The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-17

uil lurse cuufchts II tne h9ftuDtfhbip pass
ing around and saying TO ths newcomer:
'Here II you want 70 get into society you
will have to JOIN our church" You all know
what | mean by society God
made Us social beings am glad Of every
social feature in this universe But you
know what mean by socisty those din
ners where you ARE considered perhaps i'm
polite II you don't have vino on your table
and champagne and cards in your hons AMI
the germau in your house. My Goal 30
cietyl II had dog and be ran In that sort
Of crOsd woull kill him
Society, so-callsd, In a squeskish, mimic
ing voice: Il tell you, you will never get
into society 10 this town IL you don't Join
our church. We are the leaders Of society,"
And the plain msaning OF this IL. II you
want painted pageantry 10 ride 10 he'll with
get In and we viii start 10 ride now You
are not willing 10 20 10 hell alone, but you
want TO take every poor, pious woman with
you. There is no society woman in this
town but knows sho has got 10 get out
Of society between this and her grave. or
she has got 10 20 10 bell Tbs old politician
and the society woman-I never have had
tho audacity 10 get down aud pray Tor one
OF them ! did not. just mocking 0odl
Society," A heartless, mean old connibal,
feeding uDon soul an1 body. Why, every
body has cards in their house; everybody
has Wins on their table; everybody has
socal dinners and tho german Why,
everybody dors that-eyerybO1y, every
body That Is lie; II is a lis They don't,
AMI am glad OF IT, saw no way under
Gods heaven Of protecting my bome-I
never hal home that 1 could call my own
since 1 have boeD preaching until friends
gave me a home God gave me Il home
through friends, and the nth day Of last
month | called Gods people together and
told the officiating mi lister, not because i
am worthy Of IT, but becnu @ Col is so good
/ want 10 give this home 70 God have
giveI my wife TO God, my children 10 God,
myself 10 God. | want To consecrate this
house 10 God And nobody will ever come
10 me aud ask me 10 let them have a dance
Or a wine supper or game Of cards In that
house. l will protect my own home aud
never sholl this tide Of worldiness sweep
over my children until II comes over my
corpse at the front door. sec how II has
cursed others whom II Catholic priest in New
York city said: "At the confessional, nine
teen u my women out Of twenty who have
lost their character told me they got their
downfall At the ball
know man will be- called fanatic, aud
will DO called WORSE things than that But,
brother, will meet you up yonder on some
OF those issues II thoss sinners want To
dance you and can only plead with them,
but II you 20 10 any moro balls VIII de-
noance you ~ hypocrits, "a white sop
ulohrc,n as Jesus said eighteen hundred
years ago
IL is no use saying we are going in for
great rBvlyals here, when deacoDs and
judges rent their property out to houses OF
ill-fame aud to bar-rooms My ucd, you
have got to sweep before your own doors be-
fore you can reach around here and tell
these sinners you want them converted. l
have learned since have come into this city
and / want TO be correctly reported In
this-from nm editor deacon Richard Smith
was ascertained to be tho editor referred tol
that after no bad freed down every lewd
house and gambling he'll in this city he sent
one OF hs reporters TO the otilc9 Of the recor.
der Of dcedBto ascertain aud report who
owned those houses lie had determined 10
publish the names Of the owners, bur found
on tho list thu nqmessot our daoons our
ell lers, and sttwards Of the church, and be
said, vWhy, can't publish that. am
AFRAID. Well, YOU may scare an editor, but
you can't scare mo am going to tell tru BIZ
out OF school while | am here. Ani l
do II, not that | am 20 bring shame TO your
cbeox, but that God Almighty may help us
TO save sinners. We can never put our
arms ar )unl Cincinnati aud bring II 10 re-
p1utnnce SO long as IL il loadel down with
| lewd houses, bar rooms and gambling dens
You say, "rhoy pay Yes, that is the
devil helping keep up your barroons, and
he will help you keep up tho church and
charge you compound interest and levy on
you whsn you haven't got a cent ! call no
names run sort Of wholesale gospel
shoe shop, and you must como and get Shoes
AMI try them on; and If they I'll, all right
and Il they DONE, all right You could not
get up tght in this town between the
church aud the world, They are just as
| twin brothers
What we want In Cincinnati is the lines
drawn tight, md let every man who Is on
Gods side come over II you think his Sa-
tanic majesty is going TO surrender without
fight you are mistaken. You stop all
members of churches In Cincinnati from
drinking and II win dry up half the bar
rooms before uaxt May,
An old red-nused Baptist and pink-nosed
Presby teriGn, smelling like a stll house and
protesting TO be Christians You pe an Old
hog; that is what you arel II anybody in
vltes you TO take drink with them they
have got you down Tor vagaboud, and
they have pretty near got you right
Tue speaker continued to tala in this strain
for over an hour. The above is only an alb
stract Of his remarks and gives only a faint
conception Of the quaint eloquenoo and tell
ing force of his orstory.
Sam Small, his colaborer, familiarly
known as "Old 81, breaches at 2:Sl in the
afternoon and Sam Jones at 7;45 in the
evening, Everybody is Welcome
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