Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-07-09

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cry. Be loyal to God. Keep your
whole life, every day, every hour, I'M
der the sway of His sword
Loyalty to Christ! There really is
nothing else in religion. It is all in
these three words. I will be faithful
to Christ. I will be true to Christ.
will please Christ l will be obedient
to Christ. I will do His will I will
submit to His discipline. I will bear
the cross He lays upon me.
INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
By Bishop Newman.
Text:-"The Master is come and
calleth for ee"-John 1898.
The text is suggestive Of individ-
uality A beloved brother is dead.
Christ proposed to raise the dead to
life. The two surviving sisters were
to take part in the resurrection. 1t is
not too much to say that without the
cooperation of these sisters the dead
could not have been raised. Thus God
suspends the grandest moral results
not only upon the conservation Of the
individuality. One thing is true: Heav-
en- has ordained that man shall be
saved through man. That the AL
mighty employs individuals to accom-
plish the exalted purpose of His will
In the darkest hour of the worlds his
tory, when humanity seemed to be in
competent to meet the great emergen-
cies in the history of the church, then
some individual Is brought forth, usu-
ally from obscurity.
The glory of the pulpit to-day Ia
not in It's splendid scholarship is not
in enhancing eloquence, but the glory
of the pulpit is that moral power that
finds response in the human heart.
some of the mightiest workers in the
history of the world are persons of
obscurity. You have heard of Adam
Clarke. AS l stood by his grave along
side that of Wesley, 1 expressed my in
debtedness to him more than to any
other commentator. Yes, you have all
heard of Adam Clarke, but have you
heard of Thomas Barker? Who was
he? Only an obscure Methodist preach
Clarke to the light. You have heard
of Kitto, altogether the most prolific
and at the same time the most accu-
rate Of Bible writer's But have you
heard of Richard Bernard? Who is
he? Only an obscure English layman,
who on Sunday afternoon went to an
English poorhouse. There he saw a
deaf pauper, in whose eyes cleaned
genius. 1t touched the sympathies of
his heart The boy was taken to his
home, was educated, and there came
forth Kitto. You have heard of Nor
rison, and when it shall be your priv
llege to go to Hong Kong, fail not to
go into the Victoria Library In an
elegant glass case you will find an au-
tograph letter written by her majesty,
the late Queen Victoria, expressing her
debt of gratitude to Morrison for the
translation Of the Scriptures into Chi
nese and for his Chinese and English
Lexicon, autograph copies of which are
there. les, you nave neaFQ OF MOTIF
son, in China, and doubtless China will
always remember Morrison; but who
ever heard of that woman who, one
Sabbath afternoon, found an urchin in
the streets and gathered him into the
Sabbath school? When the great day
of reckoning comes, the Angel Gabriel
shall be sent to find that Christian
woman, as he was sent out to find
Mary of Nazareth, and the judgment
will not proceed, and the rewards will
not be given, until she, unknown to
earth, shall be crowned with the ben
edictions of the Master.