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

bites [Laughter.l There are none Z
that kind here, of course (sarcastically
I'm never rough on any one present. Goo
Lord, help us to see that the fish are OF
the man side OF the Gospel, and attend t,
our own business and let the Lord atten
to His. That's determination.
l feel my Master is determined. III
Kept OIL that side and never got on tn
Divine side but once, and that was a
midnight when Nic0demus was there, an,
he was the brightest one in the land an,
Christ touched on the Divine side of tn
Gospel IN word or two, and Nicodemu
said 'sHoW can these things be ?" ant
Christ waved him off with simple illus
tration. Let's stand on our side of tht
Gospel. Let us try to save souls. Its Hi
business to create souls and let Him at
tend to His business. You are the fellow
to bring them in, and Christ will attend
to the rest and see that His blood cleanseI
us from all sin. If / want to dwell in tn,
land and be of it. all I need to do is tt
trust God and do my duty. We have
plenty of trust.
Every fellow in this country will beliey'
anything and everything because it is said
He that believeth not shall be damned.
That's infidelity, and that's a curse. /
isn't Bob Ingersoll. Ingers0ll is a theoret
ical infidel-so- called. He does no harm
If you want to know the infdels of this
country, it's the MethodistS, the Presby
terians and the Baptists. They are prac.
tical infidels-Ingersoll is theoretical
They believe everything in the Bible, and
won't do one thing in it. That's the inf
deity that's curse. This infidel believes
in prayer meetings, but never has prayer.
meeting in his family. He believes every.
thing, but won't do anything. One OF
these little fellows-yes. they are.
You can put forty of them in sardine
box and they will have plenty of breathing
room. Little fellows who believe every
thing and do nothing. st. James gave us
a clincher at this point when he said
s'Show me your faith without your works,
and / show my faith by my works. y
That's the test of a man-faith. A man
is judged by faith here, but by works here
after. Every man must go before the
Judgment bar on the merits of his life.
Because hungered and We fed me, come
in" That's it, Faith without works is
dead dead dead Trust God and do
your duty"
Kind friends, better race of people
never walked the face of earth than those
of Nashville. | love them for their
prayers and sympathy. One day they
tried to impress on me the fact that |
ought to accept home in their midst and
accept kindness to me and my family. l
said 81 don't need any house. I have a
better house now than any OF you. just
live all around here, and when | get there
your wife gives me better meal than she
I q ho
you do and the fact of the business is.
getting along better than you all. :"
Trust in God and do your duty and every
thing in this country is wide open.
I'll tell you what S true. Since gave my
heart to God have had three square meals
a day-you can tell it by my looks and
plenty of good clothes, and have any of you
more than that If YOU do, what's done
with it /? Get it out here. You won't have
it long. While you do have it it's heap
of trouble. l mixed with some of the
old rich old fellows in one town, and |
told 'em I wouldn't swap places forty eight
hours with any Of 'em.
/ don t want to run three or four hun
dred dollar concern for my board and lodg-
ing and clothes. I've got too much sense
for that. John Jacob Astor was walking
on Broadway one day, and two fellows were
walking behind him, and one says: Jim,
would you attend to all old Astor's bust
ness for your meals and clothes ?" Jim
SAID mo, I'm no fool" WELL" said
the other, "that's all old Astor gets.N He
owned twenty thousand houses in New
York, and he couldn't live in more than
one of them to save his life, aud l live in
that many myself, and get along as we'll
as they 30. Pm not bothered with the
thing. Money is like walking sticks one
will help you along, but fifty on your back
will break you down. Money is like salt
and water the more you get the more you
want. When you are full you want it worse
than ever.
If fellow has ten thousand dollars he
wants twenty if he has twenty he ham
kers for forty, and so on, and when he has
a hundred thousand dollars. he is a great,
big, downright lump of selishness from
head to foot. If / were to follow the
earth's plan-I have wife and little chill
dren-I would go to work and buy two or
three thousand bolts of linen, bleaching
and domestic I'll buy five thousand cases
shoes, two or three thousand suits clothes
for my boys. and II build a big warehouse
and fill it with flour, and lard and hams.
and 1 am laid up then for hard times.
want to have plenty, you know. | would
rather have my little home than have the
job of keeping rats and thieves off the
building, and II have an easier job. can
get to sleep when night comes. There's
a heap in that. met an old fellow in the
city some time ago when the banks were
shaky.
He said ''I'm troubled the money in
terests of this country are in an awful
and our banks have locked up
what we have.''
said: sWhy, did not know that.''
He said why the papers are full of
it.''
s'I never read anything about banks
I'm not interested about that part of the
paper"
Brethren, I'll tell you one thing, you
may let every bank in the country .break,
and they won't get me for nickel-have
not ANYTHING to lose. never want to be
afraid some one would steal what had be-
fore wake in the morning. They wouldn't
steal it if they knew I hadn It more than [
wanted. Trust God and do right, and you
won't starye. When 1 joined the North
Georgia Conference l was bankrupted-
never got over it, in fact-but it didn't
bother me.
I was put on circuit that paid the
the year before $65. had wife
and one child, horse and $8-that was
nv assets. I took charge of the circuit
and the thought never struck me that I
could not live. | was glad had a place
to work for Christ. had to give my
note for 1920 to get house-that was
twice as much as the preacher got the
year before. An old brother in the church
said to me you'll starve you cannot
live on this circuit" / said I'm a
going to stay here. Well. 1 did my
best. I think l preached about five
hundred times year on circuits when /
first started, and along about April of the
first year my wife said to me Every
thing is out, money and provisions and
all.n
Brethren, did you ever notice how eve
rything gives out at once, coffee, flour, and
so on ? | said, wife, it II all come right.
The Bible says so, and I'll starve to death
if it isn't true. have done my duty the
best | could.'' 1t was not more than an
hour after this that a nelghboring brother
drove up with wagon load of stuff, and l
had more in my house than | have ever
had since. Trust in God and do your
duty, y said to my wife then, We'll stay
right here and not say word, and if you
and and the child do starve we'll let 'em
think we died of typhoid fever. When
ever you put your trust in God and do
your duty, you'll come out ahead eevery
time" I'm sorry if the brother is uneasy
about his salary. Do your duty. No work