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

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ing teeth when you have to give
3 up, and let him know you give
reluctantly, If any of the member
get sick, do not tell him; he is SUI
posed to find it out, but be sure +
kick if he does not come to see you
} If everything is running along mic
; and smooth, jump right up and star
something.
In every community in which
Z hold a meeting, have some light
headed mutt come to me and saw
I'VE wouldn't mind going to churcf
and bucking up our pastor if h,
would preach like you" Well, hi
doesn't have anything to do, onl,
make two sermons a week, one
prayer-meeting talk, visit everybod,
in the community, look after the
sick, and bury the dead. Right
here, want to say that there is nc
preacher on earth, no. matter how
talented and gifted he is, who can
make two good sermons week
People forget that an evangelist can
manufacture rs or 100 sermons and
that he breaches them in every town
that he goes into. There are evan
gelists now going up and down the
land who have not made a new ser.
mon in years, but if one of your
pastors dared to preach sermon
twice in one year from the same
text, all the dear old sisters" would
have something to talk about, and
the brothers, too. Is it not a strange
thing, that if a man has a message
from God for your soul, you can
hear it only once? You are so NOR?
ally and spiritually and mentally
constructed that If you should hear
the same sermon twice, no matter
how dear and precious it is, it IS
stale. No, it is not stale, except
to stale people.
Young converts, let me beg of YOU.
DO not expect your preacher to work
down here and board in heaven. It
is impossible for him to be eloquent
to wood and varnish Hold up his
hands and let him know that he
mas your undivided support.
lou want to give as the Lord has
prospered you. Paul, in writing to
the Corinthians, exhorted them ia
give not grudgingly or of necessity,
for God loveth a cheerful giver,
One reason we have so many little
old weasel-eyed, weakened, lin.
ber-twigged, runty, spineless, three.
carat, chimney-cornered, tea-drink.
ing, enemies Christians, is because
they are Systematically stealing and
robblng God. A stingy Christian
can not be a growing Christian.
uod $ command is, to pay one-tenth
OF what you make and the churches
are giving one-sixth of one per cent
II we kept the divine command we
wouldn't be hoboes and weary-wiI-
lies nor paupers in the realm of
grace.
Converts, do not be one of this
sort OF grasping, grabbing, pernur- |
lous, avaricious, cQvetous tight !
wads. Remember that YOU can NOT
out give God. God made the 1.-THE
ing law, and it is as imperative
and positive as any in the Bible. Het
mas not made a law to govern ynn.
that you would not have made If
you mao, known as much as God
knows.
BE glad in the Lord; peddle sun /
shlne; do not look like the advance
agent of cyclone. God Almighty
never intended for people to look
IKE London fogs. Some peop,e
nave an idea that to be pious that
hey must look like they were born
n crab-apple time, and put up n
Vinegar. | want to say to you, that
ne Christian religion is not going
Up and down the street with q coffin
inder one arm and tombstone un-
Ter the other, hitched to hearsel
md being detected melancholy and
Town at the mouth. When there is
song in your soul, it will shine
n your face and be heard in YOUR
'olce. When we think that God is
'ur Father and heaven our home
md Jesus Christ is our elder brother
md the Holy Ghost our abiding
some day the old family
arriage will .hurl us past rolling
worlds, shining suns and twinklingl
tars, through the gates of pearl,
lown the streets of gold, into that
World OF light, where Abraham. Jere-
Nah, Isaac, Ezekiel, Paul, Stephen,
Ohm Knox, John Wesley and ali
hat blood.washed throng will be our
I do not see how we
an go around with face longI
nough to eat oatmeal out of a gas
ipe Be attractive; let the morn
1g shine in your face and the songs +
the angels sing in your soul. Do
ot live in the shade, live in the
unshiny side of Happy Avenue.
cunt your blessings, think of allll
nat God has done for you and YOU
'iil have joy. Thank God, we don't
ave to be cross-grained, biased,