Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-18

and the surgeon replle1, Yes, SIR, II We
have extracted sll this virus Of cancer from
his system now your father will get well,
but il the least particle of this virus OF can
Ger has straYsd out into some other gland in
his system hs will die' The next l heard
OF Senator Hill he was at one of the cele-
brsted mineral springs in the vest.
81 went to the depot N my town one day,
and while 1 stood there the passenger train
rolled down, trembling under its air-brakes,
and looking down toward the car thought
| saw through the window what seemed TO
be the outline of Senator Hills face. /
walked up to the car and he pushed his thin,
wasted hand out the window to me and
shook it and spoke to him, and as | spoke l
thought TO mysslf, Is this all that's left OF
the grandest man that Georgia ever pro-
ducedP A few days after that l picked up
the Atlanta Constitution and it stated that
the grandeSt procession that ever left the
city was the one that followed the remains
of the late Senator Hill to the cemetery.
"a fellow says, Pm going to quit drink
ing,' and he thinks he's going straight to
heaven because he's quit drinking. Listen
TO mel What do you commence wlthE \ ou
ought 10 have a thousand lashes for the
times YOU have miStreated your wife and
children, and because. forsooth, you're going
TO be decent. nothing more, you think you
are entitled to the good world. You ought
to be decent al your life. Here's one neigh
Dor comes over to me and he says: MIR.
Jones, l have been living by you here for
ten years, and have never killed any OF
your children, and have never burned your
house, or crippled any OF your stock, give
me sl,OOO' Well I'd say, I've been hv-
ing here by you for ten years, and 1 have
never burnt your bouse or crippled any OF
your children, give me $1,000 That's fool
ish.
"And here's fellow thinks he's going to
heaven and claims place in eternity simply
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so he'd treat his wife and children right
What sort of g humbug are you, anyway, to
start with? Whstd you think Of a fellow
that'd go up to Governor Foraker and say,
Governor, Just dropped in for a few minutes
this morning. 1 killed a fellow in Cincin-
natl last night in cold blood, but tell you,
governor, that Til never kill another. L
have quit killing them nowi I'm going to
behave myself hereafter The governor
would say, Hold, sir l am going to have
you arrested ani tried and hung for the
murder Don't come talking to me that
wly Done quit nowl He's going to hang
Y u for what you've done already, sir.
What are you going to do about all the
devilment you've already done? You ought to
be decent all the time, and now because
you've concluded to be decent you say, Let
bygones be bygones. Yes, you Will That
fellow told the governor Let bygones be by
cones, and the governor said, Il will, sir,
as soon as can get you arrested and tried
and hung and the fact recorded Oh what
foolish stuff the devil puts into our heads,
and be persuades us if we will promise to
quit this, that and the other that we are all
right.
81 don't want you to resolve on a better
life but want you to resolve on the best
life possible to live, and if you will do that
you will live SO you'll gain better life here
after on Gods ranch. What'j you think of
this: have resolved to be Union man.
l.. G1-l+
out on the 'front.' and at last I've resolved to
be Union man. l say to the enrolling
officer, Pm a Union man, SIR and the en-
rolling officer says, 'AIl right sir, I'll put
your name down here
"'Oh, no. l say; I don't mean that, I've
Just resolved in sentiment to be Union
man Yes, how much sentiment does it
sentiment would it have taken to have
whipped the Southern army? If there was
anything in sentiment we had enough of it
down south to whip you; but sentiment
won't load gun and fire it, and sentiment
won't go to the front and fight. l have re-
solved in sentiment to be a Union man
Joseph Cook gave a fine picture here about
a man that means business, and a man that
don't He pictured two cases during tht
revolutionary war; the American forces had
just been gloriously victorious in battle and
there were two men in town; one Of them
from the front, but the other fellow was
very sorry and had dropped his head. The
first was an American in sentiment and the
other was Tory. One was overjoyed and
the others bead was bent in sorrow l go
up to him and say, Are you overjoyed with
the victory? and he says, Yes, sir, am
1 say Pm glad to hear that, for
next door to you there's a poor woman
whose husband was killed in the en-
gagement you're so glad about, and her
children need shoes, and sne is out of meal
and meat and is hungry. Are you glad
and carry meal and meat and fuel up to
that poor widows houser On, no. he says;
Pm not that glad. l amt glad enough to
give that woman any meat or bread-I amt
that glad say, Are you glad enough to
get you gun and go to the front and face
that sort of gladness. l amt glad that way
What does such gladness amount TO, any
way? go to the other Tory fellow and say,
Are you sorry that the English forces were
defeated by Washington 'Oh, I'm so
sorry PIl die; he says as he droops his head.
Are you sorry enough to send over hum
dred dollars to pay the bounty of a man to
volunteer in the English armyP 'Oh, no.
he says, 4 amt that sorry. Are you sorry
enough ask, ito go through the lines to
the English, and get gun and stand against
the forces that defeated the English? 'Oh,
no., he says, L amt sorry that way at all
Brethren, what does that sort of sorrow
amount to, anyways
''What does that sort of Joy amount to?
When 1 saw Union man at home and he
didn't 90 the front and didn't have a dollar
that was too good for the cause, had a con-
tempt for his sentiments. saw Union
man at home, and when the call came for six
hundred thousand men more he walked up
to the recruiting Office and he set down his
name, and knew he meant business. No
sentiment about that. It's little fellows
that just resolve, you know, and are just
going to try themselves little
"Those ara the very fellows I'm talking
that resolve. What's your resolution
amount to when you don't do anything else
You just resolve and resolve, and that's all
there is to it. Pm so glad we're having big
meetings at Music Hail. Yes, but what's
your sort worth anyway? Pm SO sorry
you? Are you sorry enough to come into
the ranks of God and help to win the town
from its wickedness9 Oh, it amt that kind
of sorrow, amt ita Oh brethren let's you
and tonight have the joy and the sorrow
that mean something.
''The policeman Who attends all these
meetings told me it was the best behaved
crowd he ever saw. Yes you do everything
the devil is willing for you to do, but you
won't do one thing he says you can't do, and
that is, stand up for God and come over TO
our side. That fellow that's always going
to do something tomorrow never does it
1t is now or neverl A man in Knoxville
said he would join church tomorrow and
he died within two weeks after, but my
warning TO him the night he attended church
was addressed to him personally, and when
he was dying he told his friend to tell me
that he was glad that did address him that
night, for it was the means of saving him
from terrible fate. 1 often think about
that boy that was running TO the depot to
catch a train, and when he got on the plat
form the train had gone, and a man stand
ing there said, 'Bub, Pl tell you what's the
matter; you didn't run fast enough, or
you'd caught that train oh, yes did,
said the boy, Il ran fast enough, but the
trouble is, l didn't start soon enough. ran
with all my might after did start, but l
didn't start soon enough
"Let me tell you, brethren, tonight, il
you will start tonight and put in your best
lcks until you die you'll barely make it to
the next world. You old, gray headed sin
ner talking about to morrow or next week,
you might drop dead in your pew tonight.
There is a better way, brethren, and let's
start on it tonight
"Will you take stand tonight? You
have thought it over. Let's take it up to-
night and settle it for time and eternity. /
want to tell you this: When took the
stand Pm talking about never had much
from ble Siuca than Thav said I'd soon 90