The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-05
THOSE LOST SERMONS.
They Have Not Been Restored and MIR. i!1es
Is Caustic About Them.
Especial Dispatch to The Times


NORFOLK, VA, Feb. i.--Rev. w. z.
Hines, whose lost :;atchel, which con-
tanned his sermons, was found by the
police in a negros house, will not receive
the satchcl back, as it is not in the con-
dition it was when he lost IT.
Mr. Hines says that over two hundred
of his discourses are gone. and that MOTH
ing that has been recovered by the ponce
is of any value to him but the one DOCK
.of twenty sermon notes that he did not
know was in the satche lie says that
he will neither accept the satchel or cloth
ing that has been found, because ncithc:
arc in tho condition in which they were
when lost.
A $40 suit of clothes that was il tao
satcGel, Roy. Mr. Hines states, IS no"
greasy from wear, supposedly by tie ne
go Holmes, and is Of no earthly good TO
him. He says as it is he will set only
S175 ont of the award of $50 given MN
by tho Board Of Arbitration. Inc arbi-
TRAITORS, he says, received SO each, ana
that he is to pay one-third of the expense
of the arbitration, besides $50 to his laW-
Yer, Howard G.. Avery, of Norfolk.
Rev. Mr.. Hines says that of the award
of $3.50. s63. so was for clothing. He is out
to-day in q highly interesting card, eS-
planning certain positions taken by mein-
bers of the Arbitration Board.
His card is as follows:
1T was; not my intention to make pub
lie the matter of the loss or my sermons.
tut since it has been DONE and one or
the arbitrator has had something 10
saw in the way OF an explanation. may
be allowed the same privilege. The ar
bitrator who made the explanation dld
so perhaps to prevent reduction OF pas
tors salaries in Norfolk.
1.-THE decision OF the arbitrator was
not satisfactory, as has been stated, eth
e:, to me o., my friend, Dr. Owen Ihose
sermon notes were not the sermons l nae
preached to my church as pastor, but
speciaI sermons for cvanselfstic work IN
the future, and the decision as to value
was depreciation of my work, II IL was
not degrading me. Note how this declS-
ion was reached. Rev. Mr.. Hope argued
in this manner: a prominent minister OF
Virginia sells his sermons for S1.O0 each,
Ergo, ] should have very Ittle' II any
thing, for mine
so The Norfolk and Western Railroad
had not destroyed my power to make
sermons. Ergo, 1 should have nothing
because I can make more sermons. sons
of light and wisdom, hear!
This man is perhaps hopeful that I
will get all men to think that if a thief
does not destroy ones power to make
money and purchase goods he may steal
his goods and so free. II is to be hoped
he will not get but one man in Norfolk
TO believe this.
DR.. Hall reasoned % thusly: The law
is perfectly clear in the case. Mr.. Hines
had a. right to take sermon notes as Lag
gage. because he went away to preach.
But as he did not stay but twelve days
thirty sermons We're enough for him to
carry; therefore. he would move that he
bc allowed s. each for. his sermons-the
tbirty-and a little extra fer some cN-
nense. DR.. Hall takes upon himself a
TASK the law does not undertake. The
law does not say what the traveller needs
b,t leaves that to his Judgment. me
making of those sermons required two
DAYS each, and some of them as many
| weeks OF my time. DR.. Hall gets So for
his nine hours work as arbitrator in this
case. At that rate, my sermons would
have been worth $50 each and thirty OF
them. a la Dr. Halls reckoning. would
he worth Sl,5o0. Consistency, thou az
a jewel"
When I left the room where the ai-.-
traitors were. to decide the question OF.
value. Mr.. Hope said to me:~aG ood-bye;
yo,, are in the hands of the Philist.lles. !"
The truthfulness Of which statement l
have no reason to question.
- p HINES.
Portsmouth, Va, Feb. 3, 1862.