The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-07-19
SERMON ON THE AUTO.
Two Verses From the Book Of NahHn'
Served a. Texts.

Served as Texts.
A new light has been she'd upon the auto
mobile. 1t comes from the Rev. Jonas Hipsons
pastor Of Mount Zion Church In New Ken1
county, Va, who derives his Illuminating
powers from q combination Of the Scrip
lures and q recent visit to Warrington, New
Kent county knows neither the locomotive
nor the local paper. When the aborigines
want to 20 somewhere they shitch up"
and when they a news they get out the
Old Testament.
The Rev. Jonas is not an expert in auto
mobiles. Until recent events he had never
seen one. Indeed he had never set foot
beyond the confines OF New Kent. until O
month ago he went to Washington.
) As he stepped across the street from the
landing wharf the hoarse bray of . horn
smote upon his aifrighted ear and he, froze
In his tracks not a foot from the path Of an
automobile that flashed by him. :
An hour later, as he stood at q vantage
point on Pennsylvania avenue TO gaze upon
the mighty dome Of the Capitol, the 'honk.
honk!' Of a motor car flying past his elbow
drove him shuddering to the curb.
Soon after an attempt to cross to the
White House was foiled by a demonstration
Of devil wagons that roared past him down
the avenue. It was coming too fast for
Jonas. He grabbed his grip and without
q word went home in dismay-went home
without seeing the Big Stick or even knowing,
there was a Big Stick.
He vent home, buried himself In the pines
and searched the Scriptures; he knew he'd
find something there to fit the case. When
he emerged to his anxious and expectant
flock q satisfied smile had banished the
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his text. 1t was Nahum, H., 1: b
The chariots shall rage In the streets. they
shall justle one against another In the broad
ways: they shall seem like torches. they
shall run like the lightnings. ~. a
Then he preached a sizzling. soul stirring
sermon that settled the automobile with
the Mount Zion folks.
1t was true. said Mr.. Hipson, that Nahum
was talking about one Asshur- bani- pal
or S~ardanaPalus King Of Babylon In Ma
huns day. and an all round bad lott who
with a roistering crowd Of gay blades from
his capital had gone up in chariots to the
tributary town of Nineveh on a cash raising
that city. Nahum among them. But these
seers Of old, he pointed out. always cloeked
their prophecies Of modern events In some
speech on their own times. and what Nahum
wa really, hitting at was the fiery. motor
car Of to-day.
Not content with this Endorsement Of
his views by the prophet. he olinohed the
case by citing the verse following. which.
said he. refers to the terrified wayfarer
in the path Of the flying and furious car:
They shall stumble in their walk; they
shall make haste to the wall for curb. rs the
Pew. Jonas interprets ill.,
His own experience. he told his hearers.
left no doubt that what the prophetic
eye Of Nahum really saw was not Ni1eveh,
B. c., but Washington, D.. G. -
And then-for this New Kent preacher
Is erudite in subjects Scriptural-he drew
on his %enraptured congregation the Bible
Commentaries Of the famous divine. DIR.
Norton, chaplain to Queen Victoria.
1The word Torches ," he cited therefrom.
might better be translated metal The
passage should be they speed with the
Hastings Of metal"