The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-06-26

groyelling. he would have our better
natures look up and the soul. like the
needle. point TO the polar
star of a glorious destiny.
at MAKES all the difference as 10
which way we are looking and tend
ing. We are told that a new inclination
of our earth toward the sun would
make all the difference between per
petual winter and eternal summer.
Science tells us that IL once bad such
an inclination in the ages long gone,
and that the regions of the far North,
where the Ice KING Ieigns the year
around. blOomed with tropical lux
urlance. while the land under the
Southern Cross, where the magnolia
blooms and the mocking bird sings.
WAS the home of eternal winter. but
this new inclination made the rays Oh
the sun, oucc slanting and feeble, per
pendIuuiar and powerful. ana sweeps
vast regions of cold INTO the land or
perpetual summer. o. for new
inclination 10 our natures that are
downward bent
DIR. John p. McFerrin preached ano-
ther powerful sermon Tuesday night at
the First Methodist Church, taking for
his text the parable of Dives and Laza-
rus. He began his discourse by refer
ring to the great inequalities between
men. In the above parable the LORD
gave a graphic picture of theLh. why
this great inequality, he asked. what
was the cause of the difference? lt was
To emphasize the fact of mans immor-
talitv. He referred to the fact that the
same INEQUALITIES that existed in this
world existed in The other. There we're
like differences there, except that the
conditions were reversed. We pull PACK
life's curtain and see man VINO was
very rich on this earth but very poor In
the other life, and we see pan VINO
was very poor here but who is very ricn
there. The picture is but an outgrowtn
or prolongation of conditions here. lie
said that rich man is not necessarily a
bad man: neither is poor man necessa-
rily good man. He had known many
rich men who were good. and he hau
known many poor men who were very
bad. The two men in the scripture
we're very far apart in character. Inc
all seeing eye that reads character
saw that the man in the mansion
was poor man, while the poor man
who lay at his gate begging for
bread was rich. But you can't
make one person in million be
lieve it. There are so many that tnlnK
money and position is all of life. Ihere
was great divergence in character.
The rich man in the parable, who was
in high position, was going down. Inc
ascending path of the poor man was
very narrow. 1t had all the limitations
of this life, and all the sorrows and
troubles and sufferings. Dives had
everything of joy and happiness that
this life could give; yet he descended TO
4 a depth from which he could not rise.
Humanity for the most part is blind TO
the real things of life. We hearken to the
voice of mammon; the spell of the world
is upon us, and we'll never wake up un-
til we hear the blast of the trumpet.
DR.. McFerrin referred to the times IN
which Christ lived, and the character
of the men of that day, and the condl-
tions surrounding them. A great many
of them. officers and rulers, we're clean
men and respectable. They lived FOR
the most part clean lives, and religious
lives, but in some one thing they were
generally lacking. Why did Jesus Sc
Iect these two characters, the rich mar
and the poor man, with which to teach
hi. lesson, and what was the lesson
One man of high standing and respec-
liability. the other poor beggar, full OF
sores, living at the rich man 8 gate. II
was to teach this lesson: that mar
might be aver 80 respectable IN this
life. and vet lose his own soul. Dives
said he, was an eminentIy respectable
man. He was very prominent man IN
his section of the country, no doubt
He was a man of great wealth; he had
magnificent domain; he had everything
of pleasure that the world could give; 81
dressed in purple and fine linen, ane
faired sumptuouely every day he lived
he was not at heart bad man; ne
doubt he had fed Lazarus at his gate To-
several DAYS. for Lazarus had evidentl.
been there some time. He was "laid" a
Dives gate, says the Bible; evidently b.
had been carried there by his friends
uand IL came to pass" that he died
Dives was also religious man-accord
, ing to the standard of his day. He SAT-
, that because when Dives went to hel
and realized his doom, he addressed
Abraham as ''Father." And Abraham
addressed him as Son" He was
, man that probably allied himself will
the moral people duu Su'ioV"u poop
of his community. He might have be
> longed to the Sanhedrim. He was jus
/ such man that if he came into on
, community we might make him an ell
r der or a deacon in the church. He wa
! eminently respectable. And yet, il
spite of all his respectabilitv. he went T.
, hell. There are great many decen
and respectable people in h.l said tn
, preacher. Men who dress d in broad
/ cloth and fine linen while on earth
9 man might be ever 80 respectable, ant
? vet lose HE own soul. There are men II
3 the church today, he said. who how a
3 the altar, and sing hymns to God, VIII
+ are eminently respectable, and who wi
q some day be lost. Dives was undoub'
q edly surprised when he found himself i
. the lost regions. He had lived a decent
q respectable life on earth and had mad
a no other calculation than that he wouI
= be saved That's the reason he aske
4 Abraham to send Lazarus 10 warn hl
a brothers, that they might escape tn
i mistake he had made. He knew tina
n thew were living just as he had livee
. without any calculation Of being los
q Dives, from every point Of view, was
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