Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-01-15
JOHN E. WOOLLEY.
Another Broadside-WOrds That Burn
Deep Into the Conscience.
THERE'S NO ESCAPE FROM THEM.
Let Any Christian Man Read This and
Then Ask IL He Is Guiltless-Let There
Be No Dodging.
New YORK CITY,
MONDAY MORNING.

DC NO DodR1ng.
New YORK CITY,
MONDAY MORNING.
John G. Woolley spoke before tre-
mendous audience at Chickering hall,
this city, yesterday afternoon. Among
other good things he said:
The liquor traffic ought to die. Chris.
tian public sentiment is unanimous on
that point.
The saloon, hand ON pocket, pleads
guilty and asks how much it is, pays
the mulct, fine, tax, whatever you call
the sale of public virtue, and continues
at the old stand, with brisker trade than
ever.
1t doesn't have to die.
The church has passed sundry sono-
rous resolutions, yet back of the church
very far back-stand 3, 900, 900 Chris
tian voters.
I am to talk about power this after.
noon.
1ua0 . Wuao Wo Wdut.
We pray, 20 God, give us power!"
But there is pathetic unanimity of
confession that the church has not pow
er
Whatever, however, whenever it is,
eye shall receive power after that the
Holy Ghost shall come upon you,' it
means after that ye shall have surren-
dered to the truth.
Not truth, but the truth Above
creed and definition-not after you have
got all the truth, but after the truth
has got possession of all there is Of you.
We have been trying for power through
homeopathic doses.
We have been taking microscopic
view of cross sections of truth.
The ohurchman, who will at home
dispense with wine for conscience's s
sake and away from home dispense with
conscience for wines sake-topograph-
ical Christians, according to the lay of
the land; political saints, according to
the lay of politics; township prohibit
tionists; Christian ministers, who stand
with a slant to the plane of the saloon
ecliptic.
The matter with the temperance cause
is the voting church.
The church, attempting to ride pro-
hibition, religion and license politics at
the same time, is fatally twisted"
There is no such thing as township
truth, Methodist truth, Republican truth.
Only by complete unconditional surren-
der to the truth shall we get power-po-
tentiality.
He who has power knows it.
His testimony shows it.
Weakness sputters, insists.
Power is discerned in quiet, forceful
testimony.
The silence of a testifying gun is al
ways powerful.
The Monroe doctrine in danger at
Brazil, an American vessel appeared
one morning in the harbor of Rio ia
neiro, and they didn't shoot.
So the mountains stand around about
Jerusalem, heavy end down.
The heavens always testify, making
no fuss about it.
Policemen rarely hurt themselves
working, but they make good witnesses.
stood the other day on Broadway at
Fulton street, where the currents Of hu-
man tide and traffic meet perhaps as at
no other single spot in the land.
A single policeman, whom the crush
could have ground to powder in an in
slant, lifted his finger, and the cars
stopped from the Battery to the Boule'
ward, the tangle was Strengthened out
and the crossing on Fulton street accom-
plished.
1t has been so from Christ down to
the policeman on his beat, at every
crossroads of duty and service, at the
crises of life not what can do, not
what can / afford to do or what can l
get out Of it, but what do I stand for?
You won say he is throwing his vote
away.
His to stand and fail if need be-to
stand for truth even if he never carried
his precinct.
In the business world cash is action;
credit is testimony.
Good banking is good testimony;
that's all.
On a small percentage of gold the
government can float lots of currency.
A little Christianity floats lot of gen.
eral conference resolutions, but when
my gold certificate is presented the gold
must be there to exchange for it.
When draft is presented, business
man must pay it or be insolvent.
Duty is maturing.
1t is spot cash Christianity that is
wanted.
The Christian must pay or be an jn-
solvent Christian.
Railroads have taught us punctuality.
If a train is scheduled to leave at
O'Clock, you must get there at 5 O'Clock.
If you get to the station at sol, you
can't go on that train.
The voting church don't follow the
schedule.
Methodist and Presbyterian trains OF
voters are wildcat-shifted ON the side
track, delayed. switched in and ont, by