Show the boy By The in March AVe had a rare visitation in our cy on Sunday It was the opportunity of a lifetime and those who failed to take advantage of missed The great auditorium was opened for the visitor and the public was invited to come without The was a preacher in knee-pants and roundabouts a hoy twelve years The proposition is very Tales of ancient days in the religious world make mention of these evangelical Not over a quarter century ago were quite the rage for a Every Methodist camp-meeting had use for such if it could get one on its An attraction of this sort would draw for a five-mile longer radius than would the ordinary I remember such a one who had been a professional for probably thirty-five and looked good- for twenty-five more years of hoy Not over six years ago I heard one in Kansas The church in which ho talked was packed to the doors people peeked and pushed and elbowed in the same way they do at the door of the tent when the two-headed calf is on This kid evangelist in spoke a lingo fifty years old in a ten-year-old He was said to be twelve years If he had been eight years the chances are he would have had to hire Convention Hall to hold the His who acted as business manager for his little sat behind him in the looking pious and satisfied with the gate Preaching the gospel is a calling of high degree a good deal more than It has to do with the personal conduct of men a matter of the deepest possible human You and I might get a helpful suggestion from a but when we want to know how to mend our ways so as to make the best possible success of are we wise to ask an infant about we want a bridge built to carry safely a passenger or an steamer laid out on safe we don't employ a boy nor a boy Gray hairs and wrinkles count in these So do they in the seasoned if worth living and working must make the man who possesses them worth more than the boy who does Seasoned judgment and ripe experience are not the possession of any little kiddy the Lord ever however good he may But I have heard good people quoting from holy writ of the mouths of babes and Thou hast perfected That is good scripture But you nowhere find it of the mouths of babes and Thou hast perfected A child can praise much more perfectly than it can Other good people say Lord has anointed children expressly for this How do we know Any other kind of a freak looks to us like an unfortunate slip in the Lord's Most of them in the human family can be traced to some disobedience to the moral As you and I the wholesome boy of twelve years is an bashful lad who would rather play with the in the back yard or weed the garden than to go on the stage and instruct men as to their duties toward God and If I had a boy twelve years old who was of the opinion that he was anointed to occupy a before he occupied long I would put him on a cattle ranch in if I couldn't cure in any less drastic Did you ever watch the after-life of a Usually it is the same as the after-life of the yearling colt that has been used as a plow horse all shriveled up and flattened robbed of his boyhood and of his strong manhood by the unnatural strain of his platform when his physical and moral muscles were soft and Such work is not an anointing of the It is an exploiting by The Lord never anoints a boy with |