The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-02-25

s If you think that Joe Harkley is a mar
: 'that the world should not let de-" you viii
publish the exercise which the author came
from foreign country-clean from Kaiia
EttsckHto deliver to the Hopewell Division O.
that branch of the Church militant, known as
Hard Shell, Whisky Baptist. Yours truly,
YOUNG AMERICA
Well, my brethren and sistern in the fust
place, l reckon thar's great many ofyou, and
these folks here, as wants to know who | am,
and whar come from. Well, I'll jest tell you
lam that III put an end to hat study. NY
names Joe Harkley, and l live in Barn county
halntucfy, and I'm a Baptist, and | don't care
who-o knows it.
Ky brethran, was raised an orphant boy,
and | never had but three months schoolin,'
f but that don't make no difference. Now my
brethren, I'll take my text, and l reckon that
! the most of you'll think that some of these
older brethreen had better take that tex for an
exercise than for Joe to take it; but Joe III do
the best he can for it. And as touching my
tex, my brethreen, suffice it to say, that it may
be found in the leds Of the Bible whar the in
Ispired penmar has injured this duty as
lmeans of grace-ah! "YSarcb the S71pters and
Isee a0haT yo~ come from, and aotitber you're
IgVy1e."
WE'LL my brethreen, hlv'nt come for pay
[ have come from a forin' country-clean from
h-a-i-n-tucky to preach the gospel to you,
leyen as John the Babtist went into the wilder
ness to preach the everlasting gospel to you,
with. the leather girt about his hons and max
ling his meals Of honey locuses. Ii John the
Baptist could preach for nothin', Joe Harkley
can put the begin preachers to an open shame
I-ahl Bless God He tenders the wind to the
sheared lamb. Over yonder in Kaintucky
whar come from, sum folks got to shearin
ther sheep two and three times year; and
they'd shear the critters so close that they'd
almost clip the skin; and ofall the jumpin' and
tOuncin' that eyer you seed, | reckon they
| had it. But the sheep weathered it through
without kiver; and my brethreen, though car
nel-minded sinners may fleece us out of our
substance, and the winds of adversely blow
agin US yet we can keep warm on the lie Of
fatness; we can happily ourselves on amazin'
grace, and hIId tiIe brrdtt Ufiifo, if we'll only
'Sarch the Scripters and see a0]sar 10e ooaoe
from and a0ltitter a0e're ga0ine."
When | was rejinerated fust, was sitting
on stump, and was struck with orful convc-
| ton. | was throw'd ON the yearth like Saul
of Tarsus; and when the unknown sperit ap-
proched me and whispered into my ear the
glad tidin's of salvation, l Jumped to my feet,
and told the brethreen that l couldn't compar
myself to anything except child when it had
eat its belly full of buttermilk and bread, for
| felt like I'd never want nothin' more. Then
my brethreen was the time Harkley began to
"iSarch the S-riDters to see aU5ar he come from
and lohitlter he l0qs ga0i1ls."
Now, my brethren, | can't compar refine
rated and re-imbibed christian made by the
sperit and saved by amazin' grace, to nothin
except bacon rine or cows tail; for you may
gnaw him, and chaw him, and pound him, and
beat him, but you can't pltaze him, and he'll
hang on worlds without e-end for he has
"Sarched the Scrfpters to see a0aar he come from
and schither he's gsoi5ae."
You'll hear, my brethreen, the Methods
and the Old Lights and New Lights, and the
ICampbellites what thinks they'll get to Heaven
by water, and other persuasions talking about
back-sliding and falling from grace-ah. Now,
my dear brethren, Tll jest tell you what it is:
ANY sich God who'll let one of his rejinera-
ted, re-imbibed, and one Of his own choosin
fall from grace, he isn't calkerlated to make a
/ world. and he isn't call1erlated to save it-so
says Joe Harkley.
Here's our dear brother Dewey. He gwine
| to the Observation-Disclosures never to return
I-ah But do you think his takin his consarns
to the Sangamo. will separate him from the
love which is in Christ Jesus. Nay verify, for
as Moses lifted up the sarpent in the wilder
ness, so shall brother Dewey be lifted up in the
ISangamo, for he has
''Sarcte5 the Scripters to aohar he come from
and aolsit]5er bs's gsoine."
Ny brethreen, thar's great many pinions
labout faith, but I'll tell you what Harkley
Iblee7es bout faith. Thars our dear brother
lToliver over thar, and he has got but one eye
l-ah! but bless God, he can see the path of
faith as well as if he had twenty eyes; and
lthar's our brother Stillings, and he has got but
lone leg, but bless God, he can walk in the true
path Of faith as well as if he had a dozen legs.
Now, my brethreen, you all know what Hark-
LEY bleeves. H; T ley blee in
''Sarcling the ScrIpters to see a0bar you come
from and aCbitlter y0U'rs gaCile."
Il The devil has been hkened unto great
many things-ah Some folks liken the Dew
Ill unto a roarin' lion, and some folks lken
him to a destroying angel; but Har<ley would
liken him unto an old breachy hog rootln' and
Irubbin round among the fence corners trying
to find a rotten rail, that he can break into the
patch and waste the crops-ah! Now breth-
reen and sistern, of you don't want to prove
like the rotten rail,
".Sarch the Sc7rpters and see aohar you come
from and aqaitter you're gt0i7ae."
+ Now my brethreen, thar's one more thing
want to tell you, wharin and wharfore in a
case OF needcesty, feel it my duty to tell
YOU, and that's about them various societies
which are mostly found about them places of
Iiniquity, small towns and cities. Thar's the
lsociety of Masons and Odd Fellers, and the
i1001 Society, and the Free Lovers and Cali
'thumpians and the Latter Day Saints and the