Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-20

prayers like our mothers taught az. NOV
can q man do this work who does not
keep in close communion with aodf 4
have some pluck. but not enough 10 80
into the pulpit Without pleading the
promises. a man may make an aooress
without prayer. he may make q stump.
speech, he may deliver sermonette, but
he cannot preach. Preaching is not Ike
other sorts Of speech. A man who does
n has got to come into communion with
the most high God. II II true that men
who do this, though they are iliiterate,
with no rhetoric or philosophy or logic.
seem to do more good than those VINO
have these opportunities. / give you an
illustration: There was IN Georgia an
old man who couldn't get IN here. lie
was learned only In the Bible ana Metho-
d,sm. He knew Wesley and the fatners.
but was no theologian. and couiuh
preach what you'd call q sermon. But
for forty years he went from the top 0,
the Blue Ridge 10 the Everglades. anu
by his devotion. his prayers. his nervisn.
and his conservation people were oroush,
in and there were thousands that claimeu
him as their spiritual father. There are
times that ouch have clearer views th'h
tire scholara "a tender story OF re-
yIval at the college illustrating this truth
We have to om.t)
CHRISTIAN HOLINESS.
I will ask you presently II you desire
TO be made perfect In love. You VIII eN-
pect me TO talk to you about Chrisuan
holiness. ] will tell you what you oush'
not TO do. II you ever get II on the
ground OF good manners DON'T oioW
trumphet about II. Jesus said We were
no, "a seek a reputation for being good.
Here's A man on his way TO church.
cheerful and laughing; when his loot
strikes the doorstep he pulls down the cor
ners OF his mouth ana droops his eyes
and begins to look pioIs. Would he do
n ~ no others were there? We viii nave
10 watch this. We must be modest II
we become holy. Seek and secure the
highest gifts OF God through the spirit
but don't dsrend on your ,teory or mime
as to how you get them.
"Do you ercan after H.? II that Is your
spirit you will get II. Much trouble OH
this subject comes from trying to make
philosophical theories Of spiritual me-
Paul did not do this. but We do, and by
our theories we confound the saints. Can
II what you will, believe in the highes'
tyne OF religion. The blood or Jesus
Christ cleanseth. We must not depend
on theory or formula We may get .the
first, "the second" yea. thousand biess'
ings. / don't keep books with my boiu'
BY the theory of some, BABY at tii'
mothers breast ought to understand .he
theory of digestion and assimilation be
fore II gets the benefit of its food. Ge'
close to Jesus, and he will do all Tor you
that Is needed. am sick and tired OF the
efforts TO define this high experience, ana
Il is not well-bred TO advertise your own
religious attachments.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Don't talk of one another. Gosslp'hs
preachers are terror. 1t Is mean anu
cowardly. They will not tell 1t 10 tn'
face OF the man they talk or Dut oe'
hind his back. until there is CLOUD on
his name, and he has not done ,"iils
T. deserve II. A man who does 1t Is 1ist
INTO spiritual death. The habit begun
in carly life leads up to lying. III the!
come to you to talk. stop them anu saS
YOU shall not talk about my pre'ii 81
That would be honest and brave a d.
right. understand that In the oruera
am not member or theii' 1 "li
a member of the church-that there Is
band of fellowship that protects one M,
other Ought not we In this pIo'hV'"'0
Don't because you have been to schooi
think that obscure language Is depth VI
thought. Some may not think we ar
deen II they can see TO the Dottoih VI
What we saw. But we had better lose
their esteem and be clear rather tha'
muddy. While In Boston | met a mar
who. true to his kind, piled me VIII
questions TIL he found / was preacher
Then he told me that the preachers dio
not deal fairly with the people IN eA
plaining | learned that his pastor WIN
was all sorts of a doctor-I wish coui,
doctor" you all, II would give goo'
handle to your name. ana then IL cuie'
the itch-preached about things he didn
understand.
THOUGHT THEY WERE FOOLS.
boy I'm Georgia who was three year.
In schools there and three years In tn'
tan-yats of a northern college, wnen Nv
cana hack was sent to work in a factory
mission. and thoughts the bishops were
fools for sending him there, as II an eou
Gated man could not labor among sucf
people. He didn't understand the spri
of good Thomas Guthrie who, when M
was wanted at Edlnburg said: III you
let me go to Gray Friars TO the poores
of the poor / will come" This young lei
low began n sermon by saying: Justin
cation ia a forensic term" Well, the!
didn't know what Classification was. no
forensic" and they only knew tina
term" applied to the school session
While I was in Jackson preaching to tn
negroes-and a man who has not preachet
to them has lost that training In nexiplli
ty and adaptiveness that cannot be got
ten elsewhere-I talked TO them on chris
tian government and education so the!
might understand II. On my left was al
old. Fat NANNY with a turban on ne
head that only a Turk or a southern Negro
could twist into such a shape. The pas
tor. In clerical costume, with Jesui
vest" collar buttoned behind. and fine
suit than I ever wore. after / was through
announced that on the next Sunday n
would deliver a discourse on the PROOF
Of the existence Of God from a cosmo
logical standpoint The old colore'
"mammy" stamped her foot and said m.
Lord"
WILD MEN FROM THE SWAMP.
At the request of DR.. Bledsoe the Bishop
here told the story OF Bishop Pierce
expounding the Word to few Wild mel
| from the swamp who had been attracte'
| by the light Of their fire In the wooo
| on one of their western trips. and Of hi
| wonderful prayer under the stars in tn
| woods; how the humble man who ma
| piloted them when he left the next eve
| ming called to SEQ the Bishop. and whel
| he could not see him. sent him word tina
| he had been a back slider, but he couldn'
| get over that prayer, and would try t
| meet him in Heaven. That's the way
| great man works.
| This closed the great address. TIL
| Bishop, in finishing. saying II love yo'
| young men Of high character and hope
| God bless you! God bless you!"
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