Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-05-14
THE DEMOCRATIC NORTHWEST THURSDAY. MAY IA. 1891


MIR himself. II Is not more for the good
ian going 70 try to do you than IL is for
she GOOD YOU can do me-" Coming in that 4
spirit the gift will be as aromatic as the |
spikenard on the feet Of Christ, and all the |
hovels in that alley will be fragrant with
the spice.
We eeed more spice and enlivenment in
our church music. Churches sit discussing
whether they shall have choirs, or precen-
tors. or organs, or bass viols, or cornets. i
say. take that which will bring out the
most inspiring music. II we had half as
much zeal and spirit in our churches as we
have in the songs of our Sabbath schools
1t 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. PAple mouth and humble
the praises of God; but there is not more
than one out of hundred who makes "a
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 its
duty.
| WAKE UP.
Ipromise 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 Christendom. 1t is not matter
of preference, it is q 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
pared with America; and ought the
acclaim in Berlin be louder than that in
Brooklyn3 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: Il heard great
voice, as the voice of a great multitude, and
as the voice of many waters, and as the
voice of mighty thunderings. Hallelu1ah'
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 l 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 vast audience join.
ing in one anthem is irresistible. Would
} that Queen Balkis would drive all hel
> spice laden dromedares into our church
&; music "Neither was there any such spice
{ as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solo
r mon"
: Now, want to impress this audience
= with the fact that religion is sweetness anc
r perfume and spikenard and saffron ane
8 cinnamon and cassia and franklncense
n and all sweet spices together. "Oh," yot
Y saw. II have not looked at it as such.
: Thought it was a nuisance; it had for me
t repulsion; held my breath as though /
n were malodor; have been appalled, at 1T
n advance; I have said, If have any religion
at all, want to have just as little of it a
is possible to get through with" Oh, wha
10 a mistake you have made, my brother. Th
|. religion of Christ is present and everlast
e ing redolence. 1t counteracts all trouble
d Just put it on the stand beside the pilloN
ID of sickness. 1t catches in the curtains an
p perfumes the sitting air. 1t sweetens tn
10 cup of bitter medicine, and throws glo'
" on the gloom of the turned lattice. 1t is
as balm for the aching side, and soft bar
~ dage for the temple stung with pain.
n It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a re-
i'd elry of spiritual delight while he was
e. physical agonies 1t helped Richard Ba'
ey ter until, in the midst of such compile
lg ton of diseases as perhaps no other ma
to ever suffered, he wrote "The Saints Eve
ne lasting Rest" And it poured light upc
On John Bunyan's dungeon--the light OF Il
shining gate of the shining city. And it
it. good for rheumatism, and for neuralgi
n and for low spirits, and for consumptlo
to it is the catholicon for all disorders. Ye
Is. it will heal all your sorrows.
he ALL HAVE HAD SORROW.
ng Wby did you look so sad today VIII
ltf Won came in? Alasl for the loneliness al
ne the heartbreak, and the load that is nev
IS. lifted from your soul. Some of you
nd about feeling like Macaulay when he wro
B." sIf I had another month Of such days
have been spending I would be imI
-, tient to get down into my little narr'
'iS crib In the ground like weary factc
child" And there have been times
,r+ your life when you wished you could
~ ~ out of this life. You have said, "Oh, h'
vsr sweet to my lips would be the dust OF t
valley" and wished you could pull on
osh YOU in your last slumber the coverlet
,nr green grass and daisies. You have sa
bat "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be
ia the tomb. wish was there" l see
II around about me widowhood and orph
,rd age and childlessness; sadness, disappoi
nns ment, perplexity. If could ask all tn
,,,o1 to rise in this audience who have felt
M sorrow and been buffeted by no dis
o,,t pointment-if could ask all such to RI
,ra. how many would rise? Not one.
10 A widowed mother with her little CT
~ IL went west, hoping to get better wa
to there, and she was taken sick and dl
,c,,. The overseer of the poorgot her body
to put it in box, and put it in wagon,
one started down the street toward the Gel
tery at full trot. The little child-the O
NON child-ran after it through the sire
tha bare headed, crying, Bring me back
tba mother! bring me back my mother!" 4
. he it was said that as the people looked
ieaI and saw her crying after that which la.
oo,,. the box in the wagon--all she loved
uerv earth-it is said the whole village was
rre. tears. And that is what great man!
fL;s YOU are doing-chasing the dead. l
,r;as Lord, is there no oappeasement for all this
+;s,o, row that see about meP Yes, the thou
of resurrection and reunion far bey
this scene of struggle and tears. II
and shall hunger no more, neither thirst
= do more. neither shall the sun light on til
# as nor any hea1' ior 'ne 1a" "a, -. - -
ines midst Of the throne shall lead them to
here ing fountains of water, and God shall