Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-01-28
SERMON
BY REV. COOL sILod,

=. Sohoit Wntch HAuln tho N""s'N"
y men into gall aud bitternesss ant
mnkelh afraid. And yet, brsthreI
aud sistrsn, whilo we would not &
back OH son Water drink for babies
as men we must defend tho perse
cuted Of our own particular cra'l
Aud close scrutiny OF soriptei
bfopagaies succinctly that those o.
the godly who bartake OF tito elias
sic liquid gin and milk here, ar:
layin up appetites for eternity, and
have a woil.foundered hope Of con-
tinorin to beverage on the same
moisture in. the promised land. .
For in the golden streets milk
and honey flow bsunteonsly, and
there will be gin.e-ration after gin.
Grafton gathered together, so that a
fool may take a ration of gin with,
out money and without price, and
In passing alsng stop and wash u
down with q swallsr of tho sweet
ened milky way. Hallclugcrum,
give thanks. But we cgress, and
| TX squalor and humidity would call
your contentious to tho rcadin OF
our text, which may be found in
the Book Of. Life by all close obsar-
vers which 1t are. Le -.
The opossam piayeh his game,
phiis the sarpent Kisses among the
creturs of the hour.
Dearly Beloved, the quadruplc
above denounced is of various spe-
cic and price, according to the game
he inclltiss to play, and the climate
where ho psrspires. And here is a
buchus similitude strangely coinci-'
dent with q pint III the finance
question, to-wit: When q govern
ment which shall benameless as the
lost Lcnore, issued four hundred
million dollars worth of bonds, &c,
above what was necessary to pay
The extreperous expenses Of the
country, merely to give large con.
tracts to deadhead coots, who huhg'
around, waiting to grab the fat of
the nation, and bile it VI, in the
cauldron of war into hard soap for
their own poskets, and l say when
| this infamous business was did, spe-
Gle changed in valuo and price, and
we are reminded that ~
The oposum playoth his game,
while tho sarpcnt hisscs among tho
cretars of the hour.
The animal thus composingly
brought before your consideration
now feedeth with his entire family
on the clover and thyme cultivated
in the garden Of nation made rich
on q debt which the sweat Of the
poor mans brow must pay.
1t is exceedingly good, and the
rich man who hath not lands or
housen on which to pay taxes, no
chuckleth when he collects dollar
in gold for forty cents cast upon the
troubled waters, while the working
man groanotIi aid well nigh gives
upths ghost underthc burden heap
ed upon him. The heroic Calliope
sets the poetic words "the debt is
being reduced" to enticipg mdslc
which cheers tho weary iaboror TO
plod little longer, but fellow wras-
Tiers with dc Lord, listen to the TO-
ciblo words of the text,
Tho opossum playeth his game,
while the sarpent hisses among the 1
creturs of the hour. /
The dcbt ls not reduced, while
National Bahkers whisk the susie
nance of the people into their own
Golfers by q double and twisted
Lord-a-massy. Thns sablimely do
the opossGm. aHd heAarpent work
together to rob the people, who
stand at the gates bcwailing and
gnashing each other for many rea-
sons, which it is our present duty
to pick up one or two Of them and
rattle thoir skeletons before you.
One grievance which causeth
wrauglifg in the highways, is,that
our silent Piper takes his whole
family into the chair Of State.
Consistency, oh ycpeople, .ye who.
hro silently glidin to the grave, it is
hard to expect a beast to change /
his nature for the public benefit
The opossum carries his family
with him-and why expect the
PRESIDENT 70 leave out tne Dens
family
The opossum playeth bis game,
and the sarpent hisseth among the
creturs of the hour.
The hisses, of the sarpent viii |
now decoy us, dearly beloved, and
it will not he tho first time we have
gone down from the sublime macht
nations on which republics totter,
to the lessons taught By the sarpent |
which playfully shows its head out
of a well. built hole, and with
venomous smile lures the unsus-
pecting 10 lend him an ear, while
be hisses lightning flashes Of evil
constructions into the souls Of men
and women. Dearly beloved wo-
man was the first TO lend q wlll..E