The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

! but Paul made mistake when he kept on
until midnight. He ought to have stopped
| at III O'Clock, and there would have been
no accident. II Paul might have gone on
| TO too great length, let all those OF us who
are now preaching the gospel remember
that there is II limit to religious DISCOURSE
or ought to be, and that In our time we
| have no apostolic power of miracles. Ma
| poleon In an address OF seven minutes
| thrilled his army and thrilled Europe
| Christs sermon on the mount, tho model
| sermon, was less than eighteen minutes long
at ordinary mode OF delivery. 1t Is not
/ electricity scattered all over the sky that
| strikes, but electricity gathered into u
thunderbolt and hurled, and II Ia not rellg.
ious truth scattered over and spread out
over vast reach OF time, but religious
! truth projected in compact form that
flashes light upon the soul and rlves Its
| Indifference.
When the religious discourse OF tho
future arrives in this land and In the
| Christian church, the discourse which Is 20
arouse the world and startle the nations
and usher In the kingdom, 1t will be II brief
| discourse.
| Hear 1t, nil theological students, nil yo
| just entering upon religious work, all ye
men and women who In Sabbath schools
and other departments arc toillng for
| Christ and the salvation OF immortnls-
| brevlty, brevityl
But remark also that the religious
discourse OF the future OF which 1 speak
| will be popular discourse. There nre
those In these times who speak OF Il popular
sermon rs though there must bo something
| wrong about It.. As these critics are dull
themselves. the world gets the impression
that sermon is good in proportion as It is
| stupid. Christ was tho most popular
| preacher the world ever saw and con
slderlng the small number OF the
worlds population, had tho largest au-
| dience ever gathered. He never preached
| nuNwlprn w
| sensation. People rushed out in the Wild
| erness to heur Him reckless OF their phys
! ical necessities. SO great was their ankle
| ty to hear Christ that, taking no food with
them, they would have tainted and starved
| had not Christ performed miracle aud
fed them. Why did so many people take
| the truth at Chrlst's hands? Because they
all understood 1t. Ho illustrated His sub
| ject by hen and her chickens, by bushel
| measure, by u handful OF salt, by q birds
eight and by II lllYs aroma. All the people
knew what He meant, and they hocked to
| Him. And when the religious discourse Of
| the future appears 1t will not be Prince
| tonian, not Rochestetlan, not Andoverlan,
not Middetonlan, but Ollvetic--plan,
| practical, unique, earnest, comprehensive
| OF all tho woes, wants, sins and sorrows OF
IN auditory.
But when that exhortatlon or discourse
does come there will be a thousand gleam-
| ing scimiters TO charge on It. There are In
| telling young men how to preach, them
selves not knowing how, and am told that
! II u young man in somo OF our theological
seminaries says anything quaint or thrill
| ing or unique faculty and students fly Mt
| him and set him right md strnighten him
out and smooth him down and chop him
| OFF until he says everything just rs every
| body else says 1t. Oh, when the future re-
| ligious discourse OF the Christian church ar
rlyes all the churches Of Christ in our great
cities will be throngedi 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. tell
you, my friends, II the people of cur great
cities who have had trouble only thought
they could get practical and sympathetic
help in tho Christian church, there would
not be street In Washington or New York
or any other city which would be pussuble
on the Sabbath day IL there were n church
on it, for all the people would press to
that asylum OF mercy that great house of
comfort and consolation.
A mother with dead babe in her arms
came to the god silva and asked to have
her child restored to life. Tho god silva
said to her, "You so and get Il handful OF
mustard seed from 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 II place
where there had been no sorrow and where
there had been no death, but she found
mono. She went back to the god silva and
said: "My mission is n failure. You see, l
haven't brought the mustard seed. l can't
find place where there has been no sor-
row and no DEATH" "Oh!'' says the god
silva. Understand your sorrows are no
worse than the sorrows of others. We nll
have our griefs, and all have our heart
breaks"
"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 own"
We hear great deal OF discussion now
all over the land about why people do not
go TO church. Somo say 1t is because
Christianity is dying out and because peo-
| pie do not believe In the truth OF Gods
word, and MI that. They are false reasons.
The reason Is because our sermons and ex-
hortations are not interesting and practi-
cnl and helpful.
Some one might as we'll tell the whole
truth on this subject and so l 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 tho sim
pie reason that 1t will Neet tho woes and
the wants and the anxleties OF tho people.
| There are in all our denominations &C.
SioStuotiOui SiLtluB utOuuu W
frown upon the fresh young pulplts OF
America to try to awe them down, to cry
| out: tut, tut, tut Sensational' They
| stand to-day preaching In churches that
hold thousand people, and there arc II
| hundred persons present, and II they can
not have tho world saved In their way It
seems as IL they do not want it saved at
all.
do not know but the old way OF making
ministers OF the gospel is better-a col
| leglate education and an apprenticeship
under the care and home attention OF some
earnest, aged Christian minister, the young
man getting the patrlnrch's spirit aud as
slsting him In his religious service.
| The printing press is to bo tho great
| agency OF gospel proclamation. 1t Is high
| time that good men, instead OF denouncng
| the press, employ Il 10 scatter forth tho
| gospel OF Jesus Christ.
The vast ma jorlty of people 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 pence and
| heaven.
The time will come wien all the village,
| town and city newspapers will reproduce
| the gospel OF Jesus Christ, and sermons
| preached on the Sabbath will reverberate
all around the world, and, sone by type and
some by voice, all nations will be eyange-
lized.
He Was His Own Dentist
| A FoXcraft man who was suffering
| from a toothache while "seVen miles