The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-12
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, JULY II, 1872.
THE OLD MAN IN A STYLISH
CHURCH.

THE OLD MAN IN a STYLISH
CHURCH.
BY JOHN h. YATES.
Well, wife, Pve been to church to-day
been TO stylish one
And. seein' You can't go from homo, I'll
tell you what was done;
You would have been surprised to sec
what saw there to-day;
The sisters were fixed up so fine they
hardly bowed to pray.
had on these coarse clothes Of mine-not
much the worse for wear
But. then, they knew 1 wasn't one they
call 4 millionaire;
So they led the old man to a seat away
back by the door;
Twas bOokless and uneushioned, q reseru-
ed seat for the poor.
Pretty soon IN came stranger with gold
ring and clothing fine;
They led him to a cushioned seat far in
advance OF mine;
1 thought that want exactly right to seat
him up SO near,
When he was young, and was old. and
very hard to hear.
But, then, there's no aecountin' fer what
some people do;
The finest clothing, nowadays, Oft gets
the finest pew;
But when we reach the blessed home, all
undefiled by sin,
Well see wealth beggin' at the gate,
while poverty goes in.
1 couldn't hear the sermon, sat SO far
away,
So, through the hours of service, could
only 1'watch and pray;"
Watch the doin's of the Christians sitting
mo SrnrIn6 n
Pray that God would make them pure
within as they were pure without.
While sat Their C, lookin' all around upon
the rich and great;
| kept thinkin' Of the rich man and the
| beggar at his gate;
How, by ali but dogs forsaken, the poor
| beggar's form grew cold,
And the angels bore his spir to the
mansions built Of gold.
How, at last the r:ch man perished, and
his spirit took its flight
From the purple and fine linen to the
home of endless night;
There he learned, as he stood gain at
the beggar in the sky,
alt isn't ali of life to live, nor all of death
to die"
doubt not there were wealthy sires in
that religious fold
Who went up from their dwellings like
the PhaFisee of old;
Then returned home from their worship
with head uplIfted high,
To spurn the hungry from their door
with naught to satisfy.
Out, outi with such professors; they are
doin' more to-day
To stop the weary sinner from the &C spells
shinin' way
Than all the books OF infidels; than all
that has been tried
Since Christ was born in Bethlehem
since Christ was crucifi ed.
How simple are the works OF God, and yet
how very grand
The shells in ocean caverns-the flowers
on the land
He gilds the clouds of evenin' with the
gold-light from his throne,
Not for the rich man only; not for the poor
/ alone.
Then why should man look down on man,
because of lack of gold?
Why seat him in the poorest pew because
his clothes are old?
4 heart with noble mOtives-a heart that
God has blest-
May be beatin' heavens music meath that
faded coat and vest.
Pm old may be childish-but 1 love
simplicity;
1 love to see it shinin' in a Christians
piety;
Jesus told us in His sermons, in Judea's
mountains wild,
He that wants TO go to heaven must be
like little child.
Our heads are CROWN. gray, dear wife
our hearts are beatin' slow
In little while the Master will call for
us to go;
When we reach the pearly gateways, and
look in with joyful eyes,
| Wen see no stylish worship in the temple
of the skies.