The Globe-republican., 1893-10-20

| OIOduSlOo uEc against the enemy, ana
by the shock was turned back into the
stream, and all was we'll o. We who
| are high and dry on the rocks of mel
ancholy, give broadside fire of song
against your spiritual enemies and by
holy rebound you will come out into
| the calm waters. If we want to make
ourselves happy we must make others
happy Mythology tells Us of
Amphion, who played his Tyre until
the mountains were moved and tho
walls of Thebes arose; but religion has
a mightier story to tell of how Chris
tian song may build whole temples
of eternal joy. and lift the round earth
into sympathy with the skies. l
tarried many nights in London, and
/ used to hear the bells, the small
bells of the city, strike the hours Of
night, ,, 3, 4, and after they were
done striking the hour of night then
the great st. Paurs Cathedral would
come in to mark the hours. making all
the other sounds seem utterly insignifi-
cant as with mighty tongue it an
nounced 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, as they have no
candles, but a great pendulum of halle
lujah 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 abaoad
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 five hundred? You have
guessed wrong. Twill tell you just the
proportion Out of a thousand people
in this audience there are just one
thousand who need sympathetic help
These young people want it just as
much as the old. The old people some
times seem to think that they have a
monopoly of the rhaumatiSms, and the
neuralgias, and the headaches, and the
physical disorders of the world: but l
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: Gustavus Adolphus died
at IS: Innocent III. came to his might
lest influence at 81: Cortes conquered
Mexico at 80; Don John won Lepanto
at %: Grotius was attorney-general at
"a: and have noticed amid all classes
of men that some of the SevereSt bat
ties and the toughest work comes be-
fore 80. 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 doc
tors and lawyers and merchants and
mechanics care bout the distractions
of religion? What they want is help
to bear the whimsicalities of patients,
the brow beating of legal opponents,
the unfairness of customers, who have
plenty of fault-fnding for every imper-
lection of handiwork, but no praise for
twenty excellences What does that
brain-racked. hand-blistered man care
for Zwingle's Doctrine of Original
SIM" or Augustine's "Anthropology?"
You might as well go to man who
has the pleurisy and put on his side a
plaster made out of DR.. PARIS Treatise
on Medical Jurisprudence.
While all of sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, if it be Christian
sermon preached by Christian man,
there will be help for every one some
where. We go into an apothecary
store. We see others being waited on:
we do not complain because we do not
Immediately get the medicine: we know
our turn will come after awhile. And
so while all parts of a sermon may not
be appropriate to our case. if we wait
prayerfully before the sermon is
we shall have the divine pre-
scription. l say to these young men
who come here Sabbath By Sabbath.
and who are going to preach the
gospel. these theological students
say to them, we want in our
sermons not more metaphysics. nor
more imagination, nor more logic. nor
more profundity. What we want in
our sermons and Christian exhortations
is more sympathy. When Father Tay-
lor preached in the Sailors Bethel at
Boston. the jack-tars felt that they had
help for their duties among the ratlines
and the forecastles. When Richard
Weaver preached to the operatives in
Oldham. England, all the workingmen
felt they had more grace for the |
spindles When DR.. South preached to |
kings and princes and princesses all
the mighty men and women who heard |
him felt preparation for their high sta
ton.
Again l remark. that sanctuary help
ought to come through the prayers of |
all the people. The door of the eter-
nal storehouse is hung on one hinge. a |
gold hinge. the hinge of prayer, and |
when the whole audience lay hold of |
that door it must come open. There |
are here many people spending their
first Sabbath after some great bereave-
ment. What will your prayer do for
them? How will it help the tomb IN |
that mans heart? Here are people who |
have not been in church before for ten |