The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1901-06-10
DR.. BRIGGS SERMON.
RESUME OF THE ELOQUENT DIS.
COURSE AT BROADWAY YES.
TERDAY MORNING.

eloquent pastor ON THE Crusade
Against Paducah Society" II any
came, however, expecting the SEN
sational, they were disappointed for
DR.. Briggs is not given to that. but is
always cool, conservative, forcible,
logical.
The following is very closely con
densed report Of the sermon:
abide ye here with the ass; and /
and the lad will go yonder and wor-
ship.-Gen. xxii.5.
While Abraham climbed Moriah his
servants remained behind. They had
no choice. But some men choose to
remain. They have no answer to the
call Of prayer While others climb
the hills Of worship they tarry with
the ass below. Tae ass cannot wor-
ship for him there are no hills of God,
no bright shoots Of Everlasting
ness" But why place ourselves on
the level with the assg
The speaker then proceeded to say
that the picture was symbolic and
would cast light upon an immediate
problem. He had been asked by n
representative citizen what he thought
Of the Crusade Upon Paducah So.
ciety." The question deserved a
frank answer. He knew Of no cru
SADIE upon society though several pas
tors have been speaking earnestly
against what seemed to them certain
evils that threatened the best interests
Of society. To be frank, these gentle
men were speaking Of selfishness and
worldiness, malice and unoharitable-
ness, and even drink and worse, The
pastor could not well be reformor
The christian citizen with the law for
a weapon should save society from the
vicious; the christian pastor with the
gospel for = weapon should save the
vicious. Yet nothing threatened So
ciety m ore than time serving pastors
The Scriptures denounce them as dumb
dogs that cannot bark, clods without
brains. wandering stars fastening TO
the blackness Of darkness forever.
This at least needed to be said Life
is a momentous experiment; it is a
battle between tho angel and the
brute.
Lord what is man whose thought at
times up to thy ven.fold brightness
climbs, while still his grossor instinct
olings to earth like other creeping
things. The angel is conquoring or
the brute. The tides Of light arr
coming in or the tides Of darkness
there is no standing still. Dinner is
announced. What says the animal :
Bread and meat, underdone CHOPS
and strong drink, and plenty Of it,
What says the angel? White napery.
silver, cut glass, flowers. pleasant con
versation, prayer and thankfulness :
Thank God we have redeemed the
dinner. The angle sings, or in the
souls Of women, has transfer med il
into poem; something you can offer
friend as you would bunch of
roses empearled with morning dew
There is another table-our social
life. The brute says; Saloons, bill
lizards, tenpins, lunches. cards,
thesters, recreation, success. ambi-
tion, pleasure, pleasure, pleasurei
The angel says: Books, music,
friendship, charity, home, aspiration,
inspiration, prayer-duty, duty, duty I,
Which is conquering? Upon the
answer depends worldiness or un-
worldliness. We cannot escape from
the world. but we must conquer it or
ii will conquer us. And often we go
mp or down unoonsciously. Il depends
ON which gets the most food, the
angel or the brute. Tragedies, social
or personal are not born in moment.
Life grows by law and not by chance.
Feed the brute and one day the crash
comes. Saul, standing beneath the
pomgrsnites Of Migron, the conqueror
Of Amalek, was every inch king.
One day there is no longer man
climbing the hills Of God, but bag.
gard shame-strioken wretch sinking
into the foul reoesses Of a witches den.
Saul, the males tic, fed tho brute, and
bebold-s grinning skull in the temple
Of David, a riven suit of armor in the
shrine Of Ashtoreth, "a headless skeleton
upon the wall Of Beth-shanl VIII IL
he different with us? Let ms feed
the brute instead Of the angel, and one
day it may be not merely an earnest
warning of some watchful pastor, but
q bitter Interchangeable verdict; Be-
hold the brutishness of impurity and
drink, the barren idiocy of contentod
worldliness, the whitening blight Of
malice and all uncharitableness
Do we deserve this verdict now? II
do not and cannot believe it, But
why 20 toward the danger limo at all
Friends and neighbors, bret hren,
let's climb the hills of God and let
who will tarry with the ass below.