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is the weak things that God wants to use. We want the great, the mighty, the wise, but God takes the foolish things, the despised things, even the things which are naught. What for? That no flesh may glory in His sight. Now what is that all written for unless it is that we should learn the lesson that God should have all the glory and that we are not to take any of the glory to ourselves, "That no flesh should glory in His sight.” Just the moment we are ready to take our right places in the dust and give God His place and let Him have all the glory, then it is that the Spirit of God will be given to us. If we are lifted up and say, “We have got such great meetings, and such crowds are coming,” and get to thinking about crowds and about the people and get our minds off from God and are not constantly in communion with Him, lifting our hearts in prayer, this work will be a stupendous failure. You will find that in all ages, God has been trying to teach the people this lesson that “He uses the weak things” instead of the strong. What is highly es teemed by man is an abomination to God. When God was about to deluge the earth He wanted an ark built; what did He do, did He call an army? No, He just called one man to build the ark. In the sight of the world it was a very little thing, and yet when the deluge came it was worth more than all the world. The weak things of the world that excite our scorn and contempt are the very things that God uses. When God delivered Israel out of Egypt, He did not send an army. We would have sent an ormy or an orator; we would have sent some man that would have gone down before the king and laid it out before him in grand style, but God didn’t do that. He sent this man Moses who had been
not, use somebody else,” we will see something done. We must have the spirit of the wilderness preacher who said, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Then the Lord will take us up and use us. Right here before I forget it, I want to urge the people of New York, the Christian people, not to buy anything of those people on the street. I am told that sixty- five men have come on from Philadel phia to sell photographs and medals, and I don’t know what-not, and they are hawking these things on the street. Why, I should almost think that nobody would come to the meet ing when as they come along they hear these men crying out these photographs. I believe you Christian people who patronize these men are doing the cause of Christ a great in jury. I don’t know of anything that is hindering the work more than these men that are trying to make money out of us. If you want hymnbooks, go into some store and buy them, and as for the photographs, don’t buy them anywhere. They are no more photographs of us than they are of you. I have not had one taken for eight years. Some men have com plained that they have got counter feits, and I was glad they had been cheated, because they ought not to buy these things on the street. Peo ple see these hawkers on the street and so say of us, “These fellows are speculating. They are just fnaking money. They don’t care anything about saving our souls. They want our money.” This impression has gone abroad just on account of peo ple patronizing these men. Oh, let me beg of you to do anything you can to keep down this man-worship. Don’t look at man; look at the cross; keep Christ full in view, and then we will have men coming into the king dom of God. Now let us eet back to the text—it
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