The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-09-24

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shadows of the night? Why go growing
on your way TO celestial enhancement?
Come out OF that cave and sit down in the
warm hight of the Sun Of Righteousness.
Away with your odes TO melancholy and
Hervey S Meditations Among the Tombs"
have TO say also that we need to put
more spice and enlivenment in our relig-
ious teaching, whether it be in the prayer
meeting or IN the Sunday-school or in the
church. We ministers need more fresh
ar and sunshine in our lunGs and our
heart and our head Do you wonder that
the world is so far from being converted
when YOU find so little vivacity in the pull
PIT and In the pew? We want like the
Lord, to plant in our sermons and eXhor-
tatlons more lilies of the field. We want
fewer rhetorical Celebrations and fewer
sesquipedalian words, and when we talk
about shadows we do not want to say
adumbration, and when we mean queer
ness we do not want to talk about idfogyn-
crasies, or If a stitch in the back we do
not want TO talk about lumbaeo. but in
the PLAIN vernaculer of the great masses.
preach that gospel which proposes TO
make all men happy, honest. victorious and
Tree. In other words, we want more Gin.
nomon an less gristle. Let this be so in
All the different departments of work 10
which the Lord calls US.
i promise n high spiritual blessing TO
any one who will sing in church and who
viii sing so heartily that the people all
around cannot help but sing Wake up,
All tine churches from Bangor to Sap
francisco and across Christendom! 1t
is not matter of preference; IL is a mat
ter OF religious duty Oh, for fifty times
more volume of sound than has vet rolled
up from our churches German chorals
IN German cathedrals surpass ms, and vet
Germany has received nothing at the hands
OF God compared with America And ought
the acclaim IN Germany be louder than
that OF America? Soft. long drawn out
music IS appropriate for the drawing
room and appropriate for the concert,
put 1T. John gives an idea Of the sonorous
and resonant congregational singing an.
proprlate Tor churches when in listening
TO the temple service of heaven he saws:
L heard a great voice, as tho voice oil a
great multitude and as the voice of many
waters and as the voice of mighty thun-
derlngs, Halleiujah, for the Lord God
omnlpotent reigneth'
JOIN with me in a crusade, giving me not
only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting
OF your voices, and l believe we can.
through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls
into the kingdom of Christ. An argument
they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk
down, but 5000 voiced utterance of praise
TO God Is resistible. Would that Queen
Balkis would drive all her spice laden
dromedaries into our church music "Nei-
Their was any such spice as the Queen of
Sheba gave King Solomon"
Now, l want to impress YOU with the
fact that religion is sweetness and per-
tumc and .spikenard and saffron and Gin
namon and cassia and frankincense and all
sweet spices together. oh" you say, II
have not looked at it as such. 1 thought
1T was a nuisance. 1t had for ma a re-
pulsion. ] held my breath as though it
were a malodor. / have been appalled, at
ITS advance. / have said, If / have any re-
hgion at all, / want to have lust as little
OF OF, 1t as IS possible to get through with"
Oh, what a mistake you have made, my
brother. The religion of Christ is a pres
ent and everlasting redolence. 1t coun-
teracts all trouble. just put it on the
stand beside the pillow of sickness 1t
catches IN the curtains and perfumes the
stltlng ar. 1t sweetens the cup of bitter
medicine and throws a glow on the gloom
OF the turned lattice. 1t is a balm for the
aching side and soft bandage for the
temple stung with pain. 1t lifted Samuel
rutherford into a revelry of spiritual de-
Hght while he was IN physical agonies. 1t
helped Richard Baxter until in the midst
OF such a complication Of diseases as per-
haps no other man ever suffered he wrote
The SAINTS Everlasting Rest" And it
poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon,
the light Of the shining gate of the shin
ing. city. And IT Is good for rheumatism
and for neuralgia and Tor low spirits and
Tor consumption. 1t is the cathohcon for
all disorders. Yes, it will heal all your
sorrows
Why did you look so sad this morning
when you came in? Alas, for the loneli-
ness and the heartbreak and the load that
is never lifted from your soul! Some OF
you go about feeling like Macaulay when
he wrote, III l had another month of
such days as / have been spending, L
would be inpatient to get down into my
little narrow crib in the ground, like
been times in your life when you wished
you could get out of this life. You have
SAID, Oh, how sweet to my lips would be
the dust of the valley" and wished you
could pull over you in your last slumber
the coverlet of green grass and daisies.
You have said: Ooh, how beautifully quiet
there"
1 see all around about me widowhood
and orphanage and childiessness, sadness,
disappointment, perplexity. If L could
ask all those IN any audience who have
icit no sorrow and been buffeted by no
disappomtmcnt-if l could ask all such
20 rise, how many would rise? Not one.
A widowed mother. with her little child,
went West, hoping TO get better wages
there, and she was taken sick and died
he Oversecr OF the poor got her body and
put II IN a box and put it in a wagon and
s tarted down the street toward the GENE.
terry at full trOt. The little child, the only
child. ran after it through the streets,
crying Bring me back my
And 1T was said that az the people looked
ON and saw her crying after that which
lay IN the box in the wagon. all she loved
on carth-it IS said the whole VILLAGE was
m tears And that is what q great many
OF You arc doing chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, ls there no appeasemcnt for all this
BORROW that / see about me? Yes, the
thought OF resurrection aud reunion far
beyond this scene of struggle and tears
They shall hunger no more. neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on
tncm nor any heat. for the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead
them TO living fountains of water, and
sod snali wipe away all tears from their
eyes. Across the couches of your sick
ana across the graves of your dead 7 fling
.h' shower OF sweet spices Queen Balkig
driving up TO the piliared portico of the
mouse OF cedar, carried no such uuncencv
Of perfume as exhales to-day from the
Lord garden. lt Is peace il is sweet.
ness. lt Is comfort. II is infinite eatisfac-
ton, this gospel i commend to YOU.
May God grant that through your own
practical experience you may find that re.
leiou ways arc ways of plcasantncss and
mat oil her paths are paths of peace. that
7 ls perfume now and perfume forever.
And there was an abundance of spice.
neither was there any such spice AS The
Queen OF oheJa gave to King Solomon"
a Nscrssnry Precnution.
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