The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-13

trouble): What was the matter with you yesterday?" He said: That man Jackson-why, his name is worth ten thousand men to our side" There was a fellow sitting on a horse who had been in that fight, and he was talking to an other man, who said: That man Jack son is christian" The other fellow said T don't believe it; anybody who fights like that man Is no christian" The man who had been In the fight the day be- fore and was full of dust, smoke and pow der stain said: Well, I'll tell you one thing; Stonewall Jackson may not be a christian, but if he ever makes up his mind to go to heaven, all hell won't keep him out of it." Gaughter)
 There are old soldiers here today, and | they will bear me a willing witness to l this: that 1t takes more real courage, | more real nerve to stand up in the battle of life and do right than it does to stand up on the field of battle and be shot at. Oh. gentlemen, these are the times when God wants men of nerve who know the right, and who have the courage to do the right in spite of custom practice, | ridicule or opposition.
 Honest Business Men.
 Another thing: There never was time when there was a greater need of honest men, and you men of business will cer- 1 tainly agree with me when l say that there is no principle upon which busi- ness man can act that is better for him | than the principle of a square and honest transaction A travelling man must make a fair deal with his customers. In the long run it will ruin him if he does not. The merchant must be straight out with his goods or 1t will come back at him. A lawyer must be Al in his profession, or it will roll back upon him if he is not. These are the times when honesty Is at premium.
 Gambling won't pay. I was in city in this state not very long ago, conduct ing a meeting, and the news went abroad over the city that man had put pistol to his head the day before and 1t w><s thought had killed himself. A dealer Tn futures. It won't do. Gambling with cards is one of the worst practices man ever engaged in. The man who gambies is a fool and he knows 1t as well as l do. am sorry to say that gambling has crept in among our women as well as among our men. The man who gampies Is his own worst enemy.
 Gambling Is Folly.
 Not long ago there were two gentiemen' I might say they were Irish, though you may not agre with me when you near their name One was named Moses, the other key. They were passing along the | street in New York when key says Moses, there is a faro bank in there. made S10O the other day in trade; go in and puts up dis one s100 and make a 'tousand." Moses says Don't do It, key. don't do It." Ikey says: Come along, we make a 'tousand wit dis hun dred" So he went in. put up his hundred and won another hundred. Moses says 'Ikey come along now, we haf two nun dred, don't stay any longer" No he said, 'I put this up, l win four hundred He put 1t up and won eight hundred. Moses said: Come along now, we haf eight hundred, we go and get a big din ner." He said: No, l put dis eight hundred. I wint sixteen hundred" He put up his eight hundred and lost It. He fell in a faint on the floor Moses went running out on to the street yelling: VI want doctor I want doctor; my brud- der has tainted up the stairs" He cauglx hold of a man and the man said: ''I am doctor, but not the kind you want, am veterinary. I am not the doctor you want" Aes,' Moses said you is de very kind I want, my brudder was a jackass." Uaughter)
 What God Wants.
 I might conclude this address with a few suggestions as to what God wants, and let me say first that 1t is to make better husbands of us, to make better sons, to make better citizens to make better business men; and I think l am speaking the thoughts of great many of us here when l say: "Oh, well, it is a very good thing to draw picture like that of what a man ought to be, but how can a man be like that? There is only i one way that I know of, and that is the way suggested by the remarks made by these men here this afternoon. There is one who made the machine. He cer- tainly understands it, To commit our A1. t.,tA l-1 = | surrender of ourselves into the hands of Jesus Christ, to become his followers. To consecreate ourselves to his service; that is, to be the ideal man. You cannot do | 1t alone. You cannot win out by saying other men who are Christians have failed Men have failed in all the walks of life, but surely the highest and best type of man Is the Christian man in it's highest and truest sense. God is calling you to- day. Calling us by the example of those we have known, calling us by the teach ing of our gentle mother, calling us by the entreaties of those who love us best, calling us by our little boys and by our little girls.
 A Case of Conversion.
 l think the dimpled hands of our little children, as they are stretched forth tu you and to me, can lead us with a strength mightier than electricity, or Steaiii, anu tdke us out or the path of wrong into the path of right. One of the most magnificent men Sat I know Is a distinguished lawyer in the city of New London, Conn. He gave me the history of himself. l have known him for years Long before he became christian he was deadly enemy of the Bible and of christianity, and he rarely ever made a speech without making some unkind cut at religion. Why, to talk religion to him would be to have him laugh in your face. He was a mighty speaker and wonder fully intellectual. God wanted him and got him. He had a wife and two children l knew them all-a little girl just passing Into fourteen and little boy of eleven That little girl he loved with an affec- tfon that was beyond the expression of words. but found expression in the every day life of her father. There was noth- ing he could do for her that he did not do One day the little thing sckened was sick for only day or two and died He told me he was sitting in the room ad- joining the one in which his little girl lay in her casket, cursing the very day he was born. He said as he sat there he thought if there is any God, "I defy and l curse him, because he has taken away that which love best on earth" He said his little boy came in and laid up against him and said: Papa, will you go with me and let me see little sister one more