St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-29

deemed. ] am in earnest. will be heard.
will not prevaricate. / will not retreat al,
inch. Brothers, If you could get such spring
board as this to leap of of
you would leave this old world so far behind
that il would never get In your way again.
Thank God, / don't go to balls and into the
barroom; and, thank God, don't want to,
and, thank God, the people know / don't want
to go, and my brother, IL you are Christian
stand up and say so. Why, the very cattle
in this country know when man is in ear
nest. Good Lord, give US Christianity in ear
nest, so that the people will know we mean
business. A man that is not religious every
where is not religious anywhere. Cornelius
was devout man. He had made up his
mind to do right aud he did it. That is a
righteous man. There's scarcely preacher
in this land that can keep his own church
straight, much less going out to conquer the
world. l went to preaching the Gospel, know
ing only two things One was God is good,
and the other was am happy, and brought
more souls to Christ knowing these two things
than some ministers have with all their theo-
logical training. Good Lord, keep us preach
ers on fire and Wen thaw out some of these
churches. Til tell you it makes me mad to see
an old cold church pack itself around a poor
minister. Pack him in ice and then cuss him
because he doesn't sweat. / don't want to
get cold until die. A cold, dogmatic doctor
of divinity. / amt got anything against the
self. Not that I'm going up any, but that it
is coming down to me. Thank God, man
needn't be pauper to be Christian. There
are more poor people go to heaven than rich
people, because there are more OF them. How
many are there here this afternoon who
could stand up and remember that supreme
moment when they gave up all and resolved
to follow Christ? religious life is a
radiating force. As soon as Cornelius
got religion his family feel into
line. ] know men who are pleasant to every
one they meet but their wives. If there's
any woman TO whom I'm going to be kind
and accommodating, it is my wife. I'm a
sort Of
PECULIAR FELLOW.
wonder how many people I'm hitting in
that row right down there, and yet you sit
there as innocent as angels. A. religious
home is the divinest institution in this world.
thoroughly religious family. Father re-
ligious, mother religious and children relig-
ious, such family as that always commands
respect wherever it is found. believe a
man onght 10 hold class meeting with his
wife and the wife with her husband at least
once week. The hardest thing man ever
tried to do is to be a good Christian with a
giddy, goddess wife. About half of our
preachers don't believe in revivals. IF you'll
let me qualify my remarks don't believe in
revivals. / believe in every member
OF the church SO living that
ToflVdiS WOulQ uOC De necessary.
If there's anything the devil don't believe in,
it's revival. Every church that don't be-
lieve in a revival is like pond by the side of
river that lays there and fills up about once
in year when the river overflows its banks,
and this is the only time that they get fresh
water. The ways of morality are short. /
know little road down at Desire that runs I'D
to confirmation, and you can ride up and
walk back before breakfast. It's time for us
all to go to preaching with power and leave
out side issues. I never did preach on a
side issue that didn't lose ground. Let
us preach the one thing, the faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Brethren, let's you and preach
righteousness and save. the souls of men.
Every Methodist in this country who reads
his Bible Alright he's going to dedicate his
children to God in baptism. Cornelius gave
much aims to the people. The man in this
audience who is the most like Christ is the
man who goes about doing good. A real, gen
uine, liberal man is a blessing to the world.
aSstlngy man Is the hardest man in the world
to get at. The gospel bounds off him like
water Off a ducks back. Gods remedy for
stinginess is great big dose of Bible gener-
osity, but you don't get the fellow to take it.
My Lord deliver me from old-fashioned Meth
odism. Do you believe there is one man in
this audience who fastS twice a week and
gives one-tenth of all he's got to the Lord.
I'll show how God can cure. By taking His
remedies
HE DOES CURE,
and cures forever. How many people in the
church to-day pay what they ought? pay half
what they ought? II ever a church was
cursed in this country it is to have an old
fellow in it who is worth 100000. and all you
can get out of him is SIS year for God and
religion. A man will hang on to
money and damn his children with it
before he will give it to God.
Here you've been meeting like Indian under
these trees for fifteen years and never was
decent enough to build shed until this
year. How we do love to run on dead head
tickets. II you've ever been troubled at
camp meeting by anybody, that fellow has
never given anything. When mans mouth
opens, his pocket book flies shut, and when
his pocket book flies open his mouth flies
to our ministers. A church that is only ft
to run itself is fit only for the DEVILS scrap
pile and it will be there some day. What
does God want with a church? The Lord
gives us enterprising churches and liberal
churches. The reason the churches don't
control the poorer classes is because you
build them up where they can't go. The best
thing that we can do with what
we've got is to bless others with it.
many an old fellow gets down ON his knees
and thinks he is on praying grounds and
preaching terms when they are not within
500 miles of it, Ged bless you, brethren, to-
day and put you up on praying grounds.
Your want to pray some day and you want
to be On praying grounds. Thank God fol
the mercy slab. When we get up on praying
grounds we can send up prayer, and some
where between heaven and earth the blessing
will meet it andit will come back answered
The Lord sanctify the talk have made this
evening"