The Monitor-register., 1897-11-26

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have her child restored to life The god
Veda said to her, "You go and get a
handful of mustard seed from a house in
which there has been nc sorrow and in
which there has been no death, and I
will restore your child to life" So the
mother went out, and she went from
house to house and from home to home,
looking for a place where there had
been no sorrow and where there had
been no death, but she found none. She
went back to the god Veda and said:
"My mission is a failure. You see, !
haven't brought the mustard seed. I
can't find a place where there has been
no sorrow and no death" "Oh," says
the god Veda, understand, your sor-
rows are no worse than the orrow Of
others. We all have u griefs and all
have our heart breaks.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow It's mirth.
But has trouble enough Of its own.s@si
We hear a great deal of discussion
now all over the land about why people
do not go to church. Some say 1t is be-
cause Christianity is dying out and be-
cause people do not believe in the truth
zof Gods werdj and allsthat. ssThey,ata
false reasons. The reason is because our
ssermons are not interesting and praoti-
cal and sympathetic and helpful Some
n might as we'll tell the whole truth
on this subject, and 81 I will tell it.
fThessermon of the sfuture-the gospel
sermon to come forth and shake the ma
tieRsland lift people out Of darkness,
Wfzzsbe a popular sermon 3ustkf Sfe
simple reason that it will meet the woes
aud the. wants and the anxieties Of the
people. There are in all our denomina-
tions ecclesiastical mummies, sitting
around to frown upon the fresh young
pulpits Of America, to try to awe them
sdoxFff,~to cry out, "Tut, tut, tut, sensa-
~tionali" They stand today, preaching
in churches that hold !, 900 people, and
there are 100 persons present, and if
they cannot have the world saved in
their way it seems as if they do not want
it saved at all. do not know but the
old way Of making ministers of the
gospel is better. A collegiate education
and an apprenticeship under the care
and home attention of some earnest,
aged Christian minister, the young man
getting the patriarch's spirit and assist
ing him in his religious service. Young
lawyers study with old lawyers, young
physicians study>with old physicians,
and l believe it would be a great help
il every young man studying for the
gospel ministry could put himself in
the home aud heart and sympathy and
under the benediction and perpetual
presence Of a Christian minister.
An Awakening Sermon.
But, / remark again, the sermon of
the future will be an awakening SER
mon. From altar rail to the front door,
step, under that sermon an audience
will get up and start for heaven. There
will be in it many a staccato passage.
1t will not be a lullaby. it will be a bat
tie charge. Men will drop their sins,
for they will feel the hot breath of pur-
suing retribution on the back of their
necks- 1t will be a sermon sympathetic
with all the physical distresses as we'll
as the spiritual distresses Of the world.
Christ not only preached, but he healed
paralysis, and he healed epilepsy, and
he healed the dumb and the blind and
the ten lepers.
That sermon of the future will be an
everyday sermon, going right down
into every mans life, and it will teach
him how to vote, how to bargain, how
to pillow, how to do any work he is called
to, how to WELD trowel and pen and
pencil and yardstiok and plane, and it
will teach women how to preside over
their households and how to educate
their children and how to initiate Mir
lam and Esther and Vashti and Eunice,
the mother of Timothy, and Mary, the
mother of Christ, and those women who
on northern and southern battlefelds
were mistaken by the wounded for an
gels of mercy fresh from the throne Of
God.
Yes, I have to tell you the sermon Of
the future will be a reported sermon. If
You have any idea that printing was in
vented simply to print secular books, and
ste~nography and photography were oon-
trived merely to set forth secular ideas,
you are mistaken. The printing press is
to be the great agency of gospel proola-
nation. It is high time that good men
instead of denounoing the press employ
it to scatter forth the gospel of Jesus
Christ. The vast majority of people in
our cities do not come to church, and
nothing but the printed sermon can
reach them and call them to pardon and
life and peace and heaven.
So I cannot understand the nervous
ness Of some of my brethren of the min
istry. When they see a newspaper man
coming in, they say, "Alas, there is a
reporter" Every added reporter is
1000 or $4,000 O 300, 900 immortal
souls added to the auditory. The time
will come when all the village, town
and city newspapers will reproduce the
gospel of Jesus Christ and sermons
preached on the Sabbath will reverber-
ate all around the world and, some by
type and some by voice, all nations will
be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian
work. not only upon theological stu
dents and young ministers, but upon all
who preach the gospel, and that is all
OF you, If you are doing your duty.
The Gist of Preaching.
Do you exhort in prayer meeting? Be
short and be spirited. Do you teach in
Bible class? Though you have to study
every night, be interesting. Do ZOE 40,
cost people on the subject of religion in
their homes or in public places? Study
adroitness and use common sense. The
most graceful, the most beautiful thing
on earth is the religion of Jesus Christ,
n II You awkwardly present it it is
defamation. We must do our work rap
idly, and we must do it effectively. Soon
our time for work will be gone. A dy-
ing Christian took out his watch and
gave it to a friend and said: "Take that
watch. have no more use for it. Time
is ended for me. and eternity begins"
On, my friends, when our watch has
licked away for rs for the last moment
and our clock has struck for us the last
hour, may it be found We did our work
well, that we did it in the very best
way, and whether we preached the eos-
mel in nulDitS. or faupht n olac.o,