Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-01-05


! through note, with no more junction
Of conscience than an alligator on q
sand-bank-ah, and lollin' out his tongue
for more, and all the while lookin' as in
nercent as sheep-ah, and as satisfied as
if hell was friz and judgment day was
adjourned to coert in course-ah. But,
says the prophet, "Shave with a razor
that is hired, namely, by them beyond
the river; and in that day it shall come
to pass-ab, that a man shall nourlsh q
young COW and two sheep-ah.
Having considered the first gineral in-
jurction of the text, we come now, my
hearers, to the first subjunction vl-izzard
with razor that is hired" Nov,
my brethring, don't perspire to be con
sidered bblicer scholard, nor do l per-
TESS to much farming, and though say II
that oughtenter say it, when / brings my
boss sense to studyin' of blind pint Of
seriptur, / ginerally see as far into the
| milestone as oil the note tators and the
com M n-taters and logical students that
ever wore chokers and green goggles
since Adam was baby-ah.
Now, my brethripg and beloved hearers,
the Scripturs, from the first chapter OF
Genesis to the last verse of Tribulatlons,
teaches us the principle of pay up as
you 60 up, and pay down as you 90 down
ali" So when the old plutarch Jacob
wanted to get the graveyard, he didn't
claim it under the actual settlement
clause of the homestead law, but he paid
the consideration price, cash up, and no
prum bling-ah and took the deed to him
and his heirs forever and forever. And
30 when, ia the scarcity of fuel, David
wanted them things of Oman, the Jebu-
site, at his three-cornered threshing Fl Dor,
be ante'd up, aud paid him the silver for
the rakes and the fails and SIGH, green
backs not bein legal tender in them
days, although they did have rebellion
about that time-ah; Absalom being the
JEFF. Davis of that day and generatlon-ah.
So, my brethring, | think it ar sup
possible that the prophet are fornenst in
the practice of borrowing, and thar is
sound sense as we'll as reason in that, for
a borrowed razor, as q general thing, has
an edge like fro or meat-ax, and the
tunsorial operation, performed with such
a thing, is more like scrapin' beg with
a mussel shell than Shawn of white
man with one of Wade and Butchers
Xxi, double-backed, grand action pieces
of cutlery, that goes over your face
slicker than a sinner slides into hel[ah;
and smoother than the mowin' hook of
time cuts down the human grass of the
field-ah, which to-day is, and tomorrow
is cast into the oven, whar shall be
moanin' and groanin' and nashin' of
teeth-ab. Wherefore, says the prophet,
"Shave with a razor that is hired,
namely, by them beyond the river; and
it shall come to pass in that day that a
man shall nourish COW and two sheep
ab."
Now, my dearly beloved brethring,
when look around upon this assemblige
and behold the many here with boards
and with whiskers, and with mustashers,
that pas no heed to the warning voice of
the prophet, | am minded to ssy that |
have, in my saddle-5ags, as fine u lot of
that useful, necessary and scriptural ar
ticle of cutlery as ever come from Cum
Creek. ben' the remainder of assert
ment got from Jim Hays, of Cleveland,
at Sam Rosevelts store, when was in
New York-ah. And I'm not violatin' the
reveuy law by selin' goods by the sample,
or peddln' small wares without license,
but am just film Of mission and
workin' OF a good work by hirin' them
rszors for period of ninety-nine years
apiece, stamps invariably in advance in
case of FIRE; and when this meetin'
breaks, shall be glad to supply as many
of The brethriug as is convinced and cor
victsd-ah, and determined to heed the
words Of the prophet "Shave with
razor that is hired, namely, by them be-
yond the river; ald it shall come to pass
10 that day that man shall nourish O
young COW aud two sheeP-sh. "
Now, my hearers and dearly beloved
brethering, we come TO the second sub
junction OF our text, wherein and where
by the prophet directs us TO vail our
selves of the wisdom and sperience Of
others, and points out to us the perprlety
of using jus. such razor as is hired by
them who lives on the other side of the
] suppose, my brethering, that
the river named in the text was the Jor-
dau-ah, which was hard road to travel.
as you We all heard in the song-ah and /
suppose as how the people who lived
there, by their bein good judges of a
razor, were the descendants of Tubel
Cain-ah who was the first artifcer in
metals and turned out the best speniments
of cutlery in his day and generation-ah,
but the words Of the text applies just as
we'll to the smart people that lives on the
other side of every river Of the present
time-ah
And yet, my brethering, we are led by
the text to see the promises Of the gospel
to them that obey its commands, aud the
nrophet symholichides under q type &C
fatness and joy, the blessings and final
rewards of the just man made perfect-ah
Now you, my sistering, needn't to
think that you have no sheer in the crop,
for my sistering, though you can't shave
with the carnal rszors of iron and steel
ah you can yet use the SPIRITUAL razor
of faith, the soap Of repentance, and the
lather of righteousness and charity that
washeth away all uncleanness and ma
keith you to walk ia paths Of pleasant
ness and pesce-ab. Wherefore say even
unto you, my sistering, shave with
razor that is hired, namely, by them be-
yond the river, and it shall come to pass
in that day that a man shall nourish a
young COW and two sheep alb =
Wherefore my brethering and my sis
tering, lift up your voices in the words
of that good old hime and sing
lone n ore sinners dead and gone,
silver srade to dig his grave,
A golden chain to Jet him down.