Milford chronicle., 1892-02-19

people come In" Now our blessed 7 or
l. mas provided great supper, and the oxe
ana the fatlings have been killed. an
] \ fruits from all the vineyards and orchard
heaven crown the table The world ha
bs4sn invited to come, and they look in. an
the& ~ are g hungry, and people would pour /
II by thNs ;ons IL IONS to this worldwide table. bu
r. the docasN Disocked up by controversies an
men witn e libraries ON their back
y are disputfSng as to what pronortion n :
sweet oil ann cayenne pepner nlSivn sapnld m. =
nm the creed4 tcry, 'iGst ont of tha ,aa,
! and let the hun cry worli come in. y ~
: THE CA IRcH l, pANcEp
The Christian aurchwill have to chang,
it's tack, or it william on the rocks o
demolitiop The. worlds population an
. nually increases l5,Ooo,O0O No one pre-
I tends that half tsaat number of people are
converted to God. There are more than
twice rs many Buddhists as Protestants:
more than twice rs many .Buddhists as
, Roman Catholics. Protestants, l35. .OOO-
= 600; Catholics. l95, ,000. 900; Buddhists, 400.
000000 There are l75,00O,000 Moham-
medans and 220,000,O00 Brahmins Mean
while, many of the churches are only re-
ligious clubhouses, where few people 90
on Sunday morning. averaging one person
to pew or one person to half dozen
pews and leaving the minister at night to
sweat through sermon with here and
there n lone traveller. unless, by Sunday
evening sacred concert, be can get out an
audience of respectable size.
The vast majority of the church men,
bership around the world puts forth no di-
rect effort for the salvation of men. Did
say there would have to be changer |
correct that and say, There will be
/ 0bapera If fbara Ha Gffnaf, mil
sons added every year to the worlds popu
lation, then there will be thirty million
added to the church and forty million and
afty million and sixty million. How will
it be dones 1t will be done when the
church will meet Christ on the plain Come
down out of the mountain OF exclusive
ness Come down out of the mountain of
pride. Come down out of the mountain Of
Journalism. Come down out of the noun.
tain of freezing Indifference
Old Dr Stephen H. Tying. great on earth
and In heaven once said to 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 |
now is not the best way, or the world would |
he nearer its salvation than it seems to be-" !
So feel. so we all feel, that there needs to |
be change. The point at which we all |
come short is presenting Christ on the
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 are numbered
concordances and dictionaries and encyclo-
pedias and systems of theology on our
head to get down on the plain. Our vo-
cabulary 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 street, and the mar
ket place, and the family circle preach
Christ on the plain.
As soon as the church says by its attio
tude-not necessarily by its words--"My
one mission is to help for this life and help
for the life to come all the people," and it
proves it's earnestness 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 by ushers, saying: you
we're here last Sunday: you cannot come
n today. Gentlemen and ladies yon must !
AXE your turn" .
And it will be as in the Johnstown
reshet and disaster, when a government ,
OsttiOi WIS OptilcNi lOT bLt supply Ol DTtfNl !
md it took the officers of the law to keep ,
he sufferers in line, because Of the great !.
ush for food When this famine struck !,
world realizes that the church is govern !,
nent station set up by the government Of 7
he universe to provide the bread of eter :,
al life for all the people. the rush will be \
and ,fnimaYinable. L
Hk WORLDS TROUBLE HAS NOT BEEN :
WEIGHED.
Astronomers have been busy measuring
Iorlds, and they have told us how great is q
ne circumference Of this world and how -,
reat is its diameter Yea, they have =
ept on until they have weighed our planet y
ld found its weight to he SIX sextilion W
ms But by no science has the weight of eo
lis worlds trouble been weighed. Now. v, vs.
hrist standing on the level of our human ~
J stands in sympathy with every trouble 10
here are so many aching heads. His a. ..
.hed under the thorns. There are 30 .i'
any weary feet. His were worn with the IL
ny journey up and down the land that yo
ceived him not There are 30 many per VI
cuted souls. Every hour of his life WAS ~
lder human outrage. The world had no ~
tter place to reoeiYe him than II cattle pa
N, and its farewell was slap on his su
eek and a spear in his side
30 intensely human was he that there -, Z
Il not been in all our Face y grief or in w
nifty or exhaustion or pang that did not W
nch him once and that does not touch sn'
m now. The lepers. the paralytics. the "a,
becile the maniae the courtesan, the cei
Sentant briaand- which one did he turn q
, which one did he not pity, which one rel
! he not help? The universal trouble Of lou
? world is bereavement. One may es- ne
pc all the other troubles but that no chi
Il escapes. Out Of that bitter cup every r..
E must take a drink. For instance, in oa'
Ter that all might know how he sympa-
yes with those who have lost q daugh SUI
, Christ pomsa 10 the house of Jairus pan
ere is such big crowd around the door pa
and his disciples have to push their pu'
y IN 'hH
rom the throng of people / conclude pra
It this girl must have been very popu can
she was one of those children whom you
rybody likes. After Christ got in the to
ise there was such loud weeping that ing
ordinary tones of voice could not be con
rll. slo not wonder. The drad daugh- O
was twelve years Of age. 1t is about siea
happiest time in most lives Very lit MAJ
children suffer many injustices because wal
Y are children, and childhood is not n ann
irslble part of human existence they the
whacked or set ON. But at twelve the
rs OF age the child has come to self as upo
ion and is apt to make her rights ofic
wn And then twelve years OF age is the
early for the cares and anxieties of life. thin
D this girl was. think. the merriment Clio
he household, SIG furnished for them tion
nIimicry and the harmless mischief, posi-
rousel the guffaw that often rang coul
ough that happy home. But now she ana
end, and the grief AT her departure Is as stru
ent as her presence had been vlyacious vi
inspiritinx oh. the bereavement was disg
sharp. SO overwhelming How could not
: give her ups suspect that they and
ned themselves for this or for that. ieas'
if they had had some other doctor, or orue
IN some other medicine, or had been hiy
g careful OF her health, or II they had lon.
given her that reproof some time when ne
had not really deserved it. Oh. If they time
been more patiept with her hilarities ana
instead of hushing her play had par e1pe
'ated in I'll You know there are so all