Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-08-06

THAT man 1s no good. He IL mean and
contemplate. He is lazy, despicable
shirk." have had business men come
to me and ask: What shall do?
have entered into business partner
ship with such and such man. But
he Is lazy, fndolent, useless dead
weight. He will not think of work.
And yet he expects me to divide the
profits with him. He Is q shirlS, Use
less shirl. And IL there is anything /
dcspise 1t is shirk, draining and sap
ping my energies, as the vampires In
NEUROLOGICAL times used, to suck out the
life's blood Of their human victims"
The shsrk In Religion.
Now, II yorl' despise q shirk In pleas
ure and despise shirk in business,
how is It that you are willing to be
yourself shfrk in religion? You, my
brother, believing in Jesus Christ and
hoping some day to be eternally saved
by his blood, ought in common hon
esty to fully realize that your actions
toward the church are just as despica-
BILE and contemplate as the Sinking
characteristics wiIich you despise in
others. You are practically saying to
yourself: II want to some day reach
heaven: but in the meantime I want
my wife, my mother. my sister, my
daughter to do all my praying and
working in the church. When am in
my last sickness want their minister
to come and fix things all up for me
in spiritual sense. And when I am
dead | want their minister to state
over my casket that I have repented
at the eleventh houv and have been
saved all right In other words, want
to win every JOY and hope of the re-
Ngious faith without lifting n hand
for Christ, without doing one stroke of
work in the Masters service Oh, my
brother, such a statement as that is so
mean and despicable | do not believe
you have ever fully realized what your
gospel shirking has signified. Come
man. and be true man in the spiritu
al as we'll as in the temporal way.
Come and take off your coat in holy
enthusiasm. DO not compel the wom-
en- folks of your families to longer
bear the brunt of the gospel struggle.
At it in the name of the Lord Jesus.
At ii now. At it all the time, Hear
the plea of the manifest Christian man
who ever lived. This plea he made to
men: Help those women. Help
those womenr' Help them now.
a strong, robust, manly man compels
the admiration of other men. There is
a popular theory abroad that "A manly
man can never fasciuate the mascu-
line world as a beautiful woman can.
But l do not think that that theory IS
true. / know it is not in my own case.
l also know it is not true with many
of my gentlemen friends. Often, when
| walking through the crowded thor
oughfares of Chicago. | have had Il
member of my family say, Did You
ever see more beautiful face than
that?" "Who? Wherc?" | would ask.
"Why, that beautiful woman who was
walking there with that man" "Oh. "
| would answer, II did not see the
woman, but did sec the man, | was
watching him very closely. My, He
was a strong man. There was a some
thing in the look of his eye, in the sci
| OF his mouth, in the strength of his
shoulders and in his well poised, self
| confident walk that proved 10 me he
was leader among men. / did not see
| the woman. but what a fine Spccimt Il
of man he wasi' | believe that the
fascination which It strong man has
upon me is the same fascination which
| lfa no al tN NIX
| tai weaklings and masculine nOncntl
! ties who think that the chief purpose
| for which man was created was to
! eat and sleep, to dress and undress.
If manly man is to have such a
great influence upon other men, who
will be able to do your Christian work
unless you are willing to do it? There
are persons and spheres which YOU. and
only you, can reach The women who
have labored with Paul in the gospc
cannot do it. Your mother, wife, OF
sister, or daughter cannot do il. Yor
know that there are today down ii
your store some clerks whom no human
being can touch for Christ ms you
their employer, can touch, if you will.
Would you not be a Christian mor
chant like William f. Dodge, or
| Christian statesman like Govcrnol
George n. Briggs. or Christian soldier
like General o. o. Howard or \. W
Reilly, or a Christian physician lilc
Charles Jewett, or a Christian lay
president Of college like Mark Hop
kins? These men had great inhuenc,
in the financial, or the professional o.
the political realm. Their greatest ant
most far reaching influence, however
was when, as earnest, consccrateC
Christian leaders they stood before til,
young men of this world as living OK
amples of faith in Jesus Christ. The,
were manly Christians in the bus,
marts appealing to men.
True Courage.
Would you not like to be a Christian
scientist like Henry Drummond? Som
people are foolish enough to suppos
that his greatest work was In the lee
} lures on natural history, which he frs
delivered before his classes in the Ere
Church college of Glasgow. But te
} you that the greatest Of all the wor
: Henry Drummond did in his life wa
: done when he stood before the youn
university men Of Edinburgh, gathere
Sunday after Sunday within larg
hall of Edinburgh, and testified I
them Of Jesus Christ. At that time h
nodded mems hearts as well as thei
brains He nodded them. as | believ