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

every denOmlHalioii III III. fact
wbo utterly amaze you with 'no , oNv
t unt such semi. imbecility can ge' any
nnlpits to preach i'll. Those are t .n a1n ,r
l"ta give forlorn statistics about chuion
decadence. Frogs never croak IN p run
ming water, always in stagnan'. :, D Gun.
sav to all Christian workers 10 al , Hu
dav school teachers, to all evangeiisls'
=" ' oil ministers of the gospel II we
want our Sunday schools, ana our
m ararer meetings, and our churches u
gather the people we must lresne4 .; up
The simple fact is the people arc p 1n,u
If the humdrum of religionlsts. heii'
oions humdrum is the worst OF all num-
drum You say over and over again,
"Come TO Jesus" until the phrase
means absolutely nothing. Why 40 you
not tell them a story which Will MAKE
them come to Jesus in five mlnutes'
Won say that all Sunday school teachers
and ali evangelists and all ministers
must bring their illustrations from 1h0
Bible Christ did not when he preach
od The most of the Bible was written
before Christs time. but where dld ne
oct his illustrations? He drew them
from the lilies, from the ravens, from
salt, from a candle, from bushel' from
long faced hypocrites, from gnats' from
moths, from large gates and small gates
from a camel, from the needles eye
from Yeast in the dough of bread, from
n mustard seed, from fishing net, from
debtors and creditors. That Is the rea-
son multitudes followed Christ. His H.
lustrations were SO easy and so under
standable. Therefore, my brother Chris
tian worker, if you and I find two illus
trations for religious subject, and the
one is a Bible illustration and the other
is outside the Bible, will take the lat
ter because I want to be like my mas
ter. Looking across to hill, Christ
saw the city of Jerusalem.
Talking to the people about the con-
spicuity of Christian example, he said:
1.-THE world is looking at you. Be care
full. A city that is set on hill cannot
be hid" While he was speaking OF the
divine care of Gods children bird flew
past. He said, Behold the ravens. y
Then looking down into the valley, all
covered at that season with flowers, he
said, "Consider the lilies" Oh, my
brother Christian workers, what is the
use of our going away off in some OBJ
scure part of history or on the other
side of the earth to get an illustration
when the earth and the heavens are full
of illustrations? Why should we go
away off to get an illustration of the
vicarious suffering Of Jesus Christ
when as near us as Bloomfield, N. j.,
two little children were walking on the
rail track, and train was coming, but
they were on q bridge of trestlework,
and the little girl took her brother and
let him down through the trestlework
as gently as she could toward the wa
ter, very carefully and lovingly and
cautiously, SO that he might not be hurt
in the fall and might be picked up by
those who were standing near by? While
doing that the train struck her, and
hardly enough Of her body was left to
gather into funeral casket. What was
that? Vicarious suffering. Like Christ.
Pang for Others Woe for others. Suf.
fering for others. Death for others.
Help In Prayer.
What is the use of our going away off
to find an illustration in past age when
during the great forest fires in Michigan
mail carrier on horseback, riding on,
pursued by those flames which had
swept over 100 miles, saw an old man
by the roadside, dismounted, helped the
old man on the horse, saying, "Now
whip up and get away" The old man
got away, but the mail carrier persisted.
Just like Christ dismounting from the
glories of heaven to put us on the way
of deliverance, then falling back into
the flames of sacrifice for others. Pang
for others. Woe for others. Death for
Others. Vicarious suffering.
Again, l remark that sanctuary helm
ought to come through the prayers Of
all the people. The door of tho eternal
storehouse is hung on ono hinge a gold
hinge, the hinge of prayer, and when
the whole audience lay hold of that
door it must come open. There are
many people spending their first Sab.
bath after some great bereavement,
What will your prayer do for them?
How will it help the tomb in that man s
heart! Here are people who have not
been in church before for ten years.
What will your prayer do for them by
rolling over their soul holy memories?
Hero are people in crises of awful tenn.
tatlon. They are on the verge of DESPAIR
or Wild laundering or theft or suicide.
What will your prayer do for them in
the way of giving them strength to re.
sist' Will you be chiefly anxious about
the tit OF the glove that you nut to
your forehead while you prayed? Will
you be chiefly critical of the rhetoric ~
the pastors petition? No, no. A thon.
sand people will feel, "That prayer is
TOR me, and at every step of the PRAYER
chains ought to drop off, and TEMPLES of
SIN ought to crash into dust, and iubileos
or dellverance ought to brandish their
,trumpets. In most of our churches wa
nave three prayers-the opening prav.
er' what is called the "long prayern
and the closing prayer. There are manv
people who spend their first PRAYER in
arranging their apparel after entrance
and spend the second prayer the "lonn
prayer" in wishing it were throuoI
and spend the last prayer in preparing
10 start Tor home. The most insipn;f,H'
cant part of every religious service 10
the sermon. The more important nart ts
are are tne scripture lesson and the PRAYER.
The sermon is only man talking 70 y
man. The Scripture lesson is God tall al :"
ing TO man. Prayer is man TALKING r.
God. Oh, If we understood tbo gron5s W.