Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-16

hour or night blon n great 81. Fdui ,
| Cathedral would come in TO mark the
hours, making all the other sounds
seem utterly Insignificant as with
mighty tongue it announced the hour
Of the night, every stroke IN Overmas-
tering boom. Ny friends, it was In
tended tSat 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 as
they have no candles, but q great PEN
dulum OF hallelujah swinging across
heaven from eternity TO eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who. never knew our God;
Bgt children Of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
Again I remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. Of a
thousand people in this or any other
audience, now many want sympathetic
help? Do you guess 4 hundred? DO
you guess five huadred? You have
guessed wrong / will tell you just The
proportion. Out OF q thousand people
In this audience there are just one
thousand PEOPLE who need sympathetic
help. These young people want 1t just
as much as the old. The old people
sometimes seem 20 think they have q
monopoly of the rheumatism, and the
neuralgia and the headaches, and the
physical disorders OF the world; but l
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
thlrty-seyeu; Rlchelleu at thirty-one;
Gustavus Adolphus died al thirty-eight;
Innocent III. came TO his mightiest in
1ueuce at thirty-seyen; Cortez con-
qucred Mexico at thirty; Don John won
LepaDto at twenty-five; GrOtiuS was
Attorney General al twenty-tour; and |
have noticed amid all classes OF men
that some OF the severeSt battles and
the toughest work comes before thirty.
Therefore we must have our ermons
and our exhOrtations 10 u prayer
meeting all sympathetic with the young.
And so with these people further on In
life. What do these doctors aud law
yers and merchants and mechanics care
about the distractions OF religion?
What they want is help TO bear the
w~hlmSicalities Of patients, the brow
beating OF legal opponents, the unfair
ness OF customers, who have plenty OF
fault-fnding for every imperfection Of
haudiwoIk, but no. praise for twenty
e~xcellencies. What does that brain
racked, hand-blistered man care for
Zwingle's Doctrine Of Original SIM"
or Augustine's "AnthrOpology?" You
might as we'll 20 to a mad who has the
pleurisy and put on his side a plaster
made out Of DR.. PARIS "Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence"
While all of q serman may not be
helpful alike to all, il IL be a Christian
sermon preached by q Christian man,
there will be help for every one some
where. We 90 into an %apothecary store
We see others being waited on; we do
not complain because we do not lmme-
diately get the medicine; Ike know our
turn will come after awhile. And so
while all parts Of a sermon may not be
appropriate TO our case, II we walt
prayerfully before the sermon is through
we shall have the divine prescription. l
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 p%rofundity. What
we want In our sermons and Christian
celebrations is more sympathy. When
Father Taylor preached in the Sailors
Bethel at Boston, the jack tarS felt that
they had help for their duties among
the ratlines and the f~Orecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached TO the opera
tives in Oldham, England, all the work
iUgmen felt they had more grace FOR the
spindleS. When DR.. South preached to
kings and princes and princesses, all the
mighty men and women who heard him
felt preparation for their high station.
Again remark, that sanctuary help
ought TO come through the prayers OF
all the people. The door Of the eternal
~stOrehouse is hung on one hinge, a gold
hinge, the hinge OF prayer, and when
the whole audience lay hold OF that
door, 10 must come open. There are
here many people spending their first
Sabbath after some great bereavement.
What will your prayer do for themP
How will It help the tomb in that mans
heart? Here are people who have not
been in church before for ten years;
what will your prayer do for them by
rolling over their soul holy memories
Here are people in crisis Of awful
temptation. They are on the verge OF
despair, or wild laundering, or theft, or
suicide. What will your prayer do for
them this morning in the way OF giving
them strength TO resist? VIII you be
chiefly anxious about the t5 Of the
glove that you put to your forehead
WHILE YOU PRAYED?
win You be chiefly critical Of the
rhetoric OF the pastors petition? no.
No. A thousand people will feel that
PRAYER is for me, and at every step OF
the prayer chains ought 10 drop of,
and temples Of sin ought to crush into
dust, and jubilees OF deliverance ought
10 brandish their trumpets. In most Of
our churches We have three prayers
the opening prayer, what is called the
''long prayer" and the closing prayer.
There are many people who spend the
first prayer in arranging their apparel
after entrance, and spend the second
prayer, the "long prayer" in wishing
is were through, and spend the last
prayer In preparing TO start for home.
The most Insignificant part Of every re-
lig.Ous service is the Sernon The
more important parts are the Scripture
lesson and the prayer. Tho sermon is
only a man talking to a man. The
Scripture lesson is God talking 70 man.
Prayer is man talking 70 God. On, If
we understood the grandeur and the
pathos OF this exercise Of prayer, IN