Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-07-03
SOUTHERA REVIVALIST.
Sam Jones Terse Remarks and Sayings

Ii | had a creed Id sell 1t TO O mu-
scum
What's culture worth if it's nothing
but whitewash on rascal2
I'd rather be in heaven learning my
AB C's than in hell reading Greek.
have little taste for theology and
botany, but I love religion and flowers
/ can't bribe Gods grand jury nor de-
fythe court that tries me at the last day
aI have doubts" says one. Well
you just quit your meanness and you
will quit doubling
IF man hasn't enough religion to
pray in his family he hasn't enough to
save his soul with.
God have mercy on man whe pro-
fesses to be Christian and has not
got it from head to foot.
Be honest and pay your debts.
There's too many men in the Church
boarding with their wives.
I've seen men not afraid to die, but
I never saw man that was not afraid
of the judgement of God.
Everybody ought to keep good COM
pany. There is not an angel in heaven
proof against bad company.
It's not so much when and where a
man joins the Church. It's all right,
just so he sticks up to it.
Twelve years ago | consecrated my
self to God, and since that time have
never had an invitation to ball.
a mans hates and his likes deter
mine character; mans infrmities de-
termine what he is and who he is.
If you are ready to say tonight,
"I've done, I've quit" then you are
right where God can put his hand on
you.
/ would rather associate with dog
than with a profane swearer. I say
things that sound strange, but I've
weighed 'em.
If you want to know where all the
gratitude of my heart centres to-day I
will tell you. go back to that
August day when I got Christ.
Religion is a reality with me, as
much SO as the fact that I've got four
fingers on each hand. 'sI believe" is
the ground on which ! stand.
What is Judgement It is the equi-
BILE adjustment of all issues. What is
it in the ecclesiastical sense2 It is
the final session of the Church in
heaven.
If you will let me, I would cut loose
the last ligament that binds you to sin
and let you swim out into the bottom
less, boundless ocean of the love of God.
Perhaps if you don't talk of your
religion it is because you hav'nt any
religion to talk about. Folks with i'll
health don't go round Dragging on
their physician.
[ would not take the record of some
people who hear my voice today, and
go to the judgment bar of Christ for
all the money in the universe of God,
and goodness knows am poor enough.
A man will tell you that no one can
get religion without going to the altar.
Why, affairs started down in Georgia
sixty-nine years ago. and / tell you,
you can be christian without an
altar,
Conscience! Thank God for every
cultivated and enlightened concience
on the face of the earth. The saddest
sight the world ever saw is an outraged
conscience that has been outraged by
sin until it is as if it had been scared
and branded with hot iron.
Thank God for bee-line to a good
World. Do you know what that
meansl The bee, after going from
flower to flower with its velvet tread,
and. after extracting the honey, scars
above the tree-tops, and makes bee
line for its hive. Happy, happy,
thrice happy will we be when we car
strike bee-line for good world.
What is the record of the members
of the Churches of this town. Ten
thousand gallons of liquor sold to-day
by member of the Methodist Church
| NV Godl A mothers tears a Church's
prayers can never wipe it out.
/ can't defy the great God that tries
me at the last day. l cannot rush up
in the face of the great God, who II
the beginning held a flaming mass o.
eternity in his powerful arm until every
spark that flew fIom it made world
| Many fellows pray for rain with
their tubs bottom side up. God can.
| fill tub in that way, unless he ex
ercises gravity. You put your tub
right side up, hoops tight, and close VI
4 undar the caves and Won will hea1