Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-06-17

end in companies and in battalions by
storm take the obduracy and sin of the
world If you cannot sing for yourself,
sing for others By trying to give 9TH
ers good cheer, you will bring good
cheer TO your own heart.
When Londonderry, Ireland, was be-
sieged many years ago, the people inside
the city were famishing and a vessel
came up with provisions, but the vessel
ran on the river bank and stuck fast.
The enemy went down with laughter
and derision to board the vessel, when
the vessel gave broadside fire against
the enemy and by the shock wss turned
back into the stream and all was well.
Oh, ye who are high and dry on the
rocks of melancholy, give broadside
fire of song against your spiritual enc
mics, and by holy rebound you will
come out into the calm waters If we
want to make ourselves happy, we must
make others happy Mythology tells MS
of Amphion, who played his Tyre until
the mountains were moved and the
walls of Thebes arose, but religion has
a mightier story to tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples of eter-
nal Joy and lift the round earth into
sympathy with the skies.
A Heavenly Clock.
tarried many nights in London, and
used to hear the bells, the small bells
of the city, strike the hour of night,
2, 3, 4-and among them the great St
Paul's cathedral would come in to mark
the hours, making all the other sounds
seem utterly insignificant as with
mighty tongue it announced the hour Of
the night, every stroke an overmaster-
ing boom. My friends, it 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 great pendulum
Of halleluiah swinging across heaven
from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children Of the Heavenly King
Should speak their Joys abroad.
Again, l remark that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF
LOCO people in any audience how
many want sympathetic help? Do you
guess 100? Do you guess 800? You have
guessed wrong. will tell you just the
proportion. Out of l 900 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 monopoly Of the rheumatism
and the neuralgias and the headaches,
and the physical disorders Of the world,
but tell you there are no worse heart
aches than are felt by some Of the young
people. Do you know that much Of the
work is done by the young? Raphael
died at 81, Richelieu at 81, Gustayus
Adolphus died at 3S, Innocent III came
to his mightiest influence at 81. Cortes
conquered hCAlCO dt w. Doh oOAH "D-A
Lepanto at 20, Grotius was attorney
general at "a, and have noticed amid
all classes Of men that some Of the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
come before 30. Therefore we must
have our sermons and our exhortations
in prayer meeting all sympathetic with
the young. And so with these people
farther on in life. What do these doc
tors and lawyers and merchants and
mechanics care about the distractions
of religion? What they want is help to
bear the whimsicalities Of patients, the
browbeating of legal opponents, the un-
fairness of customers who have plenty
of fault finding for every imperfection
of handiwork, but no praise for 20 ex-
cellences. What does the brain racked,
hand blistered man care for Zwingli' s
Doctrine of Original Sim or Angus
tines "Retractions?" You might as
well 90 to a man who has the pleurisy
and put on his side plaster made out
of DR.. PARIS Treatise on Medical Ju-
risprudence.
Divine Prescription.