Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-08
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Some specimens OF the Preaching Done by tho
Sensational Eynngsiists.

Some specimens OF the Preaching Done by tho
Sensational EynngeIist-.
Prom sam smnli's baltimore Sermon
"The question otconsecration bothered me
somewhat at my conversion Many have an
idea that It In some great ceremony high above
his religion. II Is no such ceremony IN that !;
IT Is the seal oi mans conversion, aud no
mans conversion ought to bs thought com.
plote until 1t has this seal A Cunyci sion that
has not this seal viii not bo OF any service tn
'od. Conservation ought to follow immedi-
ately upon the heels of conversion. 1t means
that the man has burned his bridges behind
nun, that he may not again cross over into
tho territory OF dannation. Christs life on
this planet was AZ consecrated ~ II IL To-
day ~ iio stands ON tho right hand OF tho
Father. lio In the way opened up tn ns 10
the Father, and IL IA a Consecratod way, and
no man can follow that Saviour that ls not
cousccrated. His influence is n personal
magnetism that finds Its solution IN my con
secration. The Saviour, the follower and the
way must agree. ConsecrBlion IL tho su.
preme tribute OF love.
"There IA danger OF doubts and daIunaton
lurking In the nature Of the man who re-
fuses To Toe conseCrated. tonsecration means
giving the hand. man loves his intended
bride and she loves him. The supreme eS-
preston Of that love IL for them tO be we'd at
the altar and give their hands ~ token that
they will love each other until death doth
them part Aud | will place my hand In the
aud my hand will nil His. What ~ II
pledge Him9 TO love Him with all my
mind, my heart, my strength. | have taken
upon myself the greatest obligation upon
earth. We need not To COniine ourselves to
tenn pies CunseCrated to God, for since Christ
assembled we have had the Holy Spirit, who
will go everywhere with us. To Cpnsocrate
my mind / must ConseCrate all the
avenues to my mind. You never saw pair
OF consecrated eyes in theatre, IN
circus, or looking IN literature or art for
reading or picture debasing and obscene. |
Will cOnsecrate my ears, and Tor that reason
| will not go among those who indulge in
ribald speech or sCnii at my saviour, or bias
phene, or to those places where things are
said or sung Corrupting or dohauChing.
Some won't go to tho theatre, but they'll 20
To the opera and hear sung in Italian, French
or Dutch, that which, II translated, they
would rush from. Music ~ divine. But
there are things which were originally
divine, but which the devil has debauChed.
| Will guard the egress from my mind. !
will set my tongue and lips upon tho melU-
dies OF praises and good words 10 God and
my fellow-men. We are told that the
tongue IL set upon flames of hell, and II We
don't take care they will devour IT,
sander Is propagated by one devil IN
mans tongue finding sympathy with a
devil in another mans ear. tOnsocrate your
life mau before he has been converted
may stand At corner and pour out bias
phsmy until the air IL blue with ulphnr and
birthstone. But ask him to speak At prayer
meeting and he il almost dumb, and from
the way he utters 1t you would think the
word God WAS seventeen syllables long. Put
him up as a candidate for office aud he will
stand on the corner, dry-goods box or beer
barrel, and talk 1000 people almost 10 DEATH
Applause. Yet some ladies, II you could
get In the alleys and hear them talking over
the back fences or calling to the servants,
you'd think they could talk from way back.
some young ladies' will rattle away at the
piano and sing 'The Mikado or 'Pinafore,'
but ask these people to talk or raise "A tune IN
meeting and they are dumb.