Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-09

ployees 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 which l am contending. Supposing
that today | should read an autograph
letter from Andrew Carnegie or John
d. Rockefeller or Baron RothSchild or
some other multimillionaire to this eff
feet:
LAS the winter is coming on, l feel
1t to be my duty to help the poor and
the unfortunate. Therefore please an
nounce as soon as possible that next
Sunday my representatives will be
with you and that they will give ten
dollar bill to every pan, 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 that? 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, bread! Free bread, free
breadr If you would carry far and
wide such an earthly promise of a Car
negie or a Rockefeller, will you not
carry at least as far and wide the
promise of a heavenly King? If you
would gladly and willingly tell your
business friends and employers and
employees about 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?
Give Testimony at Home.
Would that the dumb lips of Chris
tan testimony might be Embossed by
our own firesides among our loved
ones, as we'll as among the strangers
dwelling outside the four walls of our
home l 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 sometimes he
overlooks the souls destinies of his
own children and brothers and sisters
and parents Some time ago | buried
a noble man of God named Rev. Will
liam e. McCrea. In conversation with
me one day he said that the sweetest
, moment of all his life, not excepting
his own conversion, was when he was
, able to lead his own venerable father
to the foot of the cross His father was
moral and, from a worldly stand
point, a good man, but not protesting
Christian and, though he had a son in
the ministry, yet nc one for years had
ever asked the father to give himself
. In love to the Lord Jesus Christ. But
one day Rev. Mr.. McCrea, after he had
been five years in the ministry, came to
!, his father and said: Father, do you
q. not want to become a Christian? Do
= you not want to hike 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: Yes, Willie
i 1 do. Oh, Willie l have been waiting
SO long for some one to ask me to come
/ to Christ! Why did you not do it be-
d fore?" So today let us start to plead
q everywhere with Christian testimony
5 let us begin right in our own homes
y Let us begin first and at once among
those who are closest to US, as Andrew
a first sought his own brother to bring
u him to Christ.
l. NY friends, members of Jefferson
;e Park church, l here and now conse
m crate my life to a new work. am go
ing back to the days and life which
he used to live when / first entered th
y ministry. In those old days l did no
t. seek so much to comfort and please tn
L. members of my church as to win souls
of My only desire was to reach out TO
at those who were outside Of the churc
s, and who never had confessed the nam
I'll of Jesus. Before I entered my pulpi
d. I would get down on my knees an
ID say, ooh, God, let me speak the RICH
ed word for that young man and woma
a whom l may never see again until
IL meet them at thy thronew Such is m
ng purpose now; such is the purpose c
" my new assistant Brothers and si
rs tiers, we have been too long dwellin
d., together in selfish fellowship. We hay
ng enjoyed each others society well. BIZ
on to be happy together is not enough
ell Will you here and now clasp my han
a in holy purpose? Will you here an
m now move forward with me to seek OF
er. the strayed lamb which is lost upc
US the mountain of sin? Will you s
Ter forth with me out into the storm, pc
en- haps to battle against derision al
To- sneers? Will you go in the name
en Jesus Christ? Will you promise he
tn and now to carry the gospel messa'
18th to the great unchurched and to Il
OIL cinfnl men and xynmen whn are livil