Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-16

"alO u make ourselves happy, we must
make others happy. Mythology tells
us OF Amphion, who played his Tyre un-
til the mountains were moved and the
walls of Thebes arose, but religion has
mightier story to tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples of eternal
Joy and lift the round earth into sympa-
thy with the skies. tarried many nights
in London, and fused to hear the bells
the small bells of the city-strike the
hour of night-one, two, three, four,
and after they were done striking the
hour of night, then the great st. Pauls
cathedral would come in to mark the
hours, making all the other sounds seem
utterly insignificant as with mighty
tongue it announced the hour of the
night-every stroke an overmastering
| boom.
My friends, it was intended that all
the lesser sounds of the world should be
drowned out in the mighty tongue of
congregational song beating against the
| gates of heaven. Do you know how they
mark the hours in heaven? They have
no clocks, Ss they have no candles, but
great pendulum of halleluiah swinging
across heaven from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children of the heavenly king
Should speak their joys abroad.
THE DISCOURSE.
Again l remark that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF a
thousand people in this or any other
audience, how many want sympathetic
help? Do you guess hundred? Do you
guess 500? You have guessed wrong. l
will tell you just the proportion. Out
of thousand people in this audience
there are just 1000 who need sympar
thetic help. These young people want
it just as much as the old. The old peo-
Pile sometimes seem to think they have
monopoly of the rheumatism, and the
neuralgias, and the headaches, and the
physical disorders of the world. But ]
tell you there are no worse heartaches
than are felt by some of these young
people.
Do you know that much of the work
is done by the young? Raphael died at
81, Richard III at 33, Gustavus Adolphus
mightiest influence at 81; Cortez con-
quered Mexico at 80; Don John won Le-
panto at %; Grotius was attorney gen.
eral at "a, and have noticed amid all
classes of men that some of the severest
battles and the toughest work comes be-
fore 3d. Therefore we must have our
sermons and our exhortation in prayer
meeting all sympathetic with the young
And so with these people further on
in life. What do these doctors and law
yers and merchants and mechanics care
about the distractions of religion? What
they want is help to bear the whimsical
tiles of patients, the browbeating of le-
gal opponents, the unfairness of Gus
toners, who have plenty of fault finding
for every imperfection of handiwork, but
| no praise for 20 excellences. What does
that brain racked, hand blistered man
care for Zwingle's Doctrine of Original
Sin," or Augustine's "AnthropologyT'
You might as well go to man who has
the pleurisy and put on his side plaster
made out of DR.. PARIS Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence"
While all of a sermon may not be help
full alike to all if it be a Christian SER
mon preached by Christian man, thtre
will be help for every one somewhere.
We go into AN apothecary store. We see
others being waited on. We do not
complain because we do not immediate
ly get the medicine. We know our turn
will come after awhile. And so, while
all parts of a sermon may not be appro-
pirate to our case, if we wait prayerfully
before the sermon is through we shall
have the divine prescription. say to
these young men who come here Sabbath
by Sabbath, and who are going to preach
the gospel-these theological students
[ saw to them, we want in our sermons
not more metaphysics, nor more imagi-
nation, nor more logic, nor more pro
fundity.
What we want in our sermons and
Christian exhortations is more sympa'
thy. When Father Taylor preached IN
the Sailors Bethel at Boston, the jack
tars felt that they had help for their du'
ties among the ratlines and the torecas'
Ties. When Richard Weaver preached
70 the operatives in Oldham, England
all the woSkingmen felt they had more
grace for the spindles. When DIR. South
preached TO kings and princes and prin'
cesses, all the mighty men and womet
who heard him felt preparation Tor theil
high station.
NECESSITY FOR PRAYER
Again | remark that sanctuary nell
ought 10 come through the prayers OF al
the people. The door Of the eterna
storehonse is hung on one hinge-a goil
hinge, the hinge of prayer-and when I'M
whole audience lay hold Of that door, j
must come open. There are here many
people spending their first Sabbath afte'
some great bereavement. What wa
your prayer do for themf How wlll ]
help the tomb in that mans hearti her
are people who have not been in churcl
before for 10 years. What will your pray
er do for them by rolling over their sou
holy memories:
Here are people in crises ofawtul temp
tation. They are on the verge OF despai
or wild blundering or theft or suicide