The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-26
TATE OF SOME DONKEYS
WHO HAD TO BRAY OR DIE
r. H WHITAKER
BY REV. r. H. WHITAKER.

aside"
Of course, no one believed the old
woman, but the attorney was very
willing to let her go, all the same. He
had been cautioned against putting
her on the stand, but he thought his
naughty manner would intimidate her,
and, SO, against advice he risked it and
got worsted.
That incident brings to mind many
faces and voices with which / used
to be familiar half century ago. The
old county courts were, in those days,
the peoples courts, so called and so
considered for the reason that, instead
of judge, they were presided over
by three magistrates, selected annually
by the full court of magistrates. Those
three magistrates selected one of their
number as chairman, or spokesman,
who generally announced the decision
of the court, after consulting with his
two associates. The lawyers when ad-
dressing the court would say your
worships,' instead of as, when adj
dressing a Judge your honor" 1t
Quarter Sessions" and was held four
times year for the trial of civil cases
and for the regulation of county mat
ters. 1t had juries, grand and petit,
and was in all respects a veritable
court, and was generally more largely
attended than the superior court,
which met only twice a year, for the
trial of criminal offenses. Lawyers in
those days were licensed TO practice
in the county court first, and the
course of study consisted of Black
stone, book or two on Pleading and
Evidence, the Code, Fearne on Re-
mainders, &c. After serving a sort of
probation, as practitioners in the
county courts, and having read the
had to go second time before the
Supreme Court for examination So
as the reader will observe, there used
to be county court lawyers who could
not practice in the superior court.
BY the way, some of our Methodist
people do not remember the time
when members were received into the
Methodist church on probation-that
is, taken in for six months on trial.
If theH behaved laAl right for six
months they were at the end of that
time received into full fellowship
otherwise they were dropped
/ don't know but what it would be
well to return to that method. / am
pretty sure there are many in the
church who would have been dropped
at the end of six months, If the pro-
baton system had been kept up. But
they got in and couldn't get out; and.
in all the other churches as we'll as
in the Methodist. there are hundreds
and thousands who are as much out
of place and as uncomfortable, i'm the
church, as a back country green horn
would be at a society ball" They
just don't know what they are in there
for; they don't know what to do; con-
sequently are not worth their weight
in rotten shucks to the church.
II like a hustler" l heard man
say not long ago; "a man. he con-
tinued, "who takes time by the forez
lock and circumstances by the nap of
the neck, and drives right ahead,
whooping up as he goes. These men
who seem to be afraid they'll make a
noise, or tread on somebody's toes, or
Knock somebody off the sidewalk
these goody-goody men who really
think they ought to give half the road
TO a man who is driving an OK, or
ease up on a poor devil who is down,
will never get there nor make fortunes.
| like a hustler, / do"
| did not venture a remark in OPP
position to his theory, for, / rather
like a hustler, myself, and really
think the world is indebted to the
hustlers for most of its great achieve
ments and grand successes. / object,
however, to his idea of the sphere and
business of a hustler. / think we need
hustlers in moral and religious things
We all believe that the devil is a
hustler; that he takes time by the
forelock and circumstances by the
nap of the neck and drives right
ahead, whooping up as he goes; not
caring how much noise he makes,
whose toes he treads on, nor how
many he knocks off the sidewalk He
has no respect for anybody's views or
feelings,-no respect for time, place
nor circumstance-but keeps hustling
and makes his business lively. He
uses brass bands, string bands, and
every other musical instrument to at
tract crowds; and then he resorts to
all the devices that his satanic ingen~
uity can invent to keep his crowd en-
tertained, so that they may not be able
to hear the warnings, the invitations,
the exhortations, nor the encourage
ments CT the Gospel
The man whom I heard say that
he liked hustler, is a church mem
Der; one of the slowest going, quietest
most unaggressiye specimens of
Christians to be found in any COM
munity; in fact, he is so docile 1 don't
think he would resent it if a man were
to say, right in his face, "there is no
such things as religion-it's all de-
lusion."
The reason / think SO, is, because I
heard him say once, he thought peo-
ing about religion before other people
who We're not religious; as it was UNI
pleasant and discourteous to them.
So, there it is! The world, the flesh
and the devil may keep as much fuss
as they please in their efforts to ruin
souls; but morality and religion must
walk on their tip-toes and speak in
whispers less they interrupt the
worlds program and Satan's schemes.
There are thousands of church people
who can help to whoop-up worldly
enterprises, but are so modest, so
timid or SO diplomatic as not to be
able nor willing to sing a song or pray
prayer, in public. And, as for
shouting, they can't begin to stand
that.
| used to hear Rev. p. l.. Herman
tell story that will give the reader
an idea of the character / have in
mind. He said there was a man in
South Carolina, who, though a church
member, was very much opposed to
shouting; and what made him dislike
it the more, his wife would shout. |
every time she felt like it, 1t annoyed
him so much, he actually talked to
the preacher about it, and requested
him to talk To his Uifa-rpocon yvit1,