Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-28

BuI EUOu Hdthi
cannot be described. One must hear it.
'You better put your COW catcher on
the other end Of the train. These trains
will never run over you. 1 tell you
preacher we want men who mean busi-
ness. / have seen these little fellows
readIug manuscript. l would rather
man would draw q pistol on me than g
manuscript. When your preachers do
THAT, you get up and leave them. Read
ing The gospel TO a congregation instead OF
preaching it, If you preachers are at
it quit it. like you. You are good clever
fellows. A man with a manuscript get
s ting down on his knees and saying Lord !,
s dictate the words of our lips, when they
were written and in his pocket! l don t
care who you are. A preacher should
q have too much sense in his head and too
much religion in his heart to do these
things. Some old d. d. writing up Sam
Jones said he was e heterogeneous -
here the preacher rushed over a sentence
Of long hard words which may or may
not have meant anything.
''Rev. Sam 2. Wright says: REV.
Sam p. Jones does not deal IN sesquepe-
dallas l suppose he was getting off
sesquepedalias, whatever that may
mean. Old d. D., when goat gets af-
ter me, I run. ] can't fight goats.
They better be writing Sam Jones down
instead of writing him up. Better be on
his knees asking God to help him 10 his
ministry. He has not had a convert in
ten years. He's dried up on the stalk
There ain t an old OK in the universe that
would eat him, he is so dry. You can t
play such a joke on the old OK s stom-
ach.
"A devout man full of religion. Loyal
81 NE !,
all his house. His whole family religious.
Some of you stubborn old mulish things,
you won I serve God and you won't let
your wife do it. You old hound you,
what do you mean? Il don't belong to
the church, but my wife does. If ever
they get you fat again 1 hope they will
sell you for beef.
"There is nothing like religious fam
fly. My greatest sorrow is that my chill
dreu are not as good as I want them TO
be. The really religious man Will pray
10 bis family.
"a man in Atlanta asked me if I
said a man who failed to have family
prayer had no more religion than a
goat. ] said, Yes, said So l said
What 5 religion? It's loyalty to GOD.
If you are disloval to God you won't
pray. You fail TO do your duty. Can [
DC loyal 10 OOu il / idl III uuLy! 1ubk
night be said, wife, take down the
Bible. have talked to that little old
sallow- faced fellow and he convinced me
/ must do it,.
"There is great deal Of unoccupied
missionary ground in Texas.
''You preachers are TO blame for this
neglect of family prayer. The one
am talking about is sitting right there,
bnt / won t cali his name.
"Feared God and all His house. Had
my father left me money it would have
served as a through ticket to hell. You
old country fellows, you are feeding your
stock and your children, and you love
your cattle better than you do your
children. If was as stIngy as some of
you old devils l would bore holes IN my
head, get some horns and a tail, and be
an OK and be done with it.
''Be not like dumb-driven cattle,
Be a hero in the strife. -
"There are 5000 people with church
letters in their trunks, and they 90 run
ming round till they have lost their reIig-
ion and are on the way to hell. You
have no more religion than oxen run
ming around in your deviltTy.
Mr.. Jones gave q beautiful description
of religious family. Cornelius feared
God and his house This was illustrated
by a man whose son had acted uObly and
he said he could not help being
good because he had such
father. The old man said L was proud
of my sons daddy Let Us fathers be
men and make our children proud of
their daddies. You old men, setting
around, drinking whisky, gambling and
swearing, you don't need the Gospel,
You need the cowhIde. You old rascal;
because there is no marrying and giving
IN marriage. Conscience makes towards
Of us all. Thank God a good conscience
makes brave men of US.
- Cornelius gave much aims. Re-
lgion makes @ man good all over. -
in this portion of the discourse Mr..
Jones struck some telling blows against
avarics and III favor OF generosity. He
spoke of one liberal man in Fort Worth
and thought it dreadful thing if that
were ali. With whitening sarcasm
be said ''Iinle old preacher, running
around, Dragging on an old stingy devil!
Dragging on him, sir! Selhshness is the
meanest thing in the world. He'll is
selfshness on FIRE. If there is only one
liberal man in Fort Worth, 1 wonder
you do not go off with spontaneous
combustion. God pity Fort Worth if you
man. Selfishness is the spir-
&c that runs every saloon,
every gambling hell, every vile place in
this city; and avarice is creeping into
the churches and eating the heart out of
the church of God. 1t is the same low
down, mean, hellsh spirit that sat at
the foot Of the cross and gam bled for the
SavIour's coat.
cold man worth S2j, 900 paid S. into
the church and $40 to the preacher! You
Old Texans, with all your land and cat
tie, can t cheat God. He occasionally
comes around with droughts. You old
stingy fool, God takes you and wipes up
Texas with you occasionally. The church
in the poor red hills of Georgia pays
more than you do with all your rich
lands.
'sYou can Z steal a march on God.
Piling upl Dodging God! Five dollars
for missions! You are saved, so you
will give So. You old women, selling
eggs and chickens, bless your old stingy
souls, saying my husband pays for me.
You are no better than he Is. Five hun
dred dollars year Oh dress and So for
missions! Big Ike you think you are. -
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