The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-22


for the Y. ID e. A. building, but / feel perfectly
unequal to the task / want to say this TO you,
though, brethren, citizens OF this city, remem-
Der this: If / was a father in this town that Y.
NJ. c. A. should share my dollars with me. You
have got barrooms, and billiard saloons. aud
thousand places to damn your boys. and now
you fathers and you mothers ought to go to work
and put your money together and
make place where your. boys
can be rescued and be saved You have
thousands and hundreds of thousands invested
to damn your boys and you cannot raise twenty
five thousand to save every boy in the town
and give him place where he can minge with
good company and be blessing to you all his
life. God give this Y. NJ G. a. institution in
this town an impulse at this meeting that will
make you rally to them and give them the other
s., 900 that they need now to carry the work,
and put up their building, and make boys that
will be blessing to your home. / say If
had boy in this town, to morrow morning, ii l
was worth fifty thousand, would send a check
to that Y. M. G. A. for twenty FIVE hundred; if
| was worth twenty thousand | would send
them check for one thousand if | worth
ten thousand would send them check for five
hundred dollars: if l got salary of six hundred
year l would send them twenty five dollars; II
| got a salary OF two hundred year l would
send ten dollars to the secretary of that Y M. q.
A. tomorrow. l tell you, my fellow-country-
men. you will never know what well organized
Y. M. &. A. is to a city until you have realized
at last we have spent too much money to damn
our boys and too little to save them. God bless
the Y NJ. G. A. of Indianapolis.
L understand your secretary has resigned,
hopeless and almost heartbroken. If we have
done nothing else. God Almighty give current,
and force enough, and power enough to wiring
out at least the money they want in building UP
and finishing this Y NJ G. A. God bless the
boys who work for the boys. God bless the
institutions that are to save our boys and God
make us liberal with the things that will make
our boys better.
When they started the Y. NJ G. A. in Carriers
vile / went to them and said, Boys put me
down for one-tenth of all you want; have got
boys that growing up here, and you just
name your amount and put me down for one
| tenth of it." tell you, brother. when / am dead
and gone, / want my children to know their
father invested in those things that he intended
to benefit his children. If / don't leave them
dollar want to leave them moral upright boys.
And that sort of boy never suffered in America,
thank God.
wish had the physical strength to stand
here and talk this money out of you but. my
ellow-countrymen, don't subject a stranger to
that; go long and tend your own business, like
white folks ought to do. Laughter.
feel sad at having to leave you, but have
got to leave or disappoint the brethren near ST.
Paul. at Red Rock camp-meeting. They have
spent hundreds, and perhaps thousands. OF dollars
preparing for the camp-meeting, and have done
it on the pledge that we would come there.
We are to be there only five days.
You say / ought to have come here
by my contract with you and been
here all the time. Brethren. you see that at the
age of thirty eight am a broken down, almost
playedout man physically. When went home
hair and looked In my pale. haggard faceland
said: Husband, twelve months more, per
chance, will see me a widow, and your little
children orphans; you must hold up" l looked
up in her face, and said: "Wife, haven't got
minute to lose; / haven't got an hour throw
away; l want to finish my course and do the
work God wants me to do. and can't help from
believing that man is immortal until his work is
done" God help US all to pitch in and do our
might-do our best. If you ali would do your
share there would not be so much work for one
man to do.
am glad have come to Indianapolis. will
60 away loving every fellow in town. Laugh
ter Religion Is the best thing In the world.
out and fuss. till they die, but two "extin-
guished" preachers can fall out and make it up
in week. EGreat langhterl. Did you ever
notice that2 Every preacher that came to my
it, DR.. Jefery is genial, grand, Christian man"
Well, just laid that away and said TO myself,
"It that is So he and I will get along No
doubt about that for am running that sched-
ule myself" Laughter Whenever you see
two fellows running the same way, they are
going 20 run together pretty soon. Thank God
for Christian fraternity and Christian love.
Cries of amen"
i want to say to these newspaper brethren,
you have been kind and clever. Ike you
every one of you. God bless these reporters.
Cries of "Amen."] God save these reporters
God bless the editors-every one of them.
have got the kindest feeling in this word towards
every editor in this town. don't blame them
for anything they have said about us. was
an editor, and was to see the stories going about
about Sam Jones and Sam Small. would have
a contempt for them, too. These editors have
done just right, under the circumstances. When
these editors know US like our wives know u.s.
they will never say another word against us
while they live. My wife knows me better than
anybody, and she never says word against me-
and every time leave home she cries, and cries,
and cries. God bless the editors, the reporters
and the devils-in the printing Offices. fGreat
Laughter
God bless the preachers. I never met a jo-
lier, wholesouled set of preachers than in this
town. If you think these preachers are solemn
preachers you don't know them; they just keep
me laughing all the time / wish they would do
you that way. too. hearty laugh does folks
good. One trouble with you indianapolis folks
is that you are hide bound, like an old Texas
steer. He will never fatten while the sun
shines until you loosen his hide. Laughter
loosens the hide so that you can grow religious
You all need the curry-comb more than you
need corn. There is just as much religion
in laughing as in crying. Ii there was any
religion in crying | have got the best boy
you ever saw. He cried for three month nearly
on a stretch once but believe he is the meanest
rascal there now 1t isn't laughing it is not cry
ing; but it is the sort of fellow that does the
laughing or crying, and what he is laughing or
crying about. God made me a thinking, laugh
ing, crying animal, and if there is something in
religion to make me think and cry, and nothing
in it to make me laugh, it would be too short to
stretch myself on. and too narrow to wrap my
self in. But If there is something in reli-
gion to make me laugh and cry, and not
make me think. it would be too short
to stretch myself on; bnt when there
is something in religion to make US think, and
laugh and cry, then my whole nature is covered,
and the bed is long enough to stretch myself on
and the cover is wide enough 10 wrap myself in.
That is it. brother But, if you don't live right.
be solemn as the grave every day of your life.
for you ought to be solemn. If preacher is
not doing his duty, he ought to get up in the pull
pit and be as solemn as eternity. If ne is not
declaring the whole counsel of God he ought to
he solemn liz hA Ii emitting off truth he