Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-08-03


do not get on the devils territor,
and tempt him TO tempt you. File
the no-harm things. Always Civ
God the benefit of the doubt. Whel
Joseph was dying he called hi
. brethren to his bed, told them tina
some day they were going ts ieav,
Egypt, and when they did, to TAX,
his bones with them. Now, why
i did Joseph want his bones takeI
lout of Egypt? Because he knew
that some day Jesus Christ was go
ing to come to this world and hi
did not want to be found dead in
Egypt, There are some places
don't want to be found dead in, an6
| there are some things do not want
to be found dead doing. wouldn't
i want to be found dead on a ball
room floor, squeezing the life physi
eally and spiritually out of some
! powdered faced, painted Tipped
frizzly top. | wouldn't want to be
found dead in some parlor playing
cards for prize. | wouldn't mind
so much having a telegram sent TO
my wife and children, mother and
father this morning saying, "Bax.
ter fell dead in the pulpit, begging
his converts to run the race and
!.press toward the mark of the high
calling" but ] don't want to have
a message sent to my family saying,
that ! died talking smut or listen
ing to obscenity, or sucking cigar
cites, habit that affects the heart
and diseases the brain and blunts
the moral perceptibilities and assas-
sinates the will power and murders
everything that is noble, grand and
beautiful in life.
Young converts, listen to me. You
can not consider the effect ON your
self alone. You must look out for
others. 1t may not hurt you to play
cards, dance or go to a questionable
place, but you must look out for the
effect it has on others. You and ]
are here to break the bands and
not to tie them around our brother.
Paul was a bachelor; one day he
went to a butcher shop to buy some
meat. AS he came out he met q
man who had been an idolater, but
who had been converted. He asked
Paul if he did not know that the
meat that he had purchased was
from a heifer whose blood had been
given in sacrifice to idols? That
does not hurt me" said Paul. But
it hurts me- was the reply Il
could not eat it, Paul looked him
in the face and said, If eating meat
makes you to stumble, will eat no
meat" That was the kind of a man
Paul was. No wonder he wouldn't
dip his colors to any ignorant dupes;
no wonder God Almighty launched
him like thundeTbolt against the
world.
Connect yourself at once with the
people of God. Join Christian
church where you can take root and
grow. Remember you win need all !
the help that you can get from
Christian fellowship, and you ought
to be imparting help and hope to
others. Don't be a pigmy, don't be
a nonenity, be a live, active church
Keep awake and wide
awake. Help to bear your share OF
all the burdens of the church life.
Be worker instead of shirker.
There are two kinds of church mem.
Ders today: "Ruts and Anti-Ruts.
Attend it's ordinances, be regular
At the services, not forsaking the :
of ourselves together, as
The manner of some is.
Young converts, don't go to church !
and sit up like knots on a log, as
stiff as a poker, and as cold as a
logs nose, like the rivers that flow {
nto the Arctic ocean, frozen up at ,
he mouth. Don't be locked-jawed /
Ind tongue-tied when you should
,e heard in everything that pertains ;
o hcurch life. Be active instead of /
passive. Be a shining bright beam ;
# Gods sunshine, as beautiful as
he coming of spring, as warm and '
as summer, and as full {
f fruit and benedietion as autumn. {
% operate with your pastor; hold up {
lis hands. God has appointed tho K
lastor to be a shepherd over the {
hurch, and you should give him ,
ue reverence and seek to assist him S
nth his plans for the welfare of the {
hurch. Just about every pastor in '
he land has trouble with a God-for. I
AIKEN lot of would-be 'bell-wethers' ]
hat believe strictly in the minority t
ule, and if they can not rule they {
uin. e
Here is way that you will not e
clip your pastor. If he starts any r
hing for the benefit of the church, il
e sure to oppose him. Always diff. Q
Or with him in all vital questions Il
nat he is interested in. II he says s
nything that is helpful to you, be c
IRE and keep it strictly to yourself, t
ut if he says anything that youiv
islike. be sure to let him and theI h
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