Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-09-11


associate with these hayward girls.
how would she turn out what chance
for good would she have? All, little.
very, very little CHANGER And 50. nv
friends, if by the help of the Holy Spirit
you and l are going to save the young
people we must throw about them the
right kind Of Christian cOmpanionship.
We must WOO them to the church fell
lowship. We must make our young
peoples meetings so attractive that the
saloon and the billiard parlor and the
dance hall and the low theaters can
not. successfully beckon them for
six nights of the week and we
preach to them only ON Sundays.
We should cling to the young folks
Of our cities. We should go after
them and hold to them all the time.
The Sunday school teacher who never
finds an evening to visit her pupils
during the week will never have pupils
who will have time to sit at her feet
on Sundays. The young people Of
your church who never invite the
strangers to their houses or visit them
in their rooms or arrange semisocial
gatherings for them in the church will
never have the newcomers crowding
their services.
Kindness to the Weak.
But, lastly, I remark, we must try to
lfberate helpless men during their time
Of physical infirmities as well as dur
ing their time Of physical strength and
good health. Of all times during which
we can most appeal to helpless man
the best is when he is lying upon an
invalid's bed or in times Of agonizing
sickness. Sometimes a strong man or
woman is not easily susceptible to
kindness. But once let the strength
leave the arm, once let the brow be-
come hot and feverish, once let the
stomach refuse to retain it's nourish-
ment, and then the slightest kindness.
as a rule, will bring tears of gratitude
to the eye and words Of thankfulness
to the trembling lip. But, though the
sick bed is the greatest and best of all
Of US ever embrace the opportunity to
minister there in Gods name as we
should! Indeed, as horses will nearly
always shy and run away from a sick
horse which is lying upon the, ground,
so think we'll people, as a rule, shun
and fear sick people.
Why do you not spend your sum-
mers in Asheville or the Adirondacks
or in Colorado or in Redlands of south
ern California? Are they not beauti-
full places p 1 ask you. EYES," you
answer, "but cannot stand the sick
people. Wherever you go in these
places you find them there, weak and
pale. Coughing, coughing, coughing,
appalling coughing, is continually
heard on all sides. Sickness is to me
very depressing Why, I dislike to
look even at the windows Of a hospital
AS for going through a hospital, 1
would no more do it than l would
enter the operating room and see a
surgeon cut off a mans leg" But, my
friend, did you ever stop to think that
as others are sick so some day you
may be sick? Then will you not need
comfort? Week in and week out some
of these invalids have to lie in bed
with no callers. No one comes to
bring them a flower or utters a word
of prayer or speaks to them even one
word about Christ, yet by their very
sufferings these sick people are in Just
right mood to reach up and take Christ
by the hand, if you will only show
them how.
But before close l bethink myself
of one fact Perhaps you are not yet
fitted to go forth on these errands of
gospel mercy. Why? Perhaps YOU are
today hearing Gods voice which spoke
at the tomb Of the dead Lazarus and
yet you yourself are sitting or stand
ing before me bound hand and foot
with the graveclothes of past sins.
Then, my friend, will you let me re-
move them in Christ's name? Will YOU
let me take away that sin of the hand.
that sin of the foot, that sin of the eve.
that sin Of the lip, that sin of the
heart! Paul, the chief of sinners, was
once bound as you. Will you let me,
N Christ's name, speak unto you the
words of hope? Then, like the good
of old, will say unto thee,
blinded with sin, Brother Saul. Broth
or Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, whom
thou hast seen on the Damascus road.
Rath sent me that thou highest receive
thy sight and be filed with the Holy
Ghost" In Christ's name your eyes
may be opened. Then you will be
ready for his service Will you here
and now consecrate your life to taking
of the graveclothes which are binding
sinful men as you .,9urself were once
bound helpless in the @viselike grip of
sin?
LCopyTight. 1906. by Louis Klopsch1