Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-06-20

that way can we come to the full
force of this exercise. Twenty thou.
sand years will not wear out the hymns
of William Cowper, Charles Wesley
and Isaac Watts. Suppose now each
person in an audience has brought all
the annoyances of the last 365 days.
Fill the room to the ceiling with sacred
song, and you would drown out all
those annoyances of the last 365 days,
and you would drown them forever.
Organ and cornet are only to marshal
the voice. Let the voice fall into line,
and in companies, and in battalions,
by storm take the obduracy and sin of
the world If you can not sing for
yourself, sing for others. BY trying
to give others cheer you will bring
good cheer to your own heart.
When londonderry, Ireland, was be-
sieged many years ago the people in
side the city were famishing, and a
vessel came up with provisions, but the
vessel ran out on 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 well. Oh, We who
are high and dry on the rocks of mel.
ancholy, 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 Ann
phion, who played his Tyre until the
mountains were moved and the walls
of Thebes arose; but religion has
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.
tarried many nights in London,
and used to hear the bells, the small
bells of the city, strike the hour OF
night-One, two, three, four-and
among them the great st. Pauls cathe.
dral would come in to mark the hours,
making all the other sounds seem ut
terly insignificant, as with mighty
tongue it announced the hour of the
night, every stroke an overmastering
boom My friends, it was intended
that all the lesser sounds of the world
should be drowned out in the mighty
tongue of congregational song beating
against the gates of Heaven. Do you
know how they mark the hours in
Heaven? They have no clocks, as they
have no candles, but a great pendulum
of hallelujah swinging across Heaven
from eternity to eternity.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children Of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad
Again ! remark that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. Of
thousand people in any audience, how
many want sympathetic help? DO you
guess lOG? Do you guess 500? You
have guessed wrong. | will tell you
just the proportion. Out of 900 peo-
pie in any audience there are just 900
who need sympathetic help. These
young people want it just us much as
the old. The old people sometimes
seem to think they have monopoly of
the rheumatisms, and the neuralgias,
and the headaches, and the physical
disorders of the world: but tell you
there are no worse heartaches 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
81; Richelieu at 81; Gustavus Adolphus
died at 38; Innocent Ill came to his
mightiest influence at 81. Cortez con-
quered Mexico at 80; Don John won
Lepanto at 25; Grotius was attorney
general at "a; and have noticed amid
all classes of men that some of the
severest battles and the toughest work
,, comes before 80 Therefore we must
have our sermons and our exhOrta-
tions in prayer meeting all sympa-
thetc 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 distractions of religion? What
/ they want is help to be ar the whimsi.
calities of patients, the browbeating of
/ legal oppon ents, the unfairness of Gus
toners W no have plenty of fault-fnd-
ing for every imperfection Of handi-
work, but no praise for twenty excel
lences. What does the brain-racked.
hand clustered man care for Zwingle's
Doctrine of Original Sim or Au-
gustine's ''Retractions?" You might
as well go to a man who has the pleu
| risy and put on his side a plaster made
/ out of DR.. PARIS "Treatise ON Medical
Juri sprudence.
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 everyone 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; we
know our turn will come after awhile
And SO, while ali parts of a sermon
may not be appropriate to our case, If
we wait prayerfully, before the SER
mon is through we shall have
the divine prescription. I say to
young men who are going to preach
i the Gospel: We want in our sermons
not more metaphysics, nor more
Imagination, nor more logic, nor more