Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-06-15


When Londonderry. ireland. was be-
Siegcd many years ago. the people in
side the city were furnishing. aud a
.vessel came up with provisions. but the
vessel ran on the river bank and stuck
fast The enemy went down with
laughter and dcriSion TO board the YES
sell when the vessel gave broadside
fire against the enemy, and bv the
shock was turned back into the stream
and all was well. oh. We who are high
and dry on the rocks of melancholy.
give broadSide fire of song
against your spiritual enemies. and
by holy rebound YOU will come out
into the calm waters II we want to
make ourselves happy we must make
others happy. Mythology tells rs OF
Amphion, who played his Tyre until
the mountains were moved and the
walls OF Thcbus arose: but religion had
mightier story 20 tell of how Chris
tan song may build whole temples of
eternal JOY and lift the round earth
into sympathy with the skies
tarricd many nights in London.
ana used TO hear the bclls. the small
bells of the city, strike the hour of
night-one. two. three. four. and
among them the great St Paul's cathe-
dr1iwould come in TO mark the hours.
making al. the other sounds seem ut
terly insignificant As with mighty
tongue IL announced the hour OF the
night, every stroke an overmastcring
boom. My friends. il was intended
that all the lesser sounds OF the world
should be drowned out in the mighty
tongue of congregational song beating
against the gates of Heaven. Do YOU
know how they mark the hours in
Heaven? They have no clocks. as they
have no candles. but n great pendulum
of hallclujah swinging across Heaven
from eternity 10 eternity.
Again l remark that sanctuary help
ought TO come from the sermon. OF Il
thousand people in any audience how
many want sympathetic help? Dovou
guess hundred? DO YOU guess five
hundred2 You have guessed wrong.
l viii tell You Just the proportion.
Out of thousand people in any
audience there are just 900 who need
sympathetic help. These young peo-
pie want it just as much rs the old.
The old people sometimes seem to
think they have monopoly of the
rhcumat.sms, and the neuralrias. and
the headaches and the physical dis
orders of the world but | tell YOU
there are no worse hcartachcS than
are felt by some of the young people
10 YOU know that much of the work
Is done by the young? Raphael died
at 80, Richelicu at 81. Gustavus
Adolphus died at IS Innocent III.
came to his mightiest influence M 81.
Cortez conquered Mexico AT so. Don
John won Lepanto At -. Grotius was
attorney general At -. and / nave no.
ticed amid all classes ,of men that
some OF the severest battles and the
toughest work comes before so
Therefore we must have our sermons
and our eNhortations in prayer meet
ing all sympathetic with the Young.
And SO with these people further on
in life. What do these doctors
and lawyers and merchants and me-
chanics care about the distractions
OF religion? What they want is HELM
10 bear the whimsicalitics of patients.
the browbcating OF legal opponents.
the unfairneSs OF customers who have
plenty of fau.t-fnding for every i'm
perfection OF handiworll. but no praise
for 20 eNccllencies What does the
brain-ractSed. hand biistered man care
for Iwingle's Doctrine of Original
sin, Augustinc's "Retraction?" You
m ght "a well 20 10 man who has the
pleurisy and put on his side "a plaster
made ont OF DIR PARIS Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence
While all OF sermon NAV not be
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