The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-08-27
A ministerial Hustler

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REV. SAM JONES SECOND DAY AT LOVE
LAND HE PAYS HIS RESPECTS no THE
POLITICIANS.
The interest which the reported sayings
Of Sam Jones has aroused seems das Ivy
| day to become more intensified, and his
star Of popularity is still rising, and the
mere mention OF his name al onceaNakenS
| interest, which can onls be graiiiied by
hearing the cuiar sermons of this very
trratic and intXplicaule ministerial whirl-
wind 81 Tor speak.
sun ,Joues is Tornado. aud he swfpi IS
| his ht arers on b. fore. him to redemption,
muc, rs Does q Western cyclone demoisll
a village which inopporlunely lies i'll It's
| track lie has lost none Of his fervency,
| but, OH tlr contrary, this quality seems to
be more and more developed as he travels,
and his services are 80 much in denandby
churches, leviNals and camp meetings
| that he las found it u physical impossi-
| biIity Ia answer all the calls for his pres
ice. which daily seems rather to increase
| than diminish.
sam Jones aphorisms and maxims may
not be us well rounded and exhibit the
studied carefulness of RouchefoIlcauld.
+, but they are none the less appreciated. and
he drives them homo to The heart of his
! hearers in such an earnest and convincing
| manner and has such Il store of W tticism
of an entirely lew order. and a superior
! fund Of relishable anecdotes, that even
him see and feel the wonderful power
of the man. and their gibes are turned in
tG admiration and respect.
The tabernacle at Loytland. Ohio, on
Sunday held another great crowd, who
were attracted bg the Rev. Jones pres
ence. and. despite the fact that lie is
nearly worn out with constant travel and
the fatigue of numerous sermons, yet he
preached with the same snap and vim that
have characterized his previous sermons.
THE SERMON.
shall take this morning the three verses
of the thirty-seventh Psalm: Trust in
the Lord and do good, and thou shalt dwell
in the land delight myself also in the
Lord, and He will give thee the desires of
thine heart" Commit thy heart unto the
Lord. trust also in Him, and He shall
bring it to pass
We have heard the third, fourth and
fifth verses of this Psalm, the thirty
seventh, and these three verses cover
about all the ground that you and | have
ever been over OF need go over until we
have stepped inside the pearly gates.
In each of these verses there is a pre-
cious promise. and in each of these prom
Uses there are conditions. / sometimes
think we look too much to the promise,
and too much at the promise and too little
at the conditions. / believe there is only
one unconditional promise in the Book, as
pertains to life and salvation, and that is
the promise, you remember, God made to
Adam when he was wretched and unable
to comply with the conditions. God said
to him in that lost and ruined estate:
1.-THE seed of the woman shall bruise the
serpents head And this put Adam right
where he could comply with the condi-
tions. and since that all promises in the
book are conditional promises. You might
ask me: What do you mean by condl-
tiOnS? 2"
These railroads running by yonder haul
passengers. for instance, on certain con-
diIions | know of but two: one is get
your ticket, the other is get aboard. And
just as soon us you comply with these con-
ditions. then all the speed in that engine,
and all the comfort of that coach is yours
to destination. And when man COM
plies with the conditions of God prom
ises, then all the power there is in God,
and all the comfort there is in the divine
spirit is his. And the world must learn
this fact. 1t is not so much a question OF
who am, but to what am l entrusted
There's a good deal in that. | start to
cross the Atlantic in a paper box, and as
soon as nay box gets wet it comes to pieces,
and down it goes, and | go down with
it.
If | start in one of those grand ocean
steamers, then all the strength in her hull
and all the power in her boilers and all the
skill of her officers is mine. and thank God,
l III never go down until it does. If l COM
nit myself to the power of the flesh am
no stronger than the thing l commit my
self to, but if | commit myself to God 1 IL
never 60 down until God does, and He
never goes down. His course is upward
all the way along.
These promises, as | said, are condi-
tional promises, and we would be aston
ished to know how many of these promises
there are in the book. Some man once
compiled all the promises there is in the
book, and made book of them, and it was
very large and seeing the advertisement
an old Christian man wrote to the pub
fishers for a copy of The Promises of
God," but they answered him that the
edition was all sold and the book was out
of print. He buried his face in his hands
and cried, :" The Promises of God out of
print How sad. (" and he walked into his
room and opened his Bible, and he said,
THANK God, this is not out of print y
This book is full of them. and / sometimes
think the reason we don't realize more out
of these promises is because we look too
little into their conditions.
There is not condition in life but what
these promises go down to them, and up
towards them and around them. There
are thirty-tWO hundred precious promises
in this book. There is a promise Of the
Father to US ALL That's the specious part
of it, and one wonders that such Father
could be SO good to such children as we
are, and my present joy and my eternal
hope are based on the fact that can look
up in His face and say, Father, my Lord
and God and Jesus. | feel that God is
my father, just as / feel that you are my
brother. A man who realizes that God is
his father can realize IN the deepest sense
what it is to love his neighbor. There is
/ a great deal in that too. We are not close
enough together in this world. We are
divided.
don't mean by riyers-I don't mean
by geographical stretches, but l mean that
we are divided in that every fellow has
rugged him up a little concern of his own
and gets himself off from everybody else.
There too much of that. l can see that
illustrated all over this camp. There IS not
one in ten of you here who cares rap
whether man gets a place to eat or sleep
just as long as you and your wife and chill
dren get enough. Yes, that's so. God is
not going to do much for a concern like
this, tell you. He thinks too much of
himself to mix with that class. Yes, He
does, too.
trust, brother, that some day in the
history of Ohio, or Kentucky, or other
States, you can have an old Holy Ghost
Georgia camp meeting. There are no
gates to 90 through and give up your dime
there, and there are no hotels either.
never knew of hotel in a camp until
I came North. Every concern in a Geor-
do