Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08

fw0store and ten. It needs young
s,srson TO work for Christ among the
young no. my aged gray haired
friend: sou are wrong. There Is only
one person more fitted to work among
lie young than q Christian young man
or ycunv woman That person IS q
Christian gray haired man or woman
VINO is still blessed with q young heart
Though may live to be sixty seventy
or even eighty years Of age. I never ex-
2 ct to live long si0Hgh 20 ontefow my
rigrfs to be an active member Of
Yoi.ng Peoples Christian association.
AS g castor always expect to be IN
such close touch with the young ioihS
Of my .hurch that I can sing such
song as cid fhe sweet poet Of old:
And whea. with envy. time Transported
Shall thinls 70 rob rs Of our JOYS
YouIi in your girls again be courted,
And In 60 vooiug with my boys
Yes; the youhg Se9ple always ought
to be "our boys and "our girls in
Christ. Aged Christian friend. great
opportunities OF gospel usefulness are
open to you among the young folks if
you will only 90 to them IN the spirit OF
loving conservation. They are open il
you viii only 90 to the young folks in
plain. practical way in the name Of
Jesus Christ
Missionary Work.
Another glorious helc Of Christian
usefulness is TO be found IN missionary
work. What do / mean By thatf Chris
tan labor among tie cannibals Of the
south seas? Among the fur r0bed Eski-
mos, in their igloos Of the icy northf
Among the tattooed Maoris Of New
Zealand and the half civilized natives
Of the orient? Oh yes. They are all
Included in that term, missionary
work. The divine command. "Go ye.
therefore. and teach all nations. bap-
tlzing them in tile name of the Fa-
ther and the Son and the Holy Ghost,
has a worldwide significance. One Of
I the first duties of a Christian is to
work for the foreign missionary socie-
4 fy of his church. BY money donations,
by needlework and by pledges you
should re-enforce our Christian mis-
sionaries laboring in foreign fields
You cannot have a worlds Saviour
unless you feel that the black man Of
( Borneo ard the yellow man Of China
and the Bengali Of India are your
brothers brothers in Christ
But in reference to missionary work
had in mind also another interpre.a-
ton. mean Christian labor among
those who are living in your baek al
f Ieys. Christian labor among the poor
and the social outcasts Christian labor,
as a lady some time ago expressed it to
me in a beautiful letter She wrote
asking ME If knew of any crippled
child who had no friends She wanted
to adopt that child She we'll knew
that the ablebodied children might
ultimately be able to take care Of them
selves, but the crippled child never.
4 Therefore she wanted to adopt a Grip
pied child and care for the boy while
she lived and leave money enough in
her win to care for the child after she
was dead. All, that is the true mission
airy spirit To care for the cripples
and the helpless-the moral and phys
ical cripples. You can find them in the
slums. You can hear them knocking
at your door You can see them push
ing past you in the twilight
How can the Christian work in the
slumsg By giving at least one evening
Of each week if possible to work in one
Of the city's rescue missions. You have
.1 .--.-.. Co =, 4I,,a1 ,,,ooffl,fra q nd
sing. They need you. You know or
should know how to pray. Go there
and lead in prayer II you can do no
more you can at least give out a hymn
book and smile a welcome Go there
and do that How can you do mission
airy work in the back alleyi Go and
visit the poor homes that are only
stones throw from your door. You viii
find there people who are silently yet
nobly struggling for life. It was well
said by great Christian leader "The
deserving poor are those whom you
have to seek and not those who seek
YOU" Go in Christ's name and hunt
/ the deserving poor-the halt the lame
the blind. There is something wrong
about that CnlsLan VINO WEeA haHha-
giving day rolls around does not know
at least one family TO which he can IN
Christs name send q dinner There is
something wrong about that Christian
who has never yet been able to hold a
cottage prayer meeting in q poor mans
The Relief Of sunerinN.
Another glorious field for Christian
activity IS found in hospital work. It is
found where Christ spent most Of his
earthly ministry namely. among the
sick. 1t is found in going Through the
wards filed with white cots and leav
ing here a flower and there a word Q
encouragement and yonder n prayer.
is found ia the children's wards, whe
many little ones are cursed with
tile struggle for physical existRn
cursed from the moment that they we
born It is found IN the old peopl
homes, where the aged and the ply