Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1900 — Page 7

BaKM'' 6 sounded. Rood —"" ~ Inevs ■ ta'.MAGE ADVISES THE ta? I "u«CH<*CHRIST. ed to H,„ Is I ..developed and «• 'no, fc , lak es the us H,s O1, ‘ “Ihad Reaffirm L. i:ls Klopsch, 1300.] ' * fcX iu this dis - R; Dr. T«> c!!1 -‘‘ sI,OWS b ° W *on> ? I .j<.i I tecoiH'ss has lost many ' R weapons and bow they are to Raptured and put into effective —--J Stiuu: text, I Samuel xiil, 19-21: -5* R , the land of Israel, for Routines said, Lest the Hebrews A.W Rtbem swords or spears But all „ ’ Rodites went down to the 1 hllis'oPPo«te R»» gl , ari>vll „ veri . inau pis share, üblic, Hhs coulter, and his ax, and his —■vi: Yet they bad a file for the E 7 and for the coulters, and for AW ■forks, aud for the axes, and to . the goads.” ‘ T°*Rnt a gallin'- subjugation for the Tlf Philistines had carried Bli the blacksmiths and torn down 5 W Re blacksmiths' shops and abolish- ’ Re blacksmiths' trade in the land Brief The Philistines would not Hallow these parties to work their mines of brass and iron, nor "Bttiiey imho any swords or spears. • K rel \. ;y two swords left in all A *». Yea. these Philistines went or t '’ rrt: . ! Hmn they bad taken all the grind'y'! ' t] 'Rs from the land of Israel, so that —~■—Rn isr:> : i'li farmer wanted to -F-ss.!ttß-,,. = lib ~r his ax he had to go Rte tbe gariison of the Philistines it done. There was only one . ' m-e ament left in the land. : Sjjßtbat was a tile, the farmers and * lieving nothing to whet up ——Rf..- ; ; : ,.- ■ -i.e goa 1 ami the pick- >( a simple file. Industry was and work practically disRed. The great idea of these PhilisR was to keep the Israelites disar.nmight get iron out of the to make swords of. but they not have any blacksmiths to this iron. If they got the iron they would have no grindon which to bring the InstruI. Oil s multure or the military up to an edge. you poor, weaponless Israelites, Reed to a file, how I pity you! But il Ci.-rt Mk Philistines were not forever to ’heir heel on the neck of God’s t .1 intlian. on his hands and climbs up a great rock, beyond ■jg were ti e Philistines, and his bearer, on his hands and knees, up the same rock, and these ■Bi men. with their two swords, hew the Philistines, the Lord A a great terror upon them. So then; so it is now. Two men of ' on their knees mightier than a |Mb:ine host on their feet.' K■ Danproo. For the Church. Bl learn, tir.: troni this subject that dangerous for the church of God I Rll ow its weapons to stay in the of its enemies. These Israelites again and again have obtained of swords aud weapons—as. ns t anc ' e - wl| en they took the spoils Amu unites—but these Israelites coutellt t 0 have no swords, no no blacksmiths, no grindstones. iron mines, until it was too then) to mdke any resistance. J I Be the farim-rs tugging along with J Pickaxes and plow, and I say. I arc you going with those They say. “Oh. we are going to the garrison of the Philistines t R t these things sharpened!” I say: . foolish men! Why don't you them at home?” “Oh,” they ■B “the blacksmiths' shops are all down, aud we have nothing left a tile!” HP is iu t,ie church of Jesus Christ "’e are too willing to give up *E weai "’"~ i-’ lO enemy. The world nl^^B ts that it has gobbled up the ’lie colleges, and the arts, fl■ sciences, and the literature. the printing press. Infidelity is a mighty attempt to get all our in its hand and then to keep ■ You know it is making this 'Oflßt all the time, and after awhile. u the great battle between sin and has opened, if we do not out we will be as badly off as 3W'‘ Israelites, without any swords to Rt w>th and without any sharpening I call upon the superinof literary institutions to see that the men who. go into the to stand beside the Leyden **!*• and the electric batteries, and.the and telescopes, be chil- ■*' ' f God, not Philistines. iyndailean thinkers of our times trying to get all the intellectual in their own grasp. We want Christians to capture the sciand scholastic Christians to cap”le scholarship, and philosophic to capture the philosophy, lecturing Christians to take back *■ lecturing platform. We want to 1 out against Schenkel and Strauss Henan a Theodore Christlieb of and against the infidel scientists day a God worshiping Silliman Hitchcock and Agassiz. We want all the philosophical appaRts and swing around the teleseoi>es swivel until through them we the morning star of tbe Reand with mineralogical bamdiscover the Rock of Ages, and the flora of all realms And the Sharon and the Lily of tbe ValVt e want some one able to exthe first chapter of Genesis, to it the geology and the astron--0? the world, until, as Job sugißted. ‘ the stones of the field shall be ea ?ue” with the truth and the stars course shall fight against SisOh, church of God. go out and these weapons! Bfipf men of God go out and take posRBion of the platform. Let any printpresses that have been captured by

the enemy be recaptured for God. and the reporters, and the typesetters, and the editors, and the publishers swear allegiance to the Lord God of truth. Ah. my friend, that day must come, and if the great body of Christian i: -:i have not the faith or the courage or the consecration to do it. then let some Jonathan on his busy hands tptd on his praying knees climb up on the rock of hindrance and, in the name of the Lord God of Israel, slash to pieces those literary Philistines. If these men will not be converted to God, then they must be overthrown. Hidden Resources. Again, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church's resources is actually hidden aud bur' d and undeveloped. The Bible intimates that that was a very rich land, this land of Israel. It says, "The stones are iron, and out of tbe bills thou shalt dig brass,” and yet hundreds and thousands of dollars’ worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the difficulty with the church of God at this day. Its talent is not developed. If one-half of its energy could be brought out. it might take the public ; iniquities of the day by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ, it would in a few years persuade this whole earth to surrender to God. There is enough undevelop d energy in this city to bring ail the United States to Christ, enough of undeveloped Christian energy in the United States to bring the whole world to Christ, but it is buried under strata of indifference and under whole turaa:tains of sloth. Now, is it not time for the mining to begin aud the pickaxes to plunge and for this buried metal to be ; brought out and put into tbe furnaces ; and turned into howitzers and carbines j for the Lord's host? The vast majority of Christians in ; this day are useless. The most cf the i Lord's battalion belong to tbe reserve corps. Tbe most of tbe crew are asleep in the hammocks. The most of the metal is under the bills. Oh, is it not time for the church of God to rouse up and understand that we want aii the energies, all the talent and all the wealth enlisted for Christ's sake? I like the nickname that the English soldiers gave to Blucher, the commander. They called him “Old Forwards.” We have had enough retreats in the church of Christ: iet us have a glorious advance. And I say to you as the general said when his troops were affrighted—rising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind, he lifted up bis voice until 20,000 troops heard him crying out, “Forward, the whole line!” We want all the laymen enlisted. Ministers are numerically too small. They do the best they can. They are the most overworked class on earth. Many of them die of dyspepsia because they cannot get the right kind of food to eat or, getting the right kind, are so worried that they take it down in chunks. They die from consumption coming from early and late exposure. If a novelist or a historian publishes one book a year, he is considered industrious. But every faithful pastor must originate enough thought for three or four volumes a year. Ministers receive enough calls in a year from men who have maps and medicines and lightning rods and pictures to sell to exhaust their vitality. They are bored with agents of all sorts. They are set in drafts at funerals and poisoned by the unventilated rooms of invalids and waited upon by committees who want addresses made until life becomes a burden to bear. It is not hard study that makes ministers look pale. It is the infinity of interruptions and botherations to which they are subjected. Numerically too small! It is no more tbe work of the pulpit to convert and save tbe world than it is the work of the pew. If men go to ruin, there will be as much blood on your skirts as on mine. A Grand Farce. Let us quit this grand farce of trying to save the world by a few clergymen, and let all hands lay hold of the work. Give us in all our churches two or three aroused and qualified men and 1 women to help. In most churches to- | day five or ten men are compelled to I do all tbe work. A vast majority of churches are at their wits’ end how ! to carry on a prayer meeting if the minister is not there, when there ought to be enough pent up energy and religious force to make a meeting go on with such power that the minister would never be missed. The church stands working tbe pumps of a few ministerial cisterns until the buckets are dry and choked, while there are thousands of fountains from winch might be dipped up tbe waters of eternal life. Before you and I have the sod pressing our eyelids we will under God decide whether our children shall grow up amid tbe accursed surroundings of vice and shame or come to an inheritance of righteousness. Long, loud, bitter, will be the curse that 1 scorches out grave if. holding within tbe church today enough men and women to save the city. We act the coward or the drone. I wisb I could put enough moral explosives under the conventionalities and majestic stupidities of the day to blow them to atoms and that then, with 50.000 men and women from ail tbe churches know- 1 tng nothing but Christ aud a desire to bring all tbe world to him, we might move upon the enemy's works. lor a little while heaven w-ould not have trumpets enough to celebrate the victories. Again, 1 learn from this subject that - we sometimes do well to take advantage of the world’s grindstones. These Israelites were reduced to a file, and so they went over to tbe garrison of the Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their plows sharpened. Tbe Bible distinctly states it—the text which I read at the beginning of the j service—that they bad no other instruments now with which to do this work, and tbe Israelites did right when they

went over to the Philistines to uea their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ the world's glindstones? If there be art. if there be logic, if there be business faculty on the other side, let us go over and employ it for Christ’s sake. The fact is we fight with too dull implements, lie hack and we maul when we ought to make a clean stroke. Let us go over among sharp business men and among sharp literary men and find out what their tact is and then transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they have science ami art, it will do us good to rub against it. Sharpen the Swords. Iu other words, let us employ the world’s grindstones. We will listen to i th; :r music, and we will watch their i acumen, aud we will use their grindstones, and will borrow their philosophical apparatus to make our ex- | periments, and we will borrow their printing presses to publish our Bibles, and we will borrow their rail trains to carry our Christian literature, and we will borrow their ships to transport our missionaries. That was what made I Paul such a master in his day. He ’ not only got all the learning he could l get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward, standing" on Mars hill and in crowded I thoroughfare, quoted their poetry, and I grasped their logic, and wielded their : eloquence, and (employed their mytholo■gy until Dionysius, the Areopagite, I learned in the schools of Athens and i Heliopolis, went down under his tre- | mendous powers. That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his power in his day. He conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness cf the Lord until, for the | second time, the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shoutied for joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his influence in his : day. He conquered the world's metaphysics and forced it into the service of God until not only the old meeting house at Northampton. Mass., but all Christendom, felt thrilled by his Christian power. Well. now. my friends, we all have tools of Christian power. Do not let them lose their I edges. We want no rusty blades in this fight. We want no coulter that cannot rip up the glebe. We want no ax that rannot fell the trees. We want no goad that cannot start the lazy team. Let us'get the very best grindstones we can find, though they be iu possession of the Philistines, compelling them to turn the crank while we bear down with all our might on the swift revolving wheel until all our energies and faculties shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge. Again, my subject teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took the spears and tin* swords; then they took the blacksmiths; then they took the grindstones, aud they took everything but a file. Oh. that is the way sin works! It grabs everything. It begins with robbery and ends with robbery. It. despoils this faculty ami that faculty and keeps on until the whole nature is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it generally thickens his tongue. Was be fine in personal appearance, it mars his visage. Was he affluent, it sends the sheriff to sell him out. Was lie influential, it destroys his popularity. Was he placid and genial and loving, it makes him splenetic and cross, and so utterly is he changed that you can see lie is sarcastic and rasping and that the Philistines have left him nothing but a file. The Cheerful Life. Oh. “the way of the transgressor is hard!” His cup is bitter. His night is dark. His pangs are deep. His end is terrific. Philistine iniquity says to that man, “Now. surrender to me. and I will give you all you want—music for the dance, swift steeds for tbe race, imperial couch to slumber on. and you shall be refreshed with the rarest fruits in baskets of golden filigree.” He lies. The music turns out to be a groan. The fruits burst tbe rind with rank pcison. The filigree is made l up of twisted reptiles. The couch is a grave. Small allowance of rest, small allowance of peace, small allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough—nothing but a file. So it was with Voltaire, the most applauded man of his day. The Scripture was his jestbook, whence he drew Bonmots to gall the Christian and the Jew. An infidel when well, but what when sick? Oh, then a text would touch him to the quick! Seized with hemorrhage of tbe lungs in Paris, where be bad gone to be crowned as the idol of all France, be sends a messenger to get a priest, that he may be reconciled to the church before he dies. A great terror falls upon him. Philistine iniquity bad promised him all tbe world’s garlands, but iu tbe last boun of his life, when lie needed a solacing, sent tearing across his conscience and his nerves a file, a file. So it was with Lord Byron. His uncleanness in England only surpassed by his uucleanness in Venice, then going on to end his brilliant misery at Missolonghi, fretting at bis nurse Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting at The world, fretting at God. and he who gave the world “Childe Harold” and “Sardanapalus” and “Tbe Prisoner of Chilion” and “The SiSge of Corinth,” reduced to nothing but a file. Oh. sin has a great facility for making promises, but it has just as great facility for breaking them! A Christian life is the only cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender is remorse, ruin and death, its painted glee is sepulchral ghastliness. In the brightest days of the Mexican empire Montezuma said be felt gnawing at Iris heart something like a canker. Sin, like a monster wild beast of the forest, sometimes licks ail over its victim in order that the victim may be more easily swallowed, but generally sin rasps and galls and tears and upbraids and files. Is it not so. Herod? Is it not so. Hildebrand? Is it net so. Robespierre? Aye, aye! It is jo, it is

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1 so. “Tbe way of the wicked he turneth * upside down.” Xot Enoagli DietaS. History tells us that when Rome was founded on that day there were 12 vultures flyi. through the air, but when a transgressor dies tbe sky is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures. vultures! When I see sin robbing so many and I see them going down day by day and week by week. I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it hack, lest 1 risk the salvation of my own soul. Rover, the pirate, pulled down tbe warning bell on Inchcape rock, thinking that be would have a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night I his own ship crashed down ou this! very rock, and lie went down with all his cargo. God declares. “When I say to the wicked thou shait surely die and thou givrst him not warning, that same man shall die in his iniquity, but bis l lood will I require at thy hands.” 1 learn from this subject what a sad thing it is when the church of God loses Its metal! These Philistines saw that if they could only get all the metallic weapons out cf the hands of the Israelites all would be well, and therefore they took tbe swords and the spears. They did not want them tc have a single metallic weapon. When the metal of the Israelites was gone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble witli the church of God today. It is surrendering its courage. It has not enough metal. How seldom it is that you see a man taking his position in pew or in pulpit or in a religious society and holding that position against all oppression, and all trial, and ail persecution, and all criticism. The church of God today wants more backbone. more defiance, more consecrated bravery, more metal. How often you see a man start out in some good enterprise. and at the first blast of opposition he has collapsed and all his I courage gone, forgetting the fact that j if a man be right all the opposition of , the enr.h pounding a wav at him eannot do him any permanent damage. It is only when a man is wrong that he can be damaged. Why. God is going to vindicate his truth, and he Is going to stand by you. my friends, in every effort you make for Christ’s cause and the salvation of men. Do Your Duty. Go forth in the service of Christ and I do your whole duty. You have one | sphere. I have another sphere. “The Lord of Hosts is with us, and the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.” We want more of the determination of Jonathan. I do not suppose he was a very wonderful man. but he got on his knees and clambered up tbe rock, and with the help of his armor bearer he hewed down the Philistines, and a man -of very ordinary intellectual attainments on his knees can storm anything for God ami for the truth We want something of tbe determination of the general who went into the war. and as be entered his first battle his knees knocked together, his physical courage not quite up to his moral courage, and he looked down at his knees aud said, “Ah, if you knew where 1 am going to take you, you would shake worse than that!” There is only one question for you to ask and for me to ask: What docs God want me to do?. Where is tbe field? Where is the work? Where is the anvil? Where is the prayer meeting? Where is tiie pulpit? Ami, finding out what God wants us to do. go ahead and do it, all the energies of our body, mind and soul enlisted in the undertaking. Oh. my brethren, we have but little time in which to fight for God! You will be dead soon. Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you. “What thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is neither wisdom nor device in the grave,” whither we are all hastening. Opportunities of usefulness gone forever; souls that might have been benefited three months ago never again coming under our Christian influence. Oh, is it not high time that we awake out of sleep? Family History. Little Willie—Say, pa, did you ever have another wife besides ma? Pa—No. Willie. But why do you ask? Little Willie—The family record in the Bible says you married j»nno Domini 1877.— Chicago News.

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