Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-06-23

Sabbath after Sabbath, Only in
that way can we come to the full
force OF this exercise Twenty thou
sand years will not wear out the hymns
Of William Cowpsr, Charles Wesley
and Isaac Watts Suppose now each
person in an audience hsa brought all
the annoyances of the last s6s days.
Fill the room to the ceiling with sacred
song, and you would drown out all
those annoyances of the last sss 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 II you can not sing for
yourself, sing for otherA BY trying
70 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 furnishing, and a
vessel came up with provisions, but the
vessel ran out on the river bank and
stuck fast. The enemy went down
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 mel.
ancholy, give a broadside fire of song
against your spiritual enc mics, and by
holy rebound you will come out into
a "a m w a tn n Ia
ourselves happy we must make others
happy. Mythology tells us of Am
phion, who played his Tyre until the
mountains were moved and the walls
of Thebes arose; but religion has q
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. Paul's 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
Heaven2 They have no clocks, as they
have no candles, but 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
guess l0Cp DO you guess 50O2 You
have guessed wrong. | will tell you
just the proportion. Out of 900 pco-
pie in any audience there arc just | 900
who need sympathetic help These
young people want it just as much as
the old The old people sometime
seem to think they have a monopoly of
the rheunatisms, and the neuralgias,
and the headaches. and the physical
disorders of the world; but tell you
there are no worse heartaches than are
felt 10y some of the Young people Do
YOU know that much of the work is
done by the young? Raphael died at
81, Rlchelieu at 81; Gustavus Adolphus
died at SO; Innocent III. came to his
nightiest influence at 81 Cortez con
quered Mexico at 30; Don John won
Lepanto at IS; 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 cxhorta-
tons in prayer meeting all sympa.
thetic 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 opponents, the unfairness of Gus
toners W no have plenty of fault-tind-
ing for every imperfection of hand.
work, but no praise for twenty excel
Iences, What does the brain-raclted,
hand blistered man care for Zwingle's
Doctrine OF Original Sin" or Au-
gustine's "Retractions2" You might
as well go TO a man who has the pleu.
risy and put on his side plaster made
out OF Dr. PARIS "Treatise on Medical
Juri sprudence,
While all of a sermon may not be
helpful alike to all, If it be a 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 all parts of a sermon
may not be appropriate To our case, #
we wait prayerfully, before the ser.
mon is through we shall have
the divine prescription | say to
young men who are going to preach
the Gospel: We want in our sermons
not more metaphysics. nor more