The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-30
Why Not Rejoice Z?

success. How can help that success to
become greater?"
Why Not Rejoice?
And why should you not rejoice in
your brothers success? When does your
brother need your true help and friend
ship more than when he is scoring a
success? Is rot the time of success Just
the time when he is most apt to be
thrown off his guard and destroyed by
evil temptations? Is not that the critical
moment when the Satanic tempters are
rely to scrape and fawn apout him. as
the seductive young fiatterers did about
Rehoboam when he went to Shechem TO
be crowned, as they did about young
King Charles II Gftes the English resto-
ration, as they did abou. poor Louis XVI
when he came t. the French throne only
a lad twenty years of aSe2 DO you not
feel that your successful brother needs
your affectionate and hearty co-opera-
ton in this his houc OF success rather
than your sneers and your opprobriumY
1t is almost time for Tou to cease sitting
around and sulking acause of his victo-
ries Do not try to undermine his use
fulness by pulling down the temple OF
fame which he has reared. even as sam
sor pushed against the cracked pillars
which tumbled the roof of the temple OF
DagOn down upon the ShhilS VI NV
screaming and crouchng Phi.stines.
If a brother neeua your help In time of
success. does he not also need you all
tho more ito weep with him when he
weeps?" Does he not need you TO come
to his sympathetic aid when all the
world seems black and when 1t truly
seems or account of his wrongdoinss'
that he can never become noble man
again? Does he not need your help when
IL, no &
gems to be deserted by God and man
alike and to be only the sport and play
thing of devils And does he not also
need FOUR help when, in the awful hours
of black temptation, he is about to yleld
as well as in the Oiack hours OF remorse
after he has gone wrong2
If a man who has done wrong or is
about TO do wrong needs your help how
much more does a woman in her hours OF
trial? | always had great deal OF sym
pathy for the prayer of that woman VINO
said, 30 God keep me from going over
the precipice of sin. for II my ieet ever
leave the path of virtue even Thou cahst
not bring me back to the straight pain
again" And yet low many women there
arc TODAY being tori and lacerated by
the thiclxets of sin who could be brought
back to live honest, pure, true respect
able lives If only the Christian men anu
the women in the name of Christ Woulu
go forth TO bring them back. Inc pe-
ginning of my text opens amid the SHOUTS
and gay laughter of the merrymakers' IL
closes with the sobs and means and the
creams of breaking hearts. Brother sis
fer will YOU today in the name of Christ
tween with those that weepY' Will you
stretch forth the broad, strong, loving
hand OF rescue and say. brother, sister
in the name of Jesus Christ give me thy
hand, and | will help thee up to GOD, up
to a heavenly and an earthly rescue
viii YOU do this for Christi VIII you
"weep with those tnat weep" and help
Others, no matter how far astray their
sinful feet may go or are about to go?
A Practical Test.
Yes" answers some one, from this
day / promise to help all those in dis
tress that l cam Iou do2 Well then
let me put that resolve to a practical
test. At a large religious gathering IN
the east, where a collection was ABOUT
to be taken up for Administration Ire
land, that hearted philanthropst,
William IL. Dodge, arose and said: Gen
tlemen, we have been hearing some won
derful speeches about this famine. Some
of us have been crying, some praying
Now / want to put your gospel sympathy
TO a practical test What Ireland needs
is bread, bread, bread, bread bread! In
order to buy that bread my sympathy .
worth Just $500. What is your sympathy
WORTH" AS william Il. Dodge put MS
sympathy to a practical test want TO
put your sympathy to the same KIND OF
a test You saw as a Christian man, by
the grace of God | will always help those
who need help" Well, here is con-
Wet just liberated from jail Work
he will do any honest work that he
can get, but the trouble is he cannot get
! any work to do. All earth and hell seem
| TO be arrayed against his living an non
est life. A few months ago. curing ms
| commencement he thought and dreamed
| over the happy days Of his past life
| While he thought and dreamed the pic
| ture of his old home transformed his
prison cell into the old nursery. He was
| romping and playing again with ms
| brothers and sisters. There he saw again