Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28


Of the Lord Jesus Christ is even abb,
to accomplish that wonder, and it car
accomplish it, 0 man. in your heart
so that you can go to your successful
brother and say: Brother, give me
thy hand. l rejoice with you in YOU
success. How can l help that success:
to become greater"
why Not RejOlceg
And why should you not rejoice in
your brothers success2 When does
your brother need your true help and
friendship more than when he is scOr-
ing a success? Is not the time Of sue
cess just the time when he is most apt
to be thrown of his guard and destroy
ed by evil temptations? Is not that
the critical moment when the Satanic
tempters are ready to scrape and fawn
about him, as the seductive young fat
terers did about RehObOam when he
went to Shechem to be crowned, as
they did about young King Charles IL.
after the English restoration, as they
did about poor Louis XVI. when he
came to the French throne only
lad twenty years of age? Do you
not feel that your successful brother
needs your affectionate and hearty CO.
operation in this his hour of success
rather than your sneers and your OpprO-
brium? 1t is almost time for you to
cease sitting around and sulking be-
cause of his victories. Do not try to
undermine his usefulness by pulling
down the temple of fame which he has
reared, even as Samson pushed against
and cracked the pillars which tumbled
the roof Of the temple of Dagon down
upon the skulls of the screaming and
crouching Philistines.
If Il brother needs your help in time
of success. does he not also need you
all the more Ito weep with him when
he weeps?" Does he not need you to
come to his sympathetic aid when all
the world seems black and when it tru-
Iy seems, on account of his wrOngdo-
ings, that he can never become a no
bic man again? Does he not need your
help when, fiOundering in the quick
sands of sin, be seems to be deserted
by God and man alike and to be only
the sport and plaything of devils?
And does he not also need your help
when. in the awful hours of black
temptation, he is about to yield as well
as in the black hours of remOrse after
he has done wrong?
II man vino has done wrong or is
about to do wrong needs your help,
how much more does woman in her
hours Of trial? l always had a great /.
deal of sympathy for the prayer of I
that woman who said. 20 God, keep /
me from going over the precipice Of |
sin, for if my feet ever leave the path /
OF virtue even thou canst not bring (.
me back to the straight path again"
And yet how many women there are |
today being torn and lacerated by the 1
of sin who could be brought .
back to live honest, pure. true, respect
able lives if only the Christian men
and the women in the name of Christ
would so forth to bring them back!
The beginning of my text opens amid
the shouts and gay laughter of the
=
and mOans and the grOans of breaking
hearts. Brother, sister viii you today
in the name of Christ weep with
those that weep?" VIII you stretch
forth the broad. strong. loving hand of
rescue and say, Brother, sister, in the
name of Jesus Christ. give me thy
hand. and l will help thee up TO God.
10 sr,
cue?' VIII you do this for Christ?
win you weep with those that weep
and help others. no matter how far
astray their sinful feet may go or are
about to go?
Practical Test.
yes" answers some one, "from this
day promise to help all those in dis
tress that l can" You do? Well. then,
let me put that resolve to a practical
test At large religious gathering in
the east where a collection was about
10 be taken up for famine stricken
ireland that big hearted philanthro-
Dist William e. Dodge arose and said:
Gentlemen. we have been hearing
some wonderful speeches about this
famine. Some of us have been crying,
some praying. Now l want to put your
gospel sympathy to a practical test
What Ireland needs is bread, bread
bread, bread, bread! In order to buy
that bread my sympathy is worth just
$500. What is your sympathy worthT
AZ William E. Dodge put his sympa-
-hy to a practical test want to put
your sympathy 10 the same kind of a
est. You say as a Christian man. by
he grace Of God l will always help
hose who need help" Well, here is a
convict just liberated from jail. Work.
lie will do any honest work that he