The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-03

KIM. AS SOOll DIS MdItHl LulIicl
brushed aside the dissolution and
mems ordinances and stood face TO
face with God he had to tell his teX-
perience.
1.-The biggest event in England was
not the induction of King into office.
1t was when the son of Susannah
Wesley. in that little chapel felt his
heart strangely warmed as he listened
to the reading of the Word by the
Moravian preacher.
The bishop inveighed against the
religion that stopped in a mans house.
That sort of religion that is ambitious
for the son to be pious but just pious
enough to keep off the chain gang was
held up to ridicule. I'VE have men
these DAYS who belong to the church
but do nothing to propagate the gos-
pei. 4 am very conservative
Christian says this sort of church
member So is a mummy.
In a rapid and impressive manner
the bishop then contrasted the pros
perity, the literature. and the wealth.
of these countries that lacked Chris
tan civilization with those who enjoy
such light He declared that the
present leading position of the Anglo
Saxons was due to Christianity and not
in the strength of the Anglo-Saxon
mind or the weakness of the Latin
races. He contrasted the achieve
ments of the Latin race with
the Anglo Saxons before the
Anglo-Saxon race embraced Chris
tianity. Your Anglo-Saxons were
no great shakes in those days. They
had two distinguishing characteristics
they loved gambling and liquor
/ have never heard palmer. trueE
seyerer arraignment of the modern
gambling than followed. "You bet on
the cotton you have, the cotton YOU
never expect TO have and call it specu-
lation. Gambling is everywhere" Not
long ago the bishop said he took a
typewriting machine on the Pullman
TO do some writing. Just in front OF
him men took out their cards and
began gambling. A little later the
porter went to the bishop and said:
complaint is made of the noise YOUR
typewriter makes" The bishop SAID
the Pullman let them gamble on
me but would not let me sermonize
on them He closed that incident
with a mirth- provoking story we'll told
that made the whole church laugh
audibly.
The bishop then took a fall out OF
the inability to see truth, particularly
in the atmosphere of Chicago educa-
tional life--"there's a menagerie OF
them there, all creased with Standard
Oil. A little gogPle-eyed fellow up
there says that Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress is not fit book because it
teaches selfshness, What kind of an
allegory would that fellow write?'
Then the bishop came to the prac-
teal application and confident proph-
ecy of his discourse. In the old
times money was not used to SEND
out missionaries. For one reason
there was no money, for money is a
modern utility. The bishop then ask
ed: Why has God given this century
the supernatural experience ana the
great accumulation of money if it is
not to be employed to let An army
of the Lord make conquest Of the
heather world? In old times accumu-
lations were employed to build the py-
ramds. Such use of money cannot
again be made. This generation will
disappoint the purposes of the Al
mighty if the great accumulatons are
not used for a great gospel propaSa-
ton. We move rapidly these days
and the money of the world will be
consecrated to a mighty movement for
missions. The bishop realized that
many of the great fortunes were in
irreligious hands and he declared that
the fashionable set that invited a
monkey to dinner were nothing but
pagans. ''They are nothing. A crowd
that has no more sense than to have
a monkey to dine with them will find
that their great grandchildren will not
have any of the stuff to monkey
with That sally produced round
of laughter and the bishop went on to
say that it was gratifying to know
that in this country there is no law
| of entail and those who miSused
money could not keep it in their fam
| lilies. He cited instances of silly eX-
travagance, wanton folly, and sin upon
the part of the rich and oppression,
and declared that the greatly increas-
ed menacing Socialist vote was due to
the folly and the wrongs of those who
defy money. The whole world has
gotten the notion that money is the
supremest good and men are ready to
fall down and worship any man who
has got it. no matter how he attained
or how corruptly or unwisely he uses
| it.
He told of Il very rich man of his
acquaintance whose children had been
reared in an atmosphere where money
was everything, They are dissipated
land reckless and extravagant. The
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