Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

| with laughter and derision 70 board
the vessel, when the vessel gave a
broadside fire against the enemy, and
by the shock was turned back into the
stream, and all was well. o, We who
are high and dry on the rocks of mel
ancholy, give broadside fire of song
against your spiritual enemies and by
holy rebound 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 the
walls of Thebes arose; but religion has
a mightier story to tell of how Chris
tian song may build whole temples
of eternal joy, and lift the round earth
into sympathy with the skies ]
tarried many nights in London, and
] used to hear the bells, the small
bells of the city, strike the hours of
night. ., >, 1, and 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 insignifi-
can't as with mighty tongue it an
nounced the hour of the night, every
stroke an overmastering boom. My
friends, it was intended that all the
lesser sounds of the world should be
drowned out in tho 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, rs they have no
candles, but u great pendulum of halle
lujah swinging across Heaven from
eternity to eternity.
Let th,se refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children Of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abaoad
Again remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF u
thousand people in this or any other
audience. how many want sympathetic
help? Do You guess hundred? Do
you guess five hundred? You have
guessed wrong. Twill tell you just the
proportion. Ont of thousand people
in this audience there are just one
thousand who need sympathetic help
These young people want it just as
much as the old The old people some
times seem to think that they have
monopoly of the rheumatisms, 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: Gustavus Adolphus died
Mt IS: Innocent III. came to his might
lest influence at 81; Cortes conquered
Mexico at 30; Don John won Lepanto
ut %; Grotius was Encouragement ut
%: and have noticed amid all classes
of men that some of the severcst bat
ties 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 doc
tors and lawyers and merchants and
mechanics care about the distractions
of religion? What they want is help
to bear the whimsicalities of patients,
the browbeating of legal opponents,
the unfairness of customers, who have
plenty of fault-inding for every imper-
lection Of handiworS, but no praise for
twenty excellenceS What does that
brain-racked. hand blistered man care
for Zwingle's Doctrine Of Original
Sin," or Augustine's "Anthropology?'
You might rs well go to man who
has the rleurisy and put on his side
plaster made out of DIR. PARIS Treatise
on Medical Jurisprudence"
While all of 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 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 may not
be appropriate to our case, II we wait
prayerfully before the sermon Is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. / 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 imagination, nor more logic. nor
more profundity. What we want in
our sermons and Christian eXhortations
is more sympathy.
Again / remark that sanctuary help
ought to come through the prayers of
all the people The door of the eter
nal storehouse is hung on one hinge,
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 bereave-
ment. What will your prayer do for
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