The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-25

more worthless than the most in
significant insect is the man or wo-
man that has no influence. The
| bird as it flies through the air in
| fluences others after it. The sheep
as 1t roams over the meadow or
passes into the sheepfold leads 9th
ers after it. The insignificant ant,
as 1t crawls the ground, leads an
innumerable company of ants after
it. SO you are more worthless than
the insignificant insect if you have
no influence. But, as ! have already
laid down the proposition, God never
created any one without giving to
him an influence. Have you ever
thought that it is not necessary to
see or know a man in order to
have an Influence over him? Many
of us never saw Talmage, or Moody,
or Spurgeon, but we have read their
sermons printed In the dailies or
weekies, and have been stimulated
to greater things in Gods name.
Student Started Reformation.
The reformation began early In
the sixteenth century at Cambridge
university by Bilney, a solitary stu
dent, as he read his Greek testa-
ment, with Latin translations and
notes which Erasmus had prepared.
Bilney had never seen Erasmus, but
the quiet work of this student
brought him to a sense of the knowl-
edge as it Is in Christ Jesus, and In
turn influenced Latimer, who be-
came one of the fathers of the Eng
lish reformation; and while the read
er had never seen the writer, yet he
sat at his desk and used his pen
and great educational advantages
to make the word of God of more
power to the men or his time. More
than a century ago an American
student happened to read a printed
sermon which fell into his hands,
the title of which was ''TDe Star
in the East" by Claudius Buchan
an.
1T fell into his soul like spark
into tinder, and in less than six
months we see Andoniram Judson
as he offers himself for the work Of
foreign missions, and while that
sermon may have been preached
with little effect in England, yet 1t
so stirred the heart of this man
that he gave his heart to God, and
we see the beginning Of the great
work of American foreign missions.
John r. Mott, that great Y. NJ. c.
A. worker, who has belted the globe
and visited more than 900 colleges
and universities, has come in con
tact with no more than l per cent
of the inhabitants of the different
nations which he visited Yet as a
result of his addresses thousands
and multiplied thousands OF young
men We're led 10 Christ. More than
one thousand offered themselves for
the exclusive work os the ministry
in the different churches, and in the
days to come thousands, yea mil
lions. Of men and women will hear
of the name of Christ as the result
of John r. Motifs addresses.
Should Set Good Example.
MY friend, you may not be
Talmage, an Erasmus, a Claudius
Buchanan or John A. Mott, yet
God may have great things for you
to do. your circle of acquaintances.
or at least your circle OF associates,
NAV be a small one. Yet there may
be some one in that circle that If his
or her heart were reached for God
and they right. they might yet help
shape the destinies of this world.
Christian parents Ivy their godly
lives may set such an example before
their children that the children will
grow up and call them blessed, even
alter they are dead and gone. When
God made male and female and
commanded them to be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the eartn, and
subdue it, did he merely mean that
this old earth should be multiplied?
Did he not mean that the parents
should so live and act that they
could be blessing to their children?
Is it your desire that your children
be great and noble, and a blessing
to humanity? If SO, you must train
them from infancy to be Christlike,
and if you are not Christian.
then how can you train your chill
| dren to be?
Sabbath school teachers may leav-
en- with gospel truths young minds
! that may be a great blessing to the
world. You teachers never know the