The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-14
in the Methodist. Baptist and Presbyte.

one in ten of the members of the
churches IN this town that ever lived
religious one day in their lives. Laugh
ter, evidently from some colored voters
throat. That's enough to make a fool
Niger laugh. Laughter. Now, let's
make proposition. want every mem
Der of the Church that ever done their
best for one day since they joined the
Church to stand up and let see how
many you are. Everybody, preachers
and all Don't get up now without you
have done your best. About 100 per-
sons rose. There's few here, scatter
ing. tell you that's coming right down
and bringing it home. That's business.
About thirty or forty in this congrega-
tion can stand up and say, Il have lived
religious one day in my life" Why,
brother, no wonder we are doing moth
ing anywhere. We don't amount to
anything. Never set in to do it. Never
A MOTHERS EXAMPLE.
In Chattanooga, Tenn, when | was
preaching there, l preached to the
mothers one afternoon, nobody present
but women. We will get that far along
in this meeting after awhile. / spoke
of the mothers influence at home.
spoke of the mother who would set
down and play cards with her boy and
with her daughter Ipictured the scene
for the mothers. That night after sup
per q wild, dissipated hoy-a young
man he was-came in to the sitting
room from supper with mother and sis
ter. He says: "Sister, get the cards.
am going to have another game tonight
and get even with you for thai last
trick you won off me-" But the mother
said: my son, those cards are burnt
up. / have done with cards. I've quit
Ny son, will never play another card
Sister" says the boy, ''if I'll get another
deck will YOU playq' "No, brother; ]
have heard that same sermon and III
never play another card. We stood up
mother and /, and said we would pray
for you tonight" That young man
turned right round, walked down to the
mems service, listened to the service
came to the altar, went home rejoicing
and gave himself to God that night
That's what we want in this country
more mothers and fathers that want Il
see their children saved worse than they
want to see them marry we'll or stant
well in society. | would as soon put m,
boy in a cauldron of boiling oil as se'
him mix in society," mean your upper
tendon, so-called. And st. Joe, lister
at me. | am going to take 1t up IL
detail. | don't want you to get ma,
with me, now. | am Just touching /
now in the high places, but will hur
down deep and rub it in and give yO'
something to get mad about before Sun
day night. You needn't turn up you
noses and go to kicking yet, for l teI
you, if you do, you'll kick yourselves t
death before the time comes. Laughter
THE "JUDGEs" AND COLONIES.
| want to say here that St. Joe, lik
| every other city is rotten, rotten, rotte
| at the top. There's where you ar
hurting, and you'll never reform thi
world until you begin at the top. 1o
can't reform it from the bottom VI
| To save your life, as long as the oil
\ "Judges" and "Colonels" have as man
wives as they want, and as long as th
young men can sport fine horses an
| buggies, and run big livery bills, an
pay. their expenses and run their schedul
| you never can reform the honest laborln
people of this town. That an imposs
| bility. If fellow has got 100000
st. Joe he can drink all the WHISKY
wants, and after spending the night
a house of ill-fame, he can perfume h
hair and put on a clean shirt and {
into the parlor with the incest, pure
girl in town. What we want is son
daddies who will meet him at the frol
door and turn him around and kick hi
over the front gate at the first kick. Tha
what we want, some daddies of that sor
and some mammies like them and '
want them bad, we do. (Applause.)
There are some things in this tow
that if you look at them you will si
"Halti Haiti Haiti Don't drive al
further that way or you are ruined
I tell you when a young man drives O.
of this town with young lady, az
although the young man lives in a thre
story house, they don't get back tn
night till IL o'clock, it is time tc call
halt right along there. 1t is time
call halt.
And l want you to understal
another thing. | am going to air IL
old town. Before / leave here | W
show it to you right, and my Lord, he
oderiferous she will be when you air b
little. She will smell bad, she WI
and if YOU don't want to be at the airi
YOU had better hide out. Understal
that.
THE TROUBLE IN ST. JOE.
The trouble in st. Joe is that perha
one-third of the population is the wick
element in it another one-third is asle
and don't care what is going on, and t
other one third are so decent they ney
mix into it, and they don't know WI
is going on. Amt that about the sha
! of it, brother Miller2
. Brother Miller. | believe you &
right.
!. Brother Jones. l think l am rig
: III want to open your eyes. q
, Almighty in sending out Paul, sa.
/ ''I am sending you to open the eyes
> the people, to lead them from darkn
! to light, and from the power of Sat
: unto God, that they may rece
! forgiveness of SINS" and the first thi
! every preacher ought to do is to unf
y wide the picture and pray God to
+ / Ills suluC Ou IL, anu Jbcb 1Sb VI
n see it. And when you see some thin
4 you will say you have seen the de
a one time and no doubt about it [lau
a teri, with his old hoof and horns 6
= tail spread right out. [Laughterl. If
Il don't want some tales told on you,
: you are guilty. you had better lie
e town. There's people, | will venture
. say, that when the disclosure comes '
+ never be seen here any more. They '
. saw, "Tm done with st. Joe, can't s
:. there any more. I've been d
v told on, / have" That's my b
d ness.
'e MAKING AN ISSUE.
And now right here ] want to
myself on record. You can never
up a fight, moral battle, in st. Jo'
ID any other city until you make
r. issue. The Church and.the world here
It, as thick as niggers. Laughter
re 90 to the ball together. You go to
le prayer-meeting together, and you da
at together, and you go to church toget
lg YOU drink together and you play ca
Up together; you amt got but one n
at thing to do, and that is to go to