The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1895-02-16

wise trCe Of greater percentage that
this very fact makes them the moro
desirous Of listening to that practical
wisdom on Sunday which will make
their tasks easier duriog the week.
As a young man progresses in business,
he naturally feels the need Of u larger
and broader knowledge, and if he
knows that he can receive that knowl-
edge In church on Sunday, depend ur-
on II that he will be found In his pew.
But this IL precisely what young men
tMnnotAnd do not lind in Sunday pull
pit disdourses. Again and again have
young 4nen told me that they can re-
main 1t home Sunday mornings or
evenings, 60 into their fathers libra
ries, turn to some standard work, and
derive more actual benefit and mental
refreshment than II they went with
their family to church. know one
young man Of splendid character who
residesina a small city and has heard
the ministers Of all its churches. He
tells me Nat now, on Sunday mornings,
he retnalps home, takes down the
Bible, re4ds 1t himself, and extracts
more aest9kl help from one chapter Of
Provesy than his experience with the
ministdss.of his city has taught him
he canexpect from their expositions.
Nor ID this instance a single enc by
any means. A we'll stocked library Ia
to-day She successful rival Of many a
Clergyman in the homes OF hundreds
Of young men. 1t isn't that they pre-
fer the library; they would gladly 60
to church II they could feel reasonably
sure Christening to some sermon which
would OF help to them,-or interest
them & that matter.
The Nat ri the matter is, that GO
into anak our large cities, and the
| ministers who really interest young
men, adj draw them Sunday after Sun.
day to 3kefr churches, can be counted
on the pgers Of one hand. 1t is not
that Interesting ministers exist in
these cities, and that the young men
do not know OF them. Wherever they
| do exist, they are quickly discovered,
and their churches are soon thronged
with Young men, showing plainly that
young men will attend church when
they know that there is Il man in the
pulpit Who will say something to inter.
est then. Why was it that men, old
and young, always thronged to hear
Henry Ward Beecher? Because they
felt that there WAS a man who was one
Of them, and could and did enter into
| their lives. 1t wasn't the glamour col
| a greAt&s putation which kept young
,nen cl0Se to Mr.. Beecher for years and
years. Nor Is 1t such Il glamour or
tha reflection OF past associations
which gives Lyman Abbott an audi.
lence each Sunday composed two-thirds
of young men, and makes him the
most desired Of speakers at college
commencements. 1t il because Dr..
AbbottsAnows young men, and they
Know It, and they come to him.. 1t Is
common remark made OF ST.
Stephens Episcopal Church In Phila-
delphia, that so many men attend the
services that there is scarcely room
for the women. What is 1t that draws
young men by the scores to hear the
rector Of that church, the the Rev. S.
D. Mcconnell, preach? What is it
that makes the leading bankers Of
Philadelphia, its railroad presidents,
its foremost physicians and lawyers,
and the most Important business men
of this city attend this church? It is
because the practicalities OF daily life
are dealt with In this pulpit by a man
who knows men, who meets them in
business life, and rubs up against
every phase of II city's pulsations.
The same might be said with equal
truth Of DR.. Meredith, Of Brooklyn;
Of DR.. Egbert, OF St. Paul; Of Dr.. Ser
vice, Of Detroit; of Dr.. Rainsford. of
New York; and Of Dr.. Purves, Of
Princeton, n,-preachers upon whose
words young men fairly hang, because
they feel that the message which they
speak has In it something which they
can feel, understand, and take into
their lives.
1t is u lamentable fact that the aver
age minister Of the day speak now
of the many and not OF the few--is
wholly out of touch with the times in
which he lives. The modern require
ments are rs an unopened book to him.
With a tenacity which does him no
credit, he clings to the traditions OF a
generation ago. The real, living
world, the world In which men move
and have their daily being, is an enig-
ma to him. The pulsations Of the
great business world, Ia which the men
OF his congregation move every day,
and where they have the greatest need
Of the ministratinns Of his Office, are
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