The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-21
YOUTHFUL REPORTS.
wbataLittIe Boyand Girl Heard
m MIR. Karnitzs Church HeSter'

lIlllIt nuS anN
al EIr. Barnitz' Church Hesier'
We have been handed the following
reports Of a sermon by Mr.. BarnitE yes.
terday, written out by two children, a
boy and girl, uged respectively, 10 and
IL years, who attended service at his
Church.
Although yesterday was q very, wet
and dissrTeeable day, J. aud I found our
wsy 10 Rev. Mr.'Barnitz' Church. There
was a large audience present. The text
from which the sermon wa preached
was in the fourth chapter Of Nehemiah,
and sixth verse, and was: "So we built
the walls, and all the walls were joined
together unto the half thereof, for the
people had q mind to work"
The story is that when Nehemiah was
in the shushan palace one Of the brethren
came to see him, and he asked him con-
corning the Jews who had escaped cap
tiyity, and those who remained, and con.
c%erning Jersualem, and he told him that
those who were still captiyes were sui:
iering reproach and that the walls Of
Jerusalem were torn down, and the gates
consumed by fire. Nehemiah told Artax.
erxes, the king, about il, and asked him
IL he might go and help rebuild the walls.
The king told him he might go. SO Ne;
hemiah went and wa appointed
their leader. He ordered those who
were talented In handing iron to
make the iron part Of the gates, and so
with those who worked in stone and
brick. These men did not say, "Mr.
Nehemiah, / would rather pound iron
than saw woo1,n nor did they say, u
think Il would be better to stand the
stones on their edge than on their side"
Mr.. Barnitz illustrated this point by
standing a book on its edge to represent
the stones. These men did not say 1t Is
beat TO catch hold OF the point Of the
trowel and use the handle to, put on the
mortar. They talked no such nonsense,
but each man went to work until the
work was completed. So ought every man,
woman and child TO do their own part OF
Christian work. Nothing a be done
without a leader. For instance,
in building q railroad one man
| thinks he knows more about IL than the
chief engineer, but soon finds out that the
road Is finished only by the direction Of
the engineer. Again, il an army OF Che
the brayest soldiers, without a drop Of
cowardly blood in their veins, go to war
without a good General they will prob
ably lose the victory.
Mr.. Barnitz closed his remarks by say
ing that some people were worse than In.
GdeIs. That Is, the Lord says 30, but
don't 90 home children and tell that Mr..
Bnrni. said that some people were worse
than infdels.
learned from this sermon the lesson
that the great Christian wall can
not DO built without God is our
leader. Mr.. Barnitz just suits me, be-
cause lie breaches &C that the young as
well as the old can understand the gospel.
This is the reason that the children like
him.
Some time again ] will be glad to Tell
you about ermon that l hear preached.
THE GIRLS REroRT.
Yesterday B. and l went to hear Rev.
Mr.. Barnitz preach. He took his text
from the fourth chapter Of Nehemiah
and the sixth verse. II reads as follows:
$50 built we the walls, for the people
had n mind 10 work." Now, at the
time that Nehemiah heard that his
people were scattered about and the
walls and gates torn down, he
was in prison under a great King. He
asked the King 10 let him go and build
the walls and set up the gates, and the
request was granted. So Nehemiah went
to Jerusalem and gathered together his
scattered people and told them that they
must rebuild the walls and put up the
gates. Discouraged as they were, they
did not say, "Now, Nehemiah, We can't
do that" but they went TO work and did
their part. Every man. woman and child
did just as Nehemiah told them. They did
not say, l will set this stone on its edge in
stead Of putting it on its side: There was
no such nonsense. Now are you trying to
build your part Of the WALTZ Do your
own part and then help others. This
means that every man and woman ought
to take care Of his or her family. There
were once two children playing in the
streets with their toes all out and their
faces dirty, when some one passed along
and asked them IL they had no mother.
They said yes, but she had TO go 10 church
to make clothes for missions. Mr.. Barnitz
said that instead Of making clothes for
mission purposes mothers ought to first
attend to their own homes.
We are gratiied to print these two in
teresting reports for our little friends,
and hope that not only these two but
other juvenile readers will favor us in a
similar anner Their efforts are GER