The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-08-27

I brother and sister business and help us to
be blood-k to one another. That Is what
we want
If you ever have another camp-meeting
in the name of God let's have one that
God will be with us in. Amenl In our
| town last year we had a meeting, and we
had hundreds of visitors, and every house
i'll town was turned into hotel, and the
people were piled all over the floors at
night. and none of them was asked to pay
a cent. In my house | fed hundred or
two a day. and in return God fed myself
and children with precious bread. What
was the two or three hundred dollars |
spent? | wouldn't have taken five mil
| Ii ms for the conversion of my boy. You
dom know what money is good for. Let s
swap God a littlee of this loaf bread for
some of his precious bread. [''Amens. u
Don't say ''anen" TOO strong, brother
don't. Laughter.
These promises come to us all alike, and
they come to us as the children Of d great
Father. and they come to us in all condi-
tions Of life, and there is q promise for you
and one for me. A promise for me i'll the
morning. at noon. and at night. A prom
Use for me when / am living and apromise
1 for me dying. A promise for me. on earth
and heaven. There is not an inch of the
way from the hour you gave yourself to
God until the end, that you do not put
your foot down on a precious promise that
will rest your body, and on which you can
pillow your head at night.
| appreciate the old woman who took
the preacher home to dinner one day. She
was preparing the dinner, and the preacher
picked up the Bible off the table, and was
| OF yxrbp 10 bQ
letters II. p marked often on the mar
gin, and when she came in he said, what
does this ST T. stand for that you have
here ?" She said, "Where do you see it
now ~ He said, why, here, opposite
| this verse. And bread shall be given
them - why. , said she. that T. p
written on the margin of my Bible there,
stands for Tried and Proven. I have
| tried them and found them to be true"
And so, brethren, we should do likewise.
| We should have our IT. PSF and be able
to say, Il have tried the promises of God,
and proven them to be true.
These promises come to US in all their
righteousness and fulness, but we had
better stop and stand few minutes on
their conditions.
There is too much of this harping on the
Divine side in this world. Every fellow
thinks if the Lord would swap sides with
him he would run in first rate. We want
to do the running ourselves, and have God
do the repairing. We are all perfectly
willing to do God s part of the thing, but
none is willing to do his own part of the
business. God will not do for any one
what q man will not do for himself. God
will never get liking for you. That's
your own job, and some of you have got a
mighty tough job. God will never quit
6rip yNhic lY for ~
God IS world will keep man sober who is
pouring Nhiskey into his hide. Christ and
whiskey won t stay in the same hide, at
the same time.
L know when man opens his mouth on
the ruinods effects Of whiskey he is dubbed
a political preacher, = politician drum
ming for some party | don t go much on
party myself. That's so. l want the po-
litical parties Of this country to crawl up
out of the mud and wash themselves from
head to foot and put on clean clothes be-
fore | have anything to do with them.
Instead OF breaking down the political
fence and getting in on them, I don't
think | would go III if they were to invite
me in.
| was running on politics? Well, if
there is one class of people in this country
l cannot pray for it's politicians. These
politicians | cannot pray for. Some power
whispers back when l try to. Don't talk
to me about them" laughter Do you
know pious politician in America to-
day Do you? Rack me out one 1
want to see him powerful bad. I've been
hunting for one for years. [ amt on poll |
tics, but | wanted to say this much.
we got the profoundest contempt for a |
man or woman that will drink wine, beer
or whiskey. It's these things that are de-
bauching humanity.
And another thing | want to say. A |
good many Of you are drinking beer. or
whisky, or wine for your health. The |
devil is in it and he don't care whether
you drink 1t for your fool health. He
dom care how or why you do it-all he
wants is that you do it. If the Church of |
God in America would quit drinking
whiskey and vote on this internal whiskey
question they could Starve out half the
lager beer saloons in the country in six
months and vote the balance out of sight, |
for half of the saloons in Cincinnati are
run by church members-I don't say
Christians. God bless you; Christian |
Won't drink that stuff. l got religion |
twelve years ago and know what Chris
tian can do.
There are dozen preachers on this |
ground who know more than [ ever will |
They are posted on a thousand things | |
never even heard of, but l IL say this much
there are two things know we'll, one is |
what a fellow has to do to be religious,
and the other is what he must refuse to do |
to be religious. know these two things !
as well as any one, and that's about enough |
for this occasion.
Conditions. Commit your way to God |
and trust in Him and do good, and you
shall dwell in the land, and verify you |
shall be fed" There is a promise cover
ing earth and time, and the wants of the |
world and | am glad to say to you that |
there is not physical want of my nature |
but what this world stands with out
stretched hands to give it to me. I've
heard OF people starving to death, but
never saw them. / never saw the coffin
OF man who had starved to death. I've
no patience with people who starve in this
country-not particle.
If you w..:,t ;, s.gre successful life in this
world III every sense, the Bible says Trust
i'll the Lord and do good. How will l
get everything [ want for my physical
man Trust in the Lord and do good
Trust in God and do your duty-that's it
| exactly. There's a heap of trust in this
country. There is the trust that makes
men stand with hands held out awaiting
for God to drop something in. He will
take everything you give. That's one
KIND OF trust, and that s about nlne-tenthS
of the faith in this country-a catch-aIl-
that -comes faith. That's true Always
begging for something-Lord bless you,
that's their faith. The country is just a
nation of beggars-that' S the truth about
it. Yes, it is, too-religious tramps
knocking at Gods door begging. I've
contempt for this sort of doings-I have
too-alWays on the beg.
I've children, and when they hang
around me and beg for something, I don't
give it to them, but when 1 carry home
presents and playthings for the little ones
and get there at midnight, and the first
thing that greets my ears when awake in
the morning is not the little fellows in
there begging for something, but they
have got hold Of what brought them and
have found it in the other room. And
hear one say, 1--we dot the best play
thing and another says, ''ain't this
nice. and "ain't that a good papa to bring
us all these nice things and as | lay there
| think in my heart Pm glad | brought
these things. The other has been bring
ing us things, and all we want to hear is
that he is around, and we are right after
him begging for something, and never
show gratitude for what we have received.
Lord, have mercy on us. We don't de-