Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-31

as often as he wept Chrysostom, George
Herbert, Robert South, John Wesley,
George Whitefield, Jeremy Taylor, Row
land Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney
and all the men of the past who greatly
advanced the kingdom of God consecrated
their wit and their humor to the cause of
Christ.
So it has been in all the ages, and say
to these young theological students, who
cluster in these services Sabbath by Sab
bath, sharpen your wits as keen as scimi-
tiers and then take them into this holy
war. 1t is very short bridge between
tmie and tear, suspension bridge from
eye to lip, and it is soon crossed over, and
"a smile is sometimes just as sacred as a
tear. There is as much religion and |
think a little more, in a spring morning
than in a starless midnight.
Religious work without any humor or
wit in it is a banquet with side of beef,
and that raw, and no condiments and no
dessert succeeding. People will not sit
down at such banquet BY all means re-
move all frivolity and all pathos and all
lightness and all vulgarity them
out through the sieve of holy discrimina-
ton; but, on the other hand, beware of that
monster which overshadows the Christian
church today, conventionally, coming up
from the Great Sahara Desert of Ecclesi-
asticism, having on its back a hump of
sanctimonious gloom-and vehemently re-
fuse to swallow that camel.
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