Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-02-15

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ons says there = too mach vinegar In
thai caster. and eas says there is toe uaea
sweet Oh, aud another SAYS there il 81 the
proper proportion Ct red pepper Issy,
Get cat o. TIE way ard lst the hungry
peopis come in Now. cur blessed Lord
has provided great supper, and the oxen
And the fztiings hare been killed, and
fraits from al the vineyards and orchards
Of heaven crown the table The world has
heeR invited 70 cone. add they look il, and
thsy sre hungry. and people would poaT In
b. the millions 70 this worldwide table, bus
IL door Is blocked up By controversies and
nea with whole libraries on their backs
~ disputing a. 70 what proportion 81
swese oil add cayenne pepper should make
up the creed Iery. -Get cut Of the way
md iss the hungry world come in"
TIE CHURCH N pAseEH-
The Christinn church viii have 70 change
its tack. OF IL will run on the rocks of
demolition. The worlds population an
nualIy Increases 15,o00.000 No one pre-
tsnds that half that number Of people ara
converted to God. There are more than
twice ~ many Buddhists ~ Protestants:
mare than twics - many Buddhists ~
Rousn Catholics Protestants. Us. ooo.-
900; Catholics. Tx. 600 90, Baddhiyts. 400
10000 There are f75,000,O00 Mohsm-
medaus and 40 600 600 Brahmins Mean
whiis. many Of the churches are only re-
heions clubhouses. where few people 20
o. Sunday morning. averaging one person
To pew OF one person To . half dozen
pews. and leaving the minister at night to
sweat through . sermon with here and
there lone traveller. unless. by Sunday
evening sacrcd concert. he can get out an
audience at respectable xixe.
The vast majority Of the church nem-
berzhip around the world puts forth no d.
rect effort for the salvation Of men. Did
say there would hare to be y changet l
correct that and say. There will be a
change. II there Be fifteen million per-
sons added every year to the worlds popu-
lation. then there will be thirty million
added u the church and forty million and
fifty million and sixty million. How will
IL b done! II will be done when the
church will meet Christ on the plain. Come
down out OF the mountain Of exclusive
Dess. 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 n. Tying, great on Garth
and In heaven. once said to me: II am in
favor Of = change. l do not know what is
the bess way Of doing things in the
churches, bat know tho way We Ne doing
now h not the best way. or the worN would
b nearer it, salvation than it seems to be. /"
So feel; so we all feel, that there needs to
be . change The point 1t which we al
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 cone from
the rising ministry. We now In the field
are too set in our wayA We are numbered
mp with technicalities. We have too many
concordances and dictionaries and encyclo-
pedias and systems Of theology on our
head to get down on the plain. Our yo-
cabulary is too frosted We arc too much
under the domination Of customs regnant
for many centuries. Como 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.
A soon rs the church says by its atti-
tude-not necessarily by its words-"My
one mission il TO help for this life and help
for the life to come all the people, /" and it
proves its earrestness 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 viii have to be
met az the door by ushers, saying: "Ycu
were here last Sunday; ron cannot come
In today. Gentlemen and ladies. you must
take your turn"
And il will be as In the Johnstown
frezhet and disaster, when q government
station was opened for the supply Of bread
and It took the officers Of the law to keep
the sufferers in line, because OF the great
rush for food When this famine struck
world realizes that the church Is govern
ment station ret up BY the government ct
the universe to provide the bread. Of ete.-
nal life for all the people, the rush will be
unprecedented and uuimxginable
TIE WORLDS TROUBLE Has NOT BEEx
WEIGHED.
Astronomen have beon busy measuring
worlds, and they have told as how great is
the circumference Of this world and how
great Il It's diameter. Yea, they have
kept on until they have weighed our planet
and found It's weight 70 be SIX sextiilion
tonA But by no science hxs the weight Of
this worlds trouble been weighed Now.
Christ standing on the level Of our human
ity stands In sympathy with every trouble
There are 20 many aching heads His
ached under the thornx There ara 70
many weary feet. His wsre worn with the
long journey up and down the land that
received him not. There are 70 many per
secuted souls. Every hour Of his life WAS
under human outrage. TIE world had no
better place to receive him than cattle
pen, and It's farewell was . slap ON his
eh<ok and n sr,nap IN, his sida
So intensely human was he that there
has not been In all our race grief or in
6zmity or exhaustion or pang that did not
touch him once and that does not touch
him now. The lepers. the paralytics, the
imbsciIe, the maniac, the courtesan, the
repentaht brigand-which ono did he turn
on. which one did be not pity, which one
did he not helpf The universal trouble Of
IL world u bereavement. One may e.
eaps all the other troubles, has that NO
soul esoapsal Out Of that bitter cup every
ens must take drink For Instance, In
esdss that al might know how Ne sympa-
thtses with those who hare lot = dauSh-
Ger. Christ comes 70 The hoase a Jairua.
There II such big crowd around the door
- and his daseipass have to push their
way in
tAat this girl must have been very popu-
las; che was one Of thess children whom
svesybcdy likea After Christ GOT In the
honso there WA such ioud weepiug that
The esdinsry tones Of votcs could nos b
Hoard de- not wonder The dead dsuRh-
tsr VS. twelve pears of go. II 10 about
the h~ppiess time In nost lives. Very lit
tls chiidrsn suffer aany injustices becnuss
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