The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-01-15

lean nag mas rorW-nve mucrenU stuIe,
IN one gOvernmont-One great govern
ment with fortynve different distinct
states. Beautiful is the symbolism
But is not the gospel banner just as
beautiful i'm SYMBOL Does It not make
us one with God?
God Is with living Christian workers
I'm the continuity of service. lie will
never allow the gospel work Of past
generations to die. Christian work has
Immortality. Like the government OF
England it goes on uninterruptedly
from generation TO generation. When
| King William ~. brcathed his last the
archbishop Of Canterbury Immediately
hurried to the home of a young girl.
He knocked at the door OF her palace
until it was opened. Then be 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 queenw When that young girl,
after she had grown to DE an old w0m-
an Of elghty-six. lay dying the watch
ers 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 acclamation, Long
live the kingw Rulers may come and
rulers may go, but the government goes
on, no matter what human hand may
grasp the scepter. When our first mar
tyred president fell in Ford's theater
James A. Garfield, who twenty years
later dropped under an assassin's bull
let, powerfully said, Abraham Lincoln
may be shot, but the government at
Washington still lives" Like a true
government, the gospel work Of the
past generations shall never die. 1t
must live on I'm the world. 1t is for US
to continue it in our gospel faith and
I'm our Christian lives.
In the fourth chapter Of Mark, Christ
compares Christian work 10 n sower
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 II must
reproduce itself muldpotently I'm the
human lives Of the succeeding genera
tions. When Dwight l.. Moody died
did his work die? Without doubt Mr.
Moody was the greatest evangelist Of
the past century. His personality not
only appealed TO sinners, but also 10
the greatest Christian workers Of his
day. His voice and pen raised vast
sums Of money for Christian work
He was a gospel messenger who
stirred England and America on his
evangellstic tours. He built the famous
Moody institute at Chicago. lie built
the famous Institutes at Mortified He
gathered among the Massachusetts
hills college men as well as ministers
in annual conference for prayer and
communion with God and for the study
of the Bible. Suddenly. aye, as a fash,
Mr.. Moody was struck down by the
death angel. One day on his way 10
hold great evangelistic services I'm Kan
sas City, the next day upon bis death
bed. What was the result Of Mr.
Moody's death? Has any great evan
gelist been found TO take his place?
"Ah, no." you answer; mot one, not
oneT Well, my friend, If no one has
been able to take Mr. Moody's place l
can tell you this one truth-Mr Moody
when living was never as powerful as
Mr.. Moody when dead The Chicago
institute and Moody church have never
been so great as they are today. The
institutions at Mortified were never
doing better work than at the present
time.
When Charles II. Spurgeon died did .
his work die? Oh, no. God is still /
blessing the mission Of the Metropol- /
itan tabernacle and Of the London .
Pastors college. lie IS still blessing /
the work Of Charles II. Spurgeon be- .
cause it was intrinsically inspired by .
the Holy Spirit He is blessing it .
through Surgeons successors. God .
will raise us up os modern Joshuas If
we only live for him. lie viii bless in
our lives the work Of the Christian
men and women with whom we have
come into contact in the past. lie will
make us an essential link I'm a great
chain Of Christian influences which
shall reach through all eternity.
God will bless the lives OF modern
Christian workers even through the
iesth Of his servants. Death is often
4 spiritual pruning hook. It lops of
certain branches Of the great tree OF
he human race I'm order that other
may better develop and grow.
We are all ready TO recognize the use
'ulness of a pruning hook I'm a tenn
)oral sense. Why can we not do this
n a spiritual sense?
To the spiritual weakling the death
II the strong Christian is not always
/ misfortune, but n blessing. Let me
Illustrate this truth in a simple way:
some years ago there lived I'm your
own a noble, true man, who was the
sther Of a large family. Suddenly he
lied. The friends who came into the
,sreft home not only sympathized |
With the widow because she had lost
Ter husband, but because she seemed '
o have no visible means Of support
Ter eldest son was a nothing He J
vas a hothouse plant He had de- {
ended in the past entirely upon bis
ather. Mentally and morally be SEEM
d to be entirely untitled TO assume the
responsibilities Of the home. But bard
= had the father died when a change
ame over the boy. Instead Of being
cllnging vine he stifened into a stall
rart oak. He went 10 work TO supply
read for that family OF little ones.
Ie became the staf upon which his 4
iother leaned. II was the death Of bis
lther that developed him. IL was the
lllock Of a paternal grave by which
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