p. 2 | MAKE A CONNECTION

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 40.

MAKE A CONNECTION.

[From a sermon by Russell H. Conwell, in The Temple Review.]

I remember in the army they came around and tested some of us as to our relative conductability of electricity, to ascertain through whom it would circulate best. And I remember the jokes made of my brother over it, who was at last selected as being the best. The line had been cut down, and it was necessary to open communication to get reinforcements. But there was no means at hand of repairing it. Some one was needed to take hold of each end, thus establishing the current; and after testing a number of men, they finally set my brother at the post, and while it made him very ill afterwards, and the shocks were almost unbearable, I suppose, at times, yet he held on, the communication was complete, the reinforcements came and the battle was won.

This thought is of great importance in religious work. Though there were broken connections, there was found a person to fill that gap; and the great fault of the church to-day lies in the broken currents. We sometimes hear that the church should not be so social, that it should keep away from the world and its people; that when they converse in the church building they will talk of worldly affairs, and yet we refuse to stand in these gaps.