The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-11-22

and lift people out of darkness, Will be
popular sermon, just for the simple rea-
son that it will meet the woes and the
wants and the anxieties Of the people.
There are in all our denominations &C.
clesiastical mummies sitting around to
frown upon the fresh young pulpits OF
America to try to awe them down, to cry
out: Tut, tut, tut! Sensationalv' They
stand to-day preaching in churches that
hold thousand people, and there are a
hundred persons present, and if they can
not have the world saved in their way it
seems as if they do not want it saved at
all.
do not know but the old way of max
ing ministers Of the gospel is better-sp
collegiate education and an apprentice
ship under the care and home attention
of some earnest, aged Christian minister,
the young man getting the patriarch's
spirit and assisting him in his religious
service. Young lawyers study with old
lawyers, young physicians with old ply
sicians, and l believe it would be great
help if every young man studying for the
gospel ministry could put himself in the
home and heart and sympathy and under
the benediction and perpetual presence
Of Christian minister.
Everyday Preaching.
That religious discourse Of the future
will be an everyday sermon, going right
down into every mans life, and it will
teach him how to vote, how to bargain,
how to plow, how to do any work he is
called to do, how to WELD trowel and pen
and pencil and yardstick and plane. And
it will teach women how to preside over
their households and how to educate their
children and how to initiate Miriam and
Esther and Vashti and Eunice, the moth
er of Timothy, and Mary, the mother OF
Christ, and those women who on north
ern and southern battlefelds were mis-
taken by the wounded for angels OF mer-
cy, fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, | have to tell you, the religious
discourse of the future will be reported
sermon. If you have any idea that print
ing was invented simply to print secular
books, and stenography and photography
were contrived merely to set forth secu-
lar ideas, you are mistaken. The print
ing press is to be the great agency Of
gospel proclamation. 1t is high time that
good men, instead of denouncing the
press employ it to scatter forth the Cos
pei Of Jesus Christ. The vast majority
Of people in our cities do not come to
church, and nothing but the printed SER
mon can reach them and call them to
pardon and life and peace and heaven.
SO I cannot understand the nervous
ness of some of my brethren Of the min
istry. When they see newspaper man
coming in, they say, ALAS, there is re-
porterw Every added reporter is 10000,
$4,000, 100000 immortal souls added to
the auditory. The time will come when
all the village, town and city newspapers
will reproduce the gospel of Jesus Christ,
and sermons preached on the Sabbath
will reverberate all around the world,
and, some by type and some by voice,
all nations will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian work.
not only upon theological students and
young ministers, but upon all who preach
the gospel and all who exhOrt in meet
ings and ali Of you If you are doing your
duty. Do you exhort in prayer meeting!
Be short and spirited. Do you teach in
Bible class? Though you have to study
every night, be interesting. Do you &C
cost 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 if you awkwardly present it it is
defamation. We must do our work rap
idly, and we must do it effectively. Soon
our time for work will be gone.
The End of Time.
A dying Christian took out his watch
and gave it to a friend and said: Take
that watch. l have no more use for it.
Time is at an end for me, and eternity
begins" Oh, my friends, when our
watch has licked away for us the last
moment, and our clock has struck for
us the last hour, may it be found we did
our work well, that we did it in the very
best way, and whether we preached the
gospel in pulpits, or taught Sabbath
classes, or administered to the sick as
physicians, or bargained 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 a meal to hungry Christ, or
like Hannah, to make a coat for proph-
ct, or like Deborah, to rouse the courage
of some timid Barak in the Lords con-
| it will stand the test Of the Judgment!
And in the long procession of the redeem
ed that march around the throne may it
be found that there are many there
| brought to God through our instrument
tality and in whose rescue we exult But
let none Of us who are still unsaved, wait
| for that religious discourse Of the flu
ture. 1t may come after our obsequies.
1t may come after the stonecutter has
chiseled our name on the slab fifty years
| before. Do not wait for great steamer
Of the Cunard or White Star line to take
you off the wreck, but hail the first craft,
| with however low a mast and however
small hulk and however poor a rudder
and however weak captain. Better a
| disa bled schooner that comes up in time
| than a full rugged brig that comes up
after you have sunk.
! Instead Of waiting for that religious
discourse Of the future tit may be forty,
| fifty years off, take this plain invitation
of man who to have given you spiritual
eyesight would be glad to be called the
| spittle by the hand Of Christ put on the
eyes Of blind man and who would con-
slider the highest compliment of this SER