The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-21

nonF That's the way with some Of
you.
I've heard the preachers preach
about evangelical repentance and
other kinds Of repentance, but the
only repentance that counts ls the
repentance that makes man quit.
Cryin' and blubberin' amt goin'
to count. God don't look to see
whether you are blubberin' or not.
de locks to see if you've quit. 1t
amt blubberin' that counts, It's quit.
tim. Man says he don't know how
to quit his sinfulness. We'll, then
you are not responsible, and wha,
you do don't count. The Lord
never holds any man responsible for
what he don't know anything about
Don't try to taper eff, but quit at
orce. tried alerin' off on
whisky, but l found | was taperln'
toward the big end all the time
Ever zee man taper off stealin'?
Steals $40 today, 50 tomorrow and
go on down, FL at a time. Fine
way to quit stealin'. The only way
to quit anything is to quit all at
once, and the time to quit is now.
After using an ungrammatic
expression Mr.. Jones ref rred to IL
and said grammar Wac fine THU &,
but lot an essential. Knives and
forks are fine things, but if yon
think your Uncle Jones can't eat
without a knife and fork, why, you
just set 1t before him.
Then some folks worried about
regeneration. Now, DON'T know
any more alb ut regeneration than 1
know about generation--I only
know that people are regenerated.
See goose and 9 sheep and a goaa,
all Gazing the same grass. On one
1t makes feathers, on another woo!,
on another hair. Now | don't know
the process through which it goes !;
| only know that, somehow Or other,
it is charged to feathers, wool or
hair, according TO the nature of the
animal that eats it.
naturalization is regeneration.
An Irishman, a French man and a
German appeared before the proper
iicers, to take an oath renounclng
allegiance 20 Great Britain, to France
and 10 Germany, and promising al
legiance to the United States, and
right there an Irishmar, French.
man and German die, and three
American citizens are born. Just so
with spiritual regene ration. A man
comes to the altar and renouncing
his alleg glance to the world and the
devil, promises allegiance to God.
Right there the child of the world
and the devil dies, and child of
God is born. See how plain it is; no
mystery at all.
Lots of these preachers preach a
theology that's full Of mystery.
The theology l want is straigh,
clean through. It's like q tele.cope,
and it brings God and heaven sc
close you cum see his face aud count
the spires in the city CT New Juru.
salem. No mystery about it.
If man who hasn't got religion
will do as he thinks he could if he
had it, he'll get it. Old preache,
in Georgia sad this, and young
farmer stepped up and joined the
church. HIS wife got after him for
joining when he had no religion,
and he told her what the preacher
said. Now, he said, if | had re-
lgion I'd join the church, so have
Joined without it to see if | won't
get it. He had formerly prayed
| prayed in public, and did every thing
else he thought he could do if ht
had religion, and sure he broke GU,
with the finest case of religion even
seen in that country. If you haven't
got it AID will do like you think
you'd do if you had il, you'll get it,
Then When you join the churol
you must keep on being repentant,
Old man took his wife to church
and lie went to Il saloon and got
drunk. When he went to the
church to take his wife home tn,
preacher was just opening the doors
of the church and inviting repen
tants to come in. The old felo.
40 drunk he didn't know what he