The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-19

,vs. anu 20 with these people further on In lifs
VIA. 90 these doctors aud lavyers anL ,,,as
.uan's ana mechanics care about tho nbs,r,
.'ons oi reigionP What they want Is helm 10
pear the whimsicalities OF patients. tho hrow-
u".ns OF ieHai opponents, the unfairness Of
To- ,,.n wno nave plenty OF fault finding
'oI eVery imperfection OF handiwork I'm, No
praise Tor twenty excellences. What docs
,na, Drain racked. hand blistered man c,ro
.pr nWingle's Doctrine OF Original sin - -,
aukustines "Anthropology?" You nigh, no
WEI. go to man who has tho pleurisv ana
but on MS side plaster made out ~ ~
Vii Ifeattse on Medical Jurisprudence. I"
~, niie All OF sermon may not be- helnh,I
alike to all II IL be a Christian ssr.,o,' p,u'
preached by Christian man, there will ha
ue'P Ioe eVery one somewhere We 90 in,o
WI apothecary store. We soc Others bein,.
waited on. We do not complain becansa ,,,,
u0 NOT immediately get the medicin, Wa
Know our turn Will como after awhile. And
so while all parts OF sermon may NOT h,,
appropriate to our case. u we watt nraver-
hy ueIote the sermon IS through We snail
wuaNe w the divine prescription. say TO theso
Young men VINO come hero Sabbath by Snb.
pa,n' % anu VINO aro going to preach the gos-
peI-thess theological stuionts-I sav ,o
'"en' We want IN our sermons not NOR,
metaphysics. nor moro imagination. nor
uiore logic. nor more proiundity.
what we want in our sermons and Cbris.
tlan oNhortatons IL more sympathy. Wh.n
rather Taylor preached In the sailors Dsthel
2, Boston. the jack tars felt that they had
neip Tor their duties among the ratlines and
tne iorecastles Whom Richard Weaver
preached 20 the operatives In Oldham. Eny-
land, all the workingmen felt they had mora
grace Tor the spindles. When Dr. South
preached 10 kings and dprinres and princesses
All the mighty men who heard him iclt urpp-
araiion for their high station.
Again remark thpt sanctuary hclp ought
10 come through thd prayers OF all tue peo-
PIE. The door % the eternal storchous,, il
hun; on one hinge-a gold hinge tho hinge
OF prayer wnen the whole audience lay
hold OF that door. IL must come open. There
ure mere many people spending their first
SabDath alter soise great bereavement. What
will your prayer do for themP How will n
help the tomb In that mans heart? Here
are people who have not been in church be.
fore for ten years. What will your prnya,
do for them by rolling over their soul holy
memories?
Here are people In crises Of awful tcmp
tatlon. Thcy are on the verge OF despair OF
wild blundering or theft or suicide What
vii, your prayer do for them tins morninp
In the way OF giving them strength 10 resist?
VIII you be chiefly anxious about the ft OF
the glove that you put 60 your forehead
while you prayed win YOU be chiefly
critical Of the rhetoric OF the pastors
petittonP No. No. A thousand people will
ieeI, That prayer Is for mo-" and nj every
step ofthe prayer chains ought TO drop of.
and temples OF sin ought TO crush into dust.
ana Jubilees OF deliverance ought 20 brandish
their trumoets. In most OF our churches we
nave three prayers the opening prayer,
what is called the "lons prayer" and tho
closing prayer.
There are many people who spend the first
prayer in arranging their apparel after en-
trance. and spend the second prayer-the
long prayer"-in wishing IL were through,
and spend the last prayer in preparing to
start for home. The most insignificant part
of every religious service IL the sermon. The
more important pa.ts are tho Scrptural les
son and the prayer. Tho sermon Is only "a
man talking 70 man. The Scripture lesson
is God talking 10 man. Prayer Is man talk
ing to God. Oh. II we understood the grand
sur and the pathos OF this exercise OF prayer,
Instead OF being dull exercise, we would
imagine that the room was full of divine and
angelic appearances.
But. my friends. the old style OF church
will not do the work. We might as we'll now
try TO take all the passengers from New York
to Buffalo by stage coach, or all the passen.
gers from Albany 10 Buffalo by canalboat. or
to do all the battling OF the world with bow
and arrow, as with the old style OF church To
meet the exigencies Of this day. Unless the
church in our day will adapt Itself to tho
time II will become extinct. The people read
Ing newspapers and books all the week. In
alert, picturesque and resounding style, will
have no patience with Sabbath humdrum.
We have no objections TO bands and sur
plice and all the paraphernalia OF clerical
life, but these things make no impression
make no more impression on the great
masses OF the people than the ordinary bust.
u uea giif fhuf in WILL 40 A
tailor cannot make II minister. Some Of the
poorest preachers wear the best clothes, and
many Dackwoodsman has dismounted from
the saddlebags and In hts linen duster
preached u sermon that shook earth aud
heaven with its Christian cloguencc. No new
gospel. only the old gospel In n way suited
to tho time. No now church, but IA church
10 be the asylum, the inspiration. tho prac-
tcal sympathy and the eternal heIp OF the
people.
But while half OF the doors OF the church
are 10 be set open toward this world the other
half of tine doors OF the church must be sot
open toward the next. You and Itarry hero
only brief space. We want somebody To
teach us how 10 get out of this life ut the
right time and in the right way. Some
fall out Of life, some 20 stumbling out life,
some 20 groauing out ollie, some 20 ours
Ing out OF life We want TO go singing, rs-
ing, rejoicing, triumphing. We want half
the doors OF the church set In that direc-
ton. Wewant half the prayers that way,
half the sermons that way. We want TO
know how 10 get ashore from the tumult OF
this world into the land OF everlasting peace.
We do not want TO stand doubling and shiv-
ering when we go away from this world. We
want our anticipations aroused to the high
est pitch.
We want to have the exhilaration OF dy-
ing child in England, the father telling ;ne
the story. When he said to her, "Is the path
she answered THE path Is mar
row. II il so narrow that cannot walk arm
In arm with Christ, so Jesus goes ahead and
He says, Mary, follow" Through these
church gntes SET heavenward how many OF
your friends and mine have gomez The last
time thev were out OF the house they came
TO church The earthly pilgrimage ended ut
the pillar Of public worship, and then they
marched out TO a bigger and brighter assem-
blage. Some OF them were 50 old they could
not walk without cane or two crutches.
Now they have eternal juvenescence. Or
they were so young they could not walk ex-
rept as the maternal hand guided them. Now
they bound with the hilarities celestial.
The last time we saw them they were
wasted with malarial or pulmonic disorder,
hut now they have no fatigue and no difli-
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