Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-11-01
To be continued.

Who Is on the Lords side We read,
in the book of Exodus, that the people of
Israel-the peculiar people OF God-the
people who had experienced at his hands
such signal mercies and dellverances-ths
people who, within less than forty days,
had beheld the tcrrors OF his presence, on
Mount Sinai, had heard the law from his
mouth and had pledged themselves TO SIN
cere and s,eadfast obedience, now dis'egar-
do their prnrn..p, despisad tho command.
ments of the Lord, and were riotIng IN idol.
atrous festivities consccrated to the honor
of a golden calf. Protesting TO be Inc
servans Of Jehovah--(ior even this impious
feast was named by Aaron a feast tosthe
Lord they were became the slaves Of
ssnseless idel. Forsaking the ordinanceeof
tilrtrue God, IN order that they might pur.s
sue their own devices, and, under the pre-.
tence of worshpping him. polluting themsel.'
yes with those very practices which he had
recently declared to be abomInable in his
sight, they clearly proved that, although
they called themselves his people, their
hearts were alienaied from him; that he
was not the master whom they loved ;that
his viii was not the law to which they we're
dispoced to conform. 1t was time, then,
that's distinction should be made bety cen
the faithful servants of God, if such tier.
were, and the unworthy smultitudes who pre-,
tended 10 serve him. It-was time that Mo
ses, the. ambassador of the Most High.
should cry out IN his name to all the people,
Who is on the Lords side /? ~ ~
This IS aquestion which the ministers
Of the gospel may well put to the idolatrous
inhabitants of the world III every age. Rea.
der, cast your eyes abroad in the christian
world--among those who profess and call
themselves christians-even within the cir.
Gle Of your immediate observation and let
your understanding and conscience deter.
mine whether scenes too nearly resembling
that which Moses beheld in the camp of
israel be not presented to your view. Its
true that. trough the enlightening grace eff
God, our landis not now overspread with
worshippess of craven molten images. But
are there not numbers ofthose who profess
the christian faith and who make some out.
ward show of obedience to divine command,
vet whose hears are nevertheless set upon
their idols The convetous man is declar.
ed, in the scriptures, to be an idoatcr. Mon.
ey is his God and how large portion OF
mankind is included among the worship.
pers of mammon The scriptures repre-.
sent the gluton also as an idola,or. He
worships the british appetite by winch ne
is enslaved. On the same authority, the
man whose chief object is any sensual plea,
sure, incurs the same condemnation. That
pleasure is has idol. He, likewise, whose
chief pursuit is repurationor honor or pow.
e. is an ldolator. Reputation or honor r
poweristhe object ofhis worship. In short,
he who sets his heart wholly on any world.
ly object, instead of fixing itupon God, is
considered in the scriptures. as partaking
in the guilt of ldolatry-as slave to that
object which he makes his principal pursuit,
and therefore as not being on the Lords
side. kaov ye not to achom ys yaeM your.
sefres servants to obey, his servants ye are
uohom ye obey, aoaetter Of sin unto death, or !
Of obedience unto righteousness d?
When we survey multitudes among those
who are donominated christians, who were |
babtized in the name ofthe Father and of !
he Son and Of the Holy Ghost-who pro.
ess TO believe that the Son Of Goo died up.
on he cross 70 purchase for them the par