The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-25

! "' I'll mummies sitting arouua
w frown upon the fresh young p s,o
~ America TO try to awe lhth' u p.,,,'
- c,,. ont. Tut, tut, TUT aeiiS ''. ~.
~ They stand to-day preaching ~
',,u.h.s that hold thousand people,
a'I' here are a hundred persons pre-,
cpf and If they cannotha'e the o,' worn y,
soyod In thejr way il seems az Il 'n'a ~
moi want II saved at all =,
'g T Jo NOT know but the old way o.
,,al,ino ministers Of The Gospel Is oe''
tar VA collegiate education and an APP
tioeshin under the care and home
Intention of some earnest, aRsa N .,.
ti,n minister. the young man gettus
,,o natriarch's spirit and assisting nun
H. hfs RELIGIOUS service, Young lawyers
stndv with old lawyers, young pnls'
rions with old physicians and ! pei'eNe
II would be o great help II every NouuB
man stpdying for the Gospel ministry
.no,,Id get himself in the home ana hear'
and sympathy aud under the neG n,.
tiou and perpetual presence oil 'n'iS-
Rut | remark again, the religious
5iscourse of the future will be an
a,,ol,epfpg sermon. From altar rail- 10
Tho front door step. under that sermon
an audience will get up and start ior
uooyep There will be in it many
staceato passage. 1t will not be a lu,la-
he If will be battle charge, Men
will drop their sins, for they Will feel
the hot breath Of pursuing retflnalion
an The back Of their necks. 1t Wlll be
sympathetic with all the physical DIS
tresses as well as the spiritual as
tresscs of the world. Christ not only
nroached. but he healed paralysis, aud
he healed epilepsy, and he healed the
dpmb and the blind and the lepets'
That religious discourse of the iu-
ture will be an everyday sermon, 60
inc right down into every man me-
and If viii teach him how to vote. how
20 bargain, how to pillow, how to dc any
work he is called to do, how to Nleld
trowel and pen ard pencil and ward
stfcl, and plane. And it will teach woin-
en- how to preside over their households
and how TO educate their children and
how TO initiate Miriam and Esther ana
yasbti and Eunice, the mother of Tim
otbv. 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. If you have any idea
that printing was invented simply to
print secular books, and steDography
and photography were contrived mere
Iv to set forth secular ideas, you are
mistaken. The printing press is to be
the great agency of Gospel proclama-
ton. It is high time that good men,
instead of denouucing the press, en-
plov ii to scatter forth the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ. The vast jority of peo-
pie in our cities do not come to church,
and nothing but the printed sermon
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
ministry When they see newspaper
man coming in they say: Alas, there
is reporter" 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 Cos
pei of Jesus Christ, and sermons
preached 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 eN-
hort in prayer meeting? Be short and
spirited. Do you teach in Bible class
Though you have to study every night
be interesting. Do you accost people
on lle Supjectol eIisloh III 'nelr io'i'es
OF III PuoIlc places otuQS @uLo''lesS
: ana use common SENSE ne mos
gFaceluI ana noSt oeau'llul 'Hlns Oh
earln Is 'le IF'lslon Vi 'eSus Cn.is'
ana Il you amh"aroIS presehl u 1t Il
utlalla'loh' We must 40 our Morh rap
idly, and we must do it effectively
"oon our 'illle Io' "oIN WIN pe gone .
A dying CHRISTIAN TOOK out his water
ana gave 1t 10 a friend ana sald lake
lnat watch nave no more use lor 1t
lime is at an end Tor me- and eternity
begins on my friends "heh oul
= Watch mas ucNed away lor US the las'
moment ana our clock has struck tol
| US the last hour, may il be found We