Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-17
BAPTIST PASTOR TELLS
OF WORK DONE BY CALEB
Declares Some Men Young at
20: Others Old
at 40.

rhTERsnrRG Va :uIy Is
Son" mon arc Young al ~ and some
arc old Al go" said Rev. Fed ".
Moore. pastor % tho Second Rap,is,
ChI-ch when n" preached 10 large
congregation tonight on Caleb 50
Years Yonng MIR Moor" declared
ihai there ar" .cw thing. tina; re-
Meet more d!seredlt upon tn" church
'nan - attitude towards the minis
'"'S Who reach lies meridian
Ih"InE his text :.on Joshua xiv.
no. ~ II ana - yers.s And nov
l'' am mis- day fogr score and fiy.
years old IS yet am as strong as
vas IN tho day that Moses sem
me Now. therefore. give m. this
nil country. And Joshua bIcssed him
ana II" CAV" Hebron unto caleb"
Containing wi,h his sermon. MIR.
Moore said
our tex, represents Caleb =, IN.
az" Of 81 ASKING for b!s task tho
tax as OF tho hin country south of
Jerusalem Win Hebron It's chief ci,v
rtrr!soned b: giants. caleb - one
o. the grand old men ~ IN" old Tes-
lament. While MS brethren fought
men he would aen, tn" Anakim. who
were Of eiantiik" statue lie dis
OF NOR" than forty wears before
when he returned with Joshua from
spying the Land flowing with milk
and hone Tn" inspired writer adds
mat Hebron became his inheritance
because no wholly followed the
Lord
some trnnsIa,ors say ma, caleb
signifies dog. But VIVA, Is there 10
name dog has this vir;ure that
follows IT'S master. Therein was
'aieh We'll named. for never IA a
Hor foiio" is master more faithful
~ Than Caleb followed his Lord
The name has another sisuifca-
/. ion. II means all heart. and Caleb
was an appropriate surname FOR one
who from mes dewy morn to ROSY
~ us Ike Peter follow Him afa- OF
AZ times. but how many OF US win
that adverb 'wholly.' which was Ca
lebs golden medal. He pu, his hand
10 the plough and never looked back
He persevcred during the forty DAYS
OF his sypship. During the for,y
years sojurn IN tho wilderness he
never consortcd with rebels He was
stcadfast. GnnOvable and always
Astounding In tho work OF tho Lord
lie was never driven to spasms. II,
taxes long steady pull TO reach the
heavenly Canaan. Heaven ia not
reached by single hound Heroes are
made by years and not moments
The mushroom atia!ns maturity in
day. the California redwood tree in
millennium II required decades
for Caleb TO grow his character. but
II was character worth growing.
God had mission for Caleb in
his old age. No man is older than
he feels and behaves There is an
old aG" serene and bright and calm
as Lapland night Every day in
earlier wears Well spent postponcs
encroachnient OF age Some men
are young at 20 and some are old at
80. Caleb refused TO grow old. There
are few things that reflect more dis
credi; upon the church than its at
titude towards It's ministers who
reach ,ife's meridian. They are fire.
Guently shelvcd when in the prime Of
'hcir physical. mental and spiritual
powers. To fix arbitrarily Il dead
line for the ministry is consummatc
folly. Caleb was SIS when he took
Hebron. Moses was so when ne as
sumed leadership over Israel and
led The exodus. and Joshua did some
OF his best work after he became
cfnttnarian. Handel COMPOSED
The Messiah at 81; The SoIenelIs' a,
-. Michael Angelo painted his Last
Judgment at Go years. and at 81 he
raised the dome of ST. Peters.
Leonardo da Vinci painted The Las,
supper at Il. and Titan was pro-
ducins masterpieces at 90. Milton
finished Paradise Lost al 81. and
! Goethe his Faust at So The most
popular preacher and lecturer in
America. Russell n. Conwen, is at so
directing great church. hospital and
| college.
| satan is never afraid OF small
measures. The {75.000.000 campaign
Of Southern Baptists wax Gods chal-
lenge To the faith and courage of His
! people II was said OF Cecil Rhodes
that he thought in continents The
/ program OF Christianity is as big as
the world The uttermost part OF
the earth is the limit. The field is
| the world said Jesus