The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-13
Tills NIGHT SERVICES.
Many People Turned Away From TIL
tabernacle.

Last night tho great tabernacle was
filled some time before eight O'clock
and by tho time the services began the
doors and aislcs were full and several
hundred people were standing I'D
around tho walls eager to hear tho
great evangelist. The service began
by the choir and audience singing
'Take Me AS / AM" and There's n
Hand Hold Out" Then two verses OF
"Where lie Leads Me I Will Follow"
Rev. DR.. 0. Il. Flippo offered up q for.
cible and earnest supplication to the
throne Of grace.
Mr.. Jones walked to tho front of the
platform and announced that the collec.
tions would only be taken up three more
days, and he hoped that all would give
literally to assist in liouidating the dcbt
that had been incurred in building tho
tabernacle. While tho collection was
being taken up the choir sang that beau.
tiful song, Look and Live" Mr.. Tx.
cell then in his own beautiful way sang
Jesus, Lover of My Soul in which he
was assisted by the choir.
Mr.. Jones announced that Mr.. Cul.
pepper was quite sick: he hoped no
"ONiu SOOH bc ONV i, AN, AHO KNOW THO
audience felt SO too. lIo announced
that there would be preaching this
morning, the children's meeting 1T
o'clock, and tho usual services at
night. The usual services will be held
Saturday morning and night, and Sat-
urdaY afternoon special service will
he held for the coor.d people. II want
to say 10 the ushcrs," he continued,
that Friday morning and Saturday
morning The usfierS reserve tho south
east corner Of III" tabernacle for the
colored people. | Intended to speak Of
this sooner | want this meeting TO be
blessing 10 tho colorcd people as we'll
as to us.
"Sotnetimcs feel like an old colored
brother who was going to preach in an
old log church with no fire, no window
glass ami ;hc cracks between tho logs
OPEN After shivrring whilo hc ro-
marked coan old colorcd man. Brother,
it's time 10 begin. What shall preach
about?' The old shivering negro drew
his ovcrcoat closer about mis- body and
repiicd, About five minutes. Some
times feel ike that old negro and want
to preach ahoutfiv i've minutes. To night,
brethren. will not preach over thirty
hve or !oIrty minuteS if | can possibly
stop.
Now, friends, let me have your atten-
tion for few minutes and will try to
say 4 few words from the a2d verse of
the 55th Psalm.
Cast thy burden upon She Lord. and
lilo will sustain thee. will never suf-
Ter the r:gh teous to BIO moved
81 reckon that the grandcst sight that
could be presented to the human eve
would be 10 SEQ an unburdcned heart
Perfectly free from all caro- and all bur-
den and al responsi bility. 1t was job
who said thai man was born unto
trouble as the sparks fly upward An
unburdened human heart, ono that
knows nothing OF care and anxiety, I
reckon would be the greatest curiosity
on which humanity could look.
Tine young boys and girls have their
troubles. When was littlo boy |
had my troubles, and when | grow M
to be a young man had my troubles.
and when am now in middle age of
life, or perhaps little further than
that, nave my troubles Nov our
troubles may he divided into two dincr.
emit kinds. First, our real burdens. and
then secondly our borrow,d troubles,
our homemade tro ubles, and home
made troubles, just like everything else
homemade, last the longest; just like
homemade shoes, they last longer than
any other, don't they?
Nov men and women arc very busy
making troubles for themselves. There
are great many people who arc ever
lastingiY looking out for something that
is coming. Some Of you people have
preScnti.nents and fOrebodings. ard |
will illus rae and hurry on. Here is a
mother, who has number of of little
children who want to take old john
the faithful old horse, out for ride and
they come TO mamma, and say, Mamma
CAN'T we hitch up old John and take
him OYER 20 see Mrs. So and SOP Yes,
replies Nam you can, but be sure
and be DacKby five o'clock All right
says the little ones ard away they go
with old John, who is hardly able to
crawl.
''Fivc ocl0ck comes, and the mother
looks down the road TO see if tho child
rem are IN sight, and there is no sign Of
them. She goes into tho house and
says: oh, my, why did I let those
children go out with that horse? Did
he not try 10 throw mo out of the buggy
the last time l was out with him?' Then
the husband c mes in and says: What's
the matter, wife? And she SAYS: sob,
husband, let those children take that
horse cut and they promised to come
back by s o'clock, and they have not
come back yet, and they never told
lie.' oh, wife, they have told many
every day, and what's the use of Dor
rowing the troubles that you are?'
The wife says, Now, please go and
see where my poor children are. be-
cause had a prcsentiment the other
night and Thought that the old horse
was going 10 kill our dear little child
rem, and you just go and SEQ where they
arc lying on the road. Probably all arc
killed aid their brains smashed out