The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-11-24
Zip under the care and home
y OF some earnest, aged Chris

study with old lawyers, young pbysi-
cii 5s with old physicians. and believe
IL souio he great help II every Young
man studying for the Gospel ministry
could gei himself In the home and heart
ard 'Nmpathy and under the benedic.
tion ard perpetual presence OF Chris
tian minister.
= but. remark again. the religious
Discourse OF the future win be an
awakening sermon. From altar rail 10
the front door step. under that sermon.
an audience will get up and start for
Heaven. There will be In IL many a
s'atcato passage. II will not he lula
byi IL will he a battle charge. Men
will drop their sins. for they will feel
the lot breath Of pursuing retribution
on ne back OF their necks. II will be
sympathetic with all the physical dis
tresses as well as the Spiritual dis
tresses Of the world. Christ not only
presched. but he healed paralysis, and
he healed epilepsy. and he healed the
dunl b and the blind and the lepers.
dat religious discourse of the fu-
ture will be an everyday sermon, go
ing right down into every mans life,
and il will teach him how TO vote. how
TO bargain, how TO pillow. how to do any
work he is called to do, how to WELD
trovel and pen and pencil and yard
sticb and plane. And IL will teach wom-
en- how TO preside over their households
and how 10 educate their children and
how TO initiate Miriam and Esther and
Nasht and Eunice, the mother of Tim
othy and Mary, the mother of Christ,
and those women who on northern and
southern battlefelds who were mis-
taken by the wounded for angels Of
mercy, fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, have TO tell you. the religious
discourse Of the future will be a re-
ported sermon. II you have any idea
that printing was invented simply TO
print secular books, and stenography
and photography were coutrived mere
~ tq'set forth secular ideas, you are
mistfen. The printing press is TO be
the great agency of Gospel proclama-
tion. II is high time that good men,
instepd of denouncing the press, en-
ploy ji 10 scatter forth the Gospel OF
Jesuf Christ. The vast ma ority of peo-
pie . our cities do not come TO church,
and pothing but the printed sermon
can tneh them and call them TO pardon
and PIE and peace and Heaven.
Sol cannot understand the nervous
ness of some of my brethren of the
minHtry. When they see a newspaper
manlcoming in they say: Alas, tber.
is Ieporier!" Every added reporter
is 1000, $4,000, 100000 immortal souls
added to the auditory. The time viii
come when all the village, town and
city newspapers will reproduce the Cor
pei Of Jesus Christ. and sermops
prca.-ied on the Sabbath will re-
vertebrate all around the world, and,
some by type and some by voice, all ma
tons will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian
work, not only upon theological stu
dents and young ministers, but upon
all who preach the Gospel and all who
exhort in meetings and all of you IL
you are doing your duty. Do you ex-
hort in prayer meetingP BE short and
spirited. DO you teach in Bible class?
Though you have TO study every night,
be interesting. Do you accost people
on the subject of religion in their homes
or in public places? Study adroitness
and use common sense. The most
graceful and most beautiful thing on
earth is the religion of Jesus Christ,
and IL you awkwardly present IL il Is
defamation. We must do our work rap
idly, and we mrst do IL effectively.
Soon our time for work will be gone.
A dying Christian took out his watch
and gave IL TO friend and said: Take
that watch. l have no more use for il.
Time is at an end for me, and eternity
begins" Oh, my friends, when our
watch has licked away for us the last
and our clock has struck for
us the last hour, may IL be found we
did our work well, that we did il in the
very best way, and whether we
preached the Gospel in pulpits or
taught Sabbath classes, or admins
tered TO the sick as physicians, or bar
gained as merchants, or pleaded the law
as attorneys, or were busy as artisans
or husbandmen or as mechanics, or
were, like Martha, called TO give meal
to n hungry Christ. or, like Hannah, to
make coat for prophet, or, like Debo-
rah, 10 rouse the courage of some timid
Barak in the Lords conflict, we did our
work in such way that il will stand
the test of Judgment! And in the long
procession of the redeemed that march
around the throne may il be found that
there are many there brought to God
through our instrumentality and in
whose rescue we exult. But let none of
US who are still unsaved wait for that
discourse of the fusure. 1t may
come after our obseques. 1t may come
after the stonecutter has chiseled our
name on the slab so years before. Do
not wait for n great steamer of the
Cunard or White Star line to take you
or The wreck, but hail the first craft,
With however low mast and how
ever small hulk and however poor a
rudder and however weak captain.
Instead of waiting for that religious
discourse of the future (t may be 40,
80 years on. take this plain invitation
Of man who TO have given you spirit
ual eyesight would be glad to be called