The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-17
The Lime Kiln Club.

"Seyeral letters have coIne to me
doorin' de pas week AKIN me 70 define
my posishun on dis queshun of amuso
ments," said Brudder Gardner, us the
lamps were turned up. "Ebery once
in while dar' am yell fur reform, an
sartin men an women weep an wall
ober de gineral wickedness of do world.
De church pitches into de thcater, do
prayer-meetin' whacks away Mt dancin',
an dc Sunday school teacher tells do
leetle boys dat dc circus am mex doah to
perdishrn. 1t has bin my opinyun fur
de las fifty Vars dat dis was q wicked
world. 1t was created fur wicked
world. DE Lawd wanted it dat way, an
lie made it to please Hissclf. De Scrip
turs state dat wickcdness shall abound
In cherry co'ner of de land; dat men
shall murder an rob an women 20
astray dat chilPcn shall deny der par
ents an brudder turn agin bruddcr. All
slch tings am predicted an to be 'spectcd
an looked fur, an nobody has any
grounds to howl an weep. If dis war n
good world we should have no need of
preachers, doacons an Sunday-school
teachers. Preachers will tell YOU dat
man am imperfect, an dat dc Lawd
made him to go nStray, an yet doy will
turn aroun' an wonder dat he am not
goodness billed down.
Deed, gcm1en, but do only better
world dan dis am hcabcn itself. You
have got to hunt fur wiclIedncss to fin
1t. You have got to PREJUDICE dc case if
you can make wiclcdncss out of de Jokes
OF circus clown or dc plot of de orli-
nary drama. If 1 had to praise God by
hndm' fault wild de world He made an
de people Ho put yere, I'm afraid it
would be faint praise. Dc preacher who
can't go to de theatcr widout fcrlin'
wicked had bcttcr stay away. If he
wasn't on dc hunt to fin wickcdncss he
wouldn't sec it any mo- dan dc rest of us.
Me an de ole woman kin go ont an
dance Nirginy reel fur fo' hours an cum
home wld c!n'r cOnsciences fur family
prayers. We kin set down to kccrds mn
not torgit to he honest an charitable an
1orglvln. We kin go to II circus an
como home an flank God dat our lives
lave bin spurd anoder day, an dat we
am still left to comfort dc sick an for
give dc erin. If gwinc to sich places
makes preacher feel dat Satan has got
a mortgage on him den ho'd better stay
home.
"No man airnest in de good cause
""iVo w lBub uBIl nulnan )lltUr. Man
nm social bcin'. He likes to be pleased
m amoosed. Make tombstone of him
mn he'll soon hate hissclf. When / see
man who claims to bo too good to
watch circus purcesh,m pass long the
street | ncbcr work for him widout de
cash III advance. When / fin a man
who nm down on amoOscmcnts L doan'
work fur him Mt all. A var ago, when
mean de olowOman was joggin' obnrto dc
circus wo met man who said We war
gwlne straight to Texas. lie said he
would Iooncr see his son in his coffin
dan IN circus, and he scart dc ole lady
most to death. L kept tack of dat
tombstone, an i'll less dan six months
ne left town widout payin' his gas bill,
water tax, butcher or grocer, an he am
no exception i'll his class. Look out Cor
solum-taccd men. Bcwar' of dc rlcn
who weep obcr lie wickedncss of a world
made so Ivy de Lawd fur reasons of His
own. Have no truck wild mon who neb-
Der lat1. A man widout fnults nm n
man wldout reason. A man widout
wIckedncsS am mum widOut aygyment. +"
-DCtrOH Free Press