Evening journal., 1890-01-20
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Rev. Vaughn 5. cetilns SLOWS Vow Great
IL Is-scoit Chnroa Finances
Rev. Vaughn Collins preached on
'sWasten at Scott NJ K. Church yester.
day morning. Before the preaching,
Lewis T. Grub of the board OF stewards
reported that the running expenses of
the church for the conference year would
be 81, 256. The collections for 1889 were
$l97 less than for 1888. The collections
were $Sl2 "a, leaving deficit Of $443. %
to be made up by the meeting of the
Wilmington Conference.
Rev. Mr.. Collins took as his text, st.
Matthew XVI, s. 'To what purpose is
this wasteg" He said in part Two
classes of people exist who never have
ANYTHING. Those who waste and those
who are stingy. 1t is not the man who
receives the most wages who has the
most money at the end of the year The
stingy man is never the most successful.
| Idlers, the slothful and MASTERS are q
failure financially. No matter how much
a man may get, If he is wasteful he will
come to want. The Bible says we must
| be economical. We are nation of
spendthrifts; other nations cowld live
on what we waste. Protective tariff Is q
good thing In its way, but 1t is not every
/ thing. A man may receive n larger
salary under protective tariff, but it does
him no good for he spends it all. We
have a system Of waste in our political
/ system; men must be bought. An Office
seeker pays $40, 900 to get So, 900 Office,
and this is the foundation for political
| Jobs and trickery. There is waste in
government expenditures along the same
| line. The waste in public amusements
is alarming people pay $4,000 to hear o
woman sing three or four songs.
Take the horse racing 81, $50 viii run
Scott Church in minister's salary, rent
etc, for year, whereas prominent
horse Jockey receives $25, 900 for driving
horse around track. In prize fighting
men pay $25, 900 to see two men knocl
each other to pieces Yet we do no
know where to get the money to supper
our families. Everybody travels nova
days; it is purely extravaganza. In tn
! matter Of dress, all should dress nicely
but not extravagantly. Young men VIII
make from 50 TO 81 week try to dres
as well as men who make $4,000 year
There Is great waste in eating. Children
learn to spend money for candy and tn
like, before they learn to save. Anothe
extravaganza is in the purchase of news
papers. One paper viii give you all tn
news; two will not give you any more
1t is the interest of each paper to publis
all the news. and it does 1t as faithful
as it can. Each man should take on
paper and read it.
II will not dwell on the whiskey habi
this morning for / have discussed it b.
fore; it is one thousand times worse tina
waste. Tobacco is not as bad as whiske,
! for there is nothing as bad as whiske,
, | Everybody who uses tobacco has ''rei
son" for it; some people use it for corn
Last year $500, 10000 we're spent f.
7 tobacco. If General Sherman in marchin
a through Georgia had burned dow
9 everything in Georgia, Florida, Nebraska
Colorado and Dakota, he could rebuild
with the tobacco money and have IL
millions left after buying the city
Wilmington. Pay the running expense
q improvements to railroads, steamboa
J. and telegraph lines OF this country
T 1880, pay the salary.of all the employe
n and you would have enough money lie
to build row of two-story brick hous
+ from here to Philadelphia. Burn dow
5, all church property in this country, ar
II everything pertaining to church propert
deGtroy all Bibles and other religio
IF books, and with the tobacco money, y
+. could rebuild all the property and reiss
the books and have SAG, 000,0 600 le
es Scott Church could be run on the mon
spent BY its members for tobacco.
an Waste is contrary to the words
IS God and he will hold us strictly to 1
p count for our extravaganza as well IS
as our other faults.