The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-06-17

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want to know. Wait till we get our
throne. Wait till the light Of eternity
flashes upon our newly assembled spirits.
1t is useless for ants ON different sides
Of mole-hill to try and discuss the
comparative heights Of Mount Blanc
and Mount Washington. Let me say TO
all young men about TO enter the, min
istry that soon the greatest novelty in
the world will be the unadulterated re-
ligion of Jesus Christ. Preach that and
you will have crowd. The world is
sick to reorganization with the modern
quacks in religion. The world has
been swinging off from the old gospel,
but It will swing back, and by the time
you young men go into the pulpits the
cry will be coming up from all the mil
lions of mankind "Give us the bread OF
life; no sweetened bread, no bread with
sickly raisins stuck here and there into
it, but old-fashioned bread as God our
Mother mixed 1t and baked itl'
You see, God knew as much when He
made the Bible as He knows now. He
has not learned a single thing in six
thousand years. He knew at the start
that the human race would go wrong
and what would be the best means Of
its restoration and redemption. And the
law which was thundered on Mount
Sinai, from whose top l had the two
tables Of stone in yonder wall trans
ported, is the perfect law. And the
Gospel which Christ announced while
dying on that Mount from which l
brought that stone in yonder wall and
which Paul preached on that hill from
which brought yonder granite, is the
Gospel that is going to save the
world. Young man, put on that Cos
pei armorl No other sword will
triumph like that No other shield will
protect like that No other helmet will
glance off the battle-axes like that. Our
theological seminaries are doing glori-
GUS work, but II ever such theological
seminaries shall cease to prepare young
men for this plain advocacy, and shall
become mere philosophical schools for
guessing about God, and guessing about
the Bible, and guessing about the soul,
they will cease their usefulness, and
young men, as in olden time, when they
would study for the Gospel ministry,
will put themselves under the care OF
some intelligent and warm-hearted pas
tor, and kneel with him in family
prayer at the parsonage, and go with
him into The room of the sick and the
dying, and see what victories the grace
Of God can gain when the couch Of the
dying saint is the Marathon.
That is the way the mighty ministers
Of the Gospel were made in olden times.
o, for n great wave Of revival to roll
over our theological seminaries and our
pulpits and our churches and our ecclesi-
astical courts and over all Christendoml
That would be the end Of controversy.
While such a deluge would float the
ark Of God higher and higher, II would
put all the bears and tigers and reptiles
Of raging ecclesiasticism fifteen cubits
under.
Now, what Is the simple fact that you
In the pew and Sabbath-school class and
reformatory association and we in the
pulpits have to deal with? II is this:
that God has somewhere, and II matters
not where, but somewhere, provided a
great heaven, great for quietness for
those who want quiet, great for vast
assemblages for those who like multi
tudes, great for architecture for those
who like architecture, great for beauti-
full landscape for those who like land.
scapes, great for music for those who
like music, great for professions for
those who like armies Of white horses
and great for anything that one es-
pecially desires in such rapturous do
minion. and through the doings Of one
who was born about five miles south OF
Jerusalem and died about ten minutes
walk from It's eastern gate, all
may enter that great heaven for
the earnest and heartfelt asking.
Is that all? That is all. What then
is your work and mine Our work
is to persuade people TO face that
way and start thitherward aud finally
go in. But has not religion something
to do with this world as well as the
next? o, yes: but do you not see that
II the people start for heaven, on their
way there they will do all the good they
can? They viii at the very start OF the
journey get so much Of the spirit OF
Christ, which is a spirit Of kindness and
self.sacrifice and generosity and burden
bearing and hclpfulness, that every
step they take will resound with good
deeds o, get your religion off of stills!
Get II down out Of the high towersl Get
II on n level with the wants and woe
of our poor human race! Get II out OF
the dusty theolovical books that few
people read and put IL in their hearts
and lives. Good thing is II TO profess
religion when you join the church, but
every day somehow we ought TO profess
religion.
A peculiar patchwork quilt was, dur
ing the civil war, made by lady and
sent TO the hospitals at the front She
had a boy in the army, and was natur-
ally interested In the welfare Of soldiers.
But what a patchwork quilt she sentl
On every block Of the quilt was pas
sage Of Scripture or verse Of hymn.
The months and years Of the war went
by. On that quilt many a wounded
man had lain and suffered and died.
But one morning the hospital nurse saw
patient under that blanket kissing the
figure OF leaf in the quilt, and the
nurse supposed he was only wandering
In hismind. Butno he was the son OF the
mother who had made the quilt, and he
recognized that figure Of leaf as part
Of q gown his mother used 10 wear, and
II reminded him Of homo. "Do you