Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-30
ANOTHER HARP SERMON.
NJ | s c L L L A N Y

Ny BELOVED BRETHERING II am an unlarnt hard
shall Baptist preacher Of whom you've doubt heern
atore, and now appear here TO expound the Scrip
lures and pint out the way which leads from
vain world to luroosalem and my text which shall
cho for the occasion is in the !eds of the bible
somewhere between ike second chonikils and the last
chapter Of Timothy Titus, and when you find it, YOU
will find it in these words -
And they shall kinw file and flee unto the noun
tans Of HepNidam, where the lion roareth and the
wane-doode mourneth for its first born"
Now, my brethering, rs have before told you, I am
an uneducated man, and know nothing about gram
mar tok and coolidge hitaootin; but I'm plain un-
arnt preacher Of the Gospi what's been foreordained
and called to expound scrpter to dyin' world and
prcpar perverse generation for the day of wrath; for
',cy shall knaw file and flee unto the mort1tans of
Hepsidam, where the lion roareh and the wang-goode
mourneth for its first born
My beloved brethering the text saws thew shall
"knaw file 1t don't say the, may, they SHALL
And now there's MORN one kind o. file There's the
handsaw lile rat-ta file, double file and profile: but
the kind Of file spoken Of here isn't one of them nci-
ther, for it Is fgger Of speech, my brethering and
goin' alone and getting ukered; for ''they
shall knaw file and flee unto the mountains of Hep
;dam where the lion roareth and the wang-doodle
mournefh for its first born.
And now there be some here with fine close on thar
backs brass rings on thar fingers, and lard on thar
head. what Goe, it while they're young; and thar be
Others here what as long as thar constitutions and
forty cent whi,cy lasts goes it blinds and thar be sis
tiers here what. when they git sixteen years old cut
thar tiller ropes and goes l. with rush but saw
my dear hrethering, take care you don't find. when
Nabrel blows his trump that YOU We all went il alone
and got rkcrcd; for they shall knaw file and fee
unto the mountains of HepSdam, where the lion roar
eth and the wang doodle mourueth for its first born
And my hrcthcying, there's more dams than Heps-
dam, there, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Had,lam, Mill
dam and dOnt-carc a-dam-the last Of which NV
dear hredthering is the worst of ALL and reminds me
q circumstance once knew in the State of Illenov
mar was Il man what built mill on the east fork of
Agur creek, and it ground sight of grain, but the
man that built il n miserable sinner and never
give anything TO tue church; and my bretherina one
night there come u mighty storm of wind and rain
and the fountains Of the great deep was broken nm
and the waters rushed down and swept that man
mll-dan into kingdom come, and 10 and behold in hc
morning when he got up lie found he was not worth
dam. And now my dear brethcrng, when the storms
Of temptations 0vertake We. take cure Won don't fail
from grace and become Ike that mans mill not worth
dam; for they shall knaw file and flee from the
mountains of lepsdam where the lion roareth and
the wnng-doodlc mourne'h for its first born"
" Whar The lion roareth and the wang doodle mourn
eth for its first born
This part Of the text, my brethering is another fig
ger of speech, and isn't to be taken us it saws II
doesen't mean that the howln Wilderness where John
the hardshcll Baptist was fed ocusts and wild ass
cs, but 1t means, my brethering, the city of New
OOreans, the mother Of harlots and hardlots-vha,
corn is worth six bits bushcl one day and nary red
the next; wlar niegers thick as black bugs in a
spoiled bacon ham, and gamblers, thieves and pick
pockets go skitting about the streets like weases in
barn yard-whar they have cream c0lored horses
gded carriages marble saloons with brandy and suqa,
in eln-whar honest men scarcer than hens teeh
and strange woman once took in vour beloved
preacher aud bamboozed him out of two hundred
and tweny-seven donrs in the twinkling of sheen,
tai, but she can't do it agn, haeluiah for for they
shall knaw file and flee unto the mountains of Hen
sdan, where the lion roareth and the wang doodle
mourneth its first born"
My brethering am captain of that fat-boat YOU
see ted up thar and I've got aboard of her flour ba
con, and oats, and as good Monongehay whiskey Il,
You ever drunk; and am mighty apt to git biz
price for it all But what, oh my bretferng, would Il
all be worthf hadn't redgin Thar's nothing like
relidgn' Ihar-s nothing like reldgin my bretherinc
It's better nor silver and gold iimcrucks and Won cnl
no more GIT to heaven without il than inv Grd car
fly without tail Thank the Lord I'm an unedica,e,
man, my brcthering, but I've sarched the scripten
from Dan to Burshebee. and found old Zion right sid,
np, and the hard-she relidgn. But it's not like tb,
Methodist what expects to git into heaven by hoern
hel.-hre; nor like the Unversalist what gifts upon th,
broad gnage and goes the whole hog; nor like IN,
United BreTherng what takes each other by the sea
OF the tfowsers and tries to lift themselves into heaven
nor like the Catholics what buys thar tickets from
thar preest-but it may be kened my brethering
10 man who had to cross Il river, and when he r9
mar me ierry-boat was gone and he rolled IN hi,
oreeehes and waded over-halleuah for ''they Shall
knaw nc ana flee unto the mountains of Hepsdan
where me non roareth and the wang doodle mournetl
for its first born" ''U'' 'e''
Pass the hat brother flint, and lot every bard-sbe,
out 's'