Brownwood Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PEOPLE.
"Sermon on
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Loney Loney
' Monday Morning.
The Famous Decov Duck Sermon at
Night.
Bro. Stuart opened the services
by again urging the singers to come
forward and join the choir.. Some
will be anxious to join that body
.vwhen. all the badges are out and
the seats full but they can't get
there. Come. now. There are no
conditions except that those who
join must sing and not play wall
flowers. The choir sang several
Sonus after which Bro. Duvall led
in an earnest praver. He pravec
for the success of the meeting and
that the spirit of the Holy Ghost
might descend with all its' quick-
ening powers upon the head of him
who was to. address the men and
women present. The collection
was taken and more songs sung.
Then the following announcements
were made: Services will be held
in the tabernacle to-morrow at 11
at 3 and at 8. Bro. Jones will be
here to deliver the sermon to-
mnrrnw nioht if lint nrnvirtanti.il.
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text 1 w.ant to say that 1 am not
here to sermonize or to give you
anything grand in the way of a ser-
mon not here to give you flowery
language but I am here to preach
the straight gospel. I am here to
give the dying sinners the saving
power of Jesus Christ and Fni do-
ing my level best. My text this
morning is "Grow" found in the
18th verse of the 2nd chapter of
Peter. Grow in grace. Grow in
love. Grow in religion. My $Tib
ject is fools and babies and I want;
you to take your stand and decide
to .which class you belong and de-
cide where you come in. A being
is born grows fbom baby to child
froTn child to youth and from youth
'to manlrotfcL The ypung. colt pro-
fgVesse from colt to horse and then
is regularly used in work. The
young bush is nipped by the frost
is bitten off by the rabbits arid has
a hard time but it comes around
all right in the end and bears fruit
fromyearto year. The little baby
in the church worth little weak
i j and helpless does it finally grow
f (J to be a' man in the church of
God? No! It is God but thou-
sands of church members are still
'jthe babies they were when they
Hirst joined the church and its not
right its not according to law.
You man sitting on the quilt with
your thumb in your mouth you
ire a baby. Get up from that
quilti.fake your thumb out of your
mouth and be a man. I wani you.
to begin to grow. I planted a
peach tree some time ago it jsick-
ened and nearly diod. Then it
sprouted again but the cattluj and
rabbits bit it down until it scfmied
that it could never grow and Jive
but it did live and now has grown
to a tree bearing fruit and sharing
its sweets with all who desired to
partake.
One child has trials and sickness
it lives with . difficulty even
though guarded by the tender
watchfulness- of the mother but
finally ripens into a young
and
BROTOVOOD
hearty man who goes to' his aged
mother and says (mother you quit
work now rest and I will take care
of you. I have a good salary and
can give you anything you w;ant.
What Shall it. hp' FJprp is nnnih.
! er mother who has we will say
' oirrht nhihl
but he doesn't grow any he .still
remains a babv Will the next.
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does -the same way all live but
don't grow. Finally that mother
will have eight babies to take cafe
of and she will die she can't do it.
Brethren Bro. Putman is the spir-
itual father of 300 children" his
church members. He says two or
three of them are grown that is
able to help the fallen to cheer the
sick to stand by a fallen one and
win him back to the fold when all
others are scorning him and are
turning their backs on him. The
rest are babies are not able to feed
jkbemselves nor walk alone. Do
you wonder' if Bro. Putman can
take care of 295 babies?
You say if I just get to heat my-
self I'll do mighty well. I expect
some of you apgSibout right about
that too. What we need is to raise'!
up Christians who are able to take
care of their fallen brethren. If I
could get about fifty of your church
members to growing you brethren
(the preachers) would have to
walk the fence. God crant that I
may be able to make the babies
grow!
Now there are a great many per-
sons who think they can only do
one thing that that they have a
talent in only one line. He doesnt
happen to have a talent for pray-
ing in public but any man who
prays in private can pray in pub-
lic. The truth is he doesn't say
his prayers before he goes to bed
at night. Cattle will do more
Does he say a blessing before each
meal? No can't. I never fed a
hog in my life but that he always
grunted this thanks.
If I don't happen to suit you
don't get mad at me 1 am trying
to do good. Brethren don't be'
babies try to walk God's hand
will hold you up even as the moth-
er and father support their little
babe in its first feeble efforts to
walk. Their child may start to
fall and nearly reach the gTOiind
but before any hurt is received the
strong hands of the father slip
around it and stay its fall. God is
your father try to walk. 1 once
held a "loney loney" meeting.
'Bro. Stuart what do you mean by
that kind of a meeting?' Well I'll
tell you. I learned Christians how
to walk.
Have 3'on heard of that man who
was smart in business but a fool
in religion? Apply this to the
dentist. Do you know how to pull
teeth? Yes sir. Know how to fill
teeth? Yes sir. Know how to. do
everything in dentistry? Yes' sir
know it all. Do you know . how to
pray? No sir. Do you attend
church regularly?. No sir. Pay the
preacher?. No sir; What do you
in religion? Nothing. So it is
with the doctor the mechanic the
.merchant; all grown men in busi-
ness but a plum fool as a Chris-
tian. The. professor and the so-
ciety sister are grown in their pro-
fession but babies in religion.
Brother the world could be brought
to God in six months if everybody
made their religion their business.
A'boutyour business you can talk
eloquently and fluently but about
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youf religion you are as dumb as
anX)yster.
Because you cant turn a summer-
salt before you make a step you
wont start. You can't run of
course before you can walk. You
say you can't do anything but you
can set a whole prayer meeting on
fire if you simply make a little
prayer. There ain't one man in a
thousand who will make a failure
for their God but all want a nice
easy place never working but al-
ways doing that which requires no
effort.
Brethren if i could stir up these
babies and make them grow
wouldn't we have a meeting? I
never preached truer gospel than 1
preach to-day.
There are three things necessary
to a growing condition. Lifefood
and exercise. The test of life is
love the test of love is sacrifice.
How do I know that" my mother
loves me? By the way she acts.
How does the boy know that the
j girl loves him? By the way she
acts. The mother saved her little
boy from being run over at the ex-
pense of a silk dress. She loved
her dress but she loved her boy
better. Brethren when it
forties'
to religion you must count every
thing else as but-dress. If religion
costs a man anything and he sur-
renders that I lOve that man. I
have surrendered the pleasures of j
a honie life to work for God and
believe I am making some other
sacrifices.
God help me to do something
for Jesus. You say brother Stu-
art you make some propositions
and I can't answer so I will do
only just as it suits me. That's
like some of you.
But I have preached long enough.
May God help us to see what to
do!.
Slant skuvi'ck.
Tho congregation not arriving on
time the opening service was car-
ried on until a quaater to nine by
Tyhich time fully 3000 peoplo were"
gathered under the roof of the tab:
ernacle. Then Bro. Stuart took
his text "Surely He shall deliver
thee from the snares of the fowler."
He said:- "My subject of my talk
is the' snares of the devil and how-
to avoid them. The author of my
subject is the ruddy cheeked.sturdy
shepherd boy David. Many "a
time he had placed a pebble in his
sling to cast at a bird but just as
he is going to turn it loosethe bird
mounts on its beautiful wings and
soars into safety. This he tells in
Psalms. God guarded him for he
says God is my buckler He is my
shield. Often God was his rock in
a weajry land and God was his
shepherd leading him beside still
waters. David had a right appre-
ciation of the snares of the devil.
He had encountered them in many
forms.
It is my purpose to give parallc's
of how birds arc caught in snares
and how .the devil -catches men.
The Master preached about the
sower and the seed about the fisher
and the fish about the pruning of
the branches and the dead tree.
He always used parallels of some
kind.
There are several ways to bnnre
birds. I never will forget the time.
I first went duck hunting with some
hunters. ' They carriod their decoy
duck an old wooden duck painted
and shaped like a real one. When
we arrived we tied out our duck
got behind some brush with our
guns and waited. Pretty soon we
could hear the whistle of the ducks
wings as they came flyingWr
iney lit beside that old duck and
our guns went bang! bang! They
were dead before tfttey found out
that it wasn't a. real (ruck. It is
said the devil is a fowler. He
uses a decoy duck. What is it?
Brethren its the old nominal Chris-
tian that sits in the church paint-
ed hfe like Christian like but is
nothrugbut the decoy of the devil.
How doTknow he is that? Well
first we can tie out this old duck
anywhere arid he is satisfied. And
the nominal Christian is just like
him and will be easily tied out
anywhere in the dance in the
wimbling hall in the saloon.
the decoy duck isn't afraid
of anything and the devil's decoy
is the same way. He isn't afraid
of an occasional dram nor of thea-
ters nor of race tracks. I'd rath-
er be anything than be a nominal
Christian a decoy duck for the
devil.
.1 have a boy at home and 1 rath
er there were low down dirty sa
loons than these wine parties. He
thinks too much of himself to go to
the one but he may get into the
other. He ma- matriculate in the
wine party and graduate "in the sa-
loon. I'd- rathar fight the one
than the other. We
succeed I don't care
never . will
how many
saloons you run out of town until
you stop the wine parties and the
card parties at home.
The blacksmith is strong. His
right arm is stronger than hia left
and the muscle i as big as a calf
laying down. He did not get
strong in one day or by one act.
He got strong gradually: The im-
moral man did not get that way at
one hand. lie took it by degrees
until habit held him in hands
stronger than iron.
God save us from hypocrites.
card playing hypocrites dancing
hypocrites old saloon hypocrites.
For God's sake get out of the
church. If there is any thing I
like it is a sincere honest charac-
ter. I once aw a trnined turkey.
Trained in what? Why to hunt
with. He would gobble gobble
and lead the. wild turkeys up to
his owner who would shoot thern.
I've seen that turkey since that
agsdale
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a LONG tun'e ago and they are just as good as NEW.
JSC-IF YOU WANT GOODS GUARANTEED GET THEM AT
RAGS DALE
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time.
That old man who stands.
on
the street corners and sivs
'Wall religion's good enough for
women and children but for brainy
people like me gobble gobble
gobble."
Then followed a number of oth-
er parallels showing how .men
snared birds and how the. devil
snared men. The sermon was
listened to by an appreciative peo-
ple and when an invitation was.
given to sinners a number came .
forward seeking forgiveness.
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iijciiiiu rams nave put every
body in aigood humor for themeei
ing.
the farmers now sav the wheat
'and oats are becinnintr to mr&T"
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and will make more than has been
expected.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Storey who
have been at Beauregard Miss. are
visiting here and will probably re-
main permanently.
Mr. Byrd Garner is at home
again after an absence of
several
weeks visiting relatives and Mends
at Fredonia Ky.
He reports .a
pleasant time.
Mr. J. H. Grant made a hnsi
ness trip to San Angelo and Bal-
linger in the interest of the Careyl
Lombard Lumber Co. the latter
part of the week. .
Dr. W. L. Wright and Miss S:
E. Mullins of Thrifty were marl:
ried Sunday May 6th at the resi!
dence of the bride's parents Mr!
and Mrs. John MullinSjjlev. g1
W. Templin officiating ' -
One section Sunday night con!
tributed forty centa to the cause
when the hat was. passed and iii
another section the hat was quietly
placed under a geat and was not
found by tlje collector until after
the service.
.The Comanche Chief calls atten
tion 'co the fact that Sam Jones will
be here to give the devil a chase
and .prays that he may reform some
of the godless editors the Chief
having given up the task. Do you
remember the old sayineof the bot1
callinc: the kettle black. f
Miss Anna Johnston was mar
ried Sunday night at Coleman to
Dr. Ratliff a dentist of Coleman.;
Miss .Anna is a sister of Mrs. F.Di
Shepherd and taught tft.iars iri
our schools. She has a host t)S
friends here who will join The
Bulletin in good wishes for a long
life of happiness.
3 JL1T
HAS
Two Reasons
FOR SMILING
IT HAS RAINEDf
And his wife doesn't have to
buy any KNIVES and FORKS
orSPOONS during the hardtSmesi
because she bought hersf from
&ofa
& FORD'S.
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Mayes, Will H. Brownwood Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1894, newspaper, May 17, 1894; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth344398/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.