Milford chronicle., 1903-02-13


e the same earnestness as if you had to
5 sell few books in order to buy your
= babies some bread. No man can truly
| love his God with all his heart and soul
/ and mind unless at the same time he
loves his neighbor as himself, and no
J Christian man can truly love his neigh
Dor unless he is personally interested
in his neighbor's eternal salvation.
save the Nearby Sinners.
Would that we might be willing to
enter the homes of our neighbors in the
service of Jesus Christ. Such an effort
ON our part not only is essential to their
salvation, but it affects our standing in
the kingdom of Christ. Do you not re-
member that he said, EVERY branch
that beareth not fruit he taketh away?'
/ Yet how Indifferent most of us are in
/ reference to the salvation of those sin
ners who are nearest our own door
step. Some years ago an American
missionary was preaching in the streets
of Calcutta As the American clergy
man was talking a Mohammedan priest
stood near and began to inveigh against
the Inconsistencies of the professors of |
the Christian religion. Then the No /
hammedan priest opened the Bible, and /
while he read he pointed to a drunken
English sailor near by. He read out /
loud those beautiful and solemn words
of Corinthians, which we repeat at the
holy communion, "And after the same
manner also he took the cup when he
had supped, saying, This cup is the
new testament in my blood; this do We,
as oft as We drink it, in remembrance
Of me-" Then the Mohammedan priest
sneeringly and tauntingly said: There
is the white mans religion. There is
the white man drunk. VIII We have
any such religion as that?" Oh, my
brother, we rightly send forth our mis-
siOnaries into foreign lands to testify
of Jesus Christ Shall we not also try
to carry the testimony of Jesus to the
drunken and dissipated white men at
our own doors that they may be living
witnesses of the power of the gospel
and not a reproach to it? Shall we not
also carry the gospel to our neighbors.
to those who may be living farther
away from Christ than the cannibals
)r the EskimOs? Shall we not be will 1
ng to kneel in prayer in our neighbOrs' 1
)arlOrs as well as send missionaries to /
preach standing upon the muddy banks a
# the Ganges? t
Would that the dumb lips of Chris a
ian testimony might be opened in the p
store and on the street, in the factory c
md by the cashiers desk; opened when Il
'ou are tying up bundle; opened when e
'ou are taking down the goods from il
IF the shelf; opened when you are bid O
ling the little cashgirl good night; b.
pened when you are giving the last h
to your foreman: opened N
the same way as We're the lips of a "
oOr old one armed black man who, al
'hile he cleaned my shoes on Penn II
ylvania avenue, in our national capi- r
Il, taught me one of the mightiest les ey
lns of trust and faith in God l ever e'
armed!
"Oh," says some man or woman sit so
ng before me- Il could not speak a to
ord for Christ in the store. 1t would 70
)t be appropriate. Such a course as ev
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nplOyers. but also by the employees lie
'Ould it. my brother? l think such tn
urse would often be gladly welcomed hr
the store instead of being resented. hi
have had great deal of experience
it'll Christian workers. All of them Pi
I'VE told me that when they speak a cr'
ord for Christ on the street or in the lni
Dre almost without exception they us
We been listened to kindly, respect MI
lly and thankfully. Rev. DIR. 1. l. see
,rby. the present assistant pastor OF me
IS church. who has worked a great NJ!
nj among the factories and the stores, th'
S told me that the most respectful an
Il grateful audiences he has ever ad- OF
sssed were those clad in Oyeralls and
ich listened to him while he talked say
IN table or a barrel among the ma Wo
merry or near the blast Many en- WI
yers welcome such efforts. knowing me
Il that they profit by their employ pul
becoming Christians Some years my
, H. L. CFegier of Washington Ind. Ter
head of great stave and heading tos
= ry, placed a gospel minister upon ehJ
Ply roll He wanted This evangel- 70
to make it his business to- speak a WI
rd for Christ 10 every one Of his en- IN
yees ''beca Ese.T said Mr.: CEegfer. nov
tside of the spiritual results It pays lhe
Ell I have such a gospel worker Ine
,ng nv men There is loss, dl,.,v-r.T-s.v,. for
5. less rows. less crimes less fndO- naI
,e and sl,DthfuIness. and my men she
happier and better and more' faith Jes
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