Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-02-24

there Is n cluster of wise men blocking
up the door discussing the contents OF
the caster standing mid-tablc. They
are shaking their fists at each other.
Ore 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. l say. Get
out of the way and let the hungry peo-
/ pie come in" Now, our blessed Lord
has provided a great supper and the
oxen and 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
ton of sweet oil and cayenne pepper
should make up the creed. / cry, Get
out of the way and let the hungry world
come in"
The Christian church will have to
change its tack or it will run on the
rocks OF demolition. The world popu-
lation annually increases $1,000, 600.
No one pretends that half that mum Der
of people are converted to God There
are more than twice as many Budd-
hists rs Professionals. more than twice
as many Buddhists as Roman Catholics.
/ Protestants, 1875, 600, 900: Catholics 1875. :
600, 900: Buddhists, 400. O00,OO There
pre- l15. 000. 600 Mohammcdans and 220,-
600, 000 Brahmins. Meanwhile, many
of the churches are religious club
houses where u few people go on Sun
day morning, averaging one person to
pew or one person TO half n dozen
pews, and leaving the minister at night
to sweat through n sermon with here
and there n lone traveller, unless, by a
Sunday evening sacred concert he can
get out an audience of respectable size.
The vast majority o; the church
membership round the world put forth
no direct effort for the salvation of
men. Did say there would have to be
change? | correct that and say:
There will be a change. If there be
| fifteen million persons added every
year TO the worlds population. then,
there will be thirty million added to
church and forty million and fifty mill
ion and sixty million. How will it be
done?
1t will ne 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 DIR.
Stephen II. Tying, great on earth and
in Heaven, once said TO me: IL am in
favor of a change. l do not know what
is the best way of doing things in the
churches, but know the way we are
doing now is not the best way, or the
world would he nearer salvation than
II 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
! ar@ 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 reenant'for
many centuries.
Come on, young men of the ministry.
Take this pulpit. take all the pulpits.
and in the language of the street and
the marlSet-place and the family circle.
preach Christ on the plain. As soon as
the church says by its attitude, not
necessary by its words. my one mis-
sion is to help for this life and help for
the life to come all the people" and it
proves its earncstness in the matter.
people on foot, and on horseback. and
in wagons, and in carriages will come
TO the churches in such numbers that
they will have to be met at the door bv
ushers, saying You were here last
Sunday; you can not come i'm to-day
tGentlemcn and ladies, you must take
your turn And, it viii be, as in the
Johnstown freshet and disaster, when
the government station was opened
for the supply Of bread and it took the
| officers of the law TO keen the suffer
ers in line, because of the great rush for
food. When this famine-struck world
realizes that the Church is a Govern
ment of the universe to provide the
bread of eternal life for all the people.
the rush will be unprecedented and un.
| imaginable.
Astronomers have been busy measur-
ing worlds, and they have told us how
great Is the circumference OF this world
and how great its diameter yea they
have kept on until they have weighed
our planet and found its weight to be
six sextillion tons But by no science
has the weight of this worlds trouble
| been weighed. Now, Christ standing
on the level of our humanity stands in
| sympathy with every trouble There
are so many aching hearts: His ached
under the thorns. There are so many
aching feet: His were worn with the
long journey up and down the land that
received Him not. There are so MANY
! prosecuted souls; every hour Of His life
was under human outrage The world
/ had no better place TO receive Him than
cattle pen, and its farewell was slap
on his check and n spear in his side. So
intensely human was He that there has
not been in all our race n grief or in
trinity or exhaustion or pang that did
not touch Him once and TINT does not
touch him now. The lcpcrs. the par
/ alytics, the imbccila, the maniac. the
/ courtcsan, the rcpentant brigand. which
\ one did lie turn of. which one did lie
not pity, which one did lie not help?