Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-01
SAM JONES AT CAMP MEETING.

nous Georgia revivalist, IL the attraction. lie |
breaches daily, and the Louisville Courier Jour-
tat prints verbatim reports of his discourses.
rhe following is from one of the latest of these
reports.l
Rev. Sam Jones preached at the second
service at II o'clock, his text being /" Corne-
Illus, centurion of the band called the Ital-
ian band, devout man, and one that feared
God with all his house, which gave much |
aims TO the people, and prayed TO God al
ways" His sermon was as follows:
Tho second century presented many re-
markable characters, of which the most re- |
markable was this man Cornelius. His char
acter was rounded and symmetrical, pic
ture for angels TO look upon and fit, for all
good character is the immortal part of man.
While we lay down our bodies as a school
boy lays aside his books character outlives |
the universe IL we'll rounded and complete.
When speak TO you of Cornelius, l say to
you that he was a heathen. When / look at
this hcathen / am ashamed OF myself and
every other man that walks on earth. In the |
noontde blaze of this nineteenth century, |
with its capacity for the highest heights and |
deepest depths, l lind no men who can COM |
pare with Cornelius. ] look at him and re- |
verse the Darwin theory. If Cornelius was a |
sample Of what men were, then we are going |
back TO monkeys. Some of us have near
Iy reached that point already and if we could
get little more hair and few tails it would
set us up. Cornelius was devout man /;
| this term is broad and significant We say
| of one that he is a pious ma1, or that he
| is a generous man, or a forgivng man. God
| covered all when he said Cornelius was de-
vout He was thoroughly religious. an honor
| to God and blessing TO us all He was re-
| ligious from head to foot and covered over.
| There was time, when alone with God, as
1t happens to every man, he settled the ques
| ton of religion.
| ALL DEPENDS ON OURSELVES.
] say unto you that no amount of mothers
prayers, training or endeavors over made a
man Christian. God can't make man
good, and the devil can't make him bad. If
God could, we would all be good, and il the
devil could make us bad, We would all go to
hell. Ifa man will walk up to God and ask
for it, he will be made religious. If want
to be religious ! can, though / fail in
everything else. Religion in man comnen-
ces like William Lloyd Garrison began his
" Liberator" Talk 10 me about Lincon's
| proclamation or " Uncle Toms Cabin"
If you want to find what burst the
shackes of 100000 slaves, tell you
IL was William Loyds Garrison's " Liber-
tor that did 1t. The first four sentences of
the book show what is in 1t. He began with
81 am in earnest" That's the spirit for a
. man. The world sees when one is in dead
| earnest, and Will get out OF his way. It's
! Just what have seen on railroads coming
up from Florida. ] have seen those wire
| grass cattle get on the track, and the engineer
/ | would have 10 slow up and stop, and even
send his fireman TO drive them OIL They
knew no wouldn't run over them. Last
fall was upon the Lake Shore & Michigan
il train which has "a schedule time of forty
# miles an hour. / saw some fine cattle get on
o the track once. The engineer just reached
a
!. like mad. They kew il they didn't he would
s knock them in forty different pieces Al
II OK can tell If you're in earnest and so car
IS the world. If want to go home TO God II
If | do 1t II i have to be in the dead run. I'll ge
v there hatless, shoeless, coatless and may b,
:. reputationless, but I'll get there. Brother
" take of your COW w-catcher, take oil tho brake
:, and you'll get home If you'll just keep oI
q the track. Poor Lazraus, / have pitied bin
is thousand times, with nothing but crumb
n TO eat and with Only the dogs for doctors
a But In ifiUnent there came a change, AM
he was a millionaire in Abraham's bosom.
y Idon't want TO he rich. / don't want m
= Father to give me something that can onl
A. keep a little while. I'd rather he laid up 70
a me at home.
d When Cornelius Vanderbilt the riches
is | man in America, was dying, he turned owe
S5,0O0,000 to his children and S25, 900, 900 /
y his other relatives. Then he turned over {
as his Christian wife and asked her to pray fo
y him, poor sinner. tell you you may TAX
IN millionaires in hell, and all they've got won
y buy them drop of water to cool thei
., tongues. My Lord, let me fail in eyerythin
at else, but succeed in religion. When that on
r. question is settled you have settled gres
r. many others, aud I'm glad OF it.
~ REvILEp FOR THE TRUTHS SAKE.
Id / declare to you that in this nineteent
century OF light, if a man breaches truth an
nothing but truth they call him a crank. 1t
III not bad on him, but it's rough ON the crowC
i expect when Paul burnt the books
- Ephesus the crowd thought he was Graz,
- but he could say: "Not so; ! am not mac
10 but the Bible is true" o, brethren, if tn
a Book is true 1 want to be called a crank
II want to be called raving mad. I'm not mac
st though, but there are l,OO0 Christians hei
an | that are. They are so mad they won't pra,
When a man calls me crank / look him
u the face and tell him he Is either tool or
Up scoundrel or mixed That's the worst NH
~ ture ever was, about half tool and half rasca
Is, and you can't help one part for the other.
al Cornelius was devout man, devout eI
., ough to be a crank. ] suppose Im called
" " crank because l don't preach like brot ht
30 Moses Bless you, God never did make tw
IN men alike, or III he did one was no accoun
we can't tell the truth unless we fix it u
NICE These patent medicine men kno
as what IL Is to sugar-coat things. God help I
m to give the plain old powders of the Gospe
N suppose you had a patient very sick an
We're TO leave lot ofmedcine for him 10 TAX
When you come back he is worse and yo
ask his wife if she gave him all the med
OF cine you left. She says, sob, yes all but
of little; l took out part because / thought
I'd | was too bad" Now, Madam, your husban
as will die and you'll be to blame There al
or lots of preachers in the world-I mean
Georgia-who sugar-coat their pills for fes
AS their patients won't stand 1t. Cornelius wa
w adevout man, and-did you notice that col
at ulative conjunction / believe they call
m | copulatiye. Cornelius was a deyout maI
20 and feared God with all his house. Watcl
n when yon ask about Christians, for that con
u junction.
DOESN'T LIKE "BUT" CHRISTIANS
- Brother A. is a mighty good man, but h
- doesn't come much to church. Brother
- = is mighty generous, but he drinks little
Il Brother c. is good steward, but they do sa
he'll skin you in trade. Notice how w
use the distinctive conjunction; we but
oi m an, and but him till finally we but hir
10 cl ear off the track of salvation It's like tn
Is steward who said: "Brother A. is the bes
IL man in the world, and he has only one littl
70 fault If it can be called a fault He's Just
N leetle inclined TO be quarrelsome when he
10 | drunk"
% / wouldn't give a cent for Christian q
| whom you have to use the distinctive con
q | junction. We've met 'em all around us
d though. A preacher once asked me wha
J. about one man who was good i'm everything
|. | but one. / said he was fraud. The bes