Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-05-27

questions so that next time you will b,
| ready.
Say to the scoffer: my dear sir, will you
| tell me what makes the diff between
the condition OF woman in China an1 the
| United States? What do you think OF the
sermon on the mount How do you like the
| golden rule laid down in the Scriptures, Are
| you in favor OF the tan commandments In
| your large and extensive rel ling have you
| come across a loveier character than Jesus
| Christ, Will you please u name the tru II.
| phant deathbeds OF ineiisls and atheists
| How do you account for the fact that anon
the out and out believers in Christianity
were such persons as Benjamin Franklin.
! John Ruskin. Thomas Carlyle, Babilgton
! Macaulay. William Penn, Walter Scott,
| Charles Kingsley Horace Bushnell, James
A. Garfield. Robert Z. Lee. Stonewall JACK
son, Admiral Foote, Admiral Farragut
| Ulysses S. Grant John Milton, William
! Shakespeare, Chief Justice Marshall, John
| Adams, Daniel Webster, George Wasriny-
| tonl How do you account for their foudness
| Tor the Christian rehgion2 Among the In
! numerable colleges and universities OF the
.arth viii you name me three started by
/ ntidels and now supported by infdels?
! Down in your heart are you really happy in
| he position you occupy anita agonistic 70 the
| Christian religion When do you have the
most rapturous views of the next worli'
| Go at him with a few such questions an
| le will get 50 red in the face as to su uygest
ipoplery. and he Will look at his watch AMI
| ay he has an engagement and must 60.
| You will put him in a sweat that will beat a
| Turkish bath YoI will put nin
,n rout compared with which our
| :roops at Bull Run made no time
1t all. Arm yourself, not with argu.
nents but interrogation points, and promise
] Fpl Nyirfnry Shall cttph a al.
uch a woman as you surrender To one oil the
neanest spirits that ever smoked up from
.he pit--the dumb devil spoken OF in the
| exit
| But then there are occasions when this par
! ocular spirit that Christ exercised when He
aid, 81 charge thee to come out of him.
| .akes people by the wholesale. In the most
responsive religious audisncs have you no.
| iced how many people never sing at all?
| They have a book, aud they have a voice,
and they know how to read. They know
many OF the tunes, ami yet are silent while
| he great raptures OF music pass by. Among
! .hoss who sing NJ: one out OF a hundred
! ungs loud enough to hear his own voice
| They hum it. Iney give a sort of religious
: gruGt. They make the lips 20, but it is in
/ audible. With voice strong euou III to stop
a street car one block away, all tley can af-
| ford in the praise of Col Is about half \
! whisper. With enough sopranos, enough
! altos, enough basSoS TO make small heaven
between the four walls, they let the oppor-
tunity 60 by unlmprovel
The volume of volcs that ascen1s from the
! largest au iisnce that ever assembled ought
| 10 be multiplied about two thousand fold
/ But the minister rises and gives out the
| hymn: the organ begins; the choir or pre-
| centor leads: the aullenca are standing SO
/ that the lungs may have iull expansion, and
/ a mighty harmony is about to ascend, when
! the evil spirit spoken OF i'll my text-:he
| dumb devil-sHreals his two wings. one over
! tue lips OF one-halt the audience and the
| other wing over the lips Of the othar half Of
! tAs audience, aud the voices roll bacs into
| the throats from which they started, and
only here au / there anything is heard, and
! nine- tenths OF the holy power is destroyed;
and the dumb devil, as he flies away, says:
II could not keep Isaac Watts from writing
/ that hymn, aud could not keep Lowell
/ Mason from composing the tune to which
/ it is set, but | smoie into silence or hall
/ silence the lips from whicn it would have
! spread abroad to bless neighborhoois and
/ cities, and then mount the wide open heav-
! ems Give the long meter doxologv the
! tull support OF Chrlsten ION, and those four
! lines would take the whole earth for God.
During the cotton famine in Lancashire.
| England. when the suffering was something
terrific, as the first wagon losd of cotton
! rolled IN, the starving people unlocked the
| horses and drew the load tn .llseyeS ST.. =
| IN, until all Lancashire joined in vita tri-
umphant voices, their checks sopplng with
.ears Praise Col from whom ali blessings
dow" When Commodore Perry, with his
warship the Mississippi, lay or the coast of
! Japan. hs bomOarded the shores with "Old
Hundred played by the marine band.
Glorious old Hun ired," composed by Will
lam Franc, of Germany. In war prison.
at ten o'clock at night, the poor fellows far
from home and wounded and sick and dy.
ing, one prisoner started the "Old Hundred
Doxology, and then score OF voices joined,
then all the prisoners on the floors took up
the acclaim until the building, from founda-
ton to topstone, fairly quaked with the
melodious ascription.
A British man of-war, lying of n foreign
coast heard voice singing that doxology
and Immediately guessed, and guessed
Alright, that there was an Englishmau il
captivity to the Mohammsdsns; and in the
small boats the sailors rowe1 TO shore anC
burst into a gaurd.houSe and set the captive
free. don't know what tune the trum pets
of resurrection shall play, but it may be the
doxology which is now sounding acroS
Christendom. How much more hearty W,
would be in our songs, and how easily VI
could drive back the dumb devilfrom all oui
worshiping asSemblages, il we could realize
that nearly all our.hymns have q stirring his
tory.
That glorious hymn, "Stand Up to
Jesus" was suggested by the last words o
Dudley Tying, who was dying from having
his right arm torn Off in a thrashing ma
chine. That hymn, What Friend w
Have in Jesus" heard through telephone
converted an obdurate soul. "Shau w
Gather at the RiverT was hymn first sun.
in our Brooklyn Prospect Park. at the chill
dren's May anniversary. and then s;arteC
to encircle the world Where Is My Wan
dering Boy To-nightg' is a song that ha
saved hundreds Of dissipated young men.
Tom, the drummer boy in the army wa
found crying, and an officer asked him wha
was the matter! "Oh," he said, 81 had
dream last night Ny sister died ten year
ago, and my mother never was herself agai
and she died soon after. Last night dream
was killed in battle. and that mother an
sister came down to meet me-" Afte
the next battle was over, some one crossin
the field heard voice that he recognized a
the voice of Tom, the drummer boy, singing
Jesus Lover OF My Soul" But at the Ell,
of the first verse the voice became YER
feeble, and at the end of the second verse i
stopped, and they went up and founi Tom
the drummer boy, leaning against STUN
and dead.
That hymn, "Oh, for Thousand Tongue
to Sing" was suggested to Charles Wesle.
by Peter Boiler, who, after his conversion
said, II had better keep silent about it
mo" said Wesley, IF you had ten thousar
tongues you had better use them for Christ
And then that angel Of hymnology penne
the words:
Oh. for thousand tongues to sing
My dear Redeemet's praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of Ills grace.
jesus, the name that calms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
Tis music In the sinners ears.
'Tis life and health aud peace.
y While much OF the modern music is
! religious doggerel, a consecrated nonsense.
; sacred tomfoolery, would like to see son
, great musician of our time lift the baton al
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