The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-12-18

AntOinette Hall, it is estimated, will
seat eight hundred persons, and it was
crowded to its utmost capacity last Sun
day morning to hear Rev. DIR. Jacob
Ditzler of Kentucky. He preached
from Rev. VI, II; For the great day o.
His torath Is come; and 10ho shall be able
to stand? The DIR. closed the bible i'm
mediately upon the announcement OF
the text and from that time made not a
single quotation from it, his object being
to meet infdelity upon its chosen field
and give it battle. He first established
the fact that all created things, animate
or inanimate, are made subservient to
and the object of their usefulness is in
man. He established this as a principle
fixed by science and revelation in the
order of creation, and so fully elucida-
ted the idea that it clearly followed that
If man, for whom all these were made
and in whom all their usefulness found
a elimination, did not in turn look to a
higher aim and have a usefulness be-
You'd this life, then the order of crea-
ton was broken. He next established
the necessity of a judgement and its
justice, both as regards the Judge and
the judged; and here he met and utterly
routed Deists and Infidels, forcing them
to acknowledge there is God, that if
He is God He loves virtue, that to be
able to detect virtue He must know vice
and therefore hate it, and that if He
loves virtue and is a God, justice de-
mands and His judicial power authorizes
Him as such God to punish vice. This
point, as set forth by the speaker, was
absolutely ineontrovertible. After es-
tablishing the necessity and certainty of
a final judgement, the speaker assem-
bled the multiplied hosts of men at the
flaming bar of God. The Book of Ac-
counts was spread open before the gaze
of the millions of terrified spirits, and
on its front page, as a mighty mirror,
each one saw his life and deeds made
bare as the noon day sun. He brought
up the murderer, the liar, the SANDER
er, the hypOcrite, ct cetera, and made
them behold their images reflected from
that terribly bright and memorable page,
and in the burning, seathing eloquence
of the speaker the audience was trans
fixed as the CHASTITY contortions of
spirit writhing as it views itself in an
aspect that insures its eternal damna-
ton was brought before them almost to
be seen. As the innumerable crew of
lost spirits are fling past, in the near
distance, shaded meath a cloud whose
murky blRckness contrasts the gloom of
the caverns of hell, surrounded by an
escort of fiends of hideous mein, the
Prince of Darkness approaches. A
CHASTITY, gloating expression markes his
aspect rs he views the terrible result of
his hellish Vaccinations, and as he
nears, ten million times ten million
spears leap and glimmer above the
bright billowy cloud on the right of the
Majesty OF Heaven, ready to be hurled
to the destruction of the black hosts
who have read the sentence of damna-
ton, and as the messengers of the Great
Am deliver the stroke that terminates
forever and forever the warfare of dew
lis and angels, the pit of perdition sud-
denly throws wide its grim and black
walled jaws and headlong down the
deep abyss the terror-stricken and ter
rorless legiOns of he'll take their ever
lasting flight, and from the mouth of
the dreadful cavern, ere it is closed for
ever, come back the wales and lamen-
tations of the damned, and the last
word that floats from the tuning depths
is "LOSti Lost LosTl"
This is but faint outline of the SER
mon which we do not hesitate in pro-
nouncing she grandest and sublimest
effort ever made in Pulaski. We hesi-
tated before attempting even this deli
neation or a synopsis, for we have, and
of necessity had to, do injustice to the
preacher, but a man who has imbibed
such abundance of biblical and literary
Lore, so gifted with powers of mind and
tongue, surely has great heart, and
can allow for these imperfectiOns in us.
TIE use one of the Doctors own SMILES,
like a pebble thrown upon the smoOthe
surface of lake creates wave that
spreads to its confines, this sermon fell
with mighty effect upon the hearts of
his large audience, and the ripple it has
created win doubtless flow out upon the
sea of humanity, and gathering strength
and volume as it goes, shall strike upon
the shores Of eternity with mighty
surge, and deposite upon the bright
beach a wealth of diamonds and pearls.