The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-05-14

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manner which seems to say: N'rho
blessed Lord sent me. lie was poor
nlmselt. It's not more for the good |
am gong to try to do you than il Is Tor
The good you can do me.n Comiuu i'm
that spirit, the gift will be as aromatic
as the spikenard Gu the feet of Christ,
ana all the novels IN that alley will be
fragrant with the spice.
we need more spice and cnllvcnmcut
In our church music. Churches sit dis
cusslng whether they shall have choirs,
or prccentors, or organs, or bass -viols,
or cornctS; | say, take that which will
Drlns out the most in spring music. If
we had half as much zeal and spirit IN
our churches as we have in the songs of
our Sabbath. schools, it would not be long
before the whole earth would quake
with the coming God. Why, in most
churches, nine-tenths Of the people do
not sing; or they slng SO iecbly that
the people at their elbows do not know
they arc singing. People mouth and
humble the praises OF God; but there is
not more than one out of hundred who
makes "a joyful noise" unto the Rock
OF our Salvation. Sometimes when the
congregation torgcts itself, and is all Il b.
sorbcd in the goodness Of God, or the
glorics ofhcavcn, | get an intimation OF
what church music will NC a hundred
years from now, when the coming gen
Grafton shall wake up to its duty.
promise high spiritual blessing 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 Chrislendom.
1t IS not matter OF preference; it is
a matter Of religious duty. Oh, for fifty
times more volume OF sound. German
chOrals IN German cathcdrals surpass
us. and yet Germany has received moth
ing at the hands Of God compared with
America, and ought the acclaim in Bcr-
lin be louder than that in Brooklyn2
Soft, long-drawn-out music, is appro-
pirate Tor the drawing room and apprO-
pirate for the concert; but st. John gives
an idea OF the SOnOrOus and resonant
congregational singing appropriate for
churches when. in listening to the tenn
pie service of heaven he SAYS: Il
heard great voice as the voice OF Il great
multitude, aud rs tl!c voice Of many
waters, and as the voice OF mighty thuu-
dcrings. llalicujah, for the Lord God
omnipotcn, rciCncLh."
Join with me in a crusade, giving me
not only your hearts but the mighty up-
hitting tyOur voices, and | believe we
can, through Chrlst'S grace, sing 81, 1000
souls into the kingdom of Christ. An
argument, they can laugh at, sermon,
they may talk down; but 4 vast audi
cncc joining IN one anthem is irresistible.
Would that Queen Balkis would drive
all her spcc-laden dromcdarcs into our
church music. "Ncithcr was there any
such spice as the Queen of Shcba gave
King Solomon"
Now | want to impress this audience
with the fact that religion is sweetness
and perfume, and spikcnard, and saffron,
and cinnamon. aud cassia, and franklin
ccnsc, and all sweet spices together.
"Oh," You say, Il have not looked at it
as such. thought it was nuisance: it
us though 1t were malodor; | have been
appalled, at its advance; | have said, if 1
have any religion at all, want to have
just as little Of it as is possible to rct
through with.n Oh, what a mistake
you have made, my brother. The rclg-
ion OF Christ is Il present and everlasting
redolencc. 1t cOuntcracts all trouble.
just put il on the stand beside the pillow
OF sickness. 1t catches in the curtains,
and perfumes the sitting air. 1t Swcelcns
the cup Of bitter medicine, and throws a
glow on the gloom Of the turned lat
ticc. 1t is a balm for the aching side,
and soft bandage for the temple stung
with pain. 1t lifted Samuel Rnthcr-
ford into rcvclry OF spiriturl delight,
while he was in ply sical agonics. 1t |
helped Richard Baxter until. IN the |
midst of su :ha complication Of diseases |
as perhaps no other man ever suffered, |
he wortc, THE Saints Everlasting
Rest" And i poured light upon John |
Iunyan's dungcon-thc light OF the shin.
lnG gate OF the shining city. And IL is
good Tor rheumatism, and for neuralgia,
ana Tor low spirits, and for consumption;
1t Is the cathollcou for all disorders. Yes,
it will heal all your sorrows.
Why did you look so sad to-day when
you came in? Alas! for the lonliucss
ana the hcartb:cak, and the load that is
meyer lifted from your soul. Some Of
on go about feeling like Macaulay,
when he wrote: "If had another month
d such days as have been spending.
would be impatient to gee down into
my narrow crib in tie ground like a
weary factory child" And there have
b. en- times i'll your life when you wished
you could get out fthis lief. You have
'ald: "Oh, how sweet to my lips would
be the dust Of the valley" and wished
you could pull over you in your last
Slumber the cOvcrlct Of green grass and
iaslcs. You have said, "Oh, how beau
llully quiet it must be in the tomb.
Wish | was there" | see all around me
Hldowhood, and orphanagc, and child.
cssness; sadness, disappointment. per-
'lcXity. If could ask all those to rise
II this audience who have felt no sorrow
md been hull'ctcd by no disappointment
Ill could ask all such TO rise, how
many would rise? Not one.
widowed mother and her little child
vent West. hoping to get better wA@cs
here: and she Was taken sick and died.
The ovCrscCr Of the po>r got her body
md putt ina box, and put it in Il wagon.
md started down the stree: toward the
cemetery at a full trot. The little child