Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-06
PRICE PAID TO JUDAS D:
NEv. Wv. DAUGuERTY TELLS
WHY IT WAS so SMALL
Or. HAWTHORNE. TO CRITICS.

cour.e I'm the Words Of Paul :
sesaioon. in the west Endv sub
ject q Mr.. Boyle., sermon.
ss one Of tho most Interesting sermons
preached Sunday. dealt with the charac-
er and the crime OF Judas Iscariot II
was preached by Rev. John W. Daugh-
erty. pastor OF The Apostolic church, but
was delivered in Powell's Hail. on Church
IIili.
Mr.. Dangferty said in part:
The condemnation resting upon Judas
is SC unlimited that many pronounce his
name with shudder, especially the word
1scariot, as II that word were the exact
equivalent OF the whole sum of sin Is
] CARROT does not describe his character,
4 but his country He was from kerioth,
and not a Galilean, and so far as we
know was more honorable than the latter.
I So It may be out OF proper order to pro-
nounce Iscariot contcmptncusly. lest 1t be
found to have been more honorable
nativity than our own.
.sThe price paid Judas was thirty pieces
OF silver. The amount had been limited
by the prophet centuries before. But was
Judas stupid? Was he after money only?
Could IT have been possible that the
whole coterie of the rulers were not will
ing to raise the price a single shekel?
Did not this Christ-seller know what the
prize was worth to Annas and Caiaphas
and the others?
Judas was playing a double game. He
4 never expected to deliver the goods. He
did not believe 1t could be done, as the
sequel proves.
Judas. The penitent. When he saw that
he had delivered the goods. when he saw
existent and silent, his horror was beyond
g description. He fastened back with the
money and said: I have sinned; have
betrayed innocent blood Perhaps never
since Adam laid his sin on Eve, and Eve
laid hers on the devil. to this present
time has history recorded deeper Or
more bitter repentance than that of Judas
1scariot.
WOE unto that man by whom he is
betrayed. The mangled corpse Of Judas
hanging on the ragged rocks testifes THAI
he emptfed the bitter cup into his own
soul and Ind drained the last drop as he
plunged into ihc silent blackness CT death.
4 Some men repent, but keep the money;
some repent, and repeat the same old
sins and Sing psalms. He took back the
money and Killed himself, while Pharisees
chuckled at his auivering voice and mock
ed his penitential tears.
Only devils scOrn a man who weepS
over his sins. while heaven rejoices.
DR.. HAWTHORNES DEFENCE.
Rev. DR.. J. 3. Hawthorne. pastor
OF the Grove-Avcnue Baptist church Sun
day morning made reply to his critics
for preaching on current events, and de-
tended his course by showing that the
prophets Of old, John the Baptist. Paul,
chrysostom. John Knox and in the pres
ent day Bishop Potter. all scored the
evils of the day in which they lived.
He also said. should these saints come
TO Richmond. they would not be in
vited, with consistency, in many of the
pulpits here.
Dr. Hawthorne took for his subject:
..The Func ion of the Pulpit and preach
ed from the text: Preach the word; be
instant In season, out of season, reprove,
rebuke. exhort. - Timothy w.. 2.
This is a part Of the apostle Pauls SOL
smn charge to Timothy, young preacher
of the Gospel. BY 1.-The word" Pau
means tho whole system of divine truth
embodied in the Hebrew scriptures and
taught by Jesus Christ and His apostles.
The Bible as we have it to-day. is 'the
word The function of the Christian
ministry is to eNpound every part of the
revealed word of God and to lay upon
The consciences of men the obligation to
conform to It's requirements. The minis
ter who ignores any element of the d.
vine Book or who restricts his public
teaching to few features of it is unfaith-
full to his divine commission.
The sermon was heard by deeply In
terested and numerous congregation
SALOONS HIS SUBJECT.
That a crusade against the sale Of
LIQUOR in the West-E End of the city has
commenced. was evidenced by the scath-
ing arraignment OF the traffic in sermon
by the Rev. l. S. Boyles Sunday night. in
E Randolph Street church. His subject
y1,a
Must Co.
His sermon was general, and applied as
well to any portion Of the city as to the
II Nest End.
Mr. Poyles paid particular attention to
.he traffic as a revenue getter, and to
the repeated assertions that without this
revenue the schools of the city would
suffer. at deny this emphatically," said
ae, ..and challenge any man in the city to
show me that / am wrong when ] say
that for every dollar liquor revenue turn
ed in, ten dollars are spent"
Next Sunday Mr.. Boyles will show
.1Iow a Local Option Election Can be
Won in the West End.
FIRST SERVICE IN NEW CHURCH
"The Church. was the appropriate
theme of Rev. Thomas Selnmes' sermon
Sunday morning. upon the occasion of
the formal opening of the new St
Andrews Protestant Episcopal church.
Unpropitious weather did not avail to
t lessen the dimension of the congrega-
ton. which filed the lower floor ano the
gallery long before II O'clock.
Rev Cary. S. Beckwith, the assistant
rector. made the opening prayer, and also
read the lessons. AT the conclusion of
] the service the Lords Supper was cele-
srated.
THE CHURCH IN DANGER
Rev. S. H Cumming, sofz Baltimore.
poke to small congregation at Cente-
aary Methodist church Sunday after
aoon, on the encroachments of the liquor
raffic over the bounds OF the church. ar.
Cumming is almost blind. hui. his infirm1-
Y adds to rather than detracts from the
Eecticeness of his address
Mr. Cumming declared the church was
danger of disintegra ton and decay;
i was in the tolls. He was not politi-
clan, and by the grace of God. he never
Intended to be. He was minister of the
sospe,. and he believed 1t was a part Of
els duty to sound the alarm. though he
aas not an alarmist, of the danger that
staced the church. The sincendiaries of
I lei are gathering. and the church of
Sod Will be destroyed If it does not shake
e the lethargy and counterfeit the poison