Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-16

| hsps We Dlsihs Nfeth on OF ~ ~, - eSc
| other side and zee God Ia Hisson ~ He dIcs
Tor you IN love and pity, aud could let nnu
see Jesus, who gave Himself for you. no.
inat God might get In good humor' pus
there you have an expression Of the DIVINE
| neture that viii win you to God and tnh'
viii develore the grsndest and noblest sie-
menis in your character.
WHO Is CHRISTI
lie Is God with ms and God In our midst
4 the nNiDg. personal embodiment OF VISION
and justice and goodness and truth snd
| love and mercy. We'll, you take the terms
OF this text: III any man be In Cnrs.
| Jesus he Ia new creature Thisterm ana
| another term In This book are interchange
| BILE. Being In Christ Jesus and having
4 Christ Jesus in you are one and toe same
/ thing. heaIiy Jesus said: "Benold, stand
| at the door and II you viii open viii come
| in and stay with you" What pri-
vIlege It is TO have the Lord Jesus Christ
| n guest Ina my heart snpplng with me.
| am ashamed OF the home have 10 invite
| Him into. and am ashamed OF everythingi
have TO offer Him, but what a privilege
10 il TO have Him as my guest: and HE'S
only my guest a moment now, aud He
tays, You shall sup with me; VIII De
| host and you shall be guest and now 10
| at down at my own table and have the
Lord 90 feed me on angels breath and an.
| gels food. oh. how grand IL Isl In Christ
Jesus. having Christ In you! You are new
crea!urel Then II Christ be In rue have
| some what of wisdom. | know somewhat
Of love. rejoice somewhat In forgiveness
and IN mercy and In truth, and all that
Christ was. As 81. Paul. am crucifled with
Christ, nevertheless l live, yet not but
Christ iiveth in me. so that the life now
live is 10y the faitn OF the Son OF God who
loved me and gave Himself for me; and
now. brethren. the man Is most ike Christ
who illustrates best to the world what wis.
dom and Justice and love and truth aud
mercy and ali these attributes Of Christ
WHEELS TO ROLL on.
have said many a time that voluntarily
helping the poor. and visiting the 81 Tx and
needy and every Christian duty and priv.
lege, isbdtbiDg more nor less than wheels 70
roll on. and man VINO has these divine
wheels under his life, which he may be
able 10 roll on every day. will roll grsndly
towards the better world "A wise man.
And tnen II a man be in Christ Jesus or
have Christ Jesus In him, he Is full Of the
spirit OF love. mans power 10 love De
termines his Immortality. The more you
love the more space on the sides OF tae
street Of the city OF God will be measured
of tOyou. like that expression OF David,
" He put me In large place. There Is but
one coin that j. current In exchange Tor the
real estate OF the New Jerusalem, and that
10 love, and the more you love the more sou
viii possess.
TIE DRUNKEN HUSBAND.
Mr. Jones next proceeded TO speak OF the
rover OF love and said: You see that wife
That husband has gone down and down In
his Maynard life until the bsrkeepers kick
him out OF their baT-roOms, and the very
colored people know MIN only 10 shun him
on The sidewalk, and the children dread his
presence; and now as he walks along his
pathway 10 his home his wife. sitting at the
window sewing aWay-maybe sewing on
garments for merchants. as h good woman
told me in Baltimore. making them ~ 80
cents "a dozen-and she II supporting That
poor man, dividing her last crumb with
him, and when she sees that staggering,
debauched piece OF humanity coming along
the sidewalk she lays her work TO one
side and she goes down 10 meet him
and helps him along up the walk and Into
the house and then she carries him 10 her
bed and lays him down gently and pulls OF
bis muddy shoes. and then takes n towel
and bathes his fevered face aud kneels
Gown by his side and saws: go, God, save
my precious husband precious to her
What makes that wife stick to that hus-
band that way? Just little OF the nature
Of God poured into her heart. and II wife
can stick TO n husband that way, then how
does God stick to us-h's poor. wayward
| children-in love and mercy, and now we
ought every day 10 return this love not
only In obedience 20 God. but in kindness
ana goodness 20 our fellOw-me
WHAT THIS COUNTRY Is RUNNING on.
Well conscience will make us stop there
on the roadside. That poor fellow has fallen
science will make fellow stop. pull him
Up Oh his horse. and take him 10 some inn
ana leave him there. Love VIII make
iellOw stop, PICK him up and take him 10
lie Inn, pay his nights lodging, aud then
Tell the hotel kefpe " Here Is all the
money have got: II IL is not enough To
tetile his whole Dill you can draw on me,
because that man must be cared for until
le gets squareiy on his feet again That
- the difference between love and con
ienths Of IT, way on conscience and con-
science IS mighty near run 10 death Rll over
This land. lLaughier.l \ man Just pays
missionary money In proportion rs his con-
science Will let up on him, and man pays
Conference claims inst in proportion as his
conscience Will let up on him. Laughter
THE LOVE.
Oh my saviour. give us the love that
lust pours out ike the gush OF river aud
says. II Will see how much j can do and
not how little cal get oil with Jap
p,ausel That is II. Love. tell you,
brethren, this thing that We call love Is the
soil that all these other nice Things grow mp
in. sympathy grows out OF this soil; for
giveDess grows out OF this soil; kindness
grows up here; patience has its perfect
work in soil like this-is its perfect develop
rnent-and wherever you ind love the
right sort Of love, as IL takes possession OF a
human heart, you Will find sympathy.
THE PREACHERS PREACHED TO.
And now TO you. brethren Of the ministry.
] want 10 say this: IL you want 10 win yonr
PEOPLE close 10 you and win sinners 10
Christ. YOU want To Just have a heart full
OF sympathy FOR men, and there isn't but
one way in the world that you can get sym
PATTY. and this 10 on the line that John
Knox WAS when he saw that fellow going of
riding on his coffin 20 be hung. and he
pointed at him with tears running down his
checks and said: There goes John Knox
but for the grace OF God" That Is the way
TO get 81 mpathy. The way 10 get sympathy
is to put yo1rself where other people are
the way 10 get sympathy is 10 go down
there where that fellow Is and help him 10
pull his load, and Zee how hard II is.
preacher without sympathy IS a north wind
blowing on a congregation. Laughter IL
we have the sympathy that IS born OF love
for man We Will always move men.
MINISTERIAL IcICLEs.
one preacher comes along and freezes
congregation 20 death. There they are now,
lciclos. The next preacher comes along and
there are i've hundred blocks OF Ice packed
around him, and then you abuse him the
year round because they don't sweat.
Lsughier.l sympathy again / wish We
couid get men closer together. ! wish we
could get the pulpit and the pew within
ten inches OF one another. Brethren. Will
tell you what always got away with me.
" hen you get mp 10 the church the preacher
win sisnd away back there aud look ike
he is mile or from You, and when he
would get up to preach he was as solemn AS
"A mummy, and when he would gel up 10
pray he talked like a. IL him and the Lord
Was having a service and we down there
didn't have a say IN the wofli 10 do with
IL. He Was Just SIS solemn as ne could be,
auC he talked u God IN a sole mn way, yos
kuOw-poW solemn. II such q man
We're To go into store and say in verv
.Olenl n manner Look here, Mister, won't
YOU please let me See "A pair of fancy colJred
nose for my wife" why he would be arrest
"a FOR insanity. Laughter.l
ROW TIE PULPIT SHOULD GET AT tbs PEo-
IIE.
don't believe In that sort OF preachers.
believe IN people and pulpit standing On
'eNel with one another. When You get
down on level with man You Will draw
men 10 Christ and you Will draw them 10
yourselves. "Bere l am, the Rev. Jere-
miah Jones, ID. H.. saved by the grace Of
will be saved ana II you don't you Will 90
down and ! don't care much II you DO
Iaughter.l what is that sort Of Gospel
going 10 accomplish In this world
| tell you, brethren, rove VIII take the
starch out OF you. You wait until they
have preached your funeral 10 be dgnined.
let Us all be dignlhed after We are dead. but
let Us never be dignifed while We live and
while 50 many sinners are going 10 nell
every day. .Applause.l
ROUND HOUSE OF THE CLERGY.
The spea ker then spoke o! visit which
he had made TO Tound-houSe At Nash
vile and the beautiful. cleanly engine that
he saw. which had never been out OF the
shops. and drew picture Of a dirty, mud
stained engine which had Jnst come IN az
ter doing hard service. and then, coniinu-
~ n 80, =, NTH praach Chrisf ma rraach 10