Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-12-19

CHARGES AND TIE ANSWER
Ohrist's Birth day

. hoy went TO church one Sunday
with his mother He acted very IN.
becomingEas though he was in a circus
His mother sald to him, James. be-
have yourself. you are not in circus.
but in church James replied. We'll |
IL am not in circus, it is circus mus
ic
An eminent Philadelphia lawyer
once said to distinguished pastor and |
divine, Il don't come tn church to |
have my brain taxed / come Co have
my heart and life made better The
two prime essentials to me are simple
my i'm presenting the gospel and down
right earnestness." The pastor said,
such encouragement from such a
source gave him great encouragement
and relief"
LOOKING HEAvENwARD
Many distinguished scholars have
said that they do not go to church, as
to halls of learning and science, but
that they go to church to have thei
hearts and minds and thoughts turned
heavenward.
Rev John Hall, d. D., says: eff
you enter the ministry remember this
lyou must press men into the kingdom
OF heaven by the weight of your per-
sonal character. Amy one scan talk,
, but character alone impresses."
DIR. II. r Carroll in the Forum"
ssys that $lO3 900 is required TO pay
I the annual expenses of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States
$23. 1855, 900 to pay those of the Method
list Episcopal thurch, nearly $4,000
600 for the expenses and contributions
. OF the northern Presbyterian Church,
+; $I1 $4,000 for those of the ReRula
: Baptist, and $1O.855. 900 for the Con
= preRationist; making an az Cregate o
2 all churches $SS. 900 900 pc yesr, b
i 10. 76S 600 members; an average
4 per year of So 16 a member, 68 cents q
: month, and II cents per week.
BUT LITTLE FOR BREAD.
= Many grumble to pay less than 5C
Il cents a month for church work. More
It money is paid annually for whiskey
n and peer than is paid annually FOL
a bread meat, the gospel and other ne
It cessities Of life. Ten cents a day FOL
e whiskey or beer is seventy cents
7. week, 50 10 a month, $3.50 year
n Young man, stop now before you fur
le Their go in patronizing saloons. Saw
e your money you spend in saloons, ant
sr in % years FROM now you will hav
l. saved nearly thousand dollars, be
ID sides prolongTng your days.
y A person may have and excuse 10
st which is not bread. yet let him reaso
Ia TO himself; Though my excuses salts
# fy myself, they must undergo God
es scrutiny; and they must be we
grounded to do that"
ne MULrITUDlNoUs EXCUSES.
is All excuses are not well grounded
One mans excuse for not accepting q
Of invitation was that he had bought
h piece OF land, must needs go and SO
n it," He ought to have seen the Ian
before he bought it. Another said,
lis had bought five yoke of oxen, Il go
O. prove them" He should have prove
he them before he bought them. Al
other said, he had married a wife.
he poor excuse, for he could have take
his wife with him. unless it was bac
DO elors' supper.
rHE coLoRED PEOPLE AND THE sERIo'
oh CHARGE.
Speaking of the immortality of Il
ere colored race, which. the colored rat
'ur or the white race, has the largest nun
no Der and most largely patronizt
founding hospitals, baby farms, ar
AZ. professional abortionists2 One foun
ling hospitals ia New York city in fo'
successive years received 6,076 infant
q We do not endorse immortality amor
''S the colored race. but members OF g
Goa white race should remember that It
not good grace for the pot to call &
"a kettle black. Everything colored pt
!. sons are guilty of, white persons 3
~ guilty of. There are scores of thin
~ that white persons are guilty OF tn
he'd colored persons are not guilty OF.
ent WHO CAN PROVE IT?
OF Who can prove that Jesus Christ v
born on the 18th day of Decemb'
was A distinguished writer gives ca
NV logue of T36 different opinions abe
ON the year of Christ's birth. Bis bir
"e1 day has been placed by learned n
al and Christian sects every month in
orr year. To settle the question, the L
ore in Church, supreme in power, and
loie fallible in judgement, placed it on
AT 25th day of December. the very day
lay which the Romans celebrated
ma feast of their goddess, Beuma."
ISL because the sun then begins its ret
the north ward, ending winter, length
1a.e ing the days, and introducing spri
Il IN and also emblematic of the Sen
VII righteousness arising with healing
His wings"
~: Jesus Christ was of the order of \
olas0 chizedeck, having neither beginni
1eS of days. nor end of life, therefore,
=. know not what day. month, nor }
Jaw Christ was born, nor what day, me
or year Christ died. To PROBES
reef know is mere conjecture, immag