The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-11-24

ecclesiastical murnmies sitting aroHnt
to frown upon the fresh young pulpit.
Of America to try to awe them down
to cry out: Tut, tut, tut. Sensation,
al! They stand to-day preaching in
churches that hold a thousand people
and there are a hundred persons pres.
ent, and If they cannot have the world
saved in their way il seems as if they do
not want il saved at all.
do not know but the old wav O,
making ministers of the Gospel is bet
'er--a collegiate education and an ap-
premiership under the care and home
attention OF some earnest, aged Chris
tan minister, the young man getting
the patriarrh's spirit and assisting him
IN his religious service. Young LAWYERS
study with old lawyers, Young physi-
clans with old physicians, and | believe
1t would be a 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 a Chris
tan 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 sermop
an audience will get up and start for
Heaven. There will be in it many a
staccato passage. 1t will not be n lula
by. 1t will be a battle charge. Men
VIII drop their sins, for they will feel
the hot breath Of pursuing retribution
on the back of their necks. It will be
sympathetic with all the physical dis
t~resses as well as the spiritual dis
t~resses 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 Iepers.
THAT religious discourse of the flu
tnre will be an everyday sermon. go
ing right down into every mans life,
and il 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
,roWcl 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
Nashti and Eunice, the mother of Tim
othy, and Mary, the mother Of Christ,
and those women who on northern and
southern battlefields who were mis-
saken by the wounded for angels OF
mercy, fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, have TO tell you. the religious
of the future will be a re-
ported ermon If you have any idea
that printing was invented simply to
print secular books, and stenography
and photography were contriyed mere
" to set forth secular ideas. YOU are
mistaken. The printing press is to be
the great agency of Gospel proclama-
ton. II is high time that good men,
instead of dcnouncing the press. en-
ploy it to scatter forth the Gospel Of
Jesus Christ. The vast majority of pco-
Pile 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 II newspaper
man coming in they say: Alas. there
is a 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 if
you are doing your duty. DO you ex-
hort in prayer meeting? BE short and
Do you teach in Bible class?
though you have to study every night,
be interesting. Do you accost people
the subject of religion in their homes
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