The farmer and mechanic., 1914-02-03

business pretty nearly than anywhere
else: When l want a big collection
Wnat DO l do? Why-ask my friends
TO dinner, and when l have got them
into good humor L can get anything
l want out Of them''-it is this per-
sonal note, the dry, humorous Ameri-
can way, SO plain and direct that
catches ones ear. There is some
laughter at the freedom of speech,
quiet but audible. The preacher ex-
poets it. A church is not the grave
side. place for tears, and groans
and solemn faces. It is where you go
to hear the good news.
They are off their guard, and now
he lunges. All. but how few are the
homes to which Jesus is ever hidden
as guest! Is His name ever even
mentioned? We talk of any other
subject-politics, books, sport, amuse-
ments. People often tell him they
would like to do some Christian work,
and ask him where to find 1.-THE
marble pulpit is very roomy, more
like platform. The preacher steps
to the very front. draws up to his full
height. thrusts out his arm, and his
voice rings through space. ''At
home-that's where you've got to
look! Christian work, like charity
begins at hOme-yOu don't want ma
chinery-at home, but oh! not one
| OF those homes where Jesus is a
| Is thing Of rigid rites and frigid
| rules
All this was illustrated with apt
| stories and personal experiences, told
In an easy. colloquial way which is
very attractive, but needs voice, ges-
ture and action to give their full eff
| feet. There is one / remember, of a
big American employer Che might
just as we'll have been English, Of
| course. } The preacher saw hundreds
| Of the workers who created his wealth
for him being paid their wages, and
was startled to find that each was
called only by a number. Jesus was
not guest in that factory. "Don'1
you know their names?" he asked the
master. There is no time for names
in factories. The rules of the work.
shop are rot drafted from the Sermon
on the Mount
The Conveyed Prizefighter.
Now Matthew was not popular il
Capernaum-what tax collector evel
like Jesus, who was going about for
giving sins, making the lame wall
and the blind see, dining with mar
! like Matthew was altogether to-
much for the Scribes and Pharisees-
those cold and chilly critics. why,
they cried to His disciples, why doe
this wonderful Master Of yours kee]
) had got some Of his friends to NEE
this prize guest Of his-publicans an
: sinners like himself. AS if Jesu
cared for the man on the top rail
, | They were all the same to Him-poo
= or rich, paupers or kings-whethe
! they lived in a palace or a prison
THE biggest rufian / ever knew
a | and I've known sOme-was gambler
a drunkard, and a prizefghter-h
] | was a terror to the whole place.
q got him on his knees-and what di
: he do?-why, he brought two Of hi
: friends-almost as bad as himself
: fbetween us we got them on thei
: knees-and better men and cleane
:, never were from that day"
O A member of his congregation ono
: said to a famous preacher, What
: fine library you must have!'' "Of
n yes--a very fine library" II shout
:. SO like to see it, 'Certainly-com
2 with me and I'll show it to you
v and he took him into the streets
e that was his fine library, and tt
IS crowds were the books he got much
n his learning from. This America
Y preacher in London pulpit has fishe
q often in the same waters I am sure
u though he may have thousands
r books.
HER HVyNGER STRIKE ENDS