The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-04-26

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/ win see in the faces Of the old people,
/ not the gloom which some people take
for religion, but the sunshine of celes-
tial peace, and he will say, why, |
wonder If that isn't the same peace
that shone out on the face OF my
father and mother when they lay
dying?" And then there will come o
dampness In his eyes through which he
can hardly see, and he will close his
eyes to imprison the emotion but the
hot tear will break through the fringes
of eye-lashes and drop upon the coat
sleeve. He will put his head back OF
the pew in front and sob, "Lord God
of the old people, help mel'' We
ought to lay plot here for the re-
ligious capture Of all the young people
In Brooklyn.
Yes, sympathy for the old. They
have their aches and pains and dis
tresses. They cannot hear or walk or
see as well as they used to. We must
be reverential in their presence. On
! dark days we must help them through
the aisle, and help them find the place
in the hymn-book Some Sabbath
morning we shall miss them from their
place, and we shall say: where is
Father So-and-so to-day?" and the an
swer will be: "What, haven't you
heard? The Kings wagons have taken
Jacob up to the palace where his Joseph
is yet alive"
Sympathy for business men. Twenty
four years of commercial life in New
York and Brooklyn are enough to tear
ones nerves to pieces. We want to
make our Sabbath service here rescue
for all these martyrs of traffic, a fore
taste of that land where they have no
rents to pay, and there are no business
rivalries, and where riches, instead OF
taking wings to fly away, brood over
other riches.
Sympathy for the fallen, remember
ing that they ought to be pitied as
much as man run over with rail
train. The fact is that, in the tempta-
tions and misfortunes of life, they get
run over. You and !, in the same cir
cumstances, would have done as badly;
we would have done worse, perhaps. II
You and had the same evil surround
ings and the same evil parentage that
they had, and the same native-born
proclivities to evil that they had, you
and should have been in the peniten-
tiary, or outcasts of society. mo"
says some self-righteous man, ~
couldn't have been overthrown in that
way" You old hypocrite, you would
have been the first to fall
We want In this church to have sym
pathy for the worst man, remembering
he is brother; sympathy for the worst
woman, remembering she is a sister
II that Is not the gospel, ! do not know
what the gospel is. Ah!yes sympathy
for all the troubled; for the orphans In
their exposure; for widowhood with its
weak arm fighting for bread; for the
household which erst resounded will
merry voices and pattering feet, now
awfully still-broad-winged sympathy
like the feathers of the Almighty
warm-blooded sympathy, everlasting
sympathy sympathy which show
itself in the grasp of the hand, in tn,
glittering tear of the eye, in the con
soling word of the mouth-sympathy
of blankets for the cold, of bread To-
the hungry, of medicine for the sick, o
rescue for the lost. Sympathy
Let IL thrill in every sermon. Let 4
tremble in every song. Let it CLEAN il
every tear and in every light. Sympa
thyl Men and women are signing TO
sympathy, groaning for sympathy
dying for sympathy, tumbling off int
uncleanliness and crime and perditioi
for lack OF sympathy. May God give /
; to us! Fill all this pulpit with IL, iron
step to step. Let the sweep Of thes
, galleries suggest its encircling arms
; Fill all the house with It, from door h
? door, and from floor to ceiling, unit
there is no more room for it, and |
shall overflow into the street
and passer-by on foot and II
carriage shall feel the throb Of IL
magnificent benediction. Let that b.
our new departure as a church. lie
that be my new departure as a pastor
Sympathy! Gratitude TO God demand
that this morning / mention the fac
that during all these twenty-four year
/ have missed but oae service through
sickness. When I entered the ministr,
, l was so delicate did not think woult
preach three months; but preaching ha
agreed with me, and think the health
lest thing in all the earth is the religion
OF Jesus Christ. Bless the Lord, O, m,
. soul What ingrates we are in regar'
. to our heahh.
/ must, in gratitude,to God, also men
tion the multitudes TO whom / hav
, been permitted TO preach II is simpl,
miraculous, the attendance morning b,
morning, night by night, and year b,
[ year, and long after it has got TO be al
: old story. know some people ar
| dainty and exclusive in their tastes
/ AS for myself, like big crowd
would like to see an audience larg
E enough to scare me. II this gospel |
, good, the more that get It the better.
Many have received the gospel here
: but others have rejected it, Now,
. tell you what am going to do witt
j some Of my dearest friends who hav
, hitherto rejected the gospel. You ar
not afraid of me, and am not afrai,
, Of you, and some day. o brother, l will
/. clasp your hands together, and vii
turn your face the other way, and viii
take hold of your shoulders, and Will
you are helpless in my grasp vii
give you one headlong push into tn
kingdom Of God. Christ says we mus
compel You to come in; viii compe