Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-26

ourselves nappy. we must make others
happy. Mythology tells us Of Am
phion, who played his Tyre until the
mountains were moved and the walls
OF Thebes arose; hut religion has Il
mlghticr story to tell of how Chris
tan song may build whole temples
OF eternal joy, and lift the round earth
into sympathy with the skies. l tar
RED many nights in London, and l
used to hear the bells, the small bells
OF the city, strike the hour of night
l, ,, 3, i, 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
overmastcling boon. My friends, it was
intended that ill the lesser sounds of
the world should be drowned out in
the mighty tongue Of congregational
song beating against the gates Of hcav-
ell. Do you know how they mark
the hours in heaven? They have no
clocks as they have no candles, but u
great pendulum of halleujah swinging
across heaven from eternity TO etcr-
nifty.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children Of the heavenly king
Should speak their joys abroad.
Again l remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF
q thousand people in this or in any
other audience. how many want Sympa-
thetic help? DO YOU guess Il hundred :?
DO you guess five hundred? You have
guessed wrong. l will tell you just the
proportion. Out of Il 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 they have Il nonOp-
oily of the rheumatislns. and the ncr-
ragiaS, and the headaches. and the
physical disorders OF the world: but
L tell you there are no worse heart
aches 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 rs; Innocent I'LL came to his
miGhticSt influence at 81; COrtcs con-
quered Mexico at 30; Don John won
Lepanto at %; Grotius was attorney
general at a. and / have noticed amid
all classes Of men that some of the
sevcrcst battles and the toughest work
comes before 30. 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 about the distractions
of religion? What they want is help
to bear the whimsicalities Of patients,
the browbcating Of legal opponents,
the unfairneSS Of customers, who have
plenty OF fault-tinding for every i'm
perfection of handiwork. but no praise
for twenty eXccllcnceS. What does that
brain-racllcd, -hlistcrcd man care
for IWinglc's Doctrine Of Original
Sin," or Augustine's "Anthropology"
You might US we'll go to IL man who has
the pleurisy and put on his side Il plas-
ter made out of Dr. PARIS ''Treatise
on Medical Jurisprudence.
While all of Il 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 apolhecary
store. We sec others being waited on:
we do not complain because we DO not
Immediately get the medicine: we know
our turn will come after awile. And
so while I'LL parts Of a sermon may
not be appropriate to our case, if we
wait prayerfully before the sermon is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. I say to these young men
who ccimc here Sabbath by Sabbath,
and who are going to preach the gospel,
these theological students-I say to
them. we want in our sermons not
more metaphysics, nor more imagina-
ton, nor more logic, nor more pro-
fundity. What we want in our ser
mons and Christian cxhortations is
more sympathy When Father raylpI
preached in the Sailors Bethel at BoS-
ton. the !acll-tals felt that they had
help for their duties among the rat
lines and the forccastcs When Rich
ard Weaver preached to the operatives
in Oldham, England, I'LL the working
men felt that they had more grace
for the spindles. When Dr. South
preached to kings and princes and
prncesseS all the mighty men and
women who heard him felt proparl-
ton for their high station.
Again l remark. that sanctuary help
ought to come through the prayers Of
all the people. The door Of the eternal
storehouse is hung on one hinge, Il 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 man s
heart? Here are people who have not
been in church before for ten years;
what will your prayers do for them
by rolling over their soul holy memoir
les? Here are people in crises of awful
temptation. They are on the verge of
despair. or wild laundering. or theft.
or suicide What will your prayer 'lo
for them this morning in the way Of Civ
ing them strength to resist? Will You
be chiefly anxious about the fit of the
glove that you put to your forehead
while you prayed? Will you be chiefly
critical of the rhetoric Of the pastors
petition? No. No. 4 thousand peo-
pie will feel that prayer is for me"
and at every step of the prayer chains
ought to drop off. and temples If sin
ought to crush into dust. and iubilacs
of deliveruncc ought to brandi>h their