The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-03

musician. half brother Cd tho IeiGl-
Gus enthusiast. ucr<Du QUICK. sup
pre-. tender expressions ~ sentiment
DcEoud words. Ills small face. lis
IaJHcr rccedIuE chm. D ey!t9etlihs
uro0p OF his brown m~ustasHc. Iuaht
tnc fraukucs1, the manifest sfnecIitt
Of his words the more potent. lie
/ starts simply. II D. the Bibte Wise
him. III i. appeal - people - Ihe tht
] BIb.e. Ir does not discriminate u
seems. il fact To- bc those ~bIe~ui4aDi&
! III the church 10 whom nc point mos
/ circum1tautiaIIy the eGrc. OF tIcH
! way. WIN him il l. not Sp mnch
throw away your sin that ye ma -
the Jess siuIess" than II Is ~"cle4H5e
your holiness and be the yet moi'
holy II is this franknes5 "HlcH
makes the first appeal. Take not t.
Yourself unthougntcdly the sayour 81
! sauclimouE. is the burden Of lis d.
gulncnt. Look, Consider. think. Nadt
| have you done 70 approximate your
! professions There is q sitting up 81
saints when Chadwick commences ie
) speak.
! to be at reacc. He put this not 20
much as an appeal as q command.
! You could not be at war ana be molly.
If you were not at peace you Wou
! b., damned.
This ultimatum the Reverend chad
/ wick spoke as Il lawyer might quote
ii precedent: THAT is the law, your
I HUnorS.- DistinctiVcIy he gave the inn
/ preston that he felt himself an c&-
FOUNDER rather than a Judge. what
! ever your own opinions on the matter
OF peace. it was uncomfortable t.
find one so cOnscientiously o~pinionat-
ed on the result of a lack
Of that which you did not
have. To this in support h
brought the Bible. His cases were
- III hand Cp~vcfnnt1v he rHfarrah 70
the Book. And he proved his case.
One wondered what was coming next.
The road Of salvation seemed very
narrow. Yet Of a sudden you realized
that peace was the road to all things.
1t was the open sesame. 1t made
you. 1t was the glorious end Of eX-
istence, bought at the price of petty
indulgence. With it. ineXtTicably mix
ed was holiness. The n could not fX-
ist without the other. To be holy, anG
to be at Bah, h holy wars
faded from the mind! h holy con
versation Of the saint upon
their pedestaIs was a laughing stock.
HOiy-and at variance? impossible!
Strife led to but the one destruction
1T was the sin of sins. And he proved
it from his Bible. the report of The
court of last resort. the infallible au-
thOrity of this jurist of religion deVot-
ed to precedent. preaching the law.
n effect was really awful. lie
gave it without passion, except as he
became fervent in warning. 1t vas
a sOrroWful indictment he brought.
Love one another first; be holy after
wards. Yet he elaborated. Holiness
was more than a relationship it
was an expression. a quality of ma
ture." That was, a man cOuld be n"ly
not by taking thought. He must be
holy. He must live holiness. His holi-
| rOacC ~ no an l1ncanS ninI1C nnldi-
ton. 1t must proceed to a real sancti-
ficatiOn. IN this peace was more than
an incident: it was a necessity.
Al sorts Of people heard this simple
message and listened with tense ears
Mostly they were silent. An YER
Jealous nOVitiate on the front scat
punctuated the remarks with mex
pcrienccd "Amens." Such things are
part of great meetings. The e~jacuia-
tons lacked fierce and power. ThcH
were as futile beside the utterance OF
the old-timc Saints as Il spring froe
is unto the information of the patriarch
on the log in m~id-pond.
Yet the power in the MAJ was 81
the sort that is both seen ana felt
Ii was q simple thing. Il quiet effort Of
sincerity. Il sort Of mob S~clt-ahnega.
ton. Out OF that anne force, appeal
victory. He told OF his experiences
lie illustrated graphically. There was
I llOtllllS OIL the Il bout WHAT ne
| said of himself. He preserved the nar-
rativc While he made the point. l.
had the effectiveness of modeStE. =
have Il hundred reclaimed drunkard@
in my church," There was no per
sonal Sloritication in the statement
He used it as q preface to an iIlustra-
ton. Some of these men had PRAYED
that the poison of sin might be tatel
from their Elm They had not since
wanted liquor othCTS-SraphicaIlN
the preacher Rugged himself III sym
pathN-gOt no further than to nraN
for strength to resist temptation
they had to run past the Ear-rooms:
That WAS the difference, &C the
poison out! ic clean, j" holy, &c
fUrGiyinG,
All This %grippcd the people. It was
SAID not oratorically but humanity. Il
WAS spoken as ONE who know. The
voice WAS quiet. n convincing. II
carried but it had no room in its tim
brc for lights of ~clocution, one felt
that 1t demonstration at q Chadwick
meetings would indeed be an nc, OF
. The preacher could not Woo il
from the imagination. Yet he ~fnrnisIl-
ed the groundwork for the tr~anSfgur-
alton. He told the story. he left il
to his people TO think. he was tho
prophet to the way of the reason
which springs in the sout and leaves
behind the mind in its pursuit Of the
deeper emotions which are brcd %
conscience.
Really tho Rev. Chadwick is
potent man. Every MAJ is potent who
C~onSplcuously makes better the world
He has had like the DID revivalists
harvest after harvest. He does no.
know. or profess to know, now thc
have come except by prayer. He
makes no other protcstation. lie na>
d charming humility. His church il
one of the greatest in England. H
goes forth because people tell him lie
- the receptacle of d message. 1t Il
Il good message, of faith. of sincerity
of kindness and OF hope. j it clings
more closely to the literal dicta OF
the Eooic than the world would think.
that is not his fault. The man be-
lIeVeS.. He tells YOU what he believes
He does not mouth in doing so. You
are renewed. You are the more aD.
to believe. Chadwick Will not max Z
the average man enthuse. He vii!
make him think. il any event. posi-
bly, often very probably, he viii com
mand his thought.
Why is Chadwick d big preacher.
/ ICC1U&c he * "a n1nifaStlV not acfi -