Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1887 — Sam Small on Holiness. [ARTICLE]

Sam Small on Holiness.

I don’t want to be confounded with thoee chaps who go off by themselves into holiness conventions. They are some brandsof holiness that are-not to my taste. You And them all over the country. If this is holiness, I want mine later. I’m in no hurry. These entire sanctification advocates make me very tired. “We can’t sin,” they eay. They remind me of l ord Dundreary svho, when he first heard the p overb, ‘VB'irds of a feather flock together,” remarked. “Mighty funny birds, with only one feather. If I was that, kind, I’d want to flock together, too.” Such is the one-' feathered, wholly sanctified bird. They need to flock together. Another religion in our midst is better fixed even than this. These people are not sanctified here, but they have a hal.L way house, where they stop and get their holiness patched up before they knock at the golden gate. We think it will be a very lucky thing for the National Democracy if ExSpeaker Carlisle shall lose bis contested seat in the Fiftieth Congress. We hope he will lose-it, if the returnsand other evidence fail to sustain his certificate of election. ' '