The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-27
lDIOSYNCRACIES
OF AN ISHMAELlTE

1t is about as difficult for ~
average man to manage an auto
mobile as for him to handle
wife.
When the stork visits 4 home II
generally leaves bowling remind
er behind.
The average church member OF
this day and time acts as if there
was no sin and not much of heaven
or hell. Some Of them, though,
use the church as q cloak and
seem, by their actions, at least,
that they have got a reserve seat
ticket that will admit them to a
front seat at the Great White
Throne, no matter how they live
or what they do here On this earth.
We got heart-sick at the lying.
cheating, hypocrical church men,
Der. He is lying to his conscience,
cheating his soul and practicing
hypocrisy with God. They use
religion as cloak-make a Sun
day suit of it and put it OH to go to
church in, the balance Of the time
it willsbe found lying behind the
bed room door, and sometimes it
can be found covering Jug of
liquor from the preacher, under
the excuse that "the old woman ia
puny and I have to keep little
for to make bltters for her." The
old bypocrite, he slips out Of the
bed every morning and takes a
swig out OF the jug before the "old
woman" is awake, and when Sun
day comes ho hies off to get it fill
ed again, for tho cold womar's'
bitters' must be on hand.
Again, there are church mem.
bers-not Christian church mem.
bore, but fellows who simply have
theirnames Oh tho church book,
who talk about how good they are
and how honest, and they pay all
their debts, and you will find tha,
they have paid off the liens aud
mortgages over them while the
blacksmith, printer. doctor ard
any other sucker who has been
kind enough to extend credit tc
them on their face" is done to q
turn and the poor preacher "gete
1t where the chicken got the axe'
when it comes time to collect his
salary. Yet they are honest when
they are made to be So.
' The preacher, poor man, he has
to do the best he can; he labors all
the year and at the end of the year
he accepts another call, poorer thai,
when he began the new years
work, and why, simply because he
has been handicapped, a muzzIe
has been put on his mouth, he eau
not preach as he should for fear
of offending some "good member
who helps to pay his salary, and
because Of certain utterances some
One else refuses to pay, the OUT
come generally being that the Nom.
bers get mad at him at the end of
the year to keep from paying. This
Is regular dishwater preaching.
Hammer the truths into the peo-
pie, 0, ye preachers, and look
above, you will be fed and clothed
How maLy times does your Bible
tell you Of the "faithful few" BEING
fed and clothed. What doas it ga
about the disciples going to preach
without script in their purse or
sandals upon their feet7 Have
you lost the faith of your forbears?
Society has heap to do With
things as they are; and speaking
of thls ''sasslety," how about Nan
Patterson, the chorus girl, VIII,
broke with her husband and took
up with another man, alternating
his affections from his own wife
and children and then killed him
because he tried to return to his
own vine and fig tree and be true
to his own iireside. She stood
trial, and after o time Was acuult.
ted, went Oh the stage, and "sass.