Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-03-07

anu from Portland, Me-, across TO San
francisco, and back again to New Or
leans and Savannah, many Of the min
lsters have gone into the detective BUSH
ness. Worldly reform, by all means;
put unless it be also gospel reform. it
VIII be dead failure In New York
Its chief work has been to give us a
change OF bosses. We had democratic
poss, and now it is to be republican
boss, but the quarrel is, who is to be
the republican? Politics will save the
cities the same day that Satan evangel-
ICES perdition.
Here comes another class of people
who in pulpit and outside of it cover
up the gospel with the theory that it
makes no final difference what you be-
iieve, or how you act--you are bound for
Heaven anyhow. There they sit, side
by side in Heaven: Garfield and Gut
teau, who shot him; Lincoln, and
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated
him; Washington, and Thomas Paine,
who slandered him; Mana Sahib, and
the missionaries whom he dubbed to
death at Cawnpore; Herod and the
children whom he massacred; Paul,
and Nero, who beheaded him. AS
result OF the PRONUNCIATION of such
mongrel and conglomerate heaven,
there are millions of people in Christen-
dom who expect to go straight to
Heaven from their seraglios, and their
inebriation, and their suicides, when
among the loudest thunders that break
over the basaltic island to which st.
John was expatriated. was the one in
which God announced that 1.-The abom-
Unable, and the murderers, and whore
mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters
and all liars shall have their place in
the lake which burneth with fire and
birthstone, which is the second death"
| correct what | said when declared
the gospel was buried fifty feet deep;
it is buried a thousand feet deep. Had
the glorious gospel been given full OPP
portunity, think before this the world
would have had no need of pulpit, or
sermon, or prayer, or church, but
thanksgiving and hosannas would have
ASScbhtOt III VIC NClllplC w Nnltl tiC
mountains would have been pillars,
and the blue skies the dome, and the
rivers the baptistery, and all nations
the worshipers in the auditorium of
the outspread world. But so far from
that, as remarked in the opening SEN
tence of this sermon, the greatest nov
city of our time is the gospel. And let
me say to the hundreds and thousands
of educated and splendid young men
about to enter the gospel ministry from
the theological seminaries of all de-
nominations, on this and the other side
Of the seas, that there is no drawing
power like the glorious gospel. Him
hath God lifted up to draw all men unto
Him" Get your souls charged and
surcharged with the gospel, and you
will have large audiences, and will not
have to announce in order to assemble
such audiences, Sunday night sacred
concert. with a brief address by the
pastor; or the presence of BLACK
PATHS" or Creole minstrels, or some
new exposure of Tammany; or SER
mon accompanied by magic lantern,
or stereopticon views.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
as spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel
gets full swing it will have momen-
tum and power mightier than that of
force of the September equinox it
strikes the highlands of the Navesink.
The meaning of the word gospel" is
good news" and my text says it is
glorious and good news, and we must
tell it in our churches, and over our dry |
goods counters and in our factories,
and over our threshing machines, and
behind our plows, and on our ships
decks, and in our parlors, our nurseries,
and kitchens, as though it were glori-
GUS good news, and not with dismal
drawl in our voice, and dismal look
on our faces, as though religion was a
twinge, or dyspeptic pang,
Or malarial chill, or an attack of nerv-
Dus prostration. With nine blessed"
Or "happys,' Christ began his sermon
On the Mount: Blessed the poor;
blessed the mourner; blessed the meek;
blessed the hungry; blessed the merci-
full; blessed the pure; blessed the
peace-makers; blessed the perse-
,uted; blessed the reviled; blessed,
blessed, blessed; happy, happy, happy.
Glorious good news for the young as
Christ they may have their
coming years ennobled, and for a life
time all the angels Of God their coad-
tutors and all the armies OF heaven
their allies Glorious good news for
the middle-aged as through Christ they
may have their perplexities disentan-
yled, and their courage rallied, and
their victory over all obstacles and him
frances made forever sure
Glorious good news for the aged as
hey may have the sympathy OF Him
If whom ST. John wrote: "His head
md His hairs were white like wool, as
white as snow" and the defense OF the
arms. Glorious good news
'or the dying as they may have minis
,ering spirits to escort them, and open
no gates to receive them, and sweep
If eternal glories to encircle them, and
he welcome Of loving God to en-
BOSOM them.
o, nv text is right when it speaks OF
he glorious gospel. 1t is an invitation
rom the most radiant being that ever