Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-31

radical, however odd, however unpopular
however hostile to all the conventional
tiles of church and state. If one style c
prayer does not do the work, let us try an
other style. If the church music of toda
does not get the victory, then let us max
the assault with "A backwoods chorus. l
a prayer meeting at half past in tn
evening does not succeed, let US have on
as carly in the morning as when the ange
found wrestling Jacob too much for him
If a sermon with The three authorize,
heads does not do the work, then LEI u
have sermon with 90 heads, or no head
at all
Gospel Truths.
We want more heart in our song, NOR,
heart in our almsgiving, more heart il
our prayers, more heart in our preaching
Oh, for less of Abimelechs sword and
more Of Abimelcoh's oonaagrationl had
often heard
There is a fountain filed with blood
sung artistically by four birds perohed on
their Sunday roost in the gallery until ]
thought of Jenny Lind and Nilsson and
Sontag and all the other warblcrs but
there came not one tear to my eye nor
4 one master emotion to my heart But one
night 1 went down to the African Metho-
dist meeting house in Philadelphia and at
the close Of the service a black woman in
the middle of the audience began to sing
that hymn, and all the yudience Joined in,
and we were fioated some three or four
miles nearer heaven than have ever been
/ since. I saw with my own eyes that foun-
tain filed with blood rcd, agonizing,
1 saorifcial, redemptive-and 1 heard the
crimson plash of the wave as we all went
down under it.
For sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains,
Oh, my friends, the gospel is not syl-
logism; It is not oasuistry; it is not po-
lemics or the science of squabbles 1t is
blood red fact; it is warm hearted invita-
ton; it is leaping, bounding flying good
news; it is cfilorescent with all light; it is
rubescent with all summary glow; it is
arboresoent with all sweet shade. | have
seen the sun rise on Mount Washington,
and from the Tiptop House but there was
no beauty in that compared with the day
spring from on high when Christ gives
light to a soul. I have heard Parepa sing, |
but there was no music in that compared /
with the voice OF Christ when he said, /
THY sins are forgiven thee; 20 in peace. % [
Good news Let every one cut down a 4
branch of this tree of life and wave it, /
AAou al NAlh way AAbAAA 0lOuuL A4ulllOn 10 /
Shechem be filled with the tossing joy. /
Good news This bonfire of the gospel
shall consume the last temple of sin and 7
will iliulnine thesk with apocalyptio Joy,
that Jesus Christ came into the world to
save sinners. Any new plan that makes
man quit his sin and that prostrates a
wrong I am as much in favor of as though
all the doctors, and the bishops, and the
arohbishops, and the synods, and the
academical gOwnsnen of Christianity
sanctioned it, The temple of Berth must
come down, and do not care how it
comes.
Power Of Example.
Sill further I learn from this subject
the power Of example If Abimelech had
sat down on the grass and told his men to
go and get the boughs and go out to the
battle, they would never have gono at all,
or if they had it would have been without ,
any spirit or effective result, but when
Abimeleeh goes with his own AK and hews
down branch, and with Abimelech's !
arm puts it on Abimelech' S shoulder, and
marches on then, my text says, all tho
people did the same. How natural that
was What mado Garibaldi and Stunewall !
Jackson the most magnetic commanders ,
Of this century, They always rode ahead. !
Oh, the overwhelming power of examplel I
Here is father on the wrong road. All his :
boys 60 ON the wrong road Here is a IA :
her who onlists for Christ His children =
Mist. l saw in some Of the picture gal !
cries of Europe that before many Of tho =
great works OF tho masters-the old mas y
would be sometimes four or a
i've artists taking copies of the pictures. !,
These copies they were going to carry with q
hem, perhaps to distant lands, and have /
bought that your life and character are a +,
and it is being copied, and n
ong after you are gone it will bloom or I,
last in the homes of those who knew n
on, and be Gorgon or a Madonna. Look
ut what you say. Look out what you do. q,
iternity VIII hear the echo The best SER II
lon ever preached is a holy life. The best g
lusic ever chantod is a consistent walk o.,
you want Others to serve God, serve him ~
ourself. If yoH want others to shoulder =,
leir duty, shoulder yours. Where Abim- Fl
ech goes his troops co. Oh, start out n,
II heaven today, and your family will m
)mo after you, and your business associ- tn
ties will come after you, and your social AZ
lends VIII join you. With one branch Of IN
lo tree of life for baton, marshal Just N
; many as you can gather. Oh, the in Ii
niie, the scniomnipotent power of good az
bad sxamplel 70
saw last summer, near the beach, q an
recker's machine. 1t was a cylinder W,
18th some holes at the side made for the If
rusting in of some long poles with 70
rong lgv0rego, and when there is any
ssel in trouble or going to pieces in the "a
ling tho wreckers shoot a rope out to the r.,
fering men. They grasp it, and the
rockers turn the cylinder, and the rope r.,
nds around the cylinder, and those who ri
@ shipwrecked are saved So at your 10,
Ut today there is an influence with a ire 81,
7ndous leverage. The rope attached to fer
swings far out into the billowy future no
)ur children, your childrens children,
I'd all the generations that are to follow Ia
II grip that influence and feel the long II
lching pull long after the figures on your tH'
nbstone are so near worn out that the th'
itor cannot tell whether it was 1895 or an
% or 1896 that you died. Ma
Concerted Action. GOV
Still further, learn from this subject ma
) advantage Of concerted action. If ON
'imelech had merely gone out with a W
e branch, the work would not have boon
omplished or If 10, 20 or 80 men had
10, but when all the axes are lifted, and Du
the sharp edges fall, and all these men +
~ each his tree branch down and throw n
bout the temple, the victory is gained FRI
temple falls My friends, where there wo
me man IN the church Of God at this tiol
shouldering his whole duty there are gov
reat many who never lift an AK or bal
ng bough. 1t seems TO mo as if there wal
e 10 drones in every hive to busy bee, IN j
though there were 90 sailors sound to
'ep in the ships hammocks to men use
tho stormy deck. 1t seems as if there sou
e $4,000 men belonging to the reserve aer,
IS, and only 1000 active combatants. of {
we all want our boats to got oye- to to {
golden sands, but the most of us are looi
ed either In the PROV or in the stern, thr,
pped In our striped shawl, holding a is II
handled sunshade while others are no
tnrnd in the hent nlnl null r.,tiI A.. "a