The Bossier banner., 1893-11-16


shock was turned back into the
stream, and all was well. O, ye
who are high and dry on the rock
Of melancholy, 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
Christian song may build whole tenn
Piles 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 hour of night
one, two, three, four, and after
they were done striking the hour
of night, then the great st. Pauls
Cathedral would come in to
mark the hours, making all
the other sounds seem utterly insig-
nifcant 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 mark the hours in Heaven?
| They have no clocks, as they have no
candles, but great pendulum of hal
| lelujah swim ging 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 l remark that sanctuary help
oughtto come from the sermon. Of a
thousand people in this OF any other
audience, how many want sympathetic
help? Do you guess hundred? Do
you guess five hundred? You have
| guessed wrong. l will tell you just
the proportion. Out of a 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
ncuralgias, 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 infu-
ence at thirty-seven; Cortes conquered
Mexico at thirty; Don John won La
pante at twenty-five; Grotius was at
torney-general at twentyfour; 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 ot
patients, the brow beating of legal op
ponents, the unfairness of customers,
who have plenty of fault-fnding for
every imperfect of handiwork, but nc
praise for twenty excellences. What
does that brain racked, hand -blistereC
man care for Zwingle's Doctrine OF
Original Sin," or Augustine's "Anthro
pology?' You might as well go to q
man who has the pleurisy and put or
! his side a plaster made out of DR.. Parr's
Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.
While all of a sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, if it be Christian
: sermon, preached by a 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 no
Immediately get the medicine; we
, know our turn will come after awhile
And SO while all parts of sermon ma,
not be appropriate to our case, if w,
wait prayerfully before the sermon i
I through we shall have the Divin,
, prescription. l say to these youn!
men who come here Sabbath by
Sabbath, and who are going t,
. | preach Ine UoSpel, UneSe JneOlOglca
[ students-I 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 preaclfe,
to kings and princes and princesses al
the mighty men and women who heart
him felt preparation for their high sta
ton.
Again l remark, that sanctuary hel,
ought to come through the prayers o
all the people. The door of the sterna
storehouse is hung on one hinge, golc
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