The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-12-16
ANOTHER HARP SERMON.
My BELUv-ED BaEErura1se: -I'n

My BELUy-ED BREETHERING: Pm an
uAlarnt preacher, of whom you've no
doubt hearn before, aud | now appear to
expound the Scriptures, and pint out the
narrow way which leads from vaia wor
to the streets of Jerusalem; aud my text
which | shall choose for the occasion
in the leds of the Bible somewhere be-
tween the second Chroni Kills and III
last chapter of Timothy Titus and whsn
you will fad it, ysa viii Gnd it in es
words
"Aal they shall knaw q fle and Acc
unto the mountains OF Hepsidam, where
the lien roareth aud waug-loodle mourn
eth for its first-born."
Now, my brectherng, as / have hsf
told yeu, / am an uneddicated man, and
know nothing about grammar talk and
coolidge hifaIootin; but I'm plain, unlarn'
preacher of the gospil, what's been foror
dained and called to expound the scrip
ters to dyin' world, and prepare a pre-
verse generation for the day of wrath; for
"They shall knaw file and flee unto the
mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion
roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth
for its first born"
My beluv-cd bree:hering, the text says
'they shall knaw a fie." 1t don't say
they ncy, but they shall And now there's
more'n one kind of file. There's the
ihandsaw file. rat tail file, single file, dou-
/ BILE file and profile, but the. kind of file
nf of han mr. n
either; but it's figger of speech. my
lbreethering, and means goin' it alone and
getting ukered; for "they shall knaw a
file aud Gee unto the mountains of Hep
sidam, where the lion reareth and the
wang doodle mourneth for its first born"
!. Aud now there be some here with fine
lclose on thar backs, brass rigs on thar
! fingers, and lard on thar har, what goes it
4 while there young; and thar be brothers
4 here what, so long as their constitutions
and forty cent whisky last, goes it blind;
and there be sisters here what, when they
gets sixteen years old, cuts thar tiller ropes
and goes it with rush; bu. / say my
tbreethering, take care you don't find when
Gabriel plays his last trump, that you've
all went it alone and got ukcred; for "they
shall knaw fls and fee unto the noun,
tairs Of Hepsidam, where the lion roar
eth and the wang-doodle mourneth for its
6rst born" itl9ffS
And my breethering, there's more dams
lbesides Hepsidam. There's Rotterdam,
Haddam, Amsterdam, mill dam and don't
[care- -dam-the last of which, my dear
lbreethering, is the worst of all, and re.
minds me of circumstance / once knew
in the State Of Illenoy. There was a
man what built him mill on the east fork
LET. Agnr creek. and it was coed mill
and ground a site of grain, but the man
what built it WAS miserable sinner, and
never Civ anything to the church; and,
J fmy dear breetherng, one night thar cum
la dreadful storm of wind and rain, and
the fountains of the great deep were bro
ken up, and the waters rushed down and
: swept that mans mill dam into kingdom
leone, and 10 and behold! in the morning
when he got mp he found he was not worth
La dam. Now, my young breethering
when storms or temptation oyertake ye,
take care you DON'T fall from grace and
become like that mill, not worth a dam;
"for .lhey shall knaw o file and flee unto
the mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion
roareth and the wangldoodle mourneth for
!. its FIRST born"
"Whar the lion roarcth and the yang
doodle mourneth for its first bern" This
part Of my text my breethe.ing, is also
ia 6gger Of speech, and isn't to bc taken