The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-06-22

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the gates Ct heaven. Do yGE Know
how t1ev L q K The hours IA heaven:
Tksv hsve no c}ocEs, as th6y have 70
candles butts great paLd0:um CT hal,
leIuiaa swinging across heaven rom
eternity 10 eternity.
Let those refuse 10 sing
Who never knew our God.
But children OF the Heavenly King
Should speak their Joy abroad.
AGAIN. Tremark that sanctuary help
oush: 10 come from the sermon. OF
1000 people in any audience, how
many want sympathetic help2 Do
YOU guess 1902 Do you guess 50Q2
You have guessed wrong. will tell
you Just the proportion. Oot Of 1, 600
peoplein any sudierce there are just
Loco who need sympathetic help.
These young people want i j1st IS
much as the old. TIE old peorle
sometimes seem to think they have s
monopoly Of the rheumatisms, and
neuraIgias, srd the headaches, apd
the physical disorders Of the world:
but I tell you there are 20 worse
heartsches than sre felt by some OF
the yourg people. Do ycu know that
much OF The work is done by the
young Raphael died at 81, R!chlieu
at 81, Gustavus Adolphus died st IS,
Innocent III came to his mig ntiest
influence at 81. Cortes coroUered
Mexico at so, Don John won Lepanto
st 25, Grotius was attorney general at
q snd have noticed amid all classes
of men that some Of the severest BAT
ties and the toughest work comes be-
fore so. Therefore we mus have our
sermons aud our exhortations in
prayer meeting 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 the abstrac
tons OF religions What they want Is
help to bear the whimsicalities CT pa
tients, the browbeating OF legal oppo
neuts, the uniairness OF customers who
have plenty Of fault finding for every
imperfection OF handiwork. ba. no
prSise for 20 excellence. What does
the brain rackeG, hsnd hlis,ered man
care for ZWingli's Doctrine OF Origi-
nal Sin," or Augus!ine's "Ratr&c-
tions?" Ycu might SIS well go 10 8
man who has the pleurisy and put on
his side s plaster made out OF Dc.
PARIS Treatise on Medical JurlSpru
dence."
While all OF sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, il It be Christian
sermon preached by Christian man
there will be help FOR every one some.
where. We 20 into an apothecarJ 5
store. We see others being waited Oh.
We do not complain because We 90 not
immediately get the medicine. We
know our turn will come after awhile.
And so while ell parts OF a sermon
may not be appropriate to our case II
we wait prayerfuily before the ser
mon is through we shall have tee di-
vine prescription. say 20 young
men who are going 10 preach the COS
pei, We want IN cur sermons not more
metaphysics, nor more logic, nor
more profun6ity. What we want IN
cur sermons and Christian exhorta.
tions is more sympathy. When Pa
ther Taylor preached IN the Sailors
Bethel st Boston, the Jack Tars felt
they had help for their duties among
the ratlines snd the iorecastles.
When Richard Weaver preached to
the operatives in O!dhau, England,
ali the workmen feI! they had more
grace for the spindles. When DR..
South preached to kings, and princes
and princesses, al the mighty men
and women who heard him felt pre-
paration for their high station.
People will go to church merely as
2 matter Of duty. There will not
next Sabbath be 100 people in this
city who will get up in the morning
and say: The Bible says l mus! so
to church. Il! is my duty 10 go TO
church, therefore Twill 60 to church.
The vast multitude of people who go
to church go because they like It, and
multitude Of people who stay away
from the church stay away BE-
cause they do not like it. lam not
speaking about the way the world
ought to be. am speaking about the
way the world is. Taking things as
they are, we must make the centripe'
:al force of the church mightier than
the centrifugal. We must make our
churches magnets to draw the people
threunto, so that q man will feel un-
easy If he does not 60 to church, say
ing: ~ wish had gone this morn
ing. I wonder if I can't dress yet and
get there in times It is Il clock.
Now they are singing. It is half past
-. Now they ara preaching. l
wonder when the folks Will be home
to tell US wins! was said, what has
Sean goir.g on" When tie impres-
sio2: IS confirmed that cur churches,
Dr. chitecture, by music, by soclall-
y and by sermon, shall be the most
attractive places on earth, then We
viii want twice SIS many churches as
We have now, twice as large, and then
they will not hall accommodate the
people.
Isay to the young men who are en-
tering the ministry, We must put on
more force, more energy, and into
our religious services more vsvsclty
if We want the people to come. You
locking into church cour! otany de
nomination OF Christians. First, you
will ind the men Of large common
sense and earnest look. The education
Of their minds, the piety OF their
hearts, the holiness OF their lives quail
ify them for their work. Then YOU
viii fnG IN evary church court OF
every denomination q group Of men