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general pood of greater eonceru than
-tl r nni iicular good. They’re an un-
lot, the people are.”
Wm “Mi>t all of them, lint even if they
were. I don't know as that Is any
reason for letting them alone. Jesus
probably knew that only one of the ten
lepers would return to give thanks, yet
he healed them all.”
“They must he mighty ashamed of
themselves by this time,” said Harton
wearilv. (Jordon instantly noted it.
‘ “You’re tired out. Not another word
tonight. Can't 1 do anything for you?
No .' You will call me if you need meV”
’ Yes, of course. You know where
yo.ir old room is. Just make yourself
at home. 1 gave orders to William
when your things came to get your
room ready. Sound sleep to you.”
In the m Tiling the friends break
fasted at a elu'. room near by, where
Barton had bachelor quarters at table,
and John Gordon noted with concern
ti.e face of Barton, which showed
m irks of wakefulness.
“I coughed once or twice just to keep
in practice. And at 6 o’clock l went
off again just as a reminder of getting
Up time. But don’t you worry. I’ll be
all right when 1 get used to it.”
He laughed lightly and accompanied
Gordon part way down into the city,
leaving him at the point where the
H jpe House district began, after exact
ing a promise from him that he would
take dinner with him at 7 that evening.
John Gordon went at once to Hope
House and had a conference with Miss
Andrews.
“There is no reason why I should not
begin my work at once,” Gordon said.
“The trouble is”—Miss Andrews spoke
wiih a slight smile—“you are not like
the average resident. More than half
of my people during the last ten years
ha ve left me to enter their life work.
Now I understand”—
“This is my life work,” said Gordon
grr. vely.
“It is a matter of both life and
death, Mr. Gordon. But let us arrange
a definite programme,” she added has
tily. as If disturbed by some idea for
eign to this conference. “How woulu
you like a tenement house tour to be
gin with?”
“I will do whatever you suggest. I
am sure that, whatever it is, it will be
Just the right thing to do.”
“Here is obedience for you! Will
you always be as tractable?”
“I hope so.” /
“Very well.” She hesitated a mo
ment. “Suppose you go out with Fjord.
He is making a report of the block/west
of Bowen street. You can help Mm.”
For a week John Gordon ai.M Ford,
the university student, made / special
study of a block of tenemep/ts In the
Hope House district. Ford/fook kodak
pictures of alleys and lv.!*Ck yards and
stairways aud groupsyuf tenement chil
dren and inanimate groups of garbage
and stifling narrow/courts and displays
/-cf soiled and tattled wash and every-
thirg else exeepythe smells, as Gordon
said, anu Ueaiill Ford look them with
out the aid of a camera. Gordon tabu
lated statistics, birth ami death rate,
density, nationality, disease, occupa
tion, religion and absence of it, number
of people in single rooms, quality of
food used, drink and drunkenness, sa
loons in block and their revenue, to
gether with all other items that bore
on the life of the lives In that ulcer of
the city.
At the end of tin* week Gordon had
r*feachcd some conclusions.
"What can he done about bettering
conditions? The people in the tene
ments are victims to a large degree of
conditions that they are unable to hot
ter The owners of the property!
There's the vital point. How to reach
them?”
For answer Miss Andrews took down
from the house library a volume con
taining a list of property owners In
Hope House neighborhood. Before giv
ing it to Gordon she said sadly: “You
must not let this list disturb your gen
eral purpose. Of course it will not do
that. But I am sure you want all the
facts.”
“That Is Just what 1 want,” said
Gordon, wondering a little at Miss An
drews’ gravity, although she was al
ways calmly serious.
She quietly, but with the same man
ner of doubtful hesitation, put the hook
• in his hands aud went into the hall to
answer a summons.
John Gordon opened the volume and
began to run down the names in the
list. He was alone at the time, and in
thinking back over the experience he
was able to recall the strange sensa
tion he had of isolation from every
friend, even Barton, whom he had not
seen for several days. This feeling of
Isolation was so unusually strong that
be had to light against the falsehood
that there was no tie of friendship in
bis work, that he stood alone in the
struggle for humanity.
Name after name of agents or firms
or companies having control of the
property around Hope House had been
.read by him, and he had not reached
[the block he had been studying, for his
| interest deepened every moment as he
{recognized familiar names, familiar in
Ithe commercial and social world.
He turned over a page and came to
le section marked “Waterside," and
le second name he read was “Rufus
lordon,” with numbr s indicating
ownership of several of the worst
louses In the block. He read the name
(with heightening color and went on,
'and near the top of the opposite page
be saw the name of Philo 11. Marsh
and numbers crediting him with own
ing half a dozen tenements. Glancing
at the bottom of the page, Gordon
noted the same name again as the own
er of property which, by reference to
the map of the appendix, he Identified,
by comparison with his own irnft of
th.* block, ns saloon and vaudeville
property.
"Luelln’s father!” The Idea that for
years the woman to whom he had given
his affections had Idled in the luxury
o* her home, kept In the possession of
the soft, eus>; things of social luxury
/
by means of money that had the taint
of human misery and shame and sin
on it, caused him to revolt against the
whole cruel social indifference of that
part of the social world represented
by the facts in the hook before him.
“Luella’s father aud mine also!” he
added. He leaned his head on his
hand, and his face grew stern. Miss
Andrews, coming back to the library,
unused In the doorway and stood there
a moment looking intently at him.
This story will be continued in
Friday’s Ledger till Concluded
(letter Thun (told.
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TALMAGE
SERMON
*
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D..
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby-
teridji Church, Chicago
Horn, of Bwunp-Rnot.
Chicago. Fob. 8.—In this sermon the
preacher shows that the pew is no less
responsible for spiritual stagnation
than the pulpit and that a dumb pew
makes a dead church, while a live, cor
dial, co-operating and Christ confessing
pew makes an effective pulpit and a
triumphant church. The text is John
lx. Id, “There was a division among
them. ”
One day Lepaux, the great French
infidel, came to Napoleon. He said:
“Your majesty, I have evolved a new
religion which I call Tlioopliilanthro-
py. I know that it is a better gospel
than Christianity, but the French peo
ple will not believe or accept it. What
Is the matter? What shall I do?” The
great French emperor turned and
smiled. Then lie raised his arm and
placed his hand kindly upon his
friend’s shoulder as he answered: “Le-
paux, there is one trouble about your
new religion—you have no witnesses.
Go and open a few blinded eyes. Un
stop some deaf ears. Straighten some
crooked limbs. Raise the dead. Be
crucified and buried. Rise again from
the grave. On the third day appear
unto them who put you to death. Then
the people will accept your religion
and believe in you as they believe in
Jesus Christ. Lepaux, it is by your
witnesses that your new religion must
win its way into the hearts of the
people, not by your theories.” Napo
leon was right. The gospel of Jesus
Christ is to be carried to the farther
most parts of the world by the power
of gospel testimony, not by theories,
not by arguments, not by a brilliant
collection of metaphysical or polemical
dissertations.
An illustration of this statement is
furnished by the scene of my text.
There was great excitement in the ec
clesiastical world of Jerusalem. The
Pharisees, the members of the sanhe
drin and the priests had conclusively
settled it with themselves that Jesus
Christ was a fraud, a charlatan, an ab
surd pretender. But one day there was
brought into their presence, seeing, a
man who hud been born blind. In all
probability they knew him, for he had
been one of the beggars who took their
stand near the temple gate. Every
one who went to the temple knew him.
“Who opened your eyes?” one of the
learned doctors asked in surprise. “No
man ever lived before who, having
been born blind, received sight on this
side of the grave.” When the young
man answered “Jesus," the priests and
their hirelings were beside themselves
with rage. They threatened him.
They browbeat him. They excommu
nicated him. At last they entirely lost
their reasoning faculties and common
sense. They practically cried aloud:
“We do not believe that Jesus opened
those eyes! Away with this fellow
called Jesus! Away with him! Away
with him!” But some of these learned
Pharisees could not be put off by any
such superficial condemnation. Me-
tiiinks I can hear a learned doctor s;iy
to some of his friends: “I do not know
about this. Perhaps we may have been
wrong. Perhaps this new teacher aft
er all is the promised Messiah. Cer
tainly no other human being could
ever work such miracles.” “And there
was a division among them,” the
same kind of a division which will oc
cur among worldly men today if the
bombshell of consecrated Christian tes
timony can only be hurled among them.
Are We Ready fo Give TentlmonyT
A practical application of this prin
ciple is now facing us, one and all.
Are we Christian men and women
ready to give our gospel testimony
wherever we go? Are we ready to tell
what Jesus Christ has done for us 1
Ready, even though it may bring upon
us sneers and ridicule? Ready, though
it should involve persecutions and os
tracism? Ready as the young man of
old was ready who stood up and wit
nessed before the priests and the Phar
isees, when he made a division among
them ?
Would that the dumb spirit would
come out of the lay members in the
Christian churches! Everywhere we
hear the question being asked: “What
is the matter with our churches? Is it
that the pulpit is losing its power?”
Oh, no; the pulpit is not losing its powv
er. There are more consecrated
ters today than ever before. More
brilliant and well developed heads and
hearts are yearly being trained in our
theological seminaries than ever be
fore. More eloquent sermons are being
preached from the sacred desk on this
Sabbath than on any Sunday of any
other generation that ever lived. What,
then, is the matter? The pulpit has
not lost its old power, but the pew
has abandoned its duty. The great de
fect of the church today ie that the
pew has relegated to the pulpit nearly
all its public duties, of preaching as
well as public praying, as it has de
pended on tlie choir for its singing.
The result is that when the pew ceases
to speak the message of the pulpit is
neglected. The pulpit of the Lord Je
sus Christ is today groaning under the
weight of the infinite load which the
pew has piled upon it. No church is
today a consecrated evangelistic church
unless it has in its pews men who by
life and testimony are preaching evan
gelists as well as gospel ministers who
stand behind the sacred desk. Jesus
Christ is today speaking to the silent
pews In the same way as he spake unto
the dumb devil of old that whs cursing
the life of a young child. Ho said un
to him. "Thou dumb and ih‘af spirit,
Wenley mill the Dumb Pew.
Johli Wesley, one of the greatest me:
who ever lived, no matter how you take'
him. realized, and profoundly realized,
that a dumb pew invariably meant an
ineffective pulpit and a dead church.
What did lie do? John Wesley, by di
vine inspiration, made his pulpit one
of the mightiest thrones of the ages
when he kindled the pew into articu
late life. John Wesley also harnessed
to the pulpit the power of Christian
song. lie started his brother Charles
writing hymns. He gave those hymns
to the people, the common people, and,
like David, he cried: “Praise ye the
I/ord; praise ye the Lord from the
heavens! Botli young men and maid
ens, old men and children, let them
praise the name of the Lord!” Then
John Wesley took the old Bible, the Bi
ble of Martin Luther. He took that
Bible out of the chancel and the clois
ter. He gave it to the people, the com
mon people. He said to them as Paul
said unto young Timothy: “Preach the
word. Be instant in season, out of sea
son. Reprove, rebuke, exhort!” Then
John Wesley placed ids hands upon the
commonest of men in ordination. He
took the cobbler from off his stool, the
miner from the dark caverns of the
earth, the farmer from the field and
the clerk from the store. He said unto
these men who had been studying the
word of God: “Brethren, you do not
need a theological training. Preach
Jesus Christ; preach; everywhere
preach, preach, preach!”
The older denominations of England
at that time sneered at the Wesleyans.
In derision they called them “Metho
dists” because they did everything un
methodically. What was the result?
Was Wesley’s a foolish plan? Oh, no.
When Charles Wesley started the peo
ple singing instead of relegating that
duty to a trained choir, as many of our
churches do today; when John Wesley
started ids people praying and pleading
in tlie barns, in the homes, on the street
corners, Charles and John Wesley, by
the power of the pew, roused all Eng
land for Christ. And today tlie great
est danger of the Methodist church is
that she is developing too much au in
tellectual pulpit instead of a pleading,
praying, testifying pew. John Wesley
believed in that pew; John Wesley, by
the grace of God, compelled that pew
to speak. Oh, thou deaf and dumb
spirit of the church pew, in tlie name
of Christ I command thee to come out
and be gone into everlasting darkness!
The caverns of the black inferno alone
are suited to thy withering and blast
ing and accursed silence. Let tlie sil
ver tongue of Christian testimony here
after speak from the pew. This plea,
oil, Christian women, is spoken to you
as well as to your brother.
Would that the tongue of the dumb
spirit of Christian testimony might be
unloosed mid begin to speak for Christ
in tlie homes! I am not now alluding
to tin* Christian testimony which ought
to be heiud among our children by our
own fireside. I am referring to the
word of gospel invitation, which should
be addressed to the sinful aud godless
homos in the midst of every Christian
community.
Tlie Present Condition.
A noted southern educator some time
ago bluntly said, "It is often far easier
for a man to sign a thousand dollar
check for foreign missions than it is
for him to speak a Christian word of
encouragement to the bootblack boy
cleaning his shoos on the street cor
ner.” That is a very wise saying. But
I carry the principle still further. It
is often far easier for a Christian lady
to get up a church fair in tlie interests
of foreign missions or to read a paper
before that society upon tlie Filipinos
or the Chinese or Siamese than it is to
go to the family which lives in the flat
above her and ask them if they love
the Lord Jesus Christ. Ought such a
condition ever to exist? It is about
time for some of us to learn to sing
with the right spirit Bishop Heber’s
grand old gospel hymn:
If you cannot cross the ocean
Ami the hen then lands explore,
You can find the heathen nearer.
You can help them at your door.
My brother living in Chicago, do you
not know that there are within a radius
of three blocks of your house scores
and scores of families who never hear
the name of Jesus spoken in their
homes except in blasphemy? Do you
not know that within a radius of six
blocks of this church, every Sunday
night while I am preaching, scores aud
scores of young men and women pass
in and out of the fatal doors of the sa
loons and places of evil resort? Some
iM'dis are foolish enough to think that
tlie haunts of Satan are ogen only six
days of the week; that on tlie seventh
day Satan rests and shuts up shop and
says to his hirelings, “My agents and
servants, let us allow God to open his
churches on tlie Sabbath, and we will
rest.” No. The churches may be open
ed one day of the week, but the Satan
ic haunts are never shut. Night and
day the busy fingers of death are reach
ing, aFways reaching, after more vic
tims. Like the quicksands of the far
east, this Satanic destroyer keeps swal
lowing down the unfortunate, and he
never seems to have enough. “More,
more, more!” continually cry the evil
spirits. “Give us more human blood
to quench our unquenchable thirst!”
Now, my Christian friends, while I
rejoice in foreign missions and would
not abate your Interest in them I want 1
to ask you this pertinent question: Do
you think we should allow our concern
for souls 10,000 miles away to monopo
lize our efforts? While we are seeking
them do not let us overlook the danger
of those who are living in sin by our
own door. Do you think that tlie Sa
moans and the Australasians and tlie
Maoris aud African negroes should be
any more precious !u God’s sight and
in ours than tlie man or the woman
entffl
servlc]
on our
salvatioi
the king(
member ti
that bearetl
Yet how indl
reference to tl
uers who are ne?
step. Some years
missionary was preachii
of Calcutta. As tlie Ameri?!
man was talking a Mohammedan prrei
stood near and liegan to inveigh against
tlie inconsistencies of the professors of
tlie Christian religion. Then the Mo
hammedan priest opened the Bible, and
while he read be pointed to a drunken
English sailor near by. He read out
loud those beautiful and solemn words
of Corinthians, which we repeat at the
holy communion, “And after the same
manner also he took tlie cup when he
had supped, saying. This cup is the
new testament in my blood; this do ye,
as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance
of me.” Then the Mohammedan priest
sneeringly and tauntingly said: “There
is tlie white man’s religion. There is
the white man drunk. Will ye have
any such religion as that?” Oh, my
brother, we rightly send forth our mis
sionaries into foreign lands to testify
of Jesus Christ. Shall we not also try
to carry tlie testimony of Jesus to the
drunken and dissipated white men at
our own doors that they may he living
witnesses of the power of the gospel
and not a reproach to it? Shall we not
also carry the gospel to our neighbors,
to those who may be living farther
away from Christ than the cannibals
or tlie Eskimos? Shall we not be will
ing to kneel in prayer in our neighbors’
parlors as well as send missionaries to
preach standing upon the muddy banks
of the Ganges?
Would that the dumb lips of Chris
tian testimony might be opened in the
store and on the street, in tlie factory
and by tlie cashier’s desk; opened when
you are tying up a bundle; opened when
you are taking down tlie goods from
off the shelf; opened when you are bid
ding the little easligirl good night;
opened when you are giving the last
instructions to your foreman; opened
In the same way as were the lips of a
poor old one armed black mail who,
while lie cleaned my slices on Penn
sylvania avenue, in our national capi
tal. taught me one of the mightiest les
sons of trust and faitli in God I ever
learned!
“Oh,” says some man or woman sit
ting before me, “1 could not speak a
word for Christ in the store. It would
not lie appropriate. Such a course as
Unit would be reseated not only by my
employers, but also by the employees.”
Would it, my brother? I think such a
course would often lie gladly welcomed
in tlie store instead of being resented.
I have hud a great deal of experience
with Christian workers. All of them
have told me that when they speak a
word for Christ on the street or in the
store almost without exception they
have been listened to kindly, respect
fully and thankfully. Rev. Dr. I. I.
Gorby, the present assistant pastor of
this church, who has worked a great
deal among tlie factories and the stores,
has told me that the most respectful
and grateful audiences he has ever ad
dressed were those clad in overalls and
which listened to him while he talked
from a tablq^r a barrel among the ma
chinery or near the blast. Many em
ployers welcome such efforts, knowing
well that they profit by their employ
ees becoming Christians. Some years
ago H. L. Cregier of Washington, Ind.,
the head of a great stave and heading
factory, placed a gospel minister upon
his pay roll. He wanted th^s evangel
ist to make it his business to speak a
word for Christ to every one of his em
ployees “because,” said Mr. Cregier.
“outside of the spiritual results it pays
when I have such a gospel worker
among my men. There is less drunken
ness, less rows, less crimes, less indo
lence and slothfulness, and my men
art* happier and better and more faith
ful.” Now, my Christian friends, with
such a testimony ns that before you,
do you not f»el encouraged to speak a
word for Christ In the store and in your
place of busiuess?
Tell About the Healer*.
Furthermore, you should not hesitate
to testify for Christ in your place o^
business, because you would not hav«
dumb lips in reference to any physical
cure which you.knew about as you now
are silent In reference to the divine
cure of sin. Suppoae that today one of
the employees of your store^was afflict
ed with tlie dreaded disease of cancer.
Supposing that a couple of years ago
you hud been cured from the same dis
ease by a certain medicine of a certain
doctor. Would you not Immediately
go and tell him about the wonderful
cure? If necessary, would you not take
this physician to the sick man’s house
aud insist that he try this cure which
had cured you? You would do that,
yet among the blood curdling sins and
the blasphemies of your store you do
not think It Is your bottuden duty to
tell about the Christ who cleansed you
about
'ded. And
^ would be raised:
‘‘Bread, Thread! Free bread, free
bread!” If you would carry far and
wide such an earthly promise of a Car
negie or a Rockefeller, will you not
carry at least as far and wide the
promise of a heavenly King? If you
would gladly and willingly tell your
business friends and employers and
employees about a bread which can
give life to the physical body, will you
be dumb in reference to that spiritual
bread of life which Christ offers to all
who come to him?
Give Testimony at Home.
Would Unit tl’.e dumb lips of Chris
tian tosLiiiicny might bo unloosed by
our o'v:: (■••e-ddes atr.oi-g our loved
ones, a* w-’l as among the strangers
dwelling outside tlie four walls of our
homo. I place this spiritual obligation
upon iay own heart and life as well as
upon yours. There is many a minister
who is so anxious about the souls of
his congregation that sometimes he
overlooks the souls’ destinies of his
own children and brothers and sisters
and parents. Some time ago I buried
a noble man of God named Rev. Wil
liam E. MeUrea. In conversation with
me one day he said that the sweetest
moment of all Ins life, not excepting
his own conversion, was when he was
able to lead ids own venerable father
to the foot of the cross. His father was
a moral and, from a worldly stand
point, a good man, but not a professing
Christian, and, though he had a son in
the ministry, yet no one for years had
ever asked the father to give himself
in love to the Lord Jesus Christ. But
one day Rev. Mr. McCrea, after he had
been five years in the ministry, came to
his father and said: “Father, do you
not want to become a Christian? Do
you not want to take mother’s Christ
and my Christ as your Christ? Do you
not want me to pray with you now?”
The tears started from the old man’s
eyes; his lips quivered. lie shook with
emotion as lie answered: “Yes, Willie,
I do. Oil, Willie, I have been waiting
so long for some one to ask me to come
to Christ! Why did you not do it be
fore?” So today let us start to plead
everywhere with Christian testimony;
let us begin right in our own homes.
Let us begin first and at once among
those who are closest to us, as Andrew
first sought his own brother to bring
him to Christ.
My friends, members of Jefferson
Park church, I here and now conse
crate my life to a new work. I am go
ing back to the days aud life which I
used to live when I first entered the
ministry. In those old days I did not
seek so much to comfort and please the
members of my church as to win souls.
My only desire was to reach out for
those who were outside of the church
and who never had confessed the name
of Jesus. Before I entered my pulpit
I would get down on my knees and
say, “Oh, God, let me speak the right
word for that young man and woman
whom I may never see again until I
meet them at thy throne!” Such is my
purpose now; such is the purpose of
my new assistant. Brothers and sis
ters, we have been too long dwelling
together in selfish fellowship. We have
enjoyed each other’s society well. But
to be happy together is not enough.
Will you here and now clasp my hand
in a holy purpose? WiB you here and
now move forward with me to seek out
the strayed lamb which is lost upon
the mountain of sin? Will you go
forth with me out into the storm, per
haps to battle against derision aud
sneers? Will you go In the name of
Jesus Christ? Will you promise here,
and sow to carry the gospel message
to tlie great unchurched and to the
sinful men and women who are living
under the shadows of our own doors?
[Copyright. 1903. by Louts Klopsch.]
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