Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-05-26

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moan religion, to croak reg. L."
sepulchrize religion, when we o,.h, u
present it in in animated and speqta "' Ia
manner. Viat
Sabbath morning by Sabbath ~.
ing / address many theological "Ofa'
dents who are preparing for tho NG'
try, They come in here from the d iS,'s'
cnt institutions. | say to them ~I
morning: II yon will 20 home and r ,"H
over the history OF the church you win E,'
that those men have brought most sa,|
to Christ who have been dran, SuGS
Rowland Hill, dramatic: Thomas ChaI
mers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie N4a'
matte; John knox, dramatic; Robert Ma
Cheync. dramatic; Christmas Eva"
dramatic; George Whiteield, dran",,S
Robert Hall, dramatic: Robert Sn","
dramatic; Fenclon, dramatic; John A.
son, dramatic; DR. Mott, dramas;
When you get into the ministry, If ra
attempt to culture that element and w. ta
to WELD it for God, you will meet WHY
mighty rebuff and caricature, and ecrla.
iastical council will take your case i,
charge, and they will try to mn w.
down, but the God who starts Won WIN
help you through, and great will br ~
eternal rewards for the asSiduons onS
the plucky.
What we want, ministers and ]ovmo.
is to get our sermons and our eyhor,o
tions and our prayers out of the old pm
| see u great deal Of discussion in thn Wv
ligious papers about why people do no.
come to church. They do not coma ~
cause they are not Interested The oIa
hackneyed religious phrases that coma
moving down through the centuries will
never arrest the masses. What we wan,
to-day, you in your sphere and | in my
sphere, is to freshen up. People do nnt
want in their sermons the sham 1ownr
bought at the millinery shop, but tho
| japonicas wet with the morning dew, nov
the heavy bones of extinct mccathcrmm
of past ages, but the living reindeer
caught last August at the edge of
Schroon Lake.
We want to drive out the drowSv and
the prosaic, and the tedious, and tbc
! hum-drum, and Introduce the brightness
and yivacity, and the holy sarcasm. and
| the Sanctiiied wit, and the ENTERTAINMENTS
power, and the blood red rarNeStnnSs
and the fire of religious zeal and DIAL
not know of any way Of dong it as we'll
as through the dramatic. Attention.
! Behold! Hark' Selah.
l. Next l speak Of the >selah of pcreptu.
ity. Tho Targum, which is the Bible in
| Chaldec, renders this word Of my text
forever" Many writer's agree in be.
| lieying and stating that one meaning Of
this word is "forevcr," In this very
verse from whhh take my text Selah
means not only poetic Significance and
intermssion and emphasis, but it means
eternal reverbcration-forc Gods
! government forever. Gods goodness for
ever, the gladncss of the righteous for.
ever. OF course you andI have not sur.
veyer's cham with enough links to meas,
urc that domain of meaning.
In this world we must build every
thing on u small scale. A hundred
years are u great while. A tower 500
feet is great height. A journey of 4,COO
miles is very long. But eternity! If
the archangel has not strength of wing
to fly across it, but iutterS and drops
| like wounded scagulI there is no need
of our trying in the small shallow of
human thought to voyage across it,
| A skeptlc desiring to show his con-
tempt for the passing years, and to show
that he could build endurnglv, had his
! own sepulchcr made of the finest and the
! hardest marble, and then he had put on
! the door the words, IGOR time and for
eternity" but il so happened that the
seed of q tree somehow got into an I'M
seen crevice of the marble. That seed
grew and enlarged until it became tree
and split the marble to pieces. There
can be no eternalIZation of anything
earthly. But forever! Will you and
| live as long as that? We are apt to
think of the grave as the terminus. We
are apt to think of the hcarse as our last
vehicle. We are apt to think of seventy
or eighty or ninety years, and then
cessation.
Instead of that we find the marble
slab of the tomb is only a milestone,
marking the first mile, and that the
great journey is beyond. We have only
time enough in this world to put on the
sandals and to clasp our grdle and to
pick up our staff. We take our first
step from cradle to grave, and then we
open tho door and Start-grcat God
whittier? The clock strikes the passing
away Of time, but not the passing away
of eternity. McaSurclcssl measnreleSS.
This SeIah Of pcrpetuity makes earthly
inequalities so insignificant, che dlilef-
ence between scepter and needle, De-
! tween Alhambra and hut, between
! chariot and cart, between throne ana
curbstone, between Administer aud pare
floor, between satin and sackCloth, very
trivial.
This Selah of pcrpetuity makes our
getting ready so important For snch
prolongation of travel what outfit OF
guide books, of passports and OF escort?
Are we putting out on Il desert. simeon
swept and ghoul haunted, or into regions
of Sun-lighted and spray-sprinkled gar
dens? VIII 1t tie ElySum or Gehcnna
Once started in that world, we cannot
stop. The current is so swift that once
in no oar can resist it, no helm Cav"
steer out OF it. no hcrculean or titanic
arm. can battle it. Hank to the long re-
sounding echo "forcvcr." Oh, wake up
to the interest of your deathlesS Splfl''
Strike out for Heaven. Rouse We, men
and women for whom Jesus died. SeIah'
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