The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-08-14

so all around for the children; cut the slices
thin" Blessed be God there Is full loaf
Tor every one that wants It. Brend enough
nnd to spare. No thin slices at the Lords
table. remember when the Master Street
Hospital In Philadelphia was opened during
the war, telegram came saying, "There
Will be three hundred wounded men to-n light;
be ready to take care OF them:" aud from
my church there went In some twenty or
thirty men and women to look after these
poor wounded fellows. As :hey came, some
from ono part OF the land. some from an
other, no one asked whether this man was
from Oregon, or from Massachusetts,, or from
Minnesota, or from New York. There was n
wounded soldier and the only question was
how to take of the rags the most gently,
and put on the bandage, ana administer the
cordial. And when q soul comes to God, He
does NOT ask whore yom came from, or what
your ancestry was. Healing Tor all your
wounds. Pardon for all your guilt. Com
fort for all your troubles.
Then. also, counsel you II you want to
get back to quit all your bad associations.
ono unholy intimacy will fll your soul with
moral distomper. In all tho ages OF tue
church there has not been an instance whers
man kept ono evil associate and was re-
formed.
When u man deliberately chooses bad as
socintion because no likes it, that man has
started on the road down. oh, do not care
what you call it, that association will des-
poll your sonl. After YOU AFRO destroyed,
body, mind and soul. what will they do for
your what will they do for your family? They
will not give on. cent to support your chill
dren after you aro dead. tn will not weep
one tear mt your burial. They will chuckle
over your dumnatiOn.
1 had u rare friend ut the West. He was
fnll OF welcome when L went there 10 live.
Ho hal sploniid persona! appearance. There
IL not II Srander lookin. person In this house
to-day than hc was; ana to this grand per-
Sonnl appearances he added all Seuiu.ity and
all Kindness of soul-tcnicr rs u child
beautiful and loving nature. and loved
him rs brother; but l slw EVIL people COM
ing up around him, evil men coming mp
from bad places of amusement, aud they
snized hold OF his social and genial nature,
and they began to drag him down, and he
went further and further.
used to shy to him. Now, why don't Won
stop these bal habits AMI become u Chris
tian?" for talked with him Just Us I would
talk with u brother. and he understood me-
and 1 understood him. said, "Why dou't
You give up these things aud becomes Chris
tiauf" ooh. he said to mo on" day, lean
ing over his counter-just after hat asked
him for Il hundred dollars to help educate "a
young man for tho ministry. and he had
given mo the money before l had tho story
half told-"if 1t will do tho young man any
good, hero is n hundred dollars" Riyh,
after that conversation said, Now. you
are II splendid fellow; why don't YOU Civ,
mp your bal habits and be Christiun?"
"Oh," he sail, rs the tears ran down his
checks, II can't. should like to br II Chris
| tian. You see, have got these habits on me
So sir. can't get rid Of them. have been
going wrong longer than you would thinl;
Tor, and l can't stop"
Sometimes. in the moments of repentance,
he would go to his home and embrace his
little girl OF eight years conyulsveIy to his
heart. and he would cover her with aiorn-
| nouts and strew toys and pictures al about
hcr. and then from her beautiful preSancr-
tho beautiful presence OF his little chid-ae
would so to the Intoxicating cup, and TO tho
house OF shame, as Il fool to tho correction
stocks; and there these bad m,n kept pus H.
ing him on. n ship, fuil-winged, crashing
| into the breakers.
was called to his deathbel. ] hastencl,
and when I got into tue room was SUR
priscd to ilud him In full everyday dress, iv-
inv on tho top Of tho couch. 1 put ont my
hnnd and he greeted mo very cordially. Ho
| said: Now, Mr.. Tamage, sit down right
| there" l sat down and he said: Last
night, just where You sit now. I saw my
| mother, though she has been dead twenty
years-yes, sir; just where you sit now she
| sat. l couldn't have been mistaken. was
| as wide awake IA l am now. She sat just
where you sit. Wife. wish you would take
these strings of that they arc weaving
around me; wish you would take them off;
they annoy mo very mucn in this converst-
| tion." saw he was in delirlum. His wife
said: "There Is nothing there, my dear there
is nothing there"
Then he resumed the conversation, and
said: "Yes, my mother sat just where YOU
sit now. 1 knew her. She hal the same
spectacles, and the same cap and the same
aDroE. and the sIme dress. 1t must have
been her. just us she looked twenty years
aSO-she has been dead now twenty years.
And sitting there shs said to me, Roswell,
wish you would do better; and got up out
| of bed, aud l knelt beside her and said
Mother, wish could-I wish could do
better; would like to do better. Won't You
help me? You used to help me. Why can't
said. "Now we will pray" knelt to pray
He did not realiZe anything | said, sup
pose. Then / got up and said "Good-by,
good-Sy!" That night he went to God.
Arrangements for the obsequies were be-
ing made. and they said, '.Oh. it won't do to
bring him TO the church; he has been so dis
solutc." 1 said, bring him, bring him; he
stool by me wncn he was alive. and I'll
stand by him when he is dead Brin; him
| intOiha church." Tho sabbath came. As |
stool in the pulpit and saw his body coming
| up tho aisle. felt rs II could weep tears oi
blood. stood there that day and / snid.
| This man had his V rtrcS, and Il good many
| otthcm: he had his faults and u good many
| Of them; but let that man in this assembly
| who j. without sin cast the first stone on this
| coffin ii!."
On tho one side OF the pulpit sat the beau
tiinl child, as radiant and sweet faced rs any
| child that sat ut your table this morning
Sho knew not the sorrowS of an orphan
| child; she was not old enough to realize
| them. Sometimes when | think ofthat awful
scene. her face haunts me like n beautiful
face through II horrid dream. On the other
side OF the pui pit sat the man who had de-
strvyed him. They had put tho wormwood
| and tho gall into that orphau'S cup. They
pushed him of tho preeIpic". stood tnsrc
and told them that there was II God and II
Judgment and Il hell for those who destroyed
| their fellows Did they weep? Oh, no. not
one tear. Did they sigh rcpen;ingly? Not one
sigh. Did they say. "What II pity that we
destroyed HIM" oh. no. They sat and
;;a2cd 1T the coffin aS vuliureS at the carcass
| nf Il lnmll NhnSt, htNurt thnN hnl ri,.,,nl .nt