The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-25


Christ came TO save me. Musicians tell
us that the octave consists of only FIVE
tones and two semi.tones, and all the
Handles and Haydns and Mozarts and
Wagners and Schumans of all ages
must do their work within the range of
those FIVE tones and two semi-tones
So have to tell you that all the theol-
ogy that will be of practical use in our
world is made out of the two facts of
human sinfulness and Divine atone
ment. Within that octave swing, The
Song of Moses and the Lamb" the
Christmas chant above Bethlehem, and
the Allelujah of all the choirs standing
on seas of glass.
Is there not some mode of getting
out of the way of these non-essentials,
these superhuities these Emergencies,
from the main issue? Is there not some
way of bringing the church down out
of the mountain OF controversy and
conventionalism and put it on the plane
where Christ stands? The present at
titude OF things is like this: In n fam
ine.struck district n table has been pro-
vided and II is loaded with food enough
for all The odors of the meats full the
air. Everything is ready. The plat
tcrs are full The chalices are full. The
baskets of fruit are full. Why not let
the people in? The door is open. Yes, but
there is a cluster of wise men blocking
up the door discussing the contents of
the caster standing mid-table. They
arc shaking their fists at each other.
One says there is too much vinegar
in that caster, and one says
there is too much sweet oil, and an
other says there is not the proper
proportion Of red pepper. say, Get
out OF the way and let the hungry pco-
pie come kn." Now, our blessed Lord
has prov ed great supper, and the
oxen anf$the fatlings have been killed,
and fruits from all the vineyards and
orchards of Heaven crown the table.
The world has been invited to come,
and they look in, and they are hungry,
and people would pour in by the mil
lions to this worldwide table but the
door is blocked up by controversies,
and men with whole libraries on their
backs are disputing as to what proper
should make up the creed. l cry, Get
out of the way and let the hungry world
come in"
The Christian church will have 20
change its tack or it will run on the
rocks OF demolition. The world popu-
lation annually increases 10, 900, 900.
No one prctends that half that mum Der
of people are converted to God. There
are more than twice as many Budd.
hists as Protcstants, more than twice
as many Buddhists as Roman Catholics.
Protestants, 1875, 600, 900; Catholics, 1875 =
600, 600; Buddhists, 400, 100000. There
are IT'S 600, 900 Mohammedans and 220,-
900, OOJ Brahmins. Meanwhile, many
of the churches are religious club
houses, where few people go on Sun
day morning, averaging one person to
a pew or one person to half dozen
pews, and leaving the minister at night
to sweat through sermon with here
and there a lone traveller, unless, by
Sunday evening sacred concert, he can
get out an audience Of respectable size.
The vast majority of the church
mem bership round the world put forth
no direct effort for the salvation OF
men. Did say there would have to be
n change? I correct that and say:
There will be change. II there be
fifteen million persons added every
year to the worlds population, then,
there will he thirty million added to
church and forty million and fifty mill
ion and sixty million. How wall it be
done?
1t will be done when the church will
meet Christ on the plain. Come down
out of the mountain of eXclusiveness.
Come down out of the mountain of
pride. Come down out OF the mount
ain of freezing indifference, Old DR..
Stephen ii. Tying, great on earth and
in Heaven, once said to me: II am in
favor OF a change. / do not know what
is the best way of doing things in the
but know the way we are
doing now is not the best way, or the
world would he nearer salvation than
it seems to be-"
So feel so we all feel, that there
needs TO be a change. The point at
which we all come short is not present
ing Christ on the plain. Christ on the
level with all the worlds woes and
wants and necessities.
The full change will have TO come
from the rising ministry. We now in
the field are too set in our ways. We
are numbered up with technicalities
We have too many concordances and
dictionaries and encyclopedias and sys-
tens OF theology on our head to get
down on the plain. Our vocabulary is
too frosted. We are too much under
the domination OF customs regnant for
many centuries.