El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-20
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sermon on "Grinding at the Mills"

Rev W. 0. Mlllican preached In the
First Baptist church Sunday evenlng
from the text; The Philistines took
him and bound him with fet-
ters OF brsss; and he did grind In the
prisop." Judges XVE21.
The speaker said in part: The hand
prist mill OF Simpsons day furnished
employment for slaves and women only
IL was the commonest kind OF mental
service. But in Ssmson's case the
physical service WAS not 1.-The rub. "
An honest man will, il necessary and
possible, go on the steam boat and
work with the negroes; and he can, II
he will, be as joyful as they are, 60 long
as he has his freedom. But make him
a slave and it ia worse than death.
But suppose he has brought this
slavery on himself; how wretched must
be. his existence. Here was man
whose birth an angel had announced,
who had been endued with superna-
tural strength, aud bad held at God g
command the highest place among his
nation. But he took Gods law into
his own hands. and unbridling his lusts
he took his full of sin. First, he dis
regarded Gods law in marriage. Be
careful here! Next he joined himself
on to q harlor. This always means
ruin. Following this came An infatua-
ton for a woman of little less charac-
ter than the former. And now the
very thing-snd that Ia good pane for
such a woman-thsG afforded him 30
much pleasure turns him over to his
direst enemies and becomes his great
est curse. Through her betrayal OF
bind him, and force him to grind at
the mill in the house of slavery. "Be
not deceived my friends" sin is rob-
Der, nature Is memorable in her laws:
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap.
:sDoctor, look down my throat will
you, ''-''Well sir, 1 see nothing, ex-
traordinary' was the physicians re-
ply. See nothing extraordinary
WhJ doctor, to say nothing OF other
things, two of the largest farm and the
largess SAL mill ever in our oommu nifty
have gone d"wn there These were
the words of man whom Sin had fore
ed to grind at the mill OF poverty.
Passing along one of the pixies in
Kentucky one may see q large slave
farm with splendid msnsion and equip
ments. Passing few miles further
on towards the the outskirts OF the
village there is an old house. The
front end has fallen out and the rent
Der. There are no steps leading to the
front entrance. To enter you must
go through q patch of weeds to the
rear And there you find q broken
hearted young wife, a few ragged chill
dren and all that is left of the son of
the family who once owned this great
estate. What brought him here? Was
it freeing the slaves? No! Never! It
was sin that brought the sons of this
mill of poverty.
But sin does not stop with the slave-
~ of business poverty. 1t often makes
one grind at the mill of physical and
mental poverty. Our specialists tell
us that thousands of the wrecks along
this line are due, not to overwork, but
to intemperance and secret sins. I was
told of q young man in this town con-
corning whom 1t was prophesied that
his Sin would soon take him away; and
sure enough within three months the
grave closed over his wrecked body.
One of the brightest young men in q
Kentucky town that furnished the pres
emit governor of that state was another
marked victim. For years before his
end he was unfit to hold the positions
nature qualified him for. Every one |
who was judge could see that sin WAS
gnawing at the very vitals OF his ply
steal constitution. And finally he be-
came SO conscious OF this that one night
be stepped hurriedly into the back Of q |
saloon and swallowed drug that soon
put him beyond the pale of mortal suf-
fering, but where the mind and soul |
> hall suffer forever. |
And still sin has another slsve-mill |
and that ia sin itself. Silas Jackson |
was the deformed son of an honest
Kentucky farmer. He had |
TO use his crutches, but it seemed that
al he had lost in body he had gained |
I'D II
If men naturally, a natural trainer of
horses, and made money with little |
trouble. Aud yet his wife kept toll |
gate, and they were exceedingly poor. |
Where was the trouble? All! years |
Igo the enemy bound Silas Jackson and |
let him to grind az the mill of intem-
,erance. o how he hated it and would |
eek to tear himself loose from 1t. He
owed the ministers and the church.
o regularly that you would think he
vas reformed, but the slave master
would then lay on the flash so heavily
hat in few evenings you would see
81 as reel and stagger so. as he enter
ID the church, that someone had to
how him a seat. And had it not been
hat he found a we'll knowa cure over
n Indiana be doubtless would have
'ronnd On both in this world and in
World to come. l Know OF young
nan who inherited q good name, q
-ood physique and a reasonable for
une from his parents. But he became
'ound to the mill OF gambling, and
round away until first came the Sc
'srstion from wife and baby; then the
css Of all his fortune And when I
card of him lest he was dependent
n the charity of lis relatives. Bor-
owing one more quarter he played
gain and lost. And these were his
worlds on living, well, think 1 had
'e'ter go into the streets and put
ull-t through my heart" And it is
pit - at his companions laughed in
lis face and told him they thought so
What awfu1 condifionf |