Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

in disgust, as much as to say: Il don't see how
you live here in this neighborhood. 1t actually
makes me sick. There is that bundle-take It,
you poor, miserable wretch and make the most
OF It." Another way is TO go into the abode OF
the poor in q manner which seems to say:
THE blessed Lord sent me. He was poor him
self, 1t is not more for the good am going to
try to do you than it is for the good you can
40 me-" Coming IN that spirit, the gift will be
as aromatic as the spikenard on the feet OF
Christ, and all the novels in that alley will be
fragrant with the spice.
More Inspiring Music Needed.
We need more spice and enlivenment in cur
church music. Churches sit discussing whether
thev shall have choirs, or precentors or organs,
or bass viols, or cornets; say, take that which
will bring out the most inspiring music. If we
had half as much zeal and spiritin 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 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 hum
dred who makes "a joyful noise" unto the Rock
OF our Salvation. Sometimes when the congre-
cation forgets itself, and is all absorbed in the
goodness of God, or the glories of heaven,
get an lntimation of what church music will be
100 years from now, whenthe coming genera
tiou 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 Christen-
dom. 1t is not matter of preference; it is a
matter of religious duty. oh. for so times
more. volume of sound. German chorals in
German cathedrals surpass us, and yet Ger
many has received nothing at the hands of God
compared with America: and ought the acclaim
in Berlin be louder than that in BROOKLYN
Soft long-drawn-out music, is appropriate for
the drawing-room and appropriate for the con-
cert; but st. John gives an idea OF the sonorous
and resonant congregational singing appropri-
ate for churches when, in listening to the tenn
pie service of Heaven, he says: Il heard a great
voice as the voice of great multitude, and as
the voice of many waters, and as the voice of
mighty thunderings.. Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth."
Join with me in crusade, giving me not only
your hearts. but the mighty uplifting of your
voices, and believe we can, through Christs
grace, sing $1,000 souls into the kingdom of
Christ. An argument they can laugh at;
ence joining In one anthem is Irresistible.
Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her
spice-laden dromedaries into our church
music. Neither was there any such spice as
the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon"
Religion Counteracts All Trouble.
Now want to impress this audience with the
fact that religion is sweetness and perfume,
and spikenard, and saffron, and cinnamon, and
cassia. and frankincense, and all sweet spices
together. "Oh," you say, II have not looked at
it as such. thought it was a nuisance; it had
for me a repulslon; l held by breath as though
it 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 pos
sible to get through with" oh, what mistake
you have made, nv brother. The religion of
hric ie q Sanfa md uar1o odpln
1t counteracts all trouble. Just put it OH 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 a glow on the gloom of the turned |
lattice. 1t is a balm for the aching side, and |
soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. |
1t lifted Samuel Rutherford into a reyelry of |
spiritual delight. while he was in physical |
agonies. 1t helped Richard Baxter until in |
the midst of such complication of diseases |
as perhaps no other man ever suffered, he
wrote, THE Saints Everlasting Rest" And
it poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon
the light of the shining gate of the shining
city. And it is good for rheumatism and for
it is the catholicon 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 loneliness and the
and the load that is never lifted
from your soul. Some of you go about feeling
ike Macaulay when he wrote: "If had an
other month of such days as have been spend
little narrow crib in the ground like weacy
factory child" And there have been times In
your life when you wished you could get out of
his life. You have said. "Oh, how sweet to
ny lips would be the dust of the valley" and |
wished you could pull over your last slumber |
'he coVerlet OF green grass and daisies. You
have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet 1t must 1
be in the tomb. 1 wish was there" see all |
around about me wldowhood, and orphanage, |
and childlessness; sadness. disappointment, |
II could ask all those TO rise in |
al M and
been butfeted by no disappointment-if could |
ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Not 4
one.
Appeasement for Sorrow.
Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all |
this sorrow that see about me? Yes, the |
hought of resurrection and reunion far beyond |
his scene of struggle and tears "They shall |
hunger no more. neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
leat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the |
hrone shall lead them to living fountains of |
water, and God shall wipe away all tears from |
heir eyes," Across the couches of your sick |
nd across the graves of your dead, fling this
hover of sweet spices. Queen Balkis driving
lp to the pillared portico of the house OF |
edar carried no such pungeney of perfume as
xhales to-day from the Lords garden. It
leace. 1t is sweetness 1t is comfort 1t is
infinite satisfaction, this gospel 1 commend
o you. oh. you sin-parched ana you trouble
DOuuueu ueTe Is COHlOTl, ueTe Is SATISFACTION. |
Will you come and get it? 1 cannot tell Won
What the Lord offers you hereafter so well as |
an tell you now. 1T doth not yet appear what
We shall be-"
Through obduracy on our part, and through
he rejection of that Christ who makes heaven |
'ossible, wonder if any of us will miss than
pectaclef l feari 1 fear! The queen of the
'outh will rise up in judgment against this gem
ration and condemn it, because she came from |
he uttermost parts of the earth to hear the
Fisdom of Solomon, aud beholdi greater than
mn hav Gndu ont hat @l-
our own practical experience you may find
hat religions ways are ways of pleasantness.
nd that all her paths are paths of peace-that
! is perfume now and perfume forever. And
here was an abundance of spice; neither was
here any such spice as the Queen of Sheba
ave TO King Solomon"
FOR SICK HEADACHE