Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-05-26

You Sabbath school teachers ought u
have more OF the dramatic element II
yoar Instructions. BY graphic Scripture
scene. by anecdote. By descriptive gesture
by ilnperSonltion, urge your classes Z
| RIGHT action. We want in all our schools
and colleges and prayer meetings, and II
all our attempts ut reform, and IN all oul
/ churches, TO have less OF the style didacti'
and more of the style dramatic.
Fifty essays about the sorrows OF ths
moor could not affect me rs little drama
Of accdcn; anil suffering ! saw one sip
perry morning in the streets Of Philadel
phia. just asead of me was q lad, wretc sed
in apparel, his limbamputated ~ tie knee
from the pallor of the boys cheek the am
putation not long before. He had pack
aye Of broken food under his arm-food he
had begged, | suppose, at the doors. As
be passed on over the slippery pavement
cautiously and carefully, ! steadied him
until his crutch slipped and he fell.
helped him up rs well as ! could, gathered
up the fragments Of the package as wei as
| could, put them under one arm and the
crutch under the other arm, but when |
saw the blood run down his pale cheek /
was completely overcome. Fifty essays
about the suffering Of the poor could not
touch one like that little drama Of accident
aud suffering.
Oh, we want in all orr different depart
ments of usefulness-and ] address hun
dreds of people who are trying to do good
we want more of the dramatic element
and less OF the didactic. The tendency in
this day is to drone religion. to whine re
ligion, to cant religion, to moan religion,
to croak religion, 10 sepulchrize religion,
when we ought to present it in animated
and spectacular nauner.
Sabbath morning by sabbath morning
address many theological students who are
preparing for the ministry. They come in
here from the different institutions. | say
to them this morning; II you will 20 home
and look over the history Of the church
you will find that those men have brought
most souls 10 Christ who have been dra-
matte Rowland Hill, dramatic; Thomas
Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie,
dramatic: john Knox, dramatic; Robert
McCheyuc, dramatic; Christmas Evans,
dramatic; George Whitefeld, dramatic;
Robert Hall, dramatic; Robert South, dra-
matte; Fcnelon, dramatic; John Mason,
dramatic; DR. Mott. dramatic When you
get into the ministry, il you attempt to
culture that element and try to WELD it
for God. you viii meet with mighty rebuff
aud caricature, and ecclesiastical council
will take your case in charge and they
will try TO put you down, but the God who
starts you will help you through, and great
will he the eternal rewards for the assidu-
Gus and the rlucky.
GET OFT OF THE RUT.
What we want, ministers and laymen, is
TO get our sermons and our exhOrtations
and oar prayers out OF the old rut see a
great deal Of discussion in the religious
papers about why people do not come to
church. They do not come because they
are not interested. The old hackneyed re
igious phrases that come moving down
through the centuries will never arrest the
masses. What we want today. you in your
sphere aud | in my sphere, is 20 frcshen up |
People do not want in their sermons the |
ham flowers bought at the millinery shop, |
Out the japonieas wet with the morning |
lew; nor the heavy bones of extinct meg |
OF past ages, but the living |
reindeer caught last August at the edge of /
schroon lake
We want 20 drive out the drowsy, and |
he prosaic, and the tedious, and the hum |
lrum, and introduce the brightness and |
'ivacity, and the holy sarcasm, and the |
anctilied wit, and the epigmmmaticp power,
md the blood red esrnrstness, and the fire
u religious zeal, aud do not know Of any
va, Of doing il as well rs through the tlra-
matte. Attention. Behold Hark! Selahi
Next speak Of the Selah Of perpetuiiy.
fhe TarRum, which is the Bible in Chal-
lee, renders this word Of my text FOR
ver Many writer's agree IN believing
md stating that one meaning Of this word
S forever In this very verse from
Which take my text Selah means not
My poetic Significance and intermission
nd emphasis, but it means eternal rever-
icration-forever! Gods government for
yer, Gods goodness forever the gladness
I the righteous forever. OF course you
nd have not surveyors chain with
nough links to measure that domain Of
meaning.
In this world we must build everything
n a small scale. 4 hundred years are a
reat while. 4 tower Eve hundred feet is
great height a Journey Of four thou
and miles i very long. But eternity Ifl
he archaugel has not strength OF wingl
b fly across it. hut fluttcrs and drons Ike
woumied seaHnil. there i no need Of our
rying in the small shallow of human
bought TO voyage across it.
70. TINE AND ETERNITY.
A skeptic desiring to show his contempt
or the passing years, aud to show that h.
Duld build enduringly, had his own sepul-
her made Of the finest and the hardest
larble, and then he he'd put on the door
nc words, For time aud for eternity"
at i SO happened that the seed Of a tree
,mehow got into an unseen crevice of the
larble. That seed grew and enlarged un-
] il became a tree and split the marble to
eces. There can be no eterpalization OF
lything earthly. But foreverl Win you
al live as long as thaty We are apt to
link OF the grave as the terminus. We
e apt to think Of the hearse as our last
shicle. We are apt to think of seventy
eighty or ninety years, and then a cessa-
on.
Instead of that we find the marble slab
the tomb is only milestone. marking
Ic first mile. and that the great Journey
beyond. We have only time enough in |
lis world to put on the sandals and to
asp our girdle and to pick up our staff.