Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-08

Christian Observer

CHRISTIAN DU-trNef,.
HEssRs. EDIT0Rs-rhis ballad hss
been published ~ a tract in Whining
ton. l copy il toE youz paper. Could
you not get some society or f-iaUdl 60
publish and circulate it a. Q tract il
Kentucky? know Gollirg o. the aU-
tnoT Few lines are mo-e touching o.
better calculated to DO good. o.
Sit ye down on the settle by me, I've got
something 10 say 10 thee, wife:
want 70 be new SOFT Of man. and 20 lead
new sort Of life.
There's but Atile pleasure and utole gain in
spending the Gag ( spend,
Just 10 work like horse all the days OF my
life, and 10 die Ikea dog AZ the end.
For where'5 the profit and where's the good, If
one once begins o. think,
In making way " tia " hat ll'tIy sense one had
FL the first, through drink
Or in spending ones .mc aud ones money,
too, with lot Of chaps that would go
To see one hanged, aud Ike IL as well Is any
other show?
And as 70 pleasure, that some folks find in
cards o. in pitch and toss,
i'- Little they We sver urou mt 10 me, but only
vast deal Of loss:
We'd be sure 10 light on some great dispute,
and then, 10 Set al right,
The sh priest way w-s 10 argue II out IN reg
ular Stanu-up fight.
I've got a viii, dear wife, I say, I've got q viii
to be
A kinder father 10 my poor BARNS, and bet
And to leave Of drinking and swearing, and
all, no matter what FOLKS MAJ say,
For 1 see what's the end Of such things as
these, and know this rs not the way.
You'll wonder TO hear me talk like this as
I've never talked bsiose;
But I've got a word in my heart that hGs
made 1t glad, yet has made il sore.
I've get word Ike hre II my heart, that VIII
not me b.
"Jesus, the SOn of God, who loved, and who
gave Himself for me-"
I've got word like q sword in my heart, that
has pierced u through and through;
When a message comes 10 q man from heaven,
lie needn't ask If its true;
There's none on earth could frame such a tale,
for as strange as the tale may be,
Jesus, my Savior, that Thou should die for
| love Of a man like me!
Why, only think, now!if il had been feteLor
blessed Paul
Or. John, who used TO lean on His breast, one
couldn't have wondered at all,
II He'a loved and He'd died for men Ike these,
who loved him so We'll; but you see
1t was me Jesus loved, wife! He gave Him
self Tor me.
1t was for ne that Jesus died; for me and a
world OF men,
Just as sinful and just as slow to give back His
love again.
me at my worst;
He needn't ever had died for me, i'll could
have loved Him first,
And cOuld'st Thou love such man as me, my
SaviOr? then, III take
More heed to this wandering soul Of mine, if
it is only for thy sake.
For IL wasn't that ] might spend my days Just
in work, and in duOk, ana ia strife,
That Jesus, the sou of God, has given His love
and has given His life.
1t wasn't that might spend my life just as
my life s been spent,
That hes brought me 50 near to His mighty
cross, and has told me what Il meant
He doesn't need me TO die for Him, he olly
asks me to live;
There's nothing OF mine that He wants, but
my heart, and it's all that 1 have to give
I've got friend. desr wife, 1 say; I've got a
heavenly friend,
That will show m where go astray, and win
help me how 10 mend,
ThaJll make NE kinder to my poor BARNS,
that'll N sc me better % thee
Jesds, the son OF God, who loved and who gave
Himself for me-.