St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-25
sMALL,s TEMPERANCE TALK.
He breaches On the Slavery That
Lies i'm Strong Drink.


Lies in Strong Drink.
At o'clock last night, between 500 and
600 people assembled in the large pavilion
to listen to Sam Small. A brief service of
song was held prior to the sermon, led by
Mrs. j. S. Bailey. The regular evening
exercises were opened by the reading by
Rev. W. w. Satterlee of the second chap
ter Of Ephesians. after which Rev. DR..
Hobart led in prayer, pleading earnestly
that God should bless the meetings and
touch the hearts of sinners. He
made a special request that
the hearts of backsliders be touched
and warmed up to their duty.
He invoked the blessing of God and His
special favor Oh the two evangelists who
had come so many miles to labor for the
salvation of the souls of sinners. Up to
this time Sam Small had not appeared, and
it was explained that probably he had been
delayed, as he intended coming by boat.
Rev. w. w. Satterlee suggested that until
he arrived the people relate a bit of their
experience during the years that they had
been fighting in the army of the Lord. At
ten minutes past o'clock Sam Small, Sam
Jones and NJ. j. Maxwell came into the
pavilion and mounted the speakers stand.
wait until the services were over and he
didn't propose to hurry through them.
He was in favor of the MethcdiSts going
by the water route. He said the railroads
were too independent, and he didn't pro-
pose to make his schedule fit theirs. He
said he was the child of king. who could
buy the whole corporation and never miss
it from his pocket change
SMATI'S SERNyoN
Mr.. Small then arose and read the first
verse of the fifth chapter of Citations
''Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty
whereby Christ has made us free, and not be
entangled by the yoke of bondage
Said he:
This yoak Of bondage, if there is anything
that can be compared to this bondage, is hui
man slavery. Away back in the days of
Adam, men labored under the yoke of bond
age. They brought this slavery upon them
selves. They did something for which we
W ill, If we follow their example, suffer the
same degree of punishment. There was i'm
planted by that act of disobedience a seed
that has grown and borne fruit and which has
placed man in the shackles of slavery. In
the South, slavery was fostered for long
period. If you never lived in the South, you
know but very little about what
human slavery was. You have heard
and read about it, but if YOU
then you can't know what human slavery
was. l came from that country, and know
whereof l speak. We used to pass along the
road there and sometimes would meet an old
colored man and ask him who he belonged to,
and what did this question, who do you be-
long to-. mean? 1t meant that he was crea-
ture OF the same God as any other man, and
yet he was the absolute slave of another fell
low creature He was no longer his own
master. He was born a slave. The whole
course aud tenor of his life were the property
of another man. and were underline domination
OF a man who was no better than he was. But
how different was that man from he who is a
Sinner, who is giving himself up to the DOM
ination of the devil, and doing it wilfully and
consciously. He is
NOTAs GOOD
as that man whose skin was black and SER
want of q fellow-being. He is more to be
pitiec. We think a man is in a terrible con-
d1tion when he has nothing that he can call
| his own, yet the sinner tonight is not in as
good condition as the slave was in the South
before the war. The Southern slave was
sure of clothes, food and home
and he was in a better condition than the
| sinner is in to-day, for many of them hay,
no clothes, no food and no friends. They
| have no certainty in this world, except that
| they are doomed to poverty, doomed to dis
| tress, doomed to sickness and doomed to III
| eternal death.
| Lucy VIM BO luCO Saloons at the end OF the
| week and pay their wages to the tax gathere
| OF the devil are not the slaves of the onl,
master that exists. There are many of then
| in different trades and professions I tel
you, with an exp ri nee that has been suffi
Gent to nvil3e me, that
had rather be 'shed to that DOS
and bare my bac. % th'rty-nine lashes tina,
| to be sent back mo tn, depths of debt il
| which was but hort inc ago, brough
there by my slavery to thi hellish demon
liquor And there is l. any man who is
slave to the devil to-day, who had better b
dashed to the post and u1fe the pangs O
| pain while his flesh is b.l.. beaten into
| pulp, than to suffer the diseases locked I'D il
this servitude to the devil. We used to find
| down South, what we called preferred slaves
| They had about whatever they wanted
| They got along first rate and tho othe
slaves used to look on them wit
feeling of envy, but there always came
Time that these preferred slaves had to COM
down to the bottom and undergo the sam
toll and the same strifes and the same tire at
ment that the other slaves did, The Christi a
| life is q life of deuial. Some sinners have lin
| homes and plenty Of money and are gettin,
! OH swimmingly., Why the Lord seems t
| prosper these men and let some other ma