The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-10-31
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTl-
TIED INSANE FROM SIM"


pulpit orators, has never preached more
dramatic aud powerful sermon than the
following one entitled Insane From SIN
IL il founded on the text, In the tombs,
crying snd cutting himself with stones
Mark 5: 3. ~.
New Testament chapter in which our
lord is represented as having power over
devils. disease and death. Over devils
when lie cast out the evil spirits from the
man in the tombs, finding enough m hm
to fill q herd of swine. and enough swine /
| to I'll the sea, as an old preacher used 20 /
say: over disease when He healed the /
woman who had faith enough to touch |
| His garments hem, and power over death /
| when lie stands at the home OF Jalrus and |
! commands his little daughter to awake
| and restores her to her weeping parents.
| It is a comforting chapter IN the light OF
the fact that lie is the same yesterday, to-
day and forever. ~
In speaking of "the siufulness & sin" /
desire TO present it at this time in its et-
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 dslirium and the
drunkard in his excitement or stupor IL
insane. There are two kinds Of insanity,
first, congenital, or that which ia Inherited
where brain development Is arrested. Sec
ond, acquired, or that in which the brain
J is born healthy, but has suffered IRON
. morbid processes affecting 1t primarily,
diseased states of the general system i'm
plicating it 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 exhibit
I ton of that insanity of sin which Is due
\ | to individual excuses or the breaking OF
= Gods laws. The Bible is full Of illustra-
d tions.
e II is not necessary that should go TO
. an institution to find men who are insane.
~ l turn to the pages of this old book and
S read the story of Nebuchadnezzar, the
O king. Now you see him on his hands and
9 knees eating grass, and his nails are like
% birds claws and his hair like eagles teath-
n ers. Yet as we read we find he lifted his
n ewes to heaven and God set him free
~ There is not less for a man in this City Of
- New York-no matter what his bondage
Il if he win but lift his eyes up he may be
II free.
m Then we turn to L Samuel, second chap
ter, and we see the man who wrote thu
ID Twenty-third Psalm, David playing thu
d. fool before the man of whom he. wa
o. afraid, crouching upon the sides Of thu
. door posts and becoming disgusting
CT In the tenth chapter of Exodus we reat
IS the story of the man who was the king
n whose face had the privilege of seeing a
a mummy in Egypt-the man who said
a. 'I will let the people 60 now i you wi
he take away the swarm of flies-if you wi
nix take away the frogs" And the FROG
were taken away and the flies, and
Ut did not let them go, for God hardened hi
ng heart-an insane man, but not more il
he sane than the man who has promised eve
since he was child that he would be
'm Christian and give up sin, and is still Il
rn- slave.
ur. Turn to the New Testament, and hel
- we find the picture of the prodigal. Whe
80 he came TO himself-when he was not hir
an self he was satisfied with swine, so lor
elm as he had forgotten his father and h
- mother, whom tradition says he kille
l0n he was satisfied, but when he came
rst himself he was not. All, the young ma
i've with the memory Of a sweet mother bat
~ in Ohio, who has stepped into the evil
INC sin in New York and turned his ia
Ind away from Christ, he is insane. It is t
on hope of the minister and the prayer OF
least one hundred people in this chur
that during this series Of meetings sol
of these young men may come to the
selves, and then come to Christ
/.
1 have been going through the insti
ad- tions, where / have had the privilege
looking upon the insane people conhn
.o,,. there, and have found out the followlr
' t, First, many people are insane becal
'ho of the sins of their parents. Results
H. crime on future generations
' TO At the recent meeting of the Congr
md of Criminal Anthropology at Gene
n,,+ Switzerland, DIR. Legrain, physician
o"'' chief of the asylum of Ville-Evrard, g
)wn the results of his investigation, which
rom tended over a period of years and SHOW
/ & how sin, like disease, is transmitted fr
drunken father to appetite enslaved 81
how in such soil the seeds of crime {
tire madness develop and ripen in the last 6
odd Grafton into sterile idiocy and the exit
and ton of the race.
First Generation.
He traced the course of four generate
mas of drinkers in 2l5 families One hund
De and sixty-eight families showed unmist
,rica able symptoms of degeneracy; sixty-tt
cases of mild insanity; Lightweight "
;,,or mentally unsound; forty-dve at times {
,ssor gerously insane; many of the child
tbo were weaklings and died at an early
'"O six out of eight in one case, ten out OF
teen in another. These six latter who
lain NAMED were all feeble minded and
oren epileptic fits and prey to evil INSTR
'+l,o+ Thirty-nine families found convulsit
- epilepsy in fifty-two; hysteria in sixt'
lness meningitis in FIVE; lO8 families out Of
2l5 counted one out of every two ind
er in uals victims OF periodical alcohohe
gets rum; lug IaInlhes Oh the 40 insanity
ch as ueEeioPeu' o..l Co-o.,t,,,
"a III Ninety-eight observations gave the
lowing: Fifty-four families had one
#, of more members who were imbecile'
o set IDIOTS; twenty-three Iamllles mere it,o
Colo tosG VINO MeIe llotaily di,eSi ot
lie So and hereditary diseases caused the chill
to die in appalling numbers. At this
q re. fathers and mothers had become con
mora drunkards with but eight exceptions
lPNIH fnrtr.trrn fnmilies he found CHRONIC