Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-12-19

empiixf ,lid Kingdoms that do noN
> or ever will exist, OF that ever hay
/ existed.
T, When Noah commenced bmldin.
} the Ark against the day of ven
geancc, telling his fellow mortalI
that God would certainly destroy
them If they did not repent, they
laughed at the crazy old fool, an,
said unto him whenhc assured thea
Of Gods vengeance" Let's wal
hc does something" Well, my
brethren, they waited, and after i
while the food came, and then they
climbed the hills and mountains and
trees 20 "wait till he did something
Although there was right smart
shower aud ninay o1 them were
washed away, our tcxt was still pre-
served, ;Iilcr Noah had learned ihl
art OF navigation, which probably
would never have been known hal
itnot been that our brethren waite,
for something to be done, again
preached unto the gain saving sons
OF men, in the days of Moses. When
Moses andAAaron took the children
OF Israel and fled from the land OF
Egypt, they were pursued by Pha-
roah and his hosts. Moses hurried
his brethren on, assuring them that
if they were not speedy in their re-
treat, Pharoah would slay them all.
Then it was that some of the wise
ones looking forward TO the raging
tides of the Red Sea and the Great
Desert and looking back to the char
riots and wafstceds that were pres
sing them on, and when they saw
Pharoah advancing hot upon them,
they said, Lets wait until he. does
something"
Again, when the hosts of Israel
were led in battle array against the
Philistines, there stepped out Il great
giant, even Goliah, and challenged
the men of Saul, any of them, TO
meet him in single combat. He
tauntcd them with cowardice and
made. insulting and dcrisive ges-
le0even in the face Of Saul and
his army. There were many strong
and valiant men in the rank aud
file Of Saul's army who werc not
afraid of the man Of Gath, but they
looked each other in The face and
. said, " "Wait till he does something. "
But there was one among them, al
belt he was man after Gods own
! heart, who would not wait, but went
forth with his puny sling and pcb-
bic, and slew the giant against the
admonition Of our text. What did
he get for his smartness Why,
these same women who would rath-
er be the widows of fire-eatcrs than
the wives fsubmissionists,appiand
ed his rashness, and thus excited the
jealousy OF Saul, which WIS more
terrible to David than were the in
suits of Golah.
But, my brethren, why should l
dwell in sacred history and Gull from
its pages the terrible rctributions
visited upon the heads Of those who
will not wait till something be done :?
do this because there are those
who preach a different doctrine
The ministers who preach from
Holy Writ tell you that "procrasti-
nation is the thief of. time" This,
although often used among the meek
and lowly followers of the Lamb, is
a fire eaters text, and we will reply
by saying, in the language of our
text" Wait till he doessomething'
You real in American history, my
friends, that when the rebels in the
thirteen colonies first complained of
tax upon tea, and declaimed dagainst
the English King, there were some
members of our faith and order in
that day whosaid, "Wait till hedoes
something But they would not
wait, and toolishly cast the tea over
board, and it cost them war of,sey
tcral long years and money enough
to buy all the tea which has since
that time been imported into this
country; and instead ofbcing taxed
to keep up one Government. as they
then We're, they arc, now faxed to
keep up thirty three besides the
Federal Government at Washington.
If they had obcycd our text, in all
probability we would have now be-
longcd to the greatest nation under
the sun.
But like Yancey, and Rhett, and
Wigfall, they would not wait for
something TO be done.
Brethren, our honorable faith and
order is an ancient, vcncrsrblc broth
erhood as | have shown yen Ne
have always been by the Side of the
hot-spurs who govc:n the sinful
world and Whenever they have pro-
posed step we have saidin tbelan-
guage ofour text, Wait till he docs
something. 1t was us, my brethren,
to whom Patrick Henry alluded
when he said g gentlemen may cry
peace = peace I! but there IS no peacap
We were in Texas when these old
Texas pioneers proposed to so to
war against Santa Anna, and what
did we then say? sWait till he does
something We have bccp to Con-
gross, and when the ifropresslble
conflict Of Line In and Seward, and
Helpers Crisis Lccame the .e:.d'nS
theory of the Republicans, d the
fire-eatcrs said we must d sselve this
glorious Union and hang old Abe,
we then replied, g Wait till he does
something. When old John Brown
invaded Virginia and gotpossession
of the arsenal and Harper's Ferry,
and we found that the North APPROX
ed his acts, the irc-eaters cried out
that we should dissolve the Union ;