Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-09


lilies of the field. We want fewer
rhetorical Celebrations and fewer ses-
quipedalian words; and when we talk
about shadows we do not want to say
adumbration; and when we mean
oueerness, we do not want to talk about
idiosyncrlsies; or if stitchin the back,
we do not want to talk of luinbago,
but in the plain vernacular preach that
gospel which proposes to make all men
happy, honest, victorious and free.
| In other words, we want more CHINA
mon and less gristle. Let this be SO in.
oil the different Departments of work
to which the Lord calls us. Let us be
| plain. Let us be earnest. Let MS be
cominon-scnscal Wllelwat talk to the
! people iii Il vernaclllr .tlley can under
stand they will be very glad to come
and receive tho truth we present.
Wonll. to God.tliatQ queen Ba!lzis would
drive her spice. laden dronled:.ries into
all.our sermons and prayer meeting cx-
.llortatioNs.
More than that, we want more life
and spice in our Christian work. The
poor do not want so much to be groan-
ed over as sung to. With the bread
and medicines and garments you give
them let there be al 4 compartment
OF smiles and brisk encouragement. Do
not stand and talk to them about the
Indebtedness OF their abode and the
hunger of their looks and the hardness
of their lot. Ali they know it better
than you can tell them Show them
the bright side OF the thing. if there be
any bright side. Tell them good times
will come. Tell them that for the chill
dren of God there Is immortal rescue.
Wake them up out of their stolidity by
al inspiring laugh, and while you send
in help, like the queen OF Sheba also
send in spices.
There are two ways of meeting the
poor One is to come into their house
with nose elevated in disgust, as
much rs to say: Il don't see how you
live here in this neighborhood. 1t act
, ually makes Inc sick. There Is that
bundle-t:,kc it, you poor. miserable
| wretc!i. and make the most of it" An
| other way is to so into the abode of the
poor in manner which seems to say;
1.-THE blessed Lori sent me- lie was
| poor himself 1t is not more for the
good I am going to try to do you than
it is for the good you can do me-"
Coming in that spirit, the gift will Ike as
aromatic as the spikcnard OH the feet
of Christ, and ell the bowels in that
alley will he fragrant with the spice.
spICE HEEDED r. CHURCH MUSIC.
We need moro spice and enivenment
in our church music Churches sit dis
cussing whether they shall have choirs
or precentors or organs or bass viols
or cornsts. say take that Which will
bring out the most inspiring music If
we had half:as much zeal and spirit in
| our churches us we have in the songs
of our Sabbath schools it would not be
tlong before the Whole e;rtd would
quake with the coming Col. Why, in
most CHURCHES nine-tentIls of the peo-
pie do not sing. or they sing so leebly
that the people at their elbows DO rot
know they nre singing. People mouth
and humble the praises OF Cod. bat
there .iseAot' more than enc out OF a
hundred who makes "a joyful noise"
unto the Rock of Our Salvation. Some
times, when the congregation forgets
itself, and is all absorbed in the good
moss of God or the slorics Of heaven, |
get All intimation of what church mu-
sic will lie u hundred years from now,
when the coming generation 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 poo
pie I'll around cannot help but sing.
Wake up! all the churches from Bangor
to San Francisco and across Cliristen-
dom. It is no matter of preference, it
is matter of religious duty Oh, for
fifty times more volume of sound. Ger
man chorals in German cathedrals sur
pass us, and yet Germany has received
nothing at the hands of Cod compared
with America, and ought the acclaim
in Berlin be louder than that in Brook
lyn9 Soft, long drawn out music is
appropriate for the drawing room and
appropriate for the concert, but st.
JOHN gives an idea of the sonorous and
resonant congregational singing appro-
pirate for churches when, in listening
to the temple service of heaven, he
says: II heard q. great voice, as the
voice of q great multitude, and rs the
voice of many waters, and as the voice
of mighty thunderings. Hallelnjah, for
the Lord God omnipotcnt reigneth.
A CRUSADE PROPOSED.
Join with ME in a crusade, giving Inc
not only your hearts but the mighty
uplifting of your. voices, and l believe
we can, throngh Christ's grace, sing
fifty thousand souls into the kingdom
of Christ An argument they can laugh
at, sermon they may talk down, but
a vast audience joining in one anthem
is Irresistible Would that Queen Balilis
would drive all her spice laden drome-
darics into our churcli music. Neither
was there any such spice as the queen
of Sheba gave King Solomon ;"
Now | want to impress this audience
with the fact that religion is sweetness
! and perfume, and spikenard and SAT-
from and cinnamon and cassia and
frankincense and all sweet spices to-
getbcr. oh" you say, II have not
| looked at it as such. thought it was
q nuisance; it had for HE a repulsion;
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