Blue-grass blade., 1892-09-03

J-''' -i'"sS Z" "tbNhA W btt IN intt'l4l
church Of the United states for redress
against that fellow Sweeney who had
him put there; and il that church does
not investigate that ease and repudiate
that man Sweeney they are not the peo-
pie | took them to be.
But was going to tell you about
that millennium business. The first
thing you know you will wake up some
of these mornings and the millennium
will be here. There's going to be one
great big church, and its going to be a
combination of Prohibition and the
kind OF religion / am preaching to you.
In that church, nobody will care
about what anybody believes, the only
test OF membership will be what n body
does. Sam Jones spoke of the Chris
tian church as ''Campbcllites,' but he
said he liked them: he said the Method
list believed anything and everything
you told him, because he was afraid the
| devil would get him il he did not BE-
lievr. lie said the baptist believed in
believing and in being baptized; but he
said the Campbellitcs wanted you to
believe and 70 be baptized, and then to
do something after these two had been
fdone. Sans head was just as level as
4 squash, as he says. Theoretically the
Campbellites are the nearest right of
any of the orthodox religionists. and
| f1n nf IL ic fl,nt fhnry 1,orn lace
orthodoxy in them than any of the
churches. They are coming to the
| front fast on the Prohibition line, and
it will soon be nip and tuck between
in favor of tuck, in Prohibition. They
are to cowardly to stand up to the prin-
cipies of their unwritten creed, on the
Sunday question. All of them know
thatSunday is not a part of Christian
ity; and they do lay too much stress on
the baptism business.
Ali the good in their creed was put
there by my grand father, who, at
heart was just as much of 4 hereto as
am, and Of precisely the same stripe.
He could not stand the racket against
him, in his day, because he had nobody
and nothing TO back him. He said q
half loaf was better than no bread; and
like Solon said he made laws for Ath-
cns-not the best he could make, but
the best they would stand my grand
father gave the people of his day the
best religious instruction that they
were capable OF receiving and appro-
priating AL the trumPery in the
Campbellit2 church was pus there by
Alexander Campbell, and is the dregs
of the Old Scotch presbyteiianism that
he made a fairly good. but somewhat
uasrccessful fort % ces rid Of The
. olS gEzslemsu an: used 20 run 90
sga,.sr = 600. .osl, asi sHsHl4 hsrs
tried 70 Pat something ittle frcsher
in the way Of theology into his head,
but he was too Old and TOO much set in
his ways 70: one as yoaag as was to
tackle. l am the only fellow ! ever
saw that made him laugh. 1 don't
know whether he laughed with me,
and don't care, but ne laughed all the
same.
But was telling you about the re-
nassance in religion. Things are go
ing back to the old style in religion
just like they have done in furniture
and architecture. yR
The religion OF Jesus Christ as he
taught it, and as it was practiced down
as far perhaps as to the conversion OF
Constantine. was grand thing, but
this thing they call the church and
Christianity now IS not even Il magnif-
icent farce. The best church in Lex
ington is Z fraud and a humbug, and
the sooner it is closed ont the better
for humanity.
No preaching that man does for pay
is what it ought TO be.
Jesus Christ never got 4 nickel for
the sermon on the mount At the same
time that that Paris Christian church
had Ficlllen and me in Jail because we
were Prohio;t:ouists, 1t had its organ
iss, a Dutch inGGel probably, at a Keel
ey whisky cure IA Lexington, and two
oi the fellows running the keeley cure
are Lexington saloon keepers. And
yet, IL you just want TO raise particular
hell, and stir up hornets nest
you 90 down to Paris and say that
Christian church there is IL 'shebang'
in "cahoot" with the liquor business,
and get tha. county Attorney, that be-
longs TO the everlasting Smith family,
to giving the jury the etymology of
the words ''cahoot" and ''shebang."
I'll bet il one of these Virginia noun
tian owls should fly over Paris some
night and hollow .cahpot," ''cahoot,"
like used to hear them in the winter
nights, when ! WAS a student at Bethe-
ney, Sweeney and Remington, and
Ford and White, and Horace Miller and
Chambers and Alexander and that
other rich old devil that don't keep
au- tgotters but keeps walker"
would have that owl indicted by the
Grand jury II il cost them 81, 900 to Luy
up the jury
Durnel fools; ii they had had as
much sense as a saddle rock oyster, they
would have known that their putting
me in jail was a better advertisement
for ne and my paper, and prohibition,
and woulI do us all more good than II
every one OF them had used that four
and q half millions OF dollars that they
used or the bonds Of "thc foG. braves"
aui cone on the road rs GrrmmerS for
as.3 BIts GkAs, RLApa.
S'hs-s fsJlo~s fsys furnished me
more material for Il newspaper than
Brick Pdmroy had in old BEAST" " But
Ter. Butler, with his Old cooked eye
and pocket full of silver spoons, was Il
blessed angel with wings on him com
pared with the very best one in that
gang.
But / was telling you about Sam
Jones and that Prohibition church.
You all may think you are going to
down my religion but You will never
do it. You may beat me, but. just Us
snr. rs YOU are foot high my religion
Is Il %. ! ain just as certainly right III
my religion ~ am in my politics.
thought that possibly Rnb.. Ciyc, |
of St. Louis, WIS going to do something
in the line OF my religion, but his ideas
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