The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-14

wards the car and he pushed his bony hand out
| through the window and took my hand and
/ looked him in the face and thought to myself
1 is this all that is left of Senator Hill, the
| grandest man that this State ever produced on
| the forum or rostrumV In a few more days |
/ picked up the Atlanta Constitution. 1t said
| Senator Hills remains were carried to the ceme-
| terry and followed by the grandest procession
| that ever marched out of Atlanta to the GENE
/ terry.
| Now, my brother and my sister, hear me- Just
| as certain the virus of cancer killed Senator
| Hills body just that certain the virus OF the
cancer of sin will kill your soul at last, and 1t IS
not question of where you have been baptized.
| Understand that 1t is no. question OF what
church you belong to. 1t is not question OF your
official capacity in that church. 1t is not ques-
| ton of how much you pay to MAINTAIN that
| church. The question for time and eternity IS:
| Have you been down under the blood OF the
| Lord Jesus Christ and has this faint been
| washed out of your nature, and have you been
| redeemed by the only remedy in heaven or on
! earth that can cure the human soull That is the
| doctrine. And I tell you. my brethren-you
| men who are moral, you men who are honest,
would be an honest man IN hell; l
would want to be truthful man; L
would want to be an upright man; l DO
not believe God or humanity offers any reward
on rascality. Understand that. l have heard
people say, II would rather be an outbreaking
: sinner than moralist" had not. l wish to
| the Lord God / had always been moral while l
was not Christian; and every immoral act OF
my life I deplore tonight and am sorry that III
ever did it, and beg you, If you are determined
| to go to hell, to 60 there gentleman, and be
/ gentleman in hell. [Applause.l A dirty, licen-
| tious, black-mouthed miserable, degraded dog in
hell is the saddest picture the devil himself ever
| looked at. And if I was in hell would be a
better man than many of you VINO live here in
| the city of Indianapolis. would not be as mean
| as you are if was in hell Laughter. l mean
| it; with all my heart; do. I say the natural
| tendency OF men and of man is downward and
hellward. If you follow your greed for gold.
| your licentious passions, your hayward hfe-lf
| you follow it, you just as naturally and legiti-
| mately tend towards hell as grace ever helped
man towards heaven.
LAS righteousness tendeth to life, so he that
pursueth evil pursueth it to his own DEATH" and
we propose always to be practical at the expense
| of everything except truth; and to be practical
sometimes costs man good deal in the way OF
criticism. want to say right here, don't care
what you think OF me. 1 would as soon you
| would throw mud on to praise me; and il
| you said anything bad about me am so glad it
is lie cannot get mad about ii, and LII stay in
a good humor all my life: and if you say you
| have got no confidence in Sam Jones, If you will
write it out and bring it to me- will sign it, for
| God knows have got none in him. Laughter.
| have not I tried him for twenty-four years
and he took nae right to the gates of hell and |
with him, if can help it, God being
my helper. | put my hand in the hand
of my Heavenly Father and say, Father, lead
me by Thy right hand; / cannot go-I will not go
| unless Thou dost help me and guide me- and l
do not give myself any uneasiness upon that
score. do not care what you say that is bad
about me. If it is true, am so sorry that can
not get mad about it, and if it is q lie, am so
| glad it is lie that cannot get mad, and / am
| going to stay in good humor until God calls me
home to heaven. 1 don't care what you say
| about my rhetoric l don't care what you say
about my grammar have been nibbled at a
| good deal. don't mind being swallowed by
whale but to be nibbled to death by minnows is
| the most dsagreeable thing | know of, APP
| plause and laughter These little spelling book
| Christians "Look how he butchered grammar"
| they say Whenever you see me drop down be-
| low good grammar and good rhetoric am just
trying to get down on q level with you ALL Do you
understand that want you to understand that
| to start with; but don't you think it for any
thing else in the world. / have found out at
last that If the pulpit will the language that
| you all use down in your stores to convey your
| ideas and transact your business, that is the
nearest way to man. Hear an old preacher
get down and pray in church. We will take the
I church language. and he gets down on his knees,
| and says, sOh, thou great Jehovah. we come to
Thee, thou great, divine Father" aud so on. Say
| [ was go into store to morrow and walk up
| to counter and say to the merchant. Please
sir, want to see pair of divinely colored hose
| for my wife" Why he would run me out of
Look ahere, brother, let's you and / talk bust
ness here-what is religion but sanctifed bust
ness2-tonight. am going TO take all the nigh
cuts on you, and am going TO make you under
stand me- You can go away from here and say
what you please about my rhetoric and my
grammar, but II you have got a thimbleful OF
brains, you cannot, none of you say, well,
didn't understand that fellow; didn't under
stand him." will make you understand me- or
will make the people bore you for hollow
head one. say, to give a practical turn to the
discussion-and now, brethren, hope you will
give me your prayerful attention, and you will
God may take this line and stop some soul in it's
downward career tonight. Cries of
"Amen." First, we say, he that
pursueth evil pursueth it to the death
and the man does not know his disease until he
is almost permanently and hopelessly dead. He
that pursuetn evil pursueth it to the death of his
conscience. The poet was right largely, when
he said:
ssWhat conscience dictates to be done
Or warns me not to do,
This teach me more than hell to shun,
That more than heaven pursue
| And am ready to say in my place tonight
that the worst sin man can commit in this
| world is to sin deliberately against his own con-
| science When conscience cries "Stop," when
| conscience cries Murder, don't do that" and
| yet the man persists in doing the thing that his
| conscience condemns, every sin against con-
science Is direct STAB at conscience. ana men
stab. and stab, and stab until conscience expires
| and is dead forever. If you will let me say
word brethren, in little broader sense. will
| say the trouble with America to-day is that
| Americas conscience is dead. Our national con-
| science is dead Our State conscience is dead.
| Our municipal conscience is dead. ! will tell
| you if the Lord God will come down on Indian
| apolis to night and burst the tombstone off of
| her conscience and take her out of her grave
and bring her forth living conscience. if, in
| this ctv a Justice of the peace fined man ST.
| for keeping his bar-room open on Sunday, he
| would be impeached and run out of the settle
ment in twenty -four hours. [Applause.] And
| yet, since we have been in this town. it is a pub
| lished fact in your newspapers-and you know
whatever they say is so [laughterl, very so-it
is published fact in your newspapers that
| liquor dealer was fined ST. for keeping
| his bar.rcom open on Sunday I believe