The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-19

tonight could not withstand it. yielded and
/ gave my heart to God" Now do not mean to
| say am the only preacher that has been IN TINS
country. do not mean to say anything of that
! sort; | have no doubt that every man who
| breaches at all in Indianapolis has got more
brains than l. but you haven't got any more
| heart than /, brother. You may put that down.
The sort of truth like is truth fre-truth
| on fire. Now sir, hear me tonight and judge OF
| the truth, not of the man that talks it. Judge
| of the truth, and not the poor humble creature
that stands up to preach it. | am not on trial,
thank God. What you say about me don't
amount to that [snapping his finger because |
! lived and done well before ] came here, and l
will do well after go away from here, too. L
| have preached to great deal larger audiences
than this. / have preached to just as intelligent
audiences this all my life 1t is no compli-
rnent to me at all for you to come here and
| crowd this hall, but let it be compliment to
| plain, naked truth, as it is in Jesus Christ And
/ / will say another thing for the good of the
preachers present Brethren, the most
popular thing in Gods world to-day
| is the plain. naked TRUTH plainly told
that will win when nothing else will win.
1t will not sell for as much. Laughter Old
/ Barnum came here the other day and took away
| about fifteen thousand dollars. l wonder why
you newspaper felers didn't jump on old Bar
mum and tell him he was after money. Laugh
ter and applause. Now, if old Barnum can
come here and take off fifteen thousand dollars
: from the trashy white and colored people
| laughter what ought a frst-class gospel meet
| ing to claim of community like thisg Just
| think of it, Barnums highly moral show! L
say, my brother, let's you and get hold or the
] truth tonight and let US be saved by the truth
| and enlightened by the truth, and let's not pay
50 much attention to the fellow that tells it.
You make mistake there. We select as the
| text these words of David:
What wait I for?
| That is the question: and the answer is-or,
rather, the resolution, the determination, is
| fixed in the next clause Of the texts
| My hope is in God.
"What wait for9" is the question, and then
the blessed announcement follows, MY hope Is
| in God"
Now, let's you and look carefully and pray
erfully at this subject, and let's you and fol-
low it personally through the discussion. What
/ wait for?' Now am coming down on your
side of it, to night to look at it from your stand
| point / want to talk with you and to you just
| like was sitting down near by you and nobody
| else In the world was present except you and l.
! Now, what wait l for? That man sitting out
| there. he says, Il tell you what | am waiting
| for; am waiting for time to consider the ques-
| tion." Now, this is momentous question; one
! of the most fearfully momentous questions ever
! propounded to mortal man. and am waiting for
| time to consider; don't believe in making haste
! here and then repentng at leisure; l am waiting
for time to consider this awful question this
momentous question" Waiting for time to con-
| siderl Consider what? Whether it is right to
| do right, and wrong to do wrong! How much
| time does sensible fellow want proposition
| like that? Time to consider whats Whether
you had rather go to heaven than to hell! Now,
about how long ought fellow to have that
| proposition! Time to consider what? Whether
| it is better to be good than to be bad? About
how much time does sensible man need
| proposition like that2 Time to consider WHAT
Whether it Is better to serve God and live right
| than it is to serve sin and be damned at last9
| How much time ought real sensible man to
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| here, brother; the truth of the business
| is you are begging for time to consider
| question that you settled some of you, thirty
| years ago. some of you twenty years ago, and
| some of you ten years ago. Locke here; is
there man in this house that has not settled at
some time in his life that it right to do right
| and he ought to do it, and it was wrong to do
| wrong and he ought to quit it? Is there
here that has not settled that question that he
would rather go to heaven than to go to HE'LL
that it is better to be good than it is to be bad9
| Ii you have not settled those questions, brother
where have you lived, and what is your name
| and what have you been dom all your life2 If
| you have not settled those questions l beg for
| the privilege of pronouncing you nondescript;
a non est from bottom to top. Time to consider
! this great question: No, brother, you beg the
| question. When we push the question home
] upon your conscience, Decide how to
| time to consider it before 1 decide it;
| and want to stop here at this point to say,
brethren, that God himself cannot help man to
| be religious until the man decides to be religious
/ Ii he can help him. how can he help him9 Here,
choose ye this day whom ye will serve. When
| you make your choice you put yourself in line
| with God-you put yourself where God can help
your choice What does it mean? 1t means /
| will give up; in order that may have this will
| give UP sin, and will take righteousness as my
| portion forever. God cannot help man to be
| good until that man decides to be good Here,
| decide tonight one way or the other and make
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| and dsplease God, and right to be damned in
| the end, make that choice tonight and abide by
| it forever. If it is right to be good and to do
good, make that choice tonight, and do good and
| be good the balance of your days. / am waiting
| for time to consider.
| Another one says: ''Well that is not my con-
dition; will tell you what / am waiting for; /
am waiting for the church to get right. Now just
the church gets right am comm in"
Yes, and you will be in hell million years, old
fellow, before that day comes Now you
mark what | say. Applause. I am waiting
for the church to get right Brother when
Jesus walked and talked among men and Jesus
chose twelve disciples one of them had devil
and l think are dom first rate if one twelfth
of our members only are hypocrites or devils
We are in apostolic succession to say the least
of it, if we are keeping that high up Waiting
for the church to get right That man out
there says "The hypocrites are in my
way" Well, God bless you, I never
would say that again while 1 lived
would keep that to myself 1t is disgrace to
any man for him to confess that hypocrites are
in his way. You know nothing can get in your
way when you start somewhere, except some
thing that is ahead of you. Laughter Do
you get the idea9 Applause. And when a
man says, THE hypocrites are in my way" he is
behind the hypocrites and they are ahead of
! him. Applause What do you think of that2
l don't believe would ever mention the subject
any more while lived if | was you. Hypocrites
in my way! The hypocrites used to be in my
way but, ldfellow, about thirteen years ago cut
around them and got ahead of them, and there
has not been one of them in my way for thir-
teen years. glory be to God. Cries of Amen
and applause. keep all the hypocrites in my rear
now, and I faced toward heaven Tank
Ged, the hypocrites are not in my way. I am
waiting for the church to get right!
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