The Clarksburg telegram. [volume], July 28, 1893, Image 7

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My loving and glad salutation to this
uncounted host, Chantanqniuu, Chris
tian Endeavors, Gospel workers and
their friends from all parts of "Wiscon
sin and America, saints and sinners!
My text is - gloriously appropriate.
ltes were'suffering. The Philistines
had. carried off all .the blacksmiths,
anil torn down all the blacksmiths*
shops, and abolished the blacksmiths'
trade in the land of Israel. Those1 Phil
istines had a particular grudge .against
although I have always
admired them, arfd have sometimes
thought 1 ought to have been one my
self. The Philistines would not even,
allow these parties to work their valu
able mines of brass and iron, nor might
they make any swords or spears, There
were only, two swords left in, #11 the
land. Yea; these Philistines went on
until they had taken all the grind
stones from .the land of Israel, so that
if an Israelite farmer Wanted tasharpen
his plow or his ax, he had to go over to
the garrisoaof. the Phillstlnes^to get it
done. There was only one iharpening
instrument left-in the land, and that
was a file. The farmers and ahe me
chanics having nothing (o whet up the
coulter, save a simple file,, industry was
hindered and work practically dis
graced.
The great idea of the Philistines was
to keep tho Israelites disarmed.. They
might get.iron out ofjtha hlUs to make
swords of. but they would not have any
blacksmiths to weld this Iron. If they
got the iron welded, they would have
no grindstones onVhlchtobringthe
?jry^w<Li?hs ^to an edge. Oh, you
- leas'IsraelitA, ?du??<?
bearer, on a?u??r- i..nil up./
up the same .rock, and these two men,
with their two swords, hew to pieces
the Philistines, the Lord throwing a
great tertor upon 'them. So it was
then; so it is now. The two men of
God on their knees, mightier than a.
Philistine host on their feet.
I learn first from this subject, how
dangeroda it is for the ^?v
to allow; its weapons
hands of its enemies. 1
might' again and again 1
supply of swords "**'
instance, jvhen .tB
the AmmOnltMp
seemed ocrotentto have no swords, no
spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones,
no active iron mines, until it was too
late for to make any Resistance. 1
see the farmm tugging along with
their .pick-axes and plows, and I say:
"Where are you going with those
things?" They say: "Oh, we are go
ing over to the! garrison/of the Philis
tines to get these things sharpened," I
?ay: "You foolish men, why don't yon
sharpen them at home?" '!Oh,"'they
say, "the blacksmiths' shops are all
torn donm, and we have nothing left us
..
? So it is in the church of Christ to-day.
?We are too willing to give np oar weap
ons to the enemy. The world boasts
that it has gobbled up the schools, and
the colleges, and the arts, and the sci
ences, and the "literature, and the
printing press. Infidelity is making a
mighty attempt to get all our weapons
in its hand and then to keep them.
You know it is making this boast all
the time; and after awhile, when the
great battle between sin and righteous
ly has opened, if we do not look out
we will be as badly ofTas 1thaw!Israel
ites, without any swords to fight with
and without any sharpening iiutru-,
ments. I call upon the superintendents
of literary institutions to see to it that
the men who go Into the dass-rooms to
stand beside the Leyden jars, and the ,
electric batteries, and the microscope.
_r telescopes, be children of God, not
Philistines. The atheistic thinkers of,
this day are trying to get all the Intel-1
lectnal weapons of this century in their
?a?p. What we want are scientific
Chrirtians to capture the science, and
scholastic Christians to capture tte
scholarship, and philosophic
to capture the philosophy, and leetur
oSstians to take back the lectur
to send oit ag*i?
? c and Strauss and Renan of th?
&***<<* Bonn;
Infidel scientists, a uoa-wo?^^!
i^ dUcover th.
??2k^Ages,"?d amid the. fiwad
i^^SuslSd the "Rose ot Sharon
j? Sf^y of the valley." Wew?*
n^ leixn^ euough.to dtajoun.
^^^J^nd'tdescope in one lnstrn
800 wonderful contrivances,
znggssSw&m
aftgUl "^Infinite ?kill of an
inflx^ T. ?ne that formed the
Sl^ he' not seer And then
chapter of the.
stones of the field ahall be In lea*oe"
with the troth, and "the stars in their
course shall fight against fibers. "B.
: Churchof God, go out and recapture
these weapons. Let men of Uodgoottt
and take possession of the platform.
Let all the printing press of this coun
try speak ontfor^ Qi^st. and ^tlie re
to^the'toiS God of trtt^li.
friend, that day must come, and If thf
great body of Christian men hare not
the fatih or the courage or the conse
cration to do It, then let some Jons thai
on Us busy hands and on his Pr?3?j
knees, ? climb up on the::rockofhind
ranee, and in the name of the
f of UtwSi slash to pieces thou* literarj
Philistines. If these men will not b.
destroyed * ^ ^ **
a Alf?ge amount of the church's r<
sources is actually hidden, and nnd?
* eloped. The Bible IntimotesthatUu
was a Tery rich land?this land of Si
raeL It says: "the stones, are iron an
out of the hills thou shalt dig bras*
and yet-hundreds of thousands of do
lars' Worth of this metal was kept u>
der the hills. Well, that is the difflct
ty with the Church of Pod at this da
?Its talent is not developed. If ono-ha
of its energy could be brought out
might take- the public Iniquities of w
, day by the throat and make thom.bi
the dust., H human eloquence'w?
consecrated to the Lord Jeiraa Qjpatjji
could In a few years persuade tWin?h<
earth to surrender to God- There
enough undeveloped "Christian ener
in the United States to bring the wh<
world to Christ; but it is burled uni
strata of indiilerenoe and under wh<
mountains of sloth.
Now, Is it not time for^the^minlng
and put into the furnaces and be tun
into howitzers and carbines for 1
Lord's host? . The Vast majority
.Christians In this dsy are useless. 1
most of the Lord's battalloh belonj
the reserve oprps. The most of.
crew are asleep in the hammocks. .
most of the' metal is under the hi
i nave a gjunuua ou*auws? ???*? ?<
you now, as the'general said wl
troops were affrighted. Rising -
his stirrups, his hair flying in the v
he lifted up his voice until twenty
thousand troops heard him, crying ont,
"yorwurd the whole line!" . ?? -?
Again, I learn from this subject that
we sometimes do Well toi take advan
tage of the world's sharpening instru
ments. These Israelites w-i??duoed
to a file, and so they -went
garrison of the Philistine?
axes and their guadsffinrt
sharpened. The SSHBbt-?j ?
In the context that tfiey had no other
Instruments now witnShlch to do this
work, and the Israelites did right when
they went over to the Philistines to use
their grindstones. My friends, is it not
right for us to employ the world's grind
stones? If there be art,' If' there be
logic, if there be business faculty on
the other side, let us go over and em
ploy It for Christ's sake. The fact is we
fight with too dull weapons, and we
work with too dull implements. We
hack and we maul when we onght
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 a scieace and.srt
it will do us-good to rub against It. In
other words, let us employ the world's
grindstones. We will listen to their
music and we will watch their acumen.
and will borrow their philosophical
*~ make our exnerimenta
ijgljjtto most applauded man of hli
3p55*ed with a hemorrhage of th?
lungs In Parla, win-re he had gone to
iMjerowned in the theater aa the Idol
SgjUl France, he sends a messonger tc'
get a priest, that he may he reoonclled
Wthe Church before he dies. A rr.-.n:
terror fall* upon him. He makea thr
'{OaiM all round about him ao dlsma}
?tSglUie nurse declares that she ?"uiu
fffiStJlor all the wealth of Europe ?e? *
another Infidel die. Philistine inlquitj
that the victim may be more coally
swallowed; but - generally Mn raapn,
and galls,' and tear*, and upbraids, and
flics. Is It not so, Herod? Is It not so,
illldbrand? Is It not so, Robesplerrel
Aye! aye! It Is so; It Is so. 4 '"The waj
of the wicked he turneth upalde down."
Ilearnfroto this subject, what a sad
thing. It la when the Church ot God
low* its metal. These Philistines sat*
that if they oould only get all ttu
metallic weapons out of the hands ol
the' Israelites, all would be well, and,
therefore, they took the swordsand th?
spear* They did not want them to
iharea aingle metallic weapon.. When
,the metal of. the Israelites was gone,
, their strength was gone. This la ths
trouble with the Chnrch of God to-day.
It'ls surrendering its courage. It
has not got enough metal. How sel
dom it Is 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 aU trial, and all persecution, and
all criticism. The Chnrch of God to
day wants more backbone, more defi
ance, more consecrated brarery, more
metal,. How often yon see a man stsrt
out in some g<?d enterprise, and at th?
first blast of newspaperdom ho has col
lapsed, and all hia courage gone, for
getful of the tact that if a man be right,
aU the newspapers of the earth, with
all :, their columns pounding away at
him, can not do him any perma
nent damage. It' Is only when a
man is wrong that he can be dam
aged. Why, God is going to yindieate
his truth, and he is going to stand by
males lor Christ's cause and the salvation
of tnsn. J sometimes aay to my wile:
"There la something wrong! the news
papers hare not assaulted me tor three
months! I hare not done my duty
against public iniquities, and I will stir
them up next Sunday." Then I stir
them Top, and all the following week
tW deril howls and howls, showing
that I hare hit him rery hard. Op forth
in the aeiViee of Christ and do youi
whole duty. Ton have one sphere. 1
hare another sphere. "The Lord of
hosts is with us, and' the God of Jaoob
is our refuge. Selah." We want
more of the determination of .Jon
athan. I do not suppose he was
a very wonderful man, but he got on
his knees and clambered up the rode.
man of very intellectual attainments,
<m his knees, can storm anything foi
God and the truth. We want something
of the determination of the general
who went into the war and, as be en
tered his final battle, his knees knocked
'together, his physical oourage not
quite np to his moral', eouratfe,
and he looked down at hla knees and
said: "Ah, if you knew where .1
was going, to take you yon
would shake worse than that!" Then
is only one question Xot you to ask and
lor me to ask. What does God want
me to dor Where is the field? When
is the work? ?< Where is the anVlli
Where is the prayer.meeting? - When
Is the pulpit? And, finding out' what
to keep hot for lata comeA, tr* oorer
tas,ii oloMl; with a tin and letting it
BTer a haain of hot water. Thl* plan
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Boll a handful of % leave* In a quart
of water and reduce It to a pint. A
?pong* dipped In thl* liquid and rubbed
upon; them U uidto entirely remo>e
itain* from crepe*, bombailne*. etc.
Fob aerere hemorrhage from tha
gaaarg
A wokdwihh. food for weak-IniaUd*
?iJ bablc* that cannot digest oonnooti .
?^>^.**^0^*^ flour[ln
out of
I team* and Wen' oft^Thla^murt be
tvhen glren to Infant* It la made into
a thin gruel with milk. *o they can
take It from a bottle,
If people who ire troublod with tired
(eet could know the relief thai' dome*
from the u*e of cushion* placed In
front of the table where tfcey *tand
when dlahe* are wuked or Timetable*
prepared. tK?y would prortte thrm
ielve* with one or more of theae pada
?t once. They may be made with *0T- 1
?ral thicknetae* of old cloth, bagging. I
Hrpetlining, orhor** blankeUtltched *
together and covered, with old carpet
Sdruggct. the edrti turned In and
orerhaodod, 'sad" the wholo then .
..tasked Uke a comfortable. Hang It
up by two loop* when not In u*o, to
iceip the edgre* from curling up. In
bat, to preTont, till* it 1* not a bad
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