Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-08

two ways OF meeting The poor. Cne
Is To come into their house with q nose ele-
waited In disgust, rs much MS to say: 81
don't see how you live here in this neigh
borhood. IL actually makes me sick. There
IL that hundle-take II, you poor, miserable
wretch, and make The most OF it," Another
way is To 20 into The abode OF the poor In
manner which seems TO say: "Ihe blessed
Lord sent me. lie was poor himself. Ii
is not more for the good / am going TO do
You than 1t is for the good you can do me-.
Coming in that spirlt, the gift viii be as aro-
matte m the spikenard oil the feet OF Christ,
and all the novels in that alley will be
fragrnt with the spice.
We need mere spice and enlvenment In
our church music. Churches sit discussing
whether they shall have choirs, or precent-
ors, or organs, or bass-viols. or cOrnets; /
say, take that which will bring out the most
inspiring music. IL we had half as much
zeal ana spirit IN our churches us we have
in the songs OF our sabbath schools, II
would not he long before the whole earth
would quake with the coming God. Why,
in most churches. nine-tenths OF the people
do not sing, or Ghey sing so feebly That The
people at their elbows do not know they
are singing. People mouth and humble
the praises OF God; but there is not more
than one out OF "a hundred who makes "a
Joy tuI noise' unto the Rock of our Saliva
ton, Sometimes when the congregation
for.ets itself, and is all absorbed in the
goodness of Cod or the glories OF heaven, |
get an intimation OF what church music will
be hundred years from now, when the
coming generation shall wake up 10 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 ChristendOm. 1t is not u matter
nj far - maj lssVa..
duty. Oh. for fifty times more volume OF
sound. German Ghorals In German cuthe-
drals surpass us, and yet Germany has re-
ceived nothing at the hands of God COM
pared with america; and ought the acc lain
IN Berlin be louder than that IN Brooklynl
Soft, long-drawn-out music Is appropriate
for the drawing-rOOm and appropriate for
the concert; but st. John gives IN idea of
! the sOnOrOus and resonant congregational
, singing appropriate for churches when, IN
listening to the tcmple service OF Heaven,
he says: 81 heard great voice as the voice
Of great multitude, aud rs the voice OF
many waters, and rs thc voice OF many
thunderngS. llalelulab, for the Lord God
omnipotent Teigneth."
Join with me In crusade, giving me not
only your hearts, but tho mighty uplifting
OF your voices, and | believe we can,
through ChristS grace, sing fifty thousand
| souls into the Kingdom OF Christ. An az
gument, they can laugh at; sermon, they
may talk down; but Il vast audience joining
in one anthem Is irresistible. Would that
Queen Balkls would drive all her spice-la-
den drOmedaries into our church music.
Neither was there any such spice As the
Queen OF Sheba gave King solomon"
A widowed mother, with her little ibid.
went West, hoping 10 get better wages
there; and she was taken sick, and died.
The overseer OF the poor got her body
and put II in box, and put It in a wagon,
and started down the street toward the
cemetery at full trot. The little child
the only cmld--Ian after il through the
streets, barc-headed, crying: bring me
back my mother! bring me back my
mother!'' Audit was said that rs the people
looked on aud saw her crying after that
which lay in the box IN he wagon-all she
loved on earth--it is said that the whole
village was 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 | zee about me?
Yes, the thought OF resurrection and
reunion far beyond this scene
of struggle and tears. "'rhey
shall hunger no more. neither thirst any
more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the
IN DIST of the throne shall lead them To lIv-
ing fountains OF water. aud Go shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes" Across
the couches Of your sIck, and across the
sweet spices. Queen Balkls driving up to
the pillared portico OF the house Of cedar,
carried no such pungency OF perfume ~
cXhales today from the Lords garden. IL
Is peace. IL Is sweetness. 1t Is comfort.
1t is infinite satisfaction, this Gospel COM
mend To you. some one could not under
stand why an old German Christian scholar
used 10 he always 20 calm, and happy, and
hopeful, when he had 80 many trials and
sicknesses, and ailments. A man secreted
himself in the house. lie said {:
81 mean TO watch this old scholar and
Christian" and he saw the old Christian
man 20 to his room and sit down OH the
chair beside the stand and open the Bible
and begin to read. lilo read Cd and on,
chapter after chapter. hour after hour, UNI
til his face was all aglow with the tidings
from heaven, and when the clock struck
twelve he arOSe,and shut his Bible, and said,
blessed Lord, we are on the same old terms
yet. Goodnight, Goodnight" Oh, you
sin-paTched and you trOuble-pOunded, here
Is comfort, here is satisfaction. viii you
come and get ~! / cannot tell you what the
Lord offers YOU hereafter so well rs l can
tell you now. cit doth not yet appe ar what
we shall be-"
Through obduracy on our part, and
through the rejection OF that Christ who
makes heaven possible, l wonder IL any OF
Us will miss that specia lie! fearl | fear !!
The queen OF the South will rise up in
judgment against this generation and con-
denim IL, because she came from the utter.
most parts of the earth TO hear the wisdom
OF Solomon, and behold, greater than Sol.
ONION is here! May God grant that through
your own practical experience you may
find that religions ways arc the ways Of
pleasantness. aud that all her paths are
paths OF peace-that IL is perfume now and
perfume forever. And there is an abund-
ance OF spice; neither was there any such
spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King
Solomon"