Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-09-18
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| appointed 10 preach sermon or how 10
| reach the masses. | am told the nc0n-
| grllity was TOO much for the risi5iiteS of
MANY of the clergy in the audience. Now,
| young man coming out from such be-
dwarfing influences. how can he enter INTO
the wants and the woes and the sympa-
thies of the people who want on the
Lords day a practical gospel that will
help them all the week and help them for
| ever:
Young ministers are told they must
preach Christ and him crueified. Nes but
not as an abstraction. Many minister
has preached Christ ana him crucified
in such way that he preached an
audience Of five hundred down 10 two
hundred. and from two hundred to one
hundred and from one hundred to fifty,
aud from fifty to twenty. and OIL down
until there was but little left save the
sexton, who was paid 10 stay until the
service was aver and lock up. There is
Il great deal Of cant about Christ and
him crucifed 1t is not Christ and him
cruefed as an abstraction. but as m ON
nipotent sympathy applied to all the
wants and woes Of our immortal nature
Christ who will help us in every domes-
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struggle--a Christ for the parlor. Christ
for the nursery, Christ for the Kitchen,
a Christ for tie barn, Christ for the
street, Christ for the store. Christ for
the banking house, a Christ for the fac
| tory, Christ fer the congressional as
sembly, u Christ for the court room, a
Christ for every lrjal und every emer-
| gency and every perturbation.
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begins clear back in the home circle
with misrepresentation as to which child
ought to be conseefated to the ministry.
John is n keen, bright boy. lie is good
at a largain. When he trades at school,
he always gets the best of it. Make him
Il merchant. He will soon gather a for
tune and 20 right up to take his place
among the commercial princes. George
has great cerebral development. Phr II
ologically. language is large. Make him
n lawyer He will argue his way to the
front. and he will take his place among
the Manstelds and the Storys Henry
has large girth at the chest and is mill
tary in his step and bearing. Send him
to West Poin+ ". shall see him yet
brigadier general. William is fond of
sketching, especially Of sketchng ships
ana he knows as much about 4 vessel as
an old sailor. Make him shipbuilder
The vessel that he builds will success
fully wrestle with the Caribbean VIII II
! wind. Aleck is not very well. He has
never had very good digestion. Since
that last malarial attack his spleen is
enlarged. He has a morbid way of look
ing at things. He viii sit for hours look
ing at one figure in the carpet His man
ners are so mild, so soft, 50 gentle 50
affectionate, so heavenly. and he cri )
easily. Make him a minister. Now. my
friends, that is a great mistake. If you
want to consecrate one of your sons to
the gospel ministry. take the one widest
awake, the brawniest, the most bril-
liant, the most irresistible, the most po-
tent. \ tremendous work opens before
Il profession whose one object is to lift
the nations toward God ana p.epare
them for heaven.
NJ, citing Pub ic Neeas.
All. my friends, churches will be large
ly attended just in proportion as We min
listers can meet their wants, meet their
sufferings. meet their bereavements and
meet their sympathies. If there be a
church with small help, small audience;
medium help. medium audience; large
help, large audience. If there be fam
inc in a city and three depots of bread
and one depot has 100 loaves and an
other 500 leaves and another depot
10000 loaves, the depot that has lC0
loaves will have applicants the depot
that has 800 Ioaves will have far more
applicants, the depot that has 10000
loaves will have throngs, throngs,
thropgs.
Oh, my brethren in the Christian min
istgy. we must somehow get our shaal-
Dire under the burden of the people on
the Lords day and give them a eooa
stout lift, and We can do it. We have it
all our Own way. 1t is Il great pity If
with the floor clear and ne interruption,
we cannot during the conrse of an hour
get our hymn II our prayer or our ser
mon untler Srch momentum we can by
the he'll u God, lift the people. body,
mind and soul, clear out of their SINS,
temptations and troubles
| think that ministerial lazinesS o2ten
| empties tho church of auditors Hearers.
who are Intelligent through reading Il VS.
! parr'S AID by active association in busi
/ ness circtes, will not on the Sabbath sit
and listen to platitudes. Hearers will
not come to sermons which have in teen
no important facts no information. no
stirring power. no adaptation, no ire.
! The pew will not listen to the pulpit IN
less the pulpit knows more than the pew
! Ministerial la2iness has cleared out many
! churches. Such ministers saunter ir0dnd
from parlor to parIor under the name of
pastoral visitation and 90 gadding about
through the village or the city on er-
rands of complete nothingness and wrap
their brains around cigar and smoke
them up, ana then on Saturday afternoon
put a few crude thoughts together and
! on Sunday morning wonder that the
theme Of Christ and him crucihcd does
not bring large audience, and on Mon
day sit down and write ieremiads for the
! religious newspapers about the decadenc,
of church attendance.
urchgoing as Duty.
People will not go to church merely as
a matter of duty. There viii not next
Sabbath be a thousand people in any city
! who will get up in the morning and say
The Bible says ! must go TO church. 1t
! is my duty to go TO church, therefore /
viii go 10 church" The vast multitude
Of people who 90 to church go to church
because they like it, and the multitude of
/ people who stay away from church stay
| away because they do not like it. anl
! not speaking about the way the world
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