Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-10-17

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walls u Thsh<s sross. bat religion has .
usixhsser story % cell % how Chrisissn
song may build y hols tempisz ~ eternal
Joy ana hft ths r0and earth into syusrsr
thF eth the skios tArried many Eishts
IN London. ana usssi % hesr ths bells--
tks small beiis q the city--st- az the
hour q niglt--one. two thres. four.
ana after they wefJ dune striking the
koar q night. then he crest ~ rznl's
cathedral would come ~ o. mark the
hours. making all the ether sounds seem
utterly insignificant - with mighty
tonxns 10 announced the hour Of the
night-every stroke an oyermAztering
boom.
Ny frisads. n wss intended that al
ths Lesser SQUADS Of the world should I've
drowned ous IN she mighty tongue Of
congregational song beating against the
lr'es Il heaven. DO yon know how they
mark the hours I'm heayenl They have
no clocks, ~ they have no candles. but
. great pendulum % hslleluiah swinging
acFors heaven from eternity ~ eternity.
Lea thsse rsfuss TO sfnx
Who never knep ar Coz.
Bat chiidrsa q The hesvsaly king
shoaid speak thsir ioTs shroAd
rim DISCOURSE
Again l remark that sanctuary help
ought 20 come from the sermon. OF q
thousand people In this OF any other
audience. how many want sympathstiO
helpg DO ron guess a hundrehf Do ron
guess scr You have guessed wrong. I
win tell you Just the proportion Ont
Of thousand people In this audience
there are just 1000 who need symps-
thetie help. These young people want
u Just a. nuch ~ the old. The old peo-
pie sometimes seem 10 think they have
monopoly Of the Rheumatism. and tho
neuralgias. and the headaches. and the
physical disorders Of the world. But /
tell you there ara no worse heartaches
than are felt by some Of these young
people.
Do ron know that much Of TIE work
II dons by the young: Raphael died at
81. RiC hard III nc 80. Gustavus Adolphus
died az ,: Innocent III came TO his
mightiest influence at 81; Cortez con-
quered Mexico az 30: Don John won Lee
panto 80 IS: Grotius was attorney gen.
eral az "a, and have noticed amid all
classes OF men that some Of the severest
battles and the toughest work comes be-
fore D. Therefore we must have our
sermons and our exhortation in prayer
meeting all sympathetic with the young
And 80 with these people further on
IN life. What DO these doctors and law
yers and merchants and mechanics care
about the abstractionsof religion? What
they want Is help 20 bear the whimsical
tiles 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 blstered man
care for Zwingle's Doctrine Of Original
sin," or Augustine "Anthropology"
You might as well 90 10 a man who has
tho pleurisy and put on his side plaster
made out Of DIR. PARIS Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence"
While all Of Q sermon may not be help
full alike to all II IL be q Christian ser
mon preached by Christian man, there
viii be help for every one somewhere
We 90 into an apothecary store. We see
others being waited on. We do not
complain becanse We do not immediate
ly get the medicine. We know our turn
win come after awhile. And So, while
all parts Of = sermon may not be nppro-
pirate to our case. If we wait prsyerfully
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-thess theological students
I say 10 them. we want In our sermons
not more metaphysics. nor more imagi-
nation. nor more logic, nor more pro-
fundity.
What we want in our sermons and
Christian exhortations Il more syrnpa-
thy. When Father Taylor preached in
thu Sailors Bethel a. Boston, the jack
tars felt that they had help for their du-
ties among the ratlines and the forecas-
ties. When Richard Weaver preached
u the operatives IN Oldham. England.
al the workingmen felt they had more
grace for the spindles When DR.. South
preached To kings and princes and prin-
ce-.es, all the mighty men aud women
who heard him felt preparation for their
high station.
NECESSITY FOR PRAYER.
Again l remark that sanctuary help
ought 70 come throaghthe prayers Of all
ths people The door q the eternal
ssorehouse il hung on one hinge--a gold
hinge. ths hinge 81 praycr-and when the
whole audience lay aold 81 that door. II
mu.t CONS open. There are here many
r.spls spending their frs, sabbath after
come great bereavement What viii
yonr prayer DO for them' How viii 10
ksip the tomb In that mAn'sheart' Here
ara peapl. who have not bsel Ia church
teiars for &C years. What viii your pray
81 a. for them By rolling over their soul
bciy memoriesl
fsere are people ia CRISES II swfRl temp
fatiou. They are on the verge 81 despair
or wila blunderins or theft o. suicide.
what vii your prayer Do FOR them tins
racrulrz IN the way % giving them
stseuxfh ~ resistg viii you bs chiefly
anfiaa. about ihs a. u The glove that
yssl PIT a. year forehead while yoa
rfHvep VII son b chiefly critical n
the rh~sarie = The l'sstor's pefitioni No.
NA A Thousand people vili feel. That
rraysr = for ne. sad ~ EVER step of
prayer chsins osght % drop "a. and teri-
be. q so oaght g. crush into dust and
~ aiess q dedrsrsncs osight 10 brznsiish
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