The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12

IN. wat -elf7rt prayers they VIII OF
fer Now. Ia our time. what IS called
q fashionable church is a place where
i q few people having attended very
carefully 10 their toilet. COME and sit
d0En-they do net want 10 be crowded
they Ike q whole seat 10 themselVes-
and then. IL they have any time left
from thinking Of their store. and from
examining the style Of the hat in front
OF them, they sit and listen to a SER
mon warranted 70 hit no mans sins
and listen 70 music Which is rendered
BY a choir warranted 70 sing tunes
/ that nobody knows. And then after
an hour and a half OF indolent yawning
they go home refreshed Every man
feels better after be has had a sieyle
IN many Of the churches Of Christ In
our day the music is simply a mockery.
! have not a cultivated ear nor a eulti-
Eated voice. Jet no man can do my
singing for me. have nothing 10 say
against artistic music. The g OF S.
pay 70 hear one Of the great queens Of
song is a good investment. But when
the people assemble in religious con-
vocation. and the hymn Is read. and
the angels OF God step from their
throne 70 catch the music on their
wings. do not let US drive them away
By our indifference. have preached
in churches where vast sums Of money
we're employed to keep up the music,
and It was as exquisite as any heard
on earth, but thought ar the same
time. for all matters practical.
would prefer the hearty. outbreaking
song Of a backwoods Methodist camp
meeting
Praising God In Song.
Let one Of these starveling fancy
songs sung in church get up before the
throne Of God how would it look stand
ing amid the great doxologies Of the
redeemed Let the finest operate air
that ever went up from the church OF
Christ get many hours the start, it
will be caught and past by the hosanna
Of the Sabbath school children. ! know
a church where the choir did all the
singing, save one Christian man who.
through perseverance OF the saints,
went right on, and afterward a com
mittee was appointed to wait on him
and ask him il he would not please TO
stop singing, as it bothered the
choir
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God.
But children Of the heavenly King
Should speak their Joys abroad"
Praise We the Lord; let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming IN our cities and
in the world hosanna VIII meet ho-
sanna and haileluiah halleiujah.
The Machinery Of Love.
He goes on and gives plates Of the
machinery by which this work Is to be
done. and he says he only needs at the
start a company Ia which the shares
shall be $50 each. and a hundred or
two hundred thousand shall be raised
just to make a specimen community.
and then this being formed. the world /
viii see its practicability, and very
soon $4,000, 900 or $1,000. 900 can be OBJ /
tanned. and ia ten years the whole I
earth will be emparadised. The plan /
is not so preposterous as some have
heard Of. but ] viii take no stock in I
that company. l do not believe it will 1
ever be done 10 that way by any me-
chanical force or by any machinery 4
that the human mind can put into play. /
It is to be done by the gospel Of the I
Son or Cod -the omnspotent machinery /
Of love and grace and pardon and sal /
vation. That IS to emDaradise the ma /
tions Archimedes destroyed a feet Or 4
ships coming up the harbor You
know how he did it, He lifted a great (
sunglass. history tells us. and when the
feet Of ships came up the harb0r Of i
Syracuse he brought to bear his sun
glass. and he converged the suns rays +
upon those ships Now. the sails are
wings Of FIRE the masts fall. the yes
sells sink Oh. my friends, BY the sun
glass Of the gospel conTerging the rays
Of the Sun Of Righteousness upon the
sins. the wickedness Of the world. We
VIII make them blaze and expire
Gods Omnipoieni Love.
Gods love wiz yet bring back this
ruined world 10 holiness and happiness
An infinite Father bends over il IN
sympathy. And 70 the orphan he will
be a father and 10 the widow he viii
be a husband. and to the outcast he
viii be home. and to the poorest
wretch that today crawls out Or the
ditch Of his abominations. crying for
mercy. he VIII be an an pardoning Re
deemer. The rocks viii turn gray with
age. the forests win be numbered In
the hurricane. the sun viii shut its
fiery eyelid. the stars VIII drop Ike
blasted figs. the sea viii heave It's last
groan and lash itself In expiring agony.
The continents viii drop like anchors
IN the deep. the world will wrap itself
in sheet Of fame and leap on the fu-
neral pyre Of the judgment day. but
Gods love viii never die. Il shall
kindie It's suns after ali other lights