The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-02-09
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MY .sBELUv-ED BRETnRING.-L am an
unlarnt hard shell Baptist preacher, of
whom you've no doub5 heern before, and
Il now appear here TO 'exponnd the Scrip
,tures and pint out thenarow way which
leads from vain world to the streets of
Juroosalum, and my text which I shall
Choose for the occasion is in the leds of
the Bible somewhere between the second
Chronic ills and the lastchapter of limo
thy Titus, and when you find it you will
find it in these words.s
g And they. shall gnaw a file and fee
unto the mountains Of Hepsidam, 8har
the lion roareth, and the whang doodle
mourneth for its frst-born.D
Now, my brethring, as I have before
told you 1 am an uneddicated man, and
know nothing about grammar talk and
collidge hifalootin; but I am a plain I'M
|lafnt preacher of the Gospil what's been
foreordained, and called TO expound the.
scripters to q dyin. world, and prepare .
.peeverse generation for the day Of wrath )
for q they shall gnavr q file and flee unto
the mountains ofHersidam, whar the lion
roareth and the whang-doodle mourneth
for it's frst-born."
My beluv-ed brecthering, Che text says
at6ey shall gnaw fle.p It--doh.t say
they mag but they shall. Andnow theirs
gmorne,n one kind Of file. There's the.
.band-saw file. rat-tail file, single file, dou-
bic file and profile but the kind of file
spoken of here isn't one of them kind nei--
Ither; because it's a fgger Of speech, my
brcothering, and means goin' it alone,
getting ukcrod for they shall gnaw file
and flee unto the mountains Of HcpsidaRay,
whar the lion roaresh and tho whang-doo-
die mourneth for itci frst-born@
And now there be some here with fine
close on thar backs, brass rings on thar
fingers, and lard on thar han, what goes
it while they're Young; and thar be
brothers here what as long as thar con-
stitutions and forty cent whisl5ey lasts
goes ii blind; and thar be sisters here
what when theg sit s;Sssen cars old,
1=rush; but I gay ny dear brcthelin,
take care you doI1t find when Gabriel
blowe his last trump, thatyou'ye all went
it alone and .ulzorcd they shall gnaw
a file and fee unto the meuntains-o Hep
sdam, whar the lion roareth and the
I whapg-dootlle mourneth for its irst-born." I"
And, ny brethelen, there's more dams
besides Hcpsidam. ,Thar's Rotterdam,
IIaddam, Amsterdam, mill-dam and don't
care-a-dam-the last of which my dear
breethering, is tho worst Of all, and re-
minds me of a cilcumstans I once knew
in the State of Illenoy. There was q man
what built.lir a lnill on the cast fork of
Agur creek, and it was a good mill and
.E-ground site of grain, but the man what
aIbuilt it was miserable sinner, and never
civ. anything to the church; ard. my brcc-
thering, one night thar come q dreadful
storm of wind and rain and the fountains
Of the great deep was broken up, and
waters rushed down and swept that mans
mill-dam into kingdom come, and 10 and
/ behold, in the morning when he got up
he found he was not worth adam. Now,
my young brectllering, when storms Of
temtation overtalzeye. take care you don't
fail from grace ard become like that mans
nlill-not worth a dam; for g they shall
gnaw file and fee unto the mouptains of
Hepsidam, whar the lion roarcth, and the
whang-doodle mourneth Cor its irst-born.@
aWhar the liol, roareth and tile wiiang-
doodle mourneth for it's frst-born." This
part of the text, my breethering, is anoth-
or fgger of speech, and isn't to be taken
as it says. Il doesn't mean the howlin'
wilderness, where John tho hard shell
Baptist was fed ON locusts and wild asses,
but it means my brethering the city OF
Now Yorleans; the mother of harlots and
hard lots-whar corn is worth six bits a
! 1bushel one day and marry red the next;
whar niggers arc rs thick as black bugs
Sin a spoiled bacon ham, and gamblers,
thieves and piclpockots are slSiting about
the .steets like weasels in q barn-yard-
.whar they have cream colored horses, gil
ded carriages, marble saloons with bran
-dy and sugar in 'em-whar honest men
are scarcer thanhen's teeth, and q strange
woman once TUX in your beluved preach