Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-27
burdens Of guilt there Is place where you
may go and cast your burden down anil
eeme away singing:


Now not wave OF trouble rolls
Across my peaceful breast
Thank Gcd there Is such a place In this
old sin and guilt-burdened world, where we
can lay our burdens down aud rejoice and
rest in God, our Savior
There's burden CT anxiety Oh who
knows what that mothers heart bears II
any man, woman or child will overhaul the
letters have received since ! have been
here IN Cincinnati, and will read the
letters and messages aud requests | have
read, oh, brother you will know then what
burdens of anxiety rest on the hearts Of
many people in Cincinnati. You will know
then what it is TO ache from head to foot
because of the fearful falsehood of another
Boys. let me talk to you a minute!
"Mother has got enough TO care for you,
my boy ! said onea before since | have
been here In this city, and | repeat IL to-
night, man asked me one day, said be,
Jones, what am | TO do with my boysl
They are dissipated: they are breaking their
mothers heart Why, Ter life-blood Is fad
ing out of her being day after day; she is
get ng gray and wrinkled and her heart is
broken already, and she will be In her grave
in two more years. What about my boys;
what must do with those boysP
II don't know; it is the hardest question
In the universe. But whenever my two
boys begin to break their mothers heart,
and fading the bloom from her cheeks, and
turning her beautiful hair gray in my pres
ence, and | see they are killing their mother
by the inch, | am going to call the boys
down some morning and say, Boys go back
and load your breech-loading shotguns up
to the muzzle, and slip into your mothers
room some morning while she Is asleep, and
want you to fire both barrels at your
mother ana kill her on the spot Kill her
now and lie her go TO heaven Boys, you
are doing that, some Of you. God pity the
boy that will put his loot and heel on his
mothers heart end crush her life blood OUT.
BOYS in this town are doing that.
Il love to throw my am around my
precious wife's neck occasionally and
say Wife, must ask you ons more time
TO forgive me for the way used to do in
my hayward life And before the angels
of God in heaven | want the privilege at
least of begging her pardon for the way-
ward life ] led the three first years of our
married life
Why, wives have written to me about
their husbands: Mr.. Jones, intimate from
the pulpit that husbands ought not to be UNI
kind to their wives. Mr.. Jones, say some
thing from the pulpit TO touch boys heart
that has already broken poor mothers
heart Oh, BOYS. let us stop tonight! Let
us stop tonight AMI let us say, God be-
ing nav helper, | will never burden my loved
ones heart any longer / won't do it.
Il was reading this incident some days
ago where a dozan women were sitting in O
parlor rehearsng their troubles. One told
her troubles, another told her troubles an
other told her troubles, and on until eleven
had spoken, and a pale, sad face present
bad not spoken word. They turnei to her
IND said, Tell us what your troubles areT
And she saId 4 have listened 10 you all,
and you know nothing what troubles are.
will tell you mine sinco YOU have asked for
them I was raised 10 aff1uence and wealth;
SO was my husband. After we were mar
ried he bought beautiful place on the Sa
vannah river, and there we lived in our
reautiful home, and in the course of years
God blessed us with four children. One
night awoke in my room and l dropped
my, hand out of bed and it dropped into
water. awo1e my husband and be arose.
The water was already a foot deep above
the floor, and my husband gathered myself
ana the chlidren and carried US TO small
raft near by. AMI the water rose very
rapidly And my husband said, ~ will
take you and the baby first to the hillside
and then coma back for the other children, }
Ny husband carried us over and then went
backs and as the moon was shining upon
the food, the raft was carried away, and
my husband sank cut of sight, and | have
never seen him since,
But she said, that wasn't the trouble
| saw the waters rise aud carry my three
year-old child out of signt, aul have never
seen il since. But that wasn't trouble And
she SAID, L saw the water rise above the
head OF the neyt, AMI itstruggled and passed
out Of sight. Aud then l sat there until the
water had risen above the head of my first
born, and saw him swept away, and have
never seen MIN since. But she said, that
wasn't troubls. / was left widow, with
just one little boy in my arms. | spent my
whole life trying to rear him right. / sent
him off to college
~ sent him to college, That is the
epitom9 OF the damnation of thousands of
boys. L sent him to college Now, sir,
you strike ME at point where | am ready
10 say this: 1t is question in my mind
whether will ever send one of my boys 20
college or not, Yes you say, you are OPP.
posed TO education. No | a1n'G But /
would rather my boy would be sitting in
heaven learning his A, B, C's than sitting
down i'll hell reading Greek. You had bet
ter watch you had better watch. Ii | had
good toy that was loyal to Col and to the
right | might trust him at college; but if
ID have got maynard, dlssipaGei boy | will
! never send him to college to ge5 shut of him
Doyou hear that! You IN AXE a mistake as
, ling as eternity. And there is many &
father sanding his boy to college because be
don'I know what else to do with him. You
have maze nistakel You have made Q
mistake! Il
"You had better get that boy to stea
something and have him sent to the peniten
, tlary That is my clniid Judgment. For
no-account, maynard and dissipated boy
the penitentiary is just as fine place as
college, because he will not only diss patt
at college, but ruin every other boy that ht
can get his hands on Let him practice OF
convict il be wants to ruin any cody.
: THANK God for the cross. / have shout
; dered my cross sometimes when thought il
the biggest burden | had to carry, and
: have carried that cross until it was more
> than | could carry and / fell down; but q.
soon as fell down God put legs to the cross
and he put me on it AMI He said it shall
carry you now. Blessed be God for tn,
cross that was a burden once, and yet car
ried you safely into the haven of God
81 don't care what your burden OF trou
; bles are tonight God saws: Cast then
upon me, and l will sustain YOU
II have seen wife pray for her husband
, and he went to the bad and went to thu bad.
Aud have seen my own precious wife say
= 4 am broken down with the burden; l vii
: have TO give it up
, ''She was about to give it all up in despair
: when God swept me into the kingdom o
, Christ, and / said, GLORY to God! He ba
delivered my soul in peace from the battl
;. against me- I thought | had to give up il
despair, but about that time he brought m
,, into victory, AMI now l shout over victorie
! unknown to men Many a man has beel
i ready to give up ani been on the verge o
despair, but about that time some provi1eu
n tial influence came along and swept hir
- into this church which he thought he worl
- never reach. Many time the old brethPe