The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-12-23

light in his soul With whip of scorpions
have scourged his wickedness and
have tried to cheer him when doing right;
and yet 1 am compelled to testify on the
stand to-day that he has sometimes rejected
my mission. Oh, how many cups OF life
have 1 pressed to his lips that he dashed
down, and how often has he stood with his
hard Leel on the bleeding heart of the Son Of
God. 1t pains mo very much that have to
testify against this Christian man, and yet L
must, in behalf OF Him who will in no wise
clear the guilty, say that this Christian man
has done wrong. He has been worldly. He
has been ne:lectful. Hehas done thousand
things he ought not to havo done, and left
undone thousand things he ought to have
done" That will do, Conscience. You can
sit down.
Tho third witness I call in the case, is an
Angel Of God Bright and shining ono, what
doest thou here! What hast thou to say
against this man on trial? ooh" says tho
angel, 81 have been messenger to him. l
have guarded him. have watched him
With this wing have defended him, and
oftenti,nes when he knew it not l led him
into the green pastures and beside tho still
waters. I snatched from him the poisoned
chalices. When bad spirits came upon him
to destroy him l fought them back with
infiuito ticrceness; and yet I have to
testify to-day that he las rejected my mis-
sion. He has not done as he ought to have
done Though I calnefrom the sky ne drove
me back. Though with this wing I defended
him, and though with this voice I wcoed
him. I have to announce his multiplied i'm
perfections I dare not keep back the tcsti-
mony, for then l should not dare to appear
again amongst the sinle:s ones before the
white throne"
There is only one moro witness to be called
on behalf of the prosecution, and that is tho
great, the holy, the august tho omnipotent
Spirit Of God. We bow down before Him.
Holy Spirit, knowest thou this man "Oh,
yes" says the holy ono, 81 know him. have
strven with him ten thousand times, and
though sometimes he did SEEM to repent, ho
fell back again as often from his first estate
Ten Thousand times ten thousand has he
grieved Me, although the Bible warned him
saying: 'Grieve not the Holy Ghost. Quench
not the spirit Yes, he has driven Mo back
Though AM the third person of the Trinity
lie has trampled on my mission, and the blood
of tho atonomcnt that l brought with which
to cleanse his soul, he sometimes despised. l
came FROM the throne of God to convert, and
comfort, and sapctify, and yet look at that
man, and see what he is compared with what,
unresisted, would have made him."
The evidence on the part Of tho prosecution
has closed Now let tho defense bring Oh the
rebuttal testimony. What have you, O
Christian soul, to bring in reply to this evil
dence Of the World, of tho Conscience, of the
Angel and of the Holy Ghost! No evidenced
Are all these things true! ayes, unclean, un-
clean," says every Christian soul Whata
Do you not begin to tremble at tho thought
of condemnation?
We have como now to the most interesting
part of this great>trial The evidence all in,
the advocates speak Tho profession Of On
advocate is full of responsibility. In England
and the United States there have arisen men
who in this calling have been honorcd by
their race and thrown contempt upon those
who in the profession have been guilty of q
great many neannesses. That profession
will ke honorable as long as it has
attached to it such names as Mansfield, and
Marshall, and Story, and Kent, and South
ard and William Writ. The court room mas
sometimes been tho scene Of very marvellous
and thrilling things. Somo of you remember
the famous Girard will case, where one Of
our advocates pleaded the cause OF tho Bible
and Christianity in mastery Anglo-Saxon,
every paragraph a thunderbolt
Some of you have read Of the famous trial
in Westminster hall of Warren Hastings, the
despoiler of India. That great man had con-
quered India by splendid talents, by courage,
by brides, by gigantic dishonesty. The whole
world had rung with applause or condeInna-
tion. Gathered in Westminster hall was one
of the most famous audiences ever gathered
Foreign ministers and princes sat there
Peers marched in clad in ermine and gold.
Mighty men and women from all lands
looked down upon the scene. Amid all that
pomp and splendor, and amid an excitement
such es has seldom been seen III any
court room, Edmund Burke advanced,
in O speech which will last rs long as
the English language, concluding with this
burning charge, which made. Warren Hast
incs cringe and cover: II impeach him in
the name of tho Commons house Of parlia-
meut whose trust he has betrayed. i'm
peach him in the namo of the English nation,
whose ancient honor he mas sullied. I i'm
peace him in the namo Of the people Of India,
whose rights he has trau1pled on, and whose
country ho las turned into a desert. And,
lastly, in the name of human nature, in tho
uame of both sexes, in tho namo Of every age
and rank, inpeach him as the common enc
my and oppreSsor of all"
But Larr from the recital Of tncSc lnem-
orablo occasions To Srandcr trial, and l
have to tell you that in this trial of tho
Christian for the life OF his soul the advo-
Gates are mighticr, wiser and moro eloquent.
The evidence all being il, Justice rises
on behalf of the prosecution to mako Lis
plea. With the Bible open in his land he
reads the Law, stern and inlc1i;'.c, and the
pcnalty: "Thc soul that sinneth it shall die. u
Then he says: 80 thou, judge and lawgiver,
this is t,l!no own statute, and al the evi'
dencc in earth and heaven agrees in stating
that this nan has sinncd against ell these ell
actmcnts. Now let the sword lea? from its
scabbarl. Shall man so through the very
flames of Sinai unsinged! Let tho law be
executed Let Judgment be pronounced