Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-11-26
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many theological seminaries professors
telling young men how 70 preach. them
selves not knowing how, and | am told
if young man in some Of our theologic-
al seminaries says anything quaint or
thrilling or unique faculty and students
fly at him and set him right, and
straighten him out, and smooth him
down. and chop him of until be says
everything just as everybody else says
it Oh, when the coming sermon Of the
Christian church arrives, all the
churches Of Christ in our great cities
will be thronged. The world wants
spiritual help All who have buried
their dead want comfort All know
themselves 70 be mortal and to be i'm
mortal, and they want to hear about
the great future 1 tell you, my friends.
if the people of these great cities who
have had trouble only thought they
could get practical and sympathetic help
in the Christian church there would not
be a street in Washington or New York
or Boston which would be passable on
the Sabbath day. if there were church
ON it. for all the people would press to
that asylum of mercy, that great house
Of comfort and consolation
A mother with a dead babe in her
arms came to the god Veda and asked to
have her child restored to life The god
yeda said to her, "You go and get
handful of mustard seed from house in
which there has been no soTow and in
which there has been no death, and
will restore your child 20 life. " So the
mother went out, and she went from
house 70 house and from home 20 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 failure. You see
haven't brought the mustard seed.
can't find place where there has been
no sorrow and no death. "Oh, " says
the god Veda, understand. your sor-
rows are no worse than the sorrows OF
others. We all have our 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 its mirth.
But has trouble enough Of It's own
We hear great deal Of discussion
now all over the land about why people
do not 20 TO church Some say 1t Is be-
cause Christianity is dying out and be-
cause people do not believe in the truth
Of Gods word, and all that They are
false reasons. The reason is because our
sermons are not interesting and practi-
cal and sympathetic and helpful Some
one might as well tell the whole truth
on this subject, and so will tell it
The sermon Of the future-the gospel
sermon 20 come forth and shake the ma
tions and lift people out Of darkness
will be a popular sermon Just for the
simple reason that il will meet the woes
and the wants and tie anxleties OF the
people There are in al our denomina-
tions ecclesiastical mummies. sitting
around to frown upon the fresh young
pulpits Of America, 10 try 10 awe them
down, 70 CRY out, Tut. tut. tut. sensa-
tionalI They stand today. preaching
in churches that hold 1000 people, and
there are 100 persons present and II
they cannot have the world saved in
their way it seems as if they do not want
il saved at all do not know but the
old way Of making ministers OF the
pospel 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 5 spirit and assist
ing him in his religious service. Young
LAWYERS study with old lawyers. young
physicians study with old physicians,
and I believe it would be a great help
If every young man studying for the
gospel ministry could put himself In
the home and heart and sympathy and
under the benediction and perpetual
presence Of Christian minister.
An Awakening Sermon.
But remark again, the sermon OF
the future will be an awakening SER
mon From altar rail 70 the front door
stem under that sermon an audience
will get up and start for heaven There
will be in it many a staccato passage
II will not be a lullaby. it will be bat
lie charge Men viii drop their SINS
for they will feel the hot breath OF pur'
suing retribution on the back Of thelr
necks IL will be a sermon sympathetic
with all the physical distresses as wei
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 ano
the ten lepers
That sermon Of the future will be an
everyday sermon, going right down
into every man S life, and it will teach
him how 10 vote. how 10 bargain. how
to plow, how to do any work be is called
TO. bow to WELD trowel and pen and
pencil and yardstick and plane. and II
will teach women how to preside over
their households and how to edueats
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 whe
ON northern and southern battlenelds
were mistaken BY the wounded for an
gels of mercy fresh from the throne d
God
Yes. I have to tell you the sermon O
the future will be reported sermon u
you have any idea that printing was In
vented simply to print secular books anc
stenography and photography were con
trived merely to set forth secular ideas
you are mistaken The printing press u
to be the great agency Of gospel procla
nation. II is high time that good me'
instead Of denounoing the press employ
IL 70 scatter forth the gospel Of Jesu
Christ The vast majority of people II
our cities do not come TO church, an'
nothing but the printed sermon cal
reach them and call them to pardon an'
life and peace and heaven
So I cannot understand the nervous
. ness Of some Of my brethren OF the min
istrv When they see a newspaper ma