The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-21


give me two more hours of sunshine and will
clean up this people And God told the old sun
to go back on the dial plate two hours, and
Don't you move an inch until Joshua has won
| the victory" And Joshua, as the sun satlook-
| ing down on him, won the victory that has made
him famous down to this day.
Courage! Courage!
Let me tell you, brother. I just claim one
| MANS voice and one mans vote in Georgia on
| this Internal liquor traffic l rode through my
| State, stopping here and yonder, trying to In
| spire the church of God and said /: Brethren,
! we are no dumb, driven cattle; we have got
Methodist, and Baptist. and Presbyterian and
| Catholic votes in Georgia to vote this out We
| are in the majority according to the census OF
| this State. Let US put liquor out of here" l
said another thing: LET as tell these old bar
! keepers, You can curse and rare around,
| but if you can afford to die for your internal
| whisky we can die for these precious wives and
| children in this world. Rack out your
machine and go to work" In my town said
| I'VE voted it out, but some Of you are running
your whisky still, and ! will put you in Jail for
1t, or will 60 there myself" That night they
| slipped dynamite under my premises and bowed
| up my buggy house, and they said on the street.
| the next day. IF you don't hush up we will put
| it under your dwelling and blow You up" and
went home and says to my wife, What do you
' say?' And she says DO our duty, husband.
| IGreat applause. ''Do your duty, and stand up
FLOR the poor women and children of this country
l would as soon go up to heaven by the dyna.
up" Thank God for game wife. Applause.
! There is one good thing about dynamite-it
| gives fellow good start upward, and that Is
! what we want Applause and laughter
| Courage! Courage!
| A courage that walks up and decides that right
| is right and / will do it at any cost that
wrong is wrong, and won't do 1t If lose every
| thing that earth holds dear. Courage like Martin
Luther had when he started into the city OF
| Worms, where, when he walked just outside of
the walls of the city, walking in, his friends met
him and said:
| Luther, don't go into the city"
IL will CO." he said
eff you do they will kill you"
He said: Il will go in" And then they pulled
| out a picture of a martyr that they had burned
| the day before, and sad
Luther, here is good man who was burned
at tho stake yesterday. This is his picture.
Don't go in"
| Luther took the picture in his hand, and with
a heavenly smile Oh his face, said: "Out OF the
fire into glory. will go into the city to-day If
all the thing on the roofs of the houses are
| devils"
| We needed Luther, and then we had refor-
| nation, and tell you we need Luther in this
nineteenth century for reformation in morals
and religion. and everything that pertains to the
| Ten Commandments. That is the truth about It,
| | wish l had sense enough to lead a reforma-
| ton. I wish had sense like old Martin Luther
/ had. / wish had the sense that some preachers
| in America have, and would tear up this old
/
next ten months from to day. 1 haven't got
much sense, or much of anything else, but what
| have got (glory to God) is going into the fight,
| and going In there to stay, too Applause
expect to have the i'll will of every barkeeper and
every wicked man in this country that is damag-
| ing society.
| Your papers copied, with good deal of gush,
what preacher in Baltimore said about me. A
| preacher jumped on me and went for me with
his spurs on Laughter. We'll, sir, the next
day | said: "Who is this old case jumping on me
here9' And they said: Hes the preacher that
the liquor dealers hired to deliver lecture for
them" We'll" said, Il understand the old
| coon, now He is hired on the other side"
Don't you see? Whenever you hear a preacher
sailing into met will tell you, old fellow, that
| I am on the Ten Commandments clear through
| IF you pry around you will find that fellow is
| hired on the other side, if you don't mind.
What has a preacher got to quarrel with me
abouta "Oh, nothing but your sangt that is all
| we got against you, is. your slang Do you
| know what slang is9 There isn't one in thou
| sand of you could Jump up and tell what slang is
to save your soul. What is slang9 will tell
| you what it is. 1t is three or four of our En-
| glish words run into one-concentrated. Do
/ you get the deal That is just what lke-con-
| centration. Slang is nothin'-withopt 'g" on
| the end of it-but concentrated English Ian
| guage. Laughter
| Courage! Courage!
| God pity member of the church or preacher
| that can see nothin' in a move like this except
|
| then. God pity him! / tell you, train that
| runs forty miles hour through this country is
| going to make some dust. and make some noise.
/ and now and then knock innocent old cow off
| of the track. If run my train as slow some of
| them would never hit anything would be
| like the fellow that told the engineer, when
| they stopped at the station: Look here, friend;
| take that cow-catcher and put it on the back end
| of this train, some old cow is going to run
over you" Laughter God pity US! Run
ming off little side issues! Brother, the pur-
pose of all this is to win souls TO Christie do
good. Fail into line, brother; fall into line.
To relieve some of you good men will say to
| you that seventeen years ago married beauti-
! full welleducated, Christian girl, and she has
| lived with me seventeen years in happy wedlock,
and cries and cries every time leave home.
| Don't it look like you. put up with me a
week? Laughter Courage, that goes forth to
battle, and goes forth to do the work. and do it
| in the way that it ought to be done. and in the
most efficient way and let this world say just
| what it please about That is it. The
| author of that text knew what he was talking
your faith. Peter was physically a brave
| man; morally, he often courageous
| But, brother, Peter gave way once, and
| he knew what he was talking about In this text
| Do you recall the incident where Peter, when
Christ had been condemned by that mock court
and all bis friends had forsaken him except
| Peter, and Peter stood out in the distance and
looked on at that mock trial, and stood there and
saw them as they buffeted his Lord, and spat
upon him. and plated the crown of thorns on
Christ, and saw the blood run down his cheeks9
| / imagine Peters blood boiled as he looked on
the scene and saw the blessed. Christ, who came
to redeem the world, forsaken by his last friend
Peter stands out there In the distance and they
approach Peter and say. ''You are one of His
disciples" and Peter denied and said. mo, am
not" and they approached him again and said,
You are one of His disciples" and
Peter denied again and said, II do not
know Him." and a little girl approached Peter
and said. you are one of His disciples" and
Peter cursed and swore, and said he did not
know Him. 1 do not object to the way the Bible
is written, but, brethren have wished thou
sand times that that had never been written.
When Jesus stood there without friend in the
world, and when they approached Peter, have
wished Thousand times, when they said ''You