The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

up! all the churches from Bangor to San
Francisco and across Christendom. 1t IA
not matter of preference; II is a matter
of RELIGIOUS duty. Oh, for fifty times
more volume of sound. German chorals
in German cathedrsls surpass us, and yet
Germany has received nothing ut tho
hands OF God compared with Americas
and ought the acclaim in Berlin be louder
than that in Brooklyn. Soft, long-drawn-
out music is appropriate for the concert;
but 81. John gives an idea of the sonorous
and resonant congregational singing APP
propriate for churches when, in listening
to- the temple service OF heaven, he says:
81 heard great voice as the voice of
great multitude, and as the voice OF many
waters, and as the voice OF mighty thun--
derings. Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipoJent reignetn."
Join with me in O crusade, giving me
not only your hearts, but the mighty up
lifting of your voices, and l believe we
can, through Christ's grace, sing $1,000
souls into the kingdom of Christ An
argument, they can laugh at; sermon,
they may talk down; but vast audience
Joining in one anthem is irresistible. Would
that Queen Balkis would drive ali her
spice-laden dromedaries into our church
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 saffron,
and cinnamon, and CO STA, and franklin
cense, and all sweet spices together. "Oh,
YOU say, II have not looked at ii az such.
/ thought it was a nuisance; it had
for me a repulsion; / held my breath
as though it were malOdor; / have
been appalled, by its advance; / have
said, if have any religion at all, | want
to have just as little of il as is possible to
get through with" Oh, what a mistake
you have made, nv brother. The re-
ligion of Christ is present and everlast-
ing redolence. Ii counteracts all trouble.
Just put 1t on 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 balm for the aching side and a soft
bandage for the temple stung with pain.
1t lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry
OF spiritual delight while he was in phvsi-
cal 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 Everlast-
ing Rest" And it poured light upon John
Bunyan's dungeon-the light of the shin
ing gate of the shining city. And it IL
good for rheumatism, and for neuralgia,
and for low spirits, and for consumption !;
it is the cathoicon for all disorders. Yes,
il will heal all your sorrows.
Whv did YOU look so sad today when
you came in? Alas for the loneliness
and the heartbreak. and the load that is
never lifted from your soul. Some of you
90 about feeling like MIacaulay when he
wrote: "If had another month OF such
days as | have been spending would be
, impatient to get down into my little mar
row CRIB in the ground like weary fac
tory child" And there have been times
in your life when you wished you could
! get out OF this life You have said: "0h,
how sweet to my lips would be the dust
| OF the valley" and wished YOU could pull
! over YOU in your last slumber the coyerlet
of green grass and daisies. You have
| said: ooh, how beautifully quiet it must
be i'll the tomb. l wish | was there"
see all around about me widowhood, and
orphanage, and childlessness; sadness,
| disappointment, perplexity. Ii | could
ask all those TO rise In this audience who
! have felt no sorrow and been butfeted by
no disappOintment-if Icould ask all such
| W Ilsc, ION many nOulu AiCC wv bhSs
A widowed mother with her little 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 it in a box and put 1t in a wagon and
| started down the street toward the ceme-
terry at full trot. The little child-the
only child-ran after it through the
streets, bare-headed, crying: Bring me
back my mother! bring me back my
mother" 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 earth-it is said the whole
/ village was in tears. And that is what a
/ great many OF you are doing
chasing the dead Dear Lord, is
there no appeasement for all this
sorrow that l SEQ about me? Yes. the
thought of the resurrection and reunion far
beyond this scene OF struggle and tears.
'They 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 midst OF the throne shall
lead them diving fountains OF water, and
| God shall wipe away all tears from their
ewes" Across the touches OF your sick,
and across the graves OF your dead, fling
| this shower of sweet spices. Queen
Ball1is, driving up to the pilared portico
OF the house of cedar, carried no such
| pungency of perfume as exhales today
from the Lords garden. 1t is peace. 1t
is sweetness 1t is comfort. 1t is infinite
satisfaction, this gospel / commend to
you. Some one could not understand why
an old German Christian scholar used to
be always so calm, and happy, and hope
full, when he had so many trials aud sick
ness, and ailments. A man secreted him.
self in the house He said: 81 mean to
watch this old scholar and Christian -
and he saw the old Christian man go to
his room and sit down on the chair beside
the stand, and open the bible and begin
to read. He read on and on, chapter after
! chapter, hour after hour, until his face was
all aglow with the tidings from heaven,
| and when the clock struck II he arose
! and shut his bible and said: blessed
Lord, we are on the same old terms yet.
! Good night, good night" Oh, you sin
parched and you trouble-pounded, here is
comfort, here is satisfaction. Will you
come and get it? / can not tell you what
the Lord offers you hereafter so well as
can tell you now. ut doth not yet appear
what we shall be-"
Have you read of the Tai Mahal in
India, in some respects the most ajestic
building on earth? Twenty thousand
men were twenty years in building it. IL
cost about sixteen million dollars. The
walls are of marble, inlaid with comedian
/ from Bagdad. and turouois from Thibet.