The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-07-02
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BRooELya, June 2a-Dr TalInaSvS
sermon today ls of 20 dcciaiedly evan
gehcal character as 60 prove concia
savsiy that while - many eminent
preachers OF the day ara drifting asay
fro,a the old fashioned Gospel be TO
mains firrn In tho paths of orthodoxy.
His subject is "Astray, but Recovered.
ana his text, Isaiah I'LL, @. "AIi NO like
sheep have gone astray, and
the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
Of ~ all.
Within ninety years at tho longest
all who hear or Rad this sermon VIII b.
In eternity. During tho next fifty years
you viii nearly all b. gone. Tho ncxt
tnn years viii cnt wide swath among
the people. Tho year 1891 will to some
be tho finality. Such considerations
make this occasion absorbing and mo
mcntous The first half of fny text b
an Indictment. "Ail we like shacp hays
gone astray" Some one says, "can
you not drop the first wordi that h too
general; that sweeps too great circle"
some man rises In the audience and he
looks over on the opposite side of the
house, and he says; There Is a bias
phemer. and understand how he has
gone astray. And there In another
part of tho house Is defrauder, aud he
has gone astray And there IN an i'm
pure person and he has gone astray."
Sit down. my brother, and look at
home. My text takes us all In II
starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the
circuit OF the room and comes back to
the point where IL started, when IL says;
"AIl we like sheep have gone astray."
can very easily understand why Mar
ldn Luther threw up his hands after he
mad found the Bible and cried out,
s'Ohl my sins, my sins" and why the
publican, according to the custom 20
this day In the east. when they have
/ any greas grief. began to beat himself
and cry as he snote upon bis breast,
"0od be merciful to fne sinner"
PoR FfIaHT OR FOR wASrosxEss.
Twas, like many of you, brought up
In the country. and know some of the
habits Of sheep, and how they get
astray, and what my text means when ID
says, "All We like sheep have gone
astray." Sheep get astray 10 two ways;
\ either by trying 10 get into other pas
ture, or from being scared by tho dogs.
In the former way some OF US got
assray. We thought tho religion of
Jesus Christ short comrlons. We
thought there was better pasturago
somewhere else We thought II we
could only lie down on the banks of
distant streams, or under great oaks on
the other side of SOHO hill. we might
be better fed.
We wanted other paxturage than that
which God through Jesus Christ gave
our so1l, and we wandered on and We
wandered on, AID we were lost. We
wanted bread, and We found garbage.
The further we wandered. instead Of
finding rich pastarage. We found biasted
heath and sharper rocks and mors
singing nettles- No pasture. How
was Il In the worldly groups when sou
lost your ehildi Did they come around
and console you very muchf Did not
the plain Christian rnnn who came into
your house and sat mp with your siar'
ling child give you more comfort than
| all worldly associationsi Did all the
! conviyial songs you ever heard comfort
, you In that day of bereavement 80
, much as the song they sang TO you,
, perhaps the very song that was sung by
your little child the last Sabbath after
noon Of her life'
There Is q happy land. far. far away,
Where saints immortal reign. bright. br1gh
D 49, day.
2 day OF darkness and trouble give yot
D any especial condolencei Business ex
aspcrated you, business wore you out
. business left you limp as a rag, busines
. made You mad. You got dollars, bu
1 you got no peace. God have mercy on
. the rnan who has nothing but busiDes
! to comfort him The world affordes
y you no luxuriant pasturage. 4 farnou
English actor stood on the stage fInper
= : sonating. and thunders Of applaus
: came down from the galleries, an'
: many thought it was the proudcst me
4 ment of all his life; but there was MAJ
: asleep Just In front Of him, and the fac
. that that man was Indifferent an.
n scmDolent spoiled all the occasion 70
o him. and he cried. wake upl wax
4 npf"
9 So one little annoyance In life Ina
G been more peryading TO your min
o than all the brilliant congratulation
Y and successes. Poor pesturage 70
3 your soul you found in this world. tn
70 world has cheated yeu. the world ha
70 belied you. the world has misinterprcte
10 you. the world has prosecuted you
. never conaforted you. 0hl this world
v good rack from which horse ma
- pick his hay; it is good trough frol
!. which the swine may crunch their mes
= but it gives but little food TO sos
70 blood bought and immortal What
. souli 1t is a hope high as the thron
- Of God What Is a mani You sa,
20 sIt ID only man. Il is only ma
= cone overheard In sin Il is only
I. man gone overheard in business life-
- THR VALUE or ozR MANS SOUL
a. What b a mani The battle groun
"a OF three vorids With his hands takin
aa 4 hold Of destinies Of light or darkness
d A mani No line can measure him n
a. limit can bound him. The archang'
~ hnenEo the throne cannot oufliye him
"a T1he sfars shau die but he WIN wstc