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WEDNESDA'yJ OCTOBER i. 181)0.
TITl'I.AKj'lSlSTINCTlON.
' This is a Hcpylie and the people
are' boastful of being knoVn'as Re
publicans. Nol Radicals not mem
bers of the -1 tarrison-Reed crowd,
mind you. Rut rf if; ' Republicans, or
Democrats if,
as fond of title
you, please, they are
s any people under
the sun whoth
Mongolians or Af
ricans, 'Europe
or
Indians. We
have long obserred tuis ha
after titles. Yblu have it s
this hankoring
shown in
all the civic ami military titles
that
so abound, As well as in the big
names in the many secret orders of
the land. -Pr
Holmes,' the delight"
ful octogenarian of Boston whose
writings at 81 j are as fretJi and en
gaging almost as they were when he
made himself such a favorite on two
continents, by his "Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table," has been for
some months publishing a series in
the Atlantic Monthly entitled "Oyer
the Teacups."
numbers he p
!ln one of the recent
easantly satirises this
love of titles on tlie part of Amen
rung nf all fcorfs and conditions. Tin
says for instance:
"It is a very curious fact that, with
all our boasted Mfree and equal"
. superiority oyer the communities of
the old word,, jour people h&ve the
- most enormous appetite for old
world titles of distinction. Sir
Michael and Sir Hans, belonged to
one of the most extended of aristo
cratic orders." But we have also
"Knights and Ladies of, Honors,"
and, what is. still grander, "Royal
Conclave. o Knights and Ladies,"
"Royal Arcanum," and "Royal So
. ciety of Xlood! Fellows," "Supreme
Council," "Imperial Court," "Grand
Protector," aind ''Grand Dictator,"
and so on. I Nothing . less than
"Grand" a
inq "Supi
ipreme" is pood
. enough for the dignitaries , of our
associations o citizens. Where does
all this ambition for names without
realities 3com from? Because a
Knight of thejGarter wears a golden
star, why does ', the worthy eord
wainer, who mends the shoes of his
fellow-eitizenb, want to wear a tin
star, and take a name that had a
meaning as used by the representa
tives of ancient families, or the men
' who had mad themselves illustrious
by their achiejeements?"
So fond are? , Americans of titles
that we have some times thought
that millions- of our countrymen
would gladly have a kingly govern
ment with a nobility and their trap
pings, provided mind you, they
could all be Dukes and Marquises
and Lords and so on. The trouble
- with us is thai we-bestow titles so
freely that tie really and rarely
meritorious are - no "bigger" than
the men 1 of , smaller - intellectual,
stature. The. Colonels of the great
-war are lost sight of in the multitude
of holiday soldiers and " Yarborough
House Kurneis." ingn-sounding
title m the estimation of many confer
1
dignity, position and even bruins.
That is General Fairweather, and
that is Colonel Ijoabidi,; and that is
Governor Windblower and that is
Judge Medircre; and so ou and bo
ou,l and many atonc bo to the
tit!, and imagine the wearer to be
really a 'man t-f parts and of high
character. But the people cnj"y
thJ honors both when receiv
ing; or 'conferring. They invest
thu olfice with dignity and gen
erally suppose the holders to be men
of talents and worthy. to' wear such
honors. But there u no mistaking
thy fact that the American people
ar much addicted tdk paying court
and are particularly fond of titular
distinction. ' i
tiii; mi
Lt I'KNSION' 1COBKKKY.
Trigalls is hard to satisfy.! He
wants . the whole proceeds of labor
and for the ,p nsionr beggars.! He
Iihm iu sit Introduced another bill -to
dt-iilfct?j and rob Southern Jax-
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payers. Of ' all legislation we an
rcoiall that of the Radicals of the
prelsent Conres in the matter, of
pensions surpasses it all. The ac
tual moneys voted awav for! one
fiscjitl j'ear by the robbers jarC be
tween 450 and 500 millions ' of
dollars , nud with a tendency; to
steady . increase. It is marvellous.
It is infamous. It is case of phrensy
am.
folly. The xeople cannot stand
suc;h raid.s upon their pockets much
loiijger.. ' . . ' . . : '
Tliere are now more than 500,000
men drawing pensions from the tax
payers, and costing more than the
vast armies of France, Germany and
Russia cost their respective Govern
ments. 'A great Republic paying
out more money for an army of; pen
sion mendicants than a 'great Des
potism like Russia. expendsNin'main
taining its enormous army: It is a
blistering shame and wrong. A half
million or. more of men bleeding the
country because they were mad and
mean enough to fight the South to
keep it from exercising a plain, con
stitutional right to peacefully with
draw from the Union of States.
Great Britain has 224,700; total
men on its pay roll exclusive of the
Indian force and its militia at home.
France has 5G0,8G3:. Austria 203,077;'
Germany 408,400. This is thepeace
force., Iu war it is muc greater of
course in all of these countries.
These countries aro -compelled to
keep large armies, but not so with
tue united otates. .And still our
army of pensioners equals the'armies
of Europe in numbers, and indeed
surpasses all but possibly Russia, for
the estimate now is,, that under . the
new pension bills that are so nfumer
ous, the American army will be made
to number between 000,000 and 700,
000, and nearer the latter figures
than the former. Mark you, this
great tax and burden is laid by Rad
ical tyrants and robbers more than
a quarter ot a century after the
firing of the last guni Tho New
York Twines says "as to the j :uture
cost of the pension roll, it may
safely be set at $150,000,000, ; while
moire than "$1,500,000,000 has been
expended on pensions from the be
ginning of the civil war to the present
THE TWINE TAX COMPROMISE.
We haye been something curious
to see whaCthe Conference Commits
tee on the tariff would do with the
binding twine dispute. The East
made about $4,00t),000 jrofUs while4
the West paid it, and' the Senators of
i&atwo sections are at variance asl
to tEe proposed tax. Western Re
publicans did not feel willing to risk
too much by voting for a high tax
for the benefit of New England
manufacturers, while the Eastern
Republicans were anxious-that the
$4,000,000 profits should continue to
be distributed among their people.
The Conference reports the tax at
seven-ten th' of a cent per pound in
stead of 11 as in the Original
bill. Western men must pay $1.70
for $1 worth of twine in order that
their Radical-friends iu Massachu
setts shall continue to be benefited.
We learn from the, ' New York 'Even -inq
rost that "as afcompensation for
this moderation in taxing the farm
ers, the' duties op. other kinds of
twine and cordage I Are' raised to one
and three-fourths cents per1 pound,
which is one-fourth cent higher than
either house had agreed to."!
BOSTON PEAS. j
The North Carolina Teacher copies
from Col. T.. W. Hjgginsonjof Bos
ton, favoring warily the co-education
of the j sexes, j The sentiments
are indorsed by tie Teacher, We
will not go to Massachusetts for
sound views uponleducation. It is
well known that fthe enthusiasts
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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1.
in that section 'have made edu
cation fo take to a great exs
tent the f'Hce of religion, and have'
taught that soul-uplifting rests upon
the training and feeding of the mind.
The South, and particularly staid,
sCber old North Carolina, is not
ready for the "advanced views" in
theology or education . of ther pen
drivers of - Massachusetts. "Isms"
and absurdities abound there, and
education is a fetich. Unless boys
and young men are more, moral and
honorable in their association with
girls and joung women, and es
pecially 'inthe North, than they
have been shown to' be often, it will
be an evil day when they are all
taught together. We are not ready
for tLis breaking down of old bar
riers. and introducing of new prac tices
because theorizers, enthusiasts,
and men of literary gifts in the
North indorse them in fine English
and write plausibly in their favor.
Uigginson has, written a3 effectively
against the Sjuth often. He is not
alwa'ys or necessarily, right.
HOMK FOLKS.
, The (Colored people jn November,
next will hold a State fair at Raleigh.
They are making preparations to
have a more creditable exhibit than
they have ever had. The negroes in
sill departments of business all over
the State should take an idterest in
this exhibit, and do what they can
to "make it a splendfd success. We
hope the Cape Tear section will do
its part and send forward articles
from the farm and the workshops
that will be a credit to its industry.
skill and tact.
The Soldiers' Home at Raleigh
should be of interest to all the people
of the State who haye any sympathy
with the poor and any gratitude for
faithful services rendered at. the
peril of health and life itself. While
Georgia is nobly doing its work, and
is-about completing a large and
excellent building - at much cost.
North Carolina lags and is indiffer
ent. The people should remember
that the appeal for help is for a class
of old, infirm, indigent and maimed
men who served the State and the!
South through the fiery pangs of
war. Let us all help to build a Home;
for these scarred veterans and make
.their closing years comfortable and
serene.
EU1TOUIAL NTKEKS.
A half-blood Indian a Sioux
has shocked Northern civilization it
seems. He has two marriagable
daughters and offers a. bonus to the
white men who will marry them.
They must be young men . of good
business qualifications and who will
engage to treat their wives Well.
He will give 400 acres of land and
$10,000 to each the day the nuptials
are celebrated. This moves the
Richmond State to ask if this is
really an uncivilized procedure? It
is a little open it is true, but is it
worse really than the practices in
various circles when marriages of
"convenience" are so. often held.
The State says:
"He wants white sons-in-law. It
is a matter of pride with him. Is he
as uncivilized as his abusers assert?
Unless contemporary nuptial annals
be all wrong, the Indian has gained
from high and polite circles his in
spirations. Mr. C. P. Huntington
gave a titled foreigner a cool million
to take his daughter. Prince Murat
declined ten thousand a year as a
beggarly consideration for taking
another American miss. In view of
th ese and other instances, it is uns
fair to denounce the old Sioux as a
barbarian."
So far as we can see the old half
breed's "civilization" is quite as
good as the men in society who
practice either . openly or under
cover the same bargain and sale.
The most decent, reputable North
ern papers are shocked at the inde
cency and outrage of the action of
the Republicans in the House in un
seating Mr. Venable and putting
in the negro Langston from the
Petersburg (Va.) District. The Bos
ton Herald, Ind.j that has the largest
circulation of any New England
daily, says of it: !
"The shamelessness of the act is
in not even going through the forms
of fairness not preserving a decent
respect for the opinion of that Amer
ican public which is insulted, as well
as wronged, by this proceeding."
I know a Radical institution near
this city, where they wear striped
uniforms, and I can go there and
pick out 500 men, the very meanest
of whom I would take for my asso
ciates, rather than associate with a
man who says that. Southern people
are not honest enqugh to conduct
and carry on their own elections.
Senator Vance at Raleigh,
THE METHODS OF GOD.
Continued from first page. 11
ing him in the work of the salvation of
that man. You may take anyi nriu
laa In this town and stand him on! his
reetand say to blm, ''What was ths itj
btruraent in your conversion udder
God?" Often he will say, 4A ood
mother helped me to Christ, tome oi
us will ay, "A faithful preacher K on
me to Cbxi-t" Mine will say, "My Uttle
girl won me-to Christ." but every one
ot us trace our salvation to somejiuman
instrument that God u-tUn our salva
tion. We take benighted China, Iiidia
and the drk continent,' there nver
was a jioul brought to Christ in these
benighted lands, unt il sonu tnan, tome
Christian man. eroded the water- and
preached the gojel to those benight
ed people. Go ye into all the world
and preach the gospel." "He that be
lieveth and Is baptWnl feball be wtied,
and he that belikveth not sSiall be
damned." God uses human instru
mentality in converting men. I
I will turn the picture, and say that
the devil, with all his'cunning and all
his re.-ourivs, the devil is powerleis to
dama a man without some man to help
ian to vcll'
that a mo
de ra-dfun-ju.-e
nor a
in thiti work. Just look at
ment. - The devil never mad
Irani npwr ran a still ho
gambling he'll or a saloon. The dievil
trets oue roan to manufacture whiskey,
another one to sell It and another tool
to drink it, and now you see be ha
got
the thintr L'omg on all rigni.
The
devil never made a gambler, he ne
ver
nor
manufactured cards, sold caras
nlm'w'i curds, hat he has one man
to
manufacture, another to sell th
em.
another to buy them, sit down
olav in his home before his child
and
ren,
and the children catch oa and begi
h to
play a game sociably, and directly they
are drifted oat ou the .world as gam
blers. j,et me say to you this, every man
in this town, every woman in this
town is either co-working with Gojd in
bringing the world to Christ or else jyou
are co-working with the devil dragging
men down to hell; our Savior said, VHe
that is not with me is against me: he
that gathereth not with me scatterreth
abroad;" and every person in this tpwn
Is either a co-worker wi h uou 10 maKe
the world better every day, or jou
a co-worker with the devil making
world worse every day. Now you
decide J&"r yourself which one you
eo-oneratinsr with.
are
the
fcan
are
Tf Ood eannot save men without jhu-
man instrumentality to help him, I
mean without h? changes the methods
that he has used for six thousand years,
and th devil cannot damn a roan with
out men to help him. oughtn't a fellow
to look around pretty closely ana see
where he belongs. Oh what a privi
lege it is to be a co-worker with God,
to make this world better.
If we could inamduaUze men, sepa
rate men from all others, by them-
selves, and let each man see what his
work, personal life, and influence is
we would make the world better. If
you have got fifty good member? in
your church working to save the world,
and 300 or more indifferent, careless,
dram drkiking, dancing, worldly mfem
bers, you have 301) working for ,the
deyil and fifty working for God. Do
you see how that works' And tney
tell me that every scheme of bell or
trick of the devil is fostered ar cher
ished or chaperoned by members of the
church. When the devil comes, to
Wilmington he just puts his hands in
his pockets walks around and lets the
church members do his work. Some
members of the church -rwill workjfor
the devil all the week, and then come
to church on Sunday and want God to
pay him for his work. "Oh Lord I
havecome for a blessing.'? You ought
to.have your neck broke. They tell me
in that miserable Brooklyn ball hre,
in which a poor fellow was murdered
and the mischief to pay, that every de
nomination in town was represente4 at
the infernal thing. I tell you brethren
of the pulpit, unless you have entered
a protest as strong as eternity against
these things, you had better look out
for yourself . No doubt about that. If
I was pastor of a church, I wou'd no
more have some men in it that berong
to the churches m this town; I would
be shot into 10,000 pieces first. Liirs,
drunkards, whoremongers, adulterers.
thieves, anything you want, the church
will trot them out for you. (Laugh
ter.) And still some of -the preachers
of this town, thought maybe jl might
do damage if I came here. I would be
a J im Dandy to hurt this town wouldn't
1. (.Laughter.)
There is not a first-class church in
America that would have me for it's
pastor, not a single one, and there Is
not a single first-clasa church in Amer
ica, in at x would he pastor or, that's a
fact.! Do you know these deacons and
elders and stewards begin to inquire
around for a minister they will get next
year, they caucus on him, and some
fellows will nominate so-and-so and
they will stfy, "Well, is he cautious Is
he prudentr Is he conservative: And
the plain fact is, is he a pusillanimous
puppy and can we boss him when we
get him? They don't want me for
the pastor of a nice church. I m
not a nice preacher; thank God there
is room enough in the United States
for one un-nice preacher. (Laughter.)
And I say to you to-day if there' eVer
was a country which needed an inde
pendant pulpit thundering forth the
laws or. Sinai and speaking the truth
independently, it is America to-day.
An independent pulpit. I had rather
be in my grave to-day than to be - iri ' a
pulpit that was a prison to me. Thank
God, that there never was a day when
a pulpit was a prison to me; It might
have been when I set in, but looking
Up to God and trusting in Him, every
brick and bar became as feathers and I
have been flying as free as air for
fighteen years, going where 1 I
pleased, stooping as long as I pleased,
saying what I pleased while i I
was there and leaving when-1 I
g leased; that is a privilege too
brethren, it's worth something too;
you say that Sam Jones is theonly man
that can say these things; well if I am
the only man that can say them ougbt
aot I to,6ay them 1 with a vengenoe?
(Laughter.) Brethren Christ in His
own ministry never lost a chance ito
pour the hot shot in the amen corner;
he gave it to the members of the church
every crack; "You generation of vipers
you whited sepulchres;" but when he
came to a sinner he handled him as
gently and affectionately as a mother
ever handled a child. - We will iever
bring the world to God as long as you
have got members in the church as
mean as anv bodv out of. the churSh.-.
The best people on the face of the earth
the church has in it, and it has the
meanest people on the face of the
earth. Youteay, "Mr. Jones why are
they the meanest?" Because a mean
man in the church idda hypo-riey tc
his meanness, and that is tha meaaest
meanness in the world, by pocritic
meanness.
A don't propose to glen inch to re
treat an inch, but to btand right pquare
on facts and fact are wonderful thing
to deal with. You can put down an
argument, you can uncorK" and evapo
rate rhetoric, but let me tell you when
you meet fact you cannot get over it,
nor around it, nor' under it nor, through
it, there it is and you I have to lace it
like a mm. Talking ot facts now I was
in.a city some time, ago where the offi
cials of the church were wet, they
were liauor ndvocates, and the pastor,
a-s noble a man as I ever saw in ray life
yet you couldn t get him to speak on
whi-key, you could n t get nim to say
anything on the subject: he was abso
lutely crippled by the ofTlcials in the
church so that he couldn't open hi"
mouth on the subject without raising
a row; and brethren if you wil. notice
without a heap oi religion me very uoi
pastor will be influenc'd by the oilloial
board. now mark whai I tellyou. I mean
Georgia preachers.you old North Caro
lina preachers wun tar on your neeis.
you stick tolerably well. (Laughter )
. . .a ...:lt - :-.!.-
But if you don t mina you wm oe inuu
enced by the chairman of your board
And by the official board. 1 kuow what
I am' "talking about; I have seen the
day, my brethren, when my official
board called on my wife, when there
was scarcely anything to eat in my
hniisn unA when mv wife dlun t have a
decent dress, and when my elb.jw..
were out of mv sleeves and I did not
have! 'a dtc ht rag to put on. I have
had those old stewards call on my wife
and 'sav. "Sister Jones we can't raise
fne dollar for vour husband, haven't
raised ten dollars in three nionths arid
worse is coming to worse; beg hlra for
youHsake, and the children sake, to
chanire his manner of preaching." I
have fone into mv home and seen wife
as sad as death and she toid me what
the stewards said; I have gone out and
ffoUen down on mv knees and I have
said thai-1 would lead niy wife and
children i out into the streets, bare
headed and hungry, I will pay the
costs for the privilege of preaching the
truth, and 1 have poured the gospe
into them and God sent the power and
old men that had been hack-sliders In
the church for twenty years would clap
their bands and say, "Glory to Ood lor
the faithful preaching we have bad;'
and before I left there they had paid
me twice as much as any other preacher
sot in that .circuit. I know the infiu
ence thev briner to bear on a fellow
have been there. I never would let
them'ride on me; no sir, I am not
saddle I animal: (lauffhter) won't let
them ride nor drive nor tote me
am like the. old darky's mule, hitch
him to a waffon he is dar. hitch him to
a carriage he is dar, hitch him to
plow he is dar, get on him he is dar
but the trouble is to iret him away
(Laughter) There's where I am; I
won't go when they want me to go.
I am like the old mule down in Geor
gia; an old fellow was driving through
the sand, and the old mule stopped and
wouldn't go backwards and wouldn't go
forwards; he whipped him and beat
him but he wouldn't go, sq .he went
out and got a Wg pile of leaves and
piled them around the mule and set
them on fire, and the. old mule just
moved far enough to get the buggy
over,' and he held it there until It burn
ed up. (Laughter.) Now that's just
what I propose to da, to take my stand
and when they put. the fire around me,
I am just going to move far enough to
burn the buggy, burn the whole crowd
top In other words, when one of these
officials gets up and puts his foot in the
stirrup and tries to ride me the next
thing he knew when the dust blows
off, I will be at the trough eating with
one of his gallowses wound round my
hin4 leg. (Laughter.) -
The courage of their convictions; if
it is the truth say it, if it ought to be
said, say it, if it is true stand by it, I
win tea another thing, it. takes just
about twice as much grit to stick to a
thing as it does to say it first. When
iour or nve leiiows get you out on one
side and begin to- talk to you, it's
mighty hard to stay where you were.
I tell you brother, sav the truth and
stick to it, and the very men that don't
like it, will have ten times as much re
spect for jrou as they will if vou wiggle
1 never had but one man in my life toi
come to me and tell me that I had to
taue a thing back; and I said. "I don't
know how," and he said, "You have
got to do n or I will mash you into the
earth!" and r said, "Well you mash; ;
never was mashed and I have a curios
lty to know how it feels." And he
never mashed and I don't know to-tbls
day how it feels. (Laughter.)
li you are right, bold your ground;
if you are wrong, the very thing that
makes a true man stick to the truth
will make him retreat when he Is
wrong; that's a fact. Now listen, wc
are talking about the church members
co operating with God or the deviband
uit-isuuers sitting ana looking on,
that's what we are talking about. A
pastor wrote me a fervent letter once
nnn. r i t t
uruvuer jones, i am up to mv
V ! 1 A T 1 t ...
cum in irouoie ana anxiety, l have dis
ciplined my members, turned twenty of
the leading ones oat and the town is up
in arms against me: coma over nnH
help me." I got in my buggy and rode
over to the town and commenced
preaching. "First pure and then peaces
able," I said, "It you can't have purity
or peace, only at the expense of purity,
you had better leave town;" and I
preached right along on that line and
I said, "Not only has your pastor dis
ciplined aad turned some of you out of
the church, but I understand the grand
jury is after you;" getting mighty bad
when the grand jury has to look after
members ot the church, ain't it? And
I expect if the laws of North Carolina
were enforced on the churches
every church in this town would
furnish some men for the chain
gf?'.J DTSperae 6tate of things
ain t it.-' I preached on there about a
weekr that man had prayed and puri
fied his church and sat squarely by th
truth in his preaching there, to those
same members that he had. turned out
came to the altar.and gave their hearts
to God, and I saw thern go up, one at
a time, and throw their arms around
the pastor s neck and Kpo- hi-
and promise to be his friends.the pastor
would shout and aav. Glorr tA oa
A f . 18 irue Ior Thou hast said
TXT Plea8e hU
will make his enemiVa k -J,-
1890 -
With him!" and I preached on eignt
davs In that town, and every roan.
woman, chiia ana auuiv iu m i
except twenty-seven were innrncu
and joined tne cnurcn. mvie
five saloon keepers; four of th in were
convened to God and dumiedul tb.ir
whiskej and the ot heroes he Mid, "If
th town will refund mv license I will
.hip my whiskey back; and they re-
fuodfd him nis iie-n-,
KiL omtrn train nd the next day
they had a Igmnd meetingon the er n
sward in frout of the courthouse, l wo
of the ex-bar keeper were the ora'.irs
f thrt oocasioa. The people g.th-
crcd there and . the fit s 'ligj
on the prvgrmmrf whs. 'All r.au
.w r of Jeus nauii'
demolished nve saioons .',"
ved
m :nwn
vrirr man. woman anu tmu
except tweniy-veu; ,111m.
w . . .v..
t.as Urn
now ten or eleven years nu n -
has never been a drop oi wuisKej ou
ri that town, and they havp never nau
i .. .i v... Kot'A nvr
a vote upon muu
talW about a vote; they just bnipp-u
forever and that Is one 01 mo
leading towns in my State.. hat you
preachers want wun mese no acwum
members is the profoundest mystery in
the world to me. I never . turned a
man out of church in my life, but I
have preached hundreds out; when
ever 1 run a meeting ten days and
things don't run straight ou -1 bay,
'Brethren, wo close this meeting to:
n -.Tht: 1 am eoinsr 10 open tue
door and I want every low down scamb
in this church to hustle and get out; I
.,nt vou to ' fne out' the churches
hpr nttd ilninir out more than they
eed jinlng In, don t you. Brother
Cresv. iu your church.' iL.augnt.erj
You had belter look out, you have got
tn etjiv here. nov. 1 iautrnter. 1 t
the old colored brother said, speaking
of whiskey In the town, "It was here
when I came here, and I am not going
to have anvthiiitT to do with it, 1 am
0-ointr to leave It here when I go away
t)h mv brethren, let us realize this
fact that so many of our members are
co-workers with the devil to make the
world worse. And let us draw the line
somewhere. You know you have got
members in vour church that btand by
I 'vodUru'd vou know that such men and
women are a oiessin to your tuunu
and an honor to religion; and then you
have members of your church that are
co-workers with the devil. What do
vou want with that sort of members?
Well vol don't have to have them.
(Laughter.) This here is a Democratic
country, a fellow does pretty much as
he wants to. Did you ever try to get
rid of them? How many members lave
vou nned out Brother Bearaanr One
hundred in two years. Well be is do
in sr. better than I thought; I did not
know there was a church in town doing
that well. You are doing first rate
brethren. 1 asked 4ne minister why
he didu t turn that fellow out for get
ting drunk. He said, "Brother I imve
not sober fellows enough to make
jury to try him. (Laughter.) That
a terrible state of things; not enough
good members in the church to try
bad one and turn him out.
Brethren, your work and mywonv
coming into the Church of Jesus Christ
is to help saye souls; not by example
and principle and influence, to draw
souls down. Eyery man or every wo
man can influence others; our life- is a
potent, power drawing men heaven
ward or else it is a potent influence of
the devil drajving them downward. I
wish every man n lne church could
see that no preacher on the faco of
this earth can do good. work for God,
when be has the church pulling back
on him like a great power pulling him
in the wrong direction. 'That's a fact.
Now how many men and women here
this morning' are real potent factors In
the church, helping the world to be
better; doing all you can to make the
world better and brighter and wiser?
Brother, did you eyer .sit down some,
morning quietly, and "just stop the'
thought of everything else and run out
everything else from your mind, and
then ask yourself this question: .".Sup
pose every member of my church were
just like mo, what ' sort of a church
would it be? Suppose every member
worked, as little as I work what sort of
work would they do? Suppose every
member paid us little as I pay apd
prayed as little as I pray, how much
would the cause get? I think that
every man ought to come up to every
duty of life, and whenever the members
think that way the church will be the
grandest church in the community.
I Brethren, let him know that he who
converteth a sinner from the errror of
his ways shall save a soul from death;
every member of the church ought to
be a propagandist; . every member
ought to be a busy influence to win
some other soul to Christ. We have
turned Ihe whole work over to the
preachers. We are a clever set of fel
lows, but I will tell you you will get
left turning this work over to us. God
never meant that preachers should go
about eaving ever man in the church
but listen, if every member of Brother
Creasy church, for instance, should
say This year I will win one soul for
rhri8tI next Christmas they would
Tvave '11 menbers," ,ach member of
these 900 members would say, "O&e
soul this year for Christ," next year
they would come back with 1,800 mem
bers; these would say "One soul for
Christ this year," next year taere
would be 3,606 to start out with, and at
- J? ndv' that year yu would hve
,UU. You would absolutely have to
go out of Wilmington to hunt souls to
work on, and don t it look, like a very
small thing to win one soul a year
for Christ? And yet If we ran
upon that plan, we would bring the
world to God in ten years from to-day.
But you turn it over to us preachers-
We RnL io1? tte very we cad
under the circumstances. The mean-
est church In the world is the church
that will pack a poor preacher in an
Ice box, arid then cuss him all over
because he doesn't sweat. (Laughter )
How in the name of sense can a fellow
get up a sweat? The whole church up
in the wagon and some laughing and
some dancing, some shouting and some
prayiDig, but the whole thing up Irfthl
S5R"'d thtPJ0r' 1IUleol Preach
out Id the shaft trvintr to irrV
every now. and then some t-fiZ1 Z1?t
say, "Tap him up;" feed htm A"- vlt?
straw; now
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