The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-08
MRS. WILBERFORCE ATTENDS
st, PAUl'S METHODIST CHURCH.

the influence ana the comfort OF th"t
book is what we care most about
whether the world recognizes John az |
the writer does not matter. The Brah- |
min, who was supposed 10 be cropping !
I'm the dark opened the book TO the thlrd
chapter OF John. when asked now he re-
ceived the spirit. and pointing TO the loth
verse said that was what gave him real
life. u reads, as you know: For Goa
| so loved the world, that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever be-
| lieveth In Him should not perish, but
! have everlasting life What did II mat
| ter to the Brahmln whether John or
| somebody else wrote the gospel so long
as II came from our Saviour and was the
! truth?"
And 80 the preacher went on making
| Illustrations that showed US that con-
! science was Gods voice speaking within
| US, directing our course in life In man
ner that is just and helpful, thereby pre-
venting us from becoming stranded on
the dangerous coasts OF life's ocean or
! commerce.
After we'd got home and had got to
talkin' about the good things that the
preacher said and the great work the
Methodists have done and are now do
ing. 1 says:
''You remember. father. that they used
to call them shouting Methodists when
we were young"
yes" says he. II know they did and
begin shoutin' agin."
We'll" says !. Il don't know but II
would for somehow their old d-fashioned
ways used To git hold OF sinners more
than their mllder manners do now.
That's as true's you live says he. Il
calkerlate the devil hated shoutin,
Methodist mOre'n anything else on TOP
II notice" says /, that when you see
men going on to the rocks In turbulent
sea you shout with all your might 70
warn them OF the impending danger! IL
you don't make a great noise they can
heart your warning above the roar OF
the elements
That's just It, mother" says he.
that's just 1T. The sea of life is Just
the same You've got to make the might
lest of efforts in order to reach the ears
of the young folks who are surrounded by
a tumult Of sin and jostled by the tenn
pest that whistles around the gaDles 10
so noisy manner as to nigh about GROWN
every signal OF warming
Yes" says /, that's true. And then
there Is fascination about II all that
seems to make them blind and deaf TO
the real truth. Nothing short or the
roar OF "A Niagara Will attract their at
tention. and then there's got TO be thun-
der bolt or an earthquake thrown In be-
fore they'll stop and begin TO recognize
there's danger ahead
II suppose" says he ''the old-tme
Methodists recognized that fact, and so
they started in to make the most OF the
! lesson. Like old Jesse Bradford, who
|
enough TO raise the meetin' house roof!
Used to say so. | know" says /, but
II IL hadn't been for his powerful exhor-
: tin old Thomas Hubbard never'd gone TO
, the mercy seat!
: True enough" says he. "Drunkenest
. old sinner In the town, but he turned out
l pretty respectable after he got him 90
. come forward / used to think Jesse
shouted so loud the devil got kinder scat
out. and then there was chance for
l. eettin the rum out OF Thomas and give
. | him a chance for a new start.
Twas a genuine conversion" says l.
8 "and | always thought that the only way
the Lord could reach that mans soul was
by the use OF n shoutin' Methodist
! .I calkerlate." says he. 'if there'd beer
= one of them old timers down to New forl
= stationed outside that modern gateway
, 10 nerdition 70 Offset Satan's invitations
!, TO the young folks, there'd been a lot o.
= good done that's been left undone rgh
down TO the present time.
- Gateway" says l, w nat gateway w
a We meanY
y .r\Vhv. that place" says he. that the!
= call Wall street. That's counted by mos
:. folks as about the surest ana shortes
- cut 90 hell that there is!
;. 'ryhyp' says 1, what on earth make
I" you talk SOP .o,.
"a MRnhlGtO
- at the head OF Wall street. all dressed ul
=, In his red suit, and he heads off ever
- honest young man that he meets am
- trvs TO show him how to get rich quo
,s without doin' much work.
- .'He says TO this young merchant, don
n sell any more dry goods. it's too slow 10
~ vour temperament. Go down into tn
. street and buy copper Coppers IN
in thing he's been n harpin' on Tor som
=, l ,.oaro hack Now It's cotton.
al Along comes young manufacture
j You are not cut out for that KIND @
n business says Satan. Cant YOU So
a. you've got TO make millions or yaru
~ OF cloth in order TO make any KIND G
"a a showing? All the profit you can hgur
80 is one-eighth OF cent a yard. QUIT IN
business and come down In here anon
a the really great men and be millior
a alre Coppers the thing that's made thei
happy. Go I'm and win. I'll lend you
-, hand. And then ~ you fail I'll take goo
= care OF youv And he wears smile that
~ positively hideous. But lots OF them don
30 seem 10 notice that satanic grin. an
O. down they 20. An old time Methodist
r regular old shouter on the spo' Won
make them sec the monster IA he Ia an
M he'd make the DEVILS position so W
- | tenable he'd have TO quit business an
20 | shut up shop
:. "Well. mother" says he. the old hs
no has kept at that copper business 50 lonl
Js hundreds of thousands invested tn
- money in the hope OF gettin' rich, un'
finally copper mines got TO be thicker
~ townships throughout this great countr
>, or course the thing took a slump. ar
~ now these thousands can't boar the sigl
a., OF n copper cent Nine-tcnths OF u
be stock isn't worth the paper that II
49, written on. 1t makes some OF EN- ul
- comfortable 20 even use n telephor
ho where there's a metallic circuit. becau.
the wire IL made Of copper.
"A They're about the maddest lot OF foll
W that I know OF It's my notion that
" these young men ever cit down 20 q
ey lower regions. which l hope and pra
-. t,,,t tbay oNar 40 aud wa