The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-12-09

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one, two, three, four, and after
they were done striking the hour
of night, then the great st. Paurs
Cathedral would come in to
mark the hours, making all
the. other sounds seem utterly insig-
nificant as with mighty tongue it an
nounced the hour of the night, every
stroke an overmastering boom. My
friends, it was intended that ali 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 msrk the hours in Heaven?
They have no clocks, as they have no
candles, but great pendulum OF hal
lelujah 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 JOY abroad.
Again remark that sanctuary help
| ought to come from the sermon. OF
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 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
sometimes seem to think they have a
monopoly of the rheumatisms, and the
neuralgias, and the headaches, and the
physical disorders of the world; but
| tell you there are no worse heart
aches 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 thirty-seven; Gustavus
Adolphus died at thirty-eight; limo
cent III. came to his mightiest infiu-
ence at thirty-seven; Cortes conquered
Mexico at thirty; Don John won La
panto at twenty-five; Grotius was at
torney-general at twenty-four; and /
] have noticed all classes of men that
some of the severest battles and the
| toughest work comes before thirty.
Therefore we must have our sermons
and our exhortation in prayer meet
ing 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 our religion? What they want is
help to bear the whimsicalities OF
patients, the brow beating of legal op-
ponents, the unfairness of customers,
who have plenty Of fault-finding for
every imperfect of handiwork, but nc
praise for twenty excellences. What
does that brain -racked, hand blistered
man care for Zwingle's Doctrine of
Original Sin," or Augustine's 'Anthro-
pology?" You might as well go to a
man who has the pleurisy and put o n
his side plaster made out of DR.. PARIS
Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence. y
While all of sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, If it be Christian
sermon, preached by Christian man
there will be help for everyone some
where. We go into an apothecary
store. We see others being waited on
we do not complain because we do moi
Immediately get the medicine; we
know our turn will come after awhile
And SO while all parts of sermon may
not be appropriate to our case, If Wa
wait prayerfully before the sermon il
through we shall have the Divin,
prescription. say to these young
men who come here Sabbath by
Sabbath, and who are going t.
preach the Gospel, these theological
Students say to them, we want IL
our sermons not more metaphysics, no
more imagination, nor more logic
nor more profundity. What we wan
in our sermons and Christian exhorta
tions is more sympathy. When Fathe
Taylor preached in the Sailors Bethe
at Boston, the jack-tars felt that the,
had help for their duties among the rat
lines and the forecastles. When Rich
ard Weaver preached to the operative
in Oldham, England, all the working
men felt they had more grace for the
spindles. When DIR. South preached
to kings and princes and princesses al
the mighty men and women who hear
him felt preparation for their high sta
ton.
Again / remark, that sanctuary he'll
ought to come through the prayers 0
all the people. The door of the sterna
storehouse is hung on one hinge, gol
hinge, the hinge of prayer, and whel
the whole audience lay hold of tina
door it must come open. There ar
here many people spending their frs
Sabbath after some great bereavement
| What will your prayer do for them
How will it help the tomb in tina
, mans heart? Here are people VIII
have not been to church before TO
ten years; what will your praye
. do for them by rolling over thei
. soul holy memories? Here ar
2 people in crises OF awful temp
r tation. They are on the verge c
+ despair, or wild laundering, c
theft or suicide. What will your praye
t do for them this morning in the way {
$ giving them strength to resist? Wi
t you be chiefly anxious about the fit {
I the glove that you put to your forehea
S while you prayed? Will you be chief
: critical of the rhetoric of the pastor
4 petition? No. No. A thousand peopl
: will feel shat prayer is for me-" an
! at every step of the prayer chains ougf
I to drop off, and temples of sin ought
s crush into dust, and jubilees of delive
d ance ought to brandish their trumpet
n In most of our churches we hay