Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-03

IL the SpdCG Ol IOtIJ -i-NE IIl1lIpIC9 49,
ter adjourn it to some other day.
POPULAR PREACHING.
I remark also that the religious dis
course Of the future of which l speak
will be a popular discourse. There are
those in these times who speak of a
popular sermon as though there must
be something wrong about it. AS these
critics are dull themselves, the world
gets the impression that a sermon IS
good in proportion as it is stupid.
Why did so many people take the
truth at Christ's hands? Because they
all understood it. He illustrated His
subjects by a hen and her chickens, by
a bushe measure, by a handful of salt.
by a birds flight and by a lily's aroma.
All the people knew what He meant,
and they focked to hear Him.
Oh, when the future religious dis
| course of the Christian church arrives
all the churches of Christ in our great
| cities will be ~thronged!
SYMPATHY SERMONS.
The world wants spiritual help. All
who have buried their dead want COM
! fort. AL know themselves to be NOR
tai and to be immortal, and they want
to hear about the great future.
I tell you, my friends, if the people
of our great cities who nave had trou-
bic only thought they could get practi-
cal and sympathetic help in the Chris
tan church there would not be a street
in Washington or New York or any
other city which would be passable on
the Sabbath day if there were a church
on it, for all the people would press tc
that asylum of mercy, that great nous
of comfort and consolation.
That religious discourse of the fu-
ture will be an everyday sermon, go
ing right down into every mans life
and it will teach him how to vote, how
to bargain, how to plough, how to de-
any work he is called to do, how tt
WELD trowel and pen and pencil ant
. ~yardstick and plane.
And it will teach women how to pre-
ciIo oxyor thojr hnI1CnhOJdc and how r.
! educate their children, and how to i'm
! itate Miriam and Esther and WASN'T
: and Eunice, the mother of Timothy
and Mary, the mother of Christ, AM
e those women who on Northern an,
! Southern and Cuban battlefields wer
= mistaken by the wounded for angels o
) mercy fresh from the throne of God.
5 Yes, I have to tell you, the religion
q discourse Of the future will be a re
ported ermo If you have any ide
n that printing was invented simply t
e print secular books, and stenograph
and photography were contrived mere
ly to set forth secular ideas, you ar
u mistaken.
= PREACHING THROUGH PRESS.
The printing press is to be the grea
agency of gospel proclamation. 1t
high time that good men, instead {
y. d~enouncing the press, employ it to sea
ter forth the. gospel of Jesus. Chris
The vast majority of people in OF
cities do not come, to church, and mott
= 4 MS oCLA 1NN
ID them and call them to pardon and lii
% and peace and heaven. a. ft>Nz EU
he Eer EXPLOITATION. sa ii
W The practical bearing of this is upC
At those who are, engaged in Christie
in work, not only upon theological ST.
IS dents and young minister's; but upe
or all who preach the gospel, and all wi
tie exhort in meetings, and all Of you,
ne you are doing your duty.%tb*5f#t @i<io
Do you exhort in prayer meetina
81 Be short and spirited. Do you tea
IN Bible class? Though you have
lie study every night, be interesting. J
1g YOU accost people on the subject of I
ms ligion in their homes or in pub
ne places? Study adroitness n use col
en- mon sense.
he The most graceful and most beau
ks ful thing on earth is the religion
he Jesus Christ, and if you awkward
id present it it is defamation. We MI
do our work rapidly, and we must
N. it effectively. Soon our time for wo
will be done.