The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08

zeal ond spsris iu our churcbos as wo have iu to songs of our Sabbath schoolA it would not bs long before ths whole earth would quake with tho coming God Why. in most churches. nins-tsnths of the people do not sing, or they sing 70 feebly that the people at their elbows do not know they are singing. People mouth and mumbie the praises of God; but there is not more than one out of . hundred who makes ca ]. yful noise" unto the Rock of our Sxlva- tion. Sometimes when the congregation f0rgets itself, and is all absorbed in the goodness of Sod, or the glories of heaven. get an intimation of what church music will be ' hundred years from now, whom the coming generation shali wake up to its duty.
 Ipromise high spiritual blessing to any ono who will sing in church, and who will sing % heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake upl all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco. and across Christcndom. It Is not matter of preference; it is a matter of religious duty. Oh. for fifty times moro volume of sound. German chorals in German csths. ceived nothing at tue hands of God com. pared with America; and ought the acclaim m Berlin be louder than that In Brook lynr Soft, long-drawn-out music is appropriate for the drawing-room and appropriate for the concert; but St. John gives an idea of tno buuOIOuS unu TcSOU8ut COuKroRntlOuul singing appropriate for churches when, in listening to the temple service of Heaven, he says: Il heard great voice ss the voice of great multitude, and as tho voice of many waters, and as the voice of many thunderIngs. Halleluiab, for the Lord God omnpotent reigneth."
 Join with me In a crusade, giving mo not only your hearts, but tho mighty uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can, through Christ's grace, sing fifty thousand souls into the kingdom of Christ An ar. gument, they can laugh at; sermon, they may talk down; but . vast audience joining in one anthem is irresistible. Would thai den dromedaries into our church muslc. Neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King solomon"
 widowed mother with her liitle 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 1t in d box. and put it in wagon. and started down the street toward the cemetery at full trot. The little child the only chlld--ran after it through tho streets, bare-headed, crying: "Bring me back my mother! bring me back my motherD And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon--all she loved on earlh--it is said that the whole village was m tears. And that Is what great many of you are doing--chasing the dead. Dear Lord is there no appeasemcnt for all this sorrow that I see about mo! Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond lhis scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more. neither thirst any ,nore, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to liv. ing fountains of water. and Got shall wipe away all tears from their eyes" Across the couches of your slck and across the graves of your dead, fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Bakis. driving up to the plllared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such puhgency of perfume ss exhales today from the Lords garden. It is peace. It is sweetness. It Is comfort. IL IS infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I com mend to you. Some ono could not under stand why an old German Christian scholar used 10 be always 90 calm, and happy, and hopeful. when he had go many tr,als, and sicknesses, and ailments. A man secreted Il mean to watch this old scholar and Christian;" and he saw the old Christian man go to his room and sit down on tho chair beside the stand, and open tho Bible and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter after chapter. hour after hour, un- from heaven, and when the clock struck twelve,he arose, ,and shut his Bible, and said. "Blcssed Lord, we arc on the same old terms yet. Goodnight Goodnight" Oh, you sin-parchcd and you utrouble-pounded, here is comfort. here is satisfaction. Will you come and get ity cannot tell you what tho Lord offers you hereafter 70 we'll as l can tell you now. Tt doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
 Through obduracy on our part and through the rejection of that Christ who makes heaven possible wonder if any of us will miss that spectacle? 1 fcari fear 1! The queen of the South will rise up in judgment against this generation and con. demn it. because she came from the utter. most parts of tue earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, greater than Sol. omon is here! May God grant that through your own practical experience you may Ind that religions ways arc the ways of pleasantncss, and that all her paths arc paths of peace-that 1t 10 perfume now and perfume forever And there is an abund. ance of spice; neither was there any such spicc as tue Queen of Shebs gave to King Solomon"