The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-18

cattle but not for man. And then, for
one to prefer it TO n royal table toward
whose bounty the orchards. and pad
docks, and streams, and vineyards in
all the earth might contribute--what
an amazement! And yet the scene is as
common as the daylight
When l see man Of regal nature
made to rule in realms of thought, ca
pable of all moral elevation. besotting
his faculties, attempting out of low
sensualities to satisfy his immortal en-
ergies, coming down off his throne of
power into brutalities, sacrificing his
higher nature to his lower ma
ture, STOPPING and STOPPING, COM
ing down and coming down until
all his influence for good is gone, l cry
out: There is king eating grass like
an ok! And there are tens OF thou
sands of such Nebuchadnezzars. SO
there are queens who dedicate them
selves to the same humiliation. What
power for good God gave that woman.
Magnetism of personal presence. In
tluence more than imperial. BY her in
telligence, by her tenderness, by her
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of soothing so much sorrow. reforming
so much waywardness, and welding SO
much elevated power, yet at the call OF
worldliness, coming out of the throne
room of influence where God would
have her reign, coming down over the
ivory stairs of mortal power, coming
down and coming down until she has no
more soul than the dead bird tranfiXed
in her millinery or the chinchilla that
was slain to afford her warmth or the
kid that furnished her the glove, and
finding her only delight in batteries of
brainless men and midnight schottische
and debauched novelties. say: There
is one who might have been queen
unto God forever, yet eating straw like
an OK" look over pasture fields of folly
and sin and find many groveling who
ought to be erect. Oh, men and women,
go back to your thrones! A young man
ran away from home and broke his
widowed mothers heart Fourteen
years passed and he returned, and came
to the window at which his old mother
was sitting. She looked up and imme-
diately recognized him, and said: "Oh,
hObCIl. hODCII. SOlhC ANo' ouAo
he, mother, l shall never come in till l
hear you say you forgive me-" Her an
swer was, Robert have forgiven you
long ago. There is nothing to forgive
now except that you stayed away so
long" My hearer forgiveness has
been ready for you good while. With
more than a mothers tenderness God
will take you back. They are waiting
for you up in the Palace. Nebuchad-
nezzar was the son of NabopOlassar,
who ruled before him, and you are the
child of king!
The next thought that presses into
my mind from the contemplation of
this incident is that conviction is not
conversion. Who is this monarch
that make the boast about Babylon?
The very man who, under the revela-
ton of dreams that Daniel made from
Heaven, deeply humbled himself,
while he confessed that God is God of
Gods and a Lord of Lords, yet behold
that that humbling and arousing which
he before felt did not result in a radi-
cal change. There is no mistake more
frequent than of supposing conviction
a synonym for conversion. Conviction
is merely "a sight of sin; conversion is a
view of pardon. Conviction is merely
alarm, conversion is confidence. Con-
viction is dissatisfaction with deprav-
ity; conversion is n turning away from
it. Conviction is a sword wound; con-
version is the healing. Conviction is
the fever of thirst; conversion is the
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pain; conversion is the medicine that
cures it. Thousands have experienced
the former and never experienced the
latter. There are multitudes who think
that as soon as man is serious he is fit
for profession of religion. What if a
man should only think seriously of be-
ing a merchant; would that make him
a merchant? What If a man should
only think seriously of being a lawyer;
would that make him lawyer? What
if man should only think seriously OF
being a Christian would that make him
a Christian? Felix was convicted but
not converted. The jailer was con-
victed before he got out OF bed, but not
converted until at the advice of Paul he
believed in Christ. Are you convicted but
not converted? l tell you what you
make me think of. You have made
up your mind for proper consideration
to deed away a property. You have
drawn the deed The seal is affixed
opposite where you are to write your
name. The commissioner of deeds is
present to witness. You have your pen
in hand There is ink in the pen
There is only one thing for you to do,
and that is to sign your name. Sup
pose you stop now without signing