St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-25
sMALL,s TEMPERANCE TALK.
He breaches ON the Slavery That
Lies i'm Strong Drink.

4kCS Ia StIOHS RSTlnAs
At o'clock last night, between 500 and
600 people assembled in the large pavilion
to listen to Sam Small. A brief service of
song was held prior to the sermon, led by
Mrs. j. S. Bailey. The regular evening
exercises were opened by the. reading by
Rev. w. W. Satterlee of the second chap
ter of Ephesians. after which Rev. DIR.
Hobart led in prayer, pleading earnestly
that God should bless the meetings and
touch the hearts of sinners. He
made a special request that
the hearts of backsliders be touched
and warmed up to their duty.
He invoked the blessing of God and His
special favor on the two evangelists who
had come so many miles to labor for the
salvation of the souls of sinners. Up to
this time Sam Small had not appeared, and
it was explained that probably he had been
delayed, as he intended coming by boat.
Rev. w. w. Satterlee suggested that until
he arrived the people relate bit of their
experience during the years that they had
been fighting in the army of the Lord. At
ten minutes past o'clock Sam Small, Sam
Jones and M. j. Maxwell came into the
pavilion and mounted the speakers stand.
Sam Jones said the boats had agreed to
wait until the services were over and he
didn't propose to hurry through them.
He was in favor of the Methodsts going
by the water route. He said the railroads
were too independent, and he didn't pro-
pose to make his schedule fit theirs. He
said he4was the child of king, who could
buy the whole corporation and never miss
it from his pocket change.
a. < SMALL's SERMON.
Mr.. Small then arose and read the first
verse Of the fifth chapter of Galations.
sStand fast, therefore, in the liberty
whereby Christ has made us free, and not be,
entangled by the yoke of bondage"
Said he:
This yoak of bondage, if there is anything
that can be compared to this bondage is hu-
man slavery. Away back in the DAYS of
Adam, men labored under the yoke of bond
age. They brought this slavery upon them
selves. They did something for which we
W i'll, it we follow their example, suffer the
same degree of punishment. There was i'm
planted by that act of disobedence seed
that has grown and borne fruit and which has
placed man in the shackles of slavery. In
the South, slavery was fostered for a long
period. If you never lived in the South, YOU
know but very little about what
and read about it, but if you
did not know it by actual contact with it.
then you can't know what human slavery
was. came from that country, and know
whereof speak. We used to pass along the
road there and sometimes would meet an old
colored man and ask him who he belonged to-
and what did this question, who do you be-
long to, mean? 1t meant that he was crea-
ture of the same God as any other man, and
yet he was the absolute slave Of another fell
low creature. He was no longer his own
master. He was born q slave. The whole
mn md fCr,<N LIZ,
OF another man. and were under the domination
OF man who was no better than he was. But
how different was that man from he who is a
sinner, who is giving himself up to the DOM
ination of the devil, and doing it wilfully and
consciously. He is
NOT AS GOOD
as that man whose skin was black and a SER
want OF a fellow-being. He is more to be
pitiec. We think man is in a terrible con-
dition when he has nothing that he can call
his own, yet the sinner tonight is not in as
good 81 condition as the slave was in the South
before the war. The Southern slave was
sure of clothes, food and a home,
and he was in a better condition than the
sinner is in to-day, for many of them have
no clothes. no food and no friends. They
have no certainty in this world, except that
they are doomed to poverty, doomed to dis
tress, doomed to sickness and doomed to IN
eternal death.
Lucy w III ~ lHlO SdlOOuS at the END or the
week and pay their wages to the tax gatherer
OF the devil are not the slaves of the only
master that exists. There are many of them
in different trades and professions I tel
you, with an exp ri nee that has been suffi
cienr to { nvil,e me, that
had rather be l'shed to that pos
and bare my bnc. % th'rty-nine lashes thar
TO De sent back il o tn, depths of debt il
which was but Il hort inc ago, brought
there by my slavery to tht hellish demon
liquor. And there is any , man who is ,
slave to the devil to-day, who had better b,
lashed to the post and uffe the pangs O
pain while his flesh is b., beaten into @
pulp, than to suffer the diseases locked up in
TINS serv1tude to the devil. We used to find
down South, whatwe called preferred slaves
They had about whatever they wanted
Ihey got along first rate and tho other
slaves used to look on them will
a feeling of envy, but there always came q
lime that these preferred slaves had to come
down to the bottom and undergo the same
Toll and the same strifes and the same tire at
ment that the other slaves did. The Christia
life is life of deuial. Some sinners have lin,
homes and plenty of money and are getting
on swimmingly. Why the Lord seems Il
prosper these men and let some other mar