Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

49, WI Vi Ava
opinion! Where did you get your opin-
ion? When YOU drink your
drains and spew out your opinions in
this country, I've got no respect for
you, you old hog. you. Ninety-nine
one-hundredths of the opinions of this
country come from hell, and they're
goin' back there, and take you along
with 'em,
NO RIGHT TO AN opinion
No man has a right to an opinion on
a moral question. The Bible settles
that. What right have YOU to stand
there a like a fool and give your opin-
ion when you can slap on the straight
edge Of the Bible and make it all right?
Bundle up al our opinions this morn
ing and ship 'em back to hell. I'd
just as soon preach TO Il goat as to
preach to an old fellow who's always
shoutin' about his opinions. I've been
called IA plain preacher. Now listen, |
never yet got my courage screwed up
so | could preach the whole Bible. I've
been called Il vulgar preacher. But
listen. adapt my sermons to my crowd.
Christ did the same thing. If he had
an audience of angels he wouldn't have
talked about adultery. I've discovered
another thing. TO the pure all things
are pure. a young girl will waltz
around in the german with the arm Of
one Of those lecherous ballroom bucks
around her, yet if | preach against
dancing she is awfully shocked and
turns up her nose; but a modest. virtu-
girl says ! preach splendid SER
mons. You say I'm vulgar. But
every time | 90 home my wife is so
glad to see me she cries, and ! guess
You can stand it to hear me preach
awhile. You say I'm vulgar do YOU?
| came OF the best stock in the south.
and when | preach vulgar sermons |
let myself down to a level with my
crowd. You see, when II fellow gets
religion he'll pray in his family. Now,
you fellows had better 20 to praying in
your families. The best way TO 90 to
God is through the means of grace. A
man must first be negatively good
mean quit his meanness-then he must
be positively righteous.
o UNDERSTAND 1T ALL
There are many things in the bible
that ! cannot UNDERSTANDABLE that is
between the two covers OF the Bible
and ! am glad of it. If | could find Il
man who could understand everything
in the Bible, then | should be convinced
that he had written it, and | could not
then believe it. | can understand that
Christ died for mt and that there is IA
mansion in store for those who love
God. There are mysteries in the Bible
for us all, but there is enough there to
assist Us to find the way TO heaven. |
believe in a hell. There is a hell, and
| tell you you had better get scared
about it. About ten months ago | got
scared about hell, and / haven't got over
my scare yet. But, God being my
helper, ! expect to keep my back on
hell until | behold the pearly gates open
for me. Those who are on the road 10
hell appear TO want everybody else to
90 there. The fact is, that the doctrine
Of a hell appeals to every mans rea-
SON.. 1t Is the necessary consequence
of "A heaven. If people are sent TO
heaven rs "A reward for Righteousness,
they are sent to hell as Il punishment
for unrighteousness. The system of
rewards and punishments runs through
out the universe. 1t comes rs a logical
conclusion of the fact that God has es-
tablished rewards for the good and
and punishments for the wicked. Talk
about science. Dc you know that sci
cnce is a gift Of God, and that its reve-
lationS come from him? Do YOU sup
pose that God started scientific ~invcsti-
CATION in this world to prove that he
was "A myth and his law a fable? What
has science done for any people until
religion has gone in and made a place
for itP Science has climbed up ca a
ladder erected by religion. Now il il
trying to kick the ladder over and
tramplc religion in the dust. There
are not enough scientists III the world
to make me disbelieve the Bible.
l believe in a hell, and u hell
OF fire and birthstone. Ina sorry
for any man who's got his head full of
the ideas of hell promulgated by Bob
lngersoll. If there is any one in this
world that has brains enough to prove
there is no hell, it's Bob Ingersoll, but
he's made a signal failure. I'd hate to
be a man like Bob Ingersoll to whom
people won't rent houses to pcddle his
doctrines in. But there are those who
believe a man suffers during this life.
That doctrine won't do, brother. Do
you think n young man can suffer
enough in this world for numbering his
mother with a life OF sin and debauch-
cry? DO you know Of any evil ade-
quate to punish the slanderous tongue
that has driven a pure woman to her
grave? YOn may take . murderer out
and lynch him, but does that supply to
the widow and her children the father
who was struck down in cold blood?
Wanted a Heavy Man.