The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
JUDAS WHO BETRAYED CHRIST
AND THE JUDAS OF TODAY
The Evangelist Broke Up Dancing Story of Cartwright
''Ducking'' the Ferryman---A Graphic Descrip-
ton of the Old-time Wedding.


used to be related when ] was boy.
The name of Cartwright was we'll
known, even among people who had
never seen him. AS he was going a
journey once he came to a river When
he rode up he heard the ferryman, IN
a conversation with a crowd of peo-
pie, sitting on the bank of the river
saying what he'd do if that old Cart
wright" should ever come that way
and attempted to cross at his ferry.
He was still talking and boasting
when Mr.. Cartwright rode into the
ferry boat. He little thought that he
was in the presence Of the object of
his profane and vicious threats. When
the boat was about half across the
river, Mr.. Cartwright, hitching his
horse to stake in the boat, said:
I'm the man you said just now you'd
throw into the river"
Are you Peter Cartwright ?'
81 am" he said, land now's your
chance to throw me into the river.
The ferryman made at him, but
Cartwright caught him by the collar
and the seat of his pants and, lifting
him over the side of the boat, dipped
him, and dipped him, and dipped him
until he made him say the Lords
prayer, and promise to put every
Methodist preacher across the river
for nothing, and then go to hear him
preach.
What a blessed thing it would be
for some people if there were Cart
wrights in this day and time, for moth
ing less than duckings Will ever turn
them from the error of their ways,
make them pray and go to church.
what i thought of Judas Iscariot and
if / didn't think he was bound to do
just what he did-couldn't help him.
self-because it was decreed that he
should betray the Lord etc.
I'll say right here that Judas was
a gentleman compared to some peo-
pie | know, today; for, so far as the
record shows, he did only one bad
deed-sold his religion $50 to speak,
~ pieces of silver. A great many are
selling out cheaper than that, and
their sell-outs will prove just as fatal
TO them as his did.
Judas started out all right, and
ran well for awhile, but he got 10
loe4ng money too we'll He has mill
| lions of followers, IN that respect
men who viii betray with a kiss and
| take the price offered. No, Judas
was not obliged to betray the Lord
| for he was free moral agent, and
! did his own trading. What will you
| give and | will betray," was the way
the bargain was started. And then,
when he saw what was to be the
| dread consequence, he went to the
chief priest and said, Il have sinned
in that l have betrayed innocent
| blood" thereby claiming the respon-
| sfbility of his act
! I've thought it all over, and I've
arrived at this conclusion: the devil
! don't care about making a man too
! bad. Just so he can keep a fellow
| cranky at one point, he don't care
| how good he is in other respects. One
| besetting sin, be it ever 50 respectable
! or heightened, is all that is needed,
! by the enemy of q soul, to give him
| a title TO it. One sin is as ruinous
as ten thousand. 1. never heard that
/ Eve committed more than one, and
! all the world knows how the matter
went with her and her offspring
| Every man is supposed to be weak
| at some point-in other words, has
besetting sin; bur, that weakness
! can be overcome by implicit faith in
Him who is the end of the law for
righteousness; hence, Paul said, '1et
| us lay aside every weight and the sin
that doth so easily beset us look
| ing to Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith" for strength and guild
ance.
Cupidity, or rather covetousness,
was the besetting sin of Judas, and
! instead of laying that sin aside-his
only sin, we will suppose-he cher
ished it, just as millions are doing
today. think Judas was as good
as the average church member who
loves his money better than he does
his Christ; and that a man loves his
! money better than he loves Christ,
is an easy matter to determine, and
| no guessing about it. Let him take
his pencil and set down on the one
! hand what he has done is doing and
| proposes to do for Christ; and, on
the other, what he has done, is doing
and proposes to do to get money, and
subtract and he'll know just how
the matter stands; for a man will
| work for that he loves most
The mistake that Judas made was
the same that is being made today
| trying to love God and mammon. al
| though Jesus had expressly told him
/ he could not do it.
Reader, how many JudaSes do you
] know? Men who are trying to serve
| two masters? And, since you've looked
INTO the matter, don't you think that
Judas, if living now, would rank high
| up IN society, and among the bust
ness men, who, though in the church,
are doing things every day. quite as
bad as was that money transaction
| of his?
Ihls is about the time of wear for
marriages, and from what / hear, the
crops pretty good. l used to be in
the swim, and rare were the times we
young people had at weddings. A
wedding was a wedding in those DAYS,
and don't you forget it, A real old
fashioned, first-class wedding was
equal to a Fourth of July celebration
Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas
tree, Greene county barbecue and a
circus combined. When one started
to wedding he knew he was going
to something, sure enough, and he'd
get something to eat that was fit to
eat, and plenty of it. To the young
people of this day, the old time we'd
ding supper table would be a sight,
the like of which the never saw
What did it look like? Don't ask me
to describe it lest I become as excited
as the old negro [ used to hear about
He was riding mule, and his big feet
slinged down and almost meeting
each other under the animal, while
behind him sat a little white boy
who, like other boys would ask ques-
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