The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-10

makes his own people carry their passes, too.
1t shows you how these two things of slavery go
along together 1t makes him know that one of
these is from the devil and makes him believe
the other was, too. [Applapse.] The old slave
master ueed to make the slave carry his
pass sometimes in his pocket, sometimes
on his clothes, sometimes in his hat.
DID you ever see any of the devils slaves walk
ing around with their passes2 One of these
reckless, disappearing creatures, always bent
upon sin, keeping none of Gods commandments,
his face inflamed and swollen showing the badge
of servitude to Satan, his clothes filthy, every
one tangible pass that everybody might let him
60 on his way to hell where he belongs3
Out in Kansas. when they passed prohibition.
rot long ago, they used to run these blind
tigers" Somebody would get a barrel of whisky
in room, or attic, or basement 1t was hard to
get to. II you looked like policeman or
stranger you could not get it. You would have
to scheme mighty nice to get drink. A man
wanted to find out how it was that a certain class
had no difficulty to get drink. He
found that red nose and hole
questions asked. The devil had given him pass
and he was wearing it on his face and in his hat.
Laughter. / can go out on these streets and
see every day men that could point out They
have the infalible sign that they are the devils.
They are wearing his passes in the broad open
daylight, where all men and spot them.
There is nothing humorous in that condition
either. There is nothing to laugh over when
man comes in that condition that even the devil
himself has branded him to make all good men
shun him. God knows all good men ought to
speak to him kindly, tendesly. and WOO him to
give up his badge of slaveryan come to Christ
Jesus. Many voices, amen, amen.
There was another feature more horrible still,
perhaps the most revolving to humanity and our
civilization, in the slavery of old, and that was
that could be taken up and sold away
from his wife and children, separated from them,
perhaps, forever in this life, and they would
never, never look into each others loving eyes
again. Did you ever see sin do that
with the sinner? Did you ever see Satan treat
of his slaves that way? See one of these
slaves of sin taken to that court house, to be
separated from his wife, his children. and put
into the penitentiary to wear the clothes of con-
Wet for lifetime. Or see him drop through the
trap door of scaffod into hell forever. Did
you eyer see Satan fill man with lewd, licen-
tious and drunken practices until his wife and
children, for protection, would have to go to
the court house and beg the law to separate
them from that slave forever. through bill of
divorcement? / tell you / believe the devil
himself is co-defendant in every bill of divorce
that has ever been filed in the world APP
plause. The separations of this world are, in
seven cases out of ten, separations Of wife from
husband father from children, children from
parents, because the devil has taken some of his
slaves and carried them away and sold them
forever
But to one other, and that the last of the hor-
rors of human slavery. 1t was possible, and
am sorry, am ashamed, am outraged even
now at the necessity of saying it was possible
for the master to debauch the children Of his
slaves. The father. the mother were neither of
them master or mistress of the persons and vir-
tue of their children Let me tell you when a
man gives himself up to the slavery of sin
from that time he is no longer the master of tbs
virtue and the persons of his own children.
When he gives himself voluntary slave to hell
he gives mortgage upon his posterlty, and 1T is
only with the most strenuous endeavors that
some of that slaves children are rescued and
landed safe in the arms of Christ. The devil will
inject man with the spirit of evil of crlminality
of the sin of transgression, that will become
hereditary in his blood. Yet some of you sit
here and scoff at hereditary snfulness In the nat
ure of people When you come talking to me
about the fact that you can SIM and sin, and
give yourself to all these passions Of hell and not
transmit them to your children want to ask you
one question, Why was it God told the parents
of Samuel and of Samson to let wine and strong
drink alone from the time that he told them that
those children were to be born. Let me tell
you another fact. Every child born into this
world with drunken father is born half
drunkard, and if its mother drinks like its
father before it's birth, it would
be born whole drunkard into the
world. If the passion and appetite for drink,
which is the most potent agency of hell in the
world. why cannot the passion for lying, hypoc-
risy, idoatry, covetousness. murder and other
sins be transmitted to our posteritya The devil
is to take power overyour children just as he has
got it over you.
We stand in the same attitude in the same
moral world. that these slaves stood in the
physical world. Some of those slaves of the
South had the instinct for freedom in them all
the time they were slaves God planted in
them the divine aspiration for liberty, for indi-
vdua relation with God. And they used to
endeavor as soop as they learned there was a
line that divided inc rree territory from the
sTe 10 turn their eyes there sr... .v-glnss un-
utterable. AND men were pursued with blood
houn1s, ana perhaI4deatn followed capture. or
was found i'll the swamps or upon the mountains
The slaves suffered all dangers and hardships to
reach that line of freedom "a voice:
''Thank God!7l and if those ignorant down
trodden and oppressed colored men of the South
broke away and underwent all these terrible dan
gers for the glory of breathing Gods atmosphere
as free men, what ought you to do to break from
this terrible bondage of sin to come into the glo-
rious liberty that God will give you? You have
not to run from bloodhounds to track the
Businesses of the forest, to sleep in
in the swamp by day and travel by night, to
dread the bay of the hound and the crack of the
all you need to say is. "By the help of God
the the Lord Jesus Christ " AS Ibras
ham Lncoln's proclamation gave freedom
to every slave in the South the proclamation
that Jesus Christ made on Calvary gives free
dom to every man in The world. Applause and
EXPLANATIONS of THAT is so" and "Amen"l
The audience was greatly affected, and at the
conclusion of the sermon, when Mr.. Small asked
for those to stand up who desired to enjoy the
blessed privilege of salvation, there were many
rose. The benediction was then given by Rev;
Wulsin.
Matter of Christian Ethics.
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal.
Suppose Mr. Jones's provocation was so great
because those brethren of the Baptist faith
pursued such an 'open and aggressive system
OF proselytism" whom they urged converts to Join
tbA n.rptist Church by 'the positive statement
.hat its mode Oh baptism alone could be to them
the zeal and sure witness of their souls saliva
tiop ard others were told that they would be