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
al 40.

PETERSBURG. VA July Is
| Some men are Young at - and some
arc old a. go" said Rev. F-od w
Moore pastor of the Second Baptist
Church. when he preached 10 a large
cong cGaton tOnigh; on Caleb. So
Years Young MIR. Moor. declared
that there ar" few thing. tina; re-
H"ct more dIser"d!t upon tn. church
IMAM IT. attitude towards the minis
'"rs "ho reach life's meridian
I"Hlng his text from Joshua xiv.
no. H. IL ana - verses And now
TO- am this day four score and nv.
Years old IS Vet am as strong as
was IN tn" dag that Moses sent
me Now. therefore gly. me this
! hiIl country. And Joshua blessed him
and h" gave Hebron unto Caleb"
Continuing with his sermon Mr..
Moore said
our tex, represents Caleb a, the
axe ot Sd asking for biz task rhe
taxing Of the Hill country south Of
Jerusalem with Hebron It's chief civ
EhrTison"d By giants Caleb - one
I "' the grand old men Of The Old T.y-
: lament. While his brethren .ourh,
men he would aEat tn" Anahln,. who
/ We're ~ giantlike statue He dis
played courage now like unto ,hat
or NOR" than forty Years before.
when ne returned with Joshua from
spying the land flowing with milk
ana money. The inspired writer adds
mat Hebron became his inheritance
because he wholly followed the
Lord.
some transiators say that Caleb
signifies dog. Ru, VIVA, is there 20
name y dog has this virturr tina,
! ~ follows it's master. Therein was
caleb well named. for never d.d n
dnr follow It's master more faithful
IS than Caleb followed his Lord
The name has another sisniflca
ZION. II means all heart and Catch
was an appropriate surname for one
who from iife's dewy morn to ROSY
eve had wholly followed God Many
~ US. Ike Peter follow Him afar off
AZ times. but how many OF US win
tha' adverb wholly which was Ca
lebs golden medal. He nut his hand
10 the plough and never looked back
He persevcred during the forty DAYS
of his sypshp. During the forty
Years soiurn IN the wilderness he
never consortc6 with rebels He was
s;cadfast, unmovable and always
Astounding In the work OF the Lord
/ He was never driven to spasms +,
takes long steady pull 10 reach the
/ heavenly Canaan Heaven in not
reached b. single bound. Heroes are
made by years and not moments
! The mushroom attains maturity in A
day: the California redwood tree in
millennium. II required decades
Tor Caleb 10 grow his character. but
/ II was character worth growing
| God had n mission for Caleb in
his old age. No man is older than
he feels and behaves. There Is an
old age serene and bright and calm
as Lapland night Every day in
earlier wears well spent postpones
encroHchment of age. Some men
are young at 20 and some are old Mt
| 40 Caleb refused to grow old There
are few things that reflect more dis
credit upon the church than its at
titude towards its ministers who
reach LIES meridian. They are fire.
duently shelved when in the prime Of
their physical. mental and spiritual
! po"ers To fix arbitrarily II dead
line for the ministry is consummate
folly. Caleb was SIS when he took
Hebron. Moses was so when he as
stunned leadership over Israel and
led the exodus. and Joshua did some
/ Of his best work after he became
centcnarian. Handel composed
/ The Messiah at 81; The Solenclls at
~. Michael Angelo painted his Last
| Judgment a Co years. and at 81 he
| raised the dome OF St. Peters.
Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last
supper at -. and Titan was pro-
ducing masterpieces at 90. Milton
| finished Paradise Lost at 81, and
Goethe his Faust ut So. The moss;
popular preacher and lecturer in
America, Russell n. Conwell. is at so
| directing great church. hospital and
college.
Satan is never afraid OF small
measures. The SIS. 900. 900 campaign
of Southern Isaptists was Gods chal-
lenge 10 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
tho world. The uttermost part OF
the earth is the limit. The field is
the world said Jesus"
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