The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-17

Sl0e INe CITY we're IdulfSu1ItS dIO a
vessel came up with provisions, but
stuck fast The enemy went down with
laughter and derision to board the
vessel. when the vessel gave a broad
side fire against the enemy and by the
shock was turned back n h stream
and all was well. Oh, We who are high
and dry on the rocks of melancholy,
give a broadside fire of ong against
your spiritual enemies, and by holy
rebound you will come out into the
calm waters. II we must make
ourselves happy, we must make others
phion, who played on his Tyre until the
were moved and the walls
of The bes arose, but religion has a
micbtler story to tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples OF
eternal Joy andlife the round earth into
sympathy with the skies.
A HEAVENLY CLOCK.
terried many nights in London,
ard L used to hear the bells, the small
night, 2, 3, land among them the
great st. PauTs cathedral would come
in to mark the hours. making all the
other sounds seem utterly insignif1-
cant as with mighty tongue it an
nounced the hour Of the night, every
stroke an overmastering boom. Ny
fricnGs, it was intended that all the
lesser sounds of the world should be
drowned out in the mighty tongue Of
the gates of heaven. Do you know
how they mark the hours in heaven?
They have nc clocks, as they have no
canoes, but a grt.at pendulum Of hal
lcl1iah swinging across a from
eternity to eternity.
Let those who refuse to sing
Who never knew our God.
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
ought to come from the ermon Of
200 people in any audience how
many wan sympathetic help? Do you
guess 100? Do you guess 500? You
have guessed wrong. I will tell you
just the proportion. Out of 1000 people
in any audience there are just 1000
who need sympathetic help. These
young people want it just as much as
the old. The old people sometimes
seem to think they have a monopoly
Of the rheumatism, and the neuralgia,
and the headaches, and the physical
disorders of the world, but 1 tell you
there are no worse nedTldCueS lndH
are felt by some of the young people.
Do you know that much of the work
is lone by the young? Raphael died at
81, Richelieu at 81, Gustavus Adolphus
died at 3S, Innocent III came to his
mightiest influence at 81. 'Cortes con-
quered Mexico at 80, Don John won
Lepante at %, Grotius was attorney
general at "a, and I have noticed amid
all classes of men that some of the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
came before 80. Therefore we must
AVE our ermon and our exhortations
in prayer meeting all sympathetic
with the young. And SO with these
people farther on in life. What do
these doctors and lawyers and mer-
chants and mechanics care about the
they want is help to pear
the whimsicalities of patients,
the browbeating Of legal oppon-
ents, the unfairness of customers who
have plenty of fault finding for every
imperfection of h~andiwork, but no
praise for 20 excellences. What does
the brain racked, hand blistered man
care about Zwingli's Doctrine of
Original SIM or Augustine's "Retrac-
~tions?" You might as we'll go to a
man who has the pleurisy and put
on his side a plaster made out Of DR..
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurispru-
dence."
DIVINE PRESCRIPTION.
While all Of a sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, if it be a Chris
tan man., there will be help for every
one somewhere. We go into an apoth-
Ocary's store. We see others being
waited on. We do not complain be-
cause we do not Immediately get the
medicine. We know out urn will
come after awhile. And so while all
parts of a sermon may not be appro-
pirate to our case, if we wait prayer
fully before the sermon is through we
have the divine prescription. I
say to young men who are going to
preach the gospel, we wan in our
not more metaphysics, nor
more Imagination, nor more logic, nor
more profanity. What we want in our
sermons n Christian exhortations is
more sympathy. When Father Taylor
preached in the Sailors Bethel at Bos-
ton, the Jack Tars felt they had help
for their duties among the ratlines and
the f~Orecastles. When Richard Weav-
er preached to the operatives in Old
ham, England, all the workmen felt
they had more grace for the spindles.
nen Dr. South preached to kings and
princes and princesses, all the mighty
men and women who heard him felt
preparation for their high station.
People will not go to church merely
as a matter of duty. There will not
Sabbath be 100 people in this city
will get up in the morning and
say 1.-The Bible says I must go to
church. 1t is my duty to go to church,
therefore I will go to church." The
vast multitude Of people who go to
church, go to church because they like
it, and the multitude of people who
stay away from church stay away be-
cause they do not like it. I am not
speaking o the way the world
ought to be. I am speaking
about the way the world is.
Taking things as they are,
we must make the centripetal force of
the church mightier than the centri-
fugal. We must make our churches
magnets to draw the people thereun-
to, so that a man will feel uneasy if
he does not go to church, saying: II
wish I had zone this morning. I won
der if I can't dress yet and get there