Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 October 1900 — Page 6

ACTIVITY OF FAUL. Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson from Work of the Disciple.

Point* Oat PI*cm of l'*et*l**ii Itt Yet Fallx Occnpled-Nttd at More Worker* — Charck a* a Lifeboat. -zr [Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington, Sept. Mi In his discourse Dr. Talmage points to fields of usefulness that are not yet thoroughly cultivated and shows the need of more activity. The text is Homans 15:20: “Lest I should build • upon another man’s foundation.” In laying out the plan of his missionary tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Corinth, a city famous for splendor and v^ce, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the sanhedrim were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feels he has especial work to do, and he means to do it. What was the result? The grandest life of usefulness that a man ever lived. We modern Christian workers are not apt to imitate Paul. We build on other people’s foundations. If we erect a church, we prefer to have it filled with families all of w hom have been pious. Do we gather a Sabbath school class, we want good boys and girls, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church in this day is apt tp be built out of other churches. Some ministers spend all their time in fishing in otjier people’s ponds, and they throw the line into that church pond, and they jerk out a Methodist, and throw the line into another church pond aud bring out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious row in some neighboringehurph, and a whole school of fish swim joff from that pond, and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. 'What is gained? Absolutely nothing for the cause of Christ. W’hat strengthens an army is new recruits. While courteous to those coming from other flocks, we should build our churches not out of other churches, but out of the world, lest we build on another man’s foundation. The fact is, this is a big world. W’hen in our schoolboy days w e learned the diameter and circumference of this planet we did not learn half. It is the latitude and longitude and diameter and circumference of want and woe and 6in that no figures ean calculate. This one spiritual continent of wretchedness reaches aej*oss\all zones, and if 1 were called to give its geographical boundary I would say it was bounded on the north and south and east and west by the great heart of God’s sympathy and love. Oh. it is a great world! ^Since six o’clock this morning 60,800 persons have been born, and all these multiplied populations are to be reached by the Gospel. In England or in our eastern American cities we are being much crowded, and an acre of ground is of great value, but in western America 500 acres is a small farm.'and 20.000 acres is no unusual possession. There is a vast field here and everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room more, not building on another man’s

juuuaauon. We need as churches to stop bombarding the old ironclad sinners that have been proof against 30 j'ears of Christian assault. Alas for that church ■which lacks the spirit of evangelism.spending on one chandelier enough to light 500 souls to glory, and in one v carved pillar enough to have made a t housand men “pillars in the'house of our Hod forever.” and doing less good than many a log cabin meeting house with tallow candles stuck in wooden' sockets and a minister who has never seen a college and does not know the difference between Greek and Choctaw. We need as churches to get into sympathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. “No!” says some fastidious Christian. “I don’t like to be crowded* in church. Don’t put anyone in my pew.” My brother, what will you do in Heaven? When a great multitude that no man can. number assembles, they will put 50 in your pew. What are the select few to-day assembled in the Christian churches compared with the mightier millions outside of them? Many of the churches ake like a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than toothache or “rqnrounds,” but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet-coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as though a man had a farm of 3.000 acres and put all his work on one acre. He may raise' never so large ears of eorn,: never so big heads of wheat, he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre and has raised splendid men and women in that small inclosure, but the field is the world. .Thatmeans North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and all the islands of the sea. It is as though after a great battle there were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the field and three surgeons gave all their time to three patients under their charge. The major general comes in and says to the doctors: “Come out here and look at the nearly 50,000 dying for lack of surgical attendance.” “No,” say the three doctors, standing there fanning their patients; “we have three important cases here, and we are attending to them, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to keep the flies off.” In this awful battle with sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen pn millions, do not let us spend all our time in taking care of a few people, and when the command eomes: "Go into the world,” say, practically: “No, I cannot go; I have here a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping off the flies.” There aTe multitudes to-day who have never had ( £

I any Christian worker look mcui in the eye sod with earnestness in the accentuation say: “Come.’* or they would long ago have been in the kingdom. My friends, religion is either a sham or a great reality. If it be a sham, let us disband our churches and Christian associations. If it be a reality, then great populations are on the way to the bar of God unfitted for the ordeal. Comparatively little effort as yet has «,been made to save that large class of persons in our midst called skeptics, and he who goes to work

Here «U1 not be building upon another man's foundation. There ia a large number of them. They are afraid of us and our churches for the reason we do not know how to treat them. One of this class met Christ. And hear with what tenderness and pathos and beauty and success Christ dealt with him: “Thou* shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with tftl thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” And the scribe said to him: "Well, master, thou hast said the truth, for there is one God, and to love Him with all the heart and all the understanding and all the soul and all the strength is more than whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And whfcn Jesus saw that he answered discreetly He said unto him: “Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.” So a skeptic was saved in one interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking, hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take him with the pinchers of ecclesiasticism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew how he lost his faith in Christianity. I have known men skeptical from the fact thqt they grew up in houses where religion was overdone. Sunday was the most awful day in the week. They had religion driven into them with a trip hammer. They were surfeited with prayer meetings. They were stuffed and choked with catechisms. They were often told that they were the worst boys the parents ever knew, because they liked to ride down hill better than to read Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's Progress.” Whenever father and mother talked of religion, they drew down the corners of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If any one thing will send a boy or girl to ruin sooner than another, that is it. If I had such a father and mother I fear I should have been an infidel. Others were tripped up to skepticism from being grievously wronged by some man who professed to be a Christian, They had a partner in business who turned out to be a firsttss scoundrel, though a professed ristian. Many years ago' they lost all faith by what happened in an oil company which was formed amid the petroleum excitement. The company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced; but the president of the company was a Presbyterian elder, and the treas

urer was an .episcopalian vestryman, I and one director was a Methodist j class leader and the other directors porminent members of Baptist and ; Congregational churches. Circulars i were gotten out telling what fabulous | prospects opened before this company. | Innocent men and women who had a j little money to invest, and that little their all, said: “I do not know anything about this company, but so .many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent, and taking stock in it must be almost as good as joining the church.” So they bought the ,stock and perhdps received one dividend. so as to keep them still, but after awhile they found that the company had reorI ganized, and had a different president ar.d different treasurer and different directors. Other engagements or ill health had caused the former officers of the company, with many regrits, to resign. And all that the i subscribers of that stock had to show i for their investment was a beautifully i ornamented certificate. Sometimes that man. looking over his old papers, comes across that certificate, and it is so suggestive that he vows he wants none of the religion that the president and trustees and directors of that oil company professed. Of course, their rejection of religion on such grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. I am told that many of the United States army desert every year, and there are many court-mar-tials every year.. Is that anything against the United States government that swore them in? And if a soldier of Christ deserts, is that anything against the Christianity which he swore to support and defend? How do you judge of the currency of a country? By a counterfeit bill? Now, you must have patienee with those who have been swindled by religious pretenders. Live in the presence of others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life, that they may be attracted to the same Saviour upon whom your hopes depend. Remember, skepticism always has some reason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe’s irreligion started when the news came to Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, November 1, 1775. That 60,000 peopletshould hav© perished in that earthquake and in the after rising of the Tagus river so stirred his sympathies that he threw up his belief in the goodness of God. If I addres such men and women today, I throw out no scoff. I implead them by the memory of the good old days when at their mother’s knee they said: “Now I lay me down to sleep,” and by those days and nights of scarlet fe>er in which she watehed you, giving you the medicine in just the right time and turning your pillow when it

was hoi. and nub natids that many years ago turned to dust soothed away your pain and with voice that you will never bear again, unless you join her in the better country, told yon to never mind, for you would feel better by an4 by. and by that dying couch where aha looked so pale and talked so slowly, catching her breath between the words, and you felt an awful loneliness eons* ing over your soul. By all that I beg you to come back and take the same religion. It was good enough for her. It is good enough for you. Nay, I have a better plan than that. I plead by all the wounds ami tears and hiood and groans and agonies and death

throes of the Son of God. who approaches you at this moment with torn brotv and lacerated hands and whipped back, and saying: “Come urfto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Again, there is a field of usefulness but little touched, occupied by those who are astray in their habits. AH northern nations, like those of North America and England and Scotland— that is, in the colder climates—are devastated by alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up the warmth. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm they are not tempted to fiery liquids. The great Roman armies never drank anything stronger thau water tinged with vinegar, but under our northern climate the temptation to heating stimulants is most mighty, and‘millions succumb. When a man's habits go wrong the church drops him. the social circle drops him. good influences drop him, we all drop him. Of all the men who get off the track but few’ ever get on again. Near my summer residence there is a life-saving station on the beach. There are all the ropes and rockets, the boats, the machinery for getting people off shipwrecks. One summer I saw there 15 or 20 men who were breakfasting after having just escaped with their lives and nothing more. Up and down our coasts are built these useful structures, and the mariners know it, and they feel that if they are driven to the breakers there will be apt from shore to come a Rescue. The churches of God ought to be so many life-saving stations, not so much to help those who are in smooth wnters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the lifeboats! And who will man them? We do not preach enough to such ***©%» we have not enough faith in their release. Alas, if when they come to hear \is we are laboriously | trying to show the difference between sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism, while they have a hundred vipers ; of remorse and despair coiling ! around and biting their immortal spir- 1 its. The church is not chiefly for 1 goodish sort of men, whose proclivities are all right and who could get to Heaven praying and singing in their own homes. It is on the beach to help the drowning. Those bad cases are the cases that God likes to take hold of. He can save a oig sinner a^ well as a small sinner, and when a man calls earnestly to God for help he will go out to deliver such a one. If it were necessary, God would come down from the sky, followed by all the artillery of Heaven and a million afigels with drawn swords. Get 100 such redeemed men in your churches and nothing could stand before them, for such men are generally warm hearted and enthusiastic. No formal praj’ers then. No heartless sinarinff

then. No cold conventionalisms' then. Destitute children of the street offer a field of work comparatively un- ! occupied. The uncared for children j are in the majority in most of our 1 cities. When they grow up, if unreformed, they will outvote your children, and they will govern your children. The whisky ring will hatch out ! other whisky rings, and grog shops will kill with their horrid stench pub- ! lio sobriety unless the church of God rises up with outstretched arms and infolds this dying population in her bosom. Public schools cannot do it. Art cannot do it. Blackwell's island cannot do it. Almshouses cannot do it. Jails canont do it. Church of God, I wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do it! Get somewhere, some- j how to work! The Prussian cavalry mount by put- 1 ting their right foot into the stirrup, while the American cavalry mount by putting their left foot into the stirrup. I do not care how you mount your war charger if you only get into this battle for God and get j there soon, right stirrup or left stir- j rup or no stirrup at all. The unoccu- j pied fields are all around us, and why j should we build on another man’s ' foundation? I have heard of what was called the “thundering legion.’* j It was in 179, a part of the Homan ! army to which some Christians be- ! longed,»and their prayers, it was said, j were answered by thunder and lightning and hail and tempest, which overthrew an invading army and saved the empire. And I would to God that our churches might be so mighty in prayer and work that they would become a thundering legion before which the forces of sin might be routed and the gates of hell might tremble. Launch the Gospel ship for another voyage. Heave away now, J lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore- ! topsail! Come, O Heavenly wind, and * fill the canvas! Jesus aboard will as- i sure our safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon, us forward. Jesus on the shore will welcome us into harbor. lather’* Essay Writing. Teacher—I am sorry to say it, Henry, but your composition is not worthy of you. The rhetoric is faulty, the logic weak, the statements are based upon misinformation, and the style i« lamentably crude. Henry—My! Won’t my dad be mad when I “tell him that ? Teacher—But you can tell him you did your very best. Henry—Did my best nothing. Dad wrote the whole of it hansel!.—B«► tan Tr,anserine •

A FILIPINO EMISSARY. Arrival to X»w York of 8nto Lopet For* ■»rij SoinUrr and Coattdaat* to Agatualdo.

New York, Oct. 1.—Sixto Lopes, formerly secretary and confidante of Gen. Aguinak-o, arrived here yesterday on the Campania. Lopez is said to have come here at the invitation of Fisk Warren, and he expects to explain to the people the Filipinos’ side of their fight with this country. Lopez is a small man, with a yellow complexion and straight, black hair His secretary, who says that he hat known Lopez for eight years, is a colonial from Queenstown, and describe* himself as a Britisher from head tc foot. At the dock there was only on* man to meet him, a large, sandy haired man. who was addressed as Mr. George, but to reporters refused to giro his name. He saluted the Filipi no, and together they began a hunt of the dock for Fisk Warren, who tinally made his appearance, and th< parity went to the Imperial hotel. ~~ While coming up frQtn quarantine Lopez gave out the following signed statement: “My object m visiting the United States is not to interfere in American politics, but solely to tell the American people what the Filipinos desire in reference to the future government of our country. It has been said that! my coming to America is in the interests of certain people and parties. We, as Filipinos, know no parties in the United States. We have only one desire. viz: To seek justice for otu country. “Those who desire to give us justice will no doubt *be glad to know the wants and conditions of the - Philip pines. All we want is peace with hoc or to both parties, and 1 hope to be able to show that the conditions ol our country ‘are such as to fit us fox the maintenance of that independ enee.” At the hotel he added to the statement: “The only additional matter tc | which I need refer is the publication i of my book on the Philippines. It i* chiefly a reply to Commissionei Schurman’s report, and will contair views of the Philippines, on past and present events.” Mr. Warren, Lopez and his secretary left in the afternoon tor Bo& ton. FILIPINOS MORE QUIET. Sathfled that Amlgtoa Participated la i I Late Filipino Attacks Upon Americans. Manila, Oct. 1.—The Filipinos in tht vicinity of Manila have been more quiet of late, although last Wednesday! there were brisk attacks at Las Pinas and Paranaque, south of Manila, as well as outpost firing at Imus, Bacoo.'i fvnri UimUn T.nr>«. The American officers are satisfied that the al leged amigos living around the towns in question participated in these attacks. Official reports have been receivec of insurgent activity in Zambolo* province and in Batangas province Two skirmishes occurred during the week on the Bicol river, in the Province of South Camarines. It is estimated that the insurgents lost SK killed in the various districts. Two civilians, John McMahon and Ralph McCord, of San Francisco, who started on a business trip for Vigor and Bengued, in norther Luzon, hav« not been heard from for three weeks It is feared they have been killed oi captured by the insurgents.

OFFICERS OF THE VILLALOBOS. floater of Officer* on Board the fin*, boat Supposed to Hare Been Captured by Filipinos. Washington, Sept. 30.—The officer* of the gunboat Villalobos, on whicl Capt. Shields and party left Sant* Cruz, Marinduque, were Lieut. Ed* ward Simpson, commanding; Ensign Irwin F. Landis and Navel Cadet Rot \ incent. Lieut. Simpson has seen over fourteen years’ actual sea service. He entered the navy on June 17, 1876. He returned from his last torn of sea service in May, 1896, and was assigned to shore duty. On February 1» 1898, he was ordered to the Brook* lyn. Ensign Landis has seen not quite three years of sea service. He joined the navy September 6, 1893, and his last cruise expired in May, 1899. He was ordered to the Asiatic station oa December 22, 1899. • Cadet Vincent has had one year and seven months of sea service. On February 1, 1899, he was assigned to th« New Orleans. PULLED POLITICIANS* LEGS. Murray Will Have a Year t« Ruminate Over tbe Failure ef Hi* Scheme. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 30.—Tim Mur* ray, a young man charged with vie timizing several local politicians by representing himself as a collector for the national committees, pleaded guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses and was sentenced to one year in the state prison. Aeeideut to Veteran Editor. Denver, Col., Sept. 30.—The oldest editor in the United States, G. G. Galloway, is lying at the point of death at his daughter’s home in this city. He was struck by a tramway car, and sustained a dislocated .shoulder and severe internal injuries! Hit great age, 88 years, makes the fchanc* strong against his recovery, f Lord Robert* Promote*. London, Oct. 1.—It is offid&Ily an* nuonced that Lord Robertsias been appointed eommamler-in-cJfctef of th« British army. | ^

(M males.** A visitor in Paris whs s ‘a ted at s table in one of the high-priced i stauianta in the exhibition grounds thin ieg of various things as he read over tiue bill of fare and observed the prices. "By thunder!'' he excl imed to the waiter, "haven’t you any ccascienoe at ail in this p.ace?” "Beg pardon/’ replied .he haughty servitor. "Haven't you any conscience—conscience —conscience! Don’t you understand?” The waiter picked up . ae bill of fare and began looking it over. r‘I don’t know if we h.ve or not. H we have, it’a on the bill; ii: we ain’t, you’ve got to pay extra for it. Thetn’s the- rules, sir.”—London Spare Mor..cuts. Horrid Fcnr. The timid suitor had anally stated his case. “H-m-m!” began the gi.l’s father, looking at him sternly. “Young <nan, can you support a family!” “Great heavens!” cried the young man, “have you lost your jot Standard and Tunes.

! Aatlqaliiei «f BauHwll. ' A north Missoifo editor, who first •indie# baseball ruleswni!* a Sunday school boy, enters intfejtfce following antiquitie* of tho national game: “The devil was the first coacher. Ere stole first. Adam stole second When Isaac met Rebecca at the well she was walking with a pitcher. Sampson struck out a good many when he beat the Philistines. Moses made his first run when he slew the Egyptians. (Sin made a base hit when be killed Abel. Abraham made a sacrifice. The prodigal son made a home run. David was a long-distance thrower and Moses shut out the Egyptians at the Red sea. —Chicago Chronicle. * Good Summer Resort Advertlst**. ^ isitor—You seem to do a good bar business. , Seaside Hotel Proprietor-—Rather.’ We’v* just offered a prise to the first fellow who see* the sea serpent.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Arithmetic Cl*a*. i Teacher (pointing at problem)—Now, James, what comes after the dollar? James—Pa says it*s the collectors, ma'am. —Syracuse Herald.

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