The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-07-14

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getting along in most any kind of a way.
just SO they got enough together TO prevent
the preacher from leaving aud to pay the
organlst. The speaker SAID: That To.
minds me of the report of q Mississippi
church, which happened to come to my no.
toe. 1t was about as follows: Received
for foreign missions. nothing: received for
homo mlssions. nothing; amount In the
treasury, blank. and amount due from sub
scriptions. blank. Pray for us. brethren.
that we may hold out faithful to the
end"
This was created with q roar of laughter.
he concluded by saying that one OF the
greatest benefits to be- derived from the
present meeting was the amicable meeting
or the representatives of the North 0nd
South. and said that there WINS need of
more of il. He said that he hoped that
sometime the members present would all
come TO the south. where" he said. I'VE
have more Bnptists, prettier lowers,
sweeter singing birds and more babies than
any other place in the world"
He spoke of the worlds fair. and said he
joined with all other Christians in hoping
that the day would come when it would be
decided that Its gates should be closed on
the Sabbath day. and continuing. said:
There Is q national crisis approaching,
and this crisis is rum. Romanism and re-
belliOn.' Not the rebellion against che laws
of God and man. 1t will be caused by the
great foreign element which ia creeping
into our population. and which IS binding
US tighter every day in the grasp of the
rum traffic. and Of that religion which
makes the Sabbath the same as any other
day. l do not want 1t understood that
/ have any personal feeling against the
Romanists, but when they strive by all
means In their power to bind the civil and
religious rights of the citizens of this coun-
try to q foreign potentate. / must object"
At the conclusion of the talk of the Rev.
Gambrell the secretary read q number of
faleurans from VarIOna nAPtS of The conn :
try, one of which was from the secretary of
a union In the north western part of Winni-
peg. The Rev. p. 8. Henson. of Chicago.
was then introduced. A short man. with
a suspicion of rot nudity, and with
cIsd by q grey beard. with the
upper lip closely shaven. advanced to the
coat tightly buttoned, and q pair of steel
rimmed spectaoles sat astrIde his nose.
Before he spoke there was no suspic lou of
she humOr or the joliity with which he
afterwards kept his hearers entertained.
His favorite gesture was TO throw
back the tails of bis coat. thrust his
hands deep down in his pockets. tip up
on his heels. and then tip back. When be
resort TO that position. and his face would
be wrapped In a broad smile the mean:
while. President Chapman Introduced
came to the front of the platform. he as
snmed h,s favorite position. and said:
know all men by these presents
that the like of this never was
SIT; but old Virginia forever.
l 90 not want to speak unexpectedly of
my adopted city. II is no mean city-ex-
cept in spots. and some times 1t Ia all spots.
Everything comes 80 q head IN Chicago,
and if that head proves to be a diabolical
head. we knock it on the head. l do not
suppose that there is a city In the world
where there is any more intense religious
fervor than there Is in Chicago. and is
there one where there is any greater
wickednessf There is one thing, however.
and that is that its wickedness Is like its
river-it is open. and IL smells to high
heaven. There Is just as much wiokedness
in New York and in Boston. but there 1t is
covered up. and run into the sewers. i
suppose that You all have heard the story
about til. two shades that met
asked the other where be came
from. and he replied: From Chicago
How do you like IT. asked the frat one.
and he replied: Well. | like it pretty well.
but it Is not W not | expected. Always bad
things very nice in Chicago and l always
thought heaven was q little nicer place
than THE w hy. you fool said the first
shade. this Ia hell"
The speaker then went on to speak of the
worlds fair being opened on Sunday, and
said that he was confident that il had seen
it's last one in that condition. He said that
the faIr directors met on FEiQAy. anu tnaG
il was q certain thing that they would
order it TO be kept closed. He said that
such a pressure from the outside world had
been brought TO bear on them that 1t had
compelled them to do so. for which he
praised God.
He said that he was there to speak on
federatlons. He said that be believed in
them, and believed in them in q religions
sense. He SAID that he had just gotten
home from the meeting of the Society of
Christian EndeavOr at Montreal. and that
he had said there that Christian people
were TOO bnsy fighting the devil to fight
among themselves. He said:
Il want you all to join our army and
keep in step in the good cause. You know
that when a vast army is croselng q bridge
1t has TO- break step or the bridge Will 40
down. / dOn't want you TO break step. If
the bridge goes down you know where we
will all 20 together"
He said that be did not believe In denom-
Inationalism, and that IL ought TO 90 its
way TO the devil: nor did be believe in a
church that was made for the rich, or one
that was made for the poor. He thought il
all ought to be one church. where God was
worshiped. and where there were no dis
sessions over creeds. He said that some
people arrayed these denominations in
very tine rhetorical clothing and drew very
fine pictures of il. bot that did not change
his belief. He said that we would not ap-
pear before the throne of God in any Dolly
Warden costume, but in the plain light of
truth.
lie said that in olden times at the apoth-
ecary shop the keeper of it Vas accustomed
10 dump the refuse OF the various mixtures
which he would compound in one slop Jar.
and when a man came IL who had a vari-
ETY. of ills be would dose him out of the
siop jar. He said that that was inst what
some theologians were trying to do. They
were dlshIng out q religion made up of
q whole lot OF compounds Of lag ends OF
them all.
II believe in q man sticking up for the
organization To which lie belongs. That 10
right. IL ! had a dog that would trot Just
as comfortably under any wagon as he