Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-24

things by their right names l are that
man.
You notice my grammar, eh? They
sometimes get after me about my gram
mar. They say, 'look at him butcher
his GRAMMAR! You fool! Whenever
you hear him getting down in his
grammar you should understand
he is getting down to your
level You say L heard him
say done gone, and 4 are the
man.. Lord bless you, / have been
swallowed by whales, and had the dogs
bark at me; but when the ants
get after me then l itch. Yes
do. When you get after me about
my grammar-well, 1 have been
to college. [ have been all through the
etuptos, etupti, and all the rest of it
But L can say, call things by their right
shortest way to get at things
in this country. Just roll up
your Anglo-Saxon in a wad and turn it
loose. The way to get at man these
days is to ill yourself full of your subject
and then knock the bung out and let
nature cut a caperi That IS the way!
81 never have but one question TO ask
an audience, and that is, 'do You I'M
derstand me?' l do not ask, do you be-
lieve me?' If you have sense enough to
be responsible you will understand me.
Throw your fodder on the ground, and
everything, from giraffe to a goat, can
reach it.
''God stands pied ged to help us in
time of need. / believe in going to my
father when l have trouble on my mind.
have been in many places never could
have got out of if it hRdn t been for God.
1 believe God helps me when 1 call upon
Him. l am sorry for those who
don { believe that. Just like
the case of q man l knew of. He was
merchant, and grand and noble man.
He was usually q pleasant man, but one
evening he came home from his
office with look of pain on
his face and his wife asked him
what the trouble was. "A sudden
reverse of fortune has brought me to
where 1 am, on the verge of bankruptcy.
The blow has fallen Unexpectedly. l
have tried every means know of to avert
the disaster, but my friends have re-
fused to help me out, and Tomorrow l
shall go into the hands of a receiver.
But have you asked help of God?'
inquired the wife.
.'No, didn't know that the Lord
bothers with such matters
Well, you have failed to go to the
one friend who never fails in time of
need.
"That night at 10 O'Clock the wife
knelt down and prayed to God that He
might avert the impending disaster. And
the next morning when the husband
reached his place of business,
he got note from an
old bank president saying come, down
to the bank this morning. and he went
around, and the banker said he could
have all the money he wanted to help
him out Of the difficulty he was in. And
he told the merchant that during the
preceding night, about 10 O'Clock, his
case had come into his mind, and
he could not 20 to sleep until
he had made up his mind to help him
out. The Lord had heard the wife,
prayer, and had been humping the old
banker in the fifth rib during the whole
night. God Is a present help in every
time of need. If q man does right
he can always count on the
help of God. Some of you real estate
fellers, when you get in trouble, if you
think of the trouble we have had here to-
night trying to raise q little money to pay
expenses, won t have the cheek to go to
God for help. You stingy dog you! The
idea of starting with them at Sl0l 1t is
scandal. The crowd will never sing
higher than you pitch the tone. Some of
you preachers who are dealing in real
estate ought to have started the con-
tribution with 500 apiece. You
real estate people think we are doing
you no good. Listen! There will be
more people in this city in ten days from
now than will be here during your big
Spring Palace exhibition; and if you can
put up your hundreds of thousands
for that thing if does look like you might
have put up little thousand for this.
You shouldn t have got stalled at that
small amount.
God s love is helpful love. You just
do right, and that is the best pledge in
the world, that God will help you.
1t is a sympathetic love. There is no
power in the universe so strong as sym
pathy. If a man sympathises with me
he can boss me. The preacher
that does the best work in
this town is the one who
has got the most sympathy for his fell
low man. sympathy! A cold Dreacheri
No sympathy. One of those fellows
will stand up and say, Il am here.
I am the Reverend Jeremiah Jones, d.
D., saved by the grace of God,
with message of salvation, and if you
stand up and believe as l do you will be
saved and if not don t know as I care
damn. That kind of thing never saved
a man on God s earth. That kind
of q man stands on the
deck of his vessel bound for glory
ten miles out from shore and shouts to
those on land, All aboard; swim out
And some of you can get a plank and
get there, and others are left, and hear
one old Teller say: 4 can't swim, and
if L could the sharks would get me before
1 got to the vessel. guess I'll let her
go and stay where I am.
81 like to see the old time preacher
who runs his ship close up to the shore,
and throws down his broad gang plank
and shouts, All aboard for glory!'
"Some of you women will go home
and say 'I'd like Mr.. Jones so much if
he only had little more dignity Bless
your old souls. Dignity! Listen-I
could be as nice q preacher as ever walked
this earth, but you have plenty of that
sort of preachers. I went into a round
house up at Nashville one time. And
there saw one fine-looking
locomotiye-it was so brightly plated