Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-13

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who is said to have had such an
exalted opinion of human kind as
Ito have remarked to, a friend: :sIf
you knew bowsmueh sof the divine
There is in every human being, you
would fall down OH your knees be-
fore the humblest beggar, in the
street" On one occasion there was
to be a lecture delivered by Mr..
Emerson and an Irish servant
woman was engaged in the hotel in
the place. 1t was noticed by the
inmates of the hotel that towards
nightfall she seemed very much
hurried to finish her work. Some
one said to her, "Why this hurry,
Bridget?" ooh, Pm going out to
hear Mr.. Emerson" she said, 81
always go to hear him lecture, be-
cause he makes me feel as If I'm
as good as anybody, and I love to
feel that way"
Mr.. Rice has a like regard for
humanity, and said he s'loved to
think that the sun, the moon, the
stars, the universe, waited upon
him. Electricity in the flashing
lightning has had the same power
since the ages begun, but it re-
NAMED for Mr.. Edison to dis
cover it's use and bring it under
the control of fman." Solomon said
that there was nothing new under
the sun, and in listening to sermons
we consider them simply remind
ers, for the same ideas have been
expressed on numberless occasions.
This is an evidence of the charm
and attractiveness of the gospel,
that the "old, old story" is as pre-
cious to-day as it was in the, ages
gone by. One beautiful thought
of the speaker and a suggestive
one was this, that "the manifes-
tations of revealed love cannot be
resisted. A hound would at kind
ness die watching over the dead
body of his master; a bird !caress-.
ed will return to the shoulder Of,
her that caressed it-a heart full
of love, revealed to fellow-men,
will call forth smiles and respon-
sive1 thrills of sympathy at every
passingsmomentet from the objects
E6oF that affections
HThere is no. definition of the
word faith in5thei Bible; the text
gives onlYtwosof the attributes of
faith. There is in fact no definition
ofanything in the Bible, for
truth SIS grandeS and contains
more. than any definition"
. Cbnstasked one of the disciples
if when he came again he would
iifd much faith in the world?
Commentaries have tried to pass
disregard this question,
but. there lis I more in it than is
commonly believed. There is not
very much pare, simple, trusting
faith in the world at this day.
There is conservation. and the
world is better than it has ever
been, more is being done for the
uplifting of degraded and down.
trodden humanity"
"Christ came and he knew how to
draw from man the best that was
in him, he appealed to their best
emotious and it is no less the case
to-day. There are heroes sleeping
in the hearts of men and women
present here that can be touched
and brought into action only by the
Christian religion"
= Faith makes th5 future real, and
our hopes in the future are worth
no more and ne less than our faith
makes them worth.
"The human heart is too prone
to regard the creator as infinite
and powerful alone, without the
essential and precious attribute
Of mercy: eEhefact is not always
present Eithuss that God dwells
among us, andsls sympathizer
il all our sorrows, a healer of all
our wounds, and a rejoicer in our
rejoicings, a God with the
attribute .ofginfnite mercy as we'll
'asEof siaatiee;s a-.
Mr. Rice has reached by a close
communion with God such a
spiritual height as to unconscionsly
raise his hearers towards the same
elevated plane.
SMADA.
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