Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-06-15
THE SUNDAY SERVICES
Vigor. Even VivaeiN. Needed in the Re-
ligion Of this Day and Age.
Hearty congregational singing Is Helpful
To Worshtpers The Day OF the solemn,
Lopg-Facc Church Member l.
Past sermon 10 Rev. r. De-
Wit TSlmagc. ID.


DIR. Ialmugc says it Is in this sermon.
the number of Christian disciples
WOULD Ice greatly multiplied Text.
Psalm w, .: send thee helm from
the sanctuary"
If you should ask 30 men what the
church is. they would give YOU so diff
ferent answers. One man would say:
ats a convention OF hypocritcs.~ An
other. 1T is an assembly OF people
who feel themselves great zeal bet
ter than others" Another, 1t Is "a
place for gossip. where wolvcr-
inc dispositions dcvour each 9TH
or. Another. 1T is place
for the cultivation OF superstition and
cant. Another. 1t j. an arsenal
where theologians 80 aud get pixies
and muskets ana shot" Another. 1T
Is an art gallery, where men 70 To adj
mire grand arches and exquisite freS-
co and musical war ole and the Dant-
esqne in gloomy imagery" Another
man would say, 1t is the best place
on earth except my own home IF l
forget thee, o Jerusalem. let my right
hand forget her cunning"
Now; whatever the church is. MY
text tells YOU what it ought To be-a
great, practical, homcly, omnipotent
help. send thee help from the sane
tuary. The pew ought 10 yield rest
fitness for the body. The color of tn,
upholstery ought TO yield pleasure to
the eye.
The entire service ought to yield
strength for the moil and struggle of
everyday life. The sabbath ought TO
be harnessed to all the six DAYS of tine
week. drawing them in the right de
reetion. The church ought 10 be "a
magnet. visibiy and nightly affecting
all the homes of the worShipors.
Every man gets roughly jostled.
gets abused, gets cut. gets insulted.
gets sighted. gets eNasperated. By
the time the sabbath comes he
mas an accumuiation of six DAYS OF an
noyance. and that is starvcliug
church service which has not strength
enough 20 take that accumulated an
noyancc and hurl il into pcrdition.
The business man sits down in church
headachy from the weeks engage
ments Perhaps he wishes he had tar
ried at home on the lounge with the
newspapers and the slippers That
man wants 10 be cooled oil and rra-
ciously diverted The first wave of
the religious service ought TO dash
clear over the hurricane decks and
leave him dripping with holy and glad
and heavenly emotion. send thee
help from the sanctuary
In the first place, sanctuary help
ought 20 come from the music A
woman dying in England persisted in
singing 20 the last moment The at
PENDANTS tried 10 persuade her TO stop.
saying il would exhaust her and make
her disease worse. She answered. Il
must sing; ! am only practicing for
the heavenly choir Music ON earth
Is rehearsal for music in Heaven. II
you and / are going TO take part in
that great orchestra IL is high time
that we were stringiug and drumming
our harps They tell us that Thalberg
and GottschalS never would no into a
concert until they had first in private
rehearsed. although they were such
masters OF the Instrument And can
IL be that we expect TO take uart in
the great o-atorio OF Heaven n we do
not rehcarse here?
But 1 am not speaking of the next
world. Sabbath song ought 90 set ain
the week 90 music. We wantno. more
harmony NOT more artistic expression
TUT more vo. umc in our church music.
The English dissenting churches jar
surpas- our American churches iu this
rca'ect A- El-.i.h audience 81 200
people will give more volume of sacred
song tlan an American au5i cnccof . 900
people. -o NOT know what reason i-.
Oh. Won cuvht tD tay. r.-r. %, .-.