The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-17

81 knew an old man; his wife was n
good woman. Forty years ago tho
Methcdists started Il meeting in his
ncighhorhcod: Abovt Toe yards from
the church was soggery, or q hogGcry
or barroom, and he would take his
wife to the door and drink whslley
until meeting was over. One night the
ana tho man reached tho church door
drunk, just at the time tho preacher
was receiving new members. Tho fol
low reclcd down the aisle and gave the
preacher his hand and WAS SO drunk the
preacher had to hold him up. lie and
his wife wont homo. Next morning
tho wife said, Did you know you Joined
the church last niyht?' No, | never
joined the church, | wasn't there
Yes. you joined the church. Did |,
Mary Yes, husband, you did 'Wcll,
if did III stick up TO it Well, he
did, and he preached the gospel for
forty years i'll our conference.
"Thcro is not 4 man in the world
who couldn't be Christian if he would
Join tho church and stick up to it,
Brother Flippo, isn't that what's the
matter with some OF your members?
They won't stick up to it. An old
negro caught fish. Some one asked
him what kind of a fish it was. lie
said: 1t is baptist fish, tccause
it spiles so quick when you take
it out of tho water. Yes. and some
Methodist fish won't keep. | had rather
SEQ you join the church while drunk and
stay sober afterwards than to join sober
and get drunk afterwards. What must
do TO be saved? Every mother in tho
country ought to go through the house
every week and gather up all the trashy
IN in M hf,u ND
as sure as whiskcy will ruin your boys,
novels will ruin your girls. Take
girl. She will set up till o'clock in
tho morning aud read q trashy novel and
then at nine next morning will boiler
Tor the house girl to come up and help
her rig. The negro will get hold on
one end Of the corset string and tic the
other end to the bedpost and pull for
life. Then the girl will 30 down, look
ing for all the world like Il wasp and
will sting like one, tee. If my wife was
that way, wouldn't cali her. her
would say it. | would ask the children,
Girls whore is that thing? A girl like
that is no more like God made her than
il 4 Chinaman had whitfield her out of
soft pine.
What do you mean by salvation?
Getting happy or feeling good? can
tell you it is getting God to set the ten
commandments to music in your soul,
keeping time in perfect harmony with
what God tells you to do.
"ltis loving what God loves and hating
what God hates. l once loved whiskey
and loved the saloon. Now hate them.
Many fellow is converted. but lust
half way converted. They say that Il
have quit doing wrong. That doesn't
matter You couldn't 90 to Salem on
the dummy on that ticket much less 20
to heaven. There can be no man saved
who loves to do wrong. The only atti-
tudo fellow ought to take about sin is
absolute hatred.
Little Willie goes into his mothers
work basket and gets sharp penkpife.
After awhile tho nurse comes and asks
for the boy. The mother runs into the
little fellow has stumped his toe and
fa!!en down CT the sharp blade. which
severed the jugular vein. The mother
takes her dead child to tho graveyard
and buries him and comes home broken
hearted. The servant girl finds the
knife covered with the life blood of the
child and brings it to the mother, who
shrinks back, horror stricken at the
sight 1t is covered with the blood of
my darling boy; take it away
"A m An ought to see every sin in this
world is covered with the blood of Jesus
Christ. Believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved
81 believe everything in the Bible. !
believe that the whale swallowed Jonah,
and would have believed Jonah swal-
lowed the whale if the Bible had said so.
II don't believe anything now more
than did when | drank whiskey and
cussed before | was converted. be-
lieved it all but did at do it. bclicve
Jesus is my savior, and | act accord
ing!y. Some of you act on the princi-
pie that he who believes not Shall be
damned, and you believe everything in
the world you hear.
You say Jesus paid it all lie
didn't. fellow asked preacher: If
Jesus paid it all, what are you dunning
us for" When you como up and plank
down all you've got. then Jesus Christ
Will compute it and pay the rest. But
II you don't plank up all you've got, you
VIII go to hell just as il Christ never
died. If you don't come down with it
will be saved. Don't pray for faith.
God amt going to give it to you. He
Will give you salvation. Faith is the
exercise OF the human mind. The
trouble with you, brother, is you have not
got sense enough to understand what
you read. Heap of folks think that
faith is kind of basket for the Lord to
drop something in, and then they want
the Lord to furnish the basket. I wish
you would stop that foolishness and go
long and fall in line with God and do
right.
"a fellow took Rev. Mr.. Culpepper
down in the woods at meeting and
said, i wish, Bro. Culpepper, you would
tell me who was this Melchisedech;
Two been wanting to ask you long
time.
IL would have beat him. don't
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