The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-04

point Edwards, tho bad, belong to
the same family. Aaron Burr, the
dissolute, had Most excellent father.
Dying, yet immortal hearer, by the
solemnity of the parental, and filial,
and coniugal relation, by the sacred
ness of the family hearth, by the hon
or of the family name, by the memo
ry of departed kindred, point out
this parting of Ruth and Orpah.
Again: This subject suggests to
me two of the prominent reasons
why people refuse the kingdom of
Christ. There may have been many
other reasons why Orpah left her
sister and mother-in-law and went
back home, but there We're two rea-
sons which think were more promi-
nent than the rest. She had been
brought up in idolatries She loved
the heather gods which her ances-
tars had worshiped, and, though
these blocks of wood and stone could
not, hear, she thought they could
hear, and, though they could not see,
she thought they could see, and
though they could not feel, she
thought they could feel. A new reli-
gion had been brought to her nttcn-
ton. She had married godly man.
She must often have heard her moth
erin law talk of the God of Isreal
She was so much shaken in her origi-
nal bekef that she concluded to leave
her idolatries, but, coming to the
margin of the land of Bethlehem, her
determination failed her, and speed
lily she returned to her gods. This
is the very reason why multitudcs of
persons never become Christians.
They cannot bear to give up their
gods. Business is the American jug
gernaut that crushes mare men than
the great car of the Hindoos. TO it
they say their morning and evening
prayers. A little of Christ's religion
may creep into the Sabbath, but
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday are the
| days devoted to this American idol.
Every hour there is sacrifice on the
altar Home duties, health of body,
manly strength and immortal atlec-
tions must all burn in this holocaust.
Men act as though they could take
their bonds and mortgages. and saws,
and trowcls, and axes, and day
DOohS, WILL IilcHl liibo oilo hluSoOH Vi
heaven.
There arc men who have no un'.o
ly thirst for gold, yet who are dcvo-
ting themselves to their worldly oc-
cupations with a ruinous intensity
Men Of the stock exchange, mon o!
the yardstick, men of the saw, men
of the trowel, men of the day-book.
what will become of you if unforgiv-
ell, in the great day when there are
no houses to build, and no good, 10
sell, and no bargains to MAKE: !; =,
possible to devote oneself evel. J.. /
lawful calling until it becomes silnui.
There is no excuse on earth or under
the earth for the neglect of our
deathless spirit. Lydia was Il seller
of purple, yet she did not allow her
extensive occupation to keep her
from becoming Christian. Daniel
was secretary of state an1 attorney
general in the empire of Babylon,
! and vet three times day he found
time to pray with his face towards
Jerusalem. The man who has no
time to attend to religion will have
no 4ime to enter heaven.
| But there are others who, while
their worldly occupation has no par
ticular fascination over them, are en-
tirely absorbed in the gains that
come to that occupation. This is
the worship of Mammon. The ring
of dollars and cents is the only litany
they ever utter. Though in the last
day the earth itself will not be worth
II farthing, heap of ashes scattered
in the Mhirlwind, they are noY giving
their time and eternity for the nc
QUESTION of so much of 1T as you
might mt last hold i'll the hollow OF
one hand. The American Indian
who gave enough land to make a
state out of for n string of beads.
made princely bargain compared
with the speculation of that man
who gains the whole world and loses
his own soul. How much comfort
do the men take who died mforgivcn
ten years ago, leaving large fortunes
to their heirs? Do they ever come
up to count the gold they boarded
or walk through the mansions they
built! Though they could have
bought an empire, they haze not now
rs much money us you have this mo-
ment i'll your pocket. Solomon look.
ed upon his palace and the grounds
surrounding it, pools trimmed with
gold, and circling roads along which
at times, rushed his fourteen hun
dred chariots, while under the out
branching sycamores and ccdars
the apes and peacocks, which by the
navy Of Hiram had been brought
from Tarshish, and from the window
curtains with embroidered gold anC
purple through which came out the
thrill of harps and psalteries ming
ling with the song of the waters
When Solomon saw that all thes,
luxuries or sight and sound hat
been purchased by his wealth, II,
broke forth in the exclamation
"Money answereth all things" Blu
, we cannot receive it as literal. I
cannot still the voice of conscience
} 1t cannot drown the sorrows of tin
soul. 1t cannot put n bribc in tn
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