The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-19
Sparks from McIendOn's Sermons.

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pair with two legs in them.
God has but one standard Of honesty
and purity of speech in life, for man
and woman.
Would your mother be a lady,
standing on the street corner, cussine
and splitting streams Of Tobacco juice
as wide as a handsaw, and enough to
drown Il jack rabbit? hear you say
mo. no." Then sir, you can't do II
and be a gentleman. You did that,
did YOU? Well, 1 am talking to a
man who knows he is not gentleman.
Am I not right. when tell you that
you have crossed the gentleman line.
the decent dog-line; and are nothing
but an old cuss. 20.
When ballplayer knocks a four
base hit when the bases are intoxicat-
ed. you carry him off the field on your
shoulders.
But let a poor prodigal knock a four
base hit from the hog pen Of hell, to
heaven. AMI you put him in an ice
box.
Some Of you money bags get all you
can; and can all you get. If you were
to give 6. dime, you would sing: God
be with you till we meet again."
1t wouldn't do for some Of these
preachers to give out Old Hundred
around here, because some Of you
tight wads would sing Ninety and
Nine, to save one per cent.
We need a revival in this country
along the line Of peach tree switches
and leather straps. You need to take
that little boy with the cigarette stain
on his fingers. down across your lap
with his face down. and work on the
equator Of his anatomy
The average boy needs a switch
hunp up in his room, with this motto
behind it: II need thee every hour"
The most God forsaken, rapacious,
mendacious moral pervert and de-
generate is the man or woman who
sidesteps their marriage vows.
Every man who sells goods under
false pretenses. is a thief. The
gambler who bets and Wins, is a thief.
The gambler who bets and loses is a
fool. So he is either thief or q fool.
The employer who takes advantage of
his employee, and does not pay him
the wages to which he is entitled is q
thief.
The employee who shirks his task,
does not do the work his duty calls
him to do, is thief. CO...
The man who buys goods from a
and wilfully refuses - pay
him. is black hearted co-,arGIy
rogue.
And there are lot Of %Iu oid lob,
sters right here in this GOWN.
What do you call it, when you ped
die a lot Of Infamous gossip around
the streets?
You say Isn't that story about
poor Mrs. Smith shocking. Isn't it
awful. I'm so sorry to hear it,"
You're liar. If you were sorry, you
would say nothing about it. Some of
you old women's tongues are like gat-
Ting guns. and long enough to sit in
the parlor and lick a skillet in the
Some one says there are three ways
to start a lie: Telephone it; telegraph
1t; and tell it to woman.
And yet the women are not half
so bad as a lot of you old he-gossips.
Not long ago. a fellow who was un-
we'll went to a physician and the doc
tor said. John. let me see your
tongue" He said. Dock, it's not my
tongue you want to see. it's my wifes."
Some Of you men have no time for
God, but YOU have time for the dol
lar.
But you will find time to die and 20
to hell, and not carry blank check
with you. nor have the price of a yell
low dog. .
/ am as much called to preach the
Gospel. as the Apostle Paul; and
when you get to the judgment you will
find 1t Is true.
God said: II hewed thee with nv
prophets
Now, hewers axe, is not an in
strument with which to daub on salye
or poultice.
Some are afraid they will still up
agitation.
Well, where there is no agitation
there is no salvation.
And where there is no salvation,
there Is stagnation.
And stagnation is the next station
to damnation.