Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-11


When Londonderry. Ireland, was oe'
sieged many years ago, the people lhsi'u 1
the city were furnishing and vessei
came up with provisions, but the Vessei
ran Oh the river bank and stuck 1asV'
The enemy went down with laughter
and derision to board the vessel, wheh
the vessel gave a broadside fire aSalls.
the enemy and by the shock was turl Z,
back into the stream and all was we'll
Oh, We who are high and dry Oh tine
rocks of melancholy, give a broadslue
fire of song against your spiritual enc,
mics, and by holy rebound you VIII
come out into the calm waters. II we
want to make ourselves happy, we must
make others happy. Mythology tells us
of Amphion, who played his Tyre until
the msuntains were moved ana the
walls Of Thebes arose, but religion mas
mightier story to tellrof how Christian
song may build whole temples OF eter-
nal joy and lift the round earth into
sympathy with the skies
A Heavenly Clock.
I tarricd many nights in London, and
l 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 all overmaster-
ing boom. Ny friends, it was intended
that all the lesser sounds of the world
should be drowned out il, 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
1000 people in any audience how
many want sympathetic help? Do you
guess 100: Do you guess 500? You have
guessed wrong. 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 rs the old. The
old people sometimes seem to think they
have a monopoly of the rheumatism,
and the ncuralgias, 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, Gustavus
Adolphus died at SO, Innocent III came
to his mightiest influence at 81. Cortes
conquered Mexico at 30, Don John won
Lepanto at 20, Grotius was attorney
general at 81, and I have noticed amid
all classes Of men that some Of the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
come before 80. Therefore we must
have OR sermons and our eXhortations
in prayer meeting all sympathetic with
tho 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 tl--4swant is help to
bear the whimsicalities of patients, the
browbeating of legal opponents, the I'M
fairness of customers who have plenty
of fault finding for every imperfection
of handiworll, but no praise for 20 ex-
cellences. What does the brain racked,
hand blistered man care for Zwingli's
Doctrine of Original Sin" or Angus
tines "Rotractions?' You might as
we'll go to a man who has the pleurisy
and put Oh his side a plaster made out
of Dr. PARIS ''Treatise on Medical Ju-
risprudence. "
Divine Prescription.
While all of a sermon may not be
helpful alike to ALL if it be a Christian
sermon, preached by Christian man,
there will be help for every one some
where. We go into an apothecarys
store. We see others being waited on.
We do not complain because we do not
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, if we wait
prayerfully before the sermon is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. | say to young men who are
goiNk to preach the gospel, we want in
our sermons not more metaphysics, nor
more imagination, nor more logic, nor
more profundity. What we want in
oyr sermons and Christian exhortations
is more sympathy. When Father Tay.
lor preached in the Sailors Bethel at
Boston, the Jack Tars felt they had help
for their duties among tho ratlines and
the forecastlcs. When Richard Weaver
preached to the operatives in Oldham,
England, all the workmen felt they had
more grace for the spindles. When 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 matter of duty. There will not
Text Sabbath be 100 people in this city
who will get up in the morning and
say: 1.-THE Bible says I must 90 to
church. 1t is my duty to 60 to church,
therefore Twill go to church. " The vast
multitude of people who 60 to church,
go to church because they like it, and
the multitude of people who stay away
from church stay away because they do
not like it, I am not speaking about the
way the world ought to be. am speak
ing about the way the world is. Taking
things as they are, we must make the
centripetal force of the church mightier
than the centrifugal. We must make
our churches magnets to draw the peo-
L &c,