The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-12
NOTES FROM RAMS HORN
REV. ELIJAH r. BROWN NOT EN-
TIRELY DIFFERENT.
Has Adopted simple style of Preach
ing, but often LOOses an
Epigram.

The Rev. Elijah 2. Brown, known far and
wide as Rams Horn Brown" from his
former editorial connection with a re-
ligious journal of that peculiar title, occu-
pied the pulpit of Central-avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal Church yesterday morning
and delivered a sermon on the subject,
Our Dark Days Gods Good Days MI.
Brown took as his text a part OF Psalms
XXX. S: Weeping may endure for a night,
but JOY ccmeth i'm the morning
The discourse was based on the story In
the t~wenty-fourth chapter of Luke describ-
ing the trip of two disciples from Jerusa-
lem to Emmaus on the day of the resurrec-
ton. their meeting with Christ, whom they
took to be a stranger. and His unique
method of Opening their eyes" by ex-
pounding TO them the scriptures beginning
with Moses and tie prophets. MIR. Brown
has TO q large extent abandoned his original
epigrammatic style of preaching. which
brought him both fame and fortune. and
now contents himself with a plain,
straightforward exposition OF the Bible.
Here and there. however. in yesterday
mornings sermon the style characteristic
OF his early preaching and writing cropped
out. Some of these striking sayings were:
I'VE will find out some day that some of
the greatest names I'm heaven We're scarcely
known here and some of the great names
down here are scarcely known up there"
ct is a splendid thing for Christians TO
travel in pairs as they go through this
world, a splendid thing for them 10 do. for
II is a hard thing to get to heaven alone
and a good thing TO have the fellowship
of another Christian. especially on dark
days. 40 we can talk over the difficulties
with some one that has been through
them"
pairs. We are told in the Bible that one
shall chase a thousand and two shall put
ten thousand to flight. and | have an idea
be greatly increased if the membership
were divided into pairs-people that are
having fellowship together.
Paul and Silas sang in prison together,
but there is not a word on record OF them
singing anywhere else. Probably they got
goodness and their hearts became so full
that they just broke out into song"
TOO many Christians are going along
without thinking that there Is anybody
else. of how they might help somebody else
and how they might get help from some
body else"
IF these two disciples on the way to EN-
maus had not been travelling together that
day maybe the Lord would not have APP
peared unto them. The scriptures make it
very plain that there is something in the
way of spiritual blessing that comes by
Christians being together that does not
come any Otner time.
GOD The SALOONS.
"Oh, how 1t would help US If we could
only believe it in ally that the Lord
is doing according to His york, These men
expected that the kingdom was going TO be
restored and that Christ was the man that
was going to be their king. and that He
was going to set up His kingdom again in a
more glorious way than it had been in
A. 1ox~ - C.I0~D a,l Ao.,,,.1 "A IaI
not been realized according to their ex-
pectation they were in darkness and sad
ness. and the sole reason for their sadness
on that day was because they were mis-
taken in their idea and i'm their plan. God
never does anything as we expect Him to
do il. He did not take slavery out of this
country as We expected Him to.
5 there are people to-day who have
narrow ideas as 10 the way i'm which the
saloon is to be taken out, but God will give
US as great a surprise on that line as He
did in regard To slavery. lie won't take
the saloon away as We expect Him to. but
He will take il in such a way as that we
shall know il is a manifestation OF God"
There are certain things that God can
tell us i'm darkness that He can't tell us
i'm the sunlight, certain things that God
can tell us down here that He can't tell us
in heaven.
Our dark days may be our best DAYS.
because they may be Gods days. the days
I'm which God will take " very close to
himself and tell US something He could not
| tell Us in heaven. and that is one reason
why salvation is something the angels want
| to look into. | don't blame them. They
l want TO look into il because they want to
| know more about God"
l IF those disciples had not known more
about the scriptures on that dark day
than the average church member does to-
day the Lord could not have said very
much To them"
| You can't open the Bible anywhere with
/ out having an introduction To Christ. Open
the book anywhere and read on. and YOU
| viii read To Christ"
There are two ways Of knowing the Lord
| JesuS-after the flesh and after the spirit
| Those disciples knew Him before the resur-
| rection-knew Him after the flesh. They
may have been following Him during all
| the years OF His ministry. heard the things
| He said and seen the things that He did.
but they did not know Him as they knew
| Him afterward. And there is such a thing
as our doing the same thing. We may
know Jesus intellectually. we may know
His history. We may be satisfied that He
suffered under Pontius PLATE. and VET il
may be simply an intellectual knowledge OF
| Christ"
After Adam got into trouble God could
do something for him. God could tell him
things lie could not possibly tell him in
the Garden OF Eden. | verify bslieve-and
! say IL without irreverence-that can
tell an angel that has lived in the presence
Of God thousands of years. / can tell him
things about God that he does not know
lie has never had smallpox. lie don't
know what Cod can do for a man in that
fix"