The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-06-15

ers. BY trying to give others good
cheer you will bring good cheer to
your own heart.
Again l remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. OF
a thousand people in any audience,
how many want sympathetic help?
Do you guess hundred? Do you
guess five hundred? You have guessed
wrong. / will tell you just the pro-
portion. Out of a thousand people in
any audience there are just 1000 who
need sympathy and help.
These young people want it just as
much as the old. The old people some
times seem to think they have a mo-
nopoly of the rheumatisms, and the
neuralgias, and the headaches, and the
physical disorders of the world; bl't
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 thirty-seven; Richie
lieu at thirty-one; Gustavus Adolphus
died at thirty-eight; Innocent Ill.
came to his mightiest influence at
thirty-seven. Cortez conquered MeXi-
co at thirty; Don John won Lepanto
at twenty-five; Grotius was attorney
general at twenty-four; and l have
| noticed amid all classes of men that
some of the severest battles and
| toughest work comes before thirty.
Therefore we must have our sermons
and our exhortations in prayer meet
ing 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 about distractions of religion?
What they want is help to bear the
whimsicalities of patients, the brow
beating of legal opponents, the unfair
ness of customers who have plenty of
fault-fnding for every imperfection
of handiwork, but no praise for
| twenty eXcellences What does the
for Zwingle's Doctrine of Original
Sin," or Zwingle's Doctrine of Orig
inal Sin," or Augustine's "Retrac-
tions? You might as well go TO a
man who has the pleurisy and put on
his side plaster made out of Doctor
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurispru-
dence."
While all of sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, if it be Chris
tian sermon preached by Christian
man, there will be help for every one
somewhere. We go into an apothe-
cary's store. We see others being
waited on; we do not complain be-
cause we do not Immediately get the
medicine; we know our turn will come
after while. And so while all parts
of sermon may not be appropriate
to our case, if we wait prayerfully
before the sermon is through, we shall
have the divine prescription. l say tc
young men who are going to preach
the gospel; we want in our sermons
not more metaphysics, nor more imag.
ination, nor more logic, nor more pro,
fundity. What we want in our ser.
mons and Christian eXhortations is
more sympathy. When Father Taylor
preached in the Sailors Bethel at Bos
ton, the Jack Tars felt they had helT
for their duties among the ratlines
and the forecastles. When Richard
Weaver preached to the operatives il
Oldham, England, all the workmer
felt they had more grace for the spin
} dies. When DR.. South preached tt
! kings and princes and princesses, al
the mighty men and women who
! heard him felt preparation for theil
: high station.
/ say to young men who are enter
ing the ministry, we must put OF
more force, more energy, and into oul
religious services more vivacity, if w,
want the people to come. You lool
into a church court of any denomina
ton of Christians First, you will fine
the men of large common sense ant
earnest look. The education of theiI
minds, the piety of their hearts. the
: holiness of their lives qualify then
for their work. Then you will fine
in every church court of every demon
ination group of men who utterly
amaze you with the fact that sucl
semi-imbecility can get any pulpitI
to preach in! Those are the men whC
: give forlorn statistics about churcl
, decadence. Frogs never croak in run
: ming water; always in stagnant. Bu
| say to all Christian workers, to al
I Sunday school teachers, to all evange
| lists, to all ministers of the gospel, i
we want our Sunday schools, and oul
| prayer meetings, and our churches tC
gather the people, we must freshen up
. The simple fact is the people art tiret
of the humdrum of religionists. Re
ligious humdrum is the worst of al
! humdrum. You say over and owe
again. Come to Jesus,"S until th'
phrase means absolutely nothing
, Why do you not tell them a stor.
/ which will make them come to Jesu
5 in five minutes? You say that all Sun
day school teachers and all evangelist
{ and all ministers must bring their il
Illustrations from the Bible. Christ die
t not when He preached. The most o
the Bible was written before Christ
time, but where did He get His illus
: trations? He drew them from tn,
} lilies, from the ravens, from salt, from
2 q candle, from bushel, from long
, faced hypocrites, from gnats, from
< moths, from large gates and small
gates, from camel, from the needle
f eye, from yeast in the dough of bread
| from mustard seed, from fishins
9 nets, from debtors and creditors. Tha
= is the reason why multitudes followed
= Christ. His illustrations were so cas-,
$ and so understandable. Therefore
my brother Christian worker, if yol
and | find two illustrations for a re
/. Iigious subject and the one is Bibl
4 illustration and the other is outsid
c of the Bible, will take the latter, be
D cause / want to be like my master
Y Looking across to a hill, Christ say
S the city of Jerusalem. Talking to tn
: people about the conspicuity of Chris
e tian example, He said: "The world i
j looking at you; be careful. A cit.