The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-11-30

Are Too Busy to Worship God,
or Even to Know Their Own
Wives-A Forcioic sermon.
"A Spiritual and Moral Inyento-
~. was the subject of another OF
Rev. Abe Mulkey's forcible ser
mons. preached to a large congre-
cation at the Methodist church last
night.
In prefacing his sermon, the evan
gelist said that the I'd for this ser
mon was conceived while watching
a business man of his acquaintance
in his home town invoicing his
stock Any business man in the
house would agree that it is abso-
iutely essential for a business man
to take an inventory OF his stock. or
be failure, 1t is just as neces-
sary for a mortal to take an inven-
tory of his heart and mind, declared
Mr.. Mulkey. He cited Sodom and
GOmorrah, how an inventory was
taken of those wicked cities by God
and how there was found not to be
single righteous man within them,
save Lot, and how as a result they
were destroyed. The old testament,
he sad, is a lighthouse for Gods
people, to warn Christians of the
rocks and reefs, the sins OF Isabel
being the reefs, and if we commit
these same sins, We shall be pun
ished as they were, but if we take
heed of the warning OF the light
aIl rh ha
He had not come TO Brownsville 10
fight the sinner but TO fight SIN
itself
Every man should stop once and
while-even a preacher-to take
an account Of his assets and liabili-
ties And he added, there is no
greater drawback to a preacher, than
inability to pay his debts Business
men approve of taking an invoice OF
their stocks, but lJ is ten times more
important to take a spiritual invoice
A man is not made a wreck in a
few moments declared the preacher,
but il takes months, even years. be-
fore he is completely wrecked. l.
men would stop and take an invoice
of their souls. and see whittier their
lOOlSltpS dl Z ttduluS tiCi4r tACs
might be saved from the shoals OF
distress.
Every man in the world, continu-
ing, said Mr.. Mulkey, SHOULD do all
in his power to cheer others, to
make someone happy He stated
that it is not worth while to ask
if our public school was doing we'll.
He could see that in the face of the
superintendent, the very manner
bearing and faces of the school chill
dren themselves showed it.
He paid his respects to the moss
backs They were in the same old
rut that they were in years ago. and
the people of today are taking five
steps to their one. Some of the
stores in Brownsville were the fun
niest he had ever seen in his life.
He believed that Noah had bought
goods in a store that looked just
about like these.
If Christians, said Mr. Muikey,
would only feed their souls as they
feed their bodies. there is no telling
what they would accomplish.
He had been asked why he refer
red to his wife so much in his ser
mons and had replied, because she
was his companion, his helper. He
said some men are so wrapped up Il
business and other affairs that they
hardly know their wives. Speaking
of men who were so entirely wrap
ped up in their business affairs, that
they did not have the time to wor-
ship God, who neglected their family
by denying them their presence, he
said that in the classic vernaculdr
of Sam Jones, these men were fools.
If they but knew about some old
bachelor peeking through the crack
of the fence at their Mary Jane,
waiting for them to drop off, to
work themselves to death, and then
marry their wife, sit in their chair
on the gallery with his feet hOisted
on the dashboard of the front porch
wearing their clothes and smoking
their old pipe, they would not give
quite so much of their time to bust
ness. He advised them. instead OF
being slave to money, to try
il the other way for while and
make money their slave He said
thar if he could but have his way
ne MOuIO llOSt dSSui ttlF lltNt an
eight hour day, eight hours for work.
eight hours for recreation and eight
hours for rest, that he is praying
and working for that end and hopes
the time viii come when it viii be
against the law for any man to eX-
coed the eight hour linn in any one
thing
As an illustration applying to the
spiritual invoice, he told of meet
ing that occurred in San Marcos
where one of the features was the
testimony OF Christians One old
man from the forks of the creek
arose and stated that for fOrty-nine
wears he had been in the harness of
the Lord and then he took his seat,
This man. he said, had invOiced his
soul by what he had done forty
years ago Religion he said should
not be allowed TO stagnate.
Il appeal to true Christians. he
said. See if you cannot occupy
greater fields of usefulness Christ,