The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-16

poor himself. Il Is not more for the good
] am going to try to do you than it is for
the good you can do 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.
| We need moro spice and enIivenment in
| our church music. Churches sit discussing
whether they shall have choirs, or precen-
tors, or organs, or bass yiols, .or cornets
say, take that which will bring. out the
most inspiring music. If we had half as
much zeal and spirit in 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 peo-
| pie 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 hundred who makes ga
joyful noise'' unto the Rock of Our, Saliva
ton. Sometimes, when the congregation
forgets itself, and is all absorbed in the
goodness of God or the glories of heaven.
get an intimation of what church music
will be a hundred years from now, when
the coming generation shall wake up to it's
duty
WAKE UP.
L 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 upl all the
churches from Bangor to San Francisco
and across Christendon. 1t is not a matter
of preference, it is a matter of religious
duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume of
sound. German chorals in German ca
thedrals surpass us, and yet Germany has
received nothing at the hands of God com
Dared with America. and ho
acclaim in Berlin be louder than that in
Brooklyn? Soft. long drawn out music is
appropriate for the drawing room and ap-
propriate for the concert, but ST. John
gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant
congregational singing appropriate for
churches when, in listening to the temple
service of heaven, he says: 81 heard a great
voice, as the voice of great multitude, and
as the voice of many waters. and as the
voice of mighty thunderings. Halleluiah,
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
Join with me in a crusade. giving me not
only your hearts but the mighty uplifting
of your voices, and 1 believe we can,
through Christ's grace, sing fifty thousand
souls into the kingdom of Christ. An ar
gument they can laugh at, a sermon they
may talk down, but a vast audience join
ing 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 Solo
mon"
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 nuisance; it had for me
repulsion; held my breath as though it
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advance; have said, If have any religion
at all, / want to have just as little of it as
Is possible to get through with" Oh, what
mistake you have made, my brother. The
religion of Christ is a present and everlast-
ing redolence. 1t counteracts all trouble
just put it 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 glow
on the gloom of the turned lattice. 1t is a
balm for the aching side, and a soft ban
dage for the temple stung with pain.
1t Lifted Samuel Rutherford into a rev.
elry of spiritual delight while he was in
physical agonies. 1t helped Richard Bax-
ter until, in the midst of such a complica-
tion of diseases perhaps no other man
ever suffered, he wrote '"The Saints Ever
lasting 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 neuralgia
and for low spirits, and for consumption;
it is the catholicon for all disorders. Yes.
it will heal all your sorrows.
r ALL HAVE HAD SORROW.
Why did you look so sad today when
you came in? Alasi for the loneliness and
the heartbreak, and the load that is never
lifted from your soul. Some of you go
about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote,
IF had another month of such days as
have been spending, 1 would be impa-
tient to get down into my little narrow
crib in the ground like a weary factory
child" And there have been times in
your life when you wished you could get
out of this life. You have said, tOh how
sweet to my lips would be the dust of the
valley" and wished you could pull over
you in your last slumber the coverlet of
green grass and daisies. You have said: |
"Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in
the tomb. wish / was there" / see all
around about me widowhood and orphan
age and childlessness; sadness, disappoint-
ment, perplexity. If 1 could ask all those |
to rise in this audience who have felt no
sorrow and been buffeted by no disap-
pointment-if could ask all such to rise,
how many would riser Not one.
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 box, and put it in a wagon, and |
started down the street toward the ceme-
terry at full trot. The little child-the only
child-rannafte it through the streets,
bare headed, crying, Bring me back my |
motherl bring me back my motherp' And |
it was said that as the people looked on |
and saw her crying after that which lay in |
the box in the waSon-all she loved on |
earth-it is said the whole village was in |
tears. And that is what great many of |
you are doing-chasing the dead Dear I
Lord, is there noappeasementf for all this sor-
row thatI see about me? Yes the thought i