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


you had the true love of Jesus Christ
IN your heart. you would act differently
toward your unknown neighbor You
would enter his home for Jesus sake,
with at least the same Intensity as a
life insurance agent hunts up men
and women for his insurance com
pany You would enter the strangers
home, near to your door, with at least
the same earnestness as if you had to
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
Christian man can truly love his neigh
Dor unless he is personally interested
in his neighbours 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 sim
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 Mo-
| hammedan priest opened the Bible, and
while he read he pointed to 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 ye,
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. Will 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 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
or the Eskimos? Shall we not be will
ing to kneel in prayer in our neighbors'
parlors as we'll as send missionaries to
preach standing upon the muddy banks
of the Ganges?
Would that the dumb lips of Chris
tan testimony might be opened in the
store and on the street, in the factory
and by the cashiers desk; opened when
you are tying up bundle; opened when
you are taking down the goods from
off the shelf; opened when you are bid
ding the little cashgirl good night
opened when you are giving the last
instructions to your foreman; opened
in the same way as were the lips of
poor old one armed black man who
while he cleaned my shoes on Penn
sylvania avenue, in our national CAPT
tai, taught me one of the mightiest les
sons of trust and faith in God l eve
learned!
ooh" says some man or woman sit
. | ting before me, Il could not speak
. word for Christ in the store. 1t woult
not be appropriate. Such course a
, that would be resented not only by m.
employers, but also by the employees.
Would it, my brother? l think such
course would often be gladly welcome
in the store instead of being resented
I have had a great deal Of experienc
, with Christian workers. All of theI
r have told me that when they speak
:, word for Christ on the street or in tn
q store almost without exception the
: have been listened to kindly, respec
o fully and thankfully. Rev. DR.. L.
. Gorby, the present assistant pastor
;. this church, who has worked gres
:, deal among the factories and the store
8 has told me that the most respectf'
and grateful audiences he has ever az
dressed were those clad in OverallS an
which listened to him while he talke
from a table or barrel among the M
ehinery or near the blast. Many en-
u ployers welcome such efforts, KNOWN
IS we'll that they profit by their emplo
IS ees becoming Christians. Some yea
II ago II. L. Cregier of Washington, Int
ir the head of great stave and headiI
u factory, placed a gospel minister upt
x his pay roll. He wanted this evangt
" ist to make it his business to speak
I'd word for Christ to every one of his Ell
IS ployees because" said Mr.. Cregit
a Outside of the spiritual results it pa
he when | have such a gospel work
al among my men. There is less drunke
ix ness, less rows. less crimes, less inc
tn lence and slothfulneSs, and my m
nd are happier and better and more fat
nd full" Now, my Christian friends. wi
lis ruch a taStimopy as that before y(