Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-10-27

one. two. three, four and after
they wer. done striking the hour
of night, then the great St Paul's
Cathedral would come in to
mark the hours making all
! the other sounds seem utterly insig-
nifcant with mighty tongue it an
nounced the hour Of the night every
stroke an overInastering boom. My
| friends. it was intended that ali the
! lesser sounds Of the world should be
| drowned ont in the mighty tongue Of
| congregational song beating against
| the gates Of Heaven. DO you know
how they mark the hours in Heaven?
I They have no clocks. as they have no
candles, but a great pendulum OF hal
| lelujah swinging across Heaven from
| eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
VINO never knew our Cod:
But children Of the Heavenly King
ShoaId speak their joy BROAD.
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 a hundred? Do
| you guess five hundred? You have
! guessed wrong. ] will tell you just
the proportion. Out OF thousand
1 people in this audience there are Just
one Thousand who need SympG thetic
help. These young people want iC just
as much as the old. The old people
sometimes seem to think they have a
monopoly Of the rheumatisms. and the
-, Il 1, Il
physical disorders Of the world: but
tell you there are no worse heart
aches than are felt by some Of these
young people. Do you know that
much of the wOrl: is done by the young?
Raphael died at thirty-seven: Gustavus
Adolphus died ut thirty-eight; limo
cent III. came to his mightieSt infu-
cnce at thirty-Sevcn: Cortes conquered
Mexico ut thirty; Don John won La
pantO at twenty-five; GrOtiuS was at
torney-gcneral at tweHty-four; and j
have noticed all classes OF men that
some of the Severest battles and the
toughest work comes before thirty
I Therefore we must have our sermons
and our eNh0rtation in prayer meet
! ing all sympathetic with the
| young. And so with these people
i further on in life WI It do these doc
tors and lawyers and merchants and
mechanics care about the distractions
Of our religion? What they want is
| help to bear the whmSicalitieS Of
| patients, the broWbeating of legal OPP
! ponento. the unfairness Of customers,
who have plenty Of fault finding for
every imperfect of handiwork. but no
J praise for twenty eXcellenreS. What
F! does that brain -racked. hand blistcred
man care Tor Zwingle's Doctrine Of
Original Sin" o: Augustine's ''Anthro-
| pOlogy?" You might as we'll 90 to a
man who has the pleurisy and put on
! his side a plaster made out Of Or. Parr 5
'Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence"
| While all of sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, II it be Christian
sermon. preached by a 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 mcdicine: we
know our turn will come after awhile.
And so while all parts of Il sermon may
|
! wait prayerfully 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 Gospel. these theolog ical
| Students-I say to them, we want in
| our sermons not more metaphysics. nor
| more imagination, nor more logic,
nor more profundity. What we want
| in our sermons and Christian exhorta-
tions is more sympathy. When Father
| Taylor preached in the Sailors Bethel
at Boston, the jaclI-tars felt that they
had help for their duties among the rat
lines and the forecastles. When Rich
ard Weaver preached to the operatives
/ in Oldham, England, all the working
men felt they had more grace for the
| spindles. When DR.. 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 Sternal
| storchouSe 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 h>lp the tomb in that
mans hcartH Here are people who
| have not been to church before 70,
ten years: what will your prayer
do for them by rolling over THEN
soul holy memories? Here are
tation. They are on the Verge o
despair. or wild laundering, OF
theft or suicide. What will Your p"aye1
do for them this morning III the way O
giving them strength to resist? VII
Won uc chiefly an Niouo about the ut 0
the glove that vcu put IL Your forehead
while YOU pTayei2 VIII You be chief
critical 1f the rhetoric Of the pastor
petition? No, No \ Thousand peoDl,
will feel that prayer is for me" anC
ut every step Of the prayer chains ough
10 drop 1T, ana temples ni S!n ought t.
rash into dust. and iubilees Of deliver
ace ought to brandish their trumpats
In most of our churches we have
three prayers-the opening prayer
what is called the long prayer,
and the closing prayer. There
are many people who spenC
the first prayer in arranging their ap
parel after entrance. and spend thu
second prayer, the long prayer" il
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