The Dawson journal., 1886-06-03
SMALL SANS SERMONS.
Nasty Pulpit Illustrations Before q
Refined Audience.

Rsnne0 Audience.
In a recent sermon to a Balti
more audience, Sam Small, one ol
the Georgia evangelists, is report.
! ed as making use of the following
language:
"There was another popularity
about slavery. Slaves had to get
passes from their master whenev-
er they left the plantation. 1t
was a hard road for a darkey to
travel when he was caught with
out his pass. So Satan put his
bsdge upon his face. Some men
wore the badge upon the face, in
the shape OF red noses, and hats
with holes in them. Can not you
see men in Baltimore wearing the
badges of their slavery in their
faces, their ragged clothes and
poverty stricken condition? Their
faces are Lit up with the flames OF
hell, many of those slaves, as did
the old ones, getting little mora
than their feed. In old slave days
they put man up and sold him
away from his family, and would
take whole families and sell them
separately. That was a horrible
feature of slavery. And this
whole country was armed and re-
solved to put an end to this infa-
my. And, thank God! they sue
ceeded. [Applause. This coun-
try is standing listlessly watching
families separated and broken up
by this bondage to hell. and yet
we do nothing to stay this horror.
Look at the divorces being sued
for in this decent, orderly city,
and turn the light upon the secrets
of those divorces, and you vii
find in nearly every case that the
cause is Sin. A horrible task
master he is who will take man
of noble character and Sebauch
him SO that his wife and children
have to ask the law to step in and
separate them. You may not
have reached that stage yet, but
it is the logica.. conclusion of your
life. The divorcements Of hell
are given for time and eternity.
When Satan gets hold of the head
Of the family he debauches the
whole concern and takes it to hell.
NASTY ILLUSTRATIONS.
"The stakeholder could take the
daughters Of slaves and debauch
them, and mingle his own blood
and theirs in a mcngrel and bas-
tard generation. Whenever the
devil can begin 70 debauch you
and begin to poison your veins
with the virus of hell, he can
paint every child of yours, born
and unborn, with a venom of hell,
A man can put himself into con-
dition that he can bring into this
world a being which is half
drunkard. Thus the devil holds
the mastery and perpetrates his
slavery in your children.
"No slave in The South ever be-
came SO low or so abject as not to
have in his breast the instinct of
of liberty. And there is in the
heart and sou! of every sinner,
however he may seek to disguise
it, feeling that there is liberty
for them some day. The eyes of
the slaves often turned to the
North and thought of the freedom
beyond the dividing line. Some
made their way to freedom under
appalling difficulties. They'd
sleep in the swamps, rocks OF the
mountains and Businesses of the
woods, and undergo it all and fee,
knowing that bloodhounds were
upon their tracks, not knowing
where they went, except that they
were going to freedom. Thank
God! [Applause.l lie poor
colored man in the South would
make such desperate attempts al
freedom, how much more ought
the slaves Of sin throw down Their
chains and escape? | would like
to see hundreds of you take uE
the march to the land Of freedom
Christ purchased freedom for you
just as those brave soldiers of the
Union purchased it for those poor
slaves of the South" Applause.