Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-25

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been provided and it is loaded with food
enough for all. The odors of the meats
fiji the air Everything is ready The
platfers are full The chalices are full
The baskets of fruit are full. Why not
let the people inS The door is open. res
but there Is IA cluster of wise men blocking
up the door, discussing the contents OF tine
caster standing midtable. They are shak-
ing their fists at each other.
/ One saws there is too much vinegar In
that caster, and one says there is too mucn
sweet oil, and another says there is not the
proper proportion of red pepper. ! say
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, ana
| fruits from all the vineyards and orchards
of heaven crown the table The world mas
been invited TO come, and they look IN, and
they are hungry. and people would pour IN
| by the millions TO this worldwide table, put
the door is blocked up by controversies 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 cry, Get out of the way
and let the hungry world come in.
THE CHURCH IN DANGER
The Christian church will have to change
its tack. or il will run on the rocks OF
demolition The worlds population an
nually increases l5.000,0O0 No one pre-
tends that half that number of people are
converted TO God. There are more than
twice as many Buddhists as Protestants
more than twice rs many Buddhists as
Roman Catholics Protestants, l35,OOO-
600 Catholics 1875. 100000. Buddhists, 4OO,-
OO0.OOO There are 115.000,0O0 Moham-
medans and 220O00000 Brahmins. Mean
while. many of the churches are only re-
| liuious cluhhouses, where few people go
| on Sunday morning. averaging one person
to pew or one person TO a halt dozen
pews, and leaving the minister ut night 70
sweat through a sermon with here and
I there a lone traveller, unless, by Sunday
evening sacred concert, he can get out an
audience Of respectable size.
The vast majority of the church mem
bership around the world puts forth no d.
rect effort for the salvation Of men. Dld
say there would have TO be a changer
correct that and say, There will be a
change II there be fifteen million per
sons added every year to the worlds popu-
1 lation then there will be thirty million
added 10 the church and forty million and
fifty million and sixty million. How Will
IL be doneS II 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 ont Of the mountain OF
Journalism Come down out of the noun.
tain of freezing indifference.
Old DR. Stephen II Tying. great on earth
and in heaven. once said to me- u am IN
favor Of a change | do not know what is
the best way Of doing things in the
churches, hut know the way we are doing
now is not the best way, or the world would
he nearer its salvation than IL seems to be. +"
so feel. 80 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
4. worlds woes and wants aud 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
up with technicalities We have too many
concordances and dictionaries and encyclo-
pedias and systems of theology on our
head 10 ret 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, aud the family circle preach
Christ on the plain.
As soon as the church says by its atti.
tude-not necessarily by it's words-"My
one mission Is 10 help for this life and help
for the life to COME all the people, and it
proves its 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
were here last Sunday. you cannot come
in today Gentlemen and ladies. you must
take your turn.
And il will be rs In the Johnstown
freshet and disaster, when government
station was opened for the supply of bread
and il 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 u govern.
ment station set up by the government Of
the universe to provide the bread of eter.
nal life for all the people. the rush will be
unprecedented and unimaginable
TIKI woI,LD's TROUBLE HAS NOT BEEN
Astronomers have been busy measuring
worlds, and they have told ms how great is
the circumference Of this world and how
great is It's diameter Yea, they have
kept on until they have weighed our planet
aud found its weight to be six sextillion
tons But by no science has 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 80 many aching heads His
ached under the thorns There are SC
many weary feet His were worn with the
long journey mp and down the land that
received him not There are 30 many per
secuted souls Every hour of his life was
under human outrage The world had nc
better place to receive him than cattle
pen and its farewell was a slap on his
cheek and spear in his side.
SO intensely human was he that there
has not been in all our race grief or in
trinity OF exhaustion or paug that did not
touch him once and that does not touch
him now The leperS the paralytics. the
inlbecile, the maniac, the courtesan, the
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