Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-11-25
Caln1aSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaae. d. d.

Los Angeles. Cal. Nov 19.-For the
old folks. the young folks. the iniluen.
tial and the humble there are words Of
cheer and congratiilatiOn In this ser
mon. as well as encouragement In well
doing The text Is Romans xvi. 8. "Sa.
lutte Urbane. our helper In Christ. and
Staclys. my beloved"
Have you ever wandered over any OF
the great battlcficlds of the worldi
Have you ever had guide lead you
oveg the blood soaked soil of Gettys.
burg? Then you have been struck with
the fact that no one squad. no one COM
pany. no one regiment. no one brigade,
no one division alone fought that bat
tie. The success of General George q.
Meade or of Robert T.. Lee depended
not more upon the generals being
faithful than upon all the colonies and
corporals and private soldiers being
faithful and working together and in
unison. The difference between n con.
quering army and mob Is the differ
ence between men working together In
an intelligent way TO achieve desired
purpose and II conglomerate collection
of individuals. each claiming that his
own will Is the equal. If not the supe-
rior, of all the other wills and intelli.
gences about him.
What IL true OF the army Is absolute
~ true In reference 10 business. How
Ia the Panama canal to he dug? by
the United States commissioners ap-
pointed by the president! BY the chief
engineer! BY the contractors: oh. no.
As In the mercantile establishment. the
buyers, the advertising agents. the
noorwalkers, the statesmen. the delivery
wagons. all work together In unison
and each rs u cooperative agent helps
the other. so In the Panama canal oil
the different departments are working
together. Each man Is helped by some
other man. and each man tries TO help
the other men. Now. what Is true In
the army and In the business and in
the contractors world Is equally true
in regard TO church work. Here we do
not lind the minister himself doing all
the work Paul himself could not do
it. He had his helpers. his associates.
his workers. He himself tells us that
Urbane and Stachys were his nssoci.
ates Ia Gods work. Neither can the
church members make II successful
church unless there is cooperation In
the pulpit Thus the purpose of my
l. IN.
the minister's best friends; who are the
men and the women upon whom he
should most wisely lean ana whose ad-
vice lie should be most anxious to fol-
low. | speak thus not only to help the
pew, but also to answer letters which
have come TO me from all parts of the
country. written by young ministers.
asking what course they should take In
reference To their church work.
Who are the minister's best fricndsi
In the first place, they are the old
folks. They are the men ami the wo-
men who have been walking with Je
sus Christ twenty. forty. fifty or even
sixty years. They are the church mem.
beers whose hair is white. whose step
is often iniirm and whose hearing
sometimes must have the sounding
board of the palm of the hand back OF
the ear In order To hear the sermons
Alright. But. though their eyes may be
weak and their hearing muilled. with
those eyes they have been reading the
promises of God. and with those ears
they have been listening TO his words
of comfort through many dark trials
which have come To them year In ana
year out perhaps for half century.
Now, my friends. the minister of the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ can
not afford to turn his back upon such
counsclOrs; neither can the church
members themselves afford To stop
their ears to the words of advice which
these aged Christians can speak out OF
their past experiences.
The Value of Experience.
Is not the man of experience In the
temporal world TO be more followed
than the young STRIPPING whose knowl-
edge consists only of theories ana gem
eralitics: suppose you had very Sc
rious illness. suppose n dangerous OPP
Grafton had TO be performed upon you.
for whom would you sendf Would