The Penn's Grove record., 1903-08-14

that love seeks with total selfforgetfuI-
ness the happiness Of the object loved.
and so long as we know what 1t does and
how 1T behaves itself in the social fabric,
we ought to be quite content. And l want
you to notice at this point wherein love
Is superior to the most eloquent speech.
Eloquent speech may mean self advertise
ment. Love always means self placement.
Ihe gift in question" says the brilliant
Drummond, in his book entitled "The
Greatest Thing in the World" and which
l commend to you to read, twas once
splendid and dazzling. 1t was q brilliant
faculty drawing all eyes to the speaker
and all ears to MS voice" 1t is the gift OF
e%loeuence by which a man SWAPS the
mind and thrills the hearts of his hearers.
Now you can see how a man without love,
possessing such a power, gives to himself
advertisement, and the fact is that some
OF the most brilliant orators Of fame, and
among them occupants Of pulpits, are SO
fond of themselves and glory so much in
their e~loquenee, that they forget the other
elements that go to make up a manly Chris
tan character. And I want to say to
you that the mar possessing that ~eloquenee
Is IN constant danger. The attraction
which he has for the people always tends
to centre his mind upon himself; and by
N by ne gets to be greater # he is not
aware, than the Master Himself whom he
~
Love, on the other hand. is seff-eface-
ment. Love goes forth in benefcent min
lstry, alternating the wounds OF broken
lives all around. In perfect harmony
with this thought is the teaching Of the
Master Himself. You remember that
marvellous sermon in the mountain, in
which He says: Even so, let your light
shine before men that they shall see your
| good works and may glorify your Father
In heaven" The word $50 is to be en-
phasized as indicating the manner of the
shining. Light may be held SO close to
the eyes as to dazzle the eyes; light may
be held so close before the eyes of the
world as to dazzle the eyes of the world.
You are not to see the shining one, but
You are to see the fruits, the results Of the
shining. This is the way with the old
sun itself. You look out upon the lawns
IN the parks and the country side, and L
have never seen the parks more beautiful
than when / visited them soon after my
arrival in this city a few days ago. You
look out upon the grass and the growing
grams and the vegetation and the flowers
and you feast your eyes on the beauty and
the wealth of the earth's surface; and you
begin to say, whence came all this; who Is
the worker; who produced all this; and
you undertake to look up at the sun shin
ing .yonder in the zenith of the heavens.
And the old sun, for your termeTity, viii
l LID leu AOt IL 11lO tOCI Eyes anu
Will leave a mark upon you that you will
not forget for many a day. Do not look
at me; look at the grass; look at the grow
ing grain; look at the trees-look at the
work, not at the worker. So with God
Himself. No man has seen God at any
time; We see Him only in Jesus Christ.
A woman over here in New York City,
some years ago, came to the City Mission
Society and sought the secretary. Il
would lsJ-a - IL z4-.1kl,-- e. Nl -
not. eloquent IN speech, but / think l
could distribute tracts among the poor
and needy. Give me a suitable supply and
| will render this service to my Lord"
She was supplied abundantly. On going
down the street she saw a policeman TAX
ing a poor woman to the station; she
went to the station house and there
learned the facts in the woman's case and
when the woman was to be discharged.
When she came out she was met by this
good woman, who threw her arms around
her neck and kissed her; and the woman
said: MY God! Why did you do thaty
No one has kissed me since my mother
died; why did you do that?" And the
kn6aAe,, ouhhiYess It was Jesus SEM me
let me say that that life was redeemed by
the kiss of that Christian woman, whose
heart was full of love for her kind. This
is the kind I mean. No eloquent preach
ing from the most brilliant preacher that
You have ever had in the city could have
reached that life as did that kiss. That
reminded her of her departed mother. A
poor young girl was dying in the city of
Paris and on seeing a Christian woman
who was a stranger to her, said to her:
you know | hate you Christians. You
have nothing to give but good advice.
You build fine institutions for us when we
have fallen, but you do nothing for US
fn Eaon nc from heinz fhr0u-n into fha
path of temptation" And no one but
that good woman, acting with Miss Hunt
in her benefcent work in the gay city of
Paris, understood the dying energy with
which she uttered those words. By and
by this woman won her into the kingdom
Of God, and just before she died said to
the Christian woman, who represented Tor
the first time Christianity unto her: LET
me die on something that is yours. Won't
you let me put my head on your pillow
I would like to die with my head on such a
pillow as your pure head has rested on" It
was granted. That is what | mean. That is
the ministry that is open to love. Over
yonder In the city OF Detroit. a reporter
called a little bootblack in the street to
polish his boots. The little fellow came,
but as he got out his brush and was
about to begin a big, brusk fellow came
along and said: you go away, Jimmy;
you go away. I viii do this" And the
reporter became indignant and said:
What do you mean by this?" 20, that
my has been sick in the hospital for more
than a month and he is not very strong
and we boys when we are not doing any
thing turn in and help him. Is that right,
Jimmy" eyes, that's right" And so
he said: "All right, go ahead" and as the
boy was plying his brush and his cloth,
and while he was so doing the reporter
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Of what You earn do you give to jimmy"
"Eh?" "Nhat per cent. of what you earn
do you give to JIMMY" II don't know
what YOU mean" aHow much of the
money that you receive do you keep and
how much do you give to Jimmy, DO
you think / am a sneak? l give all of it
to him, and so do all the boys; we don't
reporter said: "You are a pretty good fell
low; here is a quarter, and you keep ten
cents and give fifteen cents to Jimmy"
mo. you don't" and he gave the quarter
to Jimmy. That was diviner, that was
nobler far than the grandest e~loquence
that Brooklyn ever heard.
Now notice in the second place, and I
will make this point brief, the comparison
by which Paul sets forth the superiority
of love to e~loquence. He says, If / speak
with the tongues of men and angels, but
have not love, | am become as sounding
brass as a Changing cymbal. The gift with
out the grace is likened to the sounding
of brass, to the ciashing of cymbals of
bronze. A great many preachers boast
themselves of their soundness, sound In
their ~theology-and 1 am not saying any
thing against soundness in theology. And
one is sometimes tempted to say. Sound,
yes, that is what it Is, but it is without a
ministry and without meaning for a hum
CRY world. A Changing e~ymbaf-noise, con-
fusion, but no ministry. never helpful
for a weary, hungry world. Let US
be something more than iangliag
voices, changing noises. Let us have
reality, commences OF heart, genu-
ineness of love, commences of reli-
gion; that is what tells. That is what
the world wants. That is what it is look
ing for. That is what God is begging
for. | read a story some months ago in
one of your newspapers: Two men who
had met to talk on the corner of a street.
While they were talking a hand organ be-
gan to grind out its dismal music. One of
the men said, let us go on and get away
from that wretehed stuff. And the other
said, now, l win not let you talk like that
about that music. Why, do YOU know
that that was "See the Conquering Hero
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