Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-08-25
spusGEoy, THE PREACHER.


1t is sad that this renowned preacher is coming to
America. lie is described ms a short, thick-se fat
man, with good face, and pair Of lungs which cna-
Ley him to got off twelve rousing discourses per
week. The style Of his cratory is simple, and home
ly witbal, yet very effective with his English auden
ces. Perhaps this is because his peculiar cast of pull
pit euqueucc is novel, strange, perhaps startling to
his British hearers. They listen because of his pccu
liarities, and arc then enchane6 by the furcbc ap
picatinn Of his illustrations. With u.s. this oddity Of
style so common to certain claFs Of preachers
us to have become "sul,, aut and Improbable" 1t
may be though that in Mr.. SruRGEoSs grasp it is
two-edged sword cutting and cleavng to the dvid-
ing nsunder of the sinner and his sins. Take sam
pie or two of Mr. SpuRGEoN's rhetoric. In his SER
mon on The Parable of the Ark occurs this passage:
ave 10 not find that it ever sprung leak while it
was out at sea- she certainly never went into harbor
to mend hcr bottom, for she had harbor to 60 to-
We never read that Moan called up SHgN, HAN, and
JApHETH to work at the pumps, yet that they had
any, for there was not bit Of eakage about her. No
doubt there storms during that year; hut we do
not hear that the rhp was ever in danger of being
wrecked. The rocks it is true, too low down to
touch her bottom; for fifteen cnbts upward did the
waters prevail, ana tho uf61ntnIhs were cbvcred.
Rising twenty feet above the 0ftest mountains
che had no qSicksaRds to fsar thay wero too deep
below her keel, But Of enursa ahe was exposed to
the winds: sometimes the hurricane might hive rat
tied aganst her, and driven her along Doubtless at
another time the hail bent her top, and the light
nings Scared tho brow of night but the ark sailed
on not one was cast out FROM her. nor were her snil
org weuricd with constant pumping to keep out the
water or frequent repairs 10 keep her Though
Al. utu1 opl r,tpa hat arb.
sailcd triumphantly above the waters. The nrk was
safe, and all who were in her wcro safc too. Now,
sinner the CHRIST preach to You, is such refuge
thnt HIS Gospel has no Haw in it. A the ark never
sank and the elements prevailed against it, so
CHRIST meyer failel--IEE cannot ia-all the prnei-
paltics mud powers are splleetHnto fl!N Those who
are in CHRIST arc sheltered safply from the storm:
they shall never perish, neither aha my pluck them
out of His hands"
Pretty strong. Take another extract from the same
discourse:
"Anh the door of the nrk shalt thou set in the side
thereof, And there is only ono door Lending into
the ark of our saFatian md that is CHRIST. There
are not two CEnSFs preached ono in ono chapel, md
another in another. If any man proach any other
doctrine than yo hnvc received, let him be accursed.
There is but ono Gospel. We take in the righteous
out Of all sectiona but do not take in all sections.
We pick out the gody from among them all, for we
believe thore is II remnant in the vlcst Of them.
STILL there is only door, and he that cometh
in by tho lnor hnt climheth up some OF: er way, the
samc If a thitf and rubber There was only one
door to tho ark Sumo animals, lke the cRne!onpard,
whose beads are higher than other animals, might
hareto bow hor necks to go in by the entrance
as the waddng ducks, who naturally stoop, even as
they enter barn and so, some Of the lofty ones Of
this world must bend their heads, if they would enter
into the Church by CHRIST"
We have In this country great deal of preaching
of similar stamp with this last quotation. 1t is lucid
and orthodox enough; But such queer illustrations
US that ast,-bringins before the mind gauky bcu.,
aud ridiculous fowl-do not surely merit applause.
We find nothing like it in the letters of the apostles;
And it would bo sacrcge contrast so coarse thing
with th: chnstc parallels Of our Saviour.
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&SS- The Wulhalla Banner learns from the Charles
ton Evening Ivees, that "the lnying Of tho Atlantic
Cablo is tho wonder of the age!" 1t would seem
from this, that our mountain contemporary s tuo mod
Ost to be bis own judge of what is wonderful in mo-
orn achievements. Yst he is evidently ."progres-
sonst' Of the first water at least uproarS 70 hayo
"the great law Of progression" always ut hanl y
it not to be feared that the editor Of Walhaa yergcs
towards "higher law?" Observe what he is pleased
to say ub,ut tho BlDLE:
late committee of tho American Dible society
have discoyored that there are mnny thousands Of
errors in the BiblO hcuco when the Bible and Truth
conflict Truth should have the preferences. Tha
learned world hns lately discovered that thu Bible has
thousands of errors n and it Is our object to lot our
readers know it. that they may not bo kept in iguo
any longer for this they should exercise
their reason on tho Bible aud learn the Truth for
themselves, as it advises US to do.
We may add that our Walhalla "progressonist"
hcststes not to whuck away at the whole structure of
the Judiciary US being IN incubus upon justice and
behind the wants Of the age Hear him in his CON-
mcnts upon the TnIM. OF RErcKLEs:
"Although the whole proceedings of the cnso were
Gonl Quoted with the grentest decorum anl no fault
can be fund in them according to the prevailing no.
tinns Of the age, yet Rcormer would be apt to ask
this question on rpnang tho proceedings "Why
cannot twelve or twenty men Of Charleston know
whether tho prisoner be guilty without all tho OK
pense. time, learning and techncatlos of this Au.
gust Court"
Tho true answer would be this; "If the Americans
can govern themselves without the Court of king,
they arc cupublc Of doing it without judicial Court"
The next great change in mans socia affairs will
swocp away from American burdens the judicial
bailges of slavery derived from tho old world and
supply their places with something founded upon
true American wisdom"
Just here something our mind, in tho nature
Of writ de lanatieo inqnrendo; how it came to be
suggested we have no time to consider.
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M11- Tho deaths from Yellow Fever in New Orleans
on Monday Yoro 6fty-eight, on Tuesday forty.six,
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