Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-09

sailed. Your silence gives consent to
! the bombardment of your Fathers
/ house. You allow a slur TO be cast on
your mothers dying pillow. In behalf
| OF the Christ, who for YOU went through
| the o9onies OF assassination on the
| rocky bluff back of Jerusalem. YOU
| dared not face a sickly joke. Better
load up with a few questions. so that
next time YOU will be ready. Say TO the
scofer: My dear sir, will YOU tell me
what makes the difference between the
| conoItion of woman in China and in the
united States? What 90 YOU think of
| the sermon on the mount? How do
you like the golden rule laid down in
the scriptures? Are you in favor of the
| len commandments? In your large
! ana extensive reading have YOU come
across lovelier character than Jesus
thirst? Will You please to name the
triumphant deathbeds of iniidels and
atheists? How do YOU account for the
/ fact that among the out and out be-
levers in Christianity were such per
sons - Benjamin Franklin. John Rus
/ Kin. Thomas Carlyle. Darlington. Mac
aulay. William Penn. Walter Scott.
! Charles Kingsley. Horace Bushnell.
|
wall jackson. Admiral Foote. Admiral
tarragut. Ulysses :. Grant. John Mil
ton. William Shakespeare. Chief JUS
tice Marshall. John Adams. Daniel Web
Ster. George Washington? How do YOU
account for their fonduess for the
! Christian religion? Among the in
Vulnerable colleges and universities
! OF the earth Will YOU name me three
started by infdels and now supported
ny lnhdels? Down in your heart are
YOU really happy in the position YOU
! occupy antagonistic 10 the Christian
religion? When 90 YOU have the most
rapturous views of the next world ="
Go at him with few such questions.
and he will get so red in the face as TO
suggest apopleNy, and he will look at
ms watch and say he has an eugage-
ment and must go. You will put him in
a sweat that will beat a Turkish bath.
on will put him on a rout compared
with which our troops at Bull Run
made no time at all. Arm yourself. not
with arguments, but Interrogation
points, and promise YOU victory. Shall
such a man as YOU, shall such "A woman
as you. surrender TO one of the mean
est spirits that ever smoked up from
the pit-the dumb devil spoken OF in the
! text?
But then there are occasions when
! this particular spirit that Christ exor-
| cised when He said: Il charge thee
/ 10 come out of him" takes people by
! the wholesale. In the most responsive
| religious audience have YOU noticed
! now many people never sing at all?
| they have a book. and they have a
voice, and they know how TO read.
| Ihey know many of the tunes and vet
are silent while the great raptures OF
music pass by. Among those who sing
not one out of a hundred sings loud
enough to hear his own voice. They
! hum 1t. They give sort of religions
/ grunt. They make the lips go. but it is
! inaudible. With voice strong enough
/ to stop a street car one block away all
| they can afford in the praise of God is
about half "A whisper With enough
! sopranos, enough altos. enough bassos
TO make a small heaven between the
/ four walls they let the opportunity 90
! by unimproved The volume of voice
| that ascenGs from the largest audience
that ever assembled ought to be multi
| piled two thousandfold. But the min
l H..
organ begins. the choir or precentor
| 'eacs, the audience are standing so
that the lungs may have full eNpan-
sion. and mighty harmony is about TO
ascend when the evil spirit spoken Of
/ III my textile dumb Gcvil-spreads
/ his two wings, one over the Iips of one
| half the audience and the other wing
over the lips of the other half Of the
| audience, and the voices :oll back into
/ the threats from which they started
/ and only here and Their. ANYTHING i
] heard. and niue-tenths Of the holy
/ power is destroyed. and the GEmb devil
/ as he flies away. says: ~ could not
! keep Isaac Watts from writing that
/ hymn. and could not keep Lowell Ma
son from com posing the tune to which
/ II Is set, but | smote into silence or half
silence the lips from which Il would
have spread abroad 10 bless neipbbor-
| hoods and cities and then mount the
wide open heavens" Give the LONG
meter doYology the full support Of
I Christendom. and those four lines
would take the whole earth for God.
That hymn. ooh For Thousand
Tongues 10 Sing. was suggested to
Charles Wesley by Peter Boiler. who
after his conversion, said: II had
better keep silent about it," No"
said Wesley. ''if you had 10000
tongues, you had better use them for
| Christ And then that angel of
| hymnology peHned the words:
on. for thousand CUES tc ling
MY dear Eedeemer's praise.
The glorics ~ my God and King
The triumphs of His grace,
Jesus. the name that Gains our fsars
That bids our sorrows cease.
It's music IN the sinners ears:
Tie life and health aEd peace.
While much Of the modern music
is religious dogScrel, consccrated
nonsense, a sacred imbccility, I would
! like To SOC SONG nrnnt rnnainin1. IL