Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-06-18

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sing for others. By trying to give 9th
ers good cheer, you will bring good
cheer to your own heart.
When Londonderry, Ireland, was be-
sieged many years ago, the people inside
the city were furnishing and vessel
came up with provisions, but the vessel
ran Oh the river bank and stuck fast
The enemy went down with laughter
and derision to board the vessel, when
the vessel gave broadside fire against
the enemy and by the shock was turned
back into the stream and all was we'll
Oh, We who are high and dry on the
rocks of melancholy, give broadside
fire of song against your spiritual enc
mics, and by holy rebound you will
come out into the calm waters. If we
want to make ourselves happy, we must
, make others happy. Mythology tells us
of Amph;on, who played his Tyre until
the mountains were moved and the
walls Of Thebes arose, but religion has
u mightier story to tell of how Christian
song may build whole temples of eter-
nal JOY and lift the round earth into
sympathy with the skies.
Heavenly Clock.
l tarried many nights in London, and
used to hear the bells, the small bells
of the city, strike the hour Of night,
2, 3, AND among them the great st.
Paul's cathedral would come i'll 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 an overmaster-
ing boom. My friends, it was intended
that all the lesser sounds of the world
should be drowned out i'll the mighty
tongue of congregational song beating
against the gates Of heaven. Do you
know how they mark the hours i'll
heaven? They have no clocks, as they
have no candles, but Il great pendulum
of halleluiah swinging across heaven
from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our Cod,
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
Again, | 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 800? You have
guessed wrong will tell you just the
proportion. Out of 900 people i'll any
audience there are just 1000 who need
sympathetic help. These young people
want it just as much as the old. The
old people sometimes seem to think they
have IL monopoly Of the rheumatism,
and the neuralgias, 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 tho
work is done by the young? Raphael
died at 81, Richelieu at 81, Gustavus
Adolphus died mt IS. Innocent III cams
to his mightiest influence ut 81. Cortes
conquered Mexico at 30, Don John won
Lopanto at %, Grotius WAS attorney
general at "a, and have noticed amid
all classes OF men that some OF the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
come before 30. Therefore we must
have our sermons and our celebrations
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 they want is help TO
bear the whimsicalities of patients, the
browbcating of legal opponents, the I'M
fairness of customers who have plenty
of fault finding for every imperfection
of handiwork, 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 "Retractions?" You might as
we'll go to man who has the pleurisy
and put on his side Il plaster made out
of DR.. PARIS Treatise on Medical Ju-
risprudence "
Divine Prescription.
While all of sermon may not be
helpful alike TO all, if it be Christian
sermon, preached by Christian man,
there will be help for every one some
where We go into an apothecary' S
store. We see others being waited on.
We do not complain because we do not
Immediately get the medicine. Weknow
our turn will come after awhile. And
so while all parts of q 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
going to preach the gospel, we want in
our sermons not more metaphysics, nor
more imagination, nor moro logic, nor
more profundity. What we want III
our sermons and Christian exhortatlons
is more sympathy. When Father Tay-
Tor preached in the Sailors Bethel at
Boston, the Jack Tars felt they had help
for their duties among the ratlines and
the forecastles. 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
next Sabbath be 100 people in this city
who will get up i'll the morning and
say: Tho Bible says must go to
church 1t is my duty to go to church,
therefore will go to church. - The vast
multitude OF people who go to church,
go to church because they like it. and
Tie multitude Of people who stay away
som church STAY away because they do
not like 1t am not speaking about the
way the world ought to be. 1 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-
pie thercunto, SO that man will feel
uneasy if he does not go to church, say
ing: 81 wish I had gone this morning.
I wonder if I can't dress yet and get
there in time. 1t is l / o'clock; now they
are singing. 1t is half past II; now