. The Saturday evening post. y ground where doctrines andheresies are to be found. His sermons hadone purpose, so far as I could see—to cheeryou up, make you forget issues that mightconfuse your conscience, and to build upthe church. His sermon was sufficientlysecular to fit your weekdays. They werelectures on how to live and prosper Mon-day, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on. His pastoral visiting was like that of acandidate seeking election. He was full ofgood will, good works and a sort of incor-rigible energy. If you bit him with one ofyour meanest, most narrow-minded con-victions, he would no
. The Saturday evening post. y ground where doctrines andheresies are to be found. His sermons hadone purpose, so far as I could see—to cheeryou up, make you forget issues that mightconfuse your conscience, and to build upthe church. His sermon was sufficientlysecular to fit your weekdays. They werelectures on how to live and prosper Mon-day, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on. His pastoral visiting was like that of acandidate seeking election. He was full ofgood will, good works and a sort of incor-rigible energy. If you bit him with one ofyour meanest, most narrow-minded con-victions, he would not assault you withthe Scriptures for doing it. He allowed youto keep this conviction as if it was your ownproperty and sacred to you. He almostcured Stone of religious rabies in this way. The man I had noticed on the front seatthat first Sunday was named Belote. Hewas the leading merchant in Brasstownand had a reputation for doubtful never reproved him for these trans-gressions, neither would he permit him to. still Keeping Those Old Sermons, He Said effect of his sermon, during which he hadnot referred to sin or to faith or to any of theancient stepping-stones of peace with God. I heard someone say as we came out thatthey had got a live wire at last, and thatnow this church would do something. This prophecy was fulfilled. That churchcertainly did do something. It doubledthe size of its congregations in three months,and nearly doubled the assessments underPeters ministry, which was a light andeasy ministry. In vain did Brother Stone figure prominently inany church enterprise;but he constantlymulcted Belote forfood to feed the poorand clothes wherewithto clothe them. No other member con-tributed so much to charity. It is all I can ask Belote to do withpropriety, he told me. He was shockingly intimate with thisman. Peter, I said to him one day, do youthink you should spend so much time inBelotes store? I must, he answered. Belote thinksof something wrong to do eve
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