Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-16

ms they have no candles but great pen
dulum Of hailelulah swinging across heav-
en- from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse 70 sing
WHO never knew our Cod,
But children Of the heavenly king
Should speak their Joys abroad.
A sEu&oN1zER on SERMONS.
Again, remark that sanctuary help ougnt
10 come from the sermon. Of !, 900 people
in this or any other audience how many
want sympathetic help? Do you guess 1907
Do you guess 5OO9 You have guessed wrong.
| will tell you just the proportion. Out OF
1000 people in this audience there are Just
1000 who need sympathetic help. These
young people want II Just ns much US the
old. The old people sometimes seem to
think they have monopoly Of the rheu-
matlsms, and the neuralgins, and the head
aches, and the physical disorders Of the
world, but | tell you there ara no worse
heartaches than are felt by some of these
young people
Do you know that much OF the work Is
done by the young9 Raphael died at 81;
Richard Ill 1T SO; Gustgvus Adolphus died
at %; Innocent III came 10 his mightiest
influence at 81; Cortez conquered Mexico at
30; Don John won Lepanto at IS; Grotius
was attorney general at "a, and have no
ticed amid nll classes Of men that some of
the severest BATTLES and the toughest work
comes before 30. Therefore we must have
our sermons and our exhortatioh in prayer
meeting all sympathetic with the young.
And so with these people further on In
life. What do these doctors and lawyers
aud merchants and mechanics care about
the distractions OF religion' What they
wantishelp to bear the whimsicalities ofpa-
ticnts, the browbeating Of legal opponents,
the uufairuess Of customers, who have
plenty OF fault finding for every imperfoc-
ton of hapdiwork, but no praise for 20 e1-
ceileucios What does that brain rscked,
hand blistored man care for Zwingle's
'Doctrine Of Original SIM or Augustine's
"Anthrupoloryfn You might as well 90
to a man who has the pleursy aud put on
his side p,Aster made out of Dr. PARIS
"Treatise Oh Medical Jurisprudence"
While all OF sermon may not be help
full alike to all, II 1t be u Christian sermon
preached by Christian man, there will be
help for every ono somewhere. 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
erfuily before the sermon is through we
shall have the divine prescription. say
TO these Young men who come here Sab
bath by sabbath and who are going to
preach the gospel, these theological stu
dents-I soy TO them, we want in our ser
mons not more metaphysics, nor more
Imagination, nor more logic, nor more pro
fundity.
What we want in our sermons and Chris
tian exhortgiions is more sympathy. When
Father Taylor preached IN the Sailors
Bethel at Boston, the Jack lars felt that
they had help for their duties among the
ratlines and the forecastles, When Richard
Weaver preached TO the operatives in Old
ham, England, all the workingmen felt
they had more grace for the spindles- When
DIR. South preached TO kings and princes
and princesses, all the mighty men and
women who heard him felt preparation for
their high station.
THE HHIP or PRAYER.
Again, / remark that sanctuary help
ought TO come through tho prayers OF all
the people. The door Of the eternal store
house Is hung on one hinge, gold hinge,
the hinge Of prayer-and when the whole
audience lay hold OF that door II must come
open. There are here many people spend
ing their first Sabbath after some great be-
reavement. What will your prayer do for
themf How will It help the tomb in that
mans hearth Here are people who have
not been in church before for 10 years; what
will your prayer do for them by rolling
over their soul holy memorsesi Here ara
people in crises Of awful temptation.
They are on the verge Of despair or wild
laundering ar theft or suicide. What will
your prayer do for them this morning IN
the way OF giving them strength TO resisi
win YOU be chiefly anxious about the Mt Of
the glove that you put to your forehead
while Won prayedi WIN you be chiefly
critical OF the rhetoric of the pastors peti
tiong No. No. A thousand people viii
ferl "that prayer is for me- and at ever
step OF the prayer chains ought 20 drop on
and TEMPLES OF sin ought tocrnsh into dust
aud iubllees OF deliverAnee ought to bran
dish their trumpets. In most Of oui
churches we have three prayers-the open
inu PRAYER. what 10 called the "lons prayer,
and the closing prayer.
There are many people who spend thu
frst prayo In arranging their apparel ate
entrance and spend ths second prayer th'
"iong prayer.p in wishing Il were thIougi
and spend the last prayer IN prrparnsAs
s,srt for hoiac Tho most lisignii.csn
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