St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
Rev. s. w. Sample Discourses on
Some Varieties Which Men

I've IN
Some Varieties Which Men
Need.
Century Music hall was we'll filled
yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the
hour at which the peoples meeting
began. Rev. S. w. Sample, of All
Souls church, preached the faith
necessary for the salvation of
Faith in things external will not a v
souls. The person who desires to be
saved must have faith in himself. He
must study himself. know his own re-
sources, and do the best he can. Beau
tiful theories, wise, praiseworthy reso-
l%utions, solemn resolutions, avail moth
ing if a man has not that faith in his
courage to do all these things which he
has planned to do. AS an illustration
Mr.. Sample related the anecdote of
Uncle 'Rastus, the old negro who was
asked a simple question IN arithmetic
by his master.
"If l lend you S." said the master,
land you pay me a dollar a week for
three weeks, how much will you still
owe me?'
Five dollahs, sah," said 'Rastus.
swell you don't know much about
arithmetic" said the master.
W. lCpliCu bDO III uCSlO, L UOdll
know much bout 'rit'metic, but knows
a heap bout ole 'Rastus."
Uncle '2astus dealt with no hyphoth-
eses. He knew his own capabilities.
Sinners must do likewise. They must
t%ruthfully study what they can do. and
then do 1t honestly.
Faith in ones fellows the preacher
held to be another essential. A man
car so hedge himself about with so
mahy suspicious of other men that he
not only denies himself the opportu-
mites OF doing good, but actually does
much that is i'll. The surest way TO
make your servant girl a thief is to
show her that you believe her to be a
thief. Here Mr.. Sample related an an
ecdOte concerning William c. Whitney,
to prove that most men are over-SuSpic-
ious. Mr.. Whitney sent a man through
a New York hotel to sell a $40 bill forS1.
No one would buy it. The most sue
cesSfui prison managers are the ones
who repose trust in their charges. But
the man who trusts his fellows should
know how and when to do it. The con-
cluSiOn drawn from various examples
cited was that all men should be taken
at their best: their virtues. not their
dement's, should be most closely con-
SiGereG.
The sermon closed with a brilliant
exordium for faith in God. Science
prov es His existence, the speakermain-
tanned; perhaps not the orthodox COD
of the creeds, but a Supreme lntelli-
gence, a Universal Energy. He is not
a God of passion, but a God of fixed,
Interchangeable law. The movements of
the planets proclaim it. Prayer is not
to induce Him to change His law, but
to bring oneself nearer to Him so that
one may feel the influence of His law.
In conclusion. Mr.. Sample read Mrs.
Charlotte Preston Stetson's poem
''Eahippus," recently published IL the
Nationalist, a clever satire upon the
carping conservatives who scott at
theories of reform and progress. In
III S little poem, representatives, of the
prehistoric races of both man and ami
mails are quoted as progressing what
they would yet become. Their brothers
and sisters, fathers and mothers, uncles
and aunts, scoffed at them and threw at
them the n argument, supposed to be
incontrovertible, You will have to
change your nature" Yet the nature
was changed.