The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-06-23

anu you WOuio grown out all th0Se an
noyances Of the last 365 days. and you
would drown them out forever. Organ
and cornet are only to marshall the
voice. Let the voice fall ito line. and
in companies and In battalions by
storm take the obduracy and sin Of the
world. II You cannot sing for your
self, sing for others By trying to give
others good cheer you will bring good
cheer to your own heart.
When Londonderry, Ireland. was be-
sieged many years ago. the people in
side the CITY were famishing, and a
vessel came up with provisions. bu'
stuck fast. The enemy went down with
laughter and derision to board the ves-
sci. when the vessel gave a broadside
fire against the enemy and by the shock
was turned back into the stream, AMI
all was well. oh, ye who are high and
dry on the rocks of melancholy. give a
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. Myth
ology tells us of Amphion, who played
his Tyre until the mountains were
moved and the walls Of Thebe arose.
but religion has a mightier story to tel.
Of how Christian song may build whole
temples Of eternal Joy and lift the
round earth into sympathy with the
skies.
l tarried many nights in London, and
l used to hear the bells, the small bells
of the city. strike the hour Of night
l. 3, 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 1t announced the
hour Of the night, every stroke an over
mastering boom. My friends. 1t was in.
tended 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, a.
they have no candles. but great pend
ulum Of hallelujah swinging across
heaven from eternity to eternity.
Again, / remark that sanctuary hello
ought to come from the sermon. OF
1000 people in any audience, how many
want sympathetic help? Do you guess
100? Do you guess 500? You have
guessed wrong. l 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 1t just as much as the old. Tho
old people sometimes seem to think
they have monopoly of the rheuma-
tisms, and the neuralgias, and tn ,
headaches. and the physical disorders
of the world, but tell you there are no
worse heartaches than are felt by some
Of the young people. Do you know that
much Of the work IL done by the young
Raphael died at 81, Richelieu at 81.
Gustavus Adolphus died at 49, Inno-
cent III. came to his mghtest influence
at 81. Cortes conquered Mexico at 30,
Don John won Lepanto at %, Grotius
was attorney general at "a and I have
noticed amid all classes of men that
some of the severest battles and the
toughest work comes before 80
Therefore we must have our sermons
and our eXhortations in prayer meeting
all sympathetic with the young. And
so with these people further on in life
What do these doctors and lawyers and
merchants and mechanics care abou
the abs fractions of religion? What they
want is help to bear the whimsicalitie +,
of patients, the browbeating Of lega.
opponents, the unfairness of customers
who have plenty of fault finding for
every imperfection of handiwork but
no praise for 20 excellences. What does
the brain racked. hand blistered man
care for Zwingli's Doctrine of Original
S!n." or Augustine's "Retractions? -"
You might as well so to a man who has
the pleurisy and put on his side plas-
ter made out of DR.. PARIS Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence"
While all OF a sermon may not be
helpful alike to all. IL it be Christian
sermon preached by a Christian man
there will be help for every one some
where. We so into an apothecarys
store. We see others being waited on.
We do not complain because we do no
Immediately get the medicine. We
know our turn will come after awhile.
And so while all parts Of a sermon may
not be appropriate to our case, IL we
wait prayerfully before the sermon Is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. say to young men who are
going to preach the gospel. we want In
our sermons not more metaphysics, nor
more imagination, nor more logic, ner
more profundity. What we want in our
sermons and 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 forecastles. When Richard Weav-
er preached to the operatives in Old
ham, England, all the workmen felt
they had more grace for the spindles