Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-02

mighter story to tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples of eter-
nal JOY and lift the round earth into
sympathy with the skies. 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. Paufs cathedral would
come in to mark the hours, making all
the other sounds seem utterly insigniti-
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?
rhev have no clocks, as they have no
candles. but a great pendulum Of halle
uiah swinging across Heaven from
eternity to eternity.
Lot those refuse 10 sing
Who never knew our God;
But children Of the Heavenly King
should speak heir joys abroad
Again | 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 five hundred? You
have guessed wrong. ! will tell you
just the proportion. Out of a thousand
people in this audience there are just
l 900 who need sympathetic help
These young people want ii just as
much as the old. The old people some
times seem to think they have mo-
nopoly of the rheumatisms, 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; Richelieu at 81 Gustavus
Adolphus died at Ss; Innocent III.
came to his mightiest influence
at 81; Cortez 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 Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
comes before thirty. Therefore we
must have our sermons and our exhorta-
tions in prayer meeting all sympathetic
with the young. And so with these
people further on in life. What do
these doctors, and lawyers, and mer-
chants, and mechanics care about the
distractions of religion? What they
want is help to bear the whimsicalities
of patients. the brow-beating of legal
opponents, the unfairness of custom
ers who have plenty of fault-hnding
for every imperfection of handiwork,
but no praise for twenty excellencies.
What does that brain-racked, hand
blistered man care for Zwingle's Doc
trine of Original Sim" or Augustine's
Anthropology' 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 Jurispru'
dence."
While all of a sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, If 1t be Christian
sermon preached by Christian man,
there will be help for everyone 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 sermon may
not be appropriate to our case, II we
wait prayerfully, before the sermon is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. ] say to these young men
who come here Sabbath by Sabbath,
and who are going TO preach the Cos
pel-these theological students-1 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 exhortations is
more sympathy. When Father Taylor
preached in the Sailors Bethel at Bos-
ton, the jack tars felt that they had
help for their duties among the rat
lines and the forecastles. When Rich
ard Weaver preached to the operators
in Oldham, Eng, all the workingmen
felt they had more grace for the spin
dies When DIR. 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 / 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 years; what will your prayer do
for them by rolling over their soul holy
memories? 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 pray
er do for them this morning in the way
OF giving them strength to resist? Will
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