The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-10-29

real ~ Simulated alteration resumed
their seats, and, for.fye minutes af.
terward; there prevailedta solemn si-.
slenee57the profound calm ofexpecta-.
stien. Thenssudd d SLENDER tig-
ne that. QIIBpdy had obssfyad hsf1res
A,teallsd W platiotiA, aatl d paie'
yet luminous face, shining with two
earnest, starry eyes, glanced slowly
and calmly around the vast assemb-
lage, asif silently measuring their
capacity for the reception Of the
truths about to be enunciated.
He did not open the Bible-he did
not formally take any text; butallat
once he cried out, in trumpet tones,
which caused every hearer to start
onhisseat, "Behold! make all things
new!' And then he spread all the
sails Of imagination, and launched
boldly forth into m illimitable ocean
of eloquence. The burden Of his dis
course, in Its first division, was the
susceptibility of the material MOLE
cules composing the visible and tan
giblc universe for endless tranSforma-
tions Of utility and u transcendental
beauty throughout the endless ages
of eternity. He demonstrated, from
the latest discoveries of chemistry
and the best.established truths of all
physical science, that matter is not
that gross, disgusting thing which
the atheistic philosophers and some
supcrstitious theologians would have
US believe it, but that all its aspects
of responsiveness, of sweetness, of sub
Unity and of terror depend upon the
arrangement Of its atoms sand the COM
position Of its elements.
AS the speaker went on advancing
into the heart Of his subject, the
palcness gradually left his face, which
at last glowed like fiery furnace;
and the azure of his eyes turned to
rcd, and literally lightened around
MIN; aud, as he closed the first branch
of his subject, describing the beatti.
tude to be enjoyed in "the new heav-
en- and earth" the final home of the
saints in light, a general and ire
pressible shout of enthusiasm broke
forth from among the faithful.
He then commenced the second
division of his discourse, with the
singular remark shat, although it
was declared that all things should
be made new, there was no intima-
tion that all persons should be made
new, but that an opposite Inference
might well be dcduced from the let
ter and the spirit of the text" And
notwithstanding, asevery intelligent
reader will at once perceive, that
this construction was u. fanclful and
iar-le'ched play upon mere words, the
orator made it q foundation for the
most appalling denunciation against
sinners perhaps ever heard from the
pulpit. He painted the different
classes of offenders against the di-
vine law in colors so black as to just.
ify, without figure, the cpithct of
internal And here all his seloqucnce
proved failure, or something worse;
for, instead of wooins sinners and
heretics into the arms of orthodoxy,
his bitter invectives filled their
hearts with hostility and revenge
lie made, that one. day, at least 500
implacable enemies.
Afterwards, travelling around his
circuit, he pursued the same unwa-
vering course, throwing the whole
country into ferment, and creating
with every ferment host of friends
and enemies-the latter, however,
usually prcdominating both in vehe-
mence and numbers.
AT length, he gave mortal offense
to one Jonas .Snecd, wealthy plant
er of Howard county, and man of
great personal popularity, although
it was well known that his wrath