Connecticut western news., 1903-08-20

| never allow the gospel work of past | generations to die. Christian work has immortality. Like the government of l England it goes on uninterruptedly l from generation to generation. When l King William ". breathed his last the | archbishop of Canterbury immediately l hurried to the home of young girl. l He knocked at the door of her palace until 1t was opened. Then he sum- moned this young girl to arise and come down and meet him. When she entered the parlor he bowed to her, | saying: ''The king is dead! Long live | the Queenr' When that young girl, | after she had grown to be an old wom- | an of eighty-six, lay dying the watch | CTS stood anxiously about her bed. As soon as she had breathed her last, and | the attending physician pronounced her | dead. her eldest son, Edward, was | greeted with the exclamation, Long | live the kingr' Rulers may come and rulers may go, but the government goes l on, no matter what human hand may | grasp the scepter. When our first mar 1 tyred president fell in Ford's theater, l James A. Garfield, who twenty years later dropped under an assassln's bull | let. powerfully said, Abraham Lincoln
 may be shot, but the government at | Washington still lives" Like a true l government, the gospel work of the ! past generations shall never die. 1t must live on in the world. It is for us | to continue it in our gospel faith and | in our Christian lives.
 | Al, zI,2 ~x1v. xNAA EorI~ ,l1k compares Christian work to sower l going forth to SOW. Some of that seed | will surely fall upon good ground, | which will yield some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred fold. It must l reproduce itself multipotently in the l human lives of the succeeding genera | lions. When Dwight l.. Moody died | did his work die? Without doubt MT. | Moody was the greatest evangelist of | the past century. His personality not | only appealed to sinners, but also to | the greatest Christian workers of his | day. His voice and pen raised vast sums of money for Christian work. He was gospel messenger who | stirred England and America on his | evangelistic tours. He built the famous | Moody institute at Chicago. He built | the famous institutes at Northfield. He | gathered among the Massachusetts | hills college men as well as ministers l in annual conference for prayer and | communion with God and for the study | of the Bible. Suddenly, aye, as a flash, Mir. Moody was struck down by the | death angel. One day on his way to | hold great evangelistic services in Kan sas City, the next day upon his death | bed. What was the result of Mr.
 Moody's death? Has any great evan l gelist been found to take his place? '.Ah, mo-" you answer; mot one, not | oRer' We'll, my friend, if no one has
 been able to take MT. Moody's place I | can tell you this one truth-Mr. Moody when living was never as powerful as MT. Moody when dead. The Chicago institute and Moody church have never
 been so great as they are today. The institutions at Northfield were never doing better work than at the present time. And, what is more, the very sum- mer after MT. Moody died the mightiest Northfield conference ever known up to that time was held, in spite of the
 
 and the best poised brain and the big gest heart Northfield ever produced
 were lying silent in the grave. MT.
 Moody's gospel seed planting yielded forth some thirty, some sixty and some a hundred fold. It was Gods work, and Gods work alone.
 God Wi1 Bless Our Work. When Charles H. Spurgeon died did l his work die? Oh, He---6od ts stf1I
 blessing the mission of the Metropol- itan tabernacle and of the London
 Pastors college. He Is still blessing the work of Charles H. Sturgeon be- cause 1t was intrinsically inspired by the Holy Spirit. He is blessing it
 through Spurgeon's successors. God will raise us up as modern Joshuas if we only live for him. He will bless in l our lives the work of the Christian men and women with whom we have come into contact in the past. He will make us an essential link in a great chain of Christian influences which shall reach through all eternity.
 God will bless the lives of modern
 Christian workers even through the
 
 spiritual pruning hook. 1t lops off certain branches of the great tree of the human race In order that other
 branches may better develop and grow. We are all ready to recognize the use l fitness of a pruning hook in a tenn poral sense. Why can we not do this in a spiritual sense?
 To the spiritual weakling the death | of the strong Christian is not always
 a misfortune, but blessing. Let me illustrate this truth in a simple way: Some years ago there lived in your town q noble, true man, who was the
 father of large family. Suddenly he died. The friends who came into the
 bereft home not only sympathized with the widow because she had lost her husband, but because she seemed | to have no visible means of support. Her eldest son was a nothing. He was hothouse plant. He had de- pended in the past entirely upon his | father. Mentally and morally he seem | ed to be entirely unfltted to assume the responsibilities of. the home. But hard 1 ly had the father dled when a change
 
 l a clinging vine he stiffened into stal-
 wart oak. He went to work to supply bread for that family of little ones. He became the staff upon which his
 mother leaned. It was the death of his | father that developed him. It was the | hillock of paternal grave by which
 the son was able to find his stepping l stones to a throne. God, I believe, often uses the sharp pruning hook of
 death to spiritually develop his unde- veloped children. He takes away his Moses in order to throw the spiritual responsibilities upon his Joshuas. He
 says to us one and all: Tt is not right
 for you, oh, young man, to learn to
 lean upon your fathers and mothers | spiritual life! You must learn to lean upon my divine arm, and mine alone. | And in the leaning I will protect thee | nd Pnr