The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-24

tian minister, the young man getting
the patriarch's spirit and assisting him
in his religious service. Young lawyers
study with old lawyers, young physi-
clans with old physicians. and believe
it 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 benedc-
ton and perpetual presence of Chris
tian minister.
But, I remark again, the religious
discourse of the future will he 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 a
staccato passage. 1t will not be a lula
! by. 1t will be battle charge. Men
will drop their sins, for they will feel
the hot breath Of pursuing retribution
on the back of their nccks. 1t 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 flu
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 pillow, 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 wom-
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, have TO tell you, the religious
discourse of the future will be 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 a newspaper
man coming in they say. Alas, there
is a reporter" Every added reporter
is 10000, 10000, 100000 immortal souls
J 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, ali ma
tions 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 if
=, you are doing your duty. Do you eX-
- 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 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 awlwarGly present it it is
j defamation. We must DO our work rap
idly, and we must do it effectively.
=, Soon our time for work will be gone.
= \ dying Christian took out his watch
~ and gave it to a friend and said: Take
that watch. 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
y moment, and our clock has struck for
=. us the last hour, may it be found we
" did our work we'll, that we did il in the
;, very best way, and whether we
, preached the Gospel in pulpts or
y taught Sabbath classes, or admins
y tered to the sick as physicians, or bar
gained as merchants, or pleaded the law
as attorneys, or were busy as artisans
=, or husbaudmen or as mechanics, or
:, were, like Martha, called to give a meal
y to a hungry Christ, or, like Hannah, to
- make a coat for a prophet, or, like Debo-
;, rah to rouse the courage of some timid
Barak in the Lords conflict, we did our
- work in such u way that it will stand
=, the test of judgment! And in the long
;, procession of the redeemed that march
around the throne may it be found that
there are many there brought TO Goo
Is through our instrumentality and in
whose rescue we eNult. But let none of
us who are still unsayed wait for that
Il religious discourse Of the future. 1t may
{ come after our obscqules. 1t may come
after the stonecutter has chiseled our
name on the slab so years before. DO
Il not wait for great steamer of the
= Cunard or White Star line ~ take you
= off The Mreclk hul huLL LLn first crnfI