The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-07

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Then ~ our song abound,
And every tear DC dry;
We're .1grching through Elnmauuel's |
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To ftr.r worlds on high.
have TO say, also, that we need to |
put more spice and eulivenment in our
religious teaching. whether il be in the |
prayer meeting or in the Sabbath |
school or in the church We ministers
need more fresh air and sunshine in our
lungs and our hearts and our head. |
Do You wonder that the world is so far
from being converted when you find so
little viyacity III the pulpit and in the
pew} We want, like the Lord, to plant
in our sermons and CEhOTtatiOns more
lilies Of tine field. We want fewer
rhetorical Celebrations and fewer Sos
qnipedalian words; and when we talk
about shadows we do not want to say
adumbration; and when we mean
queerness, we do not want to talk about
idiosyncrasies or If a stitch in the back,
we do not want to talk of lumbagO,
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
all the different departments of work
to which the Lord calls us Let us be
! plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be
common sensicaI When we talk TO the
/ people in vern1cular they can under
stand they will be very glad to come
and receive the truth we present.
Would 10 God that Queen Ballsis would
drive her spice laden dromedarics into
all our sermons and prayer meeting ex-
hCrtations
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 an accompaniment
of smiles and brisk encouragement. Do
not stand and talk to them about the
wretchedness of their abode and the
hunger Of their looks and the hardness
OF their lot All they know it better
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
an 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 Il nose elevated in disgust, as
much as to say: Il don't see how yOU
live here in this nei%hborhood 1t act
p ually makes ne sick. There is thai
bundIe-tahe il, you poor, miserable
wretch, and make the most Of it." An
other way is to go into the abode Of thu
poor in q manner which seems to say
''The blessed Lord sent me lie wa
: poor himself 1t is not more for th,
i good l am going to try to 90 you thar
r it is for the good YOU can do me.
;, Coming in that spirit, the gift will be a
aromatic as the spikenard on the fee
" of Christ, and all the novels in tina
? alley VIII be fragrant with the spice.
Il SPICE NEEDED N CHURCH MUSIC.
y We need more spice and enlivenmen
" in our church music. Churches sit dI
cussing whether they shall have choil
~ or prccentOrs Or organs Or bass viol
Il Or comets. say take that which vii
re bring out the most inspiring music
k. we had half as much zeal and spirit i
, our churches us we have in the song
. OF our Sabbath schools it would not 1
long before the whole earth woul
''9 quake with the coming God Why,
OF most churches nine-tenths Of the PEI
ID pie do not sing, or they sing SO fcebl
IL that the people at their elbows DO NJ
30 know they are singing. People mout
and humble the praises of God. br
III there is not more than one out Of
We hundred who makes "a joyful noist
re unto the Rock OF Our Salvation. Som
us times, when the congregation forge
=. itself, and is all absorbed in the goo
..,l ness OF God or the glories of heaven,
get an iutination of what church IN
us sic will be IL hundred years from no,
III when the coming generation shall wal
VS. up to its duty.
l promise high spiritual blessing
any one who will sing in church, al
who will sing SO heartily that the pc
pie all around cannot help but sin
~, Wake up ali the churches from Bang
to San Francisco and across Christie
we dom. 1t is no matter OF preference,
IA. is matter of religious duty. Oh,
the fifty times moro volume of sound. @
man chorals in German cathedrals 81
a,t pass us, and yet Germany has receiv
nothing at the hands of God compar
with America, and ought the accla
cen in Berlin be louder thar that in Bro,
0ns lyn? Soft, long drawn out music
lin appropriate for the drawing room a
appropriate for the concert, but
,,,r John gives an idea of the sonorous a
,rl resonant congregational singing app
;onr pirate for churches when, in listen
af- TO the temple service OF heaven,
red. says: Il heard great voice. as
tea voice OF great multitude, and as
fter voice of many waters, and as the VIC
lent ofmighty thunderings. Hallelujah,
the Lord God onnipotent reigneth
are CRUSADE PROPOSED.
can Join with me in crusade, giving
Ii not only your hearts but the mig
,ine, uplifting Of your voices, and l bell
pro we can, through Christ's grace,
o De fifty thousand souls into the king6
ma, of Christ. An argument they can la
nan at, a sermon they may talk down,
,'.ie a vast audience joining in one anti
- ~. is Irresistible. Would that Queen Ba
80. would drive all her spice laden Dire
diaries into our church music. Mel
= was there any such spice as the ct
of Sheba gave King Solomon"
no of Now | want to impress this audi
oedv with the fact that religion is sweet
. the and perfume, and spikenard and
D the IRON ana cinnamon ana ciassia
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