The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-28
DIR. QUAYLE In THE PULPIT.
A Sermon RepIetc with Wit, Wisdom
and Interest.

Sermon RepIetc with Wit, Wisdom
and Interest.
DR.. Quayle delivered a sermon in Merid-
ian-street Methodist Church last night that
was remarkable for the amount of wit. wis
dom and eloquence that it contained. He
addressed a congregation that filled every
seat in the auditorium. The text was taken
from Psalm xix: There is no speech nor
language where their voice is not heard"
The minister said in part
George Mcdonald, the genial Scotch
poet, has a little volume of sermons which
he entities 'Unspoken Sermons by which
he means sermons that never found au-
dience in the matter of speech-that he
wrote them, that he never delivered them
to a congrega tion-and 1 have a suspicion
that he read them to his wife. I think
that is mean trick for a preacher, SIM
ply because he has got wife. to make
her listen to his sermons. 1t is bad enough
for her to have to listen to them when he
is a preacher. 1 will say for myself that
have great many failings. Of which
will not speak here, though / never was
mean enough to practice up my sermons
On my wife. / think IL my wife listens to
my sermons once when they got off
to the rest of the crowd she is nice
ing twice a Sunday. 1 think that would
be too hard on her.
UNSPOKEN SERMONS.
ST want to speak to this congregation
tonight, by its courtesy, on unspoken SER
mons. / am not going to give George Nc
Donald's book, but 1 speak of unspoken
sermons for different reason. Now,
George Mcdonald is always interesting. L
advise people to read him freely, because
he is always wholesome. Not that you
will always agree with him. You will not.
We don't always agree with our own wives
1 have known women who had the inlper-
thence to differ from their own husbands.
l was shocked at it. but 1T had to occur.
1t is a foolish man that always demands
agreement with him. Ii Is an autocratic
man that always demands agreement with
him. 1 myself do not care whether a man
agrees with me or differs from me, IL he
says things that provoke me to thought,
If he stings me to differentiations from him
i'm important regards. Persons never think
so well or so rapidly as when somebody
differs from them. Once / hired a
man for so cents to go to lecture of mine
and laugh at the right time and cry at the
right time, and not to go to sleep any
time. He hasn't his SO cents. 1 have it.
He didn't stick to his bargain.
There are preachers that preach and
don't know it. Through my lifetime ii has
been my pleasure to watch folks as I
would watch flowers or budding trees
playing children. People are an intoxica-
ton; it is always good to get out on the
big roadway of the world. even when ii IS
dusty. Folks live there. People are on the
highway. They are going somewhere. They
are out on pleasure excursion; they are
glad with glee; they are summary with
content; they are wintry with discomfort.
1t is good to be where people are. take
no stock in the recluse who shuts himself
behind his closed lattices and tries to dull
the sounds of the worlds voices out. You
can keep cleaner If you stay in the house
and wash all the time. but you can be OF
great service If you go out and work all
the time. Our business is where folks are.
Our opportunity is where people live. Our
joy ought to be to go where the great
concourse is, where the swirl and the
troublings of the worlds great movements
he. and in my poor way 1 have tried to
mingle with the company Of people and
watch them. And as have watched peo-
pie ! have found them preaching a good
many sermons, folks that would have de-
MED IT, If you would have said they were
preacher they would have said, You're
another. I think that, outside of Henry
Ward Beecher, the greatest preacher of
the nineteenth century and the new CEN
fury is Robert Browning, poet
wICKEDNESS AND PERJURY.
lone unspoken sermon 1 have heard is
that wickedness tends to penury. A great
many people suppose that wickedness is
shrewdness, that it Is fine business pol
icy. that it is 'on Change that it knows
how to carry on great interests. What I
say to you tonight is that wickedness tends
to penury. don't say that all wicked men
are impoverished, but l say that wicked
ness tends to impoverishment / say that
goodness is good economies. that badness
is bad economics. say that anybody that
watches the movements of the worlds
affairs will find out that honesty pays,
pays the man that is honest a thousand
fold. He has a peace of conscience. He
can look the world in the eyes. He can say
that L will pay one hundred cents on the
dollar, no more, no less He can walk
along the street and not be afraid. He can
have a fellow pat him on the shoulder and
not be 'skeered.' Honesty pays. 1t gives
a man good deal of quiet He is not afraid
when somebody jangles the doorbell that
there is a creditor at the door. 1 would
want to pay my debts just 1 could feel
semidecent. / would like to pay my debts
so that L could walk along the road and
not have to dodge anybody but bicyclfsts
and the street cars and the women. You
needn't laugh. | have come as near being
run over by women by anything else.
1 dodge women with a great deal of alac-
rity and frequently with great deal of de-
light. L wonder If anybody would ever
envy Becky Sharp. 1 wonder If he would.
She was so keen and smart. she was like
a thousand women melted into one. One
woman is peart enough to undo man. She
was as peart as thousand. Sne was so
manipulating and fascinating. She wanted
TO marry rich. which is always a sign OF
weakness in women. Any man or any
woman who wants to marry riches for
riches sake is a silly man or a silly woman.
I have watched around good deal and l
haven't found, in the main. people around
trying TO marry riches. l think that is a
creditable thing 10 say OF the rank and file
of people. In the main we married be-
cause we fell in love and We didn't try 10
stop 1t. That is the only reason for mar
rying."
AGAINST EXTRA AGANCE.
DR.. Quayle spoke a strong word against
extravaganza and was particularly severe
against young men who. on small salaries,
think they must take their girl home
from the theater few books distance in
a carriage at "a dollar minute-you can.
1 told, hire carriages at so cents a min
ute." the preacher said with fine sarcasm.
He urged his hearers not to try to live