The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-04-24
OLD FASHIONED PREACHING.

Dr. Donald sage Mackay denounced
fast living and predicted social and
moral disaster. Vulgar o=tentaIion,
he SAYS. i at its flood. and the compe-
litior OF luxurious society i killing
home life. He declares:
New York becomes every evening "A
fast Vanity FaiI, wh-r- Irrational and
too often degraded pleasure lures men
aud women by the thousand 10 It's
g.lded shrine. aud before that shriue
nigh thinking AMI plain living are
nightly inundated.
The poor man, unable {" share in
these wauton rXtrsvagances, chafes
beneath the restrictions, and hatred
Of his pampered betters bites at the
rop.s OF separation.
DR.. Mackay said that 10y many the
seer I of the simple life could not be
learned. They have lived too long III
the cellar Of their sppetites and the
reek of the kitchen was in their brains.
They must die as they mad lived, in
the tyranny Of those tastes which
their surroundings had stimulated.
He asked Gods grace to help train
the new generation in the good old
course OF simple innocence and pure
religion.
Or. Charles II. Parkhurst preached
powerfully on original sin. "NAn, as
We know him." he declared, lis e.
s-utiaIIy bad. and mere evolution will
not change him" He insisted that
reforruatiou comes hy the divine
touch and i. not spontaueot Iy devel-
oped by natural process.
The clergyman protested against
the idea of making Christianity som'-
thing popular, the idea that every
body is almost Christian. and that
they would De entirely So If they
would 20 to church little more, give
up swearing and be less sensual. In
his conclusion DR.. Parkhurst said:
There are times when We realize
with unwouted clearuess the deep
tAint that infects the dividual heart,
and when We APPRECIATE with Il Keen
ness full 81 pain how dismal i any
doctrine full of personal holiness that
grounds Itself ouly on the hearts
natural c0utainiugs.
On quitea different line, but with
effective pleading, DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills protested against the sowing of ,
wild oats which false philosophy
coudoues a. youths harmless tiying
with wickeine>s. Ii il not necessary,
be said, TO see life in the vulgar f.
meaning. he declared that in his !
own youth he had not fallen ana that /
be entered the ministry without /
knowing vice. He said
Some time, young men, there will [
come a day when you will walk down /
4 church aisle with pure, sweet maid |
81 your side. Then you would have |
your right arm cut of to undo your |
evils OF preYi Us years.
/ sometimes think the Son of cod |
came into this world 10 furnish Us |
standard OF manhood. We have had /
great men, but these are Is candle /
lights to the star that rose in Bethle- /
hem.
If l have read history Alright. if l |
have correctly interpreted the great /
there is one little pathway /
that leads to peace aud prosperity. /
That Is the pathway is which the feet /
Of Jesus walked, the pathway of ODE.
dience to law, OF meekness, self-sacri- !
flee, of love aud sympathy, where /
men are helped up and not pushed |
down.
In spite Of science aud progress
with which the tempter is wont to /
weave his falacies of desire, those old
time doctrines find abundant viudica.
ton IN the experience Of mankind. |
For the occasion We may deaden con-
science and persuade ourselves that
custom is virtue, but the end of ad.
venture ever turns backward to the
cardinal teachings of the fathers that
sin IS poison and that real happiness
is found only in the straight and
narrow path
Demonstration of What Chamber
lsin's Collie. Cholera and DIsr.