The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-17


so laundering fashion, you'll find the
old feeling of joy and enthusiasm
coming back into your Christian life.
LAS / look back over my youth.
only four people ever spoke to me
about living the Christian life. One
was a minister who stopped me In
the middle of the street. ] felt like
killing him at the time. Another was
fellow in college who wrote me "A
letter, curious sort of letter with
the personal prOnOuns written
small s. The third was my Sun
day school teacher, from whom |
expected such things. The fourth
was my father. who, as we sat by
the fire talking over other things,
suddenly broke in with: My boy,
how long,? That was all, but ] knew
what he meant And that brought
me to Christ.
Would we know the meaning of
consecration, let us know the mean
| ing of personal work. 1t requires
tact. Yes, and we are all liable to
make mistakes. But if you are such
a dead one that you don't make any
mistakes, you won't succeed in bus
mess or politics or anything. The
only people who never make mis-
takes are so dead that they are all
lin the cemeteries.
! "The rewards of personal work?
The sense of life we'll spent, the
doing things worth while, the love
of those we have brought to Christ
Above all else, the reward of know
ing that the face we love most ap-
proves of what we are doing
THAT one face, far from fading,
rather grows,
Or decOmposeS but to recompOse.
Because my universe that feels and
knows"
Address BY w. c. Pearce.
w. c. Pearce, superintendent of
the adult Bible class department of
the International Sunday School as
ISOLATION, spoke upon Gods Plan
for the Conquest of the World" He
opened with Scripture reading from
John VI, The feeding of the five
thousand, and Jesus teaching of the
Bread of Life. THE first thing |
would have you notice." said Mr.
PearCe, lis that Jesus saw the peo
pie. He saw the crowd in numbers
How many of our cities have found
out the people? Forty-fve thousand
church letters were found unplaced
in the Chicago visitation. Jesus
found the company. Not only that,
but he saw that they were hungry.
He saw their individual need and
sought Immediately to alleviate it,
Christ spoke 10 man. not TO
} any church, not to any community.
but to a man. He spoke to Philip.
He is here today TO speak to you.
Not in the hurricane, not in the fire.
not in the earthquake. but in the still
small voice. BE still some time to-
day and get alone with God and
say, God, speak to me- and then
listen. No preacher ever preached
by himself from his pulpit. No
teacher ever stood before the class
and taught as he should by himself.
Whence shall we buy bread that
these may eat?" Christ was think
ing of the others. Mr. Lawrance
} says, it is a sin for a Sunday school
not to be as big as it can be. | be-
] lievc that is SO, too. Forget your
self, forget your church, forget your
} class and get a burning desire for
: Christ. In one town in America
Ln
} last person in town. In one town
it has been done.
Andrew Was Hustler.
Phillip said. 1T can't be DONE and
when Philip said that he lost his
} leadership. But Andrew was a
ia hard worker, and he started
through the crowd and he discovered
"a boy. He was an organizer. He
saw the boy. There were five thou
sand people and only one boy who
had anything to eat and Andrew
found him. Gods plan is not to i'm
port people but to use what is there
He uses the people that live in Il
place. Your county is not going
to be saved until somebody in your
county wants a change i'm the stu
alton and will 90 out and help. 1t
was the one who was on the ground
that furnished the provision to feed
the crowd. And remember there is
no trouble getting not only help
from above, but help around you, il
you want it.
But this boy was brought to Jesus
and his gifts were given TO Jesus.
From this lesson | would say that
Gods plan is, first, find the folks.
Second. find one man who will work
with Jesus. Third, if ever the state
iof Minnesota is saved by Jesus
Christ it is going to be done by the
people living in this state. The rec
ords say that the crowd was salts
fed.
Three Things About the Boy.
There are three things to notice
about the boy. First, he didn't have
very much. Second, what he had was
very common. He didn't even have
butter. Jesus wants our common