your pure head has rested on" 1t
was granted. That is what mean. That is
the ministry that is open &c love. Over
ronder in the city OF Detroit. 4 reporter
| .ol,ed n LITTLE loofh,ac in the street TO