The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-15
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houses. but we will stand by ono another
and share the last dollar. When the
Methodists are having revival the
BAPTIST preacher goes around looking
very solemn and says: He don't know
whether much good is being done. but
there is lot of following going on.
It's the same way with the Methodist
minister when the Baptists are holding
meeting. The millennium will never
come till all these differences are fixed
up ana you all work together to save
souls.
There arc some people who have
Joined the cnurch who, if they get to
heaven. will have to have two of YOU
good Christians acting as crutches for
them to assist them. In Monticello.
Ga, there lives a man who has the best
wife ever saw-Maior John c. Kew. n
respectable and grand old man. He was
no fictitious major, but one of the BRAY
est mon who ever fought in the rebel
army. One morning before break fast he
SAID: Wife, we have been married thirty
years, and have been goddess, pro
fame man, but TO day am going TO Join
the church. They went to church that
morning. and he was taken into the
church, and he made one of the best
members the church ever had lie was
the only man | ever knew who never
backslid and used all his efforts to keen
others from backslding.
lie 1T was who picked Il poor, drunken
fellow out of the gutter, took him homo
to his house and put him to bed, and
got his wife to give him something to
eat and then come and HELM him nrnv
for the poor, drunken fellow, who prom.
lsec never to touch another drop. Ills
wife he used to call Mary Martha, for
she combine d the charac ters Of both of
those women. She was not only a good
Christian but she was a housekeeper
from Housekeepersville. lie always
spoke kind word to ALL calling them
brothers or sisters as the case might be,
for he said he felt like they were broth
ers and sisters
There isn't a mother in this town
but what can say to the church: You
are responsible for my children if put
them in your care and let them ioin tho
church. Brother Hammer, you have
GOT 900 members now. what do YOU
want with any more? DO you think 800
of them ever had bride on much less
collar: Did you ever have 400 at one
time a prayer meeting? I would love
to see 400 Methodists at prayer meeting
at one time. If that many had over
come to my church when | was pastor
IL would have scared me; | would have
thought they came to beat me. tell
you, brethren, you will be astonished
when you come to overhaul your church
to find how many OF them are bride.
wise
The Haptsts don't fall easily like the
Methodists; they are u broad, web foot
cd kind of a fowl. We Methodists are n
dry land people. ! asked a Methodist
pastor how much they paid him. He
SAID 900 asked Il Baptist the same
question and he said only $1,000. That
Is about the right proportion. for YOU
can ship one third cheaper by water
than by land.
brethren. YOU ought to appoint a
committee OF fifty ladies in each church
TO look after the lady bAcksliders and a /
committee OF fifty men to watch and
restrain the men who fall. Suppose a 1
brother goes into a saloon and that
night committee of six waits on him
and says. brother, we heard YOU went
into barroom TO day. For Gods sake
don't do that again. Don't set our chill
dren such influence Talk to him that
way and do you think he will 90 in
again. God puts the work of reclama.
ton in your hands. Show me the most
unsefisn Christian in turn and | will
sho" you the best Christian.
If the Norfolk and Western railroad
"au "h enR'ue lhaC would run mile q
minute alone, but would stop dead still
as soon as you hitch car on it. what
would be done with it? They would
throw it in the scrap pile in ten minutes
Some Christians are all right themselves,
but Will not work. You old fool, YOU
are only fit for the DEVILS scrap pile.
Ky yourself you arc all right,
but yon can't pull hen off the
roost. ! despise a balky horse. Som,