The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-02-07
G. 7. .. COLUMN.

The following ID q portion OF a sermon
delivered recently in Little Rock, Ark,
by Sam Jones.
Brothers and ~slsters. somebody asked
me one day; Brother Jones haven't you
Rotagrudge against society? Yes; | said
I haye;. What is IT.? Well, / said, wife
and I have talked over it and cried over
it and prayed over it many times. The
hardest tasks and trials we have ever
had with our children was because we
would not let our children do as other
folks let their children do. These socie-
ty people Gas they call themselves) haYe
made it so hard for wife and me to raise
our children right, that l have a grudge
against them; and | am going to tell
them Of 1T. I was preaching one day IN
my town at the tabernacle, and / said
IN my own sermon, / want every parent
IN nv townto pitch in and help ME raise
my children; and they looked back at
me, as much as to say, how can we help
YOU? and then I said, all you parents
pitch IN and raise your own children
right and then my children can't get into
bad company and be led off. If you
would form embarrassing trust, and
all parents raise their own children right
then there would be no bad ones to
lead others off. Sister let one look you
in the face this morning and say the
bllndest woman in the world is the
woman who conforms to the things OF
this world. ] want to see in this com.
munlty; wives and mothers all united to
gether in q common effort to bring pu-
rity into this community and save the
town. wish We could make 1t a fad in
society to fight the devil instead Of en-
tertainlng him! If 1T was fashionable in
this town to read the bible, when some
Of you sisters got together, one Of you
would say. 1 read ten chapters in the
bible today another i read twelve and
another old sister livery fashionabls)
would say: 4 just read read all the
time, I haven't slept a wink or eat q bit
all day for reading Now listen right
along here for a minute. how many men,
beers has the w. C. TT. N this town all
told? (answer sixty now listen: How
many Of them are regular attendants
and workers? (answer twelve) no won
der the saloon keeper and the gamblers
have it all their own way in this town.
It Is dominated by saloons and gamblers
and shameless houses. But all the same
/ un,, wAponn wrl1 C0 IN o1,,rnl, 49, C,,n11r
and sing I'm on my journey home
sisters you can sing 1T very we'll If you
are pointing downward, but l want to
see how 0 are pointing when you sing
it, l know a Methodist steward and
know him we'll, who paid one hundred
dollars to his church, and when times
got hard he paid but fifty dollars and
before the close Of the year his son in a
drunken spree. killed a man, his father
m%ortgaged his home for eight thousand
dollars to prevent his being hung. Let
me tell you, since I came to this town q
young man, a son OF q mother in here,
came to my room and said: i am
ruined IN character, I have gombled
away money that don't belong to me; l
am wrecked and ruined Twelve work.
ing temperance women in this city, with
the town ruled By whisky and the devil!
Twelve women! Isn't q women that
belongs to the w. G. I. U. called a
crank? (answer, yes.) Have you been
called a crank Brother Thomas? (to the
pastor, no ~answerl if you have not it is
because you are Of no account! meyer
knew q mar or a woman IN the church
that was any account that people
didn't call them cranks; and sister, if
you have never been called a crank, it is
because you are Of no account to God.
Brother Jones, ] am one OF those broad
minded. sensible women She a broad
minded sister. indeed! X X "Brother
Thomas, do you believe that every
Christian woman in the town belongs to
the W. c. r. T.? No sir. Well, how can
a CHRISTIAN women keep from joining?
(answer, some OF them are old and some
Of them don't think about it. But
they are racklng around to go to the
theatre and card parties almost everv
day and can't SO the the w. G. T. u.
Why some OF you preachers are running
your legs OF hunting up some Of the