Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-06
The LOST CHRIST
Sermon Preached By cycIons Mach.
AT Rockingham. N. c. July
Second. 1872.

Tendon, had been up to the annual
conference, and you can lose him at
conference, at convention, at Al
religious campaign. Don't you see
that when God flashes the light, and
gives the illumination. and God
opens up the things of heaven to
YOU, you havesa vision, and if you
do not obey it you are bigger sin
ner than il you had never seen it.
They were in company of relig-
ious people and they lost Christ, and
they did not know ii.
In the third chapter Of Revela-
tons there is q description of a
church that had lost Christ, and did
not know it They had church
meeting and came to the conclusion
that they were so rich, so cultured
so learned, so artistocratic that
they actually needed nothing. And
God said, you poor, blind, wretched
Joverty-stricken, miserable ignorant
hobos, Behold, stand at the door
and knock. They said we are all
right, and God said You are all
wrong. They passed great rosolu-
tons and whereased and whyfored
and resolved and said, We are con.
tent, we are well fixed, we are salts
fed" and Jesus said, You pta
poverty-stricken things You are
nude and your eyes are blind and
8 you can not see the shame of your
own nakedness,'
This was said at the door of O
church that had lost Christ. | tell
you spiritual apathy is taking pos
session of our churches. Awake
thou that sleepest, and arouse from
the dead and Christ shall give you
life. The saddest attitude of the
soul as it lies on the brink of perdi-
ton is the attitude of the slumberer
A man sleeping over his immortal
interests, Can you imagine man
like that? Take Mr.. William A.
Rogers, president of the Marietta
Female college. One mornig his
wife was indisposed, and he sent
his servant to the drug store for
quinine. In a few minutes his SER
want came back. Mrs. Rogers took
the powder and put it on her tongue
( and rinsed it down with water, but
as soon as she had swallowed it
\ she walked to the front porch and
to her husband who was in the
flower yard and said. Husband, that
!. was not quinine that | took just
now. / sent for quinine but I am
satisfied that was not quinine.' Mr..
Rogers ran with all his might down
to the drug store and said, What
was that you sent my wife?' The
druggist threw up his hands and
said, Sir, | have sent enough NOR
phine to your house to kill a dozen
men,. MIR. Rogers ran over to the
doctors house and carried two
physicians home with him. They
administered emetics and strong cof-
fee and various remedies, and di-
rectly a death like stupor began to
crawl over her frame. The agon-
! lied husband turned to the doctors
and said, is there any chance to
save my poor wife?' Yes they an
swered, IF we can keep her awake
for four hours we can save her life
The minutes seemed like hours as
they walked her up and down the
floor, and threw cold water in her
face, and whipped her person with
cruel switches and every means was
used Directly that death-like stu
por became so oppressive that she
turned to her husband and said,
Husband, please let me go to Sleep
You viii never wake up again in
this world, oh wife, if you go to
sleep. I know that she said, but
please sir, let me go to Sleep And
hey walked her up and down the
floor and directly the stupor had
overwhelmed her whole being, she
turned to her husband and said,
Husband, please sir, let me sleep
for Just five minutes And he said,
Wife, il YOU go to sleep for five min
lltes you viii never wake up. Arise,
aroused And thus they waited until
tie four hours had passed, and the
doctors pronounced her safe. And
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