The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-06-22
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If people understood religion to be
the practical re enforcement that
Tslmage says il is IN tbs SsErnc!2, sEs
number Of Christian disc ip,eS wc0io ae
greatly muitipl:ed tex. ISa--as Xxx, Z,
Send thee help from the sanctuary.
# YOU should ask 80 men what the
church is, they would give you 50 dit
ferent ansyers. One man would say,
1T is 8 convention OF hypccrltes.
Another, st IS an assembly OF people
who feel themselves great deal bet
Ter thsn others" Another, 1t IS 2
nIace for gossip, where wolverene dis
positions devoUr each other" Another,
TT is a place for the cultivation OF
superstition and cant. Another,
1T is sn arsenal where theologlans
90 to get pixies and nUskets and shot.
Another, 1T is an art gallery, where
men 60 to admire grand sTches soo
exquisite fresco and musical War5-e
and the Dantesque in gloomy IN
asery." Another man would say:
'.It is the best place on earth except
nv own home. If forget thee, .
Jerusalem, let my right hand -orGet
her cunning"
Now, whatever the church is, ny
text tells you what II ought 10 bs-s
great, practical. homelg, omn!poten1
help. Send thee help from the sane
tuary.'' The pew ought to yield rest
fulness for the body, the color OF tue
upholstery ought to yield pleasure 10
the eve, the entire service ought 10
weld Strength for the mol a1d strug-
ole OF everyday life, the Sabbath
ought 10 be harnessed to all the SIX
dsvs of the week, drawing them IN
the right direction; the church ought
to be s msgnet, visibly and nightly
affecting sIl the homes OF the worship.
ers. Every map gets roughly jos:leoo,
gets abused, gets cat, gets lnsults6,
gets slighted, gets exasperateo. by
the time the Sabbath comes ne has an
accumulation of six days OF anooy-
ance. and that Is q starVeling church
service which has not strength enough
to take that accumulated snnoyalce
and hurl it into perdition. TIE bUsi
ness msn sits down IN church head-
schev from the weeks engagements.
Perhaps he wishes he had tarried al
home on the lounge with the neWspa'
pers and the slippers. That man
wants to be cooled off and graciously
diverted. The first wave CT the religl
Gus service ought to dash clear over
the hurriance decks and leave him
dripping with holy and glad and
heavenly emotion. Send thee help
from the sanctuary.
In the irst place, SANCTUARY help
ought to come from the music. 8 Wo-
man diving in England persisted IN
singing to the last moment. The al
tenSants tried to persuade her to stop,
saving it would exhaust her and make
her disease worse. She answered: !
must sing. 7 am only practic!ng for
the heavenly choir" Music on eartn
is rehearsal for music in heaven. Il
you and are going to take part N
that great orchestra, 1t IS high tune
that we were stringing and drumming
our harps. They tell US that ThaIberg
and Gottschalk never would go into
3 concert until they had first N PRIV,
ate rehearsed, although they were such
masters of the instrument. And can
it be that We expect to take part n the
great oratorio OF heaven II we do not
rehearse here.
But am not speakiag of the next
world. SabbSth song ought 10 set sll
the week to music. We want not
more harmony, not more artistic ex.
preston, but more volume N our
church music. The English dissent
ing churches far surpass our Amerl-
can churches, in this respect. Sn
English audience OF 1,000 people Will
give more volume OF sacred so1g thsn
an American audience OF 2,C0O peo-
ole. do not know what the reason
is. Oh, you ought to have heard them
sing in Surrey chapel I had the op-
portunity of preaching the annlversa-
ry-I think the ninetieta anniversary
sermon in RoWlspd EilIs old cha
pei, and when they lifted their voices
in sacred song it was simply over
whelming, and then IL the evening
of the same day in Agricultural hall
many thousand voices lifted in dox'
ology. It was like the voice Of many
waters, like the voice cfmany thun.
definas, and liAs the voice OF heaven.
The blessing thrilled through ell the laboring
throng,
And heaven was won by violence ofsong.
Now, I am no wcrsniper Of noise,
but believe that # our American
churches would with full hartlness OF
soul and full emphasis OF voice sing
the songs Of Zion this part OF
sacred worship would have
tenfold more power than It
has now. Why not tske this part OF
the sacred service and lift it to where
il ought to be- AL the arnoyances
of life might be drowned out by that
sacred song. Do you tell NE that
il is not fashionable to sing very loud
ly9 Then. say, away with the fash
ion. We dam back the grest AisSis.
sippi Of congregational singing and
let few drops Of melody srickle
through the dam. I ssy take away
the dam and let the biIloWs roar on
their wsy to the oceanic heart OF Coz.
Whether it is fashionable 10 sig
loudly or not, let US sing with all pos
ible emphasis.
We hear great deal Of the art Q:
singing, OF music as an entertainne1s
of music as 8 recreation. It IS high
time we heard something OF music as
help, a practical help. N order to
do this we must have only s
few hymns. NeE tunes and
new hymns every Sunday make
poor congregational singing. Fifty
hymns are enough for 50 years.
The Episcopal church prays the sane
prayers every Sabbath and year after
wear and century after century. For
that reason they have the hearty re.
s~o,eo- Of ,,s IA L-e hint from tSSt