The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-11-04
Daddy DOnk's Sermon at Timber.
Gut.

1pious" friend who took notes of "Fa.
ther Donk,o the "Two-Seed divine's"
sermon, see that only the peroration Of
that memorable discourse has been pre-.
served. Future generations must re-
main ignorant even of the text. What
has been preserved, however, by the
hand Of my friend, proceed to give you:
any breethteh,D continued Father
Donk, 'there's thing been on my mind
all the time I've been talkin' to you this
morning. Looks like the Lord has been
caIlin' all day for me TO talk it right out !
But, my breethren,o-here the parsons
voice faItered, and he wiped his eyes
with the tail of his hunting. .shirt--'I
nately hate to say the word, bekase it's
consarnin' givin' up the church on Tim
ber.Gnt Creek, whar I've sowed the good
seed, glory TO the Lord and where it
spEouted and brought forth fruit, some
fifty and some an hundred fold. Breeth-
rem, the Lord knows love you Timber
Cutters; but, my brethren the Church
and me seems to be a-deferin' (difering),
on somepoints O. faith, and ! reckon I'd
better go. Yea, Lord, Thy will be done,
but Timber.Gut is dear TO the heart of
old Daddy Donk Here Eve striv, and
here I've rastled, and here Pve snake
poled Satan as far as the Lord has give
me strength. Praise the Lord. I've
give the old varmint's hide some mighty
tight dressin's, but he's a.gittin' the upper
hand Of old Daddy Donk now!
eyes, bteethren;" here the speaker
warmed up evidently, 'you that lives
away down here on Timber-Gut, don't
know what's a.doin' away up yonder to
jacksonville; but lltell you, brethren !
Yes, Pll raise my voice and tell it so
loud that there shan't be man, nor
woman, nor a child, on all Timber-Gut,
bur shall hear it-SatGn has had another
tfirt tUitk the old strumpet Of Babylom-and
what dye reckon she's brought forth?
Isay, what has the old slut OF Babylon
brought forth! Why, SoNso'-TEMPER-
ANcE
eyes, brethren, and fore you know,
you have a cross of the same stock down
here on Timber. Gut! see it comm!
And right here, brethren, this fetches
me up to the pint | was amin at awhile
ago. Bless God, breethren, you all know
that when old Daddy Donk fust come
down on Tmber.Gut, about year ago,
there warn't but two or three brethren
of the Two Seed faith on all Timber-Gut! /!
But your old Daddy preached and prayed
in the neighbors' houses, and by-and-by
the Lord begun to move, and many were
added to the Church! And by-and-by,
breethren, we got a 'scription to build
house to the Lord, and the brethren was
liberal and we built this nice house
and brethren, we had seven dollars and
a half over and above buildin' the house
of the Lord And the Lord prospered
the Church on Timber-Gut on every
hand, and we took the money that was
over and above the buidin' Of the meet
in'.house, and we laid it out in fifteen
gallons Of good corn whisky for the
breethren to use en- meetin' days Oh !!
glory to the Lord, them was the days
when the church on Timber.Gut was
like green bay tree Then you might
a.seed the brethren a-hockin' in of
Sunday mornin'! Then was the time
your old Daddy Donk went down into
the water with something or another
every lneetin' day! And, breethren,"
here the speaker sobbed between his,
"there was added to the Church ondurin'
the time toe had that sperrits, forty fvs mem
berS!
t'Praise God it was just adzactly three
to the gallon, brethren!
"But now, breethren," continued the
venerable Donk, with trembling, plain
tive intonation, "but now, brethren, them
sperrits has been out for two meetins'
Your old Daddy comes down every
month TO see you, and preach for you,
and fight Satan for you, and thar's not a
drap in the kag. The Church, too, is
iukewarm, and Satan seemsto be a-git-
tim it all his own way, Brethren, |
hope the Lord will bless the Church on
Timber-Gut, but the way things is fixed,
brethren, your old Daddy Donk is salis-
fed in his own mind that the Lord is
about to call somebody else to take
charge Of the Church on TImbeT-Gut, for
your old Daddy do not feel willin' to
yos,l., for souIs with Satan. 0ld atye kim