The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-08

preacn tner sermons benlnd tnelr re-
pellent pulplts, Any lawyer would be
ruined If he were compelled to plead
for his client behind Il wooden box, as
the minister by custom is compelled to
plead for his Christ Whether that
statement is true or not, I am not here
10 discuss, but one of the great facts
that convince nae that the church is q
divine institution is that ii has eX-
listed for hundreds Of years in spite of
the sepuchral and awful hymns with
which the choirs used to lead In the
song worship. These hymns. for the
most part, were all gloom all dark
moss all breathing fire and birthstone
and death. When one sang them he
could almost feel the hot kissing
flames OF eternal punishment Scorchiug
his lips, No such singing as the an
cicnt churches INDUCED in could DO
aught but terrorize and make the wor-
Slippers tremblc with fear. DO you
wonder that the churches Of old, which
sang for the most part the songs Of
death, Should nave WoFshlIerS VINO
gave only half hearted voices to their
singing? But while the Methodist
church has its songs in the minor key,
for the most part the Methodist songs
are songs of life and JOY and hope. Go
il you will with me to any OF the great
Methodist camp meeting resorts of this
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Repent Repent! Repent!
LaSuy, MethoulShl mas hau IIa mar
Vicious ana miraculous multiplying
power because II has had an lnlihlte
held IN which to labor 1t has worked
for the most part among the common
people Certain churches IN TINS world
nave bceh known as churcheS OF
class. Some churches have been known
as churches which appealed TO the
greatest amount OF brains IN almost
every Christian community OTHER
churches have been knoUl a5 the
churches OF the aristocracy But though
John Wesley had as much brain ~ any
man OF ms generation ana though hy
political preferment Ee could have
reached position Of influence IN aris-
tocratic society yet he chose to cast his
lot among the common people He did
not believe there was one gospel for
the rich ana another Tor the poor-one
for the brainy man ana another for
him of small mental calibcr John
Wesley believed all classes should meet
as one at the throne of grace. There
fore. as the common people crowded
around him to receive his message,
many of the rich aud the ailluont stay
ed away, He was truly the missionary
to the middle and lower classes. Are
we in church work ready 70 reach out
in CArsts name for the conversion Of
the same kind of people:
1t was said of our Lord that the
common people heard him gladly
All, that is the best cncomlum that can
DC placed upon the tomb OF the found
or Of MethodiSm! When Peter Cart
wright many years ago. arose TO
preach in Tennessee some one WhiS
pered TO him. General Jackson Is in
your audience With that Peter Cart
wright turned ana SAID: Il hear that
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