The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-04


brought the mustard seed; i can't find
a place where there has been no sor-
row and no death. oh" says the god
Veda, understand, your sorrows are
no worse than the sorrows of others;
we all have our griefs and all have our
leartbreals:
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep. and you weep alone;
| For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
| But has trouble enough OF its own.
But, L remark again, the sermon of
the future will be an awakening SER
mon. From altar.rail to the front
doorstep, under that sermon an audi
ence 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 battle-charge. Men will drop
their sins, for they will feel the hot
breath OF pursuing retribution on the
back of their necks.. 1t will be a
sermon sympathetic with all the phys
ical distresses as well as the spiritual
distresses of the world. Christ not
only preached, but He healed paraly sis,
and lie healed epilepsy, and lie healed
the dumb and the blind andNthe ten
lepers.
That sermon of the future will be an
every day sermon, going right down
into every mans life, and it will teach
him how to vote, how to bargain. how
to plow, how to do any work he is
called to, how TO WELD trowel and
pen and pencil and yardstick and
plane. And it will teach women how
hto preside over their ouseholds and
Dhow to educate their children, and how
to initiate Miriam and Esther and
Vashi, and Eunice, the mother of Tim
othy; and Mary, the mother of Christ;
and those women who on northern
| and southern battlefelds were mis-
taken by the wounded for angels of
mercy fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, L have to tell you the sermon of
the future will be n reported sermon.
If you have any idea that printing was
invented simply to print secular books,
and stenography and photography
We're contrived merely to set forth
secular ideas you are mistaken. The
printing press is to be the great agency
of gospel proclamation. 1t is high
time that good men, instead OF de-
nouncing 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 can not understand the nervous
ness of some of my brethren of the
ministry. When they sec newspaper
man coming in they say: Alas! there
| is reporter" Every added reporter
is 1000 or $4,000, or 300, 900 immortal
souls added to the auditory. The
| time will come when all the village,
town, and city newspapers will repro
duce the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and
sermons preached on the Sabbath will
reverberate all around the world; and
some by type and some by voice, all
Inauons will be evangelical.
\-Yhe 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.
Do you ex hort in prayer meeting? BE
/ short and be spirited. Doyou teach in
Bible class? Though you have to
study every night, be interesting. Do
you accost people on the subject OF re-
ligion in their homes or in public
places? Study adroitness and use com
mon sense. The most graceful, the
most beautiful thing on earth is the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, and if you awll-
wardly present it, it is defamation We
I a a
we must do it effectively. Soon
our time for work will be gone
A dying Christian took out his
watch and gave it to a friend aud said;
Take that watch, | have no more use
for it; time is ended for me and eternity
begins Oh my friends, when our
watch has licked away for us for the
last moment, and our cloc.l 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 Cos.
} pei in pulpits, or taught Sab
bath classes, or administered to the
, Nsick as physicians, -er bargained as mer
chants, or pleaded the law as attorneys
, or were busy as artisans, or as hus
DdDumtn, or US mechanics, or were Ike
Martha called to give meal to n hun
cry Christ or like Hannah to make
3 coat for prophet, or like Deborah t,
, rouse the courage of some timed Baral
= in the Lords conflict, we did our worl
, in such u way that it will stand tn,
l test of the judgment. And in tn
r long procession of the redeemed tina
9 march round the throne, may it b
y found there are many there brought t
n God through our instumentality an,
d in whose rescue we are exultant. But
I you unsaved! wait not for the com
= ing sermon. 1t may come after you
l. obsequies. 1t may come after III
= stonecutter has chiseled our name OIL
r the slab 0,years before. Do not wait 70
G a great steamer of the Cunard or Whit
II Star line to take you off the wreck, bn
l. hail the first craft, with however oy
: mast, and however poor rudler
1t and however weak captain. Bette
IL a disabled schooner that comes up il
c time than full-rigged brig that come
y up after you have sunken. Instead O