Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-16

glory and power!"
The bigot ascends with inst enough
grace to save him. As he comes urt
TO the shining gate he sees standing
inside of it some whom he used tov
meet every Sunday morning on the
street going to some other church of
some other denomination, and he
cries out: Are you there?" i never
| expected to see you in such a glorious
place. You were all wrong in your
religious theories on earth and in
YOUR form of church government.
How did you get in?" Saved by
grace" is the Heavenly reply. Saved
by gracel" The bigot is embarrassed
and feels for his creed and his cate
cbism, and, 10, they were left on the
banks of the River Jordan al he
passed through, and he cries out:
Il think / will have to enter on the
same terms. Saved by grace! Saved
! by grace!"
Again, the penurious Christian will
not have an abundant entrance. Per-
! haps he was not converted until all his
habits OF tight-fstedness were fixed
beyond recovery. The people who are
| generous were taught to be generous
in childhood. You can tell from the
way the boy divides the apple what his
characteristics for generosity or mean
ness Will be for the next so years, if he
lives so long. If he eat it all himself
while others look wistfully on. he will
he Shylock; if he give half of it to
some one who has no apple, he will be
an ordinarily generous man; if he give
three fOnrthS of IN no he vii
be Baron Hirsch or n George Pea
body.
For 30 years this man has been prac-
tcing an economy which prided itself
on never passing pin without picking
10 up, and if he responded at all in
church would put on the collection
plate so insignificant a coin that he
held his hand over it so that no one
could discover the smallness of the
denomination. Somewhere in the fif-
ties or sixties of his life. during a re-
ylval of religion, he became a Chris
tian. He is very much changed in
most respects, but his ALA bsorbing ac-
duisitiveness still influences him. To
extract from him a gift for an orphan
age or church or poor woman who
has Just been burned out is an achieve
lnent. You and / know very good men,
their Christian character beyond dis
pute, and yet they are pronounced by
all as penurious. and they know it
themselves and pray against it, We
all have our bad habits. and yet expect
To get to Heaven, and this skinfiint has
his mighty temptation. The passion
of avarice well illustrated its strength
when in one of the houses of exhumed
Pompeii was found the skeleton of a
man who was trying to escape with 60
coins and a silver saucepan. For those
valuables he dared the ashes and
scoria of Vesuvius which overwhelmed
him, and many a good man has been
held nightly by avarice.
But that brings me to the other
thought of my text, that there are
, those who will. when they leave this
life, bound into Heaven amid saluta-
tons infinite. "For so an entrance
shall he administered unto YOU album
dainty Such exultant admission viii
await those who enter Heaven after
on earth living a life for others and
without reference to conspicuty. On
the banks of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa
or the Androscoggin is a large family.
all Of whom have been carefully and
religiously reared. In the earlier
stages of that family there were many
prlVatlons. The mother of the house
mold never had any amusements Per
haps once in year a poor theatrical
play was enacted in the neigh oring
schoolhouse or a squawking concert in
the town hall, and that was all tine d.
version Afforded fnr no xx-;,,
asked the manager of an insane asy-
lum in Kentucky: From what class of
persons do you get most of YOUR pa
uentS?' and he said: From farmers
wives. asked the same question OF
the manager of an insane asylum in
pennsylvania, and the same question
OF the manager Of an insane asylum in
Massachusetts. and got the same reply:
We have on our rolls for treatment
} more farmers wives than persons
coming from any other class" That
answer viii be a surprise TO some: it
vas no surprise TO me. The simple rea-
son Is. farmers wives as general
thing have no diversion IL is break
iast. dinner and supper. sewing. scour-
Ing scruhbing. knitting. mendipg
year IN and year out. That mother is
The milliner. the mantua maker the
nurse. the doctor. the accountant OF
inc whole family. She plans the ward
Tooe OF spring. OF summer. Of autumn
b OF WINTER. cutting, fitting. completing
garments. out Of which the children
soon grow and must have sometime
else. The newspaper does not come or
/ " coming. there is no time TO read IL
NO selection OF good books The neigh.
! 'ors calling in are full Of the same
grinding routine. No wonder 80 many
, Of them go into dementia,
r Vow. the mother Of whom speak ne
8 living on he banks Of that ri,er -
b Ohio or Alabama or Maine has como
a through all The druGycrv mr,tia,..5