Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-04

laDOFerS III inns great WORK, duu, uTSlHS tueH
to come down to splitting theological hairs
with the maui and wedges of Sect and
Schism. Take courage, friends! The Peo-
pie have a lnind to work now as they did
for Nehemiah. and let his answer be your v
answer am doing a great work, so that a
cannot come down; why should the work I
cease whilst leave it, and come down to /
YOU r
Truly, we are doing great work. In this |
State there are thousands ofgroggeries open
every day and every Sabbath, and but few
churches, in comparison. For every one that |
enters the temples of God at least four lounge {
in the temples Of the Devil TIE great en-
A.any of God and humanity is raging unchain-
in our midst He has dragged noble
-immortal souls-from the church,
nlnaS I, and the tireside, robbed God and
the Iofuii heir services, and then cast them
society," OF Yea, my friends, in our own
gown Gown 20 nei. has snatched the preacher
cta'e th'' demo he Judge from the bench,
from the pulpit bar, the physician from
the lawyer from TIN Ho has entered the
his mission of mercy\ government on earth,
senate of the mightiest down to the cutter
dragging the statesman housand # slavs
and the grave. Thirty II q Widows and
every year--making untoEN II has filed
worse than orphan children. H. criminals
our prisons and poor houses with Ne 70 sun-
and paupers, and taxed the peoA - and YI {
port them. I a word, it has doH,s souls
still doing more injury to the bodiN Nrnment
and estates Of men, and to the govd dans all
at large, than any other evil, or peril 1o;cA Of.
other evils combined. There is a of Gov.
weeping in the land-there is vail -,
row in the winds-a groan Of agony IN tn1I
bowels of the earth made rich with the blood
of the slain. The voice Of our murdered
brothers has cried unto God from the ground
the great Judge has asked us where thesp
are-and yet the Sanbaats Of christ
land reply-ARE WE OUR BROTHER sf}other'
ERs? , writer
Yes, nv friend, you are your There i
keeper. You are responsible. IvwalIs Of 50
in nature, in reason, in revelatife gates of rea
great work to be done. Nehemiah cale,
briefly must be rebuilt aaing a mind to wor
Aanyhiaoed anew. sWip and build and ris
! up they did, strengthening their hands 70
+ the good work. They remembered the Lor,
Y who is great and TERRIBLE and stood read
:. to fight for their brethren, DAUGHTER:
s their wives and their houses houses This appea
/ has now g22sas forth TO you-how will you an
e ss? swsG y? As you fear God and love human
ity, go up to the great work, and let til
9 SN:t7tlatsof Church and State knoY tha
a you will not come down until il is accom
h plished.
1t And in conclusion-(or Our short sermo
l. is getting too long-let all who have
,r mind to work in rebuilding the wall Of 81
d briefly and hanging the gates of protection
r which even the Sampson Of the Rum powt
IA shall not bear away, or burn up with fire.
n let the People strengthen the hands of thos
n men of God who are engaged in the gre
Z work, so that the Sanballats of our ds
TX may not entice them down to prune Il
to branches of great evil, when the root ST
fourishes under the nourishment of law.
ID is we'll enough to preach against theatre
I'd dancing gambling, horse-racing, Sabbat
RS breaking, sporting, card playing and pr
,e fanity-but just now we have greater S
of to crush-the foster-parent of almost eve
k other sin-the fountain Of murders al
ev bloody assaults, of Sabbath desecration, pl
at family and blasphemv-the chief cause
lin communicating church members and co
M verting happy homes into worse than be
nd lams-and oh, ye men Of God fail not
lie tell the SaubalIats who revle you, in t
yer language of Nehemiah, I am doing a grt
we eOork so that cannot come down 10
of should the work cease, aOhiLst lea0e
ht- and come dow1 to you|