The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-03

to pray they shan't. don's care !
whether this burns or not. On the /
morning when your other building !
burned | said, 81 am so elas: Will |
have better church now ralt that
way, ani feel if you serve God and |
give yourselves up 10 Him and obey the |
teachings of your pastor, no matter
what occurs the word Of God will grow
IN you ard around you and this church
snail De light, not only to America,
not only to this reach of country, not
only to the United States, but light
that shall reflect Him and shine on with
the glory of Him who came to be light
to tighten the Gentiles.
Rev. Mr.. A. o. Dixon, of the Hanson
Place Baptist Church, was next intro
duced and said in part:
would like to begin just where DR..
Deems left off, and congratulate pastor
and people, first OF, all upon the blessing
which has come to them through sue.
cessioa of Fl es | verify believe that the
best thing that could be done for many
churches in Brook yn and New York is
to burn them up and the fires, after
consuming the building, would consume
the old fogyism and the conservatism
and get them out Of the ruts and wake
them up and send them out upon ca
reer OF larger prosperity | would con-
| gratulate you again upon the bigness Of
| the thing. There are some people who
| believe in quality, they tell US So does
| Col in quality and much of it. He
makes perfect fl ,wer aud then multi
plies it by thousands. He makes perfect
| foI ~ IL; IL / Il
millions. Quality! Perfect Christians
multiplied py the thousands and the
millions is what is needed. had dea
con once who said he could not be COM
Portable in a crowd; he did hate a
crowd. He wanted little, nice, dainty
place that nobody would come to but he
and few others. I wonder what he
will do when he gets to heaven. To
make that man happy the Lord will have
to give him little bit of chapel on a
back street somewhere in heaven where
he can 60 and worship without crowd.
| congratulate yon in the next place up
on the attractive power of the gospel
that is here preached. A pastor makes
progress by standing still and he stands
still by making progress. There is such
a thing as making progress by standing
! still. There were two sallbOats raclng
, on the Connecticut coast and one mar
! saw he was being left ana noticed at the
same time that he current was stronge
than the wind and he inst cast ancho
; and Won the race. The other boat wa:
left behind. The current took it 6f
: teen miles in the rear before tbs
9 race was closed. In the curren
. of infielity that Is setting about US W
q need to make progress by standing still
I standing for the truth that God ha
a given US | congratulate you upon th
s additional burdens that you have as
q sumed. A jockey says horse mus
Q have burden on its back TO run we'll
e especially q big horse. Your horse is S
4 big here yon need quite burden upo
It its back, and | congratulate any churc
that has pressure upon it. Character
s made by pressure. That pile OF san
y there can be swept away by the wine
| but that gradite peak that has bee
d made by pressure, ton upon ton, Wi
IS stand in the face of storms for many cel
J. turies The pressures of life. Pressul
ID is what is needed on most churche
er After all, this building is but the sea
le folding upon which pastor and peop
n are to stand as they work upon anoth
/ building, and all our churches and a
v, our machinery are but the scaffoldir
8 that is going to fall down by and by ar
n leave standing the building not mac
We with hands, eternal in the heavens.