The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-07
FAITH AND HONESTY.
The Lord Will Provide for Those Who DO
Their Duty, Live Right and Pay Their
Honest Debts.

The Lord Will Provide Tor Those VINO do
Their Duty, Live Right and Pay Their
Honest Debts.
The following characteristic remarks
are from a recent sermon in Chicago by
Rev. Samuel Jones, the noted cvangel-
ist:
Now we are talking about the conditions of
Christianity. and believe honesty is the bed
rock upon which we build II we build at ALL
1t is downright honesty, and / know what
am talking about Righteous! I don't be.
lieve In your homestead nor your bankrupt
laws. God bless you, brother, I have been
where paid the last d olar could pay, and
was ct II hundreds of dollars in debt. never
took homestead though, never took the ben.
eft Of any bankrupt law. l tell you another
thing. When l started in u poor, starving
church down in GeOrgi, men who could have
held me up said they would have more conf.
dence in the fellow il he would pay his debts;
and my precious wife. though raised fur
above that plane. was doing her own cooking.
her own ironing, all her own housework, and
was cutting her wood and doing every thing
l could for her; and out of my poor meager
salary saw my wife reach the point where
her fe, and didn't have whole coat to my
name, but would go and nay $3.50 at u time
ona note; and. thank God. ! paid tho last
plause And you can do it. too. IL you try.
Now II you can not pay your debts, do your
best, and IT you eau not pay one hundred
pay every nickel you can, and God will bless
you and take you to Heaven. no doubt. But
He don't take those people 20 Heaven in debt.
not. Righteous! Righteous! Talk about
homestead and bankrupt laws! What is the
matter? A fellow down in Georgia swaps his
home IN Heaven for little, old, poor home
stead he can hardly make living on II he
owned 1t. am sorry tor that sort:
will tel, you the sort Of thug like. Turn
back over here TO the Old Testament, and
find the wife of Obadiah. widow; her hus-
band died owing Ahab tive hundred dollars.
and they have sued tho widow and levied on
her boys to sell them for the debt. And
Obadiahs wife, after they levied on the chill
dren, she went to the best law--I had liked to
have said the best lawyer. but she did not GO
prophet OF God, to the best man alive on the
Iace Of the earth. and she said: Prophet of
God, they have levied ON my two children, 70
what must DOR The old prophet looked at
ber, and be says: "what have YOU got IN
your 1I, house sTs She said Nothing but pot
Well. did he say: ~ will file your schedule
and put you into OBJ, h6sn1r1ptcy have % ever
rupt laws you are the one" No. he never
said word about bankruptcy. What did he
sa, 60 and ss that % and that
commenced drawing the oil out of the pot
and she drew, and drew, and drew the oil, and
drew enough to pay the whole debt, and she
when she commenced. That was God Al
mighty standing up to an honest woman.
q broshsP seef Ike kApRhaasel p!Rha lnd will tell YOU
right Ow, ii you will just do your duty and
live right, and pay your debts, God Almighty
will look after your sort II He has to put the
angels on half.iatIons. LLaughter.l
Ten years ago they put me on u circuit down
IL Georgia, and the year before the drOuth
had bIighted that whole country; they didn't
make Il tenth OF u crop that season; and the
fall came and the merchants pressed them. and
! just rode around over the country. preach.
ing Righteousness. said l; Brethren. II
tell u lie; don't take advantage of your cred.
itor; let him take your mills aud your stock
and let him take It all from you. but don't do
you, take your wife and children and lead
them into the big road and say; Wife and
children, we are houseless and bedless and
maintained my integrity; and said l: God
Almighty will come down and build q shelter
Ss Ss and sss Ss w
fall. Do right. Do right"
Honestly, honestly; righteously! Look
here; brethren let I us overhaul our life TO-
long to you according 10 that blessed Book
you give II up tomorrow; u viii be the best
Eo9 ever made IN Your lite Nov
and put you right with God and with man; and
the Lord give US q religion that will clean us
up from head to foot and make US indeed and
In truth people Of God. doing our duty to-
Brother, lot us be righteous after this; lot
look TO that blessed hope and the glOrions ap-
pearinR OF that great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ IremeInber the day when in my
mind pushed old Greenleat, and Blackstone,
and the Code, and Story. and all the law books,
pushed them 10 one side. I looked ct my
give 1t all; / will take upon myself the vows
OF an earnest, humble minister and preach
the Gospel" look back 70 that day with
more pride and gratitude than any dsy Of my
nv hand in the hand Of Christ, TO be led by
wife told me when l said TO her ~ Sive up
snce." enc She said: .Mr di6n't 'I marry arr I You q
. preacher; ! msrr.ed you e lawyer. and
this country Is . poor Hef.odist preacher !
wife" "well," said; "Wlfe, God has called
me 70 IT," She said: /" He has not called me
to II, Sit. and will never live with you - q
Methodist ttineraut prenchcr." ] know ~!
EilLpower and srgned the % csse With her: s and
away, aud tho train was coming up Sunday
that would carry me TO couferea4e, We staa1
up late that night and talko1 u over. 81
saidi "if you take that south-bound tFa1D Iod
cOnference In tho morning viii tahe ~
nor north bound M train fcr ny ksntncky hoHe;
descss d - sdslissy ssd nd loss.s ID I: ri I
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