The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-30

down on his knees praying, then he
Joins the church, and begins to pray In
public. And one day he rejoices 10
feel and know he Is child OF
| God. Now when was that man made
"partaker of the divine natureg' II
was not tie day he joined the church,
but IL was the day away back when
his heart was first touched and he re-
solved TO lead better life. 1 believe
religion is like the measles, and you
get il 1t In the same way. There Is a
fellow who walks up sick, and sends
for the doctor. The doctor says,
whats the matter with your lie
tells him, ~ don't know; I've got a
high fever" aud then describes all the
symptoms of measles. AT last the
doctor asks him, "Werc you exposed
in any way TO measles p and he
answers. al was" "Well, them says
the doctor, 81 believe you have
measles, for you have all the symp-
toms of the disease and then he
gives him a cup of tea. and wraps him
up in warm blankets, so that the dis
ease will "comc out" because when IL
does the patient is all right. Well,
now, here's another fellow suffering
from an ailmcnt of different kind.
This second fellow gets tangled up In
a big religious meeting, and he says,
IL never felt SO mean in my life; am
sick all through" | say, whats the
matter with YOUR but he does not
know; all he knows is that he has been
TO some revival, and feels mean all
over. Now, that fellow has got re-
li0inn dnnft N / ntVn him a
good cup OF gospel tea, wrap him up
in the teachings aud promises of God.
and the first thing you know he is out
of danger, "Seek, and you shall find;
knock, and II shall be opened unto
you" lie gets well, and the next thing
you hear him say is, "Glory TO God,
am pardonod ~ like TO see religion
break out on fellow good. laugh
tcr) Like the measles, ii "goes in"
on him he will die, and think that's
what's the matter with good many
of you people in Texas It's gone in
on you, and Pm afraid, If you don't
look out, either you or 1t will
die some of these days. Laughter)
Let us make our hands work, and our
tongues talk, and our feet walk for
God. That's the way ] want to see
it. If we do, it is only n question of
time when religion will break out
good on us. But you had better not
expose yourselves. If you 90 to n
ball, or barroom, or over yonder, IL
will surely drive it In on you, and
then you are gone. started on
mighty little capital, aud | am sorry
did not grow as much or as fast as
| could wish IL. But am bigger to-
day, ten times, than was when
joined the church. Religion grows
by addition and multiplication, but
never by subtraction. Some people
keep subtractiug for everything they
do. for every prayer they say, for
every kind deed they do, until at last
they grow "small by degrees
and beautifully less. They
grow down hill, you know. A
men will tell YOU Il want
to start, but won't do So without
feeling" What is "feelingr DO you
mean el.ous? eyes, sir" Well,
whenever see man gets that far he
has got that which is worth talking
about. You have got serious thought
to-day, and when you reach the point
IN your sins that you see the wrong
of them and honestly mean TO do
light, you are getting up to latitude
where our text will get at you. Six
thousand years ago God said, "Let
there be light" aud there was Hght,
and the worla enjoyed its rays, put
knew not what IL was composed Of
until fur ly philosophy stepped to the
front ald said it was the sy metrical
blending of the seven primr' colors.
| Now, Jesus Christ looked at his
church, aud made the seven primal
virtues-the light thereof. Peter, the
great philosopher, said Gods spiritua
light is the seven grates blended in
one symmetrical whole that gives us the
light of the world and the salt of the
earth wish every christian mau
could blend these graces with
his FIFE. There would then no
longer be darkness aud gloom
for the day the church
arrays herself n this light it VII
bring us all to God. Light means ac-
tivity. A few hours ago the cattle
slept, the birds on the trees were
muflled and silent, mankind slum.
bered-all was darkness and sleep
Well, what docs God do? Docs he
hit the oxen on the horns. or shake
the trees to wake the blrds, or kick
Oh mans door TO tell him
lis day, and to rise No
sir. He lets the sun come
over the eastern hills-lie gives high,
and in the twinkliug of an eye the
cattle are moving, the birds are
singing, and mankind is working.
Lord God wake up Waco to-day, and
nut us all TO work for our redemp
ton. ("Amen."l But we change now
ard will talk of Misunderstanding
which is the immortal part of man
NV reputation is what people say Of
me, and if did not have anything
except that believe I'd be IN je'
now. [Laughtcr) If everything
they saidagainst Christ was true wher,
2 would he bey They would crdcif,
: him again by lies, am glad u man
D reputation is something he can pu
t on and oil like garment, and som
D of us do not loose much whether IL !
, on or oil "a laugh.) But my characte
. is a thug that no moral mPr or dey
a can touch. My character It's not m
t own, and no man can damage II. Nj
l character is what am, and what q
l knows am. It's immortal. That
/ something that will outilve the star
Q 1t shall live on when this world
c burned up. 1t will be mine until 20
!; fud the grave and resting place of tn
I great Am. II will live on as long 8
It God lives. IL was nursing my rel
t utation here, and that or'y, | wou'
i have acted quite differently in man
u things. could go near pleasing @
|! erybody. You remember the stol
d of the old farmer, the boy and Il
II donkey. The farmer got on the do
rs KEY and rode bin until some oil
a came along aud said: swell, ther,
N that old fellow riding while his POI
it boy has to walk" The farmer tn,
,p took the boy up behiud him, and tn,
" had not gone far when along com
y another fellow and says. we