The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-10-31
From the New York Observer.
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Had hxe Rolled over Again.
"A miserable inehriate returning
from a midnight carOusal, rolled down
toward deep canal Of half frozen water
aud was only saved by a slight elevation
of the ground from falling into a watery
grave. Had he rolled over again, his
death would have been inevitable. -
John Vine Hal
Had he rolled over again Then, /.
We should not have had, what We now
have, a history of one Of the most fear
ful conflicts ever carried on in this world
between conscience aud one of the most
powerful and debasing Of sinful habits
There is sadness beyond comparison
in the sight of powerful passion, like
intemperance. bearing down upon its
miserablevictims, and that victim aware
Of the presence Of the enemy, and
making desperate efforts to escape the
threatened doom. We do not often get
a clear and graphic history of such a
conflict, where the narrator is the vic
tim, giving step by step, the progress
Of an all-devouring passion, and des-
oTibing the mighty efforts made by
himself to stay the triumph OF the con-
queror, fighting and falling, and rising
to renew the fight. Had the poor
wretch rolled over again that fatal
night, this volume would never have
given its instructions and warnings to
the world
2. Had he rolled over again, the
world would not have had such lesson
of the power of divine grace as that
rescued sinners history presents. For
many years q sol going down to that
foreshadowing Of hell, dehrium tremenS--
often its victims. But a history was to
be written concerning what an all
powerful agency Divine grace can
employ against the fercest and fouest
of human passions. For this grace did
triumph, giving the death-bow to that
passion, and making the conquered
the conqueror A desperate drunkard
was so renewed and reformed that, at
the end Of forty years OF triumph, he
could say that for that whole period
no intoxicating beverage had been
touched!
8. Had he rolled over again, the
world would not have known, as it now
knows, in most remarkable instance,
what power eminent holiness can exert
in illustrating the doctrines of the cross.
That poor inebriate, rising from the
gutter, rose step by step, by the grace
of God, to the highest forms of Chris
tian virtue, and shone forth in such
beauty of holiness as to cause all be-
holders to admire the power and tri-
umphs of redeeming love-
4. Had that man rolled over again,
the world would have lost an agency in
doing good inferior to scarcely any
other in the history of the world, Res
cued from that dreadful gulf of guilt
and misery into which he had fallen, he
set himself about the temporal and
spiritual welfare OF his fellow men with
his whole soul The hand that strong
drink had made TO shake like an aspen
leaf, became firm to hold a pen that
wrote a tract which has been translated
into more than twenty languages, and
millions of copies of the "Sinners
Friend" have exalted Christ as a Re
deemer, and led the perishng to Him
In every part Of the world.
s. Had he rolled over again, there
would have been lost one of the most
powerful and animating encouragements
to the fallen to seek recovery, ever
found in the history of redeemed men,
This wretched inebriate fought with the
most desperate energy, against the habit
that was destroying him, and though
often overcome, still renewed the fight.
And the best of all and surest of all
means Of victory, he fled to Christ for
refuge, and that almighty arm that
faith never summoned in vain, was
stretched out to save, and, therefore,
there was salvation Ho allied his little
strength with infinite power, and tri-
umphed. And lis example lifts up it,
voice in most aInest and affecting
tones, persuading all under the power
of any form Of vice TO resist the des.
troyer in the most sure and effectual OF
all methods, viz, by Fastening to the
ever ready Savior, and, by living faith
securing bis all-powerful aid.
SIMON,