The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-10-18

and dry on the rocks Of melancholy,
givo a broadside fire OF song against
your spiritual enemies, and by holy re-
bound you will come out into the calm
waters If we want TO make ourselves
happy, we must make others happy.
Mythology tells us Of Amphion,
who played his Tyre until the
mountains were moved and tho walls
Of Thebes arose; but religion has
mighter story to tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples OF eter-
nal joy and lift the round earth into
sympathy with the skies. / tarried
many nights In London, and I used to
hear the bells, the small bells OF tho
city, strike the hour Of night-one,
two, three, four, and after they were
done striking the hour of night then
the great 81. Paurs cathedral would
come in TO mark tho hours, making all
the ether sounds seem utterly insigniti-
can't as with mighty tongue 1t an
nounced the hour Of the night, every
stroke an overmasterinR boom. MY
friends, II was intended that all the
lesser sounds Of the world should he
drowned out In the mighty tongue OF
congregational song beating against
the gates Of Heaven. Do you know
how they mark the hours In IleavcnF
They have no clocks, as they have no
candles. but great pendulum ot'halle'
lujah swinging across Heaven from
eternity to eternity.
Let these refuse 10 eng
Who never knew our Goi; -
But children Of ,hr Heavenly King
Should speak their Joys abroad
Again rema rk. that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. or a
thousand people ir this or any other
audience how many want sympathetic
help? Do you gulss Eve hundredp You
have guessed wrong. | will tell you
just the proportion. Out OF a thousand
people in this audience there are just
1000 who need sympathetic help.
These young people want it just as
much as the old. The old people some
times seem to think they have q mo-
nopoly of The 'rheumatisms, Gnd the
neuralpias, and the headaches, and the
physicu. disorders of the world; but
tell you thore arc no worse heartaches
than are felt by some OF these young
people. Do you know that much Of the
work is done by the youngp Raphael
died ut 81; Richelieu at 81; Gustavus
Adolphus died at 3s; Innocent III.
came to his mightiest influence
Mt 81; Cortez conquered Mexico
at 80; Don John won Lepanto al
25; Grotius was attorney general al
"a; and | have noticed amid al
classes of men that some Of the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
comes before thirty. Therefore we
/ must have our sermons and our eXhorta
tions in prayer meeting all sympathetic
with the young. And so with thesC
| people further on in life. What do
these doctors, and lawyers, and mer
chants, and mechanics care about the
distractions q religion? What they
want is help to bear the whmsicalitie:
OF patients, the brow-beating of lega
opponents, the unfairness OF custom
ers who have plenty of fault-tindinR
for every imperfection of handiwork
but no praise for twenty eXcellencies
What does that brain-racked, hand
blistered man care for Zwingle's doc
trine Of Original Sin," or Augustine
Anthropology"? You might as well g
TO man who has the pleurisy and pu
on his side plaster made out OF DIR
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurispru
dence"
While all of a sermon may not b
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 apothecar.
store. We SEQ others being waited on
we do not complain because we do no
Immediately get the medicine; W,
know our turn will come after awhile
And so while all parts OF a sermon ma.
not be appropriate to our case, II w
wait prayerfully, before the sermon i
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. / say to these young mel
who como here Sabbath by Sabbath
and who are going to preach the gos
pel-these theological students-l sa.
10 them, we want in our sermons no
more metaphysics, nor more imagina
tion, nor more logic nor more pre-
fundity What we want in our sci
mons and Christian exhortations
more sympathy. When Father Taylo
preached in the Sailors Bethel at Bos
ton, the jack tars felt that they ha
help for their duties among the raj
lines and the forecastles. When Rich
ard Weaver preached to the operator
in Oldham, Eng, all the workingme
felt they had more grace for the spir
dies. When DIR. South preached I
kings and princes and princesses, a
the mighty men and women who hear
him felt preparation for their high sta
tion.
Again remark, that sanctuary hel
ought 10 come through the prayers {
all the people. The door Of the eteI
nal storehouso is hung on one hinge,
gold hinge, the hinge Of prayer, an
when the whole audience lay hold {
that door, II must come open. Ther
are here many people spending the
first Sabbath after some great bereav
ment. What will your prayer do Il
them? How will IL help the tomb
that mans hearth Here are peopl
who have not been In church before Il
ten years; what will your prayer q
for them by rolling over their soul hol
memoriesp Here are people in crises
awful temptation. They are on u