Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-21
KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN

ing upon religious work, all We men
and women who in Sabbath schools
and other departments are toiiing for
Christ and the salvation of immortals
-brevity, brevity.
But | remark also that the religious
discourse of the future of which |
speak will be a popular discourse.
There are those in these times who
speak of a popular sermon as though
there must be something wrong about
it. AS these critics are dull themselves,
the world gets the impression that
a sermon is good in proportion as it Is
stupid. Christ was the most popular
preacher the world ever saw and. con-
sidering the small number of the
worlds population, had the largest au-
dience ever gathered. He never preach
ed anywhere without making great
sensation. People rushed out in the
wilderness to hear him reckless of
their physical necessities. So great
was their anxiety to hear Christ that,
taking no food with them. they would
have tainted and starved had not
Christ performed Il miracle and fed
them. Why did so many people take
the truth at Christ's hands? Because
they all understood it. He illustrated
his subject by hen and her chickens,
by buShel measure. by handful Of
Ealt, oy a birds flight and by Il liTy's
aroma. All the people knew what he
fhav Hn.l-nI rp hin, And
when the religious discourse of the
future appears it will not he Princeto-
nian, not Rochesterian. not Andoverian.
not Middletonian. but 0livetic-plain.
practical, unique, earnest. comprehen-
sive of all the woes, wants. sins and
sorrows of an auditory.
But when that eXhortation or dis
course does come there will be a thou
sand cleaning scimiters to charge on
1t. There are in so many theological
seminaries professors telling young
men how To preach. themselves not
knowing how. and | am told that if
young man in some of our theological
seminaries says anything quaint or
thrilling or unique faculty and stu
dents fly AT him and set him right and
straighten him out and smooth him
down and chop him off until he says
everything just as everybody else says
it. oh. when the future religious dis
course Of the Christian church arrives
all the churches of Christ i'll our great
cities will be thronged' The world
wants spiritual help. All who have
buried their dead want comfort. All
know themselves to be mortal and 70
be immortal. and they want TO hear
about the great future. | tell you. my
friends. if the people of our great cities
who have had trouble only thought
they could get practical and sympa-
thetic help in the Christian church,
there Hould not be street in Wash
ington or New York or any other city
which would be passable on the Sab
bath day if there We're church on it.
for all the people would press to that
asylum of mercy. that great house Of
comfort and consolation.
Ecclesiastical Mummics.
4 mother with dead babe in her
arms came to the god silva and asked
to have her child restored to life. The
god silva said TO her, You go and get
Il handful of mustard seed from
house in which there has been no
sorrow and in which there has been no
death. and | will restore your child to
life" SO the mother went out, and she
went from house to house and from
home to home looking for a place
where there had been no sorrow and
where there had been no death, but she
found none. She went back to the god
silva and said: "My mission is failure.
You see. haven't brought the mustard
seed. | can't find place where there
has been no sorrow and no death"
OH says the god silva Understand,