The Nevada journal., 1858-01-08

/ HARP SERMoN-Ny Bezored Breth-
crimg: | am a unlarnt Hard-shell Bap-
fist preacher, of whom you've no doubt
hearn afore, and | now appear here to
e1pound the scripters and pint out the
narrow way which leads from a vain
world to the streets of Jeroosalem; and
my text which | shall choose for the oc-
casion is in the leds Of the Bible, some
whar between the Second Chronik ills
and the last chapter of Timothytitus :;
and when you find it, you will find it in
these words : '.And they, shall gnaw a
file, and fee unto the mountains Of Hep
sidam, where the lion roareth and the
wang-doodle mourneth for his first born. :"
Now, my brefhering, as have before
told you, am an oneddicated man, and
know nothin about grammer talk and
cohidge highfalutin, but I'm a plane
unlarnt preacher of the Gospil, what's
been foreordaned and called to prepare
a pervarse generashun for the day Of
wrath-ah! "For they shall gnaw
file, and flee uhto the mountains Of Hep
sidam, whar the lion roareth and the
g-doodle mo ,rneth for his irst-born"
-ah
Ny beloved bre herring, the text says
they Shall gnaw file. 1t does not say
they may, but shall Now, there is
more than one kind of file There's the
hard-saw file, the rat-taii file, the single
file, the double file, and profile +; but the
kind of file spoken Of here isn't one of
them kind nayther. bekaws ifs figrer
Of speech, and means going it alone
and getting "ukered; ''for they shall
gnaw a file and fee unto the moap taius
/ Of Hepsidam, whar the Ii N roaIeth and
the wang-doodle mourneth for his first
| born-ah p
And uow there be some here with fine
close on thar backs, brass rings on thar
fingers, and lard on thar har. what goes
it while they're yung and thar be 9th
ers here what, as long as thar constitoo-
shins and forty-cent whisky last, goes it
| blind. Thar be sisters here what, when
they gets sixteen years old, cut thar til
Ter ropes and goes it with a 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 ukered-ahl For they
shall gnaw file, and flee unto the
mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion
roareth and wang-doodle mourneth for
his frst-born.'' '' ~
Now, my brethering, ''they shall flee
unto the mOuntaing Of Hepsidam y but
thar's more dams than Hepsidam.
Thar's Rotterdam, Had-dam, Amster-
dam, and "Don't 't-eare-a dam'-the last
of which, my brethering, is the worst of
all, and reminds me of circumstance
l onst knowed in the state of Illenoy.
There was 1t man what built him mill
on the north fork of Ager Greek, and it
was a good mill and ground sight of
grain but the man what built it was
miserable sinner, and never give any
thing to the church; and, my dear
brethenng, one night there came
dreadful storm of wind and rain, and
the mountains of the great deep was
broke up, and the waters sushed down
and swept that mans mill-dam to King
dom cum, and when he woke up he
| found he wasn't worth dam-ah "For
they shall gnaw a file, and flee unto the
mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion
roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth
for his first born-ah ~ go. -..'
Now, "whar the lion roareth and the
wang doodle mourneth for his st-born"
-ah This part Of my text, my be-
seaching brethering, is not to be taken
as it says 1t don't mean the bowling
wilderness, whar John the Hard-shell
Baptist fed on locusts and syidasses, but
it means, my brethering, the city Of
New Orleans, the mother of harlots and
hard lots, whar corn is wuth six bits
bushel one day and nary red the mex;
whar niggers are as thick as black bugs
in spilled bacon ham, aud gamblers,
thieves, and pickpoekets goes kiting
about the streets like weasels in a barn
ward .whar honest men are scarcer
than hens teeth; and whar a strange
woman once took III your beluved teach
er, and bamboozled him out of two hun
dred and twenty-seven dollars in the
twinkling of a Sleeps tail; but she
can't do it again Hallelujah--ah !!
''For they shall gnaw file, and flee
unto the mountains of Hepsidam, whar
the lion roareth and the wang-doodle
mourneth for his first -boru-ah !"
My brethering, am captain of that
fat boat yau see tied up thar, and have
got aboard Of her -four, bacon, taters,
and as good Mouongahela whisky as
ever was drunk, and am mighty apr to
get "a Big price for them all but what,
my dear brehering. would it all lie
wuth if 1 hadn't got religioni Thar
, nothing like religion, my brsthcrins