Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20


of Thebes arose; but religion has u
mighter story 10 tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples Of eter-
nal JOY, and lift the round earth into
sympathy with the skies. l tarred
many nights in London, and used to
hear the bells, the small b lis 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 /, t. Pauls cathedral would
come in to mark the hours, making all
the others seem utterly insignificant
as with mighty tongue IL announced
the hour of the ght, every stroke an
overmastering boom. My friends, 1T
was intended that all the lesser
sounds of he world should be drowned
out in the mighty tongue of congrega-
tional song beating against the gates
of heaven. Do you know how they
mark the hours in heaven? They
have no clocks, as they have
no candles, but a great pendu-
lum of hallelujah swinging across
heaven from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our Cod
But children of the heavenly king
Should speak their 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 a hundred? 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
fhnrSarH xuyhn CNyr "a haf IL
help. These young people want it
just as much as the O d. The old peo-
pie sometimes seem to think they have
monopoly of the rheumatisms and
the neura gias and the headaches and
the physical disorders of the world;
but | tell you there are no worse heart
aches than are felt by acme of these
young people DO you know that
much of the work is done oy the young?
Raphael died at 81; Richelieu at 81;
Gustavus Adolphus died at 3s;
Innocent III. came to his night
est influence at 81; Cortez con-
quered Mexico at 30: Don John
won Lepauto at %; Grotius
was attorney-gen at -,
and have noticed amid all
classes of men that some OF the
se,erest battles and the toughest
work comes before thirty, Therefore
we must have our sermons and our
eXhortation in prayer meeting all SYM
pathetic 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 religio ? What they
wont is help to bear the whimsical
tiles of patients, the browbeating OF
l"gal opponents, the unfairne,s of Gus
toners, who have plenty OF fault-hnd-
ing for every imperfection of handi-
work, but no praise for twenty excel
lences What does that brain ra ~ ed,
hand-blistered man care for Iwingle's
Doctrine of Original SIM" or Angus
tines "Anthropology You might as
well go to a man who has the pleurisy
and put on his side plaster made out
OF DR.. PARIS treatise on etical
Jurisprudence.
While all of a sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, if it be a Christian
sermon preached by Christian man,
there Will be help for every one some
where. We go into an apothecary
store We see others being wal ed on,
VIC do not complain because we do not
know our turn will come aft er awhile.
And so while all parts of sermon
may not be appropriate to our case
if we wait prayerlully before The SER
mon is through, we shall have the
divine prescription. / say to these
young men who come here sabbath by
Sabbath, and who are going t. preach
the gospel, these theological students
-l say TO them, we want in our ser
mons not more metaphysics, nor more
imagination, nor more logic nor more
profdndity. What we want in our
sermons and Christian celebrations is
more sympathy. When Father Taylor
preached in the Sailors Bethel at Il S.
ton, the jack tars felt that they had
help for their duties among the rat.
lines and the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached to the
operatives in Oldham, England, al
the worlSingmen felt that 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 ,tation.
Again | remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come through the praye's 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 be-
reavemeut. 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 in ten years; what will your
pr yer do for them by ling 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 prayer do for them
this morning in the way Of giving
them strength to resist? win you be
ch ely anxious about the fit of the
glove that you put to your forehead
while you prayed? viii you b chiefly
critical of the rhetoric of the pas
tors petition? NJ. No. A thousand
people will feel "that prayer is for
me, and at every step of the prayer
chains ught to drop off and temples
of ought TO crush into dust and
jubilees of deliverance ought 10 brand
ish their trumpets. In most of our
churches we have three prayers-tha
opening prayer. what is called the
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