The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-08-18

Mr. So-and-So has given large
amount Of money to the missionary
cause" mentioning the sum. said:
II can't believe it," de said 1T is
So" Well, 4 went home, staggered
and COMPOUNDED. / never knew the
man to give anything. But after
awhile found out that he had been
engaged in the most infamous kind
of swindle, and then he promised to
compromise the matter with the Lord,
saying: Now, here is so much for
thee, Lord. Please to let me off"
l want to tell you that the church
of God is not a shop for receiving
stolen goods and that if you have
taken anything from your fellows you
had better return it to the men to
whom it belongs. In drug store in
Philadelphia a young man was told
that he must sell backing on the
Lords day. He said to the head man
of the firm: Il can't possibly do that. |
| am willing to sell medicines on the |
Lords day, for / think that is right |
anu hINNoodly1 pub can oNii biAo
patent backing" He was discharged
from the place A Christian man hear
ing of it took him into his employ,
and he went on from one success to
another until he was known all over
the land for his faith in God and his
good works as for his worldly success.
When man has sacrificed any tenn
| oso1 co. fba cola nt
his spiritual interests the Lord is on
his side, and one with God is major
: ity.
But if you have been much among
, the cities you have also noticed that
/ they are full of temptations of polit-
!, zeal character. 1t is not SO more in
one city than in all the cities. Hun
q dreds of men going down in our cities
every year through the pressure OF
= politics. Once in awhile man will
! come out in sort of missionary spirit
:, and say: 81 am going into politics
:, now to reform them, and l am going
:, to reform the ballot box and | am 60
- ing to reform all the people 1 come in
! contact with" That man in the fear
g and love of God goes into politics with
- that idea and with the resolution that
: he will come out uncontaminated and
as good as when he went in. But gen.
- orally the case is when man steps
- into politics many of the newspapers
&c try to blacken his character and to
~ distort all his past history, and after
80 a little while has gone by instead OF
III I. hannra h1n Oifi.
Y zen he is lost in contemplation and in
50 admiration of the fact that he has sc
., long been kept out of Jail! If mar
III shall go into politics to reform politics
70 and with the right spirit, he will come
Oh out with the right spirit and unhurt
s. That was Theodore Frelinghuysen, o.
III New Jersey. That was George Briggs
ke of Massachusetts,. That was Judge Nc
Lean, of Ohio.
lie Then look around and see the al
We lurements to dissipated life. Bal
ed books, unknown to father and mother
nd vile as the reptiles of Egypt, crawling
he into some of the best families of tn
he community; and boys read them Will
the teacher is looking the other way
80 or at recess, or on the corner OF tn
81 street when the groups are gathered
Ter These books are read late at nigh
IN, Satan finds them a smooth plank
he which he can slide down into perd
q ton some of your sons and daughter
icy Reading bad bookstore never gel
ce. over it. The books may be burned
in but there is not enough power in
I'D the apothecary's preparations to was
Use out the stain from the soul. rather
art hands, mothers hands, sisters hant
inc will not wash it out; none but tt
at. hand of the Lord can wash it out.
has And what is more perilous in regal
lis to some of these temptations we ma
the not mention them. While God in
The Bible from chapter to chapter thu
md dered His denunciations again
md these crimes people expect the pulp
the and the printing press to be silent
the the subject, and just in proportion
in people are impure are they fastidlo
ven on this theme. They are so full OF q
est cav and death they do not want the
men sepulchers opened. God will turn
it'll TO destruction all the unclean, ana
the splendors of surrounding can make
ives cent that which He has smitten. u
will not excuse sin merely because
i'm. has costly array and beautiful tap
full try and palatial residence any me
fer than He will excuse that which craV
,yo- a blotch of sores through the lowe
visb cellar. Ever and anon through So
YOU lawsuit there flashes upon the peol
who of our great cities what is transl
all ;no in seemingly respectable clrcl
Who You call it "high life," you call
4 To "fast living" you call it peoples
oil centricity." And while we kick
nre- the sidewalk the poor wretch who
" a not the means to garnish his inlqul
hril- these lords and ladies, wrapped
and purple and in linen, go unwhlPped
and public justice. All, the most ore
18th fnl mart of the whole thing is L
ond +bare are persons abroad whose wn
tan business it is to despoil the you
who What an eternity such a man
neo. have! As the door opens to rec'
Iti1a him thousands of voices will cry O
siu "See here. what have you done?'
are the wretch will wrap hlmselr
ings fiercer flame anu ieap ..4 - 10
:, or darkness. and the multitude ne
|, ra dostroved will pursue him and hur
bet him the long, p!'.ei' -,
hink lasting curse Oh 'neH al =.
,Aict IF there be one cup OF eternal Oh
mar ness more bitter than another,
ding will have to drink i. ~ sAo ,nnrld :
and, in all the ocean Oh 'ne .o - no y
king, comes blliow,he up - ~ will ,
r in- more flerce than :. - %,
lade. over them. But there is nope 1o'
who will turn. -.
- - stood one day at Niagara falls,
a1is T saw what you may have seen !