Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-08-31

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be spent in loyal service for those who
know Him not 1t is not necessary to
discuss the need for laborers; this Is
SO apparent that it needs no discus
sion. What we need to-day Is to
know the remedy and then apply 1t
to the disease. More than one earnest
minister of the Gospel has presented
the needs of his field, and then sup
posed that the people would flock to
his support only to be sadly disap-
pointed. No, the Masters way is the
best way. He did not tell the disciples
to 20 out and exhort the people to be-
come laborers for Him; He sent them
TO the owner Of the vineyard with Il
request that he send forth laborers
into his harvest; pray We therefore
the Lord of the harvest that He send
forth laborcrs into His harvest
PRAYER is the divine method, and / be-
lieve that more wOrkmen have gone
forth in response to definite. earnest
petition offered by men ana women
who have felt the need for laborers
than by the use Of any other method,
Let the members of the church begin
to feel the multitudes without, let
InPlll DPS1ll W Dlut 'htt I''l''' ''"'
be saved. let them ask the Lord of the
harvest to send forth laborers ana
hundreds of those who are today win
in the very shadow of our churches
will be led into the way of life,
And now. in conclusion, may l say
that those who are led to pray for the
multitude are usually led into larger
service on their behalf. Thirty years
ago. saws a recent writer in religious
paper. the region about London docks
contained as large a population as any
district in Africa Back of the huge
warehouses were innumerable courts
and alleys filled with fog and dirt, ana
every horror of sight and sound ana
smell. 1t was Il rendezvous for the
lowest types of humanity. The wealthy
and influential classes in this settle
ment were the rumscllprs and gam
blers. Children were born and grew to
middle age in these precincts VINO
never heard the name of Jesus except
in an oatl. Thirty thousand souls were
included in one parish here, nut we
CLERGYMAN never ventured out OF inc
church to teach. A young man nameu
Charles I.owdcr, belonging to &n ola
English family. happened to pass
through the district Just before leaving
Oxford. His classmates were gong
into politics. or the army, or the par,
full of ambition and hope, TO make a
name in the world: but Lowder heard
rs he said. "a cry of mingled agony,
suffering, laughter and blasphemy
coming from those depths. that rang III
his ears go where he would On ms
knees before his Maker he asked 'nat
helm might he sent to those who were
diving for the Water of Life. God era.
ciously led him to see that the man
who felt the need the most would be
the one who could do the most for
the people. and he gave mp all plans
for his life and went to labor among
those for whom he had prayed. He
took a house in the lowest Sums ana
lived in it. He preached every day IN
the streets. and for months was peI''u
with hrickhatS. shot at and driven DacK
with curses. He had unfortlinuhtely
no clo0uence with which to reach them;
he was slow. stammcring speaker
but he was bold. patient ana in earnest
Even the worst ruilian learned to re-
spect the tall thin curAtc, whom he
saw stopping the worst street fights
nursing the victim of AsiNtic cholera
and facing mobs bent on taking ms
life.
Mr.. Lowdcr lived in London docks
twenty three years. Night schools were
opened industrial schools and n refuge
for drunkards, discharged prisoners
and fallen women. A large church was
OF piIn
chief assistants in the work were 'ht
men and women whom be had rescued
from the paths that ahut on hrll. y
visitor said that the church dinHr'd
from others in that "all were in surh
deadly earnest" Mr.. Lowdcr broke
down under his worl; aud died m VII
lore in the Tyrol whittier he had gone
for n rest. He WAS brought BACK 10
the docks where he had worked so
long. Across the bridge where lH M"
once been chased by n Rob bent on
taking his life. his body Was reNeren'ly
carried while the police were Obliged
70 keep back the crowd of SOhhinG poo
pie who pressed forward to get II
rlimpsp Of "Father" LoWGcr, rs they
called him. No such funeral says Il
London paper has ever been seen III
England. The whole population or
East London turned out, stopping work
for that day: the special trains run 10
Chisplhurst were filled, aud thoN'ah"S
followed on loot, miserable mon ana
women whom he had lifted up from
bArbarsm to lie and hope. -.
Charles I.owdcr had seen the mul'i,
tude. the compassion of christ had
filled his heart. his p"aEer lmd he'n
answered. AMI If he could havr looked
over The battloments Of Il nN.n mat
day he would have rpai,T'l That nus
labor had not been in vain j" tie LORD