Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-08

his usual COLLECTION Of eSscrSailons Mi
+, wliie dozen hats were being passed
hronn1 MI. Tiiimln sang that touchingly
beautiful song, Mothers Bible"
dS uhe Q, ,he hat pilo.s eamo 10 grief
lnrly Wen nlisd with dimes. niclxels,
guArtets and halves and when midway IN
one one o. the rows nervous party dropped
with merry Jingle.
War ,but one sinner destroyeth much
good was the theme OF Mr.. Jones' dis
course. The ilrst clause he regarded as
| hlons IN the Sacred Book" MIR, Jones thon
SohtIhuedi The uation that has the
oest navy and army for defense and ag-
kre5,sion rs best prepared 70 take care OF
user, but the text lays religion is better
than hoating batteries and standing
aifnles Religion Is better than political
| Religion Ia the best thing In the world
and heaven las nothing better TO give
tnan good, old-foshionod religion.
But passing on to the second section
| oil the sentence. one sinner dcs,royCth
much good who ana what IS n sinnery
WING and what is u drunkardT The
man who accidentally got tight. but didn't
mean It,. yet he was drunk and there
fore he is a drunkard.
hMhat Is thief? a man iilches some
| y small yet Is he thief because no took
hat which didn't belong to him
What Is r lar? The fellow said he
I
90 any HARM yet lH he a liar in that he
uldn't tell the truth.
VINO g not eloRn7 The man is unelean
who violates tho laws Of chastity.
Who " Il sinncr2 man may break
any OF Gods commandments and IN so
uolng he becomes a sinner.
Now drunkard Is u man that gets
drunk, no matter II he he a millionaire
with MS wine cellar and privacy or Just
y plain ola rcd.nosed bum, OF course
the world graduates oftonscs according
10 the IOuuuE unl standing If tho UIIguut T.
| With the millionaire drunkenness is tip
ping, but with the poor old bum Is
beastly intoNicaticn and tho callboose,
The clubs can DO as they please and
not be intcrfercd with by the police, but
the unfortunate bum and Niger drunkard
10 to Jail. You club men may meet
and deal out your devlltry and escape
the consequence In this world, but IN the
sight OF God you're no more than any
YOU may sail around ike bald
eagle an put oil style and Imagine your
self better than anybody else and not
tile bar OF God youlI bite the dust.
"a thief is a thief. II he steals to
keep his wife and hungry children from
starving he goes to the penutentiary. u
no steala whole system OF railroads he's
u colonel.
i've quit theories and have turned my
attention To facts, an 1 know that God
does.
"a MANA stranger-can come to. town,
put 10000 In "a bank ana INC people Wln
the sidewalk. hut let an angel from
heaven come down here ana stay. over
night and forget TO pay hts hotel bill
You'd send u policeman to the very gates
of heaven after him.
III you've got money or u political pull
You've got thu world where you want II
Just TAKE your chief OF police and hts
gang ia as lief have an marin, wrlnklcd,
gtay-haAred, snngBle-toothod lot OF old
women.
Doesn't he know they're selling pools out
at the race track / cont know either
your chief OF police or sheriff, but thcy
ought to do, their duty OF resign.
81 don't know your mayor, but ! do
know that II was mayor of a niEgor
town ia run 1t better than Houston ia
run. Wouldn't you, brothors2'
In asking the question Mr.. Jones looked
NIL along She row OF parsons on the stage
and he seemed &c have difficulty In secui-
Ing response, until finally a 20o-pounder
y Yes We cast Gnu '' ''0 ''"o -''' ''''
AN right" quo,h Brother Jones,
you've said yes, and they can lick you.
for you live here and don't. Just lot's
get down TO the toundational bedrock
principles Of law. II you have a law you
DON'T enforce you have anarchy; II you
have a law you can't enforce you are con-
fronted with communism.
THE veriest shams outside OF hell are
your courts You take a criminal up for
trial-a man that everybody Knows Is
guilty. His lawyer will sing out about II
being better for ninely-and-nine guilty
mon 10 escape than one innocent man be
punished But n you como W. bud, and
a!n't got the shckels, UP and 20.
The safety Of our country and the per-
potulty Of our Institutions depends upon
the upright and fearless judges not upon
he twelve mon. You preachers need
more jawbono and the judges more back
bone.
Il beyond tho reach OF nudge and jury,
for your conscience has been clcansed
"l'd rather lie In your jan, knowing
! was innocent. than 10 walk the streets
justice I'd Be hung. N"O" '''i' It ''"N
,I'd rather be In the penltcntiary for
the sight OF wife and children, than 10
walk around, as some OF you. knowing
that II justice was dealt out to you you'd
~ know what conscience guilt and lnno-
Gence Is. Fof twcnty-four years, from
Maine 10 CALIFORNIA they've charged me
with a thousand things. an l can swear
they lie. l always feel sorry for a guilty
man and reverence. an innocent man.
"whateyer may be your standing here,
down the dark and leathsome corridors OF
he'll to everlasting dsmnation.
There are three thousand guilty mon
In this audience tonight. and II they
thought they were going. TO be found
out, thered be IN awful busting out OF
town before tomorrow night.
God isn't higher than tho innocent. lie
stands on q level with 'em. white tho
guilty are on a dead level with the devil.
III one sinner viii destroy much good.
what will ten thousand OF 'em I'm Houston
do? II you had but one sinner, we could
hang hlin and set up a reign Of right
cousuess, Why. as n matter OF fact. you
can hardly get o jury In any church In
town pure enough to try the guilty fell
lows and turn em out.
81 wouldn't take the record OF any bar
keeper IN your town an stand at tho
Judgment bar OF God for all the money
ever made, from Adams time on down
zone old red-noscd saloon keeper de-
bauchinE his neishbor, wrecking and ruin
ing homes. But there's not burlteepor
In town that's not as genticmanly us
those who frequent the saloons, an the
saloon keeper Is n gentleman an a schql
ar an Christian alongside OF you who
FAVOR license.
.'Theres chain binding together by
their actions the old Baptist dencon that
voted for the LEGISLATOR mat favored the
law that permits the saloon keeper 70
make drunlSnrd OF his nelghbor They'll
all 20 plunglng down to hell together. old
Baptist deacon and NIL.
''lrhe only objection i've got TO n saloon
keeper Is the same 1 have to Il louise
they both yet a living OF the head OF tho
family But II the saloon keeper IL 10.
sponsible for drunkenness. you are re-
sponslble for his existence.
~ don't believe a gentleman VIII 80
into saloon. How's that old rea-neae?
You said II Jones talked TOO hard you'd
rise Well why don't you riseG Say, Bud,