The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-12

NV YoRKA cITY.-The Rev. Ord Viii
bur Chapman, the most popular of our
pulpit orators, ms never preached a more
dramatic and p&werfal sermon than the
following one. entitled Insane From Sin.
1t is founded on Me text. In the tombs,
CRYING and cutting himself with stones"
Mark ): 5.
You ate doubtless familiar with this
New Testament chapter in which on.
Lord is represented as having power over
devils, disease and death. Over devils
when He cast out che evil spirits from the
man in the tombs. finding enough in him
to fill herd OF swine, and enough swine
to fill the sea, as an old preacher used to
say; over disease when He !,ealed the
woman who had faith enough to touch
His garments hem, and power over death
when He stands ut the home Of Jairus and
commands his little daughter to awake
and restores her to her weeping parents
1t is a comforting chapter in the light OF
the fact that He is the same yesterday to-
day and forever
In speaking OF "the sinfulness of sin" I
desire to present IL at this time in ITS eff
feet upon the mind. Insanity has been de-
scribed as a chronic disease of the brain
inducing chronic disorder of the mental
condition, yet there is a sense in which the
fevered patient in his delirum ard the
drunkard in his excitement or stupor Is
insane. There are two kinds of insanity.
first, cOngenital or that which is inherited
where brain development is arrested. Sec
ond. acquired. o. that in which the brain
Is born healthy, but has suffered from
morbid processes affecting it primarily,
diseased states of the general system i'm
phcatmg 1t secOndarily In our treatment
OF this theme | have to do with both of
these, for in the first we see how the sins
of the fathers are visited upon the children
unto the third and fourth generations.
while in the second we behold an exhibi-
tlon OF that insanity of sin which is due
to individual excuses or the breaking of
Gods laws. The Bible is full Of illustra-
lions.
1t is not necessary that | should go to
an institution to find men who are insane.
/ turn to the pages of this old book and
read the story of Nebuchadnezzar, the
king. Now You sec him on his hands and
knees eating grass, and his nails are like
birds claws and his hair like eagles feath-
ers. Yet as we read We find he lifted his
ewes to heaven and God set him free
There Is not less for man in this City OF
New Nork-no matter what his bondage
il he win but lift his eyes up he may be
free.
Then We turn to I. Samuel. second chap.
ter, and we see the man who wrote the
Twenty-third Psalm. David playing the
fool before the man Of whom he was
AFRAID. crouching upon the SIDES of the
door posts and becoming disgusting.
=, IN the tenth chapter OF Exodus we read
tne story OF the man VINO was the king
whose lace h9d the privilege OF seeing as
mummy in Egypt-the man who said
! II will let the people go now if you will
take away the swarm Of hies-if YOU will
take away the frogs" And the frogs
We're taken away. and the flies. and he
9ld not let them 60 Tor Sod hardened his
hearI-Iah insane man, but not more IN
sane than me man who has promised ever
| S Sn ne was enid That he would be a
GnrlsIiah and give up SIN, and Is still its
slave
urn 20 Ihe New testament, and here
we ma the picture OF the prodigal. Wher
nc came TO hlmseli-wh ne was not hun
sell ne was SATISFIED with swine, so lonl
as ne had forgotten his father and hi.
i,hotner' Wpoin ,tr9dluon says he Killed
ne was satished, but when he came tC
ill1seiI ne was not. An, the young man
WIN tne memory OF sweet mother bach
~ Ohlo' VINO mas stepped INTO the evil Of
SIN IN New lorF ana turned his lace
ISwey Ion ~ oilrlsc; ne Is insane. III Is the
inope Oh tne munster ana the prayer OF al
ifasu 1he hunured people IN TINS church
Ciidt turing TINS series OF meetings some
OF theSe young men may come to them
serves ana Vheh come to Christ.
T.
have been going through tbe institu
tions, where | have had t6e nrivileoe y.
looking uDon the insane neople con6ne,
there. and / have found onE t6e follow;ng.
First. many peopIe are insane hecansf
Of the sins Of tbeir narenis Eosmlts .,
+ crime on future generations
| At the recent meeting Of tbe Congre4e
of Criminal AnthropoIoqy al Geneva
Switzerland, DR.. Leerain, nbvsician.;n.
chief of the asylum of Vilie-Eyrard cave
the results OF his investigation which ex
tended over period of Years and showed
/ how sin, like disease is transmitted from
drunken father 10 annette ensIsved SON
how in such soil tie seeds NJ crime and
madness develop and ripen in the last ce I
Grafton into sterile jdiocv and fhe exfine
ton of the race.
First Generation
He traced the course Of fonr ooneraf;ope
Of drinkers in or families OTe Lundrcd
and sixty-eiqht families showed rn,nisfol,
able symptoms OF deeeperacv. SINH ,t' bre,
cases of mild INSANITY: eigbty.ai@bf ,ver(
mentally unsound: foFty-Gye Al ti1nes dan.
eerousT insane. MANI Of tbe NIL J',,,
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