Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-08-24

commandment 81 smiles and brisk en-
couravement. Do not stand and talk
to them about the wretchcdness or
their abode. and the hunger of their
looks, and the hardness Of their lot
All. they know IL better thar you can
tell them. Show them the bright side
of the thing. IL there be any bright
side. Tell them good times viii cone.
Tell them that for the children OF
God there is immortal rescue. Wake
them up out Of their stolidity by an,
inspiring laugh, and while you send
en- help. like the queen of Sheba, also
send in the spices
We need more spice and enlivsnment
in our church music. Churches ste
discussing whether they shall have
choirs or precentors or organs or bass
viols or comets. l say take that " hich
will bring out the most inspiring mu-
sic. II we had half as much zeal and
spirit in our churches as we have IN
the songs Of our Sunday schools, II
would not Ice long before the whole
earth would quake with the coming
! God. why. nine-tenths OF the people
| in church do not sing, or they sing so
| feebly that the people at their elbows
do not know they are singing. People
| mouth and humble the praises OF
| God. but there IS not more than one
| ont OF a hundred who makes joyful
noise unto the Rock Of Our Salvation.
| Sometimes. when the congregation
forgcts itself and Is all absorbed in
l the goodness Of God or the glories OF
Heaven. I get an limitation OF what
church music will be a hundred years
from now. when the coming genera
ton shall wake up 10 It's duty.
Now. want 10 impress you with
the fact that religion is sweetness
and perfume and spikcnurd and SAT-
from aud cinnamon and cassin and
franlSinccnSc and All sweet spices to-
gether. oh" vou say. Il have net
looked ~ IL as such. ! thought it
was "a nuisance. II had for me a re-
pulsion I held my breath as though
IL were n malodor. / have been APP
palicd az it, advance. l have said
II have any religion at all ! want
! 20 have just as little OF il as posi-
BILE 10 Get through with" on. THAT
q mistake you make. my brotherl
| The religion OF Christ is a present
and everlasting adolescence. II coun-
tcracts all trouble. just put IL on the
stand beside the pillow OF sickness
4 10 catches in the curtains and per-
fumes the sitting air. IL sweeteus
the cup OF bitter medicine and throws
q glow on the gloom OF the turned
lattice II is a balm for the aching
u side and n soft bandage for the tern
pic stung with pain, Ii lifted Samuel
Rutherford into a revclry OF spiritual
: delight while he was in physical ag-
onies. II helped Richard Baxter un-
til in the midst OF such complied
. ton OF diseases as perhaps no other
man ever suffered, he wrote Tho
q Saints Everlasting Rest" and II
= poured night upon John Bunyan'
" dungeon-the light Of the shining
- gate Of the shining city.
Have you read of the Tai Mahal II
D" India. in some respects the most ma
iestic building on earth2 Twenty
- thousand men were 90 years in build
n ing il. II cost "a bout $4,000, 900. Th'
"a walls are of marble inlaid with car
nelian from Bagdad and turquois
II from Thibet and jasper from the Pun
- lab aud amethyst from Persia an
~ all manner Of precious stones. y traV
~ eler said that IL seemed TO him Xix
~ the shining Of the enchanted castl
of FURNISHED silver The walls ar
* 2z5 feet high, and from the top q
!" these springs a dome 30 more fee
-" hiob. that dome containing the mos
~ wonderful echo tho world has eve
a. known. 40 that ever and anon ira
u" elers standing below with flutes an
drums and harps are testing thu
echo and the sounds from belo
Hc strike up. and then come down, as
=" -. ~ ~ofcAs ~ anOeiS ali nrOuT
about the building. There is arour
IL n garden of tamRrind and banya
and palm and all the floral giories
80 the ransacked earth. But that Is on
a tomb OF a dead empress, and II
% tame compared with the grandeu
which God has builded for your iivii
and immortal spirit.
oh. home of the bleSsedi Found
~ lions Of goldl Arches Of victor
-, Capstones OF praise, And a dome
which there arc echoing and !
echoing the halleluiahs of the age
Aud around about that mansion is
,srs garden, the garden OF God. and
the springing fountains are the b'
tied tears of the church in the Wild
10 ness and all the crimson OF
our flowers Ia the deep hue that "
I'm | caught UP from the carnage of ear
dav " martyrdoms and the fragrance
lers The prayer of all the saints and
p ia | aroma nuts into utter forgettuln'
cad. | the cassie and the spikenard and
; 40 | frankincense and the world-renowr
YOU spices which Queen Ralkss of Alb
and sinia flung at the fee. of King So
ord, moa.
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