The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-03-19
DIR. LOTION ON HUMBuos.
He Mlngles Wit, Wisdom and Wor-
ship In an interesting Lecture.
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humhugs-that is, humbugs in GER
tain degree. We deceive everybody,
even ourselves-that is bupbnggery.
There i One, though, shat tits Jolly Ia
try to deceive, and that One is God
you can't deceive Him.
ave are almost all deceivers-we
are natural deceivers, You smile
when you don't mean to, you pass
complim nts when they are not
meant, and, in fact, do great many
things which is humbuggery II
is almost impossible not to prsctice a
little humhuggery. You can't always
appear ist what You are. Apes e
Paul said when he was Jew, he was
Jew; when he was an African, he
MAS an Airic4n. When he saw Il
stick whittier and could have caugl /
hrs soul bv becoming Il stick whittier
himself, hen he wss Shittler Paul
was an artful adept in catching souls
but h. would do nothing OF an im.
moral character t0 do 90"
DR., Lotion continued: "Now I don't
want to advise you to be hnmbug. If
you have to and are compelled to be,
let it involve no evil. Now we see
humhugs on the STR ct every dav when
two ladies meet and kris paCh other,
FIR instance Sometimes we know and
they know that when they kiss each
other and pass an affrctinnate remark
tn one another that il is downright hy
T, ,crisy Sometimes it is done and
called courtesy. | don't advise you TO
10 this Be- square and honest ant
just what l"u seem to be II all ~onlj
do thi what nubIe class oi men and
women this world would contain b
no more than you prefer d tn he aud
do noo practice hypocrisy and hum
buggery."
The speaker then called the attnn
tion of the audience to sensational
humhuggery. "If any one told an i'm
probable snake story or story bout
an eagle in Texas carrying off an in
FAINT and man wi h rifle rushing t0
the rescue and shooting the eagle and
bringing the child hack unharned TO
'ts mother, or any other improbable or
sensational story all Of this class would
believe it--they would believe any
thing, just so it was outright hum
ouggery.
"lf all the papers in the United
states we're devoid Of these sensational
stories, and published nothing but
plain facts, with no colonng whatever,
they would have to go out Of existence
Why, the people love sensations, and
oi course the papers deal in it II you
want to stop sensation kill the senti
ment upon the public papers M"
you talk about the salenns, gambling
houses and gamblers. Who are re
sponsible for them? 1t is the church
members. They don't try to suppress,
them as they should, There are mum
bers who patronize these places whit
pose vs. church members and mora
men-they are humbugs and ol
bloated gas bags"
DR.. Lotion said further on II an
now looking into your faces. Ii yol
can just hear of scandal the LITTLE
uewsboys cant carry enough of news
papers to supply the demand. II,
sells out his 2o'cluck edition and zoe
back f0r more sell. out his 3 o'cloc
edition and o'clock edihon-every
body grasps for it. A little social Fcan
dal, and you can't hear enough of it
The people just naturally like to b.
humbugged."
The lecturer then spoke Of the pro
fessional humbug He ea,d we are no
obliged to he taken in bY this sort oi
person. This kind Of man WAS
numbug for purpose, not for tun
r e speaker then described the pateu
medicine man who sold his gn IDS 81
the streets with his ing. blonde HAIR
dressed mp like Bnff,o Bill, with )
huckskin suit and large, brad br m
ned hat, decked with feathers and al
sorts 0l thiugs-anything to attrac
the rlffraff. He knows exactly hoy
10 play on that string, which is tn
humhug string We all know he Is
humbug, but If you stop and listen tt
him he will sell you an old razor jtck
snife, paper Of pins or q hottie OF moC
,cine ilAit vii cure rhpunatism, uet
, rAlgla or heat disease. have com
, pretty near huving them mysel
There is your professional hnmbls.
The speak or then cited various cas-.
of humhuggerv He said there wer
+, preachers-snme of them were hun
/. hugs and fooled everybody. The law
, yer piaved the hum hug in the cour
room. the doctor in the drug store, an
the preacher in the pulpit-the Who'll
thing was humbuggery. You can fo
a me and | can fool you, but you can
fool God. ! tell you in hell thousand
even down To the pulpit, will he r
vealed before the bar OF Justice"
sl DIR. Lotion then concluded by d
q scribing what a popular man the hur
}. bug preacher is II young he is y
- charm OF the ladies'. who greet hi
with their smiles and look down on ol
. fashioned religion. Sometimes tht
u almost tear up the church about hir
hut when they come TO find nut tn
he lad heen married four or five tim
. and had inst left his last wife, he is u
" basest Of villains. This was the reli
D, ious humbug
Il DR.. Lotion then exhibited sever
. inte eeting pictures illustrating Il
points he had made. The first pictu
" was the father of all humhugs; Il
II second. the long haired, patent me'
II cine hnmhug; the third was the circ
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