Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-11
ARICH sERMoN

wood Is, there the rc goeEh optAnd they p2yeu
on SYMBOLS. DallsImers, JewShSrps and pemEaiohns
AIY FRIESDs Since had the pleasure of
holdin' forth to the benighted and hethenish rap
scallions NV Brandon, MiSsissippy, on the sub
lieck-''An' he played on harp Nv thousand
strings, sperrits NV just men made perteck- -
| As the spirit hath moved me to take up my bed
and travel; and after visiting diYus places Al"
prpagatin' the Gospill to varns nominations,
have ut last fetched up, bless the Lord, 'mong
the hard shells of Tinicum. Ny tex this evenin',
my brethcrin, win be found somewhere tween
! the Books of Providence an Milkizedic q think
the former m when found twill l,e read some
yhar near as foIlows:-s'NVhar no wood is, there
the fire goeth cut-.n' hs played on SYMBOLS,
dullsimeIs, jcysharps and dimmyjohns."
Now, my bretkering, I'm Gwine to say TO you
as said 10 the Brandonians on a former casion,
| Pm not en- educated man. but bless the Lord, I'm
mighty religllish man, man what's born again
one that sperienccd the holy ghost, and tuck re-
| ligion in the naturel way-for ''W 1ar no wood
+. is, thar the fire goeth out-and they played on
silnbolss, dullisners, iewsharps and dimmy-
john"
Now, my brctflering, p'raps some of Of ye are
wondering and axing yourselves what donomin-
ashun belongs to. Well, my friends, I'm plain
spoken man, although seq it myself, as oughtent
| to say it, an IN tell yer what swayshun / be-
| longs to- Perhaps some on We thinks I'm Nor
mon, some more on We may kalkilatc I'm Meth
| odiss, an OILERS uv ye may imbibe the noshun
| that ar { Free Lower; but tells you, my
| brcthering, you are all confoudedly contumbus-
tc-ated if We think any such thing; for, in the
/ language of my tex: ''Whar no wood is, thar the
! fire goeth out-and they played on SYMBOLS, dull
/ sinners, iewsharps and dimmyjohnS."
Somehow, oilers took an amazin ikin' to the
| Baptists, especially to the haTd-stells; not be-
/ cause am particularly fond Of cold water, for
my brethering, I'm not one Of them ar sort o
I christians as repudiates good whisky or looks
gift horse in the mouth. rharS the lSaeh-SheliS,
I the soft-shellS and a great many other kind Nv
shells, but my brcthering, next to the hard
shells, give me the man what shells ont Eoeras-
tly when the contribution box goes round-for
/ .tWharno wood, is the fire goeth out-and they
played on SYMBOLS, dullsimers, jewsharps and
/ dimmyjohns."
Now, my hrethcring, having told you what
swashun lougs to, I'm g0in' to eXemplcate and
''lucidate on my tex, which SEE, ''Whar no wood
/ is. thar the fire" &c. Ny brethering, don't sup
pose for the sixteenth part of a minnit, that the
fire we read about in the scriptures viii go out
bckase thar's no wood. No, no, my christun
friends, SO long as the anthersite and birthstone
holds out it wont make a diff Nv bitterance whcth-
er the wood hold out or not-thc fire will be
kept Huntington, "they played on SYMBOLS
dullsiners, icwsharps and dimnyjohns"
i Nv brcthering when accordin' to the tex, |
seq, they PLAYED on SYMBOLS, dullsimerS, jews
harps and dimmyjohns mean that the good
| perfcck spirits-tiem by the sixth specr-plays
on the siml OILS and dullsmers, and the bad spcr.
its, what lives in the lower spcerS, play on the
ijewsharps and dimmWohns, specially the dim
lmxjohns-ior "Whar no wood is, thar the fire
gocth out---and they Notwithstanding smell
a mice! Thar's Judis in this congregashun
sures you are Twin sinners, and he must be dis
peeled! All, told you so. Thar he is on that
high scat yondcr, close by the stove. That wca-
zcn-faced sinner in the bear-skin bang up-a wolf
in bears clothing-Settin' thar as innocent as q
possum up "simsnon tree reporting my lecter
At this juncture all eyes were fixed on our re.
porter, who also began to smell MICE" and
hastily thrlIstiag his notes in the pocket of his
''har-slin bang up" vamoosed through side
window, surrounded by blaze of glory aud at
4 least a hundred hard-shells.