Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-16

til the mountains were moved and the
walls of Thebes arose, but religion has a
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. I tarried many nights
in London, and used 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. PauIs
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 nave
no clocks, as they have no candles, but
a 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 I remark hat sanctuary help
ought to come from the rmo Of a
thousand people in this O any other
audience, how many want sympathetic
help? Do you guess a hundred? Do you
guess 500? You have guessed wrong. I
will tell you just the proportion. Out
of a thousand people in this audience
there are just 1000 who need sympa-
thetic help. These young people want
it just as much as the old. The old peo-
pie sometimes seem to think they have
a monopoly of the rheumatism, n 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 SO, Gustavus Adolphus
died at So: Innocent III came to his
mightiest influence at 81; Cortez con-
quered Mexico at 80: Don John won Lee
panto at 25; 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 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 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-
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toners, who nave plenty of fault finding
for every imperfection of handiwork, but
no praise for 90 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 a man who has
the pleurisy and put on his side a plaster
made out of DIR. 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 a Christian man, til re
will be help for every one somewhere.
We go into an apotLecary store. We see
others being waited Oh. 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 q sermon may not be apprO-
pirate to our case, if we wait prayerfu1ly
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 gospe1-these theological students
I say to them, we want in our m
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 forecas-
ties. 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 prin-
cesses, all the mighty men and women
who heard him felt preparation for their
high station.
NECESSITY o PRAYER.
Again [ remark that sanctuary help
to come through the prayers Of all
the people. The door of the eternal
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 bereavement. What will
your prayer do for them? How will it
help the tomb in that mans hearth? Here
are people who have not been in church
before for 10 wears. What will your pray
II do for them by rolling over their soul
holy memories?
Here are people in crises of awful temp
tation. They are on the verge of despair
or wild laundering or theft or suicide.