The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-06-14

,.oue and eloquent sermon before a
& 81 we !, congregation at st. Andrews s
4, ,.,beran Church yesterday morning
!. DThe Kich Mans Crime" His
Sd y,t was:
# So ' .,Iuasmuoh as ye did it not to one
,,be least of these, ye did it not to
4, Matthews, 25:45.
Dr.. Sherer said:
# Men are absorbed with curiosity to
law what follows death. Holy
s.;pture does not often lift the veil
us. All the more closely should
:, study, then, the Gospel lesson for
3a, day, which gives us q glimpse Of
IN, laws of the unknown world-of
4, laws which determine destiny.
e First. there is the picture of rich
81 ,,p who lived like a king. His robe
!, Of dazzling byssus, so precious,
pfuy says, that it was exchanged for
/. weight in gold, and over this an
Later garment dyed with liquid of
|}sbulous cost, drawn in scant drol 9
tsu the purple-fsh. His table was
nded with delicate food; day by day
3ls lived Sin jovial splendor. His
3.Ouse was an Oriental palace.
M A. his open door they flung beg
~. What a contrast! The one
h.hed in purple and linen, the other
u,sred with sores; the one feeding on
auptuous fare, the other, like dog,
&i,sging crumbs; the one tended by
xritors, the other tormented by
hss.
But the rich man and the beggar
s ae Death, the great leveller, comes 70
u.h. Poet or peasant, beggar or
Hing, they are all the same to him, to
Ibis grinning mouarch, who is no re-
pwter Of persons. Lazarus, no
lhubt, was cast into the potter's Geld,
i nth no burial. But Of the rich man
\ lie parable adds: "He was buried"
falling before our eyes pictures Of
hish funeral splendor, as they wrap
4 I'd him in a splendid shroud, and laid
Gn on a costly bier, and marched
Ith their train Of hired mourners to
sllis pompous tomb.
a Lazarus? The name means "God is
alis help His name on earth had
ssmed pitiful irony, but now, when
lie most needs help, there is One to
usist him. He is carried by the
dugels into paradise, which the; Jews
Jailed "Abraham's BOSOM The
a.hild-like Luther comments, 'tI should
|8iso like to have my soul carried to
Heaven by such nursemaidsl"
4 There had been contrast between
Them on earth, but now the contrast
u still greater. Their lot is reversed;
4FDiyes' becomes .heheggggsr. From
|lhn who had once besought crumbs
from his hand he now begs drop Of
|aanter. But his request is unreason-
i3he. The law and the prophets had
given him full warning that he must
j,hoose between two; whether to seek
afnt temporal Joy or eternal joy, and
3se had made deliberate choice. So
lNW the inexorable reminder: "Son,
dnuember that thou in thy lifetime
asseivedst thy good things He had
made his choice, and now to seek a
4zNversal of his tis without reason.
1lis also an impossible request. for,
/ i'besides all this, between us and you
3'Asre is great gulf fixed, so that
5Aey which would pass from hence to
Slou cannot; neither can they pass to
Us, that would come from thence =
What solemn words these to fall from
aae lips Of the Son Of God, who was
3'st only Love, but Truthi Then the
Fellow complains; he has not had suf-
3isisnt warming. God is not good
Iaough to men. He does not sniff
3dently provide fer their salvation.
zlhsy ought to have supernatural,
]tatning Of these terrors. ''I9 .ope
}ssnt unto them from th@ dead they
lsould repent. = But never we're truer:
Iserds than the words of Abraham's 8
lnply: IF they hear not Moses and
]ae prophets, neither will they be-
aaEtsuaded, though enc rose from the
assad." Is it not true? God is will
Ing enough 60 do al FOR mems saliva
IIh'n, but God does not do the useless.
::fsrhaps consciously our Lord gave
|as name Lazarus to this beggar Of
|ae parable, so,that men reading it,
!alght think OF chat other Lazarus,
iills / friend, who did come back from
|'ae dead, emily to find men with self
1eluded eyes, who determined not to
|seeve, but only; to slay the Truth,
vent their way to the Pharisees and
Fsld them what things Jesus had
jaone.' Yea the Lord himself cama