The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-07-21

day make poor congregational singing.
Fifty songs are enough for so years.
The Episcopal church prays the same
prayers every Sabbath, ana year after
year, and century after century. For
that reason they have the hearty re-
sponses. Let us take hint from that
fact, and let us sing the same songs
Sabbath after Sabbath. Only in
that way can We come to the full
force Of this exercise. Twenty thou
sand years will not wear out the hymns
of William Cowper, Charles Wesley
and Isaac Watts. Suppose now each
person in an au lience has brought all
the annoyances of the last 365 days.
Fill the room to the ceiling with sacred
song. and you would drown out all
those annoyances of the last 365 days,
and you would drown them forever.
Organ and cornct are only to marshal
the voice. Let the voice fall into line,
and in companies, and in battaliOns,
by storm take the obluracy and sin of
the world. If you can not Sing for
yourself, sing for others. by trying
to give others cheer you will bring
good cheer TO your own heart.
When londonderry, Ireland, was be-
siegcd many years ago the people in
side the city We're famishing, and a
vessel came up with provisions, but the
vessel ran out on the river bank and
stuck fast. The enemy went down
with laughter and derision to board
the vessel, when the vessel gave a
- o,,I
by the shock was turned back into the
stream, and all was we'll. Oh, ye who
are high and dry on the rocks of mel
ancholv, give broadside fire of song
against your spiritual enemies, 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 us of Am
phion, who played his Tyre until the
mountains were moved and the walls
of Thcbes 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.
| tarried many nights in London,
and used to hear the bells, the small
| bells of the city, strike the hour of
night-one, two, three, four-and
among them the great st. Paul's cathe-
dral would come in to mark tile hours,
making all the other sounds seem ut
terly insignificant, as with mighty
tongue it announced the hour of the
night, every stroke an overmastering
boom. My friends, it was intended
! that all the lesser sounds of the world
should be drowned out in the mighty
tongue of congrega tional 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 a great pendulum
of hallclujah swinging across Heaven
from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
| But children of the H ,vclly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
Again remark that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF q
thousand people in any audience, how
many want sympathetic help? Do yot
guess 1OC? Do you guess 500? Yo,
have guessed wrong. l will tell 20,
just the proportion. Out of 1000 peo
pie in any audience there are just OK
who neel sympathetic help. Thes'
young people want it just as much a
the old. The old people sometime
seem to think they have a monopoly o
the rileumatismS, and the ncuralgias
and the headaches, and the physica
disorders of the world: but l tell yo
there are no worse heartaches than ar
felt by some of the young people. d
YOU know that much of the work
done by the young? Raphael died a
81; Richelieu at 81; Gustavus Adolphu
died at 3s; Innocent III. came to hi
, mightiest influence at 81. COrtez cor
uuered Mexico at 30; Don John wo
Lepanto at 25; Grotius was attorne
general at "a: and have noticed ami
all classes of men that some of tn
severest battles and the toughest wor
CONES before 80. Therefore we mus
have our sermons and our e&hort;
tions in prayer meeting all symp;
> thetic with the young And so wit
these people further on in life. VIII;
o do these doctors and lawyers an
, merchants and mechanics care abou
: the distractions of religion? VIII;
!, they want is help to bear the vhims
! calities of patients, the browbeating
legal opponents, the unfairness OF Gu
O. toners W no have plenty of fault-fin
ing for every imperfection of han
work, but no praise for twenty exc
!, lences. What does the brain-racke
n hand -blisterel IN IN care for Zwingle
# 'Doctrine OF Original Sim" or Al
. gustine's 'Retractioas?' You migl
d as well go to man who has the ple'
e risy and put on his side plaster ma
e out of DR.. PARIS Treatise on Medic
It Jurisprudence"
l. While all of a sermon may not
It helpful alike to all, if it BE- Christi;
e sermon preached by Christian ma
y there will be help for everyone som
Ie where. We go irto an apothecary
S. store. We see others being waited q
ID we do not complain because we do
|e Immediately get the medicine;
" know our turn will come after awhi
N And so, while all parts of a serm
d. may not be appropriate TO our case,
=, | wa ,.,,;+ pr,yarfu,lv hafore fh.. &