Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-07-11

A mans hates and his likes deter.
mine character; man aflinaties deter.
mine what he is and who he is.
If you are ready to say to night,
"l've done, I've quit" then you are
right where God can put his hand on
you.
| had rather associate with dog
than with Il profane swearer. l say
things that sound strange, but I've
weighed 'em
If you want to know where all the
gratitude of my heart centers TO day |
will tell you. | 60 back to that Au-
gust day when l got Christ.
Religion is a reality with me, as
much SO as the fact that I've got four
fingers on each hand. 81 believe" Is
the groung on which | stand.
What is judgment? 1t is the equita-
bic adjustment of all issues. What is
it in the ecclesiastical sense? 1t is the
final session of the Church in heaven.
If you will let me, | would cut loose
the last ligament that binds you to sin,
and let you swim out into the bottom
less ocean Of Gods love.
Perhaps if yon don't talk of your re-
ligion it is because you have no relig.
ion talk to about. Folks with ill>health
don't go round Dragging on their ply
stefan.
| would not take the record of some
people who hear my voice to-day and
go to the judgment bar of Christ for
all the universe of God, and goodness
knows [ am poor enough.
Thank God for a bee-line,to a good
world. Do you know what that
means? The bee, after going from
flower to flower with its velvet tread,
and after extracting the honey, scars
above the tree,tops, and makes a bee
line for its hive. Happy, happy,
thrice happy will we be when we can
strike Decline for good world.
a man will tell you that no one can
get religion without going to the alter.
Why, affairs started down in Georgia
sixty-nine years ago, and | tell you.
you can be a Christian without the
altar.
Conscience J. Thank God for every
cultivated and enlightened conscience
on the face of the earth; The saddles
sight the world ever saw is a conscience
outraged by sin until it is as if it haC
been scared and branded with a no
iron.
| can't defy the great God that trie
me at the last day. can not rush VI
in the face of the great God, who il
the beginging held a flaming mass o
eternity in his powerful arm unit
every spark that flew from it made {
{ world.
What is the record of the member
of the Churches of this town? Tel
thousand gallons of liquor sold to,da!
: by a member Of the Methodist Church
| My God! A mothers tears and church
prayer can never wipe it out.
Many fellows pray for rain will
/ their tubs bottom side up. God can
fill tub in that way, unless he ex
erci8es gravity. You put your tuI
right side up, hoops tight, and close u
under the caves, and you will hea
something thunder.
1t is not asking much of you to asl
you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
l believed him for twenty-five years
but l did not believe on him as mucl
as the devil did. The devil believed Of
him and trembled, / believed on hin
and went on drinking.
, l have as much right to 20 out an
get drunk as any man in Nashville
Who gave you the right? Who CAV
;. you the right to lie and to steal and t
swear? | do not want any man t
join the Church and do like he.
! An old woman gave the best defin
, ton of religion and repentance | eye
heard. Repentance is being so sorr
. for your meanness you won't do it an
y more. Religion is, if God will jul
forgive me for it a amt going to wal
to do it any more.