Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-12-04
HARP SERMON.

HARP SERMON. 'eAi1litt
To the Editors Of tie Sunday Times: y
|" DEAR SIR "a friend from New " Or!
leans'' has handed us the enclosed ser:
mon, and as it appears something Of a
gem in its way, l send it for your peru:
Sal. Should you think it profitable. for
one Of your Sunday discourse, shall'be
happy 70 give your readers the benefit. Of
the hard shells experience, and let them
"'guaw. the, file Of his reflectionsn' = 81
| Yours respectfully" T.aR0STRUM.
a9SNEw YoRx,, Nov. 18th, 1897 4 ~
!Gi lIf iHofh .a3s7i sidl i4pa H.n
ny BELOVED rhaHERiso IL I'll abm mifapbbbn IN.
larnt,, Hard shell Baptist ptsachef;s Of
whom you've no doubt hearn afore, and
| now appear here TO sexpound the scrip
ters and pint out the narrow way which
leads from vain world to the streets Of
Jaroosalem /; and my tex which shall
choose for the occasion is in the leds Of the
Bible, some whar between The Second
Chronik ills and the, last chapter of Tim
othytitus |; and when you find 1t You will
find it in these words: "And thOy shall
gnaw fine, and fee unto the mountains
Of Hepsidam, WHARF the lion roareth and
the wang. doodle mourneth for his frst
born"
Now, my brethering, as have before
told you, am an oneddicatedi man. and
Know nothin about grammer TALK and
colldge highfalutin, but l am a plain un-
larnt preacher ofthe Gospil what's been
fore ordained and called to prepare per-
verse generashun for the day of wrath
ah !-"For they shall gnaw a 6Ie. and
fee unto the mountain of Hepsidam,
whar The lion roareth and the wang. doodle
mournelh for his FIRST born"-ahl
My beloved brethering, the tex says that
they shall gnaw fIe. 1t does not say
they may, but shall. Now. there is more
than one kind Of file. There's the hand
saw file, the single file, the double file,
and the profile but the kind Of Gle spo.
ken Of here isn't one of them kind nayther,
bekaws it's fgger of speech and
means going it alone and gettin ukered;
"for they shall gnaw file, and fee unto
the mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion
roareth and the wang doodle mourhsth for
his first born''-ah!
And now there be some here with fine
close on their backs, brass rings on their
fingers. and lard on their bar, what goes
it while they're young, and thar be pth>
ers here what, as long as their constitoo-
shuns and forty>eent whiSkey lasts, goes
it blind. Thar be sisters here what when
they gets to be sixteen years old, cut their
ltiller-ropes and goes it with rush. But
say, my dear brethering, take care you
don't find when Gabriel blows his last
trump, you're hands played out. and
you've got ukeredrahl. "For they shall
gnaw file. and fee unto the mountains
OF I4epsidam, whar the lion roareth and
the wapg>doodle mourneth for his first
born" - ...as, a
Now, my brelhering. they shall fee
unto the mountains Of Hepsidam. . but
thar's more dams than Hepsidsm. :Thar's
Rotterdam. Amsterdam, and "Donst;
care e-a-dam'''--the last Of which, my
brethering, is the worst of alb and rsr
minds me of sirkumstapce onst know
ed in the State of Illepoy. Thar was q
man what built him a mill on the north
fork ofsAger Cribk, and II was a good
mill and ground sight of grain; but the
man what built il was a miserable sinner;
aud never Civ anything to the ehutEbi
and. my dear brethering, one might. there
came dreadful storm ofiwind and rain.
and the mountains OF the great deep was
Lbroke upgand theERatefs rushed down
land swept the manis mill dam 70 kingdom
Lcdnn. andEwhenshe lwokeups he found he
wasn't worth dan--afl &c For they
shall gnaw q file and flee unto tie noun
tains OF Hepsidam. whar The lion roaretH
Il T.