The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-16

! right 10 nave any u lheHCe o'et
men. You have beard all sorts Of
things about Sam Jones, but did
YOU ever see the fellow hat caught
him at it? The best way to find a
man out is to go where lie lives, go
right to his home, and tell you il
l didn't stand any better al my
hcme than some Of YOU people do
here, I'd quit am going to preach
the nakea ruth tonight and when |
get,through you can take me TO the
Brszos RIVER and tie a 100 pound
rock around NY neck and sink me
to the bottom, but you would hear
every babbling wave say
"you have drowned an hon
est man." You have some
people who say they are going to
run me out of town. There are q
lot of them would like to run me
out, but it is like the rats holding q
convention and deciding to put
bell on the old cat, but when they
went to appoint a committee TO do
the work there wasn't any of them
would do the job. There is a paper
here that says | ray tough things
Well, when dirty little editor says
| say that which is obscene it
reminds me of skunk telling the
possum his breath smells bad.
| am here to do good.
and have no apology to
make for anything I've said.
Pm going to preach the truth Old
fellow, and if you can't stand the
truth, and have it rubbed in on you,
you had better get up and get out
Don't sit here and then come to me
after service ana whine and say l
was too hard on some things. That
makes me tired. If you are clean
upright man | won't hit in mile of
you, but if you are dirty little
scoundfel, I'll ill you as full of
buckshot as you can tote.
Brother Jones anne unced his text
srom Genesis, sth chapter and 18th
verse, Escape for thy life.
A man has physical, intellectual
and mo- al natures, a trinity.
There is certain food that will
develop mans physical nature,
and there is certain class that
polsons. There are certain lines of
intellectual food that will develop a
mans mind and others that will
poison it and make it unfit for con-
tact with other people. There is
certain moral food that will help
the soul and there is certain immoral
food that will damn the soul. This
text comes to us in the form of an
exhortation. "Escape for thy
life" When wisely un.
delstood it means escape from
sin. Poverty may harass me, grief
may bereave me, disappointment
may sadden me, but sin is the only
thing in the universe of God that
can debaach and paralyze and doom
and damm the soul OF a man. St
John defines sin to be the transgres.
sion Of the law. Sin is the dongs
OF the things which Gods word in.
terdicts; sin is the refusing
to do what God's word
commands; infraction of the law
is SIN, and sin is lawlessness. Oh
how this country is bighted and
cursed with lawlessness today; both
human and divine law is trampled
under our feet. 1t is infracted every
day, and every criminal in this
country that goes unwhipped Of
ostlce is menace to law and or.
der, and a disgrace to our civil "a.
ton. You can hang a few snarch.
lists in Chicago every few years and
think you have killed out anarchy
and communism, but if you have a
law on the statute books of Texas,
or of the municipal statutes of : our
town that you do not enforce, You
have got anarchy set up right here.
If you have law YOU
can nOU enforce, you Fave cOmmun.
ism. Every gambler, every lawess
saloonkeeper, and every violat0r of
the law is menace to the peace
and good order of our land. Every
saloonkeeper that throws his saloon
doors open on Sunday-no matter
whether side door or back doors
a criminal, and Justice, decency and
order demands that he should be