had before. He resolved then and there that they should mean to him
what they never had before, that they should mean to him what they
evidently did to his pastor.

That was twenty years ago. There were modern churches even then.
Dwight Brower has been a power in the land since then. Not one, but
scores--aye, hundreds--aye, thousands of souls has the Lord given him
as seals to his ministry; and he is working now. Once I visited where
he preached. I heard a lady say to him, "That was a wonderful sermon
that you gave us to-day. To begin with, it is a wonderful text. I
never before realized that the Lord was actually _watching_ all our
ways."

He turned toward her with a smile, and said: "It was Dr. Selmser who
preached to-day. He has been gone twenty years, and he is preaching
yet."

"And I heard a voice saying unto me, Write Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors; and their works do follow them."

Does it seem to you a pity that he could not have known--could not
have had one glimpse of the fruit of his work? How do you know what
view of waving harvests being garnered in the Lord calls him to look
down upon from the heights of Pisgah? "When I awake with thy likeness
I shall be satisfied." Be sure the Lord has satisfied him.

Meantime that modern church is still very modern indeed, and at this
present time its pulpit is vacant--they are candidating!