Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-21

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me good children, who love the LORD
and fear Him." !.
A wheelbarrow bequeathsd to a GOOD
boy is better heritage to him than q
system of railroads stretching across
America bequeathed to a dissipated,
goddess boy. II isn't "What shall
leave my Children" but 1t is " What
kind OF children shall / leave when
leave this world" 1t isn't " What shall
give my children when they become
Of age, but it is What will my chill.
dren give me and my wife in our old
acc., That's it. {" Iie feared God in
all his house." II there is one prayer
that consumes my whole heart it is,
"Oh, God, leave me my wife, so that
by precept and example she may teach
my children to know God" Thank
God to-day for the grace and religion of
Jesus Christ, that saved me from sin
before God gave me children to live with.
haven't living child on this whole
earth to-day who ever looked in my face
when was not consecrated Christian.
Fathers, mark what tell you, you owe
a debt to your wife and children that
you can never pay until you pay it at
the cross Of Christ. You owe debt,
and the failure to pay it will bankrupt
your house unless you pay it speedily
at the mercy-seat. ] cannot afford to
throw away my soul and trifc away
my principles, and cannot afford to
lead my wife and children to the
brink of the river Of death and to hurl
them in that dreadful river. If you
| can deliberately by example and life
lead your children away from God, you
are baser man than | ever was or
want to be in this world Of ours.
Brethren. look at home aud the inuo-
cent children, with their faces looking
into yours, and say, by the grace Of
God not one of my children shall be
ever lost until | have piled up around
them mountains Of prayer, and it shall
swim through rivers Of my tears"
We see, first, that Cornelius was de-
vout, and that he was thoroughly re-
ligious man; second, he feared God
with all his house. You see how it be-
gins to spread. When it had per-
meated his home, we see how it began
to manifest itself now in the commu-
nifty all about and beyond, and He
gave much aims to the people"
Cornelius was not only right in him
self and within himself, but he was a
good man whose goodness touched his
home and redeemed his home, and not
Only that, but it went forth where
there were other worlds to conquer,
and he went forth to conquer, and . he
gave much aims to the people, When
a man gets right himself and gets his
home right, and then begins to look at
the contrast around, he is going to do
something for some one else. Just in
that proportion that grace has done
for a man and his family, just in
that proportion is he going to do for
other men and other families and
other homes. Find me a man that is
interested in our home missionary
work and | will show you a man who
has feeling for the people in foreign
countries. Show me a man who has
done little for the home missions and |
can put my finger on man who has
done little for foreign missions.
Blessed be the men who have taken
this Book, and have placed its truths in
the hands of hundreds of Cinnamon, and
have taught them to turn from their
idols. This book is universal, and
makes the peaceful ocean branch over
which l can step and save my neighbor.
This book makes God our Father, and
makes all the race brothers in Christ.
and l tell you the man who gives to
foreign missions is the man that home
mission work has done something for.
There is a man who rides in an ele-
CANT carriage, lives in an elegant home,
and who moves in elegant society in
this town; and for the sake Of argu-
ment. let's say he's member of Trinity
church, and Brother Joyce has all he
can do to get any thing out ofhim for home
missions, let alone foreign.miSSion work.
| tell you if you were to take this man
simon-pure, just as he was born, and
put his religion on one side and himself
on the other, there isn't a llottentot in
the universe who would give $40 for his
religion. That's my candid judgment
on it. My spirit Of Christianity is Of
that sort that makes man walk up and
say, in all the candor of his soul, 81
haven't got drop of blood or minutes
time or a dollar in money but be-
longs to God" That's the sort Of
Christian for you Cincinnati has spent
100000 to damn this city, and
spends only dollars and cents to save it
Every pew in every bar-room and
saloon in Cincinnati is free to every
man who will sit in it, but the churches
of the city rent the pews to the head
members and make the sinners take
back seat or stay out altogether. 1t
is a burning shame upon the cross Of
Jesus Christ for a Methodist church to
bid its pews off and sell them to its
own members to the exclusion Of others
who ought to hear the Gospel. How
my heart dropped when / heard that
Trinity church rented its pews. If
you can't live without renting your
pews you ought to die, and the sooner
YOU die the better. If five hundred
Methodists can't raise enough money
to keep up one poor economical preacher
without bidding Off their pews it's a
disgrace on religion.
If was some of the members run
ming q sort Of literary club | would
rent my pews-if | was running Chris
tianity / wouldn't do it. MethOdism is
as much out of place in rented pews as
Georgia cornfeld darby would be in
the White House. He's all right in
the cornfeld, and there he is worth his
weight in gold; and you don't count
for much in the same proportion, for
you've lost your grip on this world
and your power with God, and you
know it.
Some Of you members say, "If |
knew you were going to do as you are
would have voted against your
coming" You can try your vote over