The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-15


One says there IS too much vinegar in that
castor, and one says there is too much
sweet oil and another says there is not the
proper proportion Of red pepper. / say:
s'Get out Of the way and let the hungry
people come in" Now, our blessed Lord
has provided 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 10 come, and they look in. and
they are hungry, and people would pour in
by the millions to this worldwide table,
but the door is blocked up by cOntrover-
sizes, and men with whole libraries on their
backs are disputing as TO what proportion
of sweet oil and cayenne pepper should
make up the creed l CRY: Get out Of
the way and let the hungry world come in. 2"
The Christian church will have 70 change
its tack, or 1t will run on the rocks OF
demolition. The worlds population an
nually increases fifteen million. No
one pretends that half that num-
Der are converted to God. There
are more than twice as many
Buddhists as Professionals: more than twice
as many Buddhlsts as Roman Catholics.
Protestants one hundred and thirty-five
million: Catholics one hundred and ninety
five million: Buddhists four hundred
million. There one blurred and seventy
five million Mohammedans and two hun
dred and twenty million Brahmins.
Meanwhile many Of the churches
are only religious club houses, where few
people 60 on Sunday morning, averaging
one person 20 pew or one per-
son to a half dozen pews. and leav-
ing the minister at night TO sweat
thro ugh a sermon with here and there a
lone traveller, unless by a Sunday evening
sacred concert he can get out an audience
of respectable size. The vast majority of
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put forth no direct effort for the salvation
of men. Did / say there would have to be
changei | correct that and say there
will be "a change. If there be fifteen mill
ion persons added every year to the worlds
population, then there will be thirty mil
lion added to the church and forty million
and fifty million and sixty million. How
will it be donei 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 mountain of
Journalism. Come down out of the mount
ain or freezing Indifference. Old DR..
Stephen H. Tying. great on earth and in
heaven, once salo 10 me: " / am in favor OF
a change. / do not know what is the best
way of doing things in the churches, but
know the way We are doing DOW is not the
best way. or the world would be nearer its
than il 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
Christ on the plain, Christ on
the level with all the worlds woes and
wants aud necessities.
The full change will have to come from
the rising ministry. We now in the field
are too act in our ways. We are numbered
up with tecnicalIties. We have too many
nd Ii1ffnnartaa nd
pedias and systems Of the )lUgy in 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.
Come on, young men OF the ministry.
Take this pulpit, take all the pulpits, and
In the language of the street and the mar
ket-place aud the family circle preach
Christ on the plain. As soon as the church
says by its attitude, not necessarily by its
word, My one mission is TO help for
this life end help for the life to
come all the people," and it proves
its earnestness IN the matter,
people on foot and on horseback and ia
wagons and IN carriages will come TO the
churches in such numbers that they will
have to be met at the door by ushers, say
ing: You were here last Sunday you cam
not come In to-day. Gentlemen and ladies,
you Luust kdhO YOUR Anu u VIII De,
as in the Jamestown freshet and disaster,
when a government station was opened for
the supply of bread, and il took the officers
Of the law to keep the sufferers in limo, be-
cause of the great rush for food. When
this famine-struck world realizes that the
church is a government station, set up by
the government of the universe to provide
the bread of eternal life for all the people,
the rush will be unprecedented and unimag-
Unable.
Astronomers have been busy measuring
worlds, and they have told US how great is
the circumference of this world and how
great is 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 Oh the level Of our
humanity, stands in sympathy with every
trouble. There are so many aching heads:
His ached under the thorns. There are so
many weary feet: His were worn with the
long journey up and down the land that re-
ceived him not. There are so many perse-
cuted souls: Every hour of his life
was under human outrage. The
world had no better place to
receive him than a cattle pen, and its
farewell was slap on his cheek and a spear
in his side. So intensely human was he that
tuei0 HAS not Deeu III hll our race RrleL or
or exhaustion or pang that did not
touch him once and that does not touch him
now. The leDers, the paralytics, the imbe-
Gle, the maniac, the courtesan, the repent
ant brigand-which one did he turn off,
which one did he not pity, which one did he
not help. The universal trouble of the
world is bereavement. One may escape all
the other troubles, but that no soul escapes.
Out OF that bitter cup every one must take
q drink. For instance, in order that all
might know how he sympGthizes with those
who have lost a daughter, Christ comes
to the house of Jairus. There is
such big crowd around the door, he and
his disciples have to push their way In.
From the throng of people, i conclude that
this girl must have been very popular: she
was one Of those children whom everybody
likes. After Christ got in the house there
was such a loud weeping that the ordinary
tones Of voice could not be heard. do not
wonder. The dead daughter was twelve
years OF age. Ii is about the happiest time
In most lives. Very little children suffer
many injustices because they are children,
and childhood is not desirable part of hui
man eKisteDce-they get whacked or set on.
But, at twelve years of age, the child has
come to self-assertion and is art to make
her rights known. And, then, twelve
years Of age is too early for the cares and
anxleties of life. So this girl was, think,
the merriment Of the household. She
furnished for them the mimicry, and the
harmless mischief, and reused the guffaw
tnat often rang through that happy home
But, now she is dead, and the grief at her
departure is as violent as her presence had
been inspiring. o. the bereavement was so
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