The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-16

member them" And then - taxes all th9
past and emptes It on that deathbed, as tha
| nailbags are empted on the postofaoe fook.
The man is sick. BE cannot get away from
I hem. 8
: Then the man says to satan: ssYou hsv
deceived me. You told NE that all would b
| we'll. You said there would be no trouble a
| he last. You told me II I did 50 and so you
| would ;do so and Sc. Now you corner NE
and hedge me up and submerge me In every
| thing evil. ."S"Ha, ha" says setan. 81 was only
! toelin8 you. It Is mirth for me to see you suf-
, Ter. I have been for thirty years plotting to
/; get you Just where you are. 4 Is hard tol
| Fou now; 1t will be worse for you eftel
awhile. It pleases me. Lie stlll, sir. Don't
dipch or shudder. Come, now, win teal
Dh from you the last rag Of expectation. !
will rend eway from your soul the last hope
will leave you bare for the beating Of the
Eo1n. Il is my business to strip the SLAIN"
You are nastenlng on toward Ine 50I5cG-
!! nation OF all that is sad. To-day ycu stop and
, think, but It is only for moment, and then
! you will tramp on, and at the close Of this
, service you Will 90 out. and the question
; will be, GLOW did you like the sermon?"
And one man Will say, IT liked it very we'll"
! and another man will say, 81 didn't like il
| 1t al, !" but neither OF the answers will touch
i the tremendous fact that if tmpenitent you
are going at thirty knots an hour toward
,hipwreck. Yea, you are in battle where
/ you will fall, and while your surviving rel
! st1ves will take your remaining estate and
the cemetery will take your body the messen-
gers Of darkness will take your soul and
come and 90 about you, stripping the slain.
| Many are crying out, ~ admit I am slain;
: admit It." On what battlefield, my broth
srs? By what weaponp "Poluted imagina-
| hon." says one man; "IrtoNcating liquor"
| nys another man; 'tMy own hard heart"
ays another man. Do you realize this?
Then come to tell you that the omnipo-
! Tent Christ IS ready to walk across this bat
F.; tlefeld and revive and resuscitate and resur-
: rect your dead soul Let Him take your
hand and rub away the numbness,, your head
f., and bathe of the aching, your heart and
stop its wild throb. He brought Lazarus to
! life, He brought Jairus's daughter to life, He
! brought the young man Of Main to life, and
: these are three proofs anyhow that BE can
. bring you to life.
! When the Philistines came down on fh
Held, they stepped between the corpseS, and
| hey rolled over the dead, and they took
Iway everything that was valuable. And SO
i gas with the people that followed after the
! )rnnies at Charlottesville and at P1ttsbpr8
Landing and at Stone River and at Atlanta,
tripping the slain, but the Northern and
/ bOukuCEA HOA4S4-SxN3 IACoo l44C1A4-~NSS1A&4O OA
/ he field with basins and pads and towels
Ind lint and cordials and Christian en-
souragement, and the poor fellows that lay
here lifted up their arms and said, "Oh,
sow good that does feel since you dressed
! t!' And others looked up and said, "Oh,
now you make me think Of my mother"
Ind others said, 'Tell the folks at home
lied thinking about them.n Aud another
looked up and said, miss, wodts you sing
ne verse Of. Home, sweet. .Home,' before J
ae?" And then the tattoo was sounded, and
he hats were OF, and the service was read;
Il am the resurrection and the life" And
oaded and the command given, present
irer' And there was shingle Get up at the
lead Of the grave, with the .epifaph eoi
lieutenant - In the Fourteenth Massa-
| ,husetts regulars" or "CaptRin - In tha
Fifteenth regiment OF South Carolina votun,
| eers." And so now, across this great Geld
| ,f moral and spiritual battle, the angels OF
1. Sod come walking anndnS the slain, and
! here was voices Of comfort and voices o1
hope and voices Of resurrection and voices OF
heaven {
[ H Broadway and Houston street, A young
nan, evidently doubling g TO which dt.ee1
ion be had better take, bis hat lifted high
4 DUSQHu 6C kuEk IS4 SOU4o goo A0 0S2A al 4lS
elugept forehead, stout chest; he had q
pbust development. Splendid young man.
cultured young man. Honored young man.
] Why did he stop there while 80 many vera
| soing up and down? The fact Is that every
nan has good angel and bad angel con,
ending for the mastery Of hts spirit, end
here were good angel ard bad angel
struggling with that young mans eou as
Ihe corne: Of Broadway and Houston stteet,
hCome with me-" said the good angel; 81
Fill take you home; will spread my wings
pver your pillow; will lovingly eseort you
sll through life under supernatural protee-
lion; will bless every cup you drink out OF,
every couch you rest on, every doorway you
weep, your sweat when you toll, erd at thA
last will hand over your grave into the
hand Of tae bright angel Of Christian 70
| surrecdon- In answer to your fathers pett-
hon and your mothers prayer have been
sent Of the Lord out Of heaven to be your
guardian spirit. Come with me-" said the
good angel In q voice Of unearthly symphony.
t was music like that which drops GrQ@ q
ute Of heaven wken'a seraph breatheah hEat,
mo, no." said the bad angel; "come with
ne; have something better to offer. The
sarousal; the d:pce lead Is over floor tee-
jellated with u1rcstrained indulsences; there
b no God to frown on the temples Of sin
where worship. The skies are Italian The
paths tread are through meac WIS, daised
ind primrosed. Come with me. :
The young man hesitated at time when
hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel
smote the good angel until it departed,
spreading wings through the starlight up
ward and away until door flashed open IN
the sky and forever the wings vanished.
That was the turning point In that young
pan's history, for, the good angel flown, he
besitated no longer, but started on path
way which Is beautiful at the opening, but
way, opened gate after gate, and at each
gate the road became rougher and the sky
more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the
gate slammed shut It came to with Jar thai
indicated shat It would never open.
Passed each portal there was grindint
d locks a,.a q showing Of bolts, and the seen
ery on eii-hss side Of the road changed from
gardens to hoserts, and the June ais became
cutting December blast, and she bright
wings Of the bad alssssa turned to saekcioth
and the eyes OF light became hollow with
hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the
start had tossed with wine, poured forth
On the light side OF the road there wa.
. serpent, and the man said to the bad angel
'What Is that serpent?" ana The answer was
hThat is the serpent Of singing semorse. u
On the left side the road there was lion,
Ind the man asked tie bad angel, "What 4
hat lion?" and the answer was, "That is the
ion Of all devouring despair" A vulture
lew through the sky, and the man asked the
,ad angel, ''What is that vultore?" and the
jnswer was, "That Is the vulture waiting fol
he carcasses of the slain"
And then the man began to try to pull of
lin the folds OF something that had wound
iim rour and round. and he said to the baI
,ngel. "What is It that twists me in this aW
nl convulsion?" and the answer was. ''Thsa
s the worm that never dies" And then thu
nan said to the bad angel: ''Whar does al
This mean? + trusted in what you saio at tht
,orner Of Broadway and Houston street;
! rusted it all, and why have you thus de
J eived me9" Then the last deception fell OF
he charmer, and 1t said: 81 was sent fortl
rom the pit to destroy your soul. lwatchet
ny chance for many long year. Whenyo1