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

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ale that lacketb these things is blind
and cannot see afar of. and hath for.
gotten that he was purged from his
old sins" But, he says, Wherefore
the rather brethren, give diligence Il
make your calling aud election sure
for IL ye do these things we shall never
fall. For SO an entrance shall DO min.
istercd TO you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of orr Lord aud
Saviour Jesus Christ" l want to say
by way of preface here, that there Is
a reason why any man may fail in any
calling OF this world. There are
some good reasons why some men
may never succeed at law, or in the
practice of medicine, or In politics, or
at farming. Why is II some men
never succeed ia these thingsi We
sec reasons, and good reasons why
some men will fail In every avocation
of lite except this one, and there is
no reason in heaven, or earth, or hell,
why any man should not be faithful
christian. That's true. And am
ready to say to you, and hear il,
that II takes about the same ticks to
make good christian that 1t does
20 make good lawyer, or good doe
tor, or good farmer. What | get
out of my farm seems to be deter
mined by what put into it, What |
get out of my practice is proportion
ed to the amount of work | put
into 1t. And in the farm, the legal
profession. the medical profession, or
/ the profession OF christian-if you
put nothing into 1t you will take
nothing out. | see these merchants
straining all their energies and giving
all their diligence. They buy every
piece of literature that bears on their
business or their interests, and read
II. They study from Monday morn
ing TO Saturday night. the various
wants of their customers aud the in-
terest of their business. They put
their time and blood and muscle and
energy into their business, but on
SUNDAY morning they will come out
TO church and put on au cir of in-
jured innocence and say, 81 wonder
what in the world II the matter with
the church, Why don't she move oilI
Why don't the church go on TO the
conquest of the worldg" Let me tell
you: IL you didn't pay more attention
TO your business than TO your church
you would be a bankrupt in niuety
days from to-day. If you run your
legal profession Ike you run your
church profession, you win be a bank
rupt lawyer in less than six months
from to-day. Lord God have mercy
upon these men who are first-class
lawyers and tenth-rate Methodist.
God have mercy upon a man who is a
first-class doctor and about thir-
teenth rate Baptist. have got the
profoundest contempt for that sort of
character. There are some men in
this world we don't expect much of.
They are failures everywhere, aud
when they join the church we don't
expect much of them. But that man
who succeeds at law and fails us a
Christian is n sham and humbng-
an utter failure with the best utter
ests that ever stirred an immortal
conscience. If am successful as a
| Christian IL is because have used the
means God has given for being one.
II | am a failure, it is because | s'n
willfully negligent, and have not used
| the means God gave us to be a good
one. | am with my religion as that
engineer over there is with his engine
lie fires that engine in proportion as
he has grades to move up, and when
ever he gets behind time, see how
he'll make her go in order to make up
for the time he lost! And so 1t is with
you and your religion; If you use
the means God throws in your reach
for being good, / tell you you will
soon make up for the years of oppor-
tunity you have lost-you will make
better schedule time. daughter
But the man who is forty and fifty
years behind-hCw can you expect
that man to catch up unless he "tires
up" his spiritual engines!
repeat, my brethren, that II you
are successful as Christian II
is because you have used the means
of success given You, and If you are
failure IL is because you would not
comply with the conditions of success
know men who came to Texas poor
aud now they are well-to-do; | know
people who came here with money
and now they are poor. why! lie
cause one went up and the other wen
down. This was not because Texas
did not grow good cotton. No, sir
there's more in these kind OF failures
than can be attributed TO the land
In every church we have the condi
tions to make grand CHI istie1s. If
/ were to move TO Waco with my fam
Z ily. the Methodist church would say
: Now, we will get Sam Jones VIII
| and family into our church, and the.
"A N he n help to us" Wait a little
= DO YOU know what I'd doI I'd g
p round /, the prayer and experienc
4 meetings of the other churches 9TH
= Baptists aud Presbl terians) anu Sc
y how they were going on, and wha
z they were doing, aud as God is III
= Judge, wherever saw the most dll
gence and zeal, there would piac
Y my wife and children in the coniidcl
I hope that by so doing would best B
II helping them on their way home
}. heaven. am not SO much of \ Metl
Q odist as to place my wife and childre
4 in a spiritual graveyard. want thu
v distinctly understood. May Go
n Give us live churches. | want 10 fin
t. ftirst) the church viii be most
nome in, the one that will give II
m most christian work to do, the OF
d that will help me most in my relic 20
w and when lind such church | nor
Is care whether il says must be u
r. under the water Qmmersed), or tn
water must be sprinKlcd on me
IL. care not how you deal with me
10 that respect. wiz it help me to Go
q. that's all want TO know. | Won
a. not Join any church God ever saw
~ il did not furnish me work
I'd christian. just think of
il churchman talking religion and tn
d, never doing anything to help TO
or up a fallen brother, or moving st
IL to benefit anybody? God says w
a stand you here OIL the day idl,
nd Why2 Somebody that feels he has
an christian work TO perform aniwe
ee "Becausc my church says ther
,r- nothing for me to do II there
,ce church of that sort in Waco
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