The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-12-10
SOME NOTABLE PREACHING.

Every sermon preached by the Rev.
/. E. McEldowney in the Louisa Nj. r.
Church South since he became its pas
tor was much above the ordinary pull
pit discourse, but those delivered BY
him on November 21st and 2Sth, morn
ing and evening, deserve special men
ton. They made quartet of sermons,
preached to large congregations, which
delighted, interested and edited all
who heard them. Marvel not that L
say unto you, we must be born again"
From this utterance of the Master Mr..
McEldowney constructed sermon on
Regeneration so full of gospel truth
that it seemed impossible to put anoth-
er thought into 1t. No one could doubt
after hearing the vital subject so ably
handled that a new birth, one from
within outward, was essential to hui
man salvation The reverend gentle
man grouped with this essential five
other steps or processes necessary in
the work of transforming a sinner into
saint; namely, conviction repentance
faith, justification and sanctitication.
Each of these works was elaborated
and explained so simply that child
could understand it. Nothing new in
this" you say? Possibly not, but they
were put before the big congregation
with such a wealth of picture AMI
analogy, such a richness OF color and
rhetoric that the mind could grasp the
great principles of regeneration and
the others named that they could not
ever be forgotten. The modern idea,
held by some of our people, of sancti-
fication has no place in the theology of
Mr.. McEldowney. He had received the
first blessing. he said, and the third
and the fourth and on up to the l9Sth
and then some, but never the second. y
His hearers found the idea, we think,
that he believed qualification to be a
condition where we do not desire to
sin and are able to successfully resis.
it. Il can, but | can't" Seemingly
paradoXical, but plain enough when
the speaker said, II can tear the body
of my precious boy there" pointing to
his fair haired little son, before
could be hindered-but / can't" We
can not reproduce on paper the tone in
which he said II can't" but he said Il
so that we grasped the thought and
its meaning.
for his theme Earthly Immortality. If
we caught his idea it is that the good
never die, even though their bodies
crumble into dust, but that the bad die
forever when the breath leaves their
bodies. He established the correctness
of his position most forcibly by bring
ing before his listeners many buried
personages, some of ancient times.
some of modern date, and after bring
ing up each one upon the scene he
would ask "Is he dead?" and the fit
ting answer was made quickly in every
instance. Napoleon, who left great
splotches of blood on the pages of his
tory-is he dead? oh, yes he is dead!
julius Caeser, who ruined himself for
the kiss of a wanton, or to use the
words of the poet Lytle
Him who drunk with thy caresses
Madly threw a world away"
Is he dead2 Let history answer.
Some notable men of West Virginia,
horsemen and others, were, with their
follies, made to come out of oblivion,
and before they were again lowered in
to their grave we We're asked the ques-
ton Are they dead?" Don't you try
to use the question and the answer in
the tone McEldowney used. You come
within mile of it.
The bright side of it, the immortal
ity, was most touchingly and wildly
own in the portrayal Of the character
81 braham, of John Knox, who pray
VI e.. God give me Scotland or die"
ee Wesley in his sacredotal robes.
" JIM a he asked in solemn and
tAnu W.. &c the question so often
'iopeiui M cart said, No!
'S The MOI morning sermon on the /, 2S g was was
oon nme n'o The Evidences of Regen-
GRAFTON, thus conn. citing me discourse s,1'
with the one of the p,ssious aaa', ,s
morning; and at night '"e suoJeu. maS
Hidden Treasures. Both y" nr 49,
pieces, brimful of originate. "a
ception, vivid verbal portraits N,or,
were eloquent to degree. Mr., ans
downey has magazine OF descflPn'
which he uses with readiness ana ao-
curacy which almost takes ones breath
away. When he hesitates for woru
or nm analogy 1t is because the hesita-
ton makes II more effective. II is easy
20 see that Mr.. McBdowney has been