The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-23


a grand thl7k, Ne shall achieve revolution
IN morals aud politics ami everything and
bring this country 70 righteousness aud
trutn
"You recon the saloon men in ths city,
AZ they ha1 any conscience, VI h,Iil sysd 10
God. tint they wouii want 10 pour LIQUID
damnnnlB iOsn tJe thross Of our msn aud
| boys, aui iau tbsn, an ! ruin slciAty. AMI
run tins 1athtth dayf No. sir fhey deny
that there Is Col, and practically they
have no conscience LETT Nhat We want IN
! this country, n We have any conscience left
y gus ia Jbiug IL rhnta what 40 want
| ~ tel you THIS much: | used 10 he W that
| cOul 1 DO sorns right smart mischief and
deyilmUnt myself, but thank 90 l. no mattsr
what did ahen vent b bed that night
| couldn't got b sleep / felt mean all ovor,
from bead 10 foot I'm tell ynn another
thing: have s8ep men all BrouD1 us every
where tina could blaspheme Gods mama all
| day, anl be guilty OF every thing the dsyil
waniai him % do, aud 90 home At night, aud
| eat AMI slssp ike n hog the whole nigbt
long tell you that sort Of a man ~ about
| eleventh. to1ths hog any way. Tuats the
! truth about bin All tnafs physical abJut
him hns turned 20 hog auI tho iuLeilocg OF
Tho fsilo" has turned into hog too and that
| makes another tenth, ard noW he Is n solid
| hunk, cl1ys1 touths nuy lL1uxhter.1
! - Christi va man; Methodist that be-
| longs b "A club Baptist that Is a member
! VI bi' " 'th RiAT Eiult n fluD WNlcu ~ n
joint h ock company, running bar rooms,
card rooms, md anything that viii damn
! boy AMI Lad bin of from bis mothers God.
| And call them a Christian, or Baptist, or
| M'ih0dN9 You arc not You are y dog,
| aud MOI unftatian, because you afo adding
| 90 tbs things th ~ damn humanity; you are
| adding the SIN OF hOpoCrigy Aud that ami
mall call toe name iust now-ts a script
! urnl animal he Is, as sure ms you live. The
! dog gone back To his voni.' And that ~
| member Of tho church who gives himself to
! Christ and then goes hack 70 cubs tho
worldings and sin Tho dog going back ~
his vomt'
eve are going 70 Jraw tho limo, thers ia
no us5 Ia talking II am wording and
sinner ! wlli 10 one; bur whom profess 10
DO u Christian ! viii go cut from tbom ana
bo separate from thom, Col DO my witness
! tAmcn
"NoW II you gentlemen don't want N DO.
| long to tbs churGn, II you want 20 Join a
| club AMI want b. do every thing olsb you
! pleas, you have my cousjnt, with my
| prayers. that you may quit; but Lord mo,
! If you ara member Of the church have
right 10 tbs sacred trust 81 Jesus Christ 10
tell you that you ure most Of vipers,
whitencd sepuichers, b,pocrites A man
| may bo gentleman and Uolong b. club.
but he cannot be Christian and belong TO
| one 10 sava his soul. fAmenl Say anon
| aloud 10 thtt tAmsn
conscience Mems consciencs have died
IN their bOsotns; they 20 where they ploass
aud do "a they please end live AZ they please
aud whatever they choose 10 do tuey do 1t.
On doi, Keep our cOnsclenoss alive No that
| when we do wrong w will be miserable
about IT, That's what we want
Aud he that p irsuelh evil pur "a tn IL TO
the dpAth-Of hrs conscience We stab con
science stab after stab, until 1t approaches
its last, aud il " dead forever. Old you
| fApl ha ALI 4 at laA a IA
| nfternoOnl Do you feel bad about that
wicked doet Of last night No Young
man, hear me, aud many boy that hears
| my voice tonight, " your conscience wasn't
dead IN your bosom you nevor could look
your poor mothers and your sisters in the
face again while you live and the only way
you can hold up your face at all is the fact
that conscience ~ dead in your bosom, and
you soem to know aud carr nothing about
your wlokedness and crime
"Cnscioncel Then ho that pursuoth OWL
purWoth II 10 tho deRth--of his aensi bility.
A. soon Hs = man DESTROYS his conscience
then every sin ~ his life is "a direct stab Mt
his saulbllity, aui by and 10y be sins on
until he says! Now have got NO feeling;
thores nothing stifs me. ! gu 10 this man
and | am interested; | hear this man but he
never touches my soul haven't boon
stirred at church in twenty years. He
has stnbhel his senlbities 10 death |
think | would rs soon gu out there in the
| congregation aud shake hands with u dead
man rs % shake hands With YOU. Just as
elrectually doad as It viii be damned, and
overy sin of this mans l'fe burries him to
| that con lition
"Aud thah again he that pursusth evil
pursneth II to tho death Of his powers OF
, resistance Now sin has done It's work on
conscience, and sin has done its work on
| s'nslhllitll aud next We sea sin begin to
stab tho mans powers CT resistance. Oh,
how that man moves on; nothing can i'm
paie him, nothing can stop lSm. Let me
tell YOU friends, tho greatest power in this
country is thu throttle Of that locomotive
engine the power 10 so ahead Oh, what
power. Sac that magnificent engine, with
| her ten cars OF passengers, as she moves out
the velocity Of the wind aud see her
as she rolls onward towards Der destination
But the power Ia start aud the power to
keep ON going, next to that power are those
air brakes ON that engine was sitting one
day in the engine house with the engineer
AMI threw my eyes in front AMI saw lot
| OF cattle on the track We we're rolling
! along Mt the rate OF forty five or fifty miles
an hour, and tho cattle were perhaps ons
hundred yards ahead of us In an instant
the engineer toaf hold II his throttle valve
| AMI slapped IN every air brake ON his
wheels and blew his whistle, and the cattle
had time 10 get of the track. thought 10
myself, am 50 glad that that engineer has
| these air brakes ON MS engine. TX ne mad
net had them might have been killed. That
| engine had the power to stop,
| 'Oiorj, help me & shun the death
That never never dies,
Hut make my own election sure,
And when fail ON epgth, secure
A mansion IN the ,lytos.'
| Eternal death WIN is it, What IS
ieath 20 a siuuerl TIE sinner is lying on
his diving couch and the raptile OF eternal
death approaches, aud he shuddars as il APP
| pruaches, and IL conlag clps'r AMI closer and
coils itself around his hody aud oh, how he
shudderS as the cold reptle embraces him;
| and then IL draws hack an holds its head
| poised for q moment and exposes the fangs,
and IN an Instant Il pluLge' the faugs into
the face of the victim, aud then, in the
agony Of eternal death, he goes out Of the
| world.
GLOW with the Christianl The reptile
approaches closer aud closer, until he al
most reaches tina Christian, when his hand
takes the reptile at the back Of the neck
aud prizes its mouth open and extracts its
fanys and takes or It's poison, and looks into
his mouth aud says; On death, where is
thy sting, Oh, grave, where is thv victoryf
ami he lifts himself cut OF tho coils of the
serpent into the arms OF Col 70 live forev-
err tAmen.l
TEEMER'S CHALLENGE.
lie Want, To Row the Canadian Champion.