Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-01
THE EVANGELISTS,


conducive of much good. On being intro
duced to his Charleston audience on We'd
nesday, Mr.. Moody spoke of the work in
which he is engaged and said he didn't
know when he had been more encouraged
thad since he had been travelling through
the South. He then spoke generally on the
subject of religious aWakenings and at the
night service preached a regular sermon
from Galatians vi: "Be not deceived; {;
God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap"
He said that he most earnestly desired
that the congregation should be thorough
ly imbued with the full meaning of the
text, for it would be far better that they
should remember one of Gods words than
all that could be said about it from the pull
pit. Perhaps much good would be done by
these services, but he felt assured that
true knowledge of the spirit and signifi-
canoe of the text would be of more import
ance than anything that might be said or
done. The text, he said, was for every
man, woman and child in Charleston, Jew
or Gentle. 1t appeals to them all alike.
1t enunciated an eternal law of God. You
may close the book, you may endeavor to
escape from its truth, but the proof of the
truth of the text will be apparent in ev-
cry walk of life, in every country, in every
cline. You cannot take up a newspaper
which does not show that the law is being
fulfilled in every part of the globe. Its
truth is the truth and it is going to stand
forever, whether you believe it or not We
must keep in mind above all things that the
God of our Bible cannot be deceived; neith-
er does he deceive any one; and therein
comes in the difference between the god
of this world and the God of the Bible.
The god of the world has deceived men
ever since the time in which mankind was
created in the Garden of Eden. God sees
everything. He can read our innermost
thoughts better than we can read his
Moody said that he would have but little to
say, but would rather treat it under four
principal heads. First, man expects to
reap when he soWs; second, he will reap
of the same kind that he sows; third, he
expects to reap more than he sows, and
fourth, he will reap just what he sows.
Mr.. Moody maintained the first PROPOSE
ton by familiar examples of agricultural
pursuits. These illustrations, he said, were
applicable to and were true in Gods King
dom as we'll as in the natural world, and no
one could doubt that in either man must
reap what he sows. Mr.. Moody then took
up the subject of falsehood as taught to chill
dren, and showed that eventually the sin
would retroact on the parents. The liesoWn
in the mind of the child would be reaped
by the father and mother as bitter harvest.
Again, no man on the face of the earth could
sell liquor with impunity, because he would
reap the same kind of seed. If the seller
made somebody's son drunkard it would
almost inevitably be the case that some
body else would make his son or brother
or father a drunkard. Hence the applica-
ton of the text.
Mr.. Moody then took up some of the eX-
amples from sacred literature, as those OF
of Cain and Esau and Jacob and David, and
showed that as they sowed they reaped. 1t
of the text was proved as to them, but the
infallible application can be found in the
history of their children, and even in them
selves. Mr.. Moody's illustration of the text
from the story of Joseph and his brethren
was particularly happy and interesting.
All these examples he took as proof of the
great truth that was enunciated by inspira-
ton when it was said, 'Be sure your sin
will find YOU out" There is no man whose
grave will be so deep that his sin will not
arise to confront him at the Resurrection.
Your conscience can never sleep. 1t Will
march up and down in the chambers of
your soul lashing the guilty with constant
fury. Man may escape the verdicts ofjurles,
but he can never escape the sting, OF guilty
conscience. In this connection Mr.. Moody
spoke with much earnestness and force Of
the sin of adultery and drew a contrast be-
tween the seducer and his victim, admins
tering scathing rebuke to the former, who,
as if untouched, with no loss of caste for his
crime, walked the streets openly and bold
ly, while the latter was social and moral
wreck forever.
The third point of the text that a man
will reap more than he soWs was illustrated
again by the story of the sons of Jacob, in
whom the father found ten fold the hypoc-
risy with which he had stolen the birthright
eff Esau. 1t did not take Cain great while
to commit his great impulsive sin, but didn't
it take him long time to eXpiate it? 1t
did not take Judas long time to sell his
master, but he has not finished paying for
it yet. But we need not, he said, 60 back
so far as biblical times to point the moral of
the text. Are there not proofs enough of it
right here in Charleston, nay, in the bosoms
of many families themselves? Don't you
see the examples around you on every side :?
Everything depends upon what kind of
seed you are sowing. If farmer were to
say he did not care what kind of seed he
was sowing, wouldn't he be fit subject for
the lunatic asylum: Remember, then, that
you are sowing for eternity. l am not
prophet or the son of prophet, but if you
tell me the manner of your lives, | will tell
you what your harvest will be. DO you 60
fishing on the Sabbath? DO you keep your
saloons open on Sunday? A voice, "Yes."']
Are you in the habit Of cursing? fyou do
all these things let me tell you you are
going to have bitter harvest. These curses
are going sooner or later to come down on
yourselves. How do you treat your par
ents? DO you speak of your mother as the
"old woman" or your father as the "gover-
nor:" No; don't smile. l never yet in
my life knew q young man who treated
either his father or mother with disrespect
who prospered.
Mr.. Moody then paid a noble tribute to
for their forgetful children. The picture he
drew was extremely affecting and touched
many a heart in the vastaudience. In fact,
the remaining part of Mr.. Moody's address
was just what it was expected to be. He is
not an orator in the usual acceptance of the
word, but he has most insinuating man.
ner, which keeps the attention of his hear
ers riveted to his subject. He pointed quite
a number of his statements by episodes from
his career, and invariably with very signif-
cant and forcible application. He is thor
Oughly in earnest in his works and he
throws large share of his earnestness into
his very effective language.
THE NATIONAL INQUEST BILL.
AS a further aid to secure free ballot and
a fair count in all the elections hereafter to
be held, Senator Hoar has introduced bill
providing for National inquests," of which
the following is the full text: