The Washington herald., 1918-01-19

rushed and seized a pair of scissors
and jabbed them into his wrist and
tore 1t open. They hurried him to
the hospital.
Battles People Fight.
The last day I, preached in that
town, the last sermon and within the
last eight minutes OF the close OF
the campaign, that man staggered
down an aisle. He took me by the
hand and gave his heart TO Jesus
Christ. God reached down and saw
ed him. got his wife back. children
back, home back, position back. and
God sent him up and down the land
blazing the way for the Lord and the
truth, forever more.
Oh. little do you know the battles
people are fighting. Little do you
know the fellow that sits next to you
or the woman that rubs elbows with
you tonight. and the struggles that
he of she is going through. Little
do you know what an awful fight
they are putting up to do the will
of God and keep His commandments.
Why. some years ago q man touch
ed a button in New YORK. It fired
guns and rang bells around the world
from the electric connection, yet the
man that pushed the button never
heard a bell or gun. How much
like that. my friend. is the work OF a
Christian! You make an honest ef
fort and you don't know all that has
been done. I don't know all. You
can't judge the blessing of a meeting
| by the number that may come down
and take me by the hand. There
may be scores and hundreds of them
out there whose lives have been in
fiuenced and changed that you don't
see the visible results OF.
saw a magazine picture OF the
smallest woman in the world stand
ing on a chair. She pushed an cleo
trio button and the room was flooded
with light. The result was the same
as il it had been done by a giant; and
therefore, do what God tells you to
do. Whether you be great or
small, the result will be there. There
! is no big or little preacher with God.
no. sir. All power comes from God
and whoever is doing the will of God
is big in the sight OF God. although
he may not rank very high down here.
no. And no man. however great.
judged by our Standards, can do any
thing by himself. "It is not by might
nor by power, but by thy spirit"
I believe the Lord halted that
throng to help the disciples take a
step forward in faith. that they, in
turn, might pass the lesson down to
| us, that whatever the faithful ser
want is, something that God Almighty
Is satisfied with is being done, some
thing the devil hates is being done,
q md dnNtyr1 in otarvaffv
will ring again and again with the
music of rejoicing over Infinite sur
prises. and way beyond the time
when the brightest stars grow dim
and the mountain peaks have been
| incinerated into ashes. oh, you will
meet souls in the eternal world who
felt the touch of Jesus Christ
through some effort OF yours. when
you didn't know a thing had been
done.
The Arrow.
II shot an arrow into the air.
1t fell to the earth, know not
where,
For so swiftly 1t few that sight
Could not follow it in its flight
oIcaIhSu u sung litO lilc all
And it fell to the earth. know
not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight OF a
song?
Long. long afterwards. in an oak
1 found the arrow. still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end
7 found that apaip in ha haar NJ
a friend"
So do what the Lord tells you to
do. That is but repetition of what
is going on all over the land. Not
one man in a thousand on the battle
field knew whether his bullet hit any
body or not, but he kept firing away
just the same. He didn't know any
thing about it. no. And so even our
failures are sometimes the things We
need to bring about certain results.
George washington's Ambition.
When George Washington was a
/ boy he had his heart set on being
| midshipman in the British navy and
| arrangements were all made for him
! to go. and at the last moment his
mother weakened. blubbered and cried
and said. George. I can't let you CO."
and IL that little sixteen-year-old
boy had had his way, perhaps there
would have been no Revolutionary
War; certainly, the capital Of our ma
ton wouldn't have been what It is
| tonight, and that great pillar on the
banks of the Potomac. pointing 556
feet in the air. lifting its head above
the fog, wouldn't be there-if he
had had his way. What seemingly
was q failure was a great blessing to
you.
Now, no matter how things go, be-
lieve that God still lives. A preach
er was one time preaching written
sermon from a manuscript and right
in the midst OF what he thought was
the important part Of 1t, the wind
blew the page out of the window, and
in great modification he had to stop.
Years afterwards he met man who
was converted at that meeting
| through the awakening that came to
| him by the last thought the preacher
dropped In his mind before the ser
mon took wings and went out of the
window.
And in every crowd. there is some
thing like this poor woman, they have
been going to the wrong doctors for
years, getting no help.
1 believe in God IKE the Unitarian.
believe in morality. ] believe in
| culture. I believe in virture. be-
Iieve in good company. believe in
all that. I believe in all he believes
and believe more than he believes,
for believe that salvation Is by faith
in the shed blood Of Jesus Christ
and not by faith alone.
Billy and Universalists.
believe all the Uniyersalist be-