Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-04-27

At Selma, Ala, the other day l was
shown a cotton press by which cotton
was put in such shape that it occupied
in transportation only one car where
three cars were formerly e cessary, and
one ship where three ships had been re-
uuired, and I imagine that we all need
to compress our sermons and our prayers
into smaller spaces.
And his sermons were so lovely for
sentiment and practically and simple
ity and illustration The light of n Gan
die, the crystal of the salt, the cluck OF
a hen for her chickens, the hypocrite S
dolorous physiognomy, the moth in the
clothes closet, the black wing Of raven,
the snowbank Of white lilies, our ex-
IRENE botheration about the splinter Of
imperfection in some one else's charac-
ter, the swine fed on the pearls, wolves
dramatizing sheep, and the peroration
made up Of cyclone in which you hear
the crash of q tumbling house unwisely
constructed No technicalities, no split
ting Of hairs between north and north
west side, no dogmatics, but a great
Christly throb Of helpfulness. 1 do not
wonder at the record which says,
"When he was come down from the
mountain, great multitudes followed
him." They had but one fault to find
with his sermon. 1t was too short God
help all of US in Christian work to ge
down off our stills and realize there Is
only one thing we have to do-there is
the great wound of the worlds sin and
sorrow, and here is the great healing
plaster Of the gospel What you and l
want to do is to put the plaster on the
wound. All sufficient is this gospel if it
is only applied. A minister preaching
to an audience of sailors concerning the
ruin by sin and the rescue by the gospel
accommodated himself to sailors or
nacular and said, This plank bem E"
Many years after this preacher was
called to see a dying sailor and asked
him about his hope and got the suggest
i've reply, This plank bears. A"
An Appeal For Love.
Yea, Christ was lovely in his chief
life's work. There were q thousand
things for him to do, but his great work
was to get our shipwrecked world out
of the breakers. That he came to do, and
that he did, and he did it in three years.
Ho took 30 years to prepare for that
three years activity. From ~ to 80
years of age we hear nothing about him
That intervening IS years l think he
was in India. But he came back to Pal
estine and crowded everything into three
years-three winters, three springs,
three summers, three autumns. Our life
is short, bus would God we might see
how much wo could do in three years.
Concentration Intensificationl Three
years Of kind words Three years Of liv-
ing for others Three years of self sacri.
fee Let US try it.
Aye, Christ was lovely in his demise.
He had q right that last hour to deal In
mathematician Never had any one
been SO meanly treated. Cradle of straw
among goats and camels-that was the
worlds reception Of himl Rocky cliff,
with hammers pounding spikes through
tortured neryes-that was the worlds
farewell salutationl The slaughter Of
that scene sometimes hides the lowell
ness Of the sufferer. Under the satura-
ton Of tears and blood we sometimes
fail to see the sweetest face Of earth and
heaven. Altogether lovely Can coolest