The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-18
THE MOODY SERVICES.
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who have been piling up their wealth
for them. Follow the footsteps OF this
good Samaritan, and see what will come
out OF it. He won the esteem of every
servant he had. Do you tell me that IL
that servant was very dear to.him, the
centurion was not dear to the servant?
j was In California some time ago, and
quite number tried to tell me that the
Chinaman hadn't a soul, and that q
Chinaman wasn't cada BILE of loving. said
II Is utterly false. There Is not son or
daughter oil Adam on earth that isn't
capable of loving" Before left Califor-
MA they told me OF man who got a
Chinaman just as he came TO this country,
and took him into his family and treated
him kindly, and by and by the China
man became his body servant. At last
misfortune overlook his master. He died
and left his widow without
any means OF support. The
poor Chinaman had worked hard
and long, day and night, TO get back to
China. Every company that brings a
Chinaman to,this country has to sign con-
ract:thatsthsy will bring him back dead or
alive. Sometimes they scrape the flesh of
the bones and send them back to be buried
in their own country. This man had been
working and toiling hard to get money
to go back, but when he found that his
master had left his mistress without
money, he took the thousand dollars and
insisted upon her taking it. And yet they
say that Chinaman cannot love! My
dear friends, you cannot expect anything
better from the world, but when you find
those who profess to be Christians, what
Is going to become Of the
N i'm ha n
wonder il you are looking after
those who serve you. Are any OF them un-
fortunate just now, are they in need?
Your soup houses may be all right, but
wouldn't like 20 have q servant of mine
go to soup-bouse. Would you? /
wouldn't like to have man who is toll
ing for me degrade himself by going to
house to beg for soup.
My friend, Professor Drummond, went
off into the heart OF Africa, and when he
returned he told me he believed the Afri-
cans, as nation, We're not capable Of low
ing; he believed they understood knock
over the head better than kindness. be-
l.eye that Is utterly false, and / believe
II we walk on that line, we are never GO
Ing TO reach this world. There was lady
~ New York who was brought up in the
south, and she told ne that when the war
cume on man went into the
AMY and left his wife with two daugh-
teis, and an old colored woman that had
be,u slave all OF her lie had two
dau yhters. The man was killed in the
arm and coed deal Of his property was
swel away. When the old colored wo-
man beard about il she refused to take
her liberty because her mistress had no h
ing. The mistress soon Gfter died, and
then the poor old colored woman took
care of the two daughters. When the old
coloreo woman was dying, she called her
daughters 10 her and said, "I want you to
take good care OF those Two daughters.
They Rave nevee been taught to
take ca e OF themselves, the mis-
tress is gone, and now am going
too. VIII, lam dead and gone want you
to be c'r iul to see that they don't come
TO want Those two colored daughters
cared for those two white sisters, and
when they got so reduced that they could
not get a sing they went out and got $40.
They wan ed to give five OF it TO these
white girls The lady said, ~ won't send
it 10 them. You can II you want to-" And
one of the -lored girls said, "Why, they
wouldn't tske it irem-a nigger. don't
want to disgrace them by asking them to
take it from me-" She insisted
upon the lady sending 1t to help those two
white girls. Now, / say those colored
girls belonged to the nobility OF heaven.
You don't want to look down upon those
people. ! have great admiration for that
centurion who thought good deal Of his
servant, and tell you that kind of thing
will kill our anarchy, kill out nihilism,
sweep them from the face OF the earth.
Now, 1t is one thing to come
out here and say "amen," and
another thing to carry 1t out in
your home. You just want to watch that
you don't get into the place of some
Pharisee. You treat men as they should
be treated, and see II you don't win their
esteem and respect. / was once reading
in history about a heather king. He re-
ceived mortal wound and sent for his
faithful body servant. When the servant
came the soldier said, "Go tell the dead
i am coming" And the servant pressed
his knife through his heart that he might
go and tell the dead his master was coming
after him.
As / said before, now is our day. The
working men are seeing a hard time, and
II there was ever time for the church OF
God to show kindness, 1t Is at tpresent-if
we haven't lost them, for they are far
from the church today; they have been
taught to believe that the church doesn't
care for them. The great mass of the
working men Of this country have been
alienated from the church of God.
Now is the time to look well after your
servants, your clerks and those whom you
employ, and see IL You cannot help them
now they are down. A little act of kind
ness will go great deal farther than the
sermons just now. We want good Sama-
ritans just now to go and pick up these
men who have been slain, as II were, by
this financial panic that Is sweeping
over the land. Did the world ever
see such a day? Take up your morning
paper. About million dollars in the
banks OF New York, and it is a drug at 1
per cent. Yet men are starving for the
want of work. Starvingl May God de-
liver us. II would be a good thing for us
to get onto our lacks so that we can just
look up to heaven. A man said to me the
other m io ht W he m IA In X inO on IN Ia n n