The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-06-06
hles<a Brick at Modern Sensa-
tional Preachers.
EYS OLD TINE RELIGION IS THE BEST
krmons Nowadays Not Up to Bar.
TOW Mans Standard of Reverence.
Bill Has Fine Strawberries.


he new and startling ones keep
hing in and the eager, craving minds
the unsettled people are falling
with the old and falling in with
new theories and doctrines. There
no cause for very great alarm in
J, for it proves the natural instinct
desire to weak and unsettled minds
some religion that will satisfy
comfort their longing heart. 1t
ives the universal belief in God,
Creator, and the universal desire
Becure His favor. There is nothing
\ or strange in this. 1t is history
eated. One hundred and eighty
Fs ago. Alexander Pope, the great
& and philosopher, wrote:
II modes of faith let graceless zeal.
OTIS fight;
Ican't be wrong whose life is in
the right.
|aith and hope the world will dIsa-
gree,
| all mankind's concern is charity"
bpe was a great and good man and
a Christian. His devotion to his
her was intense and beautiful. He
! the tenderest care of her and she
b with him until she died, in her
sty-third year. This is tribute
Ugh for any man.
mere are many men Of many minds.
Re are some in our day just like
e of Athens of whom st. Paul
be, who spent their time in tell
pr hearing some new thing" Even
. preachers have a morbid cray
for sensation, and they create a
motion wherever they go. They
1g to the church militant and be-
in thunder and lightning and cy-
es and even war as agencies for
propagation of Christianity. The
tpapers are crowded with abstruse
rs on the new religion both for
against. These distract the skep-
and unsettled minds of many,
bnly for a time. Spiritualism did
anne thing for half a century, but
lily it has run it's course, as the
census shows a large decrease in
lumber of it's followers. But true
tianity moves on serenely amidst
hese connections. 4Aeteors and
It's may come and go-even the
Itself may for a brief interval be
~ but, like Christianity, it
ItSyyear after year. century az
AEry, bringing light and life to
Forld.
Fbe this sensational preaching is
I'd in these degenerate times,
the spirit of war and the love
bney seem to have demoralized
bung men of the land; when MUIR
md suicides are of daily occur
and getting money by gambling
wcks and other short cuts to for
has become a national sin. But
mind, the old, conservative
are still the best. I don't like
teacher who ascends the pulpit
whip in his hand and cracks it's
Il every malediction. That would
right if every man had pulpit
whip, so that he could fight
If were good enough to be a
her I would take a text and stick
reverently and plead with the
in the name of the Lord. Old
son, of Savannah, was my ideal
preacher; a man of God whose
presence in the pulpit increased
verence for it. His texts still
in the memories of those who
ID and carry with them more
ing solemnity. When David
Ia with the Lord for forgiveness
lid, Remember not against me
Haui5es of my youth" every one
EI With grief and sorrow the
kmany errors of his young life.
agrief to every man are the
hE youth and how earnestly he
Et4ey could be blotted out from
"a memory. l recall another
hen David exclaimed in the
Ibf his heart, MY sin is ever
Tine" What a subject for an
ME- eloquent divine-the impossi-
ID escaping from the memory ct
He love of God was his favor
kme, and the helplessness OF
Icontrast. We know not whence
he nor whittier we are going.
hnot add day nor an hour to
ustence. We cannot foresee af-
nor calamities nor fortify
them. We are utterly helpless
4 dependent on the Creator.
gave a poetic picture of the
hs love of the Creator for His
~ and proved it by the adapta-
bur senses to the beauties and
II Df nature--the moon and
~ Ne mountains, rivers, trees,
bid flowers; the birds to sing,
|brs to bloom, the earth to bear
II and how carefully He holds
) thg earth in His mighty hand
! Ne sleep unconscious Of any
fy and too often forgetful that
III ker rs at the helm, watching
4 and counting every pulse
4 us. young man, young man,