News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-05-04

story says 1.-THE people had a mind tt
WOrk." Not a mind to discuss details
not mind to discuss each others faults
and mistakes, but mind to work. AnC
| wherever there is to be success in doing
any kind of work it must be because it il
| done by men and women who have a
mind to work. We have no room in oul
churches in this busy and strenuous age
and that includes the Congregational
church of Hyde Park, for the man that
simply has mind to crticise what some.
one has done or is trying to do. We have
| no room for the man who simply has a
mind to contemplate the glory that is to
| be, when the wall is finished, without
contributing one iota of grace, energy or
will in the present great necessity. The
man we want is the man with a mind to
work-earnest men, men of purpose, men
| who believe it is impol tant that the wall
| be built. Every man to his work, with
! a mind to work, that is what constitutes
success.
The next feature noticeable about these
busy wall builders is their stability. They
stayed at their work, nothing dauntipg
them, nothing tempting them away, and
| there they stayed through all danger and
difficulty until the words were uttered in
the tone of triumph that the wall was
finished. And another great thing that
we need to-day is stability. What is sta
bility? What is staying power You
have seen the great majestic oak, with its
far reaching branches and you nave won
dered why it remains the same after
every storm and hurricane. That is the
emblem of stability. But wherein lies
the stability of the oak Not in the
strength of the trunk which you look
nnt in tho f1hro Of bn hot
are stretched out to the bowling hurri-
cane, but in the fact that its roots are
stretched out so far beneath the EARTH
The wind sweeps through it and hardly
bends it, but why? Because its roots
have taken hold deep down and have
such firm hold. And the man of sta
bility in Christian work is the man who
has taken such firm hold upon eternal
things that nothing external can move
him. And If we are to be true to God in
any work that we undertake remember
the lesson is perfectly simple but su-
premely important. Our hidden life must
be stronger than our seen life. Our hold
upon God must be greater than all the
appearances we make before the eyes of
the world.
The last letter is another 81 )" and that
stands for the SELF CONTROL, which was
ihhhiiOotCu w tuOoO pOOpics IntTt was
solemnness about their work, self control
keeping on with their method, stone
after stone being laid quietly and yet
earnestly. And most of the best work
that God has done through men has been
done by the solemnness of quiet persist
ence. God does, of course, have his vol
canic men, men who are able to do mar
vellous things in a brief space of time,
but as rule these are not the men who
do the big bulk of Gods work. 1t is the
quiet person that you will find at the
post of duty when long years have passed
away and the volcanic man has been for
gotten. The element of sobriety, self
control, of constant keeping on, is that
which makes for the building of the wall
and the finishing of the work of God.
Aud the one great truth, which in
cludes everything else, about this story
is this, these people had confidence in
their leader and confidence in their work.