The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01

to do it for fifty cents. He came to see
me, asked my price for marrying peo-
PIE ana Wncn / told him | made nc
charge, but took whatever the bride.
groom thought his wife would be
worth to him, he handed me fifty cents,
promising, if his wife turned out all
right, he would pay more. OF course
had no idea of ever receiving another
cent. But about two years after the
marriage, he came to see me and paid
me three dollars more. He was pleas
ed with his wife and he felt, | supposc
that he had not paid enough for her
/ married another couple and re-
ceived nothing-rnot even thanks-t"
performing the ceremony. The mar
riage occurred in the summer, and
from that time until Christmas / don't
remember to have seen the groom But.
on Christmas day / received letter
from him in which was enclosed a five
dollar BILL with about this explana-
ton:
Dear Sir: AS marrying was a new
thing to me, and as | was not well
posted in all the little details; and,
being very much excited on that oc-
casion, / forgot, when | gave you the
license, to put in the token of graft
tude But, as it's never too late to do
good, / herein enclose five dollars as a
Christmas gift
That was gracefully done and it
proved the MIN to be, what | had al
ways thought he was, a gentleman,
whose Obligations never get out OF
date.
What a difference in men, and liz
women, too, as for that matter! Surely
they were not all cut by the same pat
tern nor made from the same material
fnr iad
in temperament and character as If
they were not OF the same race
Among church members with WHOM J
have to do, / find all sorts and sizes
and colors of characterize good. the
better and the best, on the one hand
and the sorry, the sorrier and the
sorriest on the other. | find men who
are studying the character of Christ
and trying to model their lives after
the divine pattern, who are liberal and
catholic in their views, whole-soulcd
and earnest in their religious endeaV-
ors; who think it an honor to be
claSSed among those who take up
crosses and bear burdens, for Christ's
sake, and who rejoice when they are
counted worthy, by the church. to be
leaders in the great movement which
has for it's object the conquest Of the
world for Christ. When Il duty is inn
posed upon them by the church. they
accept it humbly, and perform it glad
ly, remembering that Christ humblcd
himself, and, for the joy that was set
before him-the joy Of saving the
world--he endured the cross. despise
the shame, and became obedient Q. EN-
unto death; and, they wish to irlitate
the example set by him.
There are others who accepi places,
or make professions, and do nut little,
and make big complaint over the do
ing of that little They are grumblers
and complainers; and, instead of in
spring others with confidence, and en-
couraging others to higher endeavors,
to the end that the KINGDOM of God
may be enlarged, they are all the time
using their little squirts trying to put
out what fire there is in the church.
They are too lazy to work and they
don't like for others to work; too
stingy to give and don't like for others
to give lest their laziness and stingi-
ness be rebuked. They are easy to get
mad, and, when they do get mad, they
go out and talk to sinners and try to
prejudice them against the church.
You couldn't hire one of them to go
out and beg a sinner to leave Off his
sins and accept Christ, as his Saviour