Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-21

Joy and lift the round earth into sympa-
thy with the skies. / tarried many nights
In London. and I used to hear the bells
the small bells Of the city-strike the
hour Of night-one, two, three, four,
end after they were 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 insignificant as with mighty
tongue 1t announced the hour of the
night-every stroke IN overmasterins
boom.
My friends, 1t 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? They have
no clocks, as they have no candles. but
a great pendulum Of halleluiah swinging
across heaven from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children of the heavenly king
Should speak their joys abroad
THE DISCOURSE.
Again l remark that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF o
thousand people In this or any other
audience, how many want sympathetic
help7 Do you guess hundred? Do you
guess 5002 You have guessed wrong. !
will tell you just the proportion. Out
Of q thousand people in this audience
there are just 1000 who need sympa-
thetic help. These young people want
it just as much as the old. The old peo-
pie sometimes seem to think they have
monopoly of the rheumatism, 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, Richard ILL., at 33, Gustavus Adolphus
died at 8S; Innocent III came to his
mightiest influence at 81; Cortez con-
ouered Mexico at 80; Don John won LIE
panto at IS; Grotius was attorney gen
eral at "a, and I have noticed amid all
classes of men that some of the severest
battles and the toughest work comes be-
fore 30. Therefore we must have our
sermons and our exhortation in prayer
meeting all sympathetic with the young.
And SO with these people further on
In life. What do these doctors and law
yers and merchants and mechanics care
about the distractions of religion2 What
they want is help to bear the whimsical
files of patients, the browbeating of le-
gal opponents, the unfairness of Gus
toners, who have plenty of fault finding
for every imperfection of handiwork, but
no praise for 20 excellences. What does
that brain racked, hand blistered man
care for zwingle's Doctrine of Original
Sin," OF Augustine's "Anthropology?
You might as well go to a man who has
the pleurisy and put on his side q plaster
made out of DR.. PARIS "Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence.
While all, of q sermon may not be help
full alike to all If it be O Christian SER
mon preached -by-a Christiensman, there
will be help for every one somewhere.
We go into an apothecary store. We see
others being waited on. We do not
complain because we do not immediate
ly get the medicine. We know our turn
Will come after awhile. And 80, while
all parts Of sermon may not be appro-
pirate to our case, If we 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 theological students
I say to them, we want in our sermons
not more metaphysics, nor more imagi-
nation, nor more logic, nor more pro-
fundity.
What we want tn our sermons and
Christian exhortations is more sympa-
thy. When Father Taylor preached In
the Sailors Bethel at Boston, the jack
tars felt that they had help for their du-
ties among the ratlines and the forecas-
ties. When Richard Weaver preached
to the operatives In Oldham, England,
all the workingmen felt they had more
grace for the spindles. When DR.. South
preached to kings and princes and prin-
cesses, all the mighty men and women
who heard him felt preparation for their
high station.
NECESSITY FOR PRAYER.
Again I remark that sanctuary help
ought to come through the prayers of all
the people. The door of the eternal
storehouse is hung on one hinge-a gold
hinge, the hinge Of prayer-and when the
whole audience lay hold Of that door, 1t
must come open. There are here many
people spending their first Sabbath after
some great bereavement. What will
your prayer do for themf How Will 1t
help the tomb in that mans hearth Here
are people who have not been In church
before for 10 years. What will your pray
er do for them by rolling over their soul
holy memories?
Here are people In crises ofawful temp
taHon. They are on the verge Of despair
OF wild laundering or theft or suicide.
What will your prayer do for them this
morning In the way of giving them
strength to resistf Will you be chiefly
anxious about the ft of the glove that
you put to your forehead while yoQ
prayed? Will you be chiefly critical of
the rhetoric of the pastors petitionp No.
No. 4 thousand people will feel, "That
is for me-" and at every step of the
prayer chains ought to drop of, and tenn
pies OF sin ought to crush into dust, and
]ubilees Of denverance ought to brandish
their trumpets. In most OF our churches
we have three prayer@the opening
prayer, what is called the ''long prayer"
and the closing prayer.
There are many people who spend the
first prayer in arranging their apparel