The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-02-07

instead of success destruction is sure.
Take the church and this same fear
is found there. Some members q
mean by some great many) are
afraid to do the right-it means too
much. If you have been getting
drunk-got to quit. If you have
been cursing-got to quit, it matters
not whether it be man or mule. Then
gambling, lying, swindling, tattling,
grumbling, fault, finding all must
be stopped. If you have been stay
ing at home when you ought to have
been at church, Sunday school,
prayer meeting, etc.,-got to quit. If
We have been giving to john Robin
son, or any other Robinson, money
when our families needed it-got to
quit. If we have been dancing, it
matters not under what name it may
be known, whether classification,
steal partners, cotillion or any of the
other soft names it assumes, in order
to cover its true nature-.just got it
all to quit.
I mean you, of course, brother)
know that round dancing is dancing
all around over the country in gen
eral, but it means also laying aside
church VOWS and extending a cordial
invitation to satan to come in and
direct the affairs of the occasion and
leave his demands upon the morals of
the participants and lead them cap.
tives at will. Not long ago 1 was
talking with a young man when he
said, ''Well, my brother, you know
that there is great deal of difference
between the round dance and the
square dance" This put me to
thinking, and as the old fellow says,
the more l think the wiser 1 am, for
really there is difference and big
difference too. The round dance you
know is round--the more you 20 the
more you have to go-in fact there
is no end to it. That's all. But
square means square, with four ends
or short turns or changes of direction
and if there is not full stop at the
corner there is at least momentary
pause. In dancing take the square
and quit. In religion take the
round-'Keep going
This fear of my text is found every
where and in everything. Even the
great women have it, and God know
ing how scary his creatures are
hedged about or rather guarded
against this ore thing, therefore we
find "fear not" a characteristic word
of the Bible and especially SO of our
blessed Lord for not only in our text
did he say fear not" but his whole
mission and message to mankind was
to Danish fear from their mind.
Take any concordance-your
Bible, for instance, and count the
number Of times where the heart
cheering word OF it's equivalent oc-
ours.
But now, at the present time let
us listen to these words. spoken by
the master himself and in 80 doing
notice first this one in the text.
John says: "And when saw him l
fell at his feet as dead, the flesh is
such that it cannot endure immediate
contact with the holy, and John,
while he had lain in his Master 8
bosom can now as little as any other
endure the revelation. or do without
the fear not" Isaiah could not
stand it and Daniel says in the 5th
verse of the 10th chapter: "I set
my face toward the ground and 1 be-
came dumb"
While Moses when receiving the
law on the mount asked God to show
to him his glory received this answer:
"Thou cans't not see my face for
there shall no man see me and live"
And now admid all this Bible
truth to hear men crying out: ere
veal thyself unto me. Let us behold
thy face, come and take me out of
this troublesome world" Suggests to
my mind great deal of ignorance,
it reminds me of Bob Taylor's old
negro Joe who lived in the mountains
of Tennessee. Joe was in the habit
of praying morning and night for the
good Lord TO cone and take him out
Of this troublesome world. A white
neighbor concluded to put a stop to
such uncalled for requests and one
morning while Joe was at his devo
tions raped at the door of Joe's cabin
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