The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-11-22

premiership under the care and nome
attention of some earnest, aged Chris
tian minister, the young man getting
the patriarch's spirit and assisting him
in his religious service. Young lawyers
study with old lawyers, young pbysi-
clans with old physicians, and believe
1t would be great help If every young
man studying for the Gospel ministry
could get himself in the home and heart
and sympathy and under the benedic-
ton and perpetual presence Of Chris.
tian minister.
But, / remark again, the religious
discourse Of the future will be an
awakening sermon. From altar rail to
the front door STEP under that sermon,
an audience will get up and start for
Heaven. There will be in it many q
staccato passage. 1t will not be lulla'
by. 1t will be a battle charge. Men
will drop their sins, for they will fee,
the hot breath of pursuing retributiol
on the back of their necks. It will be
sympathetic with all the physical dis,
tresses as well as the spiritual dis.
tresses of the world. Christ not only
preached, but he healed paralysis, and
he healed epilepsy, and he healed the
dumb and the blind and the lepers.
That religious discourse of the. ftl.
ture will be an everyday sermon, go.
ing 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 yard.
stick and plane. And it will teach WON.
en- how to preside over their households
and how to educate their children and
how to initiate Miriam and Esther and
Vashti 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, l 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 stenography
and photography were contrived mere.
ly to set forth secular ideas, you are
mistaken. The printing press is to be
the great agency of Gospel proclama.
ton. 1t is high time that good men,
instead of denouncing the press, EN-.
ploy it to scatter forth the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ. The vast majority 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 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 a reporterl" Every added reporter
is 10000, $4,000, 100000 immortal soul.
added to the auditory. The time viii
come when all the village, town anG
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, ali ma
tions will be evangelized.
The practical bearing of this is upol
those who are engaged in Christian
work, not only upon theological stu
dents and young ministers, but upol
all who preach the Gospel and all whit
exhort in meetings and all of you /
you are doing your duty. Do you ex
hort in prayer meeting? Be short AM
spirited. Do you teach in Bible class
Though you have to study every night
be interesting. Do you accost peopl
on the subject of religion in their home
or in public places? Study adroitnes
and use common sense. The mos
graceful and most. beautiful thing ol
earth is the religion of Jesus Christ
and if you awkwardly present it it i
defamation. We must do our work rap
idly, and we must do it effectively
Soon our time for work will be gone.
A dying Christian took out his watcI
and gave it to friend and said: TAX
that watch. have no more use for il
Time is at an end for me, and eternit
begins" Oh, my friends, when ou
watch has licked away for us the las
moment, and our clock has struck TO
us the last hour, may it be found W
did our work well, that we did it in tn
very best way, and whether W
preached the Gospel in pulpits O
taught Sabbath classes, or admin:
tered TO the sick as physicians. or bal
gained as merchants, or pleaded the LAY
as attorneys, or were busy as artisan
or husbandmen or as mechanics, @
were, like Martha, called to give met
to a hungry Christ, or, like Hannah,
make coat for prophet, or, like Debc
rah, to rouse the courage of some timi
Barak in the Lords conflict, we did on
work in such a way Ahat it will stan
the test of judgment! And in the lon
procession of the redeemed that marc
around the throne may it be found tha
there are many there brought 10 Go
through our instrumentality and i
whose rescue we exult. But let none {
us who are still unsaved wait for thi
religious discourse of the future. 1t ma
come after our obseuuies. Ii NAV com