The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-15

as being not good enough for heaven,
or bad enough for hell There is no
intermediate point. Iou arc either
good enough for heaven or bad enough
Tor he'll. Every person in this audience
is either good enough for heaven or bad
enough for hell. God says. Son, give
me your heart Have you dono it, and
will you do it?
Listen; Tho wages of sin is death.
What does the devil want folks to do?
why, III tell you; he wants YOU to
break the Sabbath, drink whiskey, and
olshonor yourself. What does he paw
you for it? lie gave you bad con.
science and finally gets you in hell. l
wish some of you old sinners would get
up and tell the audience what wages
the devil paid you. l wish some bad
woman in the audience would got up
and tell what the devil has paid her.
II you are working for a white man and
no ana not pay you, | tell you what
you would do, YOU would quit. Yet you
work for the devil for nothing. get no
pay and don't quit. You fool, you;
you gain nothing and lose your man
hoou. respoc: ability and character
Inc devil cuts You down in your
wages and yet you won't strike on the
devil. What's the matter with YOU, YOU
fools, you A barber in this town said
to me today, Mr.. Jones you will ad nit,
won you, that the colorcd race in this
country have not got Il very good show
In this country" do admit it. but the
reason Is tnat you are in your own way.
Every colored man in this audience
could have bought and paid for it too, IL
nice homo since the war If he had not
drank so much whiskey.
wv hat do YOU get for you meanness?
Nothing. You old colorcd men out
there have been serving tho devil forty
years and got no pay yet. Now, ii the
uevil wanted me to do dirty work for him
he would have to pay me for it. Did
you over ask him what he would nav
you: What does the devil pay YOU
women for your virtue? Nothing but
pain, bad conscience and sorrow. You
go OUT and work by the day, and quit if
you are not paid. Why don't you quit
working for the devil? You have been
work ing for him for forty years. The
devil don't want decent people to work
Tor HIN; they can't do his business lie
DON need you; you are not his kind.
What are you working for the
devil for? Won know he don't pay YOU.
NOW, we come to the other side of
tho story. God wants you to do things
and work for him, and ne pays. Yet
you wont DO it, DO YOU want TO know
what his pay is? We'll III tell YOU lie
gives You an easy conscience, takes care
OF You when Old. stands by you in sick
ness, and when you die gives you a
home In Heaven. mansion in the sky.
II Tod pays and the devil don't. why
don't you work !or God. The devil gives
you the best things first and gradually
he gets harder and harder on YOU.
Now, God gives you the best thingl
last when he takes you homo to live
with him. Tine devil tells that girl
that by doing wrong she can wear silks
and dress fine and she believes him,
httie Knowing that in old age She will
wear rags. The devil starts you ont in
SILKS and winds yon up in rags. If vou
mink the devil has given YOU anything
good To keep you arc a fool Il heap Of
you preachers only know about II can.
ness 10y reading hooks, so you say, but |
have been there"
Mr. Jones then rel about a vision
no had in the days OF his youth, and
now 1t had changed his whole life. lie
then continued. Il would rather be a
uoor- keeper in the house Of my God than
DC the richest man in the world and
nave 10 serve the devil. You colored
people can't be rich. Many of YOU will
nave TO keep on washing clothes and
working in the field till death takes
you. But what you don't have in this
world you will be amply repaid for III
you trust in God and he Christians in
the next. God has prepared place for
you
IF you serve the devil he will give
1t to you every day and damn you in
the end. IL people live right and are
Christians they will die right. You