The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-26

PIE reVel IN the details OF man s rum.
They say, 81 told you So" They rush
into some stores and say "Have you
heard the news? Just as expected Our
neighbor has gone all to pieces. Good for
| himl'
That proiessedly Christian woman, hay
| ing heard of the wrong-dong of some Sis
ter in the Church, instead OF hiding the
sin with mantle Of charity, peddles it all
along the streets. She takes the afternoon
to make her long neglected calls. She tells
the story ten times before shutdown, and
every time tells j. larger. She rushes into
the parlors to tell it, and into the nursery
to tell it, and into the kitchens to tell it.
She says: would you have thought it?
Well, l always said there was
something wrong about her. Why, |
should not speak to her il | saw her in the
street Is il not horrible? But better not
say anything about it, because there may
| be some mistake. do not want my name
involved in the matter. | guess | will
| just go over and ask them at No 263
whether they have heard it, Guess il
must be so, for Mary Ann says that her
husband saw n man who heard from his
business partner that his blind old grand
mother had seen something that looked
very suspicious
The most loathsome, miserable, God
| iorsaken wretch on earth is u gossip.
can tell her on the street, though | have
never seen her before. She walks fast,
and has her bonnet strings loose, for she
has not had time to tie them since she
| heard that last scandal. She looks both
ways rs she passes, hoping 10 see new
evidences OF depravity in the windows. /
think that when Satan has Job so infln-
itcly mean that in all the pit he cannot
| find devil mean enough 10 do il, and all
brides and threats have failed. to get one
willing for the internal crusade, he saws TO
one OF his sergeants: go up to Brooklyn,
and in such a street, on such corner, get
that gossiping woman, and she will be glad
| TO do it." Andsure enough, like hungry
| fish, she takes the hook in her mouth, and
| Satan slackens the line, and lets her run
out farther and farth er, until after awhile
he says: at is time to haul in that line"
and with few strong pulls, he brings her
70 the beach OF fire. What do YOU say?
That she was member OF the church? |
cannot help that When Satan goes a
| fishing, he does not care what school the
fish belong 10, whether II Is q Presbyterian
mackerel or an Episcopalian salmon.
Amid the thunder crash Of Sinai, God
said: Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor." And
in leviticus, lie says "Thou shalt
not 90 up and down as Ale-bearcr. F"
Take not into your ear that scum OF hell
that people 1all tittle-tattlc. Whosocver
willingly listens 20 a Islander is equally
guilty with the one who tells Il, and an
old writer says they ought both 10 be
hung, the one by the tongue and the
other by the ear. Do not smile upon such
a spaniel, lest, like pleased dog, he put
his dirty paw upon you. Throw back the
shutter OF your soul, oh Christian men
and women, and see II there he within
you yulturc with filthy talons and cruel
beak. Let not this unclcan thing rOosl in
your soul, for my text says Eye shall
hold in abomination among the fowls, the
yulturc."
Again taking the suggestion Of the text.
drive out the bat from your soul. No
wonder God set this bird among the un-
clean. II Is on oilcnsc 10 every one. Let
Il fly into the window Of a summer night
and all the hands, young and old, arc
against IT, IL Is half bird and half mouse
II seems made partly 10 walk aud partly
10 fly, and does neither well; and becomes
an emblem Of those Christians who try 10
cling 10 earth and heaven at the same
time. They want 10 walk on earth in
worl1liness, and yct fly toward heaven in
spirituality, and their soul, between feet
and wings, is constantly pcrplcXcd. Oh,
my brethren, be one thing or the other,
Choose tho world II you prefer Il, and sec
how many dollars you cen win, and how
much applause you can gain, aud how
large business you can establish, and
how grand house you can build, and
how last a span OF horses YOU can drive.
You may be prospcred until YOU can fail
for $4,000, instead Of having tho dis
grace Of failing for only $1,000. ~ some
uncntcrprising people do. II Is quite
reward 10 DO able for ten or
twenty years 10 be called one
Of the solid men Of Brooklyn or Boston:
and then, 10 make your fortune last as long
as possible, we will give you splendid
funeral, and you shall have twenty-five
carriages following you, with somebody In
most Of them. aud your coffin shall have
silver handles on the sides, and We will
mourn for YOU In ockci-handkcrchiois
bound with Grape and with bomhaLino
twenty foil yards long trailing half across
the pariot, ~ that all the company may
stand upon II, and We will write our letters
for the next FIX months on paper edged
with black hut, my friends, your worldly
fortune will not last. ! will buy out now
oil that you will b. worth In worldly cs.
tate scyontv.tiyc years from now. have
the money In my pocket With which 10 10
H. Here II ~ Two cents II II n large
SUN 10 offer for all you will possess ut tic
close OF scycnty-tiyc years Choose the
world, II you will. but, II not, then choose
heaven. That estate lies partly on this
side OF the ryor, but mostly on the other.
II Is ever accumulating The prospect Of
IL makcs ono independent OF earthly mis-.
fortunes, ~ that Rogers, the martyr, slept
~ s1undly the night before his burning.
they violently shook him IN order b. get
him awake In time for the execution: and
Paul UXuls at the thought Of the "lOy un.
spcakable and fall Of glory" Oh, chorso
earth or hclvcnl Make up your mind
whether you will walk Ia earthly Joys or
fly With hCavcnly expectations. H. not
bat, ill neither 10 walk nor ily, having lust
enough Of heaven 10 spoil tie world, aud
~ much 81 the world "a 10 spoil heaven.
Christ says that your present condition
nauscltcs him 30 positive sickness "iie.
cause ulou art neither cold nor hot,
] viii spCw thee out Of nay
mouth" In tho ruins II Pompoii
there Wa1 found pclrnrd WOMAN.
Who instead OF trying 70 ny from tho
destroyed city, had spent her time ia
gathering np her Jewels. She saved mel
ihcf her life nor hor jewels There are
Iuuluiudes making the same mistake. In
trying 10 get earth aud heaven thcy lose
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