The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-01

i WIN MNfNN W. HNN'NHNNN''AN H'FH -
Ia ais hand and cut down q blul
from tho trsos, add took u and laid
yn ia. shouldsr, nnd said unto tho pc
pie that zero with bin what IN hnv
soen ne do mako haste aud 10 ne
have done And AL the people uki
visa ont down oyory man his bnuxl
aud followed Abimolech and put lhou
20 the mold, aud sst the hold OF nrl
upon ihsm, DO thal al tho ulon VI lh,
iswor OF Shaohem dled.h
how, learn fret isom this sunIuc
tho folly OF depending upon any on,
form Of tactics Ia suytAlne Ne hAvo 90
do for this world or Tor God. Look
over the wespoary OF oldeu since p
iiavelins, batile-axes, haoergeon-, aut
snow mog siugls weapon with which
! Ali n0iesh aud mis- mon could have
gained such complete victory. 1t /,
no easy thing 10 take templa thu,
armed. shw "A home where, DURING
revolutionary times, man aud hi,
wife Kept back whole regiment
hour after hour, bsoauss they were la.
side thu house, and the sssaultins
so dieTs wera outside tho house. Yet,
here Abimslesh aud his army come
up, they Surround this temuls, aud
they capture 1t Without tho loss OF n
ngle man on the part of Ablmelech,
although j suppose some OF Tho old
Israeliiish heroes told AbImelech :
"You are only going up there to be
cut 20 pieces," Yet you are willin,,
to testify to day that by
no other mooe - certainly not
b. ordinary modes-coald that temple
so easily, so thoroughly, have been
taken. Fathers and mothers, brethren
and sisters, in Jesus Christ, what the
church most wants to learn this day,
is that any plan is right, is lawful, Is
best, which helps to
OVERTHROW THE TEMPLE OF SIN
and capture this world for God. We
are very apt 10 stick to the old modes
of attack. We put on the old sty 10
coat OF nail. We come up with the
sharp, keen, glittering steel spear of
argument, expecting in that way TO
take the castle; but they have thous-
and spears where we have ten. And
so tho castle of sin stands. Oh, my
friends, we will never capture this
world for God by any keen sabre Of
sarcasm, by any glitteripg lancss of
rhetoric, by any sapping and mining
of profound disquisition, by any gun
powdory explosions of indig-
nation, by sharp shoot
mgs OF wit, by howit
zers of mental strength maze TO swing
shells five miles by cavalry horses
gorgeousiy caprisoned paving the air.
Iu vain all the attempts on the part OF
these ecclesiastical foot soldiers, light
horsemen and grenadiers.
lily friends, / propose this morning
different style of tactics. Let EACH
one go to the forest of Gods promise
and invitation and heT down o branch
and put 1t on his shoulder, and let us
all come around these obst,B ate iniqui-
ties, ana then with this pile kiuuied
by the fires of holy zsal and the
flames OF a consecrated life we will
burn them Gus. What steel cannot d.
fire may. And j this morning an
nOunce myself ia favur of any plan Of
religious attack that succesds-any
plan of religious attack, however radi-
cal, however odd, however unpopu-
lar, however hostile to
OF church and state. If one style OF
prayer does not do the work, let US
try another style. If the church mu-
sic OF to-day does NOT get The victory,
then let us make tho assault with q
back woods chorus. II d prayer meet
ing at 1870 in tho evening does not sue
coed, let us have one 10 early In the
rs when tho angel found
Jacob TOO much for him. II
q sermon with the three authorized
heads does not do the work, then let
us have Il sermon with 20 heads or 10
head at all. We want more heart in
our song, moro heart in our alms-g1v-
ing, more heart in our prayers, more
hsart in our preaching. On, fer less of
Abim 6lech's sword and more OF A bi-
melech's confsgration. have often
heard
THERE is A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH
BLOOD"
sung artisticaliy by four birds
perched on their Sunday
roost in the gallery until I
of Jenny Lind, and Nilsson,
sna Sontag, and al the other war blera
but there came not one tear to my eye,
nor one master emotion to my hearg. |
But one night L went down TO tho |
African Methodist meeting house, In
Philadelphia, and at The close OF The |
service a black woman, in tho midat OF |
,he audlonce, began to sing that hymn,
and all the audience Joined in, and |
We were floated some two or three |
miles nearer heaven than L have ever |
Deen since. saw with my own eyes
hat "fountain filed with blood ,"--red,
sgonizlng, sacrifcial, redemptive-
and L heard the crimson plesh OF the |
wave as we all went down under it:
For sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose ali their guilty stains"
Oh, my friends, the gospel is not
,yilosism; 1t is not casuistry it Is not
or the science of squsbDle. 1t |
IS blood-red tact; it is warm-hearted
invitation; i5 is leeplng, bounding, fly
ug ood news; IL is efllorescent with
Ill light; il is rubescenJ with all glow;
! is sboEescent with all sweet shade.
have seen the sun rise on Mount
Washington, and from the Tip-toP
house, but there was no beauty in that
compared with the day-spring from ON
nigh, when Christ gives light TO
SOUL 1 have heard Parepo sing, but
here was no music in that compared
With the voice of Christ when he said:
sThy sins are forgiven thee; go in
peace" Good news! Let every one
,ut down O branch of this tree of
life and wave it. Let him throw it down
md Bindle it. Let all the way from
Mount Zaimon to Shechem be filled
With the tossing joy. Good news!
This bonfire of the Gospel shall con-
,ume the last temple of sin and will
llumine the sky with apocslypric
oy, that Jesus Christ came
nto the world to save sim
iers. Any new plan that makes q
nan quit Els sin and that prostratea @
wrong am as much in FAVOR of as
hougn pll