Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-05-28
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"A Hlall Cdu ucNcT De WOTbu uuCH u
others as long as he has to wait upoI
{ himself and sit up with himsrlf and
look after himself. faIn sorry fol
any man whose only job in this world
is t. sit up and look after carcass
weighing about one hundred and sew
tenty pounds of solid conc .ntrs-
ted scifi>hness. Laughter He
has got an immense job on his hands
and ! would rather tryeto satisfy all
Chuaeo. .snd minister to every man
! in Chicago, titan to look after such q
character as that. Selfishnessi There
is not an element In selflshness that
does not enter also into the pualsh-
ment of pride. He'll, when you boil
it down; and bring it down to its last
analysis, is pure, unadulterated, I'LL
tered seIishness. And, oh, how un-
bearable that is! If there is any
thing Incompatible with Christianity
1t is selishness. If there is anything
that Christianity will not have ac-
quaintaEce with, If there is anything
that Christianity will not have any
thing to do with, it is selfshness.
Selfshness! If there is spirit in
Christianity at all. it is spirit OF
unseIfishness. Fhe grandest man in
the city of Chicago is the most un-
selfish man in Chicago. don't care
who he is. Idon't care where he
lives. don't care how little he is
worth. / don't care how old he is,
or how Young. We want heaven here
and now. 1 have said before, / re-
peat it, we go along singing, "Sweet
by and by.'' We are ever looking to
the ''sweet by and by" Look here.
brethren, l have quit singing, sweet
by and BY and am singing, sweet
now and now" want it here now,
you know tell you here is the
place for it, now, less of it hereafter.
I need 1t more now. / am by this, as
1 am by 'heavenly recognition. +" A
great many preachers are continually
preaching on heavenly recognition.
Well, that don't trouble me at ALL l
don't care so much about heavenly
recognition. L am poor fellow. /
fan shout. l am weak, poor and
helpaess: Brethren we want earthly
recognition. Please recognize me. /
am here. and aaelp me all You can );
but, when 1 get to glqry and sit down
under the shade of the tee of life,
and take my harp and strike the
chords, if you don't want to recog-
nize me then, don't do it. God bless
you, I'm all right then, and I don't
care for recognition. Laughter. II
want heaven in Illinois and in Geor-
gia and all about me. And he who
sees and thinks only goodness, mer-
cy, glory, and blessings with his own
eye shall live and die in perfect at
mosphere of heaven. Brethren, let's
have some of it down here now. Let
us not talk so much about hereafter.
need it here. This old world needs
heaven.
DEATH-BED REPENTANCE.
want live kicking sinners TO work
on. 4 Gaan GhO gives his live and
strength to the devil. and then offers
a gray head with q wrinkled face to
God, performs the greatest act OF
cowardice in his towards career. l
tell you just shake fellow over the
coffin few times, and then cut him
loose, aid he will strike on the dead
run, but he will be running from the
coffin, not from his sins. 1 do not
ge q cent on death-bed repentance.
They will point to the thief on the
cross when you talk to them They
will jump on the poor thief's back
and go Looping into glory. l would
be too much of man to ride a thief
into heaven. II you preachers wanld
,'1e more pointed in this matter there
wo,,Id be fewer uid cases hanging
aroun1S to get good, just before they
die. HeaSren IS the home OF men
who built chi. -aeters here on earth.
EApplause.1 p nd Cornelius Wander
6iIt sinned all his life, then got his
wife to sing ssCome, q Ee slahers poor
and needy and DIR. SoAaeco1y
preached him right into he eve@
this is so, we had better q. w A1u
take the Universalist broad- auge
plan. But my time is up. Thu nc
are big fish up this branch, and we ,
willgo after them again. Jones.
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