The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-22
SERMONS IN NEED OF SNAP.
xaIw4GE PREDICTS A REVOLT
TON IN PULPIT STYLE.


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knows taat most u me s@ru1ols q to-
osy a. u5t rea-h the world Tee vast ma
5criry u ire people o.. or great cstl@s
never enter church.
TIE sern1cn O. today carries along 1-i-l
II the desd1c,51 q ali ages Hundreds q
years sg5 il vas decided wlat . sermon
ouza- 10 y. ana IL Is t-e attempt Of many
theosogiczI ser-insr-es AMI doctors . d.
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INTO tae same o11-style p-og-J--i5Ez- Book
seIers vii tel yo1 they dispose Of hun
dre5 histories. q hundred novels, a hun-
dres pens. 70 GRE box u Sermons s. hat
l. tae natter s9-ne say the age Is the
worst Of all ages. Il s. better SINE say
religion Is wearing out when il as wearing
f.. so11e say there are 50 many who de-
s1fse toe C1rlsriau religion I answer
there never was an age when there were
g many Christians. O 50 many friends u
Christianity as this age has-our age. as
q others hundred 10 one. What IS the
matter. them II Is simply because OR
sermon Of to-day Is 10t suited 70 The age.
L Il Ire canal bat il an age Of locomo-
i've ana electric telegraph The sermon
vii have 70 . shaken out Of the Oh
grooves, or il wil not be heard and It vii.
Eot Be read
Before the world Is converted, the ser
mon EllI have 70 be converted You might
e. well 90 Into a modern Sedan or Get
tysbgrg with bows and arrows. instead q
RITES ard b01n1slelIs ard parks % artu-
lery - 90 expect 10 conquer this world for
Cod ~ the old styles o. CHRONOLOGY.
JO1ataan Edwards preached the sermons
best adapted 70 the age 10 which be lived,
but IL thCse sermons were preached nOps
rney would divide an audience into tTo
classes, thOss sound azleep and those
wanting 10 20 home.
But there Is a coming sermou-wno viii
preach il have no idea; in what part Of
the earth IL viii be born have no idea In
which denOunl uatiOn Of Christians II VIII
fss Delivered. cannot guess That CON-
ing sermon may be born in the country
Westinghouse on the banks Of the 81.
Lawrence, or the Oregon, or the OHIO, or
the TCmbig5ee. or the Alabama. Tns
TerECn who snail deliver il may this mo
Enent lie IN z cradle under the shadow Of
the Sierra &evadas, or Ia a New England
1arm house, or amid the rice feds Of
southern savanna Or this moment there
may - some young man In some Of our
theological seminaries in the junior, or
rns1d.e Or senior class, shaping that
weapon o. power Or there may De COM
ing sanse rev baptism Of the Holy Ghost
On tne churches, 60 that some Of US who
nov stand IN the watch towers Of Zion,
waking 70 the realization Of our present
tnefsciency. may preach IL ourselves That
coming sermon may not be twenty years
Of. And Jet us pray God that its arrival
may be FASTENED, while announce to you
what I think viii be the chief character
isiics q that sermon when IL does arrive;
and I want 10 make the remarks appro-
pirate ard suggestive 70 all classes OF
Christian workers.
First Of all. I remark that that coming
sermon viii be fun Of a living Christ. in
contra distinction 70 didactic technicai-
ties A sermon may be fun OF Christ
though hardly mentioning his name and
q sermon may b. empty OF Christ while
every sentence is repetltious Of his titles.
r~nI nafFfre a
Christ standing at the head Of a formal
system Of theology, but a Christ who
means pardon and sympathy and condo
lence and brotherhood and life and
heaven. A poor mans Christ. An over
worked mans Christ. An invalid's Christ.
A farmers Christ A merchants Christ.
An artissn's Christ. An every mans
Chr-st
symmetrical and finely worded sys-
TEN Of theology is well enough for theo-
logical classes but il has no more bust
ness in a pulpit than have the technical
phrases Of anatOmist, or a physician,
In the sick room Of a patient. The world
wants help. immediate and world-uplift-
ing, and il VIII come through a sermon
in which Christ shall walk right down
into the immortal soUl and take everlast-
ing possession Of il. filing it as full Of
light as Is the MONDAY ornament. That
sermon Of the future will not deal with
men in the threadbare illustrations OF
Jesus Christ. In that coming sermon
there win be Instances Of vicarious sac
rifce taken right out Of everyday life. for
there Is not a day somebody Is not dying
for others. As the physician, saving his
diphtheric patient By sacrificing his own
life; as the ship captain, going down with
his vessel. while he Is getting his paggen-
gers into the lfeDoat; as the fireman. con-
Stunning in the burning building. while he
IS taking child ont Of a fOurth-story
window; 81 last summer the strong swim
mer at Long Branch, or Cape May. or
Lake George himself perished trying 10
rescue the drowning; as the newspaper
boy not long ago, supporting his mother
for some years his invalid mother, when
offered by "a gentleman fifty cents to get
some especial paper and he got il and
rushed up In his anxiety 70 deliver it, and
was crushed under the wheels Of the
train, and lay on the grass with only
strength enough to say, "Oh, what will
become Of my poor sick mother now?"
Nicarious suffering? The world is full
Of IL An engineer said to me on a loco
motive In Dakota: I'VE men seem TO be
coming to better appreciation than we
used TO. Did you see that account the
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