Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-31

DOCK ana nndS the place Tor her on'
says, THANK you, miss, thank you!
She holds the book close up to her eyes
and with voice all full of tremors
| sings:
Jesus, lover of my soul.
Let me to Thy bosom fly.
While the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high;
Hide me, o, my Saviour, hide
Till the storm Of life is past.
Safe into the haven guide
Oh receive my soul at last.
And Jesus says to her: Mother, are
y'ou weary?" And she says; Yes, Jesus,
am very tired" Jesus says: "Mother,
are you poor?" And she says: 'Yes,
am very poor. / cannot sew any more:
| cannot knit any more. | am very
poor" Jesus says to her: 'Mother,
would you like to rest?8 She says;
Yes, Lord. that is what / want-rest. y
Courage, mother, says Jesus, II will
see thee through She goes home.
The next morning, in the tenement
house, some one dwelling ON another
floor comes to her room and knocks.
No answer. The door is opened. She
is dead. The night before. the chariots
of God halted at that pillow of straw.
and Jesus kept His promise. He said
that He would give her rest, and He has
given her rest. Glory be TO God for the
height the depth. the length. and the
breadth Of such Christian comfort. oh!
that we might might have such joy as
that which inspired the men at the bat
tie of Lenthen. They were singing a
Christian song as they went into bat
tie. A general said to the king: "Shall
] stop those people singing?' NO,
said the king, men that can sing like
that can fight. | would that we had
singing church, joyful church
iubilant church, comforting church,
for then we would have a triumphant
church
| remark, further, that we have here
tried to build church abreast of the
times, 1t is all folly for us to try to DO
things the way they did fifty or hun
bred years ago We might as well be
blowing with Elijah's crooked stick.
or go into battle with Sauls armor, or
prefer canal boat TO an express train,
as to be clinging to old things, What
we most need now is wideawake
church. People who are out in the
world all the week, jostling against
this lightning-footed century, come
into the church on the sabbath, and go
right to sleep, unless they have spir-
tied service. Men engaged in literary
callings all the week, reading pungent,
sharp writings. cannot be expected toll
come and hear our ecclesiastical hum
lrum. If a man stays at home on sun
days and reads the newspapers, il |
is because the newspapers are
more interesting. We need, my broth !
ven, to rouse up, and stop hunting with
blank cartridges. The Church of God |
ought to be the leader, the Interpreters.
the inspirer Of the age. II is all folly
for us to be discussing old issues-ar-
raigning Nero. hanging Absalom, stril. |
ing the Philistines with Shamgar's OK
goad-when all around about us are
To be slain.
Did say that the church ought TO be
abreast of the times? ] take that back.
The church Of God ought to be ahead
of the times-as far in advance as the
cross of Christ is ahead of all human in.
vention. Paul was thousand years
ahead of the day in which he lived.
The swift-footed years that have passed
since Luther died have not yet come up
to Luthers grave. Give inquiry fouI
thousand years the start. and the feet
IF Christianity are 50 nimble that il you
would but give it full swing, it will
,ateh up and pass it in two bounds
rhe church of God ought to be ahead
If the times
| remark, further, that we have tried
lere, in the love and fear of God. to
,uild church that would be charac
erized by conversions. / have heard
# very good people who could preach
IN for fifteen or twenty years and see
10 conversions. but we have faith. 1t
axes very good man to do that. do
lot know how a man can keep his faith
lp if souls are not brought to the Lord
esus Christ. That church that does
lot bring men and women to the feet
f the Saviour is a failure. | care not
low fine the building, or how sweet the
music, or how elegant the preaching.
r how elegant the surroundings-it is
failure. The church of God was made ,
Or just one thing-to get men out of Z
he world into the kingdom Of Heaven.
he tendency in churches is TO spend
heir time in giving fine touches to
hristians already polished. We keep
ur religion too much indoors and IN
er shelter. when it ought to be climb ,,
lg the rocks or hewing in the forests.
hen it would be a stalwart religion. a
)bust religion, a religion able to di-
est the strong meat of the word in !
cad of being kept on the pap and
ruel of spiritual invalidism. 1t is high !
me that we throw off the Sunday
othes Of sicSly sentimentality. and
1T on the worlSday dress of an earnest, d
tive Christianity.
Here Is Brooklyn. here is New York. o
ere are the United States, here is the e
hole world. TO be converted II i q
ghteen hundred and ninet y-four years y !.