Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-13


| bath Only in that way can we come to
the full force of this exercise Twenty
| thousand 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 800 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 out 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 cannot sing for yourself,
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 q vessel
| came up with provisions, but the vessel
ran on the river bank and stuck fast.
| The enemy went down with laughter
| and derisiOn to board the vessel when
the vessel gave br0adside 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 melancholy, give a broadside
fire Of song against your spiritual enc
mics, and by holy rebound you will
come cut into the calm waters If we
want to make ourselves happy, we must
make others happy. Mythology tells US
Of Amphion, who played his Tyre until
the mountains were moved and the
walls Of Thebes arose, but religion has
a 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.
I tarried many nights in London, and
I 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 in 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 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
CT halleluiah 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, I 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 500? You have
guessed wrong. [ will tell you just the
proportion. Out of 1000 people in 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 q monopoly of the rheumatism,
and the neuralgias, and the headaches,
and the physical disorders of the world,
but I tell you there are no worse heart
aches 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 3S, Innocent III came
to his mightiest influence at 81. Cortes |
Lepanto at 25, Grotius was attorney
general at "a, and I have noticed amid |
all classes of men that some of the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
come before 80 Therefore we must
have our sermons and our exhortations |
in prayer meeting all sympathetic with
the young. And sc with these people |
farther Oh in life What do these doc |
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mechanics care about the distractions |
of religion? What they want is help tc
bear the whimsicalities of patients, the |
browbeating of legal opponents, the I'M
fairness Of customers who have plenty |
of fault finding for every imperfection
of handiwcrk but no praise for 20 ex-
cellences. What does the brain raclzed |
hand blistered man care for Zwingli's !
Doctrine Of Original SIM or Angus
tines "Retractions?'' You might as
we'll go to man who has the pleurisy
and put Gil his side a plaster made out
of DR.. PARIS ''Treatise ON Medical Ju-
risprudence. y
Divine Prescription.
While all of a 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. We know
our turn will come after awhile. And
so while all parts Of sermon may not
be appropriate to our case, if we wait
prayerfully before the sermon is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. I say to young men who are