The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 03, 1895, Image 5
THE WEEKLY LEDGER; GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 3, 1895.1
COD'S WAY OF WORK.
IT l& NOT MAN S WAY, E'JT IT IS
^ THii 0»ST WAY.
I»r Tn'iPftcr** Cloqaent I'lfa Foi
Clirtfltldn S<rf»tr^ein He Ustn Gi»Ieon*t
Unttle m% a Lcrsou—I'olnted tjuttiions
ter Meu ami Women.
Niw York, Sciit. 20.—In his sermou
for todny Kov. Dr. Taluiiigo discusses u
subject which is of special interest tc
Sunday school teachers and scholars at
Ihe present time, being Gideon's battle
With the Midiamtes near Mount Gilbna.
The text chosen was •ludgos vii, 20, 21:
"And the three companies blow the
trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and
h«ld the lam^s in their left hands and
the trumpets in their right hands to blow
Withal. And they stood every man in
his place round about the camp, and all
flie host rau and cried and tied.”
That is the strangest battle over
fought. God had told Gideon to go
down and thrush tho Midiauitos, but
his army ia too large, for the glory must
be given to God and not toman. And so
proclamation is made that all those of
♦hi troops who are cowardly and want
to go homo may go, and 22,000 of them
Scampered away, leaving only 10,000
men. But God says tho army is too
large yet, and so ho orders these 10,000
ramaiaiug to march down through a
Stream and commands Gideon to notice
Is what manner these men drink of the
Watir au they pass through it. If they
git down on all fours and drink, then
+•7 ire to be pronounced lazy and iu-
eompatent for the campaign, but if, in
giMing through the stream, they scoop
*p the water in tho palm of their hand
And drink and pass on they aro to be
the men selected for tho battle.
Well, tbe 10,000 men marched down
in the stream, and the most of thorn
•ome down on all fours and plnngo their
fcicutks like a horse or an ox into tho
Water and drink, but there are 300 men
Who, imfead of stooping, just dip the
t lw of their hands in the water and
ing it to their lips, “lapping it as n
#C|g lappeth. ” Those 300 brisk, rapid,
•athusiastic men aro chosen for tho
gsoupaign. They aro each to take a
trumpet in tho right hand, and a pitcher
in the left hand, and a lamp inside the
pitebtr, and tin u at a given signal they
we to blow the trumpets, and throw
down the pitchers, and hold up the
kuniw. fc?o it was done.
It is night. I see a groat host of Mid-
ianites sound asleep in the valley of
Jescree 1. Gideon comes up with his 300
pick*d men, and when everything is
ready tho signal is given, and they blow
the trumpets, and they throw down the
pitchers, and hold up the lamps, and
Ihe great host of Midiauites, waking
•tt of a sound sleep, take tho crash of
the crockery and tho glare of the lamps
for the coming on of an overwhelming
foe, and they mu and cut themselves
lo pieces and horribly perish.
The lessons of this subject are very
spirited and impressive. This seeming
ly valueless lump of quartz has the
pure gold in it. The smallest dewdrop
on the meadow at night has a star
sleejiing in its bosom, and the most in
significant passage of Scripture baa in
it a shining truth. God’s mint coins no
small change.
I learn in the first place from this sub-
Bct the lawfulness of Christian strata-
joiu. You know very well that the i
ireatest victories ever gained by Wash- ;
mgtou or Napoleon were gained through
the fact that they came when and in a
way they were ot expected—sometimes
Call ing back to draw out tho foe, some
times breaking out from ambush, some
time:* crossing a river on unheard of
rafts, all the time keeping the opposing
forces in wundemieut as to what would
be' done next.
You all know what strategy is in mil
itary affairs. Now I think it is high
time we had this art sanctified and spir
itualized. In the church, when wo aro
■bout to muko a Christian assault, wo
■end word to the opposing force when
we expect to come, how many troops
we have, and how many rounds of shot,
and whether wo will come with artil
lery, infantry or cavalry, and of course
We aro defeated. There aro thousands
of men who niiulit be surprised iuto the
kingdom of God. Wo need more tact
and ingenuity in Christian work. It is
in spiritual affairs as in military, that
luccess depends in attacking that part
of the castlo which is not armed and
intrenched.
Draw the Bolt.
For instance, hero is a man all armed
on the doctrine of election. All hie
troops of argument and prejudice are at
that particular gate. You may batter
away at that side of tho castle for 6f>
years, and you will net take it, bnt Just
Wheel your troops to the side gate of
the heart’s affections, and in five min-
ntee you capture him. I never knew a
man to be saved through a brilliant ar-
E uncut. Yon cannot hook men into the
ngdom of God by the horns of a di
lemma. There is no grace in syllogisms.
Here is a man aimed on tho subject of
berseverauce of tho saints. Ho does not
believe in it Attack bimat that point,
and he will persevero to the very last in
hot bcliovmg it. Hero is a man armed
on the subject of baptism. He believe!
h> sprinkling or immersion. All your
Wwusaiou of ecclesiastical hydropathy
Vill not change him. 1 remember when
I was a boy that with other boys 1 went
Into the river on u summer day to bathe,
Rnd we used to dash water on each oth*
Hr, bnt never got any result except that
bur eyes were blinded, and all tbil
Ipiasbiug of water between Baptists
tod Pedobaptists never results In any
thing but the blorrirg of the spiritual
eyesight. In other words, yon cun uevar
capture a tnuu’u soul at tho point at
Which he is especially intrenched. But
there is in every man's heart a bolt that
Uan to ooa.ly shoved. A little child 4
years old may touch that bolt, and It
Will spring back, and the dour will
■Wing ojicii, ami Christ will come in.
1 think that the Uuest of all tbe hue
art* is the art of doing good, and yet
rnm «ui ia tua mmmi wunuiwu. Yt« L»vs
In the kingdom of God today enough
troops lo conquer tho whole earth for
Christ if weonly hud skillful maneuver
ing. I would rather have tho 300 lamps
and pitchers of Christian stratagem
than 100,000 drawn swords of literary
and ccolesiastGal combat.
Hope In a Few.
I learn from this subject also that a
small part of the army of God will
have to do all the hard lighting, (aid-
eon’s army was originally composed of
82,000 meu, but they went off until
there were only 10,000 left, and that
was subtracted from until there were
only 300. It is the same in all ages of
the Clnistian church. A few men have !
to do the hard lighting. Take a mem
bership of 1,000, and you generally find
that 60 people do the work. Take a
membership of 600, and you generally
find that ten people do the work. There
aro scores of churches where two or
three people do tho work.
Wo mourn that there is so much use
less lumber in the mountains of Leban
on. 1 think of the 10,000,000 member
ship of tho Christian church today if
6,000,000 of tho names were off tho
books the church would ho stronger.
You know that tho more cowards and
drones there aro in any army tho weaker
it is. I would rather have tho 300 picked
meu of Gideon than the 32,000 unsifted
host. How many Christians there are
standing in the way of all progress! I
think it is the duty of thochurchof God
to ride over them, and tho quicker it
does it the quicker it does its duty.
Do not worry, O Christian, if you
have to do more than your share of tho
work. You had better thunk God that
he has called you to bo one of t' n picked
men rather than to belong to the host
of stragglers. Would not yon rather be
one of the 300 that fight than the 22,-
OOOl that run? I suppose those cowardly
Gideonites who went off congratulated
themselves. They said: “We got rid of
all that fighting, did not wo? How
lucky wo have been ! That baltlo costs
us nothing at all.” But they got none
of tho spoils of the victory. After tho
battle the 300 men went down and took
tbe wealth of the Midianites, and out
of the cups and platters of their enemies
they feasted. And the time will come,
my dear brethren, when tho hosts of
darkness will bo routed, and Christ will
say to his troops: “Well done, my bravo
men. Go up and take tho spoils. Do
more than conquerors forever.” And in
that day nil deserters will bo shot.
Again, I learn from this subject that
God’s way is different from man’s, bnt
is always tbe best way. If wo bad tho
planning of that battle, wo would have
taken those 82,000 men that originally
belonged to tho army, and wo would
have drilled them and marched them
up and down by the day and week and
! month, and we would have bud them
' equipped with swords or spears, accord
ing to tho way of arming in those times,
and then we would have marched them
down in solid column upon tho foe.
But that is not tbe way. God depletes
tho army, and takes away all their
weapons, and gives them a lamp, and a
pitcher, and a trumpet, and tells them
to go down and drive out the Midian
ites. I suppose some Wiseacres were
there who said: “That is not military
tactics. The idea of 300 men unarmed
conquering such u gre .t host of Midian
ites!” It was tho best way. Wh:
sword, spear or cannon ever accomplish
ed such a victory as the lamp, pitcher
and trumpet?
God’s way is different from man’s
way, but it is always best. Take, for
instance, the composition of tbe Bible.
If we bad had tho writing of tho Bible,
we would have said: “Let one man
write it. If you have 20 or 30 meu to
write a poem, or make a statute, or
write a history, or make an argument,
there will bo flaws and contradictions.”
But God says, “Let not one man do it,
but. 40 men shall do it. ” And they did,
differing (iiough to show there bad been
no collusion between them, but not
contradicting each other on any impor
tant point, while they all wrote from
their own standpoint and temperament,
so that tho matter of fact man has his
Moses, the romantic nature his Ezekiel,
tho epigrammatic his Solomon, the war
rior his Jos un, the sailor his Jonah,
the loving ! ns John, tho logician his
Paul. Inste id of this Biblo, which now
I can lift in my hand—instead of tho
Biblo the child can carry to Sunday
school, instead of tho little Bible tho
sailor can put in his jacket when ho
goes to sea—if it had been left to men
to write it would have been a thousand
volumes, judging from tho amount of
ecclesiastical controversy which has
arisen. God’s way is different from
man’s, but it is best, infinitely best.
No CroM, No Crown.
So it is in regard to the Christian’s
life. If we had hud the planning of ft
Christian’s life, we would have said:
"Lot him have 80 years of sunshine, a
fine house to live in. Let his surround
ings all bo agreeable. Let him have
sound health. Let no chill shiver
through his limbs, no pain ache his
brow or trouble shadow his soul.” I
enjoy tho prosperity of others so much 1
would let every man have us much
money ns he wants and roses for his
children’s cheeks and fountains of
gladness glancing in their large round
eyes. But that is not God’s way. It
seem* ns if man must be cut and hit and
pounded Just in proportion us ho is use
ful. His child falls from a third story
window and has its life dashed out. His
tnost coufidout investment tumbles him
into bankruptcy. His friends, on whom
ho depended, aid the natural force of
r xnvitutiou in taking him down. His
ife is n Bull Run defeat. Instead of
88,000 advantages ho has only 10,000.
Aye, only BOO—nyo, none nt all. How
many good people there are at their
wits’ end about their livelihood, about
their reputation? Bnt they will find out
it is tho beet way after while. God
will show them that he deplete# tfenir
advantages just for tho same reason he
depleted tho army of Gideon—that they
may lie induced to throw themselves on
his mercy.
A grapevine says in the early spring:
"Sww gitut I Miu iw gvt liuvugi* Ui#
winter 1 I shall have no more trouble
now. Summer weather will come, and
the garden will be veiy beautiful. ” But
tho gardener cnincs and cuts the vine
hero and there with his knife. Tho
twigs begin to fall, and the grapevine
cries out: “Murder! What aro you cut
ting me for?” “Ah,” says the garden
er, “I don't mean to kill you. If I did
not do (bis, you would bo the laughing
stock of all the other vines before the
season is over.” Months go on, and one
day the gardener comes under the trel
lis, where great clusters of grapes hang,
and the grapevine says: “Thank you,
sir. You could not have dnue anything
so kind as to have cut mo with that
knife.” “Whom tho Lord loveth ho
chastenoth.” No pruning, no grapes;
no grinding mill, no flour; no battle,
no victory; no cross, no crown.
So God’s way, in tho redemption of
tho world, is different fiom ours. If we
had our way, wo would have had Jesus
stand in tho door of heaven and beckon
tbe nations up to light, or wo would
have lied angels flying around the earth
proclaiming the unsearchable riches of
Christ. Why is it that the cause goes ou
so slowly? Why is it that the chains
stay on when God could knock them
off ? Why do thrones of despotism stand
when God could so easily demolish
them? It is bis way in onler that all
generations may co-operate and that all
men may know they cannot do tho work
thenieelves. Just in proportion as these
pyramids of sin go up in height will
they come down in ghastliness of ruin.
O thou father of all iniquity! If
thou canst hear my voice above the
crackling of the flames, drive on - thy
projects, dispatch thy emissaries, build
thy temples aud forge thy chains, but
kuow that thy fall from heaven was noi
greater than thy final overthrow shall
bo when thou shalt bo driven disarmed
into thy fieiy den, and for every lie
thou hast framed upon earth thou shalt
have un additional hell of fury poured
into thiuo anguish by the vengeance of
our God, and all heaven shall shout at
tho overthrow, as from tbe ransomed
earth the song breaks through the skies:
“Halleluiah, for the Lord God omnipo
tent reigneth ! Halleluiah, for tho king
doms of tins world have become the
kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ!”
God’s way in the composition of tbe
Bible, God’s way in the Christian’s life,
God’s way in tbe redemption of the
w orld, God’s way in everything—differ
ent from man’s way, but tho best.
I learn from this subject that the
overthrow of God’s enemies will be
sudden and terrific. There is the army
of tho Midianites down in the valley of
Jczreel. I suppose their mighty men
are dreaming of victory. Mount Gilboa
never stood sentinel for so large a host.
Tho spears and tho shields of the Mid
ianites gleam in the moonlight and
glance on the eye of tho Israelites, who
hover like a battle of eagles, ready to
swoop from the cliff. Sleep on, O army
of the Midianites! With the night to
hide thorn and the mountain to guard
them and strong arms to defend them,
let no slumbering fooman dream of dis
aster. Peace to the captains and the
spearmen.
Crash go the pitchers! Up flare tho i
lamps! To he mountains! Fly, fly!
Troop rnnni”g against troop, thousands '
trampling upon thousands. Hark to the j
scream and groan of tho routed foe, !
with the Lad God Almighty after
them! How sudden tho onset! How
wild the con teruation! How utter the
defeat! I do not care so much what is
against mo if God is not. You want a
better sword or carbine than I have ever
seen to go out aud fight against the
Lord Omnipotent. Give me God for my
ally, and yon may have all the battle
ments and battalions.
Ho|i«l«ss Fighters.
I saw tbe defrauder in his splendid
house. It seemed as if be bud conquered
God as be stood amid tho blaze of
chandeliers and pier mirrors. In the
diamonds of the wardrobe I saw the
tears of the widows whom be had rob
bed and in the snowy satin tho pallor of
the white cheeked orphans whom he had
wronged. The blood of the oppressed
glowed in the deep crimson of the im
ported chair. The music trembled with
the sorrow of unrequited toil. But the
wave of mirth dashed higher on reefs
of coral and pearl. The days aud the
nights went merrily. No sick child
dared pull that silver doorbell. No beg
gar dared sit ou that marble step. No
voice of prayer floated amid that ta
pestry. No shadow of a judgment day
darkened that fresco. No tear of human
sympathy dropped upon that upholstery.
Pomp strutted the hull, and dissipation
filled her cup, aud all seemed safe as
tho Midianites in the valley of Jezreel.
But God came. Calamity smote the
money market. The partridge left its
eggs unhatched. Crush went all the
porcelain pitchers! Ruin, rout, dismay
and woe in tho valley of Jezreel!
Alas for those who fight against God I
Only two sides. Man immortal, which
side aro you on? Woman •immortal,
which side are you on? Do you belong
to tho 300 that are going to win the day
or to the great host of Midianites asleep
in tho ralloy, only to be roused up in
consternation and miu? Suddenly the
golden bowl of life will be broken and
the trumpet blown that will startle our
•onl into eternity. Tho day of the l^ord
comoth ns a thief in the night and us
Ihe God armed Israelites upon the
sleeping foe. Ha! Cuust thou pluck up
Courage for the day when the trumpet
which hath never teen blown shall
epeak the roll cull of the dead, and the
earth, dashing against a lost meteor,
have its mountains scattered to tiitf
Itars aud oceans emptied In the airf
Oh, then whut will become of you?
Wbut will become of me?
If those Midianites had only given up
their swords the day before the disaster,
all would bare been well, and if you
Will now surrender the sins with which
yon have been lighting against God you
Will bo rufe. Oh, make peace with him
now, tbiough Jesus Christ the Lord!
With tin clutch of a drowning man
mize the cross. Oh, surrender I Surren
der! Christ, with his hand on his ymived
1 iiu*, MMa jruii Uk
Maltlre's Idea of Fan.
The boyish delight of the Prussian
generals at reaching P ris is shown in
the story of a carouse lie I at Forr eres,
near Me; nx, told in a b
whicl
r of Gctieial
was wiMteu in
Verdydu Vcrnoi
18 TO*:
“Yet onlay was such a fatiguing day,
but lively and agreeable. At 4 King
William gave a grand banquet. His
majesty know that we bad to dine nt (1
with tho head of the staff aud congratu
lated ns on our grandiose appetite. At 0
sharp I got away from the royal dinner
to be punctual to tho miuute at the
other ono. Given the circumstances, it
was a feast fur Lucullus. Bismarck,
Roon and their suites had already come.
Westaid at table from 0 till 10. Moltke
then set up whist tables. As the punch
was delicious, we all staid till 1 in
tho morning. Bismarck told a lot of
funny stories, and none funnier than his
account of Jules Favre’s interview aud
the intormiuablo speeches of that French
envoy. One might fancy oneself, Bis
marck said, at a public meeting when
ho talked.
“They read us some verses that he
was sending to Germany. In conse
quence of his dropping a line, the ef
fect was fo tho last degreo comic. We
all went off into roars of laughter—one
of us lay flat on tho table, another skip
ped round it, and Multke showed his
sense of comicality by steeping bits of
bread in bis full wineglass and throw
ing them in our faces. This dinuer took
place in a small chateau belonging to an
aristocratic old French lady, fche did
the honors of her house in a courtly, old
fashioned style, bnt slio spoke uo other
language but French. The dinuer went
off so well that our'host felt ho must
thank the old lady. Unfortunately he
knew no French. His enthusiasm was
aroused by the moonlight that poured
down on a terrace whore wo took coffee.
He went to the marquise, and mustering
what words of French ho knew took her
tenderly by tbe hand, and pointing to tho
waning moon said, ‘Foyez, mudaine,
quel joli denii monde. ’ ”
A Sauioycd Feast.
When I returned in the afternoon to
the ehoom in a driving storm of sleet.
I found Vassili aud his wife in great
fettle. Ho had killed a deer in the morn
ing, and they had been indulging in on«
of their big feeds. In fact, as I sledged
up to the ehoom ho and bis wife were
only just concluding u three hours’ feast.
Squatting on skins, they had a rough
piece of plank in front of them on which
lay the stomach of a reindeer. This was
almost full of blood, drained from the
deer—in fact, it formed their soup tu
reen. They each had a hind leg, ou
which some of the hide still remained,
and cutting off chunks of the meat were
dipping them in the crimson soup and
then greedily swallowing tho bonne
bouche.
As a fitting background to the pic
ture pieces of the carcass, still dripping
with blood, bung all round tho interior
of tho ehoom. Ou tho ground were
small, dark*' pools of b'o id, and my
sleeping bag, though as well out t f tho
way as tho size of tho interior would al
low, was well sprinkled with tho same
natural dye. As they sat there grinning
a welcome to me, with their cheeks and
brows all smeared with goie, they look
ed for all tho world like tho blood eat
ing ghouls of one’s childish fancy.—
F. G. Jackson’s “Tho Groat Frozen
Laud.”
Lived Under Every Freidricnt.
An event of great interest was cele
brated in the village of Fayetteville
Friday, when Peter Johnson reached
tho one hundredth anniversary of his
birth. Mr. Johnson has lived under all
the presidents of the United States, be
ing born when Washington had served
six years in that office. His first vote
was cast fur James Monroe, and he has
voted tor every president since thou.
Mr. Johnson’s mind is clear, and ho is
in good health, fcixty descendants as
sembled on Aug. 10 in his honor. His
wife is 8? years of ago, and they liavo
been married 04 years. Mr. Johnson’s
first Wife died, and in 1831 ho married
Eliza A. Perry of Rome, who was born
in 1809. There aro five children living,
and tho grandchildren aro 22 in nuui
her, and the great-grandchildren aro 26,
tho eldest being 4 years old. Mr. John
son is able to walk supported by two
cuues. His recollections of early times
mo very interesting, and bo remembers
historical events of 80 years ago easily.
—Utica Press.
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it. (livo me a trial.
Respect fully,
I-,. IliiIter,
LIMESTONE * SPRINGS * LIME * I0RI1,
CARROLL & CO., Lessees.
Manufacturers of——
BUILDING, *.... * AND * AGRICULTURAL *
And Dealers In
Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair.
Dymamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps.
LIU,
Cut Prices
At J. I. Sarratts.
I .\M now offering my entire stock at prices that will sell to anyon*
wanting goods. Gents' low cut shoes SOe, Ladies (>0c, ( hilds eO#
and up. Men’s suits, now goods and up, 1 ’ants 4oc and up. (••f-
fee Gibs for fl. Sugar Rice, Tea, Lard, Meat. Flour, and Tobacee M
BOTTOM PRICES. California Hams Sc. Dove brand He. Monwil*
tools, such as Shovels, Spades, Mattocks. Ricks, Ac., cheaper than
one in town. A few Straw Hats left at New York cost. Gent # •hill*
IGjjc and up, Suspenders 5c and up. Give me a call when in U>w*.
Respectfully,
J-