Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-20
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aroma. All the people knew what he
meant, and they fiocked to him. And
when the religious discourse of the
future appears it will not be Princeto-
MAN, not Rochesterian, not Andoverian,
not Middletonian, but Olivetic-plain,
practical, unique, earnest, comprehen-
| sive of all the woes, wants, sins and
sorrows Of an auditory.
But when that exhortation or dis
course does come there will be a thou
sand cleaning scimiters to charge on
it, There are in so many theological
seminaries professors telling young
men how to preach, themselves not
knowing how, and I am told that if
young man in some Of our theological
seminaries says anything quaint or
thrilling or unique faculty and stu
dents fly at him and set him right and
straighten him out and smooth him
down and chop him off until he says
everything just as everybody else says
it. Oh, when the future religious dis
course of the Christian church arrives
all the churches of Christ in our great
cities will be thronged! The world
wants spiritual help. All who have
buried their dead want comfort All
know themselves to be mortal and to
be immortal, and they want to hear
about the great future. l tell you, my
friends, if the people of our great cities
who have had trouble only thought
they could get practical and sympa-
thetic help in the Christian church,
there would not be a street in Wash
ington or New York or any other city
which would be passable on the Sab
bath day if there were a church on it,
for all the people would press to that
asylum of mercy, that great house of
comfort and consolation.
Ecclesiastical Mummies.
A mother with a dead babe in her
arms came to the god silva and asked
to have her child restored to life. The
god silva said to her, you go and get
handful of mustard seed from a
house in which there has been no
sorrow and in which there has been no
death, and 1 will restore your child to
life" So the mother went out and she
went from house to house and from
home to home looking for a place
where there had been no sorrow and
where there had been no death, but she
found none. She went back to the god
silva and said: MY mission is a failure.
You see, haven't brought the mustard
seed. 1 can't find a place where there
has been no sorrow and no DEATH"
"Ohr' says the god silva. understand,
your sorrows are no worse than the
sorrows of others. We all have our
griefS and all have our heartbreakS"
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its
We hear a great deal of discussion
now all over the land about why peO-
pie do not go to church. Some say it is
because Christianity is dying out and
because people do not believe in the
truth of Gods word, and all that.
They are false reasons. The reason is
because our sermons and eXhOrtatiOns
are not interesting and practical and
helpful. Some one might well tell
the whole truth on this subject, and so
I will tell it. The religious discourse
of the future, the gospel sermon to
come forth and shake the nations and
lift people out of darkness, will be
popular sermon, just for the simple
reason that it will meet the woes and
the wants and the anXietieS of the peO-
pie.
There are in all our denominations
ecclesiastical mummies sitting around
to frown upon the fresh young pulpits
of America to try to awe them down,
to cry out: Tut, tut, tut! Sensation
alp They stand today preaching in
churches that hold q thousand people,
and there are a hundred persons pres
ent, and if they cannot have the world
saved in their way it seems as if they
do not want it saved at all.
I do not know but the old way of
making ministers of the gospel is bet
ter-a collegiate education and an APP
premiership under the care and home
attention of some earnest, aged Chris
tian minister, the young man getting
the patriarch's spirit and assisting him
in his religious service. Young law
yers study with old lawyers, young
physicians with old physicians, and 1
believe it would be great help if ev-
cry 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
a CHRISTIAN minister.
Religious Awakening.
But, 1 remark again, the religious
discourse of the future will be an
awakening sermon. From altar rail to
the front doorstep, under that sermon,
an audience will get up and start for
heaven. There will be in it many a
staccato passage. It will not be 1ul-
laby. 1t will be a battle charge. Men
will drop their sins, for they will feel
the hot breath of pursuing retribution