THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 ,
 
 BUD ROBINSON
 
 SUNSHINE 
 
 SMILES 
 
 BY BUD ROBINSON 
 
 1802 
 
 Holiness Advocate, 
 GreenYille, Texas.
 
 DEDICATION. 
 
 I lovingly dedicate this book to the 
 human family, to whom I am indebt- 
 -xi for every idea expressed in it, for when 
 I came into this world I knew nothing at 
 ill, not even the way to my mouth. 
 
 Yours for the glory of God and the 
 of Humanity. 
 
 Brn ROBINSON.
 
 SKETCH OF MY LIFE. 
 
 I moved to America on January 27th, 1860. I 
 2 met a cold reception, of course, as the snow wa* 
 5* something like knee deep and I was very thinly 
 ^ clad, just having the suit that nature provided for 
 ** me. I settled in White county, Tennessee. My 
 3 first employment was to work for my living, and 
 my mother said I was a good rustler, but I used uf 
 o my income as fast as I got it, as I continue to tf< 
 ir> until this good day. 
 
 My baby buggy was not a carriage but a ho>- 
 
 low log, about four feet long, split open, making * 
 
 nice little trough, with an old quilt in it and a pi) 
 
 low. I spent several months as happy as a lark 
 
 K My mother sat by me and carded wool and cottoi 
 
 rolls to spin her thread. As mother sat there o? 
 
 m the old log fire and sung the swe0test old songs 
 
 "Z. the world, I had nothing to do but lie there in tn 
 
 little cradle as it was called and listen to mothe 
 
 sing, play with my hands, suck my thumb and p> 
 
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 to sleep. As mother carded she rocked the cradle 
 with her foot, looked down into the trough and 
 talked all kinds of baby talk to me and said many 
 a time that "Little Buddie was sure to make his 
 mark in the world." 
 
 Well, my friends, I want to stop long enough 
 to tell you I made the mark ; it was a long, black, 
 crooked one. The hope of the race is the confi 
 dence a mother puts in her children. Every true 
 mother can see something in her boy that other 
 people can't see. The reason we can't see some 
 thing in them is because they are not our boys. 
 The reason she does is because he is her boy. She 
 looks beyond his misfortunes and sees in him great 
 possibilities and in her heart full of love she knows 
 that success is sure to come with the smile of hope 
 on her face she sees fortune just ahead. 
 
 By this time you are anxious to know whether 
 or not the baby boy ever got out of the hollow log. 
 Of course he did; don't you know that you can't 
 keep a boy forever in a hollow log? and I told you 
 at the start that the log was only four feet long. I 
 soon outgrew it and mother had to put breeches on 
 me and turn me loose with the other children. 
 About this time in life recollection came into use; 
 the first thing I remember was the soldiers going 
 by with blue coats on, the next thing was my 
 mother coming through the cornfield shouting. 
 She was coming from the spring that was over at 
 the back of the little corn field it was one of those
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 5 
 
 beautiful springs flowing out from under the great 
 mountain, as clear as crystal and so cold it would 
 make your teeth ache, just running over the white 
 sand and gravel, sunperch, red bass and speckled 
 trout playing under the rocks that stuck out over 
 the branch all covered with ferns and mountain 
 mass. Surely that was one of the prettiest places 
 in the world, and while mother was over there get 
 ting water, the same Christ that met the woman at 
 the well, met mother, and while she was filling her 
 bucket with water, the Lord filled her soul with 
 grace, and she came through the field with her 
 bucket in one hand, waving the other over her head 
 praising the Lord. Occasionally she would set the 
 bucket down and go to clapping her hands and 
 shouting in the old style. It was Glory! Glory!! 
 Hallelujah, Bless God forever! We children ran 
 out and climbed up on the yard fence, where we 
 could just see mother's head as she jumped up and 
 down in the corn rows. She came on to the house 
 bare headed, had spilt nearly all the water and lost 
 her bonnet, but she had a shine on her face I never 
 will forget. I was at that time about four years 
 old, and mother's shouting put me under such deep 
 conviction I had no rest from the sense of guilt and 
 condemnation. I wanted religion worse than any 
 thing in the world. I well remember going down 
 into the apple orchard, getting down on my knees 
 under the old horse-apple tree to pray. I don't 
 know why I didn't get religion unless it was be-
 
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 cause of the wickedness of ray father. He was 
 very profane and would come in the house and 
 swear bitterly. This would excite me very much 
 and for the time being I would forget the struggles 
 of my poor little heart. There are pictures that 
 remain in the child's memory like burs in a sheep's 
 wool; the next one that took fast hold of mine was 
 a difficulty between mother and a Yankee soldier. 
 My father had been run off from home and all the 
 horses taken but one old sorrel mare with a blaze 
 face and one eye out, "Old Gin" we called her. 
 Mother and we children hauled wood on the sled 
 with "Old Gin." One morning mother went out 
 to feed her and the Yankee soldier told her to feed 
 that mare well, for he expected to ride her that day. 
 Of course the war opened right there. Mother told 
 him never in this world would he ride "Old Gin." 
 She fed the mare and we children stayed out in the 
 yard to see whether or not the Yankee was coming 
 to get her. About the time "Old Gin" finished up 
 her breakfast the Yankee was at the barn door 
 with mother and us children, and the circus opened 
 up. He opened the barn door and went in to put 
 the bridle on the mare and mother took it off. He 
 began to curse and mother was shaking her fist in 
 his face, calling him all sorts of hard names. He 
 put the bridle on again and mother pulled it off. 
 By this time he was pretty hot, and jerked an old 
 pistol out of his belt and we children began to 
 scream as loud as we could and hold to mother's
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 7 
 
 dress. He swung the revolver over his head, 
 and cursed. By this time mother was at white 
 heat and hit him right over the head and face with 
 the bridle just as hard as she could put it on him. 
 Then the regular fight took place; they clenched 
 and scuffled over the barn for some little time while 
 we children were almost having spells. Finally he 
 shoved mother up against- the barn door and hurt 
 her side, and before she could regain her strength 
 and renew the battle he had put the bridle on "Old 
 Gin," led her out of the barn and was riding away. 
 Mother stood in the barn door, shaking her fist 
 after him and saying in a loud voice: "You'd 
 better get a good ride today, because this is the last 
 day you will ever ride 'Old Gin,' for if God spares 
 my life I will have old Pleas Parr and the Texas 
 Guerrillas on your track before night." He 
 laughed at her and rode on. Of course mother was 
 only threatening him, as she had no idea that the 
 guerrillas were anywhere in the country. So the 
 little squad of Yankee soldiers about seventy -five 
 in number went on up the road about twelve miles 
 from our house on the little Calf Killer river, stop 
 ping at a house where there was a sick woman and 
 a lot of old women had gathered in to wait on her. 
 The soldiers began to exchange horses with the 
 women without their consent and put some of them 
 to cooking dinner for them. While they were eat 
 ing, swapping horses and mistreating the old 
 women, old Pleas Parr and his band of Texas guer-
 
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 rillas came across the mountains from East 
 Tennessee, ran up on them and surely made it hot 
 for the boys. Pleas Parr and his men fought 
 under the black flag. They never gave nor took 
 prisoners, and they had six shooters belted on them 
 from their necks to their knees. I expect the 
 Texas guerrillas, as they were called, were among 
 the worst men in the world. At their appearance 
 the blue coats leaped in their saddles and went 
 down the road at full speed, the guerrillas after 
 them. Every few hundred yards they would shoot 
 one off his horse and some one of the band would 
 get down and cut off his head. By the time they 
 had reached our place they had killed most all the 
 soldiers. They went by at full speed with their 
 horses covered with foam and dust, their mouths 
 open and tongues out, with the sound of revolvers 
 every minute, men hollering and pleading for their 
 lives. What a sad day. God forbid that we should 
 ever see another like it. As they came near our 
 house "Old Gin" left the main road, turned round 
 the corner of the field and coming to a deep gully 
 tried to jump it, but failed and went head foremost 
 hi the gully right on top of the soldier that had 
 whipped mother that morning. The guerrillas sup 
 posing they had killed both horse and rider, went 
 on after the rest. After they had all passed by 
 the soldier got out of the gully, ran through th 
 field and made his escape. Mother and we chil 
 dren went down and got "Old Gin," led her to the
 
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 house, bound up her limbs, carried her water and 
 worked with her for a week before she was suffi 
 ciently recovered from her ride to assume her dut 
 ies. That soldier may have forgotten some things 
 in his life but there is one day's work that will 
 never be erased from his memory. The day he 
 whipped mother, took "Old Gin" and met the 
 Texas crowd, will remain fresh in his memory until 
 he meets his black box, and all the preachers in 
 the world will never be able to convince that fellow 
 that mother was not to blame for the whole affair. 
 I can just see that poor man now out in the moun 
 tains that night, under a rock raking up a few 
 leaves to make him a bed, goes to sleep about mid 
 night, cursing rebels, and in his dreams he sees 
 women and children, blazed face horses, bridles, 
 pistols, Texas guerrillas, deep gulleys and such 
 like. 
 
 About this time in my life my mother had a 
 strange dream about me. She dreamed she had to 
 offer me as a sacrifice on the altar just as Abraham 
 offered Isaac, and that I was to be offered for the 
 whole family, and without it the family would be 
 lost. In her dream she built the altar, bound me, 
 laid me on the altar and the Lord told her to take 
 my life. She screamed and plead with the Lord to 
 spare me, awoke and rejoiced to find it only a 
 dream, went back to sleep and dreamed the same 
 thing again, and in the last dream she saw that all 
 the suffering that could be put on me didn't seen
 
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 to take my life and that mine was to be a life of 
 suffering and sacrifice and through my suffering 
 the rest of the family was to be brought to Christ. 
 This dream made a great impression on my mind; 
 it renewed conviction and created such a desire in 
 my heart for religion that I never could wear it off, 
 and with all the fun as I called it in my life I 
 was never easy until the night I was converted in 
 my 21st year. No one could persuade mother her 
 dream has not been fulfilled in her Buddie's life. I 
 will leave it for others who know me to judge. 
 
 In my fifth year the war was over, our father 
 had come home, sold out his land and bought wag 
 ons and horses and we prepared to move to Missis 
 sippi. "We left the mountains of Tennessee in the 
 fall of 1865 and just before Christmas we landed in 
 Tipper county, Mississippi, settled on the little Tal- 
 lahassie river, where there were more fish and 
 mud turtles, mosquitoes and water moccasins than 
 any place in America. We stayed in Mississippi 
 four years. The first year was one of misfortune 
 and hardship; our horses all died with blind stag 
 gers. My father rented a farm from a man who 
 was to furnish us teams. When the crop was 
 planted the man went back on his contract and he 
 and my father had trouble he was a very mean 
 caan and my father was just as mean as he. After 
 oay father lost his crop he rented a still from a man 
 id went to making whiskey. He did not work at 
 "-hat long until he and the man who owned the still
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 11 
 
 had trouble, fought and came near killing each 
 other. That was another dark day. By the time 
 we were through with the whiskey business all of 
 our property was gone but one wagon and two milk 
 cows, and now he traded the cows for a little yoke 
 of steers and moved out into the pinery and went 
 to burning tar for a living, which was a very hard 
 life. There are not many boys nowadays that ever 
 saw a tar kiln. First you go through the woods 
 and gather up the pine knots and pile them in piles, 
 then go back over the ground with your wagon and 
 haul your knots to the kiln, then split up your 
 knots and build a tar kiln, and burn and get the 
 tar out. I will not go into detail and try to explain 
 the process of burning the kiln, but it was a very 
 hard job and the dirtiest work in the world. We 
 were in the tar business three years. We generally 
 built about three kilns a year and would run from 
 five to six hundred gallons out of a kiln and sell it 
 for about 40 cents per gallon. It was used all over 
 the country for axle grease, every wagon having a 
 tar gourd hanging on the coupling pole. We spent 
 the wet weather and Sundays hunting and fishing. 
 The woods were full of deer and turkeys. You 
 could hear the turkeys gobbling every morning 
 and any where you went you would see a deer run 
 across the road. We caught fish and swamp rab 
 bits, killed snakes until we quit numbering, ate 
 muscadines, fought mosquitoes and ticks, and I 
 reckon had the hardest and biggest chills in Miss-
 
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 issippi. We children passed off the time at night 
 sitting by a big fire built of pine knots, telling rid- 
 dies and chewing pine wax. 
 
 At the end of our four years* struggle we 
 reached the fall of '69 and with a few household 
 goods on the old wagon, the little steers hitched to 
 it, a big tar gourd full of tar swung in on the coup 
 ling pole, mother on the wagon with the baby on 
 her lap and seven other children either on the 
 wagon or afoot playing along the road, we now bid 
 the old Tallahassie and the swamps of the Miss-* 
 issippi a hearty farewell. We are now on the road 
 for the mountains of old Tennessee again. My 
 father walks ahead of the wagon with a musket on 
 his shoulder, my oldest brother drives the little 
 steers. We children ride time about, three or four 
 on the WBgon, the others walking up the sandy 
 road playing in the sand or stopping under the 
 chestnut trees and picking up chestnuts, or climb 
 ing the fence and getting into some fellow's 
 orchard. We would strike up camps on some little 
 creek or at some spring, a little before sundown, 
 unyoke and feed "Nig" and "Jerry" (the litttle 
 oxen), build a big chunk fire, then we boys were 
 up the creek with our dog in a few minutes to see 
 if we couldn't start a rabbit. It was "seek, seek, 
 there he goes," and away Dixie would go after 
 him. In a few moments he runs him into a hollow 
 tree or log. We chop him out so quick it would 
 make your head swim. We are now back with the*
 
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 Babbit, dressing him for supper. Mother brings 
 the skillet and lid out of the Wagon, puts them on 
 the fire, and while they are heating she brings out 
 the corn meal, bread tray and sifter. Now she 
 puts the skillet on coals of fire and proceeds to 
 make up her bread. She sifts the meal in the big 
 tray and makes up the dough With her hands* puts 
 three nice pones in the skillet, puts on the lid, 
 putting coals on that. She then gets the frying 
 pan out of the wagon and goes to frying the rabbit. 
 
 Now, reader, just think of it! Old fashioned 
 corn bread cooked in a skillet and fried rabbit for 
 supper! My, my, I can just smell that rabbit and 
 taste that corn bread until now. That night was 
 thirty -three years ago. It seems to be only yes* 
 terday. I can just see the little creek and the old 
 \vater elm standing by the ford, Dixie lying under 
 the wagon, the little oxen having eaten their sup 
 per, lying down to rest. Now mother brings out 
 an old quilt or two, makes a big pallet by the fire. 
 A dozen or more little red feet are turned to the 
 chunk fire and we are off to the land of dreams. 
 
 About the break of day we hear father calling 
 "Boys! boys!! It is time to get up and make a 
 fire and feed the steers." So in a few minutes we 
 are up throwing the chunks together and shucking 
 corn for Nig and Jerry. While mother is getting 
 breakfast we cut a pole about fifteen feet long and 
 a little short fork about three feet long to grease 
 the wagon with. We run one end of the long pole
 
 14 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 under the wagon and three or four of us boys get 
 under the other end and raise the wagon and put 
 the little fork under to hold it up. We now get the 
 wagon hammer and drive out the lynch pin, take 
 off the wheel and get the tar gourd off of the coup 
 ling pole, and with a little paddle we put the tar on 
 the axle and a few paddles full in the wheel to make 
 it run light during the day, and by night you could 
 hear it squeak a quarter of a mile. The next 
 morning we would have to tar up again. We kept 
 this up every morning for three weeks until we 
 reached the Tennessee mountains. I remember as 
 we went through Alabama, in one of the little towns 
 two negro men gave us a cursing and called us 
 "poor white trash" and pretended they were going 
 to ride over the wagon. I couldn't blame the boys 
 much. We surely did look pretty tough. But 
 mother couldn't stand it. She got the old musket 
 out of the back end of the wagon and loaded it up. 
 She put in a hand full of powder, put a wad of 
 paper in on it and beat it down with the ram rod, 
 then put in sixteen buckshot and a little paper on 
 that. While she was getting the box of caps the 
 colored boys had business up the lane. I tell you 
 mother was one of the pluckiest little rebels you 
 ever saw. Lee surrendered in 1865 but it was many 
 years later when Mother Robinson surrendered. 
 I think she could see blue overcoats and muskets 
 in her dreams, until the year Bros'. H. C. Morrison 
 and Joe McClurkan run the Waco Holiness Camp
 
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 Meeting, when mother got so happy in the experi 
 ence of full salvation that she lost her little black 
 bonnet, her handbag and her prejudice, and hasn't 
 seen the Mason and Dixon line since. 
 
 We reached the mountains of Tennessee just 
 before Christmas in 1869 and settled in a little cove 
 or valley between two great mountains. Here we 
 made headquarters until 1876. The mountain life 
 is a very peculiar one. A fellow has to live there 
 to understand the situation. Thirty odd years ago 
 the mountains surely were a rough place. We had 
 almost as great a war in 1872 and 1873 as we did in 
 1862 and 1863, when Uncle Sam was setting the 
 negroes free. In '72 and '73 he was collecting the 
 revenue on whiskey and brandy. You see we 
 mountaineers made corn whiskey for 25 cents per 
 gallon and apple brandy for 50 cents per gallon, 
 and of course when Uncle Sam came in and put a 
 revenue on corn whiskey of 50 cents and apple 
 brandy of 75 cents per gallon, when we were only 
 getting 25 cents for whiskey and 50 cents for bran 
 dy, he met a hostile people. There was war as 
 soon as the first officer arrived. Those mountain 
 eers clubbed together, and got in their old log 
 houses with their muskets and citizens' rifles. If 
 you don't think they killed men by the hundreds, 
 you ask Uncle Sam. Within five miles of our 
 house there were ten stills running day and night 
 the year round, and of course the country was 
 flooded with whiskey. The whiskey peddlers called
 
 16 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 at our door every day, and with their ox cart load 
 ed with whiskey sold it out for country pro 
 duce chickens, eggs, corn, potatoes, or anything 
 the people raised. We bought and used it like 
 milk and thought it was the remedy for every dis 
 ease known to the human family. A man couldn't 
 be born, married or die without it, and every boy 
 in the country was drunk two or three times a week., 
 and we thought nothing of it. From the time little 
 boys were ten years old they were getting drunk. 
 
 Churches or schools were almost a thing un 
 known at that time. Civilization had not then 
 reached the mountains. Railroads, steam engines, 
 buggies or carriages, and houses of lumber were 
 things unknown in my boyhood days. Our houses 
 were made of logs and the cracks between were 
 daubed with mud. Our chimneys were made of 
 sticks and mud. The floors were made of punch 
 eons, or dirt, without a window in the house. The 
 roofing was of oak boards, three or four feet long, 
 split out by hand. Our hauling was done on sleds 
 and ox carts. Our bread stuff was made at the lit 
 tle water mill down the creek, where we boys used 
 to go and stay almost all day waiting for our turn, 
 as it would take from two to three hours to grind 
 one sack of corn. "We boys would spend the time 
 in fishing, playing marbles or talking with the old 
 men. 
 
 Our clothing was homemade. Mother spun 
 and wove our clothes and made every garment we
 
 BUD ROBINSON'S MOTHER
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 17 
 
 wore by hand. I was nearly seventeen years old 
 when I saw my first sewing machine. Mother wove 
 jeans every fall to make our winter clothing, and 
 cotton checks and cottonades every spring for 
 shirts and pants. When we had shoes mother knit 
 our socks, but we were not troubled with shoes 
 often. I had only worn out about one pair when I 
 was big enough to go see the girls, and the girls in 
 the mountains of Tennessee were as bad off as we 
 boys. They did not have their little feet all 
 cramped up with shoe leather, so we just sparked 
 barefooted and had no idea we needed shoes to 
 spark in. We were all on the same platform, and 
 such a thing as going to church or Sunday school 
 never entered our heads. 
 
 I was a man with beard on my face the first 
 Sunday school I ever saw. There were but few 
 people that could read or write among the poorer 
 people, and morality was at a very low ebb. The 
 most of the young women were raising families 
 "without the incumbrance of a husband." It was 
 a very common thing when a neighbor called for 
 him to ask if "you had heard that John and Sal had 
 'took up' together." This was their style of mat 
 rimony. Without the expense of a license or a 
 preacher they just "took up together." "John 
 and Sal" might be a boy and girl, or perhaps the 
 father and mother in different families that lived in 
 the neighborhood, and they seemed to be about as 
 well respected as any body else. I have been in
 
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 homes where the mother had eleven or twelve chil 
 dren, their oldest daughter three children, the sec 
 ond daughter two, the third one child, and the 
 whole family would live in from one to two little 
 rooms, made of logs with dirt floor and from one to 
 two old bed steads, without a cooking stove. One 
 or two chairs and an old bench constituted the fur 
 niture, but any number of neighbors were pressed 
 to spend the night and often accepted the proffered 
 hospitality. Some one will say "Where on earth 
 did that crowd sleep?" Well, now reader, that is a 
 secret that belongs to us mountain folks. But if 
 you will promise never to tell anybody I will make 
 it so plain to you that you can never forget it. 
 
 Now, did you ever throw down four or five old 
 sheep skins and an old quilt or two and just see 
 how many children you could put down on them? 
 "Well," you say, "but what did they do for pil 
 lows?" Well, now friend, if you go to wanting 
 pillows you had better stay out of the mountains of 
 Tennessee. 
 
 There was but little money in circulation at 
 that time. In fact we did not need much money 
 there was little to buy in the country. The men 
 tanned their leather and made their own shoes at 
 home, the women made the clothing, and the peo 
 ple raised everything they ate. We raised corn 
 and wheat, potatoes, cabbage, fruit and berries in 
 ?reat quantities. Our hogs got fat every fall on 
 che acorns and chestnuts in the mountains, and our
 
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 'possums got fat on the persimmons. We gener 
 ally lived on 'possum most of the fall season. The 
 young man that couldn't twist a 'possum out of a 
 hollow log and dress him nice was no catch at all 
 with the mountain girls, and the boy who had a 
 good possum dog was considered first choice. And 
 I want the reader to remember now and forever 
 hereafter that in my day on the old Cumberland 
 mountains there was nothing in this world equal to 
 possum and sweet potatoes. You see, we had 
 great big fire places six or seven feet long, and we 
 would roll on a great back log two feet through, 
 put on a big forestick and then pile on a big lot of 
 little wood and just build up a log heap. We then 
 dressed the old 'possum nice, put him into an old- 
 fashioned oven, put the fire all around him and 
 bring in a peck of yellow yam potatoes, put them 
 in the fire and cover them up with hot ashes. We 
 children would sit up, tell riddles and play blind 
 fold until the old possum would get done. 
 
 Now, reader, just think of our satisfaction as 
 mother takes the lid off of the oven and we smell 
 the 'possum and see him brown and juicy in the 
 big old oven, and mother takes him out on the big 
 dish and we proceed to take out the potatoes. Of 
 course, supper is now ready, and all hands go to 
 work. We don't stop to ask a blessing. We had 
 given thanks when we had caught the 'possum. 
 
 Supper being over, such a thing as family 
 prayer never being heard of in our country, we
 
 20 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 had nothing to do but go to bed. We were not 
 troubled with getting clean sheets and pillow slips. 
 We just bring a sheep skin out of the corner and 
 spread it out before the fire and lie down, and in a 
 few minutes we were in the land of delight, and 
 dreaming some of the finest things that ever passed 
 through the mind of a mountain boy. 
 
 About this time in my life an impression was 
 made on my mind I never forgot. I went to spend 
 the night with a little boy who had a religious 
 home. When we went to eat supper the father 
 asked a blessing and waited on the table, and was 
 so nice to his wife and children. I had never seen 
 anything of that kind. I thought surely he must 
 be akin to the Lord. I had heard mother tell of 
 his goodness. After supper we children played, 
 ate apples, roasted potatoes and had a fine time 
 until bed time. Then the father told the children 
 it was time for bed. All stopped and sat down 
 quietly around the fire. The father took down the 
 family Bible, read a chapter, all got down on their 
 knees and I knelt with them. For the first time in 
 my life I was at family prayers. 
 
 The man prayed for every body, then for his 
 wife and children. Then he prayed for me, asked 
 the Lord to bless me and make me a blessing to my 
 home and a blessing to the world. It touched my 
 tittle heart. I said right then "when I got to be a 
 ooan I was going to have me a nice home, a wife 
 *nd children, and I would be kind to my wife and
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 21 
 
 children, ask a blessing at the table, read the Bible 
 and pray and let my children eat apples, play, and 
 have a nice time in my home." 
 
 Well, I thank God I have lived to see that de 
 sire that sprung up in my heart fulfilled. While I 
 am writing two of the sweetest babies on earth are 
 playing around me and pulling at my coat skirts 
 and saying "Papa, come and swing me," and their 
 mama looks on and smiles. 
 
 Now, it seemed so sad to me to go from this 
 home of kindness and family prayers back to our 
 old log cabin and hear nothing but cursing and 
 quarrelling, but such was my fate. That was in 
 1872. In that year my father died, leaving mother 
 in the mountains with ten children, but few friends 
 and no money. Bless her old soul, I don't see how 
 she lived and kept the children alive. But I re 
 member now, she would spin all day and then 
 weave until midnight. 
 
 We then began to have the real (roubles of life. 
 My two oldest brothers were getting drunk every 
 week. My two oldest sisters were keeping bad 
 company, and our old cabin was full of drunken 
 boys three or four nights in each week. The young 
 men that came to see my sisters would come so 
 drunk they could not get off of their horses, and 
 we would have to help them off when they came 
 and help them on when they left. 
 
 Now, reader, you have a faint picture of the 
 mountain life and it is not overdrawn, for our
 
 22 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 house was looked upon as one of the nicest places 
 in the community, and we struggled on in that way 
 until the fall of '76, when my mother sold out what 
 little she had there and moved to Texas. We set 
 tled in Dallas county, near Lancaster, rented a 
 farm and made a crop on the halves, the man fur 
 nishing teams, feed and farming implements. We 
 made a fine crop, but we did not know how to sell 
 cotton and get the money, for none of us boys 
 could read or write, and didn't know how to trans 
 act business. The man took advantage of our 
 ignorance and swindled us out of almost every 
 thing we made that year. 
 
 We boys then began to scatter out and leave 
 home. 1 hired out that winter to a man and worked 
 for him three years until the summer of 1880, 
 when God converted me. 
 
 I was converted on the llth of August, on 
 Wednesday, about 11 o'clock at night. That was 
 the greatest time in all my life. It is as bright and 
 clear in my mind today as if it had been but a few 
 hours ago. 
 
 Well, Glory to God for being brought in touch 
 with the Almighty. A man never forgets the first 
 time he met the Lord, and He lifts His blessed face 
 on him full of tenderness and compassion. It 
 makes an impression on him that will last through 
 out an endless eternity, and he feels his sins rolling 
 away and rivers of salvation running down out of 
 the clouds through his soul. The change is so
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 23 
 
 wonderful brought from the bottom to the top in 
 the twinkling of an eye. In a single moment he is 
 changed from a pauper to the son of God. I will 
 never forget that night. I went there without a 
 friend but mother, and a walking tramp, went back 
 an heir of God joint heir with Jesus Christ and 
 my name written in Heaven. 
 
 How wonderfully God surprises people some 
 times. I did not go to that meeting to get religion. 
 Mother persuaded me two or three days to get me 
 off and I only went there to have fun and a good 
 time, and just walked right in to salvation. Well, 
 praise the Lord forever! It was God's way to 
 reach me. Mother didn't know I had cards or an 
 old pistol, but the Lord did. 
 
 I walked about the camp ground two or three 
 days trying to get a number of boys to play cards 
 with me. But it seemed to me everybody was 
 talking about religion. This was my first trip to a 
 Methodist camp meeting. It was the old Bluff 
 Spring camp ground on the line between Dallas and 
 Ellis counties. I had been there a day or two 
 when the Christians were all sent back into the 
 congregation to pray with some one, and an old 
 lady that looked to be nearly a hundred years old 
 came back to the back bench and found me. She 
 knelt down before me and placed her hands on my 
 knee?. She asked God to stop me and not let me 
 walk right into an awful hell. She seemed to tell 
 the Lord all about me. I feel sure some one had
 
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 told her. I at first wanted to run, then I felt like 
 getting mad, and got into an awful fix. I stayed 
 through the prayer and by this time God had hold 
 of me. 
 
 That night they put up a little dried up looking 
 preacher with a short coat on to preach, and I 
 thought the whole thing would be a failure. But 
 he hadn't preached twenty minutes until he had 
 knocked every prop from under me, and I found 
 my infidelity floating away. The man I worked 
 for three years was a Universalist, and he had filled 
 my head with universalism and infidelity, but when 
 that old preacher held up Jesus Christ as the friend 
 of lost sinners and the Saviour of the world I for 
 got everything but my awful condition. I sat 
 there and wept while he preached. At the opening 
 I had set down on the back bench by a little red 
 headed girl that was a great dancer, and thought I 
 would have a nice night of it, but in a few; minutes 
 I was under such awful conviction I forgot to spark 
 the girl. When the altar call was made a great 
 many went. I sort of held back but pretty soon an 
 old preacher came down the isle and asked if 
 "there was a young man back there who wanted 
 to meet him in Heaven? If so, to come and give 
 him his hand." I thought if I ever was going to 
 do anything religious now was my time. I got up 
 and started to go and give him my hand. By the 
 time I got to the preacher I was weeping aloud, 
 and the sins of my whole life were standing up be -
 
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 fore me. I didn't stop, but went on to the altar. 
 As I went by the old man caught my hand and 
 shook it. Every step down the isle I felt like I was 
 walking right into an awful hell. The old pistol in 
 my pocket felt as big as a mule and the pack of 
 cards felt as heavy as a bale of cotton. When I 
 reached the altar it was full and I never heard 
 such weeping and praying before in all my life. 
 Somebody said "Fix this young man a seat; he is 
 deeply struck." I didn't need a seat I only need 
 ed room to fall. I fell on my face, stretched in the 
 altar. The good people gathered around me. It 
 seemed to me fifty people were praying for me. 
 You could have heard them a half mile away, and 
 I felt like I was right over hell on a broken rail and 
 would be dead and in hell in another minute, and 
 I was praying at the top of my voice for God to 
 keep me out of hell. Just about that time it seemed 
 to me that all that Heaven is or all that Heaven 
 means broke in on my soul, and I was flooded with 
 light and glory and was in a new world. 
 
 The people looked like angels. I never saw 
 such a change in people before or since. Just be 
 fore midnight I came to myself, and I was walking 
 the backs of the benches shouting and praising 
 God, and the Lord only knows what I didn't do. 
 Well, Glory to God forever. It never grows old, 
 and is always fresh and juicy. 
 
 What a step I took that night ! I stepped from 
 nothing to everything. The next morning I went
 
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 up to what they call a testimony meeting. I had 
 never seen or been in one before. One man got 
 up and told what God had done for him and how 
 he had saved him. While he was telling it I was 
 so happy I had to hold to the bench to keep down. 
 I waited for two or three to talk. Pretty soon I got 
 up to tell my experience. I got so full I felt like I 
 could ride off on the clouds. I got to hugging a 
 big post under the tabernacle, everybody got to 
 shouting. Heaven came down on earth and the 
 rejoicing lasted for hours. When the shouting 
 ceased the preacher opened the door of the church 
 and I RAN to join. He asked me what church I 
 wanted to join. I told him the kind of one he was 
 in. He said all right, and then asked me how I 
 wanted to be baptised. I asked how the other peo 
 ple wanted it done. He answered, the most of 
 them wanted the water poured on them. I told 
 him to fix me just like all the rest. So, while he 
 poured clear water on me I was shouting as loud 
 as I could, and I have hardly stopped yet. 
 
 Well, glory to God, friends ! Getting religion 
 is one of the finest things in the world. The man 
 who gets it is surely ahead. I would rather see 
 people get religion than anything I ever saw or 
 heard of in all this old world. 
 
 Then I had ten years of struggle with the old 
 man or what is called the "ups and downs" of a 
 Christian life without the fullness of Christ. 
 
 The reader will remember I was converted in
 
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 August, 1880. I received the blessing of a clean 
 heart in 1890. 
 
 Getting wholly sanctified does not mean get 
 ting religion over again, or reclamation from a 
 state of backsliding. A regenerated man is a 
 Christian, and a Christian is a child of God, but 
 vrith all that, there is something in the heart of an 
 unsanctified man that causes him a world of 
 trouble. It would be for our good and for God's 
 glory for ue to confess up and go down before God 
 and get the old man crucified. 
 
 I meet with thousands of people that claim 
 that they don't need anything afto^ conversion. I 
 am sure I did, and if you love : e like you will 
 have to love me to get to heaven, you ought to be 
 willing for me to get it as soon as possible after I 
 find out there is a something in my heart that con 
 version did not cure pride, selfishness, jealousy, 
 fretfulness, pevishness, self-will, ambition, anger, 
 wrath, malice these are some of the enemies that 
 are not cured in conversion, and I struggled with 
 this something for ten years. 
 
 Now, my friend, if you have never been trou 
 bled with any of these things since you were con 
 verted, I say, amen, to it; you have been more 
 fortunate than I. 
 
 When we used to meet at the little church or 
 school house to have our weekly prayer meetings 
 we would open up by singing, "Prone to wander, 
 Lord, I feel it," "Prone to leave the God I love."
 
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 Then some brother would be called on to lead the 
 meeting. He would throw his tobacco out of his 
 mouth and say, "let us pray," then get down on 
 his knees and say, "Oh, Lord, I am a sinner in thy 
 sight and am not worthy to take thy Holy name 
 between my sin- polluted lips. I do many things I 
 ought not to do and leave undone many things I 
 ought to do, and am a poor weak worm of the 
 dust." As he would say, "Amen!" we would 
 sing: 
 
 "Show pity, Lord; oh Lord forgive," 
 "Let a repenting rebel live." 
 
 Have another prayer and sing : 
 
 "I saw a way-worn traveler 
 In tattered garments clad, 
 
 And struggling up the mountain 
 It seemed that he was mad." 
 
 Then the leader would say, "who will be first 
 to take up his cross and tell how he is getting 
 along." Some old brother would get up and throw 
 a big chew of tabacco over in the corner and say: 
 "Well, brethren, I am like everybody else, I am 
 having my ups and downs in life; when I would do 
 good evil is present with me, and I find Jordan is a 
 hard road to travel. I have had more ups and 
 downs this week than I erer had in my life. I have 
 been mad enough to die all week, and I want all to 
 pray for me that I may hold out to the end." Then
 
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 we would sing, "Climbing up Zion's hill." And 
 the leader would say: "Now come along with 
 your testimonies, take up your cross ; who will be 
 next?" and some old sister would get up with her 
 mouth full of snuff and tell of her trials, tempta 
 tions and hardships, and not one in the crowd 
 would praise God for a thing in the world. We 
 only went there, it seemed, to be together, chew 
 tobacco, dip snuff and tell of our defeats. Not 
 one would tell of a single victory he had had. 
 
 I went on in that way several years before I 
 heard there was any better way than the one we 
 were living, but six years after my conversion, 
 Brother W. B. Godby came to our home town, 
 Alvarado, Texas, to hold a meeting. The word 
 went out over the country that he was a sanctified 
 men. We had no idea what a sanctified man look 
 ed like and, of course, everybody in the country 
 went to hear him. He preached on hell, and said 
 that all sinning religion would land the people 
 right into an awful hell, and of course war broke 
 out in the community, and you never heard such 
 tales on earth as were told on that old man. 
 
 But he never stopped or let up. He preached 
 on hell until the people screamed and held to their 
 benches. He ran the meeting a month, and over 
 two hundred and fifty were converted and sancti 
 fied. I went to hear him and thought I understood 
 the whole matter. I thought he was crazy and 
 would b in the asylum before the meeting closed.
 
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 He said we would have to give up tobacco or stay 
 out of Heaven ; that we could not go into Heaven 
 with a chew of "Star Navy" in our mouth. Circus 
 and theatre-goers and horse- racers were not on 
 the road to Heaven at all. This to us was a new 
 doctrine the idea of a man having to give up 
 tobacco and horse racing to get to Heaven! To 
 my amazement I commenced to feel like it was so 
 and to my surprise I found myself under conviction 
 for a clean heart, but by this time the meeting had 
 closed and I had to struggle on for four years 
 longer. 
 
 The next year after Mr. Godbey's meeting Mr. 
 Ben Gassaway was our pastor. The life he lived 
 and the sermons he preached sealed Bro. Godbey's 
 doctrine. The seed that was sown in my heart 
 that year kept perfectly sound for four years. The 
 devil covered the seed up with the clods of unbe 
 lief and told me every seed had rotted. 
 
 But Bless the Lord! On the 7th of June of 
 1890 a tree of perfect love sprang up from the 
 bottom of my soul with sanctification written all 
 over it, grapes and pomegranates on every limb 
 and honey dripping from the leaves. Glory to 
 God, Holiness seed never rot ! They will keep for 
 many years in any climate on earth and grow, as 
 well in poor climate as rich. That is one of the 
 peculiarities of Holiness seed. They will produce 
 an abundant harvest in the poorest soil on earth. 
 If the drought ruins the corn and the boll worm
 
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 destroys the cotton, it doesn't affect the crop of 
 Holiness at all. It grows and flourishes and yields 
 a greater crop than under any other circumstances. 
 I have seen Holiness seed in the mud just as sound 
 as a dollar and I have seen them in the dust grow 
 ing and looking as fresh and beautiful as if they 
 had been planted on the banks of a running stream. 
 When these seed get planted once in a community 
 there is no way on earth to stop it. It is like John 
 son grass it just simply takes the country. This 
 is one of the reasons the enemies of Holiness hate 
 it so bad. There is no chance to kill it out. If 
 they pull one up a dozen will come up in its place. 
 You see the thing that makes some people awful 
 n ad makes others shout. The idea of not being 
 able to kill it out nearly tickles me to death. 
 
 Well, Glory ! 
 
 There is something about getting sanctified a 
 fellow never forgets. 1 remember now the morn 
 ing I went down into my field to thin corn it was 
 on Monday morning. I had preached twice on 
 Sunday and told the people I was not sanctified, 
 but wanted to be, worse than anything on earth. 
 On Monday morning I rode over home real early, 
 turned my pony out in the pasture, put on my 
 working clothes; by that time mother had break 
 fast ready. I ate my breakfast, got my hoe and 
 went to work. 1 had not been in the fie'd long 
 until I began to preach to myself from the text :
 
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 "Follow peace with all men and holiness, without 
 which no man shall see the Lord." 
 
 I felt I must have help from the Lord or I 
 
 never could preach again. So I would pray awhile, 
 
 thin corn awhile, and then preach a little more. I 
 
 didn't get much corn thinned and while I prayed I 
 
 could hear my brothers driving their teams, and 
 
 their cultivators rattling as they plowed cotton, 
 
 but finally I got to the place where I did not hear 
 
 anything that was going on about, only the Devil 
 
 telling me I never would get the blessing. At last 
 
 I got up and stood with my hoe in my hand. My 
 
 hoe was the last thing I turned loose. I have 
 
 never been troubled with a hoe from that day till 
 
 this. About the time I turned my hoe loose the 
 
 Lord came very near me and it seemed I could 
 
 hardly stand on the earth, the Lord was drawing 
 
 so near me I could feel his presence. He just 
 
 emptied me of everything and as burning power 
 
 went through me and emptied me of everything. 
 
 I could see salvation rolling over the cornfield; 
 
 it seemed to me I could see God's face shining on 
 
 the corn blades the corn was up in swab tassel, 
 
 and all over the corn seemed to be rivers of grace, 
 
 and as the Lord went through me and took things 
 
 out of my heart I did not know was in it, I felt that 
 
 there was nothing in the world left of me, and & 
 
 peace that passes understanding flowed into my 
 
 heart the deepest, sweetest peace I had ever 
 
 known, it just satisfied every craving of the mind
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 33 
 
 and every longing of the soul ; the waves became 
 so great that I fell down and lay stretched out on 
 the ground, while tidal waves of grace and billow* 
 of glory flowed through my whole being. Indeed 
 it is the fullness of joy the soul rest the full 
 assurance perfect love the baptism with the 
 Holy Ghost the destruction of the old man or, 
 the Second Blessing. 
 
 Well, Amen ! 
 
 For eleven long, weary years of toil and pain 
 and disappointment at times without money and 
 no bread in the house, and thinly clad, my body 
 undergoing the most excruciating pain it is possi 
 ble for a man to pass through and live. Five hun 
 dred times my arms have been pulled out of joint 
 and puHed back into place, suffering with paralysis 
 in my right side, at times my lungs bleeding, sub 
 ject to epileptic fits, but God is witness for these 
 eleven years I have never had one doubt about the 
 goodness and mercy of God and His power to save, 
 sanctify and keep. 
 
 I believe every word of the Bible is true, and 
 that God loves me. Jesus died for me and the 
 Blessed Holy Ghost abides with me, the angels are 
 watching over me, and, glory to God, some sweet 
 day I am going to meet Jesus in the clouds, and 
 live with him forever. 
 
 In 1896 I was wonderfully healed by the Lord, 
 and run for five years without a break and almost 
 without a pain, but last year, 1901, I gave out. The
 
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 dear Lord warned me almost every day for six weeks 
 that I was working too hard, to stop and take a 
 rest, but I did not heed his voice. I broke down 
 and my old trouble returned. I have had four 
 attacks in the last fifteen months, and I am at 
 home now resting, praying and loving God and 
 every human being on earth. I feel just now that 
 there is room in my heart for every poor struggling 
 ?on of Adam in our land. I never had more faith 
 in God than I have today. I believe I will soon be 
 strong enough to go on with my work. I feel like 
 God will let me stay here and love people for many 
 years yet. If he does not, wouldn't it be fine to have 
 the blessed privilege of moving to Heaven . Just 
 think of a man coming from poverty, ignorance, 
 disgrace, pain, misery and woe getting into the 
 chariot and riding through the skies, and sitting 
 down on the banks of the river of life. Now, I 
 earnestly ask every saint of God that reads this 
 book to talk to the Lord about my health. I be 
 lieve if I live a few years longer, I can love God 
 and the people better and can be a greater blessing 
 to the world than I have ever been. 
 
 I only want my health for God's glory if it is 
 not for my good and His glory I don't want to have 
 it. I don't mind the suffering in the least, there is 
 something about a pain in the head or back that 
 makes a fellow feel that he is a dependent being 
 upon an independent God. Without pain we would 
 not know how frail the human family was nor how
 
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 great God is. You sometimes see a strong, well 
 man walking down the streets of the city filling his 
 stomach with liquor, and pouring out his profanity 
 on God's 'pure air, and swearing he can whip his 
 weight in wildcats; poor fellow, he is blinded by 
 the devil and led captive at his will. But bless the 
 Lord, before sundown a severe pain strikes him in 
 the stomach, and in a few minutes his eyes are 
 opened and he sees his awful condition and goes 
 to calling on God for mercy and asking his friends 
 to pray for him. If you had stopped the fellow on 
 the sidewalk and told him God loved him and that 
 you were praying for him, he would have made 
 fun of you to your face, but thank God, we can 
 never get out of the bow shot of our blessed Heav 
 enly Father, and sometimes the way God can have 
 mercy on us is to let an arrow fly and strike us in 
 the side. How we look up into the face of our lov 
 ing Father and say "what is the matter?" and God 
 replies "If I had not let an arrow fly at you, you 
 would have been in hell in less than a month." 
 Just think of it, if there were no more deathbed 
 scenes, pain or poverty, for the next one hundred 
 years think of not another grave dug no man 
 suffering or seeing his loved ones die or suffer, to 
 what extent would the whiskey element and the 
 tobacco factories run. Think of the brothels run 
 ning day and night without any fear of death or 
 sickness, with the luxuries of life piled up around 
 them. Think of how the people of this country
 
 36 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 would strut, boast and brag, and curse God to His 
 face, defy heaven, burn down churches and make 
 fun of religion. 
 
 I tell you, friends, if God did not put on the 
 breaks it would not be long until the D. Ds. of 
 this country would have to acknowledge that man 
 was totally depraved, and his heart deceitful above 
 all things and desperately wicked. 
 
 When God gives you a threshing you should 
 be very thankful, for he will have to beat off the 
 chaff and burn up the straw before he can gather 
 the wheat into the garner.
 
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 PART FIRST 
 
 RAMBLING THOUGHTS. 
 
 The reason your head don't rattle, my friend, 
 is because you have lost the seed out. Don't you 
 understand? 
 
 A friend came to me not long since and said : 
 "Brother Bud, my religious joy has all leaked 
 out. What is my trouble?" "My!" I said, "My 
 friend, you keep your mouth open all the time." 
 She said "Thank you, sir," and I said "you are 
 welcome." 
 
 The preacher that can't do anything but turn 
 summersets in the big dipper, shave the man in 
 the moon, and cut off his hair, is a failure. 
 
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 The preacher that comes down out of the syca 
 more tree and receives the Lord joyfully is a great 
 success. 
 
 Why will a preacher spend his time in staking 
 out claims on Jupiter and Venus, when the Bible 
 describes two other countries and says we are 
 going to one or the other of them. 
 
 The preacher who is constantly spitting out 
 Greek roots, Latin verbs and Hebrew phrases is 
 seldom ever seen with grape hulls in his beard or 
 the juice on his face. 
 
 The twin brothers of the Bible: "It shall be 
 done" and "It came to pass," you find one on 
 every page one on one page the other one on the 
 other. 
 
 The promises of the Bible are very large; you 
 can lie down and stretch out on them and you 
 can't kick the foot board, scratch the head board 
 nor touch the railing 1 on either side. 
 
 In looking at the promises of the Bible you 
 think of an apple orchard on a hillside hanging 
 full of ripe fruit; the wind blows them off, they roll 
 down the hill you have nothing to do but to pick 
 them up and go on eating and praising the Lord.
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 39 
 
 The Lord said "The cattle on a thousand hills 
 are mine," and I said, "Yes, Lord, and all the 
 potatoes in the hills." He said, "Buddie, do you 
 want potatoes?" I said, "Yes, Lord." He said, 
 "Go to scratching." I said, "Lord, just watch me 
 scratch," and when he looked at me it almost 
 tickled me to death. 
 
 I am standing on the promises, walking in His 
 footprints, leaning on His everlasting arms and 
 drinking from the fountain that never runs dry. 
 
 When I was a sinner God frowned on me ; in 
 my justified life He smiled on me; but, in my 
 sanctified life He laughs all over my soul. 
 
 When I was a sinner I lived on bread and mo 
 lasses; when I got converted the Lord said your 
 bread and water shall be sure, and threw in streak 
 ed bacon ; but since He sanctified me He sets me 
 in a glass cupboard and pitches red apples at me 
 till I laugh myself to sleep. 
 
 Where is the headquarters of a sanctified man? 
 Why, in the vineyard of the Lord, of course. 
 
 What is the description of a sanctified man? 
 He has a level head, a sweet spirit, a big soul, a 
 loving 1 disposition and a good heart.
 
 40 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 The blessing of sanctification doesn't make an 
 A. M. graduate out of a fellow, but it does enable 
 him to make the best use possible of the sense 
 he's got. 
 
 You can tell a sanctified tnan anywhere you see 
 him he has grape hulls in his beard, the juice all 
 over his face and his pockets full of pomegranates. 
 
 If the Lord is your shepherd then you are the 
 Lord's sheep, and he has a perfect right to shear 
 you any time he needs wool, and you have no 
 right to bleat. 
 
 What a sad sight God's lamb in the devil's 
 cocklebur patch with his wool full of cockleburs. 
 
 The religion of Jesus Christ is the principles of 
 God the Father. If you claim it you ought to live 
 as you think he would if he were in your place. 
 
 "When I was a preacher boy I use to tell my 
 congregation that I was going to preach to their 
 hearts. I thought then their hearta were very soft, 
 but I have now changed my tactics and preach to 
 their heads, for I have found out that men's heads 
 are much softer than their hearts. 
 
 If we can fill a man's head full of gospel truth
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 41 
 
 it will soak down into his heart and break out on 
 his face and change his whole life. 
 
 A young Baptist preacher told me once that 
 bapto and bap tiazo meant to dip and to plunge. 
 I was a plow- boy and very hungry. I told him if 
 he could show me that gravie, gravi and gravo 
 were the Greek words for good table sop I was a 
 candidate. He just twisted his moustache and 
 went on. You see I wasn't a Greek scholar. 
 
 A POINT ON TOTAL DEPRAVITY. 
 
 An old lady in the mountains of old Tennessee 
 was fixing one morning to ge and spend the day 
 with a sick neighbor, and before leaving home she 
 called up the children: Your mother has to go to 
 wait on a sick woman today and I wont get back 
 till night, and if you children go up stairs and look 
 in the old chest and get out my pumpkin seed and 
 eat them up, and if you look up over the east win 
 dow and take down my poke of striped seed 
 beans and cram your noses full, when I come back 
 here tonight I will beat your heads till they are as 
 soft as pumpkins. She got on her old pacing 
 pony and went down the road raising the dust. It 
 will suffice to say, that when she came in that 
 night every pumpkin seed had been eaten up and 
 every bean had been planted deep in the noggins
 
 42 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 of those mountain boys. Shame on the man that 
 denies total depravity. 
 
 Common sense religion means to manufacture 
 sunshine and smiles and give them to a lost world. 
 
 The man that is looking into the loving face of 
 Jesus Christ never sees the dark side of life. To 
 him there is but one side, and that is always bright. 
 
 The man that has God for his Father, and 
 Jesus Christ for his Saviour, the Holy Ghost for 
 his abiding comforter and the redeemed saints of 
 all the ages for his brothers and sisters, the angels 
 for his companions and Heaven for his eternal 
 home, thank God, his fortune is made. 
 
 The man that prays louder with a spell of the 
 cramp colic than he does at family prayers would 
 bo uneasy at the judgment. 
 
 There are 66 books in the Bible, 1,189 chap 
 ters, 31,173 verses, 773,746 words, 3,566,480 letters, 
 and every book, chapter, verse, word and letter is 
 an index finger pointing to the Christ of Prophecy, 
 the Christ of Bethlehem, the Christ of Calvary, 
 and, thank God, the Christ that walked off from 
 Mt. Olivet on the clouds, saying, "Goodbye, boys; 
 1 am going to prepare a place for you, ani if I go
 
 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 43 
 
 and prepare a place for you I will come again and 
 receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye 
 may be also." Do you wonder they stood looking 
 up into the clouds? Why, praise the Lord, no! 
 
 The difference between us and the Lord is, the 
 Lord came to see us and we made him pay his tax 
 we went to see him and he paid ours. Bless His 
 dear name! See the difference? The sinner 
 doesn't serve God at all The regenerated man 
 serves God through a sense of duty. The sancti 
 fied man serves God through a sense of love. See 
 the difference? Which crowd are you running 
 with, my friend. 
 
 The man that is a stockholder in the clouds 
 surely walks on earth and lives in Heaven. Did 
 you hear what Paul said about it? He said, "For 
 our conversation is in Heaven from whence we 
 look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ." 
 Don't you see if your conversation is in Heaven 
 you must live there? 
 
 See that man there squirting tobacco juice out 
 of his mouth? He says he is chewing his cud. 
 Well, hear what Moses says about it: "Any 
 animal that chews his cud that has not got a forked 
 hoof is unclean." 
 
 See the man coming down the street sucking at
 
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 the end of an old pipe stem? you can smell him 
 fifty yards. As he goes by I think of the words of 
 a young woman who said, "Lord, by this time he 
 stinketh." 
 
 Did you see that young man on the side walk, 
 with a roll of brown paper in his mouth, one end of 
 it on fire and something blue coming out of his 
 nose? Yes! What in the world is his trouble? 
 Why, he has bad thoughts, bad dreams and bad 
 conduct, and he is trying to purify his brains. It 
 is generally supposed he has the hollow head. 
 Oh, my! What a disease! 
 
 When a man has gold he is a gold standard 
 man, when he has silver he is a free silver man, 
 when he has greenbacks he is a greenbacker, and 
 when he is broke he is a "pop." Bless the Lord! 
 I am a prohibition er. 
 
 Money is the cheapest thing in the world. I 
 suppose it is because it keeps such bad company. 
 
 Somehow you always associate money and 
 politics together. They are sort o* like the sun and 
 moon one rules by day and the other by night. 
 
 The blessing of sanctification will not keep you 
 from snoring in your sleep, but bless the Lord, it 
 will cause you to wake np in a good humor.
 
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 If a man gets into a drunken row, and a bar 
 tender throws a beer bottle across the bar and 
 knocks one of his eyes out, and in after years we 
 get him converted and sanctified, the blessing of 
 sanctification will not put his eye back, but it will 
 onable him to wake up in the morning of the resur 
 rection with two eyes as bright as twenty dollar 
 gold pieces. 
 
 The man is a great success that can take the 
 material he has on hand and succeed with it. But 
 you say "I havn't got anything to start with." 
 Well, who in the world did have? Don't you 
 remember when you were born you had nothing 
 but your little red skin ? 
 
 The salvation that Jesus Christ purchased for 
 a lost world is wonderful in its magnitude. It is as 
 deep as fallen humanity, as broad as the compas 
 sion of God, as high as Heaven and as everlasting 
 as the eternal Rock of Ages. 
 
 Oh, this great salvation! It justifies freely, 
 sanctifies wholly, cleanses thoroughly and keeps 
 sweetly. 
 
 This great salvation is knowable, feelable, 
 enjoyable, livable, but not explainable. 
 
 What a delusion a man is under! See him in
 
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 a fit of anger, he thinks he has lost his temper, but 
 you can see he hasn't, for it is hung up all over 
 his face. Any thing that is lost is out of sight. 
 Don't you catch on? But he says, "I feel like I 
 have lost something." Well, you have, my brother 
 it is your religion. Now look into your heart 
 and see. 
 
 My friend, if you are troubled with wrinkles on 
 your face, let the Lord wipe his hands on your 
 heart a few times, and when you look at your face 
 you will be surprised, and won't know it, and will 
 wonder where it came from. Why, from Heaven, 
 of course. 
 
 I said to my congregation one morning: "My 
 friends, I am glad to inform you that I have at last 
 located your trouble. It is just below your collar 
 bone and a little to the left of your stomach." A 
 man spoke up and said, "Is it heart failure?" I 
 said, "Oh, no. When you see a man gritting his 
 teeth, slamming doors, knocking down chairs and 
 pulling his hair, you know his heart hasn't failed. 
 He is suffering with carnality. 
 
 If conversion and sanctification don't keep a 
 man sweet, get him to the altar as quick as possible, 
 and get him to get religion, it will have a wonderful 
 effect on him.
 
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 I am in the Holiness move forever, but let's 
 give the devil his dues. Soured Holiness is the 
 worst form of religion I ever saw, and, my friend, 
 if you are troubled with it, it will kill you if you 
 don't get rid of it. 
 
 When God sanctifies a preacher he winds him 
 up, sets him on fire and starts him to running, and 
 he has nothing to do but to unwind, shine and 
 shout. 
 
 Four things are needful to understand the 
 scriptures. 1st. Find out who is doing the talking. 
 2nd. Who he is talking to. 3rd. What he is talk 
 ing about. 4th. Believe he meant just what he 
 said, and the problem is solved. 
 
 Christ said, "I will nake you fishers of men." 
 Well, thank God I If we tarry for the induement 
 of power and get our pentecost, pentecostal preach 
 ing will catch the fish and clean them after they 
 are caught. The trouble with our churches is in 
 our revivals. We catch and string the fish and 
 don't get them cleaned and they spoil on our hands. 
 You see it is one thing to catch the fish and another 
 thing to clean him. 
 
 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO WOMEN. 
 When you see a woman full of sin, fashion,
 
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 pride and the devil, the first thought that comes to 
 your mind is, "Has she got a pretty face?" But 
 when you meet with a woman with clean hands and 
 a pure heart, who hath not lifted up her soul to 
 vanity, nor sworn deceitfully, you never think of 
 her face, but look at the beautiful life, and as she 
 goes by you take off your hat and put it under your 
 arm and feel like you are standing on holy ground. 
 
 Tf a man's mind is located in his head, then 
 some men's heads are nothing but a garbage box, 
 and his mouth a second class sewerage. How dis 
 gusting he is. When you meet with such a fellow 
 you feel like you needed a good bath and a few 
 hours sleep. 
 
 The first debt I owe this country is a good man ; 
 the second, a good husband; the third, a good 
 father; the fourth, a good neighbor, and if God 
 will furnish the grace I will furnish the man. "For 
 ye are workers together with him." See the Bible. 
 
 That old adage "If at first you don't succeed, 
 try, try again," I never did like, for the way to 
 succeed is to suck 'till you get the seed. Hear St. 
 John on this seed business: "For whosoever is 
 born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed 
 remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is 
 born of God." You see, God furnishes the seed
 
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 and you have nothing to do but suck. Well, Glory ! 
 Isn't that fine? 
 
 A sanctified man has a shining face, an easy 
 conscience, and a light heart, and is as bold as a 
 lion, as patient as an ox, as swift as an eagle, as 
 wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove, as gentle 
 as a lamb, and as sweet as honey. If you were to 
 slap his jaws you would get honey all over your 
 hand, and as you walked away you would feel 
 something sticky on your hand. Lick it off and 
 get under conviction, and come back to see what 
 ailed him, and find out it was perfect love. 
 
 But you say there is nobody that can live 
 where you live and live a sanctified life. Well, I 
 believe it, because you are living in the kingdom 
 of sin. Move over into the kingdom of grace and 
 you will talk different. But you say, "I never saw 
 one that lived it." Well, my neighbor, that proves 
 that you have been keeping awful bad company. 
 If you will change crowds you will see things quite 
 different. 
 
 It would be a great business transaction for me 
 to die, for my Heavenly father has insured me for 
 more than I am worth, and I can only collect the 
 policy by exchanging the cross for my crown. 
 Hallelujah, Amen!
 
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 The fellow that says he is sanctified will have 
 no trouble in establishing the fact if he can show 
 the fruit. To illustrate : An Irishman was on trial 
 in one of our county courts. The county judge 
 said to him, "Are you a married man?" The 
 Irishman never opened his mouth, but proceeded to 
 take off his hat, and showed a scar on the side of 
 his head that looked something like a fire shovel. 
 The judge said, "I accept the evidence; you may 
 stand aside." He showed the fruit. 
 
 A physician with eczema on his ankles is never 
 without a call, and his services are in constant 
 demand the year round, and he is never without 
 employment. It is so easy for him to fulfil the 
 scripture where it says, "What your hand finds to 
 do, do it with all your might." 
 
 The way to make a success of life when you 
 meet with a disappointment is just drop the letter 
 "d" and put **h" instead, and then see what it 
 spells H-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-M-E-N-T. Well, 
 Bless the Lord! Don't you see that puts you in 
 regular succession. 
 
 The man is a great success in this life that can 
 gather up sunshine all day and spread it out on the 
 fly leaves of his brain pan, and come in at night, 
 unfold the leaves and show it to his wife and babies.
 
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 The young woman that knows how to pray, run 
 a sewing machine, cook stove, washboard, flat iron 
 and milk the cow, never jumps head-first into the 
 river, because she has an easy conscience and a 
 light heart, and with a smile on her face she goes 
 on turning everything she touches into sunshine. 
 
 But the young woman that can't do anything 
 but look pretty, wear fine clothes, put on perfumery 
 and dead birds and flirt with a little fellow blowing 
 blue smoke out of his nose and driving a livery rig, 
 she soon becomes disgusted with the world and 
 worse with herself, life becomes a burden and a 
 drag. She decides to end her miserable existence 
 by jumping head-first into the river. She is 
 dragged out the second day, buried the third, and 
 by the fourth she is forgotten, because she did 
 nothing to bless the world while she lived in it. 
 
 If thick milk is clabber, then your cow is a 
 clabber sprout, and when you milk your cow, 
 properly speaking, you are juicing your clabber 
 sprout. 
 
 The most disgusting thing I ever saw was a 
 man standing on a street corner, with blood -shot- 
 ten eyes, a red nose, a bloated face, and a big 
 stomach on him, sucking at an old pipe, with the 
 smell of strong drink on his breath, and dirty
 
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 clothes on his body, talking about the "Mistakes 
 of Moses" and the "Failures of Christianity." 
 
 I have seen cows with tongues long enough to 
 lick their calves through the crack of the fence. 
 "Well," you say, "that is a mighty long tongue." 
 Yes, but I have seen longer tongues than that. I 
 have seen people that could sit in their own parlor 
 and lick their neighbors all around the country. 
 They would make you think of a wagon they 
 need a breast yoke to hold their tongue up. 
 
 Two of the most unnatural looking things in the 
 world: One is a backslidden preacher; the other 
 is a long-tailed mule. The mule needs shearing, 
 and the preacher has been sheared. See the Bible : 
 "And while he slept, with his head on her lap they 
 sheared off his locks." 
 
 The reason why I had rather be a dog than a 
 mean white man: The dog licks his own mouth, 
 but a mean man licks his wife. 
 
 The religion that is full of juice is full of teeth 
 and a religion with teeth in it will bite, and if it 
 bites it will get hold of somebody and they will 
 holler, and when a fellow hollers you have him 
 located and you know where to work.
 
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 A juiceless religion is toothless, lifeless, power 
 less, and dead. A dead religion was hatched out 
 of the old nest egg from under the mudsill of per 
 dition, and was one of the first broods that Split- 
 foot hatched off. I don't know how long he set on 
 the nest but I am sure he hatched every egg he set 
 on. A dead religion has cursed the church, 
 wrecked the faith and blasted the hopes of multi 
 plied millions of the sons and daughters of Adam. 
 
 The most people seem to think they have the 
 worst neighbors in the world, and think they could 
 be very happy if they only lived somewhere else ; 
 but, my friend, that is a mistake. The trouble is 
 not always with the other fellow. It is not the 
 place you are in that makes you happy, but the 
 condition that you are in. It is not what your 
 neighbors say about you ; it is what God knows you 
 to be. If you stand well at headquarters, you can 
 get down on your knees by your fireside and shake 
 hands with the Lord. Glory to God! And of 
 course you can shake hands with every neighbor 
 you have, and rivers of salvation will run down out 
 of the clouds and break in on your soul, and you 
 will love God with a perfect heart and your neigh 
 bor as yourself. And then, my brother, you won't 
 want to move, for you will have the best neighbors 
 in the world, and you just can't afford to leave 
 them. But you say, "Brother Bud, how do you
 
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 know that?" Well, I know it because I have tried 
 it. 
 
 If we were not totally depraved why would we 
 be ashamed of a small head, a big foot, or a wart 
 on the nose? The majority of the people of today 
 are wearing shoes at least two numbers too small 
 for them. The most of us are ashamed to go into 
 a business house and call for a pair of shoes large 
 enough. They tell us that the Chinese women put 
 their babies' feet in an iron shoe, and we send 10 
 cents to China to enlighten the heathen and spend 
 25 cents at home for corn medicine. We send 
 missionaries to teach them not to drown their baby 
 girls, while we enlightened, educated Christians of 
 America destroy our children before they are born. 
 Oh, my friend! which side of the creek is the 
 heathen on? If we were straight up and right 
 down, and up right, down right, in right, out 
 right and all right we would not be ashamed of 
 anything but sin. The man that denies total 
 depravity shows that "the trail of the serpent" is 
 over him still. 
 
 When a religious woman loses her temper, 
 slams the doors, kicks the chairs over and slaps 
 her baby boy on the side of the head and says to 
 him, "You stinking rascal, you are just like that 
 old daddy of yours," as the baby goes around the
 
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 corner of the table snubbing, she says, "You 
 would provoke the angels; you have aggravated 
 your mother this morning until I am so nervous I 
 can't control myself." You see, ehe calls it ner 
 vousness, when the long and the short of it was, 
 the old lion just got up and shook himself, and of 
 course he shook the woman too. See Isaiah 
 35 :8-9- 10. And when her husband, who is a pillar 
 in the church and a member of the official board, 
 gets mad and does and says things that a respect 
 able sinner ought not to do, and says he calls it 
 positiveness, and says, "I always was of a very 
 positive make-up; my neighbors and friends never 
 did understand me." Well, the reason we don't 
 understand you, my brother, is because you claim 
 to be a Christian and live like a sinner. If you will 
 bring your life up to your profession it will be no 
 trouble for you to make your neighbors understand 
 you. The Bible says, "Ye shall know them by 
 their fruit." It is a fearful thing to see a man and 
 his wife controlled by the carnal mind. One call 
 ing it nervousness and the other calling it positive - 
 ness. What will their children call it? 
 
 The way to get along well with your neighbor 
 is to keep the rat hole in your noggin closed. 
 
 Ic takes less religion to criticize than anything 
 else in the world. I have tried it, and when a
 
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 fellow tries and proves anything he knows what he 
 is talking about. 
 
 There is such a hollow sound about what a 
 fellow says when he keeps his head open all the 
 time. It sounds a great deal like a boy beating on 
 a barrel with the bunghole open. Why don't he 
 bring his tongue in out of the weather and shut 
 his mouth? 
 
 St. Paul was greatly troubled with a fellow he 
 called "Alexander the Coppersmith." I see some 
 marks of similarity between Paul and myself. I 
 have been bothered with that same fellow. I notice 
 he is still a great drawback to the churches. When 
 I see the collectors coming back with only a few 
 pennies in the hat, I know Alex, is on hand. 
 When a man puts in a copper when he should put 
 in 5, 10, 25 or 50 cents, he is an Alexander Cop 
 persmith. Alex, has a mighty following today. 
 
 When I was in New England an infidel attacked 
 me for preaching that there was a hell. He told 
 me Lyman Abbott had proved there was no hell. 
 I said to him, "Now, my friend, who on earth did 
 he prove that by? He didn't prove it by me; he 
 never even consulted me about it." He looked at 
 me perfectly surprised and said, "Are you the 
 cowboy preacher from Texas?" I said, "Yes, I
 
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 came from Texas and I have seen cows out there." 
 He said, "We don't need such preachers as you 
 here. You ought to go to Chicago. Don't you 
 know we have the brainiest men and women in the 
 world here. I can produce fifty thousand of the 
 brainiest men and women of the City of Boston of 
 my faith." I said to him, "Yes, you have more 
 brains and less manhood than any gang I ever 
 saw fifty thousand of you going in a solid platoon 
 to a yawning, gaping, burning hell, where the 
 devil will pour salty damnation down you. He will 
 set you in a corner for a slop tub. You will be a 
 laughing stock for the devil and his imps through 
 out an endless eternity." He answered, "Why, 
 young man, if you could convince me there was a 
 hell I would cancel my engagements to lecture 
 against Christianity." I said, "My brother, I can't 
 convince you. The Bible says, 'The fool hath 
 said in his heart there is no God.' The probabili 
 ties are that you will never get your eyes open 
 until, like the rich man the scripture mentions, you 
 lift up your eyes in hell, being in torment, and you 
 will want to send missionaries back to preach to 
 the Bostonites, but God won't let you." 
 
 Why will a preacher go into the pulpit on 
 Sunday morning and read an essay on Socrates, 
 Cioero or the Queen of England, when he knows it 
 is as dry as Texas wind and as empty as a last
 
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 years' bird's nest? He knows it won't convict 
 sinners, convert mourners, sanctify believers or 
 build up the church. Such preaching never makes 
 a man cry, laugh, mad or shout. In fact, it won't 
 even keep his congregation awake. While he 
 turns the pages of his manuscript many in his 
 congregation have moved to the land of Nod, and 
 the official board have consulted napper two or 
 three times and report everything running smooth 
 ly, no excitement, wild- fire, or fanaticism, but the 
 church in a prosperous condition and a bright 
 outlook for the future. 
 
 It matters not how many business houses close 
 or how many men are thrown out of work, there is 
 one class of people who are never without a job 
 that is the faultfinder and the chronic grumbler. 
 They have a job the year round, and they stick to 
 their bush. 
 
 I had rather be a poor rich man than a rich 
 poor man. A poor rich man has no money but 
 plenty of salvation. A rich poor man has plenty 
 of money but no grace. 
 
 I heard a man one day butcher up his neigh 
 bors. I sat and meditated as he paraded their 
 faults and weaknesses before me. The next day
 
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 the same man heard me preach. He came up with 
 a big grin all over his face and said, "Bro. Bud, 
 you surely butcher up the English language, old 
 boy." I said, "Yes, that's what people tell on me, 
 but it is so much easier on a man's conscience to 
 butcher up the English language than to butcher 
 up his neighbor." And he was like "a sheep 
 before her shearers dumb, so he opened not his 
 mouth." 
 
 It is wonderful how the Lord at times and 
 under some circumstances can use such peculiar 
 means to bless his people. I remember one morn 
 ing, on one of our leading camp grounds of Texas, 
 we were having a testimony meeting. A man got 
 up and told a long, dry experience, and as he sat 
 down the thought came into my mind, and I said, 
 "My friends, that is a Texas long horn." As I 
 said it a little woman jumped up and told a red hot 
 experience full of juice and fire, with a shining 
 face and her little hand raised to Heaven. The 
 Spirit seemed to fill me and I jumped up on the 
 platform and said, "Glory to God, that is a short 
 horn." As I looked at the great congregation I 
 said, "This woman did not give us a herd of cattle, 
 but a pitcher of cream," and it seemed the Spirit 
 swept down in great waves and rolled over the 
 people till they leaped, shouted, jumped benches 
 and hugged each other. Sinners wept aloud and
 
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 ran to the altar, and it seemed to us that rivers of 
 full salvation were rolling over the camp ground. 
 A big fellow jumped up on a bench and said, 
 "Where did you get that?" I said, "From the 
 Lord, I guess, for I never had it before." 
 
 There is something very peculiar about the 
 grace of God. When a man gets under conviction 
 it is up to his ankles, when he repents it is knee 
 deep, when he exercises a living faith it is up to 
 his loins, when he is converted it is over his head, 
 when he is sanctified he has grace to swim in, and 
 when he is glorified he goes to flying. Well, 
 Glory ! Isn't it grand? 
 
 Christ said he was in the world and the world 
 was made by him, and the world knew him not. 
 He also taught that his followers are to be in the 
 world and yet not of the world, for he said, "I have 
 taken you out of the world, for the world will love 
 its own and them only." So you see, friend, if 
 you keep out of the world you will get into Heaven 
 and if you keep out of Heaven you will get into 
 Hell, so our only hope is to take the scriptural 
 route. In regeneration God takes us out of the 
 world ; in sanctification he takes the world out of 
 us. 
 
 The religion of Jesus Christ is just good com-
 
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 mon sense, that's all. If you have got it you are 
 a sensible man, that's all. If you havn't got it, 
 you havn't got good common sense, that's all. 
 (Prov. 1:7). If you havn't got it you are on the 
 road to hell that's all. 
 
 I have known a man to say things to his wife 
 that almost broke her heart, and not have man 
 hood enough to apologize to her. A week after he 
 goes to town and gats her a cheap calico dress 
 only paying a nickel a yard for it brings it home 
 and throws it down in her lap. He is trying to 
 patch up a broken heart with calico. Friend, it 
 won't work that way. You can't heal a wound 
 with dry goods. It isn't calico taat woman wants 
 it's a HUSBAND. 
 
 Paul says in Romans 5:20, "More over the 
 law entered, that the offence might abound. But 
 where sin abounded grace did much more abound." 
 The contrast, you see, is between grace and sin, 
 and Paul declares that God has a greater quantity 
 of grace than the devil has of sin. God has abun 
 dance of grace and the devil has a meagre supply 
 of sin. He is scattering it profusely over this 
 country at present, but the day is not far in the 
 future when he will not be allowed to put a foot in 
 our beautiful land. My Blessed Christ will bring 
 the angels and they will chain him and lead him
 
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 away and shut him up in his dark pit. But thank 
 God, grace will roll on like a mighty ocean forever. 
 Well, Glory to God, it makes me just shout to 
 think of it! It is the finest thing in this world. 
 This is not a vain delusion of mine, but God says 
 it is so, and I will believe it or die. Hallelujah! 
 The real meaning of the text is just this: The 
 supply is greater than the demand, or the plaster 
 is larger than the sore. If you have a piece of sin 
 on you as big as my hand, God has a piece of grace 
 as big as a bed quilt to spread over it. Well, 
 Glory ! Or to make it real plain : If the country 
 in which you live has a blotch on it as big as a mud 
 hole in the road, God has a piece of grace as big as 
 a 640 acre farm to cover it up with. Sin is limited, 
 grace is not. Sin is the offspring of the devil. 
 Grace is the offspring of God. Sin can't rise any 
 higher than its fountain head and we know that 
 is hell. Grace can rise as high as its fountain 
 head, and that is in Heaven, and, thank God, 
 Heaven is above hell. God is greater in his 
 resources than the devil is in his. In proof of the 
 fact. Sin will make a man curse. Grace will 
 make him shout. Sin makes him hate his neigh 
 bor. Grace makes him love his neighbor as him 
 self. Sin is degrading to manhood. Grace is 
 elevating. Sin will take a nice sweet boy out of 
 you home, put him down in slumdom and put him 
 to feeding the devil's hogs and rea,lly put him be-
 
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 low the brute family. Grace will go down there, 
 get that boy and bring him out, wash him up, put 
 clean clothes on him and make one of the most 
 respectable young gentlemen in the country out of 
 him. This proves that the resources of grace are 
 inexhaustable. 
 
 I will make it plainer than that. 
 
 Now just hold your head open a minute and 
 listen while I talk. I remember doing a day's 
 work for the devil. I worked hard all day. I ate 
 yellow corn bread and pumpkin and drank water 
 out of a mud hole and slept on straw, dreamed of 
 dying and going to hell, fought with devils all 
 night and waked next morning tired and weary. I 
 thought my liver was out of fix and I needed a 
 dose of Carter's little liver pills. What a delu 
 sion! 
 
 I remember doing another day's work. I did 
 not work as hard as I did the first day. I preach 
 ed three times, rode to church in a fine carriage, I 
 had sirloin steak, graham toast, and celery, jersey 
 butter, Irish potatoes mashed up with butter, a 
 bowl of strawberries by my plate and plenty of 
 rich jersey milk; at night I rolled about on goose 
 feathers under blankets made of real sheep wool, 
 dreamed of beautiful mountains, rivers, rainbows, 
 lovely cities and angels, awoke next morning with 
 my heart and liver both clean and nice. I felt 
 perfectly rested and knew that while I slept the
 
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 angels had been fanning me with the breezes of 
 heaven. I wanted to put one arm around Jesus 
 Christ and the other around tne whole world and 
 bring them together. As I was fixing to start the 
 next morning the preacher in charge of the church 
 where I had preached, put three five- dollar bills in 
 my hand and said, "May God be with you, my 
 brother, you have been a great blessing to me and 
 my people. I am sorry we have so little on hand 
 for you this morning." 
 
 Now, reader, if you can't see a difference be 
 tween these two days' work you couldn't see 
 through a hogshead with both heads knocked out. 
 
 There are many different ways of getting an 
 income; mine comes through my mouth and goes 
 the same way. A man's mouth is a fortune or a 
 misfortune, owing to the use you put it to and who 
 you use it for. A clean mouth, consecrated to 
 God, may bless the world a hundred years after 
 you are dead. God said open thy mouth wide and 
 I will fill it. 
 
 I have met so many people in my travels who 
 told me they hated their neighbors' ways awful 
 bad but loved his soul, I always feel a little bit un 
 easy about him. I am persuaded if you will boil 
 down your hatred, skim it and analize the skim-
 
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 mings you will find you hate the whole fellow, and 
 John said: "If any man hate his brother he is a 
 murderer," and we know that no murderer has 
 eternal life abiding in him, and friend, if you are 
 hating a fellow's ways it would not be a bad idea 
 for you to go to the mourner's bench and at least 
 take an inventory of your stock of goods. 
 
 The difference between a preacher and a county 
 judge is this : The preacher adds one to one and 
 the sum is one; the judge subtracts one from one 
 and the sum is two. We beat them in grace but 
 they are ahead of us in mathematics, 
 
 We are printing 10,000,000 copies of the Bible 
 annually in 325 different languages. If one Bible 
 is 10 inches long the 10,000,000 copies are 1,574 1-4 
 miles long. Set them on edge and they would 
 make a fence 8 inches high ; throw into a square 
 and you have a pasture of nearly 400 miles square. 
 
 Two of the greatest enemies of my life have been 
 the carnal mind and my mouth. The carnal mind 
 would get up at the wrong time and my mouth 
 would go off at the wrong time. If I could have 
 kept a watch on my mouth it would have saved me 
 so much trouble. If there was a law passed to cut 
 the end off the tongues of everybody in this coun 
 try that has said an unkind word about his neigh-
 
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 bor, you would see this fellow packing his grip. 
 This land would make you think of the confusion 
 of tongues at the town of Babel. 
 
 When our blessed Savior was on earth he work 
 ed a miracle to raise money to pay his taxes. 
 Well, bless His dear name, he has been working 
 miracles to pay mine for the last twenty years. 
 Don't you know I love him? Of course I do! 
 
 A religion that won't keep you sweet when the 
 cow and calf get together, or the old sow eats up 
 the chickens, won't oe worth paying taxes on when 
 this old world gets on fire. 
 
 The reason it is so difficult to make a book, is the 
 maker is required to spread his brains out on pa 
 per; the reader will see at once that this is indeed 
 a difficult task. In the first place you have got to 
 have the brains, in the second place you have got 
 to spread them out, and last but not least, you 
 may not have them to spare, as times have been a 
 little dull and there has been quite a demand for 
 the article of late. 
 
 To say there are no hypocrites in the church 
 would be false ; to say they are in my way would 
 be equally false, for a Christian and a hypocrite 
 are not on the same road; not traveling in the
 
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 same direction and of course could not be in each 
 other's way. The only way a fellow can be in my 
 way is for him to be ahead of me, and for me to 
 confess that hypocrites and sinners are in my way? 
 My! I will never do it in the world. Don't you 
 know if you stumble over a fellow he is ahead of 
 you? You never stumble over an object behind 
 you. 
 
 CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL. 
 
 There are some things Christ says about himself 
 and some things he is to us that is very precious to 
 my heart. 
 
 "In the beginning was the Word and the Word 
 was with God and the Word was God. The same 
 was in the beginning with God. 
 
 "All things were made by Him and without Him 
 was not anything made that was made. In Him 
 was life and the life was the light of men. 
 
 "And the light shineth in darkness and the dark 
 ness comprehend it not. 
 
 He was in the world and the world was made by 
 him and the world knew him not. He came unto 
 his own and his own received him not. 
 
 "But as many as received him to them gave he 
 power to become the sons of God, even to them 
 that believe on his name.1 
 
 "Which were born not of blood nor of the will of 
 the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And
 
 C8 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 
 
 the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." 
 We see he is the Word and he says I am come 
 that they might have life. He says I am the life; 
 I am the light of the world. 
 
 Then he says "I am the bread of life. This 
 is the bread which cometh down from Heaven that 
 a man may eat thereof and not die." 
 
 "I am the water of life.' 'In the last day, that 
 great day of the feast, Jesua stood and cried say 
 ing: If any man thirst let him come unto me 
 and drink. The water that I shall give him shall 
 be in him a well of water springing up into ever 
 lasting life." 
 
 He says he will give rest. When we have life, 
 food and water we naturally need rest. He says : 
 
 "Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
 heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my 
 yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and 
 lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your 
 souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." 
 
 Here we find the two rests rest from the bur 
 den of sin and guilt and the rest from self by tak 
 ing his yoke and becoming meek and lowly. Then 
 comes sleep. And so he gives his beloved sleep. 
 After a day's work there is nothing so refreshing 
 and sweet as a few hours sleep and when we wake 
 in the morning we want the way. He says: "I 
 am the way." We find the way through the tomb, 
 and he says: "I am the truth." He says: "I
 
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 am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth 
 his life for the sheep." How can the sheep go in 
 and out and find pasture without a door. Behold 
 he says: "I am the door; by me if any man enter 
 in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and 
 find pasture." 
 
 Now, back behind all of these is Our redemp 
 tion. "In whom we have redemption through his 
 blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to his 
 riches of grace." Now, after having our sins for 
 given we need to have the sin of our nature taken 
 away and we hear John say: "Behold the lamb 
 of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." 
 
 We are now ready to go in and possess the 
 land and come into the inheritance of our riches. 
 We find our riches in him. "For ye know the 
 grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he 
 was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor that 
 ye through his poverty might be rich. But my 
 God shall supply all your need according to his 
 riches in glory by Christ Jesus." 
 
 And being in possession of these great riches 
 we need wisdom to guide our affairs discreetly. 
 We will come to Jesus again, in whom are hid all 
 the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 
 
 "And ye are complete in him which is the head 
 of all principalities and powers. For in him dwell - 
 eth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." 
 
 "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of
 
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 God, is made unto us wisdom and righteousness 
 and sanctification and redemption." 
 
 "Well, glory to God, the next platform we 
 light on is that of peace, and like all other bless 
 ings, we get them from our blessed Christ. About 
 the last thing he willed us before leaving was his 
 peace. "Peace I leave with you. My peace I 
 give unto you. Not as the world giveth give I un 
 to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither 
 let it be afraid. And the work of righteousness 
 shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quiet 
 ness and assurance forever." 
 
 "And my people shall dwell in a peaceable 
 habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet rest 
 ing places," for "Great peace have they which 
 love thy law and nothing shall offend them," for 
 "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind 
 is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee." 
 
 Then we have, "Be careful for nothing, but in 
 everything by prayers and supplication with 
 thanksgiving let your requests be made known 
 unto God. And the peace of God which passeth 
 all understanding shall keep your hearts and 
 minds through Christ Jesus. 
 
 THE TWO WORKS OF GRACE. 
 
 It is remarkable how plain some things are 
 made in the Bible and yet some people that claim 
 a large quantity of brains and a good deal of
 
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 grace deny the two works of grace that are taught 
 in the Bible. I have heard them say so often: 
 
 "Oh, I believe in sanctification as strong as you 
 do, but the two works of grace is what we deny. 
 We believe that we get it all in conversion and we 
 don't believe the Lord ever does a half job on a 
 fellow; we believe we get everything in conver 
 sion that the second blessing fanatics claim to 
 have." 
 
 Well, now my dear friends if I can't prove to 
 you out of your own Bible that you did not get 
 sanctification in conversion I will obligate myself 
 to sit down in your presence and just eat your Bi 
 ble up from Genesis to Revelation and lick up the 
 backs with out sugar or salt on it. Now, just lis 
 ten to what your Bible says. Take the two pray 
 ers of our blessed Savior and compare them and if 
 you will be honest with God and with your own 
 soul and your Bible you will have to say that con 
 verting sinners and sanctifying believers are two 
 different works of grace. Take the first prayer of 
 our blessed Lord and see just what he says Luke 
 23-34. Now hear him: "Then said Jesus, Father 
 forgive them for they know not what they do." 
 Now readers if conversion and sanctification is the 
 same why did not the Christ of Calvary say, Fath 
 er sanctify them for they know not what they 
 do? Oh, no reader you can't think of the mob 
 that nailed our Lord to the tree and gambled over
 
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 his coat at the foot of the cross, seeking the bless 
 ing of sanctification, and you know it. Now, hear 
 the second prayer. Read John 17-9: "I pray for 
 them. I pray not for the world" (or for sinners, 
 as the world in this place means unsaved people.) 
 "They are not of the world" John 17-16. This 
 verse proves that they were not sinners, and if you 
 believe a word in your Bible from beginning to 
 end you will have to confess that if they were not 
 sinners they were Christians. Christ said in the 
 9th verse that he wasn't praying for the world. 
 Well, if they were not sinners what did Christ want 
 them to have. Just read the 17th verse and see : 
 ,, Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is 
 truth." Now, neighbor, you have the two prayers 
 offered by the Savior for two classes of people. In 
 the first prayer he said, "Father forgive them;" 
 In the second prayer he says, "Father sanctify 
 then:." Now just look at the difference between 
 the two prayers and between the two crowds pray 
 ed for. The first prayer was offered for the rough 
 rabble that were driving nails into his hands and 
 feet, casting lots upon his garment, wagging their 
 heads and mocking him while he died. The sec 
 ond prayer was offered for his disciples up in the 
 upper room just after they had eaten the passover 
 and he had instituted the Lord's supper, washed 
 their feet and had his last conversation with them 
 recorded in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Chapters
 
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 of John's gospel. These are the same men that he 
 had just said had their names written in Heaven 
 Luke 10-20 and any fair-minded man or woman, 
 black or white, anywhere in the United States, 
 knows that this conversation referred to in John's 
 g-ospel was not between Christ and a mob of sin 
 ners. Now, friend, if you can't see that one of 
 these prayers was for one object and the other for 
 another, just get out your old Bible and I will lick 
 her up. 
 
 THE THREE DISPENSATIONS. 
 
 Under the dispensation of the Father, salva 
 tion was measured to us by the cup. The Psalm 
 ist said: "Thou anoin test my head with oil, my 
 cup runneth over." Under the dispensation of the 
 Son we had wells of salvation. Our biassed Christ 
 said in John 4-14: "The water that I shall give 
 him shall be in him a well of water, springing up 
 into everlasting life.'* Under the dispensation of 
 the Holy Ghost we have salvation in rivers. Christ 
 said in John 7:38-39: "He that believeth on me 
 as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall 
 flow rivers of living water. But this spake he 
 of the spirit which they that believe on him should 
 receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given be 
 cause that Jesua was not yet glorified." 
 
 Everything seems to come to us in trinities or 
 trios, both good and evil. We have on our side
 
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 the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We have against 
 us the world, the flesh and the devil. We have 
 God the Father to overcome the world with, Jesus 
 Christ to overcome the devil with and the blessed 
 Holy Ghost to burn out the flesh with. Well, glory 
 to God, they that be for us are more than they 
 that be against us. 
 
 We next notice that the grace of God comes to 
 us in trios. Paul says: "And now abideth faith, 
 hope and love, these three, but the greatest of 
 these is love." 
 
 Now the works of the devil are manifold in a 
 threefold manner. In 1st John 2-16 we have, 
 "For all that there is in the world, the lust of the 
 flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life 
 not of the Father, but is of the world." Now, 
 you see, friend, we have all the combined forces of 
 earth and hell to fight and let's see to it at once 
 that we "put on the whole armour of God, that we 
 may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil 
 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 
 against powers, against the rulers of this world, 
 against spiritual wickedness in high places, where 
 fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that 
 ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and 
 having done all to stand. Stand therefore having 
 your loins girth about with the truth and having 
 on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet 
 shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace."
 
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 We next notice that there are three places of 
 abode spoken of in the Bible: this world, heaven 
 and hell. At present we are in this world, in a short 
 time we will be in heaven or hell one. A life of 
 righteousness and holiness will prepare you for a 
 home in heaven with God and the angels and the 
 redeemed saints of all ages, while a life of sin and 
 unbelief will prepare you to spend a life with the 
 devil and the lost in an awful hell. 
 
 Then we have three classes of people : the first 
 is the condemned sinner; the second is the justfied 
 child of God ; the third is the wholly sanctified 
 Christian. The sinner does not fear God or serve 
 him at all ; while the justified person serves God 
 from a sense of duty and fear; and the sanctified 
 from a sense of love and privilege. 
 
 I know of nothing that brings greater joy to 
 my heart than to know that God will trust me as 
 far as I trust him. If I trust him clear up to 
 Heaven he will trust me clear down to earth. If I 
 will trust him all over Heaven he will trust me all 
 over the earth. When we trust each other we rely 
 on and confide in each other. How blessed the 
 fellowship. 
 
 Success and succeed are twin brothers and are 
 the sons of Industry and Determination, and they 
 have never made a failure politically, socially, 
 financially, mentally or spiritually.
 
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 So many people have told me the churches are 
 all dead, but I can't believe it; for as long as an 
 institution can play cards, fry oysters or get up a 
 brooin drill they surely have some evidences of 
 life, and as long "As the lamp holds out to burn 
 the vilest sinner may return." 
 
 One of the greatest needs of the Holiness 
 movement is more hands to put on plasters and 
 fewer hands to skin. Human hides are awful 
 cheap now. It may be because money is so scarce. 
 I am not eure about that, as there has not been a 
 great demand for human hides for the last two or 
 three centuries. 
 
 Now, the object of a plaster is to draw. You 
 remember Christ said: "If I be lifted up I will 
 draw all men unto me." Brother, you shake up 
 your head a little and see if you can see any diff 
 erence between skinning and drawing. I have 
 seen the hardest sinners of the land stand in the 
 hot sun for several hours to hear about the Man 
 that wore the seamless coat, while you can't keep 
 a crowd thirty minutes to hear about hoofs and 
 horns. Do you see any difference? 
 
 ADAM THE FIRST. 
 
 Adam was not born like the rest of us folks. 
 He was created out of the dust of the earth about 
 January 6th, in the year One. He was not a Sev-
 
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 enth Day Adventist for, the Lord made him late 
 Saturday evening. The next day was Sunday 
 and of course the first day Adam ever saw. The 
 Lord rested that day ,froni his work. Adam 
 had not done anything and was not tired, but he 
 kept the first day with the Lord. You see it was 
 the seventh day with the Lord, but Eve was prob 
 ably made about January 8th in the same year 
 with Adam. It is likely when Adam woke upon 
 Monday morning he found Eve there. The book 
 says she was made out of one of Adam's ribs. It 
 has always seemed that woman had finer material 
 in her than man. I suppose it is because man was 
 made out of the dust of the earth and woman out 
 of a man's rib. Doubtless Adam and Eve loved 
 at sight. Well, why not? Who ever saw a fellow 
 who did not love his own bones. Adam can truth 
 fully say he was the first man on earth who lost a 
 bone. 
 
 I suppose Adam and Eve started out in life 
 with the finest prospects before them of any young 
 couple that ever started in this world, but like 
 many folks now-a-days, they did not run long 
 until they collapsed. They sinned against God 
 and lost their beautiful home in Eden. The Lord 
 sent them out to till the ground. Adam had no 
 idea that he was the first farmer on earth, but as 
 he went to tilling the ground he felt like he was 
 scratching his mother's head and to his surprise 
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 he plowed tkrough the field Mother Earth looked 
 on her first son and smiled and said: "My son is 
 making his mark in the world." 
 
 Well, Glory to God! In conversation with the 
 dear Lord this morning I said "Lord where must I 
 get to keep from falling?" "Why," he said, "my 
 son get on the bottom." Well, Glory. "Can't a 
 preacher fall from the bottom?" "No." The 
 Lord said, "There is no place below the bottom." 
 Well, Hallelujah! I looked around and to my sur 
 prise I found that the home of my blessed Christ 
 was at the bottom. 
 
 A CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT. 
 
 I suppose Moses left about as spiritual a con 
 gregation as most preachers, when he went on 
 Mt. Sinai and was only gone about forty days and 
 to his surprise when he got back in hearing of the 
 multitude, they had forsaken God and gone after a 
 calf, and worse still it was a home-made calf. 
 You see Aaron's calf was a kind of church enter 
 tainment affair. The first one I suppose the boys 
 ever got up. The object of the calf show was to 
 take the place of God and the Holy Ghost. This 
 church entertain rnent was a failure, as all its suc 
 cessors have been and ended in raising a dust and 
 breaking the ten commandments.
 
 79 
 
 When a preacher says a great deal about loy 
 alty to the church his members say but little about 
 holiness to the Lord. If he ts a tobacco chewer 
 his members seldom; if he is a smoker they never 
 shout; if he goes to the theater^they go to the ball 
 room, tho circus, card table and wine suppers. 
 You see the shepherd feeds the flock and when 
 you see the sheep you can tell what the shepherd 
 has been feeding them on. No use to consult the 
 shepherd. If the sheep are poor and sickly 
 and their wool full of cockle burrs and Spanish 
 needles, you can tell at a glance just the kind of 
 pasture the sheep have been grazed on. No use 
 to waste time going to look at the pasture just get 
 a good look at the sheep and it sufficeth us. Now, 
 reader, notice the shepherd at the annual confer 
 ence. He comes in with a grass sack full of wool 
 and reports a glorious out look for the church in 
 the future. 'Tis in the future. If God will furnish 
 a man elbow grease and create for him a mule, 
 he surely ought to do the plowing. 
 
 You notice around depots, hotels and many 
 public places, "No loafing allowed here." Who 
 ever saw that sign on an undertaker's establish 
 ment. Ye upper and lower tens dread the black 
 box and a hole in the ground at the end of your life 
 for "It is appointed unto man once to die, but after 
 this the Judgment."
 
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 To endure to the end doesn't mean to endure 
 your religion. You endure a corn on your toe or a 
 carbuncle on your neck. 
 
 You need to belong to the Aid Society. You 
 are needing help. 
 
 An abundant entrance doesn't mean hub- 
 bing the gate post on each side or escaping hell by 
 the skin of the teeth. 
 
 I have seen young women come to the altar 
 chewing gum and fanning themselves with a little 
 silk fan and say "I don't care anything about it 
 myself Brother Bud. If the Lord wants to save 
 me I'm willing" My! my! Sister, your head i& 
 clabber on both sides. 
 
 I have heard people say "I believe in Holiness 
 but I don't believe in sanctification. "They are 
 like the old woman who loved mutton but couldn't 
 eat sheep. She felt like she was getting wool in 
 her teeth. 
 
 How many little flirts I have seen go to a little 
 dance, (a kind of a hugging school) come home at 
 the break of day looking like a greasy dish rag, 
 rub off the prepared chalk and paint, take off the 
 false curls and want to commit suicide.
 
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 You can't draw on the bank for what you 
 used to have, You can only check out what you 
 have in it now. 
 
 Some people say they can't stand Bud Rob 
 inson. Well, I'm not good looking nor brainy, 
 but if you don't love me the devil will get you. 
 
 If you blaze every tree, tunnel a hole through 
 every mountain, make a bridge over every river, 
 it looks like I could find the way and wouldn't just 
 quit the road and go out into the woods. Well, 
 my friends the Bible is plainer than that and it 
 looks like you could find the way to Heaven. 
 
 I have had folks make fun of me for not using 
 good grammar when the only way they had their 
 name in the county paper was when their father 
 had paid them out of a scrape. I've had, at times, 
 preachers make fun of my English when the only 
 tears shed under their ministry were the tears of 
 babies crying for water. My brother, if I were 
 you and couldn't tree a possum I wouldn't kill the 
 dog who did. 
 
 Sanctification is free. You have to give your 
 self for it, but you are nothing and you give your 
 self (nothing) for it. God takes what you thiit;. 
 you are and gives you sanotification.
 
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 The Lord wants all my sins. He said he 
 would bury them in the depths of the sea. Then 
 he said "perhaps Buddie will go diving some day 
 and find them," so he said "I will separate them 
 from him as far ae the east is from the west." 
 Then he said: "He may fiy over there when he 
 gets his golden wings," so he said "I'll beat that, 
 Buddie I'll blot them out of the book of remen: - 
 brance forever." 
 
 There are so many things we common people 
 don't know, and in fact never heard of, that we 
 surely ought to keep our heads open. We 
 see a great college president going down the 
 streets of our cities on a beautiful automobile and 
 we notice a little platform on a street corner, and a 
 monkey with red breeches on cutting monkey 
 shines, while the boys give him sugar. We see the 
 president slow up his automobile and his great 
 heart seems to warm up to the monkey. He takes 
 out his family record and shows us the very year 
 that his folks and the monkey's family lived in 
 the same hollow log. I tell you it makes us coun 
 try boys scratch our heads. Presently the presi 
 dent pulls the lever of his automobile and goes up 
 the street at the rate of 30 miles an hour and pres 
 ently he slows up again and we notice on the cor 
 ner a Turkish boy and a cinnamon bear wrestling 
 together and every time the bear throws the boy it 
 nearly tickles the president to death and he says:
 
 SUNSHINE AND 8MIEES S3 
 
 "We are still ahead." Again he takes out his 
 family record and can show you the exact year 
 that his great- great-great-grandfather was united 
 in holy wedlock to Miss Cinnamon Bear. As the 
 little Turk leads the bear away the president smiles 
 and says: "Now just look at me and see what a 
 wonderful improvement we have made on our 
 family." We country boys just grin and say what 
 a pity we uneducated people have lost our family 
 record. We go on up the street a little farther, 
 we meet a rich woman driving down the street in a 
 beautiful carriage, with diamonds flashing from 
 her ears, gold bands on her fingers and arms. 
 She is embracing a poodle dog. We say: "Well, 
 I guess she has met one of her cousins for every - 
 ,body knows that a woman has a perfect right to 
 hug her kinfolks and we country folks just make 
 up our minds that we are not in the thing at all. 
 
 A few months ago in one of the little cities 
 in Texas where I was preaching a Methodist 
 preacher sent for me to come to his study and talk 
 with him. I went over at the appointed hour and 
 met a very pleasant looking gentleman ; looked to 
 be about fifty years of age. In our conversation 
 he told me he had gone through school, traveled 
 abroad and read all the books, and had never 
 seen, heard or felt anything that convinced him we 
 Holiness people were right. Ho said the thing 
 that we called the old man or the carnal mind did 
 not exist. He said in proof of the fact: "Our
 
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 children were born as pure as angels and as free 
 from depravity as an archangel." I told him I 
 could not believe my children were anything like 
 angels. If my babies were a type of Heaven the 
 war was not settled up there yet. "Well," he 
 said; "Brother Robinson, you are honest in what 
 you believe but your trouble is ignorance. You 
 Holiness people know nothing of scholarship and 
 you are under an awful delusion. You think this 
 thing is so and I am sorry for you." I replied: 
 "Brother, the people I've been raised with drink 
 and swear, lie, steal, chew tobacco, fight and even 
 kill. Now what on earth ails my kin folks?" 
 
 "Oh," he said, "they learned it from their 
 parents." I replied, "Who did their parent learn 
 it from?" 
 
 He said they were an uneducated people; 
 that he admired me for my "git up and git" and 
 heart of love and zeal, but you cry over the people 
 just like they were in an awful condition. I re 
 plied: "They are." 
 
 "No," he said, "It is a delusion you Holiness 
 people are under." 
 
 I said, "you surely believe these sinners of this 
 country are on the road to an awful hell," 
 
 "No," he said, " that is your ignorance again. 
 If the children of this country were brought up 
 right they wonld not need anything at all." That 
 he was brought up right and never needed a thing
 
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 on earth that we Holiness people talked so much 
 about. 
 
 I told him I was sorry I was brought up so 
 poorly, but I was sure I needed everything God 
 had for me. Our conversation closed late Satur 
 day evening. On Monday evening following, at a 
 church entertainment, he and a young man had a 
 serious racket. In less than one month from this 
 time this preacher got on a drunk, painted the 
 town red, sent his credentials up to the presiding 
 elder and told him he had "found out religion was 
 bosh." 
 
 "Now, reader, put on your spectacles and see 
 if you can find any thing that would prove to you 
 that the human family was out of gear. I see 
 things that convince me, but I don't know much. 
 Now you look over by a church racket and up the 
 street and see a D. D. on a whiz and see if you 
 can see anything that makes you think of angels. 
 
 People talk to me of their good blood ; about 
 their Cousin William, who was a merchant, doctor 
 or lawyer. Why don't you talk about your Cousin 
 John some? He likely is in the pen for killing a 
 negro. 
 
 My brother, if they tell you to give up your con 
 science or give up your church as you have only 
 one conscience and there are many churches just
 
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 pack your grip, call your dog and start and keep 
 going until the Lord stops you. 
 
 I lived by an infidel once. He was the most 
 foul mouthed man and had the sweetest little Chris 
 tian wife I ever saw. He would make fun of re 
 ligion most every day, when we met at the end of 
 our rows at the field, but he was subject to the 
 cramp colic. His wife would come over about 
 once a month in great haste and say: "Bud 1 
 believe Bill will die this time. He's got the worst 
 spell of cramp colic he ever did have. You must 
 come over and pray for him." 
 
 I'd go over and find him rolling from one 
 side of the bed to the other, holding his stomach 
 and saying: "Oh, Lord, if there be a Lord, have 
 mercy on me, if there is any such a thing as 
 mercy." 
 
 I'd get on one side of the bed and Mary on the 
 other, and pray for him and hold him on the bed. 
 Along toward midnight he would get so bad he 
 would leave out all the "ifs" and say: "Oh Lord 
 Jesus, you just must do something." He would 
 finally get easy and go off to sleep. For the next 
 few days when we would meet in the fields he 
 would have nothing to say against religion. 
 Toward the end of the week when the soreness 
 began to get out of his stomach he would begin 
 making fun of religion again. I would say " all- 
 right old boy the Lord knows where you live and
 
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 He'll be around with another spell of cramp colic 
 before long." He'd grin, clean off his plow and 
 drive off whistling through the field, saying: "Hit 
 don't amount to nothin." But inside of two years 
 the cramp colic had brought him where we 
 couldn't to the altar where I saw him stretched 
 out in the straw one night, praying. You could 
 have heard him a quarter and calling on his wife 
 to have Brother Bud pray for him or he would be 
 dead and in hell in a minute. I got down again 
 on one side with Mary on the other. In a few 
 minutes he was gloriously converted. He picked 
 me up and hugged me and said "old boy I always 
 knew there was something in it," and went shout 
 ing all over the camp ground. 
 
 * The fellow that lets his religion all go out but 
 a *' spark" is in a "straight betwixt two." He 
 has too much to throw away and not enough to 
 keep. If he stays and blows the spark he can't 
 do anything else, and if he runs to get kindling it 
 will go out on him. 
 
 I dreamed one night of going to Heaven and 
 eating fruit off of the tree of life as big as my two 
 fists without any peeling on it or seed in it. It 
 was so good it melted in my mouth. I couldn't 
 eat Texas grub hardly for a month after I woke. 
 
 "The leaves of the tree were for the healing of
 
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 the nations." The finest salad in the world beats 
 turnip greens. 
 
 When this old world is wrapped in a winding 
 sheet of flames you will forget the "mistakes of 
 Moses" and be brought face to face with your own 
 mistakes and misconduct. 
 
 GOD'S X RAYS. 
 
 
 
 "For the Word of God is quick and powerful 
 and sharper than a two edged sword, piercing 
 even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and 
 of the joints and marrow and is a discoverer of the 
 thoughts and intents of the heart. 
 
 "Neither is there any creature that is not man 
 ifest in his sight, but all things are naked and 
 open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to 
 do." Hebrews 4: 12, 13. 
 
 As long as the carnal mind remains in the 
 heart of a regenerated man, he has to give the 
 devil outlet. For when the Christian loses his 
 temper and smashes up things the devil is work 
 ing his truck patch. It is like one man owning an 
 acre of ground in the midst of a large plantation 
 belonging to another man. The person that owns 
 the acre can go through your plantation, sink a 
 shaft, start a foundry and throw mud and slag all 
 over your plantation. He may cause you a great
 
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 deal of inconvenience, but as long as he owns a 
 truck patch in your plantation he can go in and 
 work his patch in spite of you, and no matter how 
 fair your field he is going to have outlet. Now, 
 when you lose your temper and jerk off a single 
 tree and knock your mule down, stamp the ground 
 and pull your hair you are just giving him outlet 
 and you see he is scattering mud and slag, and 
 when you get mad in your home, jerk out a bench 
 leg to hit your dog, grab the cat by the tail and 
 throw him through the window, scold your wife 
 and slap one of your children over you are prov 
 ing to the world the devil has still got an outlet 
 through your farm. Do you think you will ever 
 grow him out? 
 
 I have seen a man in his field at work and 
 becoming thirsty would call to his wife to bring 
 him a drink. His wife in the house, the door 
 closed and children crying would fail to hear him. 
 He would call the second time when she would 
 come to the door and say: "What is it John?" 
 He would yell like a wild Comanche: "Where on 
 earth is your ears I have hollowed for an hour, 
 until my throat is cracked open," when he had 
 only called a time or two. If you were to ask them 
 if they believe in Holiness they would say ''Oh, 
 no, the Bible says there is none good, no not one, 
 and I am a poor weak worm of the earth." You 
 see the devil is still working his truck patch and 
 getting outlet.
 
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 I have seen churches where they paid the 
 preacher, got up conference collections, sent out 
 missionary money, run an Epworth League, helped 
 the Christian Endeavor and Young Mens Christian 
 Association, yet lost members every year. 
 
 Now, friend, don't you know if I was running 
 a threshing machine, cooking for the hands, feed 
 ing the mules, raising a dust and burning the 
 straw and were to go around and look at the spout 
 and find no wheat coming out, it would be com 
 mon sense in me to quit. 
 
 When the Lord wanted to make an impression 
 on this old world that men or devils, time or eter 
 nity could not erase, he met Saul of Tarsus on the 
 Demascus road and pulled him off of his little 
 donkey and put him to praying. Three days later 
 he shook the scales from off his eyes, charged him 
 with compound lightning, wound him up and put 
 him to running. The Lord seemed to take him in 
 his own hand, dip him in the blood of Jesus Christ 
 and write across the face of the earth: "Follow 
 peace with all men, and Holiness, without which 
 no man shall see the Lord." 
 
 The gifts and graces of the spirit and the 
 weaknesses of the carnal mind are not twin 
 brothers, as you might suppose. In fact they are 
 no kin at all; not even third cousins, for while 
 the gifts and graces seem to be fragrant with
 
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 grapes, pomegranates and flowers, freighted with 
 the mountains, lakes and rainbows of Heaven, red 
 white and golden clouds, dews and showers of 
 glory, the carnal mind seems to be perfumed with 
 tobacco, alcohol, smoke and sulphur, filthy con 
 versation and talking, you can see a few hoofs 
 and horns and broken bones scattered along the 
 public highway. 
 
 My friend, when you pray if nobody talks 
 back to you it would be well for you to stop long 
 enough to find out how you stand at headquarters. 
 It may be possible your name has been dropped 
 from the ledger, and if so you will never get 
 another answer until you are represented by the 
 man with the seamless coat on, with blood and 
 spittle on his face and the print of nails in his feet 
 and hands and a spear print in his side and a 
 crown of thorns on his head, and when the Father 
 looks into the face of this mangled victim for sin, 
 if he is pleading for you, the great loving heart of 
 the Father will be moved with compassion toward 
 you and he will talk with you on any subject and 
 not only that, but glory to God, He will give you 
 anything he has got. 
 
 How unselfish the Father, Son and Holy 
 Ghost; neither of them ever refer to themselves. 
 How different from ue fallen mortals. When we 
 do anything it is I, we or us. When God the
 
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 Father came to us he spoke of the law; when 
 Christ came he spoke of the Father; when the 
 Holy Ghost came he spoke of the Son. When we 
 get converted we talk about going to Heaven; 
 when we get sanctified we talk about the blessed 
 Holy Ghost, for we then have Heaven in us, the 
 Holy Ghost revealing to us the law as our school 
 master bringing us to Christ. He reveals to us 
 God as our Father; He reveals Christ as our 
 blessed Savior and Sanctifier, and himself as our 
 abiding guest. He makes the Fatherhood of God 
 and the brotherhood of man so plain that not one 
 doubt remains in the heart to disturb your peace. 
 But he enables you to love God with all your heart 
 and your neighbor as yourself, for the perfect love 
 of God will cast out all fear and doubt and selfish 
 ness and make you like Jesus Christ, the most 
 unselfish being that ever lived on the earth. So 
 then if you want to show Christ to this old world 
 you will have to get rid of self, for as long as there 
 is any self in you the world can't see Jesus Christ. 
 Remember, friend, the world don't read their Bible. 
 They read you, and when you buy beefsteak the 
 butcher is to feel like he is selling meat to one of 
 God's sons. And now sister, what about that hat 
 you bought. Do you suppose the woman who 
 sold you that hat felt like she was selling one of 
 God's daughters a hat? Did you act in a way to 
 convince her that Jesus Christ lived in your home? 
 Now the Book says we are sons and daughters of
 
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 the Lord Almighty, and if we don't show our 
 Heavenly Father to the world as we buy and sell, 
 under what circumstances then are we to show 
 Him to the world. 
 
 An all -round man has two legs, two arms, two 
 eyes, two ears, one mouth and one nose. His head 
 is his upper end ; his feet his lower end. He comes 
 to this country without being sent after. This 
 country is under no obligations to him. He comes 
 here as an intruder. The country has a right to 
 expect great things of him. He has no right to 
 expect anything of this country and all he gets is 
 gratis. He is expected to wear breeches every 
 day and to go barefooted every night. He should 
 be a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good and 
 lo\ung husband, and further, he should be a man 
 of good common sense, with a shining face and a 
 grand appetite. He should have a kind word, a 
 smile and a hand-shake for every fellow he meets. 
 He should lie down eight hours, stand up eight 
 hours and sit down eight hours out of every 
 twenty -four in the year. The church and state 
 have a right to demand his support; he should 
 serve both cheerfully. He should be a Christian 
 worker and a man of faith and great pity. He 
 should believe the Bible, love God, serve Him and 
 his country, walking in the light, leaning on the 
 everlasting arms, drinking from the fountain 
 that never runs dry and go to Heaven in the end.
 
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 One thing I have found out by watching you 
 all: a man don't eat hog long until he begins to 
 grunt. Does it make him sick? I don't know 
 what ails you. You may become hoggish. 
 
 One of the ways to succeed in life is when you 
 meet with what the devil would call an impossi 
 bility is to take the hand spike of faith and turn 
 the thing over and you will find a gold mine under 
 neath it. You can jut fill your pockets and go 
 on shining and shouting. When you meet with a 
 difficulty just put the saddle of faith on him and 
 ride him to the city of industry and tie him up to 
 the poit of success and pray down an old time 
 revival that will cause men to run across Jordan, 
 shout down Jericho, kill Achan and march up and 
 take Ai. When you meet with a "surrounding 
 circumstance" and the enemy says, "Now, just 
 look at that," God will enable you to take the key 
 of faith and walk up face to face with your cir 
 cumstances, unlock the doors and go into his 
 treasuries and you will find an old fashion 
 Tennessee cupboard filled with the good things of 
 life. Oh yes, you will find grapes, pomegranates, 
 old wheat and barley, milk and honey on every 
 shelf, and you will have nothing to do but lick 
 honey and drink milk, and shout while your 
 enemies lick the dust and flee before you. 
 
 Well, Glory to God, who said the devil was 
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 hear him say, "Fear not little flock it is your 
 Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." 
 Bles the Lord, a kingdom surely puts man ahead 
 of his circumstances. But some one may say, 
 "what is a kingdom?" Let the Lord answer. 
 Hear him. Romans 14:17. "For the kingdom of 
 God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and 
 peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." Well, hallelu 
 jah a man with a kingdom has a fortune in two 
 worlds; he is above sin and the devil in this and 
 a stockholder in the New Jerusalem and is a mem 
 ber of a great joint company that is known as the 
 Upper Tens of the clouds, who make headquarters 
 on the banks of the river of Life, dwelling under 
 the tree of life, which yields her fruit every month 
 in the year and its leaves are for the healing of 
 the nations, who go with the noise of many waters, 
 with the speed of lightning and in company with 
 the angels and Jesus Christ at the head of the 
 band. Praise the Lord the fellow that is seeking 
 seed is surely a flying. 
 
 My friend, if you are making a bea line for 
 the New Jerusalem, the greatest accusation that 
 will be brought against you at the judgment will 
 be that you saw something in every human being 
 worth dying for. 
 
 The devil said to me one day "The Lord is not 
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 Bible and read: "Who hath measured the waters 
 in the hollow of his hand and meted out Heaven 
 with a span and comprehended the dust of the 
 earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in 
 scales and the hills in a balance." Had you con 
 sidered the greatness of God and his ability to 
 meet our necessities? I asked. He sneaked away 
 and wasn't hanging around my premises again 
 for a week. 
 
 As a people we have done many exploits. We 
 have bridged the rivers, belted the mighty deep 
 with our ocean liners, tunneled through the great 
 mountains, harnessed the lightning and put it to 
 work, but just ahead of you, my friend, is a little 
 stream without a bridge or steamer. You can't 
 swim across it but will have to wade through it. 
 It is so cold it will freeze you to death. It is so 
 dark you can't see your way. When you reach 
 the banks of this stream you may see a torch 
 light procession, shining faces and hear sweet 
 music on the other side. If so it will have a won 
 derful effect on the chilly waters as you wade 
 through, but reader, it may be possible that when 
 you reach that stream you may hear wails and 
 shrieks of the lost and hear the victorious shouts 
 of devils as they drag their victims througk the 
 muddy waters of this awful river of death. "Now 
 is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of 
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 A TYPE OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. 
 
 I have seen the husband leave his home in one 
 of our little towns and go off to the, city to work 
 and sometimes stay several months preparing- a 
 home, and finally he wires his wife he will be there 
 on the next train. His wife gets the message and 
 her heart all aglow to think of the return of her 
 husband, she gets the children ready, and at 
 leflst an, hour before train time, she has every 
 child washed and dressed in their best clothes and 
 is off to meet the train. She takes the baby in her 
 arms, .leads the next least one and puts two or 
 three little fellows before her and starts in a trot 
 for the d.epot. Every few steps she is hurrying 
 them up, saying: "come on sugar pie papa is 
 coming home/' and her little heart is not concerned 
 about anything but reaching the depot. As she 
 goes down the street the dressmaker calls out 
 to her: "Silk dresses are two dollars cheaper 
 than they were last week,'* but she pays no atten 
 tion to silk dresses, she ia going to meet her hus 
 band. A little farther down the street another 
 woman calls out, "Hats, fifty cents off today. 
 Ostrich feathers seventy-five cents a piece," but 
 she don't hear anything that is going on in the 
 business world. She is dead to everything but 
 meeting the bridegroom. She reaches the station 
 and says to the porter: "When is the train due?" 
 He answers "In ten minutes." She walks the
 
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 floor, looks out at the windows and listens for the 
 train. The ten minutes seem like hours. As the 
 train whistles she is on the platform with everyone 
 of the babies, telling the little fellows to wave 
 their handkerchief at the train, that papa is com 
 ing home. As the train pulls in her face shines, 
 her eyes sparkle, and she says to the children do 
 you see him? Ke is looking out of the window. 
 The porter says, "stand back and give the passen 
 gers a chance to get off," but she pays no atten 
 tion to the porter; she is going to meet her hus 
 band. As he steps to the platform she is in his 
 arms with all of the babies, and one smile from 
 him and a few kind words is worth more to her 
 than all the silk and feathers in the world. She 
 has met the ideal of her life and is satisfied. 
 
 Now, friend, how different this picture would 
 have been if while her husband was away she had 
 proven untrue and had gone to flirting with the 
 world. Do you suppose she would have rejoiced 
 when she received the telegram? Or do you think 
 she would have gone to the depot with the chil 
 dren? Not much. She would have sulked around 
 and said "it disturbs my peace to hear of his com 
 ing back." Yes she would rather hear of anything 
 in the World than to hear of the return of the 
 bridegroom. Why? Because she has proven 
 untrue. 
 
 So with the church. When the sanctified 
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 and she begins to dress up the children and sing 
 and shout and look for the train. But take the 
 unsanctified part of the church and say anything 
 to them about the second coming of Christ and 
 you have trouble on your hands. The look of dis 
 satisfaction and unrest mingled with contempt and 
 disgust proves clearly to your mind the bride has 
 lost her first love and has gone to flirting with the 
 world. If you belong to the church and the church 
 belongs to Christ and he has gone to prepare a 
 home for his bride, on what grounds could you 
 reject his return and retain your salvation, for He 
 said: "If I go and prepare a place for you I will 
 come again and receive you unto myself. Where 
 I am there ye may be also and whither I go ye 
 know and the way ye know." 
 
 "Equal rights to all men and special rights 
 to none." Christ knocks at my door here and I 
 knock at his door over there. If I open to Him 
 here He will open to me there. Isn't that fair? 
 
 The Holy Ghost is God's officer in the world, 
 trying to arrest the sinner and bring him to Jesus 
 Christ, who is the judge of the quick and dead, and 
 the judge will pardon every sinner that will yield 
 to the officer and come to him for trial.
 
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 SOME BIBLE CHARACTERS. 
 
 Adam sinned and lost Eden. 
 
 Cain -was the first murderer. 
 
 Enoch walked with God and was translated 
 and was the father of the oldest man that ever- 
 lived. 
 
 Methusalem lived .to be nine hundred and 
 sixty-nine years old. 
 
 Noah built the ark and escaped the deluge. 
 
 Abraham offered up Isaac and was the friend 
 of God and father of the faithful. 
 
 Lot separated from Abraham, pitched his tent 
 toward Sodom, fled from tne burning city with the 
 loss of everything but two children. 
 
 Isaac was the father of the first twins recorded. 
 
 Jacob was the father of the twelve patriarchs. 
 
 Joseph was the type of Christ; the beautiful 
 dreamer. He wore a coat of many colors. He 
 was sold by his brethren for twenty pieces of 
 silver, the price of a slave under age. He served 
 fourteen years in Potipher's prison, came out to 
 rule Egypt, the greatest nation then in the world. 
 
 Moses led Israel out of Egyptian bondage; 
 was the meekest man that ever lived. He died on 
 Mt. Nebo and was buried by the Lord. We have 
 no news of his coming back for fourteen hundred 
 and fifty years when he came down and spent the 
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 Joshua and Caleb spied out the land of 
 Canaan. ...... ir 
 
 Caleb said "we are well able to overcome it; let 
 us go up and possess it/* butthe other ten preachers 
 said we be grass hoppers in our sight and in their 
 sight. 
 
 Joshua led Israel through Jordan into Canaan, 
 blew down Jericho with the ram's horn, .killed 
 Ac nan, took Ai and ruled Israel twenty -four 
 years; died, being a hundred and ten years old. 
 
 Shairigar killed six hundred Philistines with 
 an ox goad. 
 
 Deborah was the first woman that ever ruled 
 Israel. , 
 
 Balaam was the only man that ever owned a 
 talking donkey. 
 
 Gibeon took three hundred men with twenty 
 pitchers and lamps in them and oroke the pitchers 
 and put to flight the Midianites , that were like 
 grasshoppers for multitude* . 
 
 Samson caught three hundred foxes, set 
 their tails on firfe and turned them loose in the 
 Philistines' corn fields and burnd them up ; he slew 
 a thousand Philistines with the jaw bone of an ass; 
 he broke the cords and withes, pulled, up the gate 
 posts, and ran away with the loom swinging to the 
 locks of his head, but he backslid and his enemies 
 bound him and put out his eyes and made him 
 make sport for them. 
 
 When a preacher backslides the devil sends
 
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 him out to make sport for the people. Samson 
 with his eyes open was a terror to his enemies, 
 with them out he made sport for them. So with 
 the preachers of all ages. 
 
 Samuel's mother lent him to the Lord when he 
 was weaned and he never departed from the house 
 of the Lord. From the time he was six years old 
 the Lord revealed his secrets to him. 
 
 Saul, the son of Kish, was the first King of 
 Israel. He was head and shoulders above his 
 brethren. He was a great warrior and chosn of 
 God, but forsook the Lord, sought witchas and 
 committed suicide. 
 
 King David succeeded Saul as King of Israel 
 and was a man after God's own heart. He slew 
 Goliath, the Philistine giant, with a pebble from 
 his sling. He was the greatest general the world 
 ever saw and the sweet singer of Israel. 
 
 Solomon, the son of David, was the wisest man 
 that ever lived; ruled Israel in the time of his 
 father, and was chosen of God to build the Temple, 
 the only house we have any record of that was 
 ever built without the sound of a hammer. 
 
 Isaiah was the gospel preacher of the old dis 
 pensation and wrote the obituary of Jesus Christ 
 seven hundred and twelve years before he was 
 born. History says he was a martyr for his faith 
 in God and was sawed asunder. 
 
 Jeremiah was the weeping prophet and saw 
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 to a piece of clay in the hand of the potter that 
 was marred on the wheel. The elders became en 
 raged and cast him into the dungeon and he sank 
 down in the mire and was lifted out by an Ethi 
 opian. 
 
 Ezekiel was one of the greatest prophets of 
 the old dispensation. The modern preachers tell 
 us they get all the inspiration they need from the 
 faces of their congregation on Sunday morning, 
 but suppose Ezekiel would have depended upon 
 the inspiration he got from his congregation. His 
 sermon surely would have been dry, for he had 
 nothing to begin with but a valley of dry bones, 
 and even the Lord said "Son of man can these 
 bones live?" And he said, "Lord God thou 
 knowest." He was blessed with the privilege of 
 seeing the river of Life flowing out from beneath 
 the throne of God. 
 
 For a living faith in a mighty God, Daniel and 
 the three Hebrew children have never been sur 
 passed. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked 
 through the burning fiery furnace and came out 
 without the smell of fire. The reason they did not 
 burn ; they had been burned out. Daniel read the 
 "hand writing on the wall," revealed to the King 
 his wonderful vision, staid all night in the lion's 
 den and came out without a scratch, all because 
 he had purposed in his heart not to defile himself 
 with meat from the King's table. 
 
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 sweet writer in Israel. He wrote a beautiful letter 
 to a backslidden church* but she didn't repent. 
 
 Joel only wrote a short sketch three chapters 
 but he had the privilege of looking down the 
 stream of time eight hundred years and seeing the 
 mighty pentecost flooding the world with the Holy 
 Ghost. 
 
 Amos writes the necessity of God's judgments 
 against Israel and the certainty of Israel's desola 
 tion, and pictures the famine that was to be in the 
 land, not for bread or water but for the hearing of 
 the worcls of the Lord. 
 
 Obadiah only writes one chapter, but he 
 preaches a milghty sermon on, the pride and deceit- 
 fulness of the human heart. 
 
 Jonah has a mighty following today. The 
 Lord told him to go to Ninevah but he started to 
 Tarshish. As disobedience brings trouble, so he 
 didn't run far until he was shallowed by a whale. 
 He traveled three days and nights in the mighty 
 deep without a ship. He finally made the landing 
 and started for Ninevah. The last we heard of 
 him he was under a gourd vine pouting because he 
 got the whole city to the mourners bench and God 
 wouldn't destroy them, although God delivered him 
 when he found an altar of prayer in the bosom of 
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 There are whales on every side 
 
 With their mouths open wide, 
 You'd better look out ray friend 
 
 A whale will swallow you. 
 
 The vision of Micah is beautiful. He looked 
 through the telescope of time for more than seven 
 hundred years and saw the glory of the church, 
 the birth of Christ, his victory over his enemies 
 and the church's final triumph. 
 
 Nahum was blessed with a two- fold vision of 
 Christ. He saw him in his first and second com 
 ing. In his first vision he says "Behold, upon 
 the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good 
 tidings; that publisheth . peace." In his second 
 vision he looked down through the ages and saw 
 the Salvation Army with their red jackets on, gird 
 ling the earth, and the electric cars flying through 
 the streets and calls this the day of his prepara 
 tion" i. e. "The shield of his mighty men is made 
 red, the valiant men are scarlet. The chariots 
 shall be with flaming torches in the day of prepar 
 ation and the fir tree shall be terribly shaken. 
 "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall 
 jostle one against another in the broadways; they 
 shall seem like torches; they shall seem like the 
 lightning." Chap. 2: 3, 4. 
 
 Habakkuk was not only a great Holiness 
 preacher, but one of the greatest temperance lect 
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 sign of Christ. He had the kind of Holiness that 
 goes clear through with the Lord and didn't 
 depend upon circumstances for his experience. 
 "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither 
 shall there be fruit in the vines. The labor of the 
 olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat. 
 The flocks shall be cut off from the fold and there 
 shall be no herd in the stalls." 
 
 "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in 
 the God of my salvation." 
 
 "The Lord God is my strength and he will 
 make me to walk upon mine high places." 3: 17, 
 18, 19. 
 
 If the fig tree doesn't blossom he will have no 
 figs. If the vines don't bear he will have no 
 grapes. If the olive fails there will be no oil, and 
 the fields yielding no meat, will leave him, literally, 
 without bread. If the flocks are cut off there is 
 no milk and butter and when there are no herds in 
 the stall there is no meat, yet he means to rejoice 
 in the God of his salvation. You see he is deliv 
 ered from this world. 
 
 As a temperance lecturer he is hard on the 
 saloon keeper or those who serve wine on their 
 tables, for he says "Woe unto him that buildeth a 
 town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquty. 
 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that 
 putteth the bcttle to him and maketh him drunken 
 also. Thou art filled wtth shame for glory, and 
 shameful spewing shall be on thy glory."
 
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 2ion, and Christ as the "Branch." The golden 
 candle sticks, with his seven lamps; the two olive 
 trees standing by it. The flying roll the four 
 chariots; the two mountains of brass and the 
 Kingdom of the Branch, or the reign of Christ. 
 
 "And the Lord shall be King over all the 
 earth. In that day shall there be one Lord and 
 his name one." He says in chapter 14: 9, and "In 
 that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses 
 Holiness unto the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's 
 house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea 
 every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be 
 Holiness unto the Lord." 14: 20, 21. 
 
 He saw worse cranks about Holiness than we 
 are. 
 
 Malachi was the last prophet of the Old Bible. 
 He finished his prophesies three hundred and 
 ninety -seven years before Christ and left us to 
 grope our way in darkness for nearly four hundred 
 years. In the first and second chapters he gives us 
 the picture of a backslidden church and priests 
 offering polluted bread and the blind, lame and 
 sick as sacrifices. In the third chapter he 
 shows us the whole nation robbing God of tithes 
 and offerings, and promises if they will bring them 
 in, he will bless them until they can't contain the 
 blessing, opening the windows of Heaven and 
 pouring it out upon them. He also describes in 
 this chapter the fore-runner of Christ, the day of 
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 "Because them hast spoiled many nations all 
 the remnants of the people shall spoil thee, be 
 cause of men's blood and for the violence of the 
 land." He believed Jesus would come conquering 
 and to conquer. "For the earth shall be filled 
 with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the 
 waters cover the sea.*' To his broad statement 
 concerning the Millennium, see second chapter 
 Habakkuk. 
 
 Zephaniah calls Jerusalem to repentance, 
 exhorts them to wail for the salvation of Israel. 
 In his last chapter he breaks forth in rejoicing and 
 puts the daughters of Zim to singing and shouting 
 saying: "For the Lord thy God is in the midst of 
 thee." 3: 17. 
 
 Hgagai declares that because the people live 
 in good houses and failed to build the Lord a 
 house that they should eat and not have enough, 
 drink and not be filled, clothed and not be warmed. 
 They should earn wages and put them in bags 
 with holes in them, because of his house that was 
 waste and they ran every man to his own house. 
 He would shut up the Heaven from dew and the 
 earth from bringing forth fruit and would call for 
 a drought upon the land. Upon the mountains, 
 land and oil, upon men and cattle and all the 
 labors of their hands. This should be a warning 
 to all God's people to look after his house first. 
 
 Zephaniah was the greatest of the minor 
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 verse three he beautifully describes the latter. 
 "And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver 
 and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge 
 them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto 
 the Lord an offering in righteousness." Malachi 
 was surely a Holiness fellow from the way he 
 believed in testimony. He declares that "they 
 tb at feared the Lord spake often one to another 
 and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a book 
 of remembrance was written before him for them 
 that feared the Lord and that thought upon his 
 name." 3: 16. In the fourth chapter and second 
 verse he describes the people of God as calves of 
 the stall. "But unto you that fear my name shall 
 the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his 
 wings, and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves 
 of the stall." Thank God for the blessed privilege 
 of being stall-fed calves. 
 
 It is Christ-like to see something in the other 
 fellow that is better than the things you see in 
 your own self. 
 
 It is a hopeful sign to see a fellow disgusted 
 with himself but satisfied with Christ. 
 
 The reason Christ paid such an enormous 
 price for you, my friend, is because you are to 
 live with him forever.
 
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 The man that is satisfied with the world is 
 
 without God. The man that has God doesn't need 
 the world. 
 
 We are all pilgrims, and a pilgrim is a traveler, 
 and every traveler has his companion for life the 
 Holy Spirit or the evil spirit. My friend, which is 
 yours? 
 
 A good way to get along with the other fellow 
 is to eat bread you can smell perspiration on and 
 you will have the problem about solved. Do you 
 catch on? 
 
 If the church is dead and I keep on fighting it 
 I prove to the world that I still have faith in it 
 being resurrected, or I prove to the mind of every 
 thinking man that I am diseased just above the 
 ears. 
 
 GOD'S ABILITY TO SUPPLY OUR NEEDS. 
 
 "And God is able to make all grace abound 
 toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency 
 in all things, may abound to every good work." 
 2nd Cor. 9: 8. 
 
 There are enough "alls" in this scripture for 
 every shoemaker in the world to have one. God 
 stands behind every one of them, and they are all 
 pointed toward you. A great many people do not
 
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 think He is able to supply all their needs, but I 
 believe he is, and I want to talk about the abun 
 dant supplies He has on hand. He is "able to 
 make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always 
 having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to 
 every good work." 
 
 Now let us see if He is able to do for us exactly 
 what is needed. The first thing we need, as a 
 lost world, is God's mercy. Has he a plentiful, or 
 a meager supply? The Book tells us that He 
 has great quantities. Peter writes to the "elect 
 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, 
 through the sanctification of the Spirit, unto 
 obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus 
 Christ, grace unto you and peace be multiplied. 
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ; which, according to His abundant mercy, 
 hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the 
 resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an 
 incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not 
 away, reserved in Heaven for you, who are kept 
 by the power of God through faith unto salvation 
 ready to be revealed in the last time." 1st Peter 
 1: 2-5. 
 
 Notice in the third verse where He speaks of 
 His abundant mercy. That abundance is some 
 thing like the Atlantic Ocean, or the Rocky Moun 
 tains, or the prairies in Texas. You ask, "How 
 big are those prairies?" Well, there's hardly any 
 end to it. I can get in at my door and ride hun-
 
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 dreds and hundreds of miles and see nothing- but 
 prairie land. And that is the way God talks about 
 his mercy. 
 
 Is there anything else we need? What would 
 we do if we had nothing else but mercy? Think 
 what pardon means to a world condemned. With 
 out it what would have become of me? So God 
 likes mercy and pardon, and they make a fine 
 composition. 
 
 Isaiah says: "Seek ye the Lord while he may 
 be found; call ye upon him while He is near. Let 
 the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous 
 man his thoughts; and let him return unto the 
 Lord and He will have mercy upon him ; and to 
 our God for He will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 
 55: 6-7. And he goes on to say in that chapter: 
 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 
 are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as 
 the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my 
 ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts 
 than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down 
 and the snow from Heaven and returneth not 
 hither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it 
 bring forth bud, that it may give seed to the sower 
 and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that 
 goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return 
 unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I 
 please, and shall prosper in the things whereto I 
 sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led 
 forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall
 
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 break forth before you into singing, and all the 
 trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead 
 of the thorn shall come up the fir tree and instead 
 of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it 
 shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting 
 sign that shall not be cut off." 
 
 Drop back to the tenth verse. "As the rain 
 oometh down and the snow from Heaven, and 
 returneth not hither, but watereth the earth and 
 maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give 
 seed to the sovrer, and bread to the eater." Here 
 let us stop a moment and think of the greatness of 
 God. He has undertaken to feed this world. The 
 whole human family, with all the birds and 
 beasts, fish and insects, would all be dead in 
 twelve months if the Lord did not produce enough 
 food for them. For everything in the world is 
 within twelve months of starvation. 
 
 If the Lord did not create anything 
 else everything in the world would be eaten 
 up in twelve months. Look at the fowls; where 
 do they get their food? And the people of the 
 earth. It must take at least nine hundred thous 
 and loaves of bread a day to feed this town of six 
 hundred thousand inhabitants, and about six hun 
 dred thousand pounds of meat. Where are you 
 going to get this great quantity of food? The peo 
 ple of the land are complaining of the drougth and 
 the shortness of the crops, yet our markets are 
 groaning under their hardens of meat and bread.
 
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 And where do we get the material to make cloth 
 ing for this world? Why, the Lord God has cre 
 ated it. There isn't a man in the world with 
 brains or skill enough to make one Irish potato, 
 or the n aterial to make one pair of breeches. 
 Now you idfidels, agnostics and skeptics go and 
 butt your brains out against the wall and get out 
 of the way. If seed potatoes were lost tonight 
 there isn't an infidel that walks the earth that 
 could make an Irish potato and put the gercn of 
 life into it. God has to make it, and He can do it. 
 He said: "Let there be light, and there was 
 light/' And He said: "Let there be potatoes," 
 and they came rolling out from under the hills. 
 We have a very poor conception of the ability of 
 God. We think such men as McKinley and Bryan 
 great men. Why, God is running the world; yes 
 and ten thousand other worlds bigger and greater 
 than this. 
 
 Now, He has an abundant mercy and pardon 
 for a lost world, and he says he is able to make all 
 grace abound toward you. Isn't He doing this? 
 If you don't love him tonight, I beseech you as an 
 honest man to lay down your foolishness, or quit 
 eating his bread, sleeping on hit beds, wearing 
 his clothes, and talking about him, as you think, 
 behind his back. He is looking at you. In Gen- 
 isis 16: 13 we read, "Thou God seest me," and in 
 Hebrews 4: 12 it says, "The word of God is quick 
 and powerful and sharper than any two-edged
 
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 sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of 
 of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, 
 and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of 
 the heart." Then if you will keep these two 
 thoughts before you, you will quit sinning tonight. 
 Kvery sin you commit you will have to meet it 
 somewhere, and settle for it. Render unto Caesar 
 the things that are Caesar's and unto God the 
 things that are God's. So said our blessed Master. 
 He knows how you live and he will show you 
 every act of your life, and you will have to settle 
 for it somewhere. If not here, at the judgment, 
 and then it will be too late to make restitution. 
 
 At the great convention in Chicago, where 
 there were a thousand conversions and sanctifioa- 
 tions, men paid from a nickle to twelve hundred 
 dollars in making restitution. Boys paid a niokle to 
 the street car company for a stolen ride, and people 
 paid up old debts, and more than twenty -five 
 hundred dollars were paid back of stolen money. 
 
 Last summer at Sunset, Texas, a converted 
 yes a sanctified man had something to straighten 
 up. About fifteen years ago he stole a water bar 
 rel, and had forgotten all about it. But he went 
 out into the woods and got down to pray when he 
 heard a racket, and looking up, saw a water barrel 
 rolling down the hill at him. He said, "Lord 
 what's the matter with me?" And he supposed 
 it was an imagination, and went further down 
 the hollow and began to pray again, when he
 
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 heard a racket like a span of horses running away 
 and he looked up and to his surprise it was the 
 water barrel rolling down again. And then he 
 remembered that he had stolen a water barrel from 
 his neighbor about fifteen years before that. 
 He came back to the camp ground and confessed 
 it and sent the man one dollar for the barrel and 
 ten per cent interest. And he shouted all over the 
 camp ground. That wasn't much you say. No, 
 but it took that to ease his conscience. You've 
 got to settle here in this country. It's much easier 
 to settle here than there. But I started out to 
 show all that God could do for us. We read in 
 Romans 5 :16, "For if by one man's offense death 
 reigned by one, much more they which receive 
 abundance of grace and th gift of righteousness 
 shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ." This 
 shows that God has an abundance oi grace. And 
 in the 20th verse, we read: "Where sin abounded 
 grace did much more abound." This shows you 
 law and grace. The law is like an electric light 
 to light up the city. A man is wandering in the 
 darkness, and he don't know where he is at nor the 
 direction he is traveling, but suddenly the great 
 electric light flashes out over his head and it 
 locates him. It shows him exactly what part of 
 the city he is in, and the direction he is traveling, 
 and the filth and mud on the streets ; but it has no 
 power to stop him and turn him around and start 
 him in the right direction. The electric light here
 
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 takes the place of the law. The law will locate 
 and show you just where you are, and .through the 
 law Fie can reveal to us the exceeding sinfulness 
 of sin. and the exceeding richness of grace. That 
 is a beautiful thought: "That where sin abounded, 
 grace did much more abound." There is more 
 grace than sin. The plaster is bigger than the 
 sore. The supply is greater than the demand. If 
 there is a piece of sin on you as big as my hand the 
 Lord has a piece of grace as big as a bed quilt to 
 spread over it, or if there is a spot in your com 
 munity as big as a mud hole in the road God has a 
 piece of grace as big as a six hundred and forty 
 acre farm to spread over it. So now we see he 
 has an abundance of mercy, of pardon and grace. 
 And that brings us to another thought. Go to 
 Titus 3: 5-6 and we read: "Not by my works of 
 righteousness which we have done, but according 
 to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regen 
 eration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he 
 shed on us aoundantly through Jesus Chriet our 
 Lord." He said he would shed the Holy Ghost on 
 us abundantly, and would cover us with the shadow 
 of his wings, and give us a river to swim in. We 
 read in the forty -seventh chapter of Ezekiel that 
 he saw a river coming out from under the throne 
 of God, and he undertook to measure it and he 
 measured a thousand cubits and it was up to his 
 ankles ; and he measured a thousand cubits further 
 and it was up to his knees; and he measured a
 
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 thousand cubits further and it was up to hia loins; 
 and he measured a thousand cubits further and it 
 was a river that no man could cross and he had 
 water to swim in. God has an abundance of just 
 such things as you and I need, and some of you 
 go around with a hungry heart and a sad face 
 when you ought to have a shine on your face. 
 My friend, why don't you throw away your spoon 
 and jump into the river and let the Lord satisfy 
 the cravings of your hungry soul? When I was 
 seeking the blessing of sanctification, I would 
 pray for the Lord to come in all of his might and 
 power, and to open the windows of Heaven, and 
 pour out floods of grace upon my soul, but I didn't 
 know how great God was and how small 1 was. I 
 talked to the Lord as though it would take all 
 Heaven to satisfy me, but when the Lord looked at 
 me it nearly tickled me to death, and he just 
 touched me and I had to holler, "Hold on a min 
 ute." It seemed that God wasted enough grace 
 on me to save everybody in Texas. Such great 
 billows rolled over my soul that it seemed that 
 rivers of salvation ran out of the clouds. It seem 
 ed to me that I was a minnow in the Atlantic 
 ocean. It is beyond the comprehension of man. 
 You just as well try to dip the Atlantic ocean dry 
 with a tea spoon as try to exhaust the resources of 
 God's grace. 
 
 We next notice that God has an abundance of 
 life. Our blessed Lord said in John 10: 10: "The
 
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 thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and 
 destroy; but I am come that they might have life, 
 and that they might have it more abundantly." 
 You see you get life in conversion, and in sancti- 
 fication you get the life more abundant. We don't 
 know what we have got when we tell people we 
 are sanctified. It will roll on through the cease 
 less ages and will shine, and will get deeper and 
 richer and sweeter. The blessing of sanctification 
 is as deep as the demand of fallen humanity, and 
 is as broad as the compassion of God, and as high 
 as Keaven, and as everlasting as the Rock of 
 Ages, and as sweet as honey, and will fix you up 
 for two worlds. 
 
 When you get sanctified you actually live in 
 the 37th Psalm. He says in the 7th and 8th 
 verses: "How excellent is thy loving kindness. 
 O God! therefore the children of men put their 
 trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall 
 be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy 
 house; and thou shalt make the drink of the rivers 
 of thy pleasures." This brings you under the wings 
 of God himself. Could you be in a better place? 
 How much better do you want? Under his wings, 
 in a house of fat things, drinking from a river of 
 pleasure. A river is not a creek, nor is it a spring 
 branch. Just think of a branch widening out and 
 making a creek, and then being turned into a 
 river. Think of a fellow drinking from the Missis 
 sippi river and looking for the hole. Why you can't
 
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 miss it. It don't say that the river is a3 big as the 
 Mississippi, and it don't say that it isn't. I 
 believe it is greater. I believe it is big enough for 
 the whole world to drink from, and it reaches from 
 Adam clear down to Bud. Isn't that wonderful? 
 Get under his wings and into his house of fat 
 things. That don't mean oyster soup and ice 
 oream suppera and strawberry festivals; but where 
 God lives and rules and reigns, and peeple are 
 filled with a flood of divine love. That's the river 
 of pleasure that abundantly satisfies. That is the 
 blessing which the world is seeking today, but 
 they go to the wrong place for it; they go to the 
 devil's house. Of course, if they get into God's 
 house they must go where God stays. But you 
 talk about your circumstances and say: "If you 
 had these difficulties I have to meet you wouldn't 
 talk about rivers of pleasure and houses of fat 
 things." "Well, now my friend, what do you call a 
 circumstance? Do you suppose God ever saw a 
 circumstance or a difficulty? He tells us what he 
 is able to do. But you say it's the place where 
 you live. Oh, no, my friend, it isn't the place you 
 are at that makes you shout, but it is the condition 
 you are in. It isn't what people say about you 
 that makes you happy, it is what God knows you 
 to be. For we read in the New Testament: "If 
 any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature. 
 Old things have passed away; behold, all things 
 are become new." And if all things are new and
 
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 you walk up the street and meet a fellow and he 
 slaps you on the side of the head, he will get honey 
 all over his hands, and as he licks it off he will get 
 under conviction and come back to see what ailed 
 you; you tell him and he will want the same thing. 
 If your experience has juice in it, it will have 
 teeth, and if it has teeth it will bite, and if it bites 
 of course it will get hold of somebody, and he will 
 holler and when he hollers you will have him 
 located, and then you will know where to work. 
 
 Now, this leads us up to another step. We 
 read in Jer. 33: 6, where he is speaking of the 
 backslidings of the people and the city, and he 
 says, "Behold I will bring it health and cure, and 
 I will cure them, and will reveal unto thee the 
 abundance of peace and truth." I suppose peace 
 and truth are the finest ingredients in the Christian 
 life. We read in Isaiah 26: 3, "Thou wilt keep 
 him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee 
 because he trusteth in thee." We read again in 
 Psalms 119: 165. "Great peace have they that 
 love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." 
 This brings us to the place where the world can't 
 offend us, and we can in everything give thanks. 
 But you say there are some things that you can't 
 be thankful for. If a man were to knock you 
 down with a brick bat, you couldn't thank God 
 for that. Oh yes, my friend, you could thank God 
 that you didn't knock him down, and that would 
 bring you out ahead. Others say they could not
 
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 thank God for being lied about. Why yes, my friend, 
 the Book says the liar shall take his part in hell, 
 and not the man that was lied on. And if they 
 He on you, you have nothing to do but rejoice, for 
 Christ said, "Rejoice and be exceeding glad for 
 great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted 
 they the prophets which were before you." Now, 
 Christ says again in John 14: 27: "Peace I leave 
 with you; my peace I give unto you; not as the 
 world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart 
 be troubled, neither let it be afraid." And again 
 we read in Phil. 4: 6-7, Paul says: "Be careful 
 for nothing, but in everything by prayer and sup 
 plication with thanksgiving let your requests be 
 made known unto God. And the peace of God 
 which passeth all understanding shall keep your 
 hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." 
 
 There you have got peace located. The un 
 derstanding is in the head, and peace in the heart, 
 so you see it passes right by the understanding 
 and hits you in the heart. But you say that is not 
 th correct rendering. Have you got anything 
 that is more correct? The peace that passes 
 understanding runs right by your head, and a 
 man's head is nothing but a know on the end of 
 his backbone noway. God is not after your head, 
 but your heart, which is the seat of your affections. 
 We would be much better and happier if we would 
 unload our head religion and get something in our 
 hearts.
 
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 And now, friend, we have had an abundance 
 of mercy, an abundance of pardon, an abundance 
 of grace, an abundance of the Holy Ghost, an 
 abundance of life, an abundance of satisfaction 
 and an abundance of peace and truth. And now 
 we bring you to an abundance of love. We read 
 in Ephesians 3: 14-21: "For this cause I bow my 
 knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of 
 whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is 
 named, that he would grant you, according to the 
 riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might 
 by the spirit in the inner man ; that Christ may 
 dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted 
 and grounded in love, may be able to comprehead 
 with all saints what is the breadth and length, and 
 depth and height; and to know the love of Christ, 
 which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled 
 with all the fullness of God. Now unto him that ia 
 able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we 
 can ask or think, according to the power that 
 worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by 
 Jesus Christ throughout all ages world without 
 end. Amen." Well, of course he had to say 
 "amen," there was nothing else to say. He 
 reached the top and could go no further. He had. 
 you filled with all the fullness of God and said he 
 was able to do exceeding abundantly above all we 
 ask or think. We will never be able to exhaust 
 his love. He takes what nobody else wants and 
 loves and saves them. His great loving- heart was
 
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 moved with compassion for me, and he reached 
 down his loving arms and pulled me up, and put a 
 song in my mouth and praises in my heart, and it 
 has been twenty-one years and he has never 
 thrown up my mean kin-folks to me yet. It makes 
 me love him and it shows him to be a God of love. 
 
 One other thing that brings us to a place 
 where we are ready for Heaven. Saint Peter 
 writes in Second Peter 1: 11: "For an entrance 
 shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the 
 everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus 
 Christ." So we have an abundant entrance into 
 Heaven. We wont have to hug the gate post, but 
 with our wedding garments on and all its trim 
 mings we'll go in and run up the streets, probably 
 a mile wide and fifteen hundred miles long, and 
 jump into the river and swim across and climb the 
 tree of life, the fruit of which is as big as your two 
 double fists, and ripens every month in the year. 
 It's without peeling on it or seed in it and so good 
 that it melts in your mouth. I dreamed one night 
 of eating fruit off of the tree of life and it was so 
 good that I could hardly eat Texas grub for a week 
 afterwards. 
 
 Now, reader, put these graces all together and 
 see if it is not worth while to trust God to supply 
 all your needs. If you have got the thing and 
 live it you will draw. Christ said: "If I be lifted 
 up I will draw all men unto me." I will show you 
 the difference between the people that draw and
 
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 those who do not. I have had people come to my 
 house and set down and talk awhile, inquire into 
 the health of the family and the general news and 
 when they would leave they would ask us to come 
 to see them, and we would ask them to come back, 
 and we thought but little of it. There was noth 
 ing peculiar about the visit. I have had other 
 people to visit me and somehow when they would 
 come to the door I would find myself going to meet 
 them, bring them in and set down as near to them 
 as I could get. They also would inquire into our 
 health, talk to us of the goodness of God. Before 
 they would leave they would get down and pray 
 with us and you could feel the presence of the 
 Lord in the home. When they would get up to 
 leave they would walk out into the yard and I 
 would walk right along by them. They would 
 walk out to their buggy and get into it. I would 
 walk up between the hind wheel and the fore 
 wheel and put one foot upon the axle, hold the 
 dashboard and talk as long as they would stay. 
 When they would turn to drive away I would stand 
 and watch them as they would drive off. I'd watch 
 the old buggy till it would get out of sight. I'd 
 walk back into the house and feel a little sad 
 some way and would wonder what ailed me and 
 the light would break in on me that this person 
 had been holding up the Lord and he had been 
 drawing me. Now, friends, you can see the dif-
 
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 ference between these two visitors. One could 
 draw and the other didn't. The man that draws 
 can fulfill the scripture where it says, "We are to 
 be all things unto all men that we might win 
 some."
 
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