Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-26

3 about the fearful now and now, ii would
g be better An old negro man said: ''W We
got preacher dat don t preach like you =.
you talk about woman gwine out of a
mans room early in the morning, with
hat under her arm. Dat amt in the
Bible. -
q Butm friend it IS in the land. de-
spise the mock modesty that bushes
when the preacher holds mp the horrible
sins of the times, and tries to make the
people better. If you want to blush
don't blush at the preacher, but go
down and let those soiled doves fan you
as you pass with their vile influences and
you Will have something to blush for.
] believe in adapting my preaching
TO the people for whom 1 preach. I al
ways take tools suitable for my work. If
you see me with an axe and you amt a
log, wont hurt you. You need not be
afraid. II you see me with a grubbiug
hoe you wont get hurt if you are not a
grub. They said Jesus Christ was vulgar
because he called the people hypocrites,
liars, sinners. "They that sin, rebuke
openly that others may fear. That is
what God said. But we will get to this
subject after awhile. God helping us,
we will run our subsoil down three feet
deep before this meeting is over.
II IS the business of some men to help
God to save souls. 1t is some men IS bus
mess TO help the devil to damn souls.
What disreputabIe business it is to help
this old world down TO death and hell.
Every man and every wo-
man in this house is a CO.
worker with God or else he or she is CO.
worker with the devil. I dom care
where you are, where you live, you are
a force for God or force for the devil.
Helping men to heaven or helping them
70 the DEVIL
You need not tell me- you are on
neutral ground. Do you know what
fool is? He is q naught with the ring
gone. Do you catch it? There Is moth
ing to get holdof goodY-goody, not good,
not bad. There is not corpse in your
city graveyard that is occupying a worse
place than you are. You are dead! You
are dead! That IS why I said keep your
old carcass out of here. You are dead,
and we want live folks in here.
Hear me! There is no higher thing
IN the world than making people better.
There IS no more horrible thing than
that you and l are lending ourselves to
the devil to make the world worse.
Mother, what are you doing here? Are
your children getting better? What's
your example at home? Brother, what
is your life at home, in your community?
Are others going to heaven Or to hell
through your influence?
Listen! 1 do not believe any man
ever went to heaven or hell alone. If a
man is pure and good he is God IS power
to help others. There is no going to
heaven alone. A lady dreamed she went
to heaven and saw many beautiful beings
all crowned with crowns filed with stars.
"a off nd
She was so grieved that she awoke, and
her waking resolve was that by the
grace of God she would begin immedi-
ately 10 plant stars in her crown by
winning souls for Christ. Mother, when
you pass through the pearly gates your
children should be the shining stars in
your eternal crown. Your neighbor
should be. Oh, be up and working for
humanity
Above all persons in the world we
preachers ought to be most careful where
we go, what we do and what we say.
When a minister turns his glass up for
wine at a social gathering his example
may ruin every child for miles around.
Last night some miserable sinner stole
the communion wine in the Episcopal
church. His act was too contemplate
TO do much harm. You preachers do not
need wine noway. 1 hate these preach
ers that have TO be always tasting little
VINE for their stomach IS sake
and their other infrmities. If you get
so sick you have to have it, go to heaven
and be done with it. Better be there
than here. You say Christ made VINE.
Yes, he made it out of water, and you
may drink all you can get made out Of
water. would no more compare the
wine Christ made to the abominable
stuff we have now than l would compare
Judas Iscariot TO the Saviour.
You preachers sometimes say L
would go to theater to see
Mary Anderson or Booth. When a
preacher is seen at theater his guns are
spiked forever on that line. 1t is world
illness that is disarming our churches and
taking our people to hell. 1t Is not our
drunkards and gamblers that ruin. 1t
is worldliness that is cutting the grit
from the foundations Of our churches as
surely as the Mississippi river cuts the
grit from under Greenville, Miss. The
pastor that allows these things is not fit
10 be pastor to q litter of puppies.
Laughter.
why don't you preachers say
amen7 Amen from the ministry.
Now hear me, countrymen, there
are two forces in this country-the good
anu the evil. Inc evil TduluSS Ill our
churches and houses and may the Lord
help us TO see the evil and then may we
put confidence in the power Of God that
we may overcome drunkenness with So
briefly, impuritY with chastity, and av-
erice with generosity. Let US save this
old world from hell. We wont submit
TO the evil, we wont! All the devil
wants is for the church to hush its mouth
and the good people to keep quiet. He
does not want agitation.
Mr.. Jones related story of q saloon
striving after respectabilitY, and failing,
had 20 shut up, because too much light
was turned on it. How many of you
preachers have turned your guns on the
saloons? Alas, alas, for Hen's Half !
Acrel
An old negro always carried gun
loaded, but it was rusty. Are not
others doing the same? Thun-
der with all your might against |
everything wroug-everything that |
hurts humanity. Take four saloons, and |
as sure as bug walks on legs so sure will |
those saloons ruin the men and so sure |
viii they be associated with houses Of ILL |