The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-28
Is Not a Bit Afraid Of Being Held
Up.
KNOWS TARGET PRACTICE
HE DIDN'T COME HERE TO BE
BURIED.
Is Able to Hit His Hat Eighteen
Times Out of Twenty Across the
Street, But Would Rather Shoot
Arguments Than Bullets-Takes
Falls Out Of Skeptics.

John vii, II, was the text taken by
Evangelist oliver at his discourse in
the Tiff church last evening. '1f any
man will do his will. he shall know of
the doctrine, whether it be of God or
whether l speak of myself"
This passage from the scriptures,
said Mr.. Oliver, was paraphrased by
an old camp me q ng darkey preacher
in Georgia to reau something like this;
DO before you get it what you know
you'd do If you had il and 1t won't be
long before you get it
Il was talking to a man who said
that he had been trying to imbibe the
salvation feeling for two weeks, but
he hadn't felt anything different and
doubted II he ever should, when he
suddenly jumped and shouted: There.
I've got it: now I've got salvation in
my SOUL That's the keynote sounded
by those who have entered the fold.
'sThe skeptics are forever prating
about the inconsistencies to be found
in the Bible. but they don't say it. about
Shakespeare. Milton. Emerson or Rus
kin simply because those authors dom Z
take them to task for their sins and,
backslidings.
Some Skeptics Honest.
Some folks are foolish enough to al
low themselves to be influenced by
such men and are ever ready to swal-
low whatever a skeptic will pour out.
know skeptics who are honest in their
doubts, and l have great sympathy for
those who are troubled spiritually,
mentally or physically. 1 wish to say
here tonight that / never said from
this or any other pulpit that all skep-
tics are immoral.
Il have respect for an honest doubter
but / have neither respect nor SYM
pathy for a sneaking little hypocrite
who is forever fussing at the Bible for
the purpose of cloaking his own I'M
quities. People there are who scott
at the scriptures because every preach
er they happen to run across cannot
tell where Cain got his wife, or why
Eve was not made out of dust instead
of a mans rib. What's that got to do
with the truth of the revealed and in
Spired word of God?
There are lots of dirty, sinking lit
tie doctors who pirate science in de-
Tense of their disbelief of the scriptures
while they prostitute their profession
by sneaking through the streets to per-
form abortive operations. I am giving
it to you strong tonight; I'm ploughing
in the fallow ground of Salt Lake to
a depth of fourteen inches, and the
next time 1 come here 1 am going to
make the burrows forty inches deep.
What do you think of divers
in the past week: and the threat has
been made to put me to sleep. Let ME
say that if any puppy tackles me on
the street or elsewhere there'u be a
dead dog in this town. 1 can shoot
bullets as well as arguments, and can
nit my hat across the street eighteen
times out of twenty. I didn't come
here to be buried. 1 didn't come here
TO shoot bullets; came here to bring
men TO righteousness.
Whisky Business Attacked.
81 once asked an Iowa man why he
didn't get out of the whisky business,
and his retort was that it was legiti-
mate. 1t is not legitimate, and moth !
ing but a dirty, black-hearted rascal
would deal in the vile stuff; what does
he care about widows and children
tears and signs? And the cigarette
habit; only the nastieSt little puppies
in town smoke them. understand that
some of the preachers in Salt Lake |
smoke
IF they are not careful they'll smoke |
in a hotter place than this by and by. |
Skeptics say there is no truth in the |
inspiration of the scriptures because |
every fool question they see fit to ask |
is not answered to suit them You
can't answer it; it is not true they |
say, and yet when l ask them to ex- !
plain why chicken and cat, fed on 1
the same kind of food grow feathers
and fur, they say they don't know, but |
il is true.
4 once met chap in Cripple Greek
who said ne didn't believe in the Bible
because it was not scientifically cor
rect. / asked him had he read Genesis?
oh yes Had he read jeremiah? oh
yes Had he read Hezekiah? oh
yes, he'd read that from beginning to
end That's your trouble, 1 said,
you've read too much in the book of
Hezekiah, because there is no such
book in the Bible.
'sThe way some people go through
their Bibles reminds me of the story
about the old woman who went on
long journey in a train. How did you
enjoy the scenery?' asked her friends at
the other end. Scenery, scenery
shouted the woman, I didn't see any
thing except two haystacks and they
were going the other way People gall
lop through their Bibles from Genesis
to Revelation and never see anything
except an occasional familiar quotation
going the other way"