The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-26

but there is not more than one out of a
hundred who make joyful noise unto
the Rock of Salvation. Sometimes,
when the congregation fOrgets itself,
and is all absorbed in the goodness of
God or the glOTies of heaven, get an
lntimatiOn of what church music will
be hundred years from now, when the
coming generation shall wake up to its
duty. promise a high spiritual bless
ing to any one who will sing in church,
and who will sing so heartily that the
people all around cannot help but sing.
Wake up all the churches from Bangor
| TO San francisco and across Chr1stenS
dom. 1t Is not matter OF preference.
1t is matter of religious duty. Oh for
fifty times more volume Of sound than
| has ever yet rolled up among these ar
ehes. l have been told that sometimes
they hear our singing on Fulton street.
wish we could get in such a headway
OF praise to God that they would hear
us half way to the ferry German chO-
rails in German cathedrals surpass us,
and yet Germany has received nothing
at the hands of God compared with
America; and ought the acclaim in Ber-
| lin be louder than that of BrOOklynp
Soft music, long drawn out music, Is
appropriate for the drawing room and
appropriate for the concert; but st. John
gives an idea of the sOnOrous and resO-
|
| ate for churches when, If listening to
the temple service he says: 81 heard a
great voice as the voice of great null
/ t1tude, and the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of mighty thunderings
Hallelujah, for the Load God OmnipO-
| tent reigneth." Join with me in cru
sade, giving me not only your hearts
but the mighty uplifting of your voices,
and believe we can, through Christ's
Il thnnda N mt
kingdom of Christ. An argument they
can laugh at, sermon they may talk
down, but a hVe-thOusand-VOiced utter
ance of praise to God Is irresistible.
Would that Queen Balkis would drive
| all her spice laden drOmedaries into our
| church music.
Now, want to impress this audience
this morning with the fact that religion
| Is sweetness, and perfume, and spike
| nard, and saffron, and cinnamon, and
cassia, and frankincense, and all sweet
| spices together. "Oh," you say, 81 have
| not looked at it as such. thought 1t
was a nuisance; it had for me repul
| sion; held my breath as though 1t
were a malOdOr; l have been appalled, at
| its advance; have said If l have any
religion at all want to have Just as lit
tie of 1t as is possible TO get through
| with" Oh, what a mistake you have
| made, my brOtherl The religion Of
| Christ is present and everlasting red
Olence. 1t cOunteractS all trouble. Just
| put it on the stand beside the pillow of
sickness. 1t catches in the curtains and
perfumes the sitting air. 1t sweetens
/ the cup of bitter medicine and throws
| glow on the gloom of the turned lattice.
| 1t is balm for the aching side and a
soft bandage for the temple stung with
pain. 1t is good for rheumatism and for
| neuralgia, and for low spirits, and for
| consumption; it is the cathOlicOn for all
| disorders. Yes, it will heal all your sOr-
rows.
Why did you look so sad this morning
when you came inP Alrsl for the lone
| illness and the heart-brOken, and the
load that is never lifted from your soul.
Some of you go about feeling like Ma
caulay when he wrote: "If had another
month of such days as 1 have been
spending l would be impatient to get
down into my little narrow crib in the
ground, like weary factory child. And
there have been times in your life when
you wished you could get out of this
life. You have wished you could pull
over you In your last slumber the cover
let of green grass and daisies. / see all
around about me widOwhOOd and Or
phanage and childlessness; sadness, dis
appointment, perpleXity. IL could ask
all those to rise in this audience who
have felt no sorrow, and bpen buffeted
by no disappointment, how many would
riseP Not one. A widowed mother
with her little child went West, hoping
to get better wages there, and she was
taken sick and died. The OVerseer of the
poor got her body and put it in box and
started down the street toward the Gem
etery at full trOt. The little child ran
after 1t through the streets, bareheaded,
crying, Bring me back my mOtherP
And as the people looked on and saw her
crying after all she loved on earth, 1t is
said the whole village was bathed in
tears; and that is what great many of
you are doing chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, is there no appeasement for all
this sorrow that see about meP Yes;
the thought of reSurTectiOnand reunion
far beyond this scene of struggle and
tears. Across the eOuches of your sick
and across the graves of your dead,
| fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen
Balkis driving up to the pillared pOrtico
| of the house of cedar carried no such
pungency of perfume as exhales to-day
| from the Lords garden. 1t is peace. IL
is sweetness. 1t is comfort. 1t is inf
/ mite satisfaction. This gospel l COM
mend to you. Some one could not un-
derstand why an old German Christian
| scholar used to be always 80 calm and
happy and hopeful when he had so many
1 lTldl5 anu blChneSBeb anu dllmenISs A
man secreted himself in the house and
saw the old Christian man go to his
room and sit down on the chair behind
| the stand and open the Bible and begin
| to read. He read on and on, chapter af-
ter chapter, hour after hour, until his
face was all agl0w with the tidings from
heaven, and when the clock struck I2
he arose and shut his Bible and said ::
BLESSED Lord, we are on the same terms
yet. Good night Good nightp' Oh,
you sin parehed and you troubled-sOuled
here is comfort, here Is satisfactiOD~
Will you come and get 1t? IcannOt tell
you what the Lord offers you hereafter
so well as well as I can tell you now.
1T doth not yet appear what we shall
be-"
Have you read of the Tai Mahal in In
dia, in some respects the most majestic
building on earthp Twenty thousand
men were twenty years in building it.
1t cost about $16,OO0OOO The walls are
of marble, inlaid with cOrnelian from
Bagdad, and turquoise from Thibet, and
| jasper from Punjab, and amethyst from
Persia, and ali manner of precious
| stones. There is around it garden Of
tamarind, and banyan, and palm, and
L o. thu rrln 1R h. a