Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-10-19

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My friends, 1t was intended that all the
lesser sounds of the world should be
drowned out in the mighty tongue of CON
gregational song beating against the gates
of heaven. Do you know how they mark
the hours in heaven Ihey nave no clocks,
as they have no candles, but great pen
dulum Of halleluiah swinging across heav-
en- from eternity to eternity
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
bnt chiiureh Oh tl'e heavenly KING
0ho"'" Spo''N .''oli Joso "oio"u'
sEhMoNlIEh oN orNNoNS,
Again. rei'laih 'il''O . S'ii''uasy nelPou8no
10 come from 'li' seihnoi; vi wv people
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Wv" P'"Pie III 'hi7 "''',i.n'o ~ "'u JuSV
Iooo VINO neeu syiii y ;,iet no,p InpSe
!o"ns PeoPie N"'lu ~ J"s' 81, ',.'''n % 'iIe
oiu' ino on People soniJ.ii a. seelh 10
'iil.ih 'hey ny q il'oioo-S W. vIe lneu-
iiia'is'lis' ai,i we ;n5 -, nu .ne He,;u-
aches, nnu yno I'n! Si.a' u.sol,.eis vi INC
, "oilu' ,''o 4 ao toI. ~. iio W" VS.
hear'"cnea IMAM arc 'ei' " S0"e Vi 'hese
Do Won know that much of the work il
done by the Young? Raphael died al 81.
Richard III at 80; Gustavus Adolphus died
at 3s; Innocent III came to his miRhtiest
influence at 81; Cortez CONQUERED Mexico at
30: Don John won Lepanto at %: Cro;ius
was attorney general at "a and have no.
ticed amid all classes OF men that some of
the seyerest battles and the toughest work
comes before 80. 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 LAWYERS
and merchants and mechanics care about
the distractions of religion? What thew
want ishelp to bear the whimsicalities of pa
tients. the browbeatinp of legal opponents
the unfairness of customers, who have
plenty of fault finding for every imperfec-
ton OF handiwork, but no praise for 90 ex-
celleucies What does that brain racked
hand blistcred man care for Zwinrle's
"Doctrine of Original Sin" or Aueustine's
AntbroDolonyy'' You might as well 20
70 man who has the pleurisy and put on
his side n plaster made out of DIR. PARIS
"Treatise on Medical JURISPRUDENCE.
While all OF n sermon may not be helm
ful mike TO all. if it be a Christian sermon
preached nv n Christian man. .here will be
| helm for every one somewhere We 90 into
an apothecarv 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 a sermon NAV not
he appropriate to our case if we wait pray
erfuilv before the sermon is through we
shall have the divine prescription. say
to these vouup men who come here Sab
hath nv Sabbath and who are going TO
nraoch tbe uospel these theolorical SIN
dents-I saw to them. we want in orr ser
mons not more metaphysics. nor more
IMAGINATION. nor more logic. nor more pro-
fnnditv
What we want in orr sermons and Chris.
finn exbortstions is more syu1pathv Whom
Father TAYLOR preached in the Sailors,
R,tbel at Boston. the lack Tars felt that.
thev had helm for their duties among the
rotiines and the forecastles When Richard
Weaver nresched TO the operatives in Old
HIM England all the workingmen felt
tbav had more GRACE for the snindles Whom