Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
DEATH In THE POT.
Rev. Caesar A. Taylor breaches a Quaint
Sermon at Cumpmeeting-Broadn
smith Held Forth Mt Sewickley.

Rev. Caesar A. Taylor Prenches n Quaint
Sermon at n Cumpmeeting-Broadnx
smith Held Forth at Sewickley.
Yesterday the advertised colored camp
meeting to raise funds to pay for Rev.
Flemon's defense came off in McKee's
Grove, near Williamsburg. There was a
very large attendance, more especially
toward evening, and several colored minis
ters were present; among others, the Rev.
C. B. Whitelock, of Baltimore; Rev. Isaac
Jones, Chautauqua; and Rev. W. b. Peter
sen, of Salem, Mass. The Misses Thom-
sons quartet sang during the afternoon.
About $50 P. NJ. Rev. Cesar A. Taylor,
of New York City, opened service with a
short PRAYER. Mr.. 1. E. Robinson presided,
and introduced Mr.. Taylor to his audience
as young minister of great promise, and
the leader of the Republican Association of
New York State. Mr.. Taylor then opened
his discourse, taking as his text, II. Kings,
iv., 40: "And it came to pass as they were
eating. =. that they cried out and said. o
thou man of God, there is death in the potl
And they could not eat thereof"
The preacher then said that this text DEM
onstrated fact, namely, that since Adams
fall death soured all things. By sin death
came, and all men must die. Men spoke er-
roneously when they said that they were
living. No man was living;but all men were
dying. and dying fast. Every step brought
man nearer to that death which he feared so
much. And vet men said that they we're liv-
ing!
We were all spiritually present in Eden;
Just rs the germs of the corn in wide held
might have all been once contained In the
single grain. That was why all men shared
that awful death sentence with Adam. They
were present in Eden and took part in the
guilt So we were dying every day; death
was in the pot-in the dish-in the food We
eat.
When the great"I am, ''who ruled and SUI
perruled the universe, said to Adam, "When
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,
he foresbadowed this death that lies lurking
in the pots. That was law made by God.
Paul spoke of the perfect law of liberty"
That to the ignorant seemed contradiction
in terms: for thev thought that liberty
meant lawlessness, but these laws were only
meant TO guide, and they did not compel,
wherefore they leave to all men liberty and
free action. 1t was a terrible warning for
the glutton in worldly pleasures. that
death in the pot" With rapid flight of
fancy he then sketched the miseries of the
drunkard, and the baseness of the genius
which debauchery had dragged to the very
dust
They had supped at the pot, and they
would die the death. He that would be
saved should resist the savory emptations
of the alluring pot. But alas there were
people who, when they got to heaven,
would require all the angels to bow. and
scrape, and say, "Howdy do, brother so-and-
SO, or ''sister somebody-bowdy do? Thank
You ever so much for getting saved from
hades and damnation, and excuse us for
not providing you with an elevator. Those
golden stairs are very steep"
There was also very large colored as
semblv at Sewickley yesterday. Rev. G.
L. Holiday, Bishop Jones, Broada1
Smith and many others were present.