Milford chronicle., 1905-06-09

maimed and the blind and the help
less? When a stream Of gold began to
= flow through your counting rooIni
when you got beyond the awful strug-
gle for daily bread; when you had
l.more than two garments in your ward
robe, did you get down upon your
knees and say, 20 God, l thank thee
that thou hast given me much. | Shank
thee that can now give TO others in thy
name. Now l can be eyes for the blind
and clothing for the naked and food
for the hungry and shelter for the
hOmeless?" Did you, do you make that
prayer? Like the ant. are you trying
to protect your people from outside
dangersg Like the ant, are you trying
to help the helpless and care for those
who are mentally, physically and spir-
| itually doomed unless you come to their
rescue?
The thoughtful love Of the ant for
her sisters was beautifully Illustrated
by an incident in the life of the noted
sage of Philadelphia, Benjamin Frank
/ lin. One day he discovered a number
Of ants feasting in mOlasses pail He
drove them out and suspended the pail
in midair from a hook in the center of
the ceiling Much to his surprise, after
Franklin had been reading for awhile,
he saw an overlooked ant which had
been hidden in the pail crawl out and
climb up the handle to the string and
up to the ceiling across the ceiling to
the side wall, down the side wall and
disappear. A short time afterward the
philosopher saw that same ant leading
a retinue of other ants. The process
sion followed her up the wall, over the
ceiling to the hook. down the string,
along the handle and into the pail OF
mOlasses again, where she and her
friends gOrged themselves with mo-
lasses until they could hold no more.
In the illustration of the ant going to
find her sisters that they might enjoy
a meal instead of eating selfishly alone
cannot you and l find a spiritual les
son?
ooh, yes" says some one, "but that
ant did not have to divide her meal. |
She had all she wanted. Why would
she not be willing to let her sisters eat |
their fill also? There was hanging /
from that rope big pail Of mOlasses."
True; true. But, my friend, have not |
most of us a big pail of molasses? If
you and l should give to the hungry
we would still have enough food left
for our own tables. If some of us
should clOthe the naked we would still
have enough warm garments for our
backs; if some of us should be crutches
for the lame we would still have our
own straight limbs which God has Civ
en- to us with which to walk and run
and leap as hind upon the mountain
side. Oh, like the ant, will you not be
kind and merciful and loving to your
fellow men who need your sympathy
md help?
Hard Workers the Females.
But cannot close without one sim
pie paragraph, to state that this ser
non of all sermons should teach its
essOn to our wives and mothers and
listers and daughters as no other ser
non l have ever preached. Have you I
lot noticed how l have always used
he feminine gender in speaking of the
mt. "She does this" "She does /
hat" "She does the other thing"
The reason l speak thus is because |
he naturalist tells us that the little
lack ant we see in the roadway be- 8
ongs to the feminine gender Yes, !
he hard workers of the ant hills are Z
lways females. No sooner is the !
uptial journey taken than the male
mt disappears. So, when l come to J
be house of God, to the place where
workers dwell, l find in
vitably that the wives and the moth &
RS and the sisters and the daughters
re the leaders there in Christian
Tork. As the mother rocks the cradle,
D is the child developed for God. 1t
the sisters Christian life that leads
le brother to Christ 1t is the way
/ which a wife lives that decides the
'ay the husband lives. o woman,
,day, with the ant hill as my pulpit,
ask you viii you not go to work for
hrist? Will you not, here and now,
your prayers and your
yes for the salvation Of your fathers
nd brothers and husbands and sons g..
God? Our powerful preacher Of -
lis morning is a priestess-the ant. 8
ill you not plead with your loved =
les to bow at Christ's altar, which is
low as the grave hillock, which is
low even as an ant hill? o God.
We us one generation of women for
hrist, and then we shall have a whole
orld saved for Christ!
copyright, 1906 by Louis Klopsch.l