The Atlanta constitution., 1896-09-28

captured the swarm OF wandering bees.
And so I have seen men moving amid the
annoyances, and the vexations. and tho
assaults of life in such calm. Christian de-
liberation. that all the buzzinS around
about their soul amounted TO nothing. They
quered themselves. o. you say that's
a very good theory to prach on a not day-
but it won't work. 1t will work. 1t has
worked. / believe It is the last Christian
grace we win. You know there are fruits
which gather in June, and others In
July, and others in August. and others In
September and still others IN october
and ] have to admit that this grace or
Christian forgiveness is about The last
fruit of the Christian soul. We near
great deal about the bitter tongue, ana the
sarcastic tongue. and the quick tongue ana
the singing tongue; but we know very
little about ''the soft tongue that breaketn
the bone" We read HudibrdS, and Sterne.
and Dean Swift. and the other apostles OF
acrimony. but give little time TO the study
ing the example of Him who was revlled,
and yet reviled not again. . that tne LORI,
by His spirit would endow us with the
soft tongue that breaketh the bone!
! pass now to the other thought that 1
desire to present and That IS, Kindness as
means of usefulness. In all cOmhup1lieS
YOU find Skeptical mon. Through early eutt-
cation. through the maltratment OF pro
feSsed Christian people, or through prSlh|
curiosity about the future WOrld, lhtre ue
a great many people VINO become s'ep.lt1L
in religious things. How shall YOU capture
them for COD? Sharp argument and SarclS-
tic retort never won single soul IRON
scepticisrn 10 tine Christian rel igion. While
powerful books on THE Evidences of Chris
tianity'' have their mission in confirming
Christian people in the faith they nave
already adopted, | have noticed that Mwneh M
SceptiCal people are brought INTO thc hihs
dom of Christ, IL IS through the charm OF
some genial soul. and not Ly argument NJ
all Men are not saved through the he'lo'
they are saved through the heart. \ storm
comes out of its hiding place u says;
"Now wen just rouse up all TINS sea
and it makes D great buster. but lt uoeS
not succeed. Part Of the sea IS rouSed up
perhaps one-half of it or one-iourth OF II;
After a while the calm moon, Piaciu anu
beautiful looks down. ana the ocean p',aiit
10 riee Ii comes up TO hieh-Water mark 1t
embraces the great headlands. II s4DineIEcS
the beach Of all the continents ~ y ..o
beart-throb Of one world against the near, {.
tbrob iof another world. And / have 70 zen
vou that while all your storms OF IlulCI4e
and storms of sarcasm may IouS0 t,tt,-, ~
rasSion OF an immortal nature o.tt--..'5
iess than the. attractive power OF Niiti9-
tian Kindness can ever Falae ltle 80 ia I,. .l'o
snirit 10 haDpiuess and TO God nave more
faith in the prayer of q chhd OF lEe eats
oId i'm the way of bringing an hliori y" y
to Christ ana to heaven thil 5t.;-ti 5.slf -
all the kissing thunGefbotta r,.,,,-, % M,
CaI controversy. You cannot oNtI ItoilIT ~ -
with religious augmentation. IT you toiHg @
at "A sceptical man with 'ti ~ IN. o,, MT
behalf of the Christian ITusiQt., - 50
me man on mis- mettlc. lie SAYS Itt
tbat man has "a Carbiue. III use my Ns'-@ - 80
I'm answer his argument VII - ~ g
rnent" But # You come 70 Tic t.,,,,f-.,e-.,
suadinfr him that You desire ms IL .I,..
ON earth and his eternal WelIaIe IA '-.0
world TO come. he cannot ahaMti - y,
O. that We might IN our lii,ls'i ,tF 1sir.ll,e=-.
our churchCs try the force OF A,.,.' @ IN
vou c4n never drive men. women OF -
dren into the kingdom or Iou. = ,,,, 49, -
northeaetcr viii bring out more IL, lloi.-flI iflI
euel-Iss man fretfulness and scoldlhS VIZ VII
ever bring out Christian Sittt- ~4.',i 4..',ie.@5
In all religious work we nfisht iie 49, 49,
with the spirit of kindness 4llSsli'a -,,., -,
we miss a great deal of usefulness. -l.. -
Is 10 need Of coming out before men tuu
laundering TO them the law unless az lne
same time you preach 70 theHl t1c $3.50"
The world is dying Tor lack or kAhahe9s.
These young people want u Jus - -
much as the old. The old people Sclut
tinfes seem to think they nave a lHoNHyo.s
of the rheumatismS, and the hrui @l5 l5 l"7'
and the headaches, and the phy $50 ~ y. ul'~- -
ders Of the world, but ! lell yo, t!lDlc - -
no worse heaTtachcs than are fe!t by s1iue
Of these young people. 10 you h4loW s tl..'s
rlurb OF the work is done by the YOUNG
thirtv-one. Gustavus AdClphus died At tlIi-
weight: Innocent III came 10 ms miShl-
est influence ut thlrty-seVen' C9rSel con-
Quered Mexico NJ lnlrly Ion jim [ ~. ~,
IsepantO at twenty-five; GrotluS WtS ~
torney general at twenty-iour. ana l htse
noticed amid all classes or iueit tilLt soll.9 9
OF the severcst battles and the lonsAcSL
work come before thirty. lhefeloIe We
must have. our sermons and our eNhOtt3
fionS in PRAYER meeting all sympathetic
with the young. And so with these people
further ON in life. " nat do tFese uoc19ls
care about the distractions OF r-lisioA-
What they want is help 20 bear tAe MhliA
sicalitics Of patients. the browbeatlng OF
legal opponents, the UNI i1fhess on custom
trs. who have plenty of fault-fndluS Tor
every imperfcction of handiWork, but no
praise for twenty eScelleuces. W nat does
that brain-racNed. haud-hhStered man care
for Zwingli's Doctrine or Original SIN. or
Augustines "Anthr0pulogy1' j ou might aS
well 80 10 man who mas the pleUTlsy ana
nut on his side n plaster made out or Ut.
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence
In all our sermons there must be help Tor
every one somewhere. AOu 90 into am
apOtnecary store. We see others being
waited on: We do not complain because We
10 not Immediately get the medicine; We
know our turn win come after awhile. And
so while all parts of q sermon may not be
appropriate TO our case, If we wait
through we shall all have the di-
vine prescription. ] say to these young
men who are going TO preach the gospel,
these theological students-I say 10 them.
we want i'm our sermons not more meta
physics, nor more imaginauol nor
more logic nor more profunditv.
What We want in our sermons and
When Father Taylor preached in the Sail
crs' Rethcl at Boston. the Jack tars felt
they had help for their duties among the
ratlines and the fOrecastleS. When Richard
ham, England. all the wOrkingmen felt they
had moro grace for the spindlcs. When J1r.
South preached to kings and princes and
Processes. all the mighty men and women
who heard him felt preparation for their
high station.
30 you know that this simple story OF a
Sayior's Kindness is to redeem ali nations2
The hard heart Of thiS worlds ohGuraCy Is
to be broken before that story. There is in
Antwerp. Belgium. one OF the most remark
able pictures I ever saw. II is The Descent
Ruheus's pictures. No man can stand and
look at that Descent from the Cross rs