The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-02-22
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Of tho Christ, who tory on went through
1.-The agonies OF assassination on The
rocky bluff back Of Jerusalem, you
i dared not face q sickly joke. Better
losd up With q few questions. no hat
next time you will be read y. Say to tho
scoffer: N y dear air, will yau tell me
j what makes tho difference bstween N the
SoRddtien OF woman In China and in the
United States? What 90 you think of
the sermon on tho mount? How do
you like tho golden rulo laid down In
tho Scriptures Are you in favor Of the
Ton commandments? In your large
and extensi,e reading have you come
across lovolfor character than Jesus
Christ? Will you please to name the
triumphant deathbeds Of inHdels and
atheists? How do you account for tho
fact thai among tho out and out be-
levers In Christianity wero suoh per-
soma as Benjamin Franklin, John Rus
KIN, Thomas Carlyle, Babington, Mao
aulay, William Penn, Walter Scott.
Charles Kingsley, Horace Bushnell,
Jamos A. Garfield, Robert Il. Lee, Stons.
wall Jackson, Admiral Toote, Admiral
Farragut, Ulysses 8. Grant, John MIL
ton, William Shakespeare, Chiof Jus.
t1oe Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Web.
ster, George Washington9 How do you
account for their fondncss for tho
Christian religionp Among tho In
numerable colleges and universities
OF the earth will you name me three
started by infldels and now supported
ny inhdels? Down in your hoart are
you really happy in tho position you
occupy antag onfatic To the Christian
religion? When do you have tho most
rapturous views Of tho next world ?'
Go at him with few such quest tions,
and he will got 80 red ia the face as to
suggest apoplexy, and he will look at
his watch and say he has an engage
msnt and must go. You will put him in
Q sweat that will bent Turkish bath
You will put him on reut compared
| with which our troops ut Bull Run
shade NO time as all. Arm yourself, not
with arguments, but Interrogation
points. and premise you victory. Shall
suoh man az you, shall such woman
| as you, surrender to one OF tho mean
est spirits that ever sna okcd up from
tho pit-the dunb de4il spoken OF In the
text?
But thon there are occasions when
this particular spirit that Christ exor-
cisad whom He said: II charge thee
to como out Of him." takes peoplo BY
tho Wholesale. In the most respon Give
religious audience havo you noticed
how many people never sing at all?
They have q book, nnd they havo a
yoioe, and they know how to read.
They know many OF the tunes, and yot
are silent while the groat raptures Of
music pass by. Among those who sing
not one out OF q hundred sings loud
enough to hear his own voice. They
hum it. They give sort OF religious
grnnt. They mako the lips &c. but It is
audible. With voice strong on ough
70 stop q street car ono block away all
they can afford in the praise Of God Is
Aboat half q whisper. With enough
sopranos, enough adtoD, enough basson
TO mako snail heaven between the
four walls they let the opportunity 60
by unimproved. The volume of voice
that asconds from the largest audience
that ever assembled ought to be multi
piled two thousnndfold. But the min
lster rises and gives out tho hymn, tho
organ begins, the choir or precentor
leads, tho audience arc standing SO
that tho lungs may havo full cxpan-
sion, and o mighty harmony 10 about to
ascend when tho evil spirit apelsen of
In my textile dumb deyil--spreads q
his two wings, ono over the lips Of ono
half tho audience and the other wing
over tho NpD OF the other half Of tho
audienoo, aud the voicoE roll back IN to
the throRts from which they started,
and only here and there anything Is
heard, and nine-tenths Of tho holy
power is destroyed, and tho dumb doviI,
as he fies away, says: II could not
keep Isaac Watts from writing that
hymn, and I could not keep Lowell Ma
son from composing tho tune to which
II is set, but smOte into silence or half
silcnce the lips from which 1t would
have aprcaa abroad to bless neighbor-
hoods and cities and then cunt the
wido open heavens" Givc tho long
meter doxology the full support Of
| Christendom, and those four lines
would take the whole earth for God.
That hymn, ooh, For Thousand
Tongues to Sing" was suggested to
! Charles Wesley by Pctor Boiler, who,
nfter his convcraion. said: II had
bettor keop silent about It," mo"
said Wcaley, ''if you had 10000
tongues, you had better use them for
Christ" And then that angel OF
hymnology pennod tho words:
oh. for thousand tongues to sing
t8 NY dear Redcemer's l,ratno. Il
Tho glories OF my God and King,
The trlumpha OF Ills grace!
jesus, tho name that calms our fearp,
That bidg our sorrows cease;
lis rauoio in tho snnor's ears;
lis life and health and peace
While muoh Of tho modern music
la religious doggersl, . eonseorated
honsense, g sacred imbecility, would
like to sec sono great musician Of
our tinlo lift the baton and marshal
"Luther's Judgment Hymn" "Yar-
mouth" Dundee" "Ariol," Battle
atreot." "Uxbridge," "Pleyel's Hymn"
"Harwell," Antioch" Mount pfs-
gnh" and Coronation" with few
regiments Of mighty tunes made In
our own time, and storm Asia, AZ
rlca and America for the kingdom Of
God. But tho Arst thing to do 10 TO
drive out tho dumb devil Of tho text
fren all our ohurehos. N
X Do net, howover, Ice va. lone our.
selvop In gonorAhtios. Not ono oa us
but has had our lives sometimes
touched by tho evil spirit OF
tho text-this awful dumb devil.