Milford chronicle., 1906-08-03
Calmaqe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage. D. D.

GdIGlESHs lAlG lllllllEltliA anu LAAN AAANf
erent, who in church keep one eye on
the sermon and the other on business or |
pleasure, this sermon has Il direct ap- |
plication. The text selected is Acts XX,
9, "And there sat in window a GER
tain young man named Eutychus, being !
fallen into a deep sleep"
No class of men work harder for
Christ than do the travelling evangelists.
Wien such men as John Wesley and
George Whteheld and d. L. Moody
have a world for parish, they realize
how large that field is. and they do
everything in their power to travel
over it before they die. The true evan
,gelist breaches on Sunday. He also
breaches on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday. Friday and Saturday.
He not only breaches at night, but IN
the afternoons and in the mornings.
He breaches at all times and under all
conditions. He seems to say TO him.
self: "The harvest is plenteOus, but the
laborers are few. o God. give me
strength to WELD thy sickle with super
human power and gather thy sheaves
by the multitudes into the gospel gran
ary."
No work is too great for the true gos-
pei evangelist if he can only get an
audience to hear him preach. Turn TO
the letter which Daniel Baker wrote TO
his son in 1854. He was then an aging
man of sixty-three. Yet he wrote these
words: "NIy speaking amounts to some
three or four sermons a day, and TINS
for some three or four months past.
MANY persons express their astonish-
ment. why, Mr.. Baker, how can you
stand #? You can break down SIX
preachers 1 confess it does seem
little strange, but so it is. When l nm
ish one meeting, 1 begin another the
very next morning, sometimes the very
same evening. My Master sustains me-
and is it not written, They that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their
strength"
John Wesley the travelling evangel-
ist7 always began his days work at 4
o'clock in the morning. Many were
fhe times he preached two sermons
before breakfast. On an average ne
used to travel every year nearly o,OOO
miles. He preached from two to 1our
sermons every day of his life. NOT
only that but he everywhere dissem-
mated his printed appeals for Christ
Truly TyermRn was right when ne
eulogized John Wesleys herculean Ia
bors in these words Looking at MS
travelling. the marvel is how he FOUND
time to write, and, looking at his DOCKS
the marvel is how he found time to
preach" But preach he did. He KEPT
on preaching under all conditions. he
seemed to say, 'My life is slipping
awav SO fast that 1 must carry the
gospel to as many people as possible
before 1 die" Wesley preached in the
early morning to the miners OF Gro
marty. He preached in the market
places at noon. He preached IN tht
fields in the afternoon. He preached
in the churches at night. He preached
at all times, under all conditions, to al
who would hear the message OF th'
atoning love Of Jesus Christ.
Paul the Early Wesley.
Now, if might not seem irreveren
would say that the Apostle Paul wa
the John Wesley among the early dls
ciples. In all probability he was no
an impassioned speaker like Peter
Peter always seemed to me to be tn
George Whitefield of the apostoll
band. 1 can imagine him preacnin
on the day of PentecOst as Georg
WhitefeId so often stood before hi
audiences, with flaming eyes ana eal
nest gesture and resonant voice. VI
what a power Peter must have been
But. though George Whiteheld mad III
work TO do. John Wesley had his wor
also. and a far greater work Jon
Wesley went from place to place, nc
only preaching, but also organlzlh
churches and collecting money for h
evangelistic work. Such was the wor
of Paul. He was the John Wesley
the apostolic band.
Now, today we find this ancieI
John Wesley on one of his great mi
siOnarv tours. He wants to make u
most of his trip, so he stops only
short time at Troas. think hei
him say to his travelling coupan'o
"Luke. do you think we can s
through our work here in a weekE'
do not believe So" answers DR.. Lux
"a week is a very short time"
know it," says Paul, but if we wa
for the sailing of another vessel the
is no telling how long we may have
remain here. 1 would like to prea
to these friends for months instead
n week. But we must hasten on.
want to present the gospel to as mai
different cities as can before l die.
think if we get up early in the NOR
ing and preach before breakfast al
keep on preaching during the day al
preach late in the evening l can SOW
good many seeds. Our time is We
short. We must hasten on to ASS
and Mitylene and thence go to Chl
and Trogyllium and Miletus."
sleeping Christians.
T1,..T hand a work