Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-03-02
THE PULPIT,
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
MAUD BALLINCTON BOOTH, OF
THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA;

:
Subject: Freedom Through Christ.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-The seating capac-
ity at the Majestic Theatre was taxed
to its utmost Sunday afternoon at the
meeting under the auspices of the Y.
&c. A. and many were unable to Sc
cure admission. At the close of Mrs.
Booths address there was most i'm
pressive sight. AS she gave the invita-
ton for men to definitely accept Christ,
men all over the house stood with
heads bowed and after a moment of
prayer the audience was dismissed.
Mrs Booth said in the course of her
address:
esteem it a great privilege to have
the opportunity of bringing a message
from my heart to this great audience
this afternoon, and I am so glad that
come to you merely as messenger;
that l have not to rise before this
audience to exploit some hobby of my
own; that do not come to you with
some theory, but that / realize as |
stand up and speak that my message
is not only my own, but that 1 come to
you as l went to my audience this
morning with message from One who
can follow the message with the divine
touch. AS | looked down upon and
out upon this audience trying to gather
something from the faces of those
whom | was to address I saw arise be-
lore me again my audience of this
morning, very different one in one
sense and very similar in another. It
was an audience of men-all men-and
an audience perhaps nearly as large as
the one which address this afternoon,
Dut ah, what a difference. It was an
audience behind prison walls. An au-
dlence of men who have lost their
cnance, an audience of men shut away
from the world and it's sunlight and
neSslngs and happiness and freedom
anu JOY, aid who in the darkness of
prison walls have learned to the full
me bitterness of life of sin, and yet
as rise to speak to this audience this
alternoon my message will be very
muvn tne same as my message to that
suulence this morning, for come not
nefe to speak to Christians this after
Aoon. My message is a message to the
.apu7e, a message of liberty to those
W Mno are bound, and it does not take
m .ne walls OF Sing Sing; it does not take
sl mose narrow cells to make bondage,
uut tnere are many who walk the
stteets OF Brooklyn in the sunshine to-
aay o; and who boast that they are free
HS.lzens, S, who are shackled and bound
eecause they have not yet learned the
bring.
as l spoke to my boys this morning
bqed hbquoted to them two lines that some
tM 1tt,. of other came to my notice a
+h l'sle "hlle ago, and 1 told them that
ors reiG were just two classes Of prison.
,n Gno. oeIore me in that prison. The
NAeS are these:
nn omo men looked out over prison bars,
0"e saw the mud, the other saw the
stars"
do anu say to you in this audience to-
way way mat there are Just two classes of
tsa 4len in this great theatre. There are
holin VINO are looking out upon life,
worla s down. living in touch with the
nnrit1 nu with the evil in it, with it's i'm
With WHY, with its doubt, with it's sin,
thinaai its darkness, with those dread
And y tnat steal into the souls Of men
aro uras them downward. And there
koon~ ~use ~ who look up in hope and who
God,s oneir eyes upon Gods love, and
wall. :. might and Gods power, and
toru III III the light of freedom and vic
ouiyosinu anu power, who do not stand
in hing tbo at the thought of the pitfalls
as v trr,,y way out realize that they are led
wara auly u; by the Light from above as
herd nose wise men and those shep-
to Ro+t1 pl old by the rays of the star
ara i.n'ehen. y, And it is to those who
wonla - darkness or in doubt that /
Womb wd speak this afternoon. and l
own oe -, speak to you not only from my
Of mo. osApeflence but of the experience
ThoneS 10 Whom God has sent me.
drouse IS wondrous freedom, a won.
wondrapoW power, a wondrous exultation
Of Caious Cal,,s strength in that dear Christ
the Nd ary, who is not a dead God OF
bodrr r"s', VINO is not a pure man, whose
cast wa was torn and rent and who was
deed 0at as a martyr, but who is in
Some of wing personal power. and
pages 90 Us can see it not only in the
lived ,,'l 9l the sacred Bible that has
Of mnn,n wen other books have gone Out
in onnuniory, onn but we can see it because
eleamnsi,o m own hearts we have felt thai
touch; because in the dark