The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-05

day-sch0ol. We will attend chur.
to-day. We win 90 to church aga
tonight This day eonsecrate to God
Lord God, give US Sabbath-keeping pc
PIE You may go to the penitentiari,
OF this country and nine of those DO,
inmates out of ten viii tell you the
started the downward road bv breal
ing the Sabbath, by violating Il
Sabbath Suppose poor begg:
meets q man on the road and begs hi
for some money. The kind friend pul
out his pocket-book and he has got seye
silver dollars, and he gives the pos
beggar six of them, and goes on his wa
and that night the beggar slips into hi
house and steals the other dollar. Ain
he bad man. God gave you six day
to labor and toll, and to keep YOU we
and hearty, and now God reserves til
| seventh, and you get up a Sunda
morning and the first thing YOU do is I
steal that other day from God. Bette
quit that, Let's keep the Sabbath an
reverence it.
Look at poor France. She ignore
the Sabbath and went down and dowr
until to-day she is the blackest spot o
earth. Remember the Sabbath da
and keep it holy" God, give US Sab
bath keeping people. Let US escape tn
sin of Sabbath-breaking. Let us say
BY the grace of God, if / live TO Sc
another Sabbath, Twill reverence it an,
keep it right before God / will max
one Sabbath days journey toward tn
good world"
A SERMON on GAMBLING AND FUTURES
The next sin is the sin of gaming
gambling. This country is running
wild on cotton futures, wheat futures
Louisiana State Lottery, pool-selIing anc
all sorts of gambling. Hear me little
on the subject of gambling. Do you
know that nine gamblers out of every
ten come from Christian homes, so
called? Why, the gamblers are perhaps
the most elegant men you have ever
met. Look at them in manners of life
Look at them to-day. Nine gamblers
out of every ten were raised by parents
who belonged to the church. That deck
of cards at your house-hear me on
that, God pity the old hypocritical
father and mother that belongs to the
church and cannot run their Christian
homes without deck of cards Why
don't you say "AmenP' The amen
came, but rather faint / won't let
them whip YOU. All say Amen.
Another "Amen" particularly
hearty, either. Whenever anything
hits right hard you ought all to say
"Amen." I'll keep them off you. Don't
forget now.
A voice. II did say Amen
Brother Jones. Well, sir; you get the
balance TO holler amen"
The voice. They are afraid to do it.
Brother Jones. | hope they amt. |
think it's timidity. Continuing Now
if that is all lose in this world by
preaching the truth, / can give that up
in a minute. You hear me. Listen.
Here's this sin of gambling. You take
that Louisiana State Lottery, for in
stanee-and if there is a blighting curse
in this country, that is it. Hear me: j
believe that Beauregard and Early will
go down to their graves covered with
shame! Look at Lee, that grand old
hero of ours; he would have suffered
himself to be burned to ashes before he
would have been a party to thing of that
sort. You want to know why ] said the
Louisiana Lottery is corrupt. 1t is be-
cause the United States Government
don't let its matter go through its mails,
and you know thing has got to be
pretty dirty when it gets so that the
public mails won't carry it. If | had a
boy clerking in my store for me, and /
knew he was buying Louisiana State
Lottery tickets, would ship him. Why
Because | would be afraid he was light
fingered. Iwould just as soon see boy
steal outright as buy d ticket in the
Louisiana State Lottery. You can have
your choice about these things, but |
would step TO a mans bedside at night
and steal his money while els asleep Just
as quick as ] would buy ticket in the
Louisiana Lottery. That's my doctrine,
and have got the courage to stand by
it; and when | am through with my
views upon this subject you can get up
here and give the people yours. | tell
you, gentlemen, | know something
about some boys that are investing in
the Louisiana State Lottery. One of
them was in store in Atlanta, and got
to spending too much money. He was
spending Sl60 a month when he was
getting paid but $40. His proprietor
backed him up in corner and asked
him where he was getting all that
money he was spending. He said his
step-mother was sending it to him. But
this boy never had any stepmother. Step
mothers don't send much money round
to the boys. Then, you see, when a boy
gets to going wrong the next thing is a
lie. | say, nay brother, with all my
heart, am against anything that means
getting something for nothing. | like
that little boy that says: Father, | am
never going to bet" "Why, my sonT'
Well" he says, sit would make me feel
bad to lose my money, and | reckon if
was to win another mans money il
would make him feel bad to lose it, and
am never going to bet at all.
BETTING AT FAIRS.
You take our fairs, and | reckon YOU
all have fairs in this country. You have
fine blooded horses. | am sorry they
don't improve the stock of folks as wei
as the stock of horses. My Lord, We
need that, you bet. A voice-"Yes We
do."1 Well, there's first-class horst
out there He can trot 6 mile In 2:15
And there's little, poor, old, dried-ul
man wanting 20 bet on him. / wish they
would take him and improve his stock |
little. Laughter. love fine horses anC
like fine cows-I wish they would max,
them finer. But tell you why don't g,
round to these fairs more than | do. |
| is because whenever . man walks on
where the horses are there's mast,
little stink-deyil bringing out his pocket
book and saying, '.I'll Get you he Cal
beat anything on the ground" Laugh
ter He just stinks, stinks, stinks
lTLaughter. And that is. the reasol
why decent people can't go to sue
places. 1t Is Just because that sort stinl
them out II want TO bet You so and so,
and may be he stole the money last nigh
that he is putting up to-day. / told yo
when / started in, If you couldn't stan
it rubbed on pretty thick you had be-
ter haul out, and ] expect it is gettin
pretty thick Just now. I am down o
any sort of getting money except by th
sweat of the brow. tell you that th
boy that works out yonder for SIS
month and follows the horses in th
field with the plow, when he gets do
lar he puts down in his pocket just 1o
| cents. and when he lies down each {
them turns to nightingale and sing
him to sleep. lApplause. And ths
81 that that boy sweated for is wort
800, 900 that any boy will win in th
Louisiana State Lottery.
Il Will you take these cotton futnr.
| and the wheat future business I'll
man has not only got no religion th;
will 90 into that, but he is stark-bor
fool. That's what's the matter wit
him You Just look at the none
skipped into New York from the CON
Itry since the war. There it is pourir
into Wall street from every sributal