The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-02-27

snake -poled Satan as far as the Lord has
give me strength Praise the Lord, I've give
the old varmints hide some mighty tight
dressins, but he's gittin the upper hand of
old Daddy Donk now
Yes, breethren"-here the speaker warm
ed up evidently" you that lives AWAY
down here on Timber Gut, don't know
what's doin' Away up yonder to Jackson
vile; but I'll tell You brethren Yes, I'll
raise my voice and tell it so loud. that there
shen,t be man, nor moman nor child.
on all Timber Gat, bit shall here it-Satan
has had another firt 11ith the old 8trumpet
Ba6yLon--and what dye reckon, she's brought
forth? | say, ghGt has the old slut of Bah
ylon brought forth? Why, SoNs-o- TEMP
RANCE
" Yes, brethren. and fore you know.
you'll have cross of the same stock down
here on Timber Gut! | see it a-comin'
And right here, brethren, this fetches me
up to the pint was amin at, while ago.
Bless God, brethren, you all know that
when old Daddy Donk fust come down on
Timber Gut, about year ago, there warn't
put two or three brethren of the Two-Seed
talth on all Timber Gut But your old
Daddy preached and he prayed in the neigh
bors houses, and by-and-by the Lord begun
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Church! And by-and-by brethren. we cot
up 'scri ption to build house to the Lord,
and the brethren was LIBERAL and we built
this nice house-and brethren, we had
seven dollars and half, over and above
bulldln' 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 buldin' of the
meetln, house, and we laid it out in fifteen
gallons OF mighty good corn whi8kev, for the
brethren to use on meetin' days Oh, glo-
ry to the Lord, them was the days when the
Church on Timber Gut was like green bay
tree! Then you might seed the breethren
a fiockln In OF a Sunday mornn'! Then
was the time your old Daddy Donk went
down into the water, with somebody or
another every meetin' day! And brethren
here the speaker sobbed between his words
:" there was added to the Church endursn'
the time a1e had that good spirits, tortv-fivc
members !!
Praise God it was just adzactly three TO
the gallOn brethren
But now, brethren" continued the ven
cradle Donk with trembling, plaintive in
tonation; but, now brethren, them spirits
has been out for two meetin's. Your old
Daddy comes down every month to see YOU.
and preach tor you, and pray for you, and
fight Satan for you, and thar's not drap
IN the kag. The Church, too, is lukewarm,
and Satan seems to be gittin' 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 satisfied in his own mind that the
Lord is about to call somebody else to take
charge of the Church on Timber Gut, for
your old Daddy does not feel willin' to ras-
tie for souls with Satan, and give him all
under holts p
1t is further reported and should be made
known to the world as an act of Justice to
Parson Donk, that Committee raised upon
the conclusion of the Parsons discourse
sufficient sum to procure suitable supply
OF the munitions of war; and that the ven
cradle pastor continues his ministrations on
Timber Gut where the devil gets some con-
founded hard falls, now that Daddy Donk
has in (tin( measure deprived him of his
" underholt."
Reader, the sermon of Daddy Donk NAV
give you some idea of the Timber Gut kind
of preachin'. And having done so we rest
from our labors-for the present