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THE PACE MAKERS. 
Sermon Preached at 
Congregational Church, Manchester, 
March 13, 1910. 
By Rev. L. H. Rugs. 
Text: ‘‘Tf thow hast run with the 
footman, and they have wearied thee, 
then how canst thou contend with 
horses ?’’ JEREMIAH 12:5. 
The prophet Jeremiah was wea- 
ried, the continual iniquity and 
growing apostasy of the common 
people dismayed and discouraged 
him. They set the man of God a 
sad and sorrowful pace in his zeal 
to bring them back. Thre are pace- 
makers in lawlessness and iniquity 
as well as in righteousness, men who 
set the pace for hell as well as men 
who set the pace for heaven. 
And the words here are a medita- 
tion by the prophet or an answer to 
his discouraged ery. If he is 
wearied by the sins of the footman, 
the common people, what will he do 
about the galloping revelers in in- 
iquity at the King’s court and the 
priests of the temple? 
If the prophet gets dismayed at 
the common sins of this community, 
what shall he say when he sees it 
entrenched in power in the “‘seats 
of the mighty?”’ 
the corporations of the land and the 
traction companies have set the pace 
for the lawlessness that is sweep- 
ing over the land in Philadelphia 
and elsewhere. 
Again, if a man gets discouraged 
at the little everyday duties and 
trials of life, how shall he bear up 
under the greater responsibilities 
and burdens? What a lot of tired 
people there are. How they lag be- 
hind and give up because others sur- 
pass them. The reason so few 
achieve anything is because they get 
tired so easily. 
Let me say here that if any one 
gets tired of life and feels that life 
is not worth living, that the ‘‘game 
is not worth the candle’’ that one is 
in poor form to try the issues of an- 
other hfe. If this life sets you too 
fast a pace, be assured, if there is 
another life, it will set you even a 
faster pace. We have tested life 
somewhat, some to a large extent, 
and we know it takes continual ef- 
fort and courage to amount to any- 
thing, and if we are overcome by 
these present experiences how shall 
we stand up under the untried and 
unknown experiences on the other 
side? Be unwearied, keep at it un- 
tiringly. That is the character 
stuff they want beyond the Jordan. 
The great men of all ages were 
pace makers, Moses set the pace for 
Lawbreakers like. 
national and human freedom. He 
was the founder of democracy. 
Paul set the pace for missionary 
zeal. Columbus, Fititther, the Puri- 
tans, Washington, Edison, all these 
have set the world’a pace’ The in- 
surgents in Congress are setting the 
pace in the revival of a government 
by the people. 
A certain few set us all a pace in 
everything. They eall attention to 
a certain book and soon we are all: 
reading it. They laud a work of 
art or an opera and the world goes 
wild over it. They mould opinions 
in the press and we call them great 
editors. They are pace-makers. We 
never would have read the book, 
nor heard the opera, nor have had 
the opinion if someone had not set 
the pace. 
We need the impulse and inspira- 
tion of the pace maker. We need 
the housewife that can bake a loaf 
of bread, boil a potato and make a 
cup of coffee a little better than 
anyone else. We need the man that 
can build a chair or a house a lit- 
tle better than anyone else. We 
need the man that can sell more 
goods and make money a little fast- 
er than anyone else. We need a man 
who can think a little deeper, and 
reason a little better and talk a Lit- 
tle better than anyone else. One 
enthusiastic and tireless genius in 
any craft or calling lifts many 
others with him up to success and 
eminence, and it is a sorry day for 
any of us when the pace-maker is 
gone. . 
And we have need not only of the 
impulse and the inspiration, we have 
got to keep up with the pace-maker 
or we can never excel either in this 
world or any other. 
Jesus set the standard and pace 
for humanity for all time. He to- 
day is immortal in leading the sin- 
ning soul up and on to perfection. 
Someone had to show the poor sin- 
ning soul how to struggle up out 
of sin and self and Jesus did it. 
We are told that in the land of Eden 
peace and perfection our first par- 
ents fell. If then in their original 
strength and perfection they fell, 
how shall degenerate man succeed? 
If a young man cannot resist a habit 
when forming, how shall he resist 
it when it is full grown? If Peter 
shrank down in fear and cowardice 
before a common serving maid, how 
shall he be able to stand before the 
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‘The annual meeting of the Old 
Planters’ society will be held next 
Wednesday, March 238, at 3 p. m., in 
the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. build- 
ing, Salem. The paper of the after- 
noon will be by the vice-president, 
Dr. Frank A. Gardner, upon ‘‘ John 
Endicott and the men who came to 
Salem in the ‘Abigail’ in 1628.”’ 
The annual reports will be read and 
officers elected for the ensuing year. 
Refreshments will be served at the 
close of the meeting. <A cordial in- 
vitation to be present is extended to 
all who are interested. 
The Massachusetts legislature is 
going to ask President Taft to ad- 
dress its members Monday, April 4, 
at an hour to be fixed by himself. 
The President speaks at Worcester, 
Sunday afternoon, April 3, and in- 
tends to spend the day with his aunt, 
Delia Torry, at the old Torry home- 
stead in Milbury, near Worcester, 
where as a boy he spent his summers 
with his grandparents. 
Middleton and Ipswich have de- 
cided in favor of granting liquor li- 
eenses. A determined effort for 
‘“No’’? was made in the latter town 
but without effect. Those who fre- 
quently patronize the famous Fern- 
croft Inn, will be especially inter- 
ested in the turn of affairs at Mid- 
dleton. 
Yachtsmen are directly interested 
in the announcement made by the 
Eastern Yacht club that it has ac-— 
cepted an invitation of the Kaiser- 
licher Yacht club of Kiel to send a 
team of three American sonder class 
boats to Kiel in 1911 to engage in an 
international race against German 
boats in Kiel week. 
officers and chief priests? If it were 
not for the inspiration and power 
derived from Jesus, the great stand- 
ard and savior of man, I would 
have no answer to the prophet’ s odd 
and original question. But I an- 
swer in the words of St. Paul: 
‘““Thanks be to God, who giveth us 
the victory through our Lord Jesus 
Christ.’’ 
‘‘Be not weary in well doing, for 
in due season we shall reap if we 
faint not.’’? Keep pace with the 
pace-makers. Keep everlasting at 
it, for ‘‘he that endures to the end 
shall be saved,’’ and he only. 
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