The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-11-26

,een no sorrow and no DEATH oh
iays the god veda. understand, your
porrows are no worse than the sorrowa
II others; we all have our griefs and
AL have our heartbreaks"
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Weep and you weep alone;
FOR the sad old earth must borrow Its mlrth.
But has troubles enough Of It's own
We hear q great deal OF discussion
now all over the land about why peo-
pie do not go 10 church. Some say il
S because Christianity is dying out
and because 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 practical, and
sympathetic and helpful. Some one
might as well tell the whole truth on
this subject, and so will tell IL The
sermon Of the future-the Gospel SER
mon to come forth and shake the ma
tions and lift people out OF darkness
will be popular sermon just for the
simple reason that ii will meet the
woes and the wants and the ankle
ties Of the people. There are in
all our denominations ecclesiastical
nummies sitting around TO frown
apon the fresh young pulpits Of Ameri-
"A, to try to awe them down, to cry
out, tut. tut, tut! SENSATIONAL" They
stand to-day preaching in churches
that hold thousand people, and there
are a hundred persons present, and if
they can not have the world saved in
their way it seems as il 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 Chris
tian minister, the young man getting
the patriarch's spirit and assisting him
in his religious service. Young law
yers study with old lawyers, young
physicians study with old physicians.
and believe IL would be a great help
II 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 a Christian minister.
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 audi
ence will get up and start for Heaven.
There will be in il many n staccato pas
sage. II will not be lullaby; IL will
be battle charge. Men will drop their
sins, for they win feel the hot breath
of pursuing retribution on the back Of
their neclSs. 1t will be n sermon SYM
pathetic with all the physical dis
tresses. as well as the spiritual dis
tresses, of the world Christ not only
preached, but he healed paralysis. and
ne healed epilepsy, and he healed the
iumb 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
10. how to WELD trowel and
pen and pencil and yardstick and
plane And It will teach women
how to preside over their households,
and how to educate their children, and
how to initiate Miriam and Esther and
vashti, 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 from the throne Of God.