Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-09-18
.CORRESPOND DENCE
Macedonia Baptist Church, Col
ored, Whatit is Doing.

oNOi S3pisS S'irAii NtN'iiNy \ vi
ored) Baptist church for the pas
week or two. \ number OF visiting
pastors have heen in attendance
among tiiem brother .Jn,. Burkei
one of their venerable old schoo
preachers.
The Rev. Carroll, agent for the
American Baptist publication So
ciety. was the invited speaker fol
Thursday evening last. The house
was full and quite number OF
white people were present, and ii
may be honestly said that the time
has passed when people can attend
the services of Macedonia church
and receive no good. Our colored
brethren and friends and their
pastor are to be commended and
encouraged upon the fact that there
has been wonderful improve
ment in the calibre of their minis
terial corps, both in education and
| to all appearances in spirituality,
and cleaver understanding of the
word of God.
The following is the text and
some of the thoughts as presented
by the Rev. Carroll on Thursday
evening last:
"But son, remember, that thou
in thy lifetime receivedst thy good
things, and likewise Lazarus evil
things: but now he is comforted
land thou art tormented."
''No man can depict the horrors
of hell, there isn't any tongue that
could ever describe the tortures of
that dreadful place. If one should
rise from the dead and come back
10 earth to tell US about it, he
would be silenced. The Bible only
feebly tells the story, but l will try
TO tell you from the word of God,
seme Of the trials OF that place. A
man dies just like he lives, and
afler death is either worse or bet
ter. Some of you mothers don't
wait your SONS to marry some wo-
men, and hale to see your daugh-
ters going with some othsr people,
there are classes among the whites
and the blacks, but in hell, are the
murderers that were murderers on
earth, the same people only worse,
the liars are there only worse, and
the idolaters are there and thieves
are there and there is only one
class in hell, and your children
will belong TO that class. There is
no God there, and no end to the
everlasting punishment. of the lost.
All men are lost and condemned
and their names are written in the
book, judged already before they
die, but Jesus Christ saya, "Come
unto me and be ye saved, all ye
ends of the earth," and there is no
&C ccademnation to those that come.
Once there was council held in
heaven. God saw Adam our fore
father going astray, and he said,
who will go and bring back this
race of sinlers. ard who is worthy
to undertake this great thing, and
Jesus walked forth and slid SO |
come in the volume of the book it
is written of me, / delight to do
thy will. o my God, yea, thy law
is written my heart"
Religion 10 sweet thing, it is
higher than heaven, deeper than
hell and broader than the ocean.
1t has no bounds it lives on the
mountain tops. and on the hills,
in the valleys and OIL the streams
that flow along i'll their course; it
is in kings palaces and in the beg
gars hut. Paul stood before the Ro-
mans, the most intellectual people
of that time, and said / am not
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that be-
lievetb." He went in the pres
ence of King Aggrippa, bound
with chains on his hands and
chains on his feet, and Aggrippa
the gleat King said, "Almost thou
persuadest mo to be a Christian"
There are not many converted
people, there are lots of baptized
people but that doesn't amount to
anything. You know what con-
verted man will do. He will try
to get somebody else saved. There
was steamer crossing the Allan
tic, and they spie,l an object in the
distance, and they stopped to dis
cover what it was. They found it
was a wrecked steamer, and on
the deck they saw a bundle of
rags, they found it was man with
little life in him, they carried him
on their steamer and there tried to
restore him. and what was the frat
word he said? "Another. another
man ON the steamer" and they
looked and found another man
and saved his life. So one 81 us
when we are saved will say, There
is another man my neighbor lost,
and we'll 60 after him. In hell
man will have to give an account
for every opportunity he has lost
to do good. If you see a man hun