Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-07

A Church for Poor Men as well as Rich
A True Gospel Preached.

EDITORS APPEAL-In a late issue of
your paper was a spiteful TRADE against
churches and preachefs, by Mr.. Brick,
who would prefer TO pay ten cents extra
for printed sermon in your Sunday
edition, from a preacher morse than the
people, that he might read it In bed,
rather than go to church and hear ser
mon. He had rather be in bed than go
forth and mingle with his friends in re-
ligious worship, and thus proclaim to
the world a faith In Christianity, and
make one effort to make the world
better. As a brick is inanimate matter,
so Mr.. Brick would, on Sunday, house
himself, and, i'm bed, do nothing, all be-
cause churches are edTpeted, pens CASH
Toned, and the minister corrupt
1t has grown quite common, and l
fear popular, to attack preachers and
churches, sin general terms by Mr.. b.
and his friends, t0heR then kgqeIU better,
and to save their souls they cannot
specify one single church or minister.
Any man of Information knows posi-
lively that at this time, and for long
time past, this city is, and has been,
blessed with a faithful ministry, and
that it is libel, to charge them worse
than he who would lie in bed and read
sermons, or anything else, rather than
get up and go forth to tUOTk somewhere
in a SGilday-schoOl, visit the sick, the
poor, the afflicted, and, by word or act,
bring sunshine to others. Mr.. BIS logic
is no logic. If preacher is unfit TO
preach, he is unfit to write, and if there
be one fit to write a sermon for Il. to
read in bed, or elsewhere, il would be
better TO hear him. and by his presence
encourage both minister and people to
''work for Jesus and the better con-
ditiOn of the human race.
"Fault-finders are not Christ-seekers;
baekbiters are not citizens of Zion" If
men were honest in fault-finding, they
are dishonest and insincere unless they
put their shoulders to the wheel and help
remedy the evils of which they com
plain, but the simple fact is, this carping
of fault-findeFs is but the cloak of inf
deity, which would, if permitted, perse-
cute Christianity until driven from ex-
istence. AS, however, it cannot be
blotted out, it Is by such means brought
into contempt and obstacles thrown in
the way of Christians bringing others to
"a knowledge of the truth as il is in Je-
sus'i-the Christians mission, however
imperfectly performed. If the world
were like these complainers, soon we
would have no Sunday, no sermons
printed or spoken, no sunlight to souls in
sins darkness, no four thousand children
in this city on Sunday morning singing
their glad songs of praise to a worlds
Savior and RedeemeT, whilst many of
their fathers, like Mr.. Brick, is lying in
bed, perhaps cross and grabbed because he
was disturbed by their happy voices get
ting ready to join their faithful teachers,
who are doing more to make this world
an Eden than all other influences COM
bined.
wish to assure Mr.. Brick that as re-
CARDS adults, he is with the majority, and
if he really loves to read a sermon, he
has at least one evidence that he should
seek-not lie in bed and wait-OppOrtu-
mites to do good, so he and his like may
take possession of the churches and
preachers and work them Sin their way
of thinking.n If the cushions and car
pets be in the way, they can be taken
out, and if the preacher be no better than
the masses, discharge them; 'devout
men of Godn can be obtained at
salaries just sufficient to keep their fam
lilies moderately fed and clothed, in just
above absolute rant. Men who would |
ornament any profession in life, besides, |
in any other calling would accumulate |
q fortune on less brain and physical la
Dor than they now put forth to bring /
sinners to God, and keep alive the inter- |
est of Christians to their titles to sweet |
fields beyond deaths swelling flood"
''Offenses must come, but woe to him I
by whom the Offense.cOmeth; !" " better |
he had never been born" Mr.. b. can |
very soon learn--he seems TO think he /
knows already-what "pure and unde- I
filed religion. before God is, which, in |
learning, will teach him duty that will /
soon force him to join hands with the |
most piOus pastor he can find; obey the /
promptings of his conscience, and go to |
tcOrk IA earnest remedying minor inn |
perfectiOns, determined to do his might |
toward leaving the world some better |
than when he found it; and himself a |
better and happier man than when the |
Savior found him. There are churches |
i'm this city which have neither carpets |
nor cushions, where the poor are made |
to feel at hOme-to feel they have
friends, and to feel more that God re-
CARDS mankind brotherhood. Then, |
there are churches with carpets and
cushions, where the poor are welcomed;
and to supply their wants is the church's
hobby; where they are made to feel that
rich and poor are one in Christ Jesus
Why should not the house of God have
a carpet, and be made comfortable and
cheerful? LAGMAN.