The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-09

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oncs at a home and when bed time
came the lady said | could sleep il
her sons room. As | started w
stairs sbe said she hoped I'd fine
everything all right, that she hadn''
been up there for several months.
thought to myself that there was
something wrong there. That
mother was asleep, went in the
room and saw a drawer in a table.
Principle and good raising said l
ought not to look in the drawer;
curiosity said | should. There was
a battle between curiosity and good
raising, but curiosity won and /
opened the drawer. found a lot
Of cigarette boxes and pictures that
go with Gig arettes. One is as bad
as the other. Birds of feather
flock together. | looked further
back and found a novel that ha 1
enough hell fire in it to destroy this
town. A little further back found
deck of cards. began to thiok
Cigarettes, pictures, novel aud
cards. Where does tina. road lead
to? | put saloon to it. Take them
all together, where does it goI 1t
goes to the devil. You see one of
these toy trains that runs by a
spring You know where it. goes,
right around the track laid out for
1t. Show me the track boy is on
and I'll tell you where he is going.
In the edge of North Carolina
there was saioon aud near by q
wido rs home. One night the
saloon caught fire, and the widows
house burned down with it, and she
was sitting next day near the
ruins crying. The men say her
and plying her, took up collection
ana gave it to the widow to build
another house. When they went to
her she kept on crying; they told
her to stop, that there was money to
build another hoasa. She said,
"You didn't say anything ghen that
nasty old saloon was burning up
my boys, Bob aud Jim, and now
they are up there on the hill under
two mounds. YIN can't take up
collection and build them for me
again, so / don't guess it matters
much about the old house, it wasn't
worth anything any Your
pity comes too late"
You preachers ought to preach
about the saloons. Don't preach to
run the saloon man out of town, but
to run the devil out of the man and
make a good citizen of him.
l ought to stop now, as l must
preach again tonight, but l must say
something about strength. You all
need strength. Purity is strength.
The trouble is you wallow with the
devil and get his mud on you.
Unity is strength. Put on unity
and get strength. The trouble is
you are all pulling different ways.
l once went to picnic and saw
what they called "rope pulling"
They made mark and ten men got
on one side and ten on the other,
each side pulling on a rope, each
side trying to pull the other across
the line. The pulled, and tugged,
and sweated for five minutes, and
when they quit there was nothing
but lot of tired men and a slick
rope. 1t reminds me of lot of
church people at a revival. They
are all pulling against each other,
and at the end of ten days there is
but lot of tired church
members and slick rope.
There was farmer once that de.
cided that shade tree in his garden
kept the sun off his crop. He
climbed up one day and tied ropa
to the top and then he dug about
the roots and he and his wife and
daughters all pulled, and pulled and
The old tree cracked and the earth
was torn up and down it came. |
want to tie the gospel rope to the
Top of the davi's tree that is shad-
ng Waco, and want the preachers
and church people to pull together,
and we will pull it down and let in
The sunshine of Christ on this town
and save the crop, and we will have
good harvest and save Waco for
sod. viii you do it? ("Amen.m
lie closed with strong plea for