Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-08-06
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st. Joe Gazette.
Talk about high license for whisky.
I'd as soon have license for smallpox.
Take heed how ye hear. Take the
great plowshare of truth and break
up the fallow ground of your heart
God won't keep young lady pious
who has her waist encircled seven
times week by the arms of a spider
legged dude.
Some people will say that this is
always the way with these religious
meetings; anything to get money.
| am not appealing to these fop-eared
hounds.
I believe liquor is good thing in
its place. and I believe its place is IN
hell. II I was in hell I might drink
it, but so help me God I never will
on this earth again.
Some of you young women look
innocent. You look like all YOU
wanted was wings to fly off. You
had better go home and reform your
home before you go off to heaven.
A man has got to prepare to
preach. I heard of an old fellow
once who said he never studied; he
never read anything; be just opened
his mouth and the Lord filed it. II
you will open your mouth the Lord
will fill it, but He will fill it with cir.
Whisky is not good for one thing
In this world for which there is some
thing else better. If the time ever
comes when they say to me, "You'n
die if you don't drink whisky" I
will say, ''Get my shroud ready" I
mean to die sober II a fellow gets
so low that nothing but liquor will
save him, l am ready to preach his
funeral.
I'd rather have boa-constrictor
around my neck than a drunken SON.
in-law. The devil can't do any
wore than that. Some of you old
hypocrites who are dillydallying with
the whisky question are going to get
caught in just that way. The devil
is going to slip up on you with q
drunken son-in-law and I'll bet he
will make you prohibitionist with a
vengeance.
There is not woman present this
morning, scarcely single one, but
what I know where you started to
church from. 1t was right in front
OF the looking glass. I have seen
women SO poor that they did not own
a pair of shoes, but never SO poor
they did not have a looking glass. If
there is a woman here that did not
come from the looking-glass to meet
ing / want you to stand up. (None
stood up.)
l am not mad with the men who
sell whisky. 1 am not mad with the
men who make it. / am mad with
whisky. I am not mad with the
demiiohns. I am glad they haven't
any legs. Those that have wicker
work around them haven't got legs,
but plenty Of red-nosed demijohns
walking around Atlanta have. Amt
you sorry for a poor woman, who
every time she goes to church, has to
put her arm in the handle of demi-
john?
II there is anything I despise, it is
the ways and doings Of society, SO
called. OF course God means US to
be sociable, but society, as counter
distinguished from social life, is a
very different thing. There is chill
dren in this town that amt satisfied
unless they have little party once
or twice a month. What is a little
party! 1t is nothing but a big party
with short clothes on. What is a big
party? 1t is nothing but the ante
room to the ballroom and the ball.
room is the ante-room to q german,
and what is a german 1t is the ante
room to eternal disgrace, what is hell
fire.
/ want every Christian man and
woman present this morning that
went out and fell down on their knees
before they came to church to stand
up, and every person that came from
their closet to church stand up. A
few stood up. I will venture the as
sertion that Hong Kong, China. can
rack out better crowd than this. II
you amt as pretty kettle OF fish as
ever run across I don't know what
am talking about. II you are a
Of the church and can't do
better than that, don't stick
your carcasses under this tent any
more during this meeting; that is all
have got to say.
God deliver any town from a pop
alar preacher. Whenever liars and
whore-mongers begin to like me 1
am going to pray God to help me.
The maledictions of the bad are bet
Ter proof that man is right than the
praises of the good. Do you know
that : Before an old sinner can be
thick with Inc he has got to go and
wash the devils fees off OF him and
make himself decent. / say look out
for your drug stores. Look out for