Milford chronicle., 1903-08-21

the son was able TO unu MS stepping
stones TO a throne. God, l believe,
often uses the sharp pruning hook Of
death to spiritually develop his unde-
velopcd children. He takes away his
Moses in order to throw the spiritual
RESPONSIBILITIES upon his JOshuas He
saws to us one and all: 1t is not right
for you. oh, young man, to learn to
lean upon your fathers and mothers
spiritual life! You must learn to lean
unon my divine arm, and mine alone,
And in the leaning ! viii protect thee
and care for thee, as l did for your
Christian naraDts"
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The sweetest Notes Ss God.
The sweetest gospel music is more
often found to be the echo of a dirge
than TO come from a fantasia or a SER
enade or IL dlthyramb. Mozart's Last
Roouiem." composed for his own OBJ
se0uics, was his masterpiece. y beau
tiful legend teaches this. Many years
ago a German knight wanted to change
the towers of his castle into great
gpolian harp. When the strings were
FIRST strung from the towers no sound
came therofrom. No note was struck.
because the slender fingers Of the spir-
its of the summer winds We're not
strong enough to bend the strings. al
though they were able to lightly touch
them. Bu when winter came, then
the billiards. had wrists punched with
muscles with the strong touch of mu-
steal masters they began to run the
gamut of every scale. Accompanied by
the shriekings of the tornadoes. the
strings of the castled towers began to
vibrate and send forth the sweetest OF
melodies. God sounds his sweetest
notes upon the harp strings Of our spir-
itlal hearts when we seem to be the
most weak and helpless. He often de-
veloDs his children by the pruning hook
of trouble. He makes us lean heaviest
upon the divine heart whcn our own
hearts have been gashed open by the
cravediggcr's spade. and when the
dark NIGHTS OF sorrow have obliterated
an consultations save the one star
which cleaned over the Bethlehem crib
on the night that Jesus was born.
God will bless the Christian workers
of the present generation because
Christ has emphatically and distinctly
promised thar by the weak things Of
this world God shall confound the
mighty. That means that no child Of
God is too young TO lead sinners to the
cross: no Christians arm is too weak
to wio!d sickle i'm Gods harvest field;
10 lin is too dumb TO utter q farreach-
ing prayer if that lip only belongs 10
a true disciple Of Jesus Christ.
when Elouuence SIeaat silence.
We can prove this statement by re-
counting the history Of the famous re
vfval services held among the students
of Edinburgh few years ago. Henry
Drummond Of blessed memory. Henry
Drummond. whose chief mission was
given to The redemption for Christ OF
student life, gave an account of this
movement on his last visit to this
country. A couple of athletes OF the
University of Edinburgh were about tC
sail as foreign missionaries. Iheil
classmates wanted TO give them biz
farewell. They hired one Of the lar
gost halls in tLcci-y AS those athletes
were about TO 20 forth as miss!onalie
they prepared a Zig religious service
After these young men had departed
few Of the Christian students left IL
the college came together and decided
that they ought to hold such re
licious service every week. Ihes
services we're to be addressed for tn
most part by the students themselves
A committee was selected and arrange
ments made Every student who wa
asked to address that meeting had t
have two characterstics-the one,
pure. noble life: the other, he had To b
n man OF plain speech. The only ba
TO an invitation to address that meetin
was eloauancc. If man was know
! to have the silver tongue OF speec
I he was compelled to keep a 'Golde
j silence" What was the result of thes
series of meetings. held Sunday afte
Sunday in old Edinburgh by plain, III
/ assuming ana. in most cases. by ION
i talent" students? Not only did crowd
of students weekly fill the hall, bT
,, scores and hundreds of young me
. were brought to confess Christ I'll
!, Ike of that religious influence ha
y never before been seen in old Scotlan'
+ although Edinburgh had been blessC
4 with pulnitcers whose names wei
+ famous all around the world.
Then the result of these meetin.
n began to spread. These humble, ol
. talent young men in patches Of fo'
II and five were sent TO other colieg
= and universities and also % villag
;, and towns. These plain young me
by consecrated Christian lives n
only moved Edinburgh, but also
= : Scotland and all England and
y Wales and. TO some extent religious
- Influenced tie whole world Mark va
- - my brother that religious inhuen
- was not started by a Jonathan +
wards or a Robert McCheyne OF