The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-19
A yIRGINIAN CLERGYMAN ON THESE
FAST TINES"

utas stout vatohword Of "Never givs up"
A yIRGINIAN CLERGYMAN ON THESE
FAST TIMES"
THsY ARE THE voBK OF Gop--rHz MAKING READY
Fos The SECOND COMING or CHRIST.
The Rev Mr.. las BRAY, OF Cumberland, Virginia, de
nveyed discourse before the Bethesda Baptist church.
Clinton Hall, Sunday afternoon, at O'Clock on "God In
ssac fast times" The text taken from the sxteenth
chapter snd third verte Of St Mathew
o. sc typocr.es discern the face OF the sky but
ca roc NOT discern the tgns OF the timeaf
The speaker spoke Substantially - iolowl:-
Ny tienion this oecA ION s to speak Of these fast
TINES and CT Gcd In ,hsm Fer the iaat thirty years
member, ne have had annual excite mems about some
.hing-oow the onipg Of the end o. the world, then
the coming Of q comet In June last God has caused
al the thipr to try mems condolences These strange
timcs these nat times these ~ondsrfui times These
are expressions In every bedys mouth, snich signify
the great ast Of the world. They very
OF this ago. What nfy years ago never dreamed Of
We have arrived q srsa, crsa but The great heart OF
human progress Ia not jet saushed its daily Ase II
beating hsnsr, higher Its great heari has jas. gt sAie
and lcnss Tor something more u great eyes III and
glare IKE IRE balls for something This roste,saess
s. noi disease that afics one here and thsre-n "a
where you win found all 10 hustle ~ Is noise, all
u s,rife, al 10 confuiop, And the din OF BABEL M
never oss''ss muse. Forty and hty miles an hour
Is getting TOO slow for 10 travel now days.
Twelve days 10 far too kng 70 be going across me
Atlantic now. won. and .iii Ia the dec,iogue tho
day and hence The consequence eu' In taka time 10
thiax Of corst aenoes reorc tney ae disrega-ded
WANT must ana Il, Is the word; hence IN public
thorsh draw 0ridses shi through whole cars O. meens
trains Jnss put steam, pile the wood others have
sps we may soS ana a 60 soS
80 and 90 mss hour; bst bAik! shere gran
up, cars roll over cars, and eo-ptes over corsss For
moment the scs den spoksa about but the los OF ume
great dea tnan he lsss II life; tbey
CRY " more fire." "more stea p" We must have tee
fses mer, the fastest norses the rsnea dasrs
fastest oynr 81 We all tumbnog iato the rave CRYING
more Ore and more steam.
COME vim me behind the curtain q little WHILE
and kok 81 God stirring tntse fast AMI OVERRIDING
the hole for the Accomplishments OK HIS ends La ia
ganoe a hi. taac Nov, Who ever suspected taA. God
has anyu Ing 70 do with this panic God has lft much
70 do with the panic az no nal 70 seDoing mo rain last
wsex Tnh world 10 IKE great slip, in Viii God we
sole, sovereign and I'll sufficient m.nde,, and $40 o.,
ways Ats al me nelm godinzh 9Th perfect God
saw ibis sres; patton Ike ,np a RAINING before the
wird, al ssl ana running srngnt down into the
gulf Of destruction. rnAs ct how God locked II this
naior before the p,sc He out Of his plsoe aud
tays "shp sho. absu. there, take In canva you
lost, and close 10 the vino FOR while" Now thin
~hstyou se aboui This panic toai toe whole o.
H. and 1t slsnda u In 80 the
sable for ONE time 10 come rrue In turni5s during
the storm, lost ibe top rails but better
without them. BY this figure mean inH our national
recklesness ard ext avasSDce hare br0.gn % this,
and God in mercy Is rebGk1g "a for IT, Toe tvJ great
crimes Of the sge doncs &c txlYssss1oe CONNER
cal gambling There 10 h'gn pressure si home, high
.na s PRESSURE "a 40 il s
Ju,s saved .nd irssad az vepolus SHOULD wih al
your heat thssk Goifor H'r have In ttelr haze
Forgotten thai they ascnts the haEds OF oi for the
accomplish Of his and the Carrying Out OF his
ewn desxns Thai God ist tang the fat and fast
times, - certain thai he used Hsnsn TO build gal
lows vben hang himself Az toe unpsllevss OF me
Old world hepe Noah 10 buili his AK ne Of
sss NC s W Ss ooSs,y p p,sise Tor va
doat believe t-we pile 10 the wood, pat on tne steam
and drive on 70 The epd, for on are all dons whether
In vhics says "xep shsH fro and
shall ncrcase" Nov hire are last men spoSen or-nen
he seoosd lime bis sps nsst Be ore.ssea 70 esers
people, kindyd and tongue. Nov, what 10 Sir Charles
Seymour do'rs in China, and What the Eassh troops
aic the sepoys doing In India They are pilng on Vi
wood aod building the Ere and putting the
drive The car Of God tsropss The verdi they don know H.
30. sSs,,, % ,s s1'' ,. Ssy are ..,, s.nr fess
peoples opening up The world for Inc second osnrg Of
uorst Just % scon you know the Gospel has been
may enpeci The second coming Of Jesus Cnris and 700
need Tear m comes before ther Thon lot have TIE
bald lhsir railway, ssro.s every coansn and is. shem
AZ ber Sub narre telegrsrhs rery Sea- and let
snsm buis shss srea. and Grcs, Esierns and
peoples and nations, for God n. need o, all this NJ
preston that ibeee las, ere not gous 10 end bal
sna we are Fone 70 have fAspr and faster and fsser
zines Tue hre viii be burning aud the ,,orm -il be :,
she bgbe wsen The whole coacern CONES sm sck 70 ls
terminus, and God viii be all
DR.. ARMITAGE on The SIGNS OF THE TIMES
~. Armase pres,hed last MI ut a. the nsciur house
OF the Norfolk ssrecs Baptist church on che uxp, OF me
rmes" 10 very large congregation He said tbs, ne had
rev renaks make the mor,l lessons 70 be e.rped
from the present financial prcssure bot be differed from
nany OF his brethren, Who presiding ssbbs,ns had
preAohed The subjec, rhey attributed The apsnsa
disaster 70 aledioion from Cod bu he did no, view
that ght He thoughi that the ministers we're net the be.
men 70 treat suoh subject for although man, Of them
wwe endowed with az good a. sltes 10 make merchants
~ oshsr mon srll vas prcverbial that they we're ~
hardly able 70 take OF their osn p1rses not W
mind those Of people One Of bis brethren mad nj
tribues our present difnoalty W extrsvasancco
wives and daughters wearing sts instead Of csc,es end
unsey voaeys-io our bouses being 700 sumpiuou but
- oonld moi view u In that Hgh Tor he thought thai al
Nc timber Used In building their houses vst ssnspt use
ess - The voods rev yesrs ago. bet nos was svAa
pse prcp@S; and brown atone houses he nough
were better dispossd or than N the slene re
m~nea the quarry. Oihsr olsrrymen bad
hA we crhs wN q specsi judgment ffon
ocd but he thoughi when minister. attributed every
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