The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-25

was rich and proud. The old slave was played
out The master said to his young servant: Take
his cabin away from him; give it to that young
fellow who has just come in, and let the old man
find him house somewhere-if he l can't
look after him much. At Christmas you may
give him a few of my old clothes, and send him
some of the scraps from my table 1 guess he will
find living somehow. You know we have fund
for such cases. And he will get a few dollars
once a year from that fund. 1t will be about
enough to buy his salt and tobacco. And I don't
doubt but that he will go to Heaven when he
dies. | have plenty but am under obligation to
feed and clothe and doctor several men in Mexico
| have agreed to support there to
hoe and pillow the fields of several rich Mexicans
and can't look after this old here, who has
worked for me and made me what | He will
need doctor, and medicine and clothes and
home, and all that, but must look after the man
in Mexico.
lone cold night heard knock at my door
and went to answer it, I found this old servant
there. His head white. His eyes were dim
He was tottering on his aged limbs. His voice,
that once called the servants to work and fight,
was cracked He tottered into my hall, and I ask
ed him what he doing there. why said
he, Il am trying to sell to the servants of my
master book telling how much servants
needed in the vineyard" And l said F'How do
you live?" He said: "The best way I can. 1
have no home. You know my master turned
loose last year; and as have been kept hard at
work, and had opportunity to make anything
for myself, / was without anywhere to go, or any
thing to go on" But does not your master take
care for your living now? His reply that II
get a few dollars a year and that is ALL l
bought his book, and he spent the night with
and went on. | went to the books of that man
and read account of the way he spending
the money that this good old servant had made.
I found that for every dollar that he giving to
the old servant he sending three dollars to
the man in Mexico.
81 found that the man in Mexico was allowed
for his work $500. His wife allowed $3.50,
and each of his children was allowed 500.
The old servant got $21S, and his wife got moth
ing and his children got nothing
''Now here is the Church of the living God in
the South Georgia Conference doing this very
thing that am telling you. Ask P. H. Crumpler,
at Empire Ga. Ask T. D. Strong at Wrights-
vile, Ga. Ask c. E. Boland, at Bingen, Ga. Ask
D. F. Miles, at Hazlehurst, Ga.
Home Preachers and Foreign Missionaries.
"While we send money abroad to waste-much
of tour old and their faithful wives and
widows allowed to skimp and starve and suf-
fer here. [ am not saying that this is necessary.
There is money enough for all, but the church has
not yet got hold of enough for one, much less
both. l say what is right. These old servants
should be placed absolutely above want They
should have home and living. The church
it to them. And l will never have any
fdence in any layman's religion who goes raving
round and supports two or three foreign mis-
sionaries, till he takes at least old WORKOUT
preacher to care for. How long will the church
let her old fathers and mothers die? How long
before some with the spirit of Jesus Christ in
him will do something sure enough worthy of
him?
millennium, indeed The first principles of
Christ forgotten. Show me the who will
say to the Bishop when he is read out to Mulberry
Street at salary of $4,000 "'Bishop, I have
small family. l can live on 81 900. l ask you to
send me to the Wrghtsville circuit, and send that
brother, with wife and six children to Mulberry
l know it would paralyze the Conference. And
Mulberry would have nineteen different kinds of
fits. But let me tell you if Mulberry belongs to
God then Mulberry will take that other preacher
and if Mulberry does not belong to God she does
not deserve any preacher at all. Talk about the