The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-08-01
A Y0UN G VI A n.

The narrative We now give is from the pen
Of the Rev. j. Parker:
In the village of - was a boarding
house kept BY Mrs. F, at whose house
was a lodger. OF the fifteen or twenty
guests about the table was young gentle
man of about twenty y-fuuf years of age. lie
was full Of animation, aud his vlyacity crea-
ted the impression that, whoever else might
be affected by the soIemnites OF the time, he
was not.
On a Sunday morning the late Rev. DR..
Perrine preached peculiarly effective SER
mon on the consequences OF lite of sin.
There was a singular JUNCTION aud tenderness
in the discourse, and its vivid pictures OF
hell's torments produced most solemn and
subduing effect.
Aswe were sitting at the dinner table, and
remarks we're passing freely in regard to the
morning service, the young man above men
toned expressed in strong terms his disap-
probation of the ssrmun, aud added, Such
preaching only hardens me aud makes me
worse" | replied, :" l. il possible that you
think it makes YOU worse. when IT only
makes you conscious OF sin that was before
slumbering in your heart" "No," said he
:, it hardeus me. am at this moment less
susceptible TO sny thing like conviction for
/ hearing that discourse. ] feel more inclined
TO resist every thing like good impressions
than usual" I" Yet" rejoined. good i'm
prtssions are those which are best adapted to
secure the desired end aud am greatly
mistaken il an increase of the effect which
Won feel would not be greatly useful to you.
II, for instance, YOU should read now Watts
version Of the fifty first Psalm. beginning,
'show pity. Lord o I.c.d, G,rsise,'
Il would take deep hold on your heart"
mot the least" said he I" could read
ii without moving = muscle. wish had
the book | would read il to you"
1--WE have ONE" said Mrs. P. VIA
was fully aware Of the excitement under
which he was laboring; and the book sas
handed him. opened at the place. lie com.
menced to read, with compressed lips aud
firm voice:
"show pity, I.nri: q Lord, iotesc;
Let a repcnting rebel Fc'
Are not thy mercies large and free
May not g sinner ,fusi il thee :"
Toward the last part Of the stanya little
tremulousness Of soice was plainly discerul.
Bile. lie rallied again, however, ard com.
menced the second verse with more Iifm.
ness:
90. wash ms sbul from cvrfy ~,
Aud mike nv guilty rsusrienrF clean
Ierc on nv heart the butjen hes.
And past offences pain mine eyes.
1.-THE last part Of this stanka his voice
faiercd more maniicstly. lie commenced
upon the third with great energy. aud read
in loud sunnrous Voiee-the whole con-
pany looking on in brcathIess silence;
My ftp. with Shame H,y sins eonff'''
As he read the second line,
"Aeainsi thy lave. against ih' grace
his lips ani,errd, ard his utterance became
difficult. lie passed little. and entered
upon the thifd llae with an apparently new
determination
/" Lord. should iby judgment, grow scvcre."
Yet brfnrc he came to the end his voice
was almost totally rhnked and Shcu he be.
can upon the fourth line,
II am condemned bot lhcu att sleir.'
an aspect Of utter encouragement marked
his euuntenanCc. aud b. could unly bring
cut. in broken sobs, am condemned" ="