The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-05
WHITE TALKS IT OUT
Rcn0rt Of Rev. Whites Sermon at
Winston.
He Talks Mnch Stuff in a General
Way.
THE DURHAM PREACHER is IN IT
The Rev. Mr.. White Has Captured the
People of Winston, and Talks Much
Good Sense.


Good Sense.
The Winston Sentinel SAYS: Rev. NJ.
White spoke again last night to a large
and attentive audience. All available
space was occupied, and still many were
not seated. He chose his text from the
first clause Of Job xvii, -: This is the
portion of the wicked man with God"
He said among other things: Many de
scriptions have been given by various
writers in illustrating the contrast be-
tween the Christian and the sinner, but
none is to my mind more impressive
than this which came under my own OBJ
servation:
One dark, dreary night in December
as l was passing the Deaf, Mute and
Blind Asylum in Raleigh, | heard sweet
music floating Out above me, and glanc-
ing tC an upper window saw two little
blind children standing in the window
singing in their child-like simplicity this
beautiful song: Saviour more than life
ID me, | am c.inging, clinging close to
Thee Then letting my eyes wander TO
the pavement beneath | beheld a drunken
sot staggering along the pavement in the
rain and mud. lie reeled here and there,
then rolled TO the gutter beneath and
wall0wed like q brute in the fifth and
mire.
Oh, the contrast depicted there!
He spoke then of the sweet and peace
full existence Of the Christians and the
glorious future which lies before them,
as with crowns of righteousness upon
their heads, they shall spend the endless
ages Of eternity in the presence of the
Almighty God, companion Of angels and
mingle their voices in sweet songs to
the honor Of the great God and Jesus
their Saviour. And on the other hand
he said that the ungodlY man was a dan
gerOus man-dangerOus to his family
dangerous to his friends, and dangerous
to his cOuntry-and that the upright,
moral man was the most dangerous Of
all because Of the stronger influence
which he Wields over his associates. All,
said he, the young man will turn with
disgust from the poor drunkard as he
walloWs there in the mire, but how
eagerly he will bring up the life Of some
good, moral citizen, successful in bust
ness and upright in all his dealings as a
justification of his own unchristian eX-
~istence, saying: "If [ can only equal this
man in usefulness and live such a life as
he is living, | will take my chances for
the hereafter" 1t is thus that the moral
man exerts an infinitely more deadly in
~f1uence in the world than the out spoken
sinner.
He laid much stress upon the influence
Of parents over their children; the i'm
portance Of their lives being cOnsecrated
to the service of God, the awful effect of
an ungodly father or mother upon the
lives Of their children, and Of the suffer
ing ahd sorrow that a wild and ungodIy |
son will inevitably bring upon his fam
lily and friends.
Then after strikingly picturiDg the
peaceful death and triumphant entrance
of the Christian into heaven, borne on
the wings of ministeling angels, he re-
peated his text, But this is the portion
of the wicked man with God" and went
on to depict in all its horrible realities
the death of the wicked and the agonies
they must endure in the liquid flames Of
perdition.
He closed with an earnest appeal to all
unsaved in the house to look unto God
and thereby avert the awful doom that
awaited them.
1t was pronounced by many to be the
most powerful sermon be has yet deliy-
cred, and we regret exceedingly that We
unable under the circumstances to
a verbatim report, suffice it to
say that about twenty-five professed
faith in Christ and several backsliders
were reclaimed.