St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-28

| Won see there are about $50 words that thew
have to leave out. They are obliged to get
reports of these sermons and they are obliged
| to garble them. Why, / can take the Bible
and garble it, and prove to any man that it is
right to commit suicide, for Judas Iscariot
hung himself, and there is verse in the
| Bible that says go thou and do likewise -
and then there is another verse that says,
whatever you do, do quickly. These reports
in the st. Paul and Minneapolis papers are
not shorthand reports, but the young men
who are reporting have done the best that
they could, and have nothing against them,
| personally, only L know that they
are long-hand reporters and can't get
my sermon as preach it. The
only report that 1 will be responsible for is a
| stenographic report Now, there was a
headline in a paper this morning that init
mates that l presumed to say what God
thought. L don't make any such presump-
| ton and don't think made any such state
ment as was published. All of you who
| think l did stand up. At these words re-
porter climbed on top Of his table and faced
Sam. ~ know you believe it,, said Samuel
''but I didn't. II did, l don't know it. l
don't want it understood that I'm saying
anything against the reporters personally, for
there isn't one Of them that / wouldn't ask
| God to bless. May God have mercy on their
SOULS
With these words Mr.. Jones sat down
and Sam Small. advancing to the front Of
the speakers stand read the sixteenth verse
of the third chapter of Acts:
And his name, tnrough faith in his name,
| hath made this man strong, whom we see
| and know; yea, the faith which is by him. hath
given him this perfect soundness in the pres
ence Of you all.
HIS HISTORY.
Said he:--'Ts said that years ago g stranger
wandered into an Eastern city aud as he passd
through the streets aimlessly, he attracted the
attention of many of the people so peculiarly
| dressed. On and on he walked through the busy
marts and at last stopped by stand on which
stood number of cages OF birds. The cages
had gilt bars and the tiny birds inside beat
against their prison walls with their little
! wings and sang as Sweetly as their soulful
voices were capable of. The stranger stopped
| Dy these cages, and as he looked, tears filled
his eyes, and putting his hand in his pocket
he pulled out piece OF foreign money, and
! purchasing one OF the little birds, he held it
for moment in his hand and let it 60 For q
moment it lowered in the air and then its eye
| fell on its distant mountain home and as it
flew straight away towards it, sang its sweet
est music. The stranger purchased all the
birds and released them. and vixen asked
why he did this strange thing he
| replied that he had been in prison
himself and knew the sweets Of liberty.
was once in prison and as helpless as the
bird that fought vainly against the bars Of its
cage, but have been set at liberty through
the saving power of Jesus Christ, and to-day
stand on the solid rock of freedom Praise
be to God. speak of myself to-day, OF be-
cause l have led q life that ought to be
proud of, but because promised Jesus that
would tell the people Of the great good He
had done me. l was well born. 1 had as
good mother as ever reared q child and she
was Christian. and my father believed in a
God. My early training was to believe in the
Savior and l did as long 1 remained
| hrIf
to college and there found
all the alluring sins and insidious pleasures
always towering around the pathway of man,
and soon forgot the previous influence of
the Blole and tasted the pleasures of the for
| piooen fruits. Armed with these baneful ap-
| petltes and passions I went out into the
world and studied law. ] saw men who were
leaders in their profession and who were
rich and influential, indulging in these SINS
that had always been taught to me as being
| SO horrible and as I looked at them l began
to believe that they were
| NOT so HIDEoUs
as taught. I began to cultivate the tastes
| Tor sin that had acquired during nv college
Gays, comforting myself with the thought
that L could breaksyaway from their grip
IL round that they We're getting such hol
on me as TO threaten my reputation and my
business Interests, and so went on and fed
the demon that had taken up it's abode within
n
rehned and accomplished. She sought to win
and WOO me from this terrible appetite that
had gotten such hold On me, but all her
tears and prayers were without effect God
| gave me children. At last the hair of nv
1atner and mother began to turn gray and
| their shoulders stopped with a weight of
sorrow that knew l had brought upon them
and at last they were laid in their graves. I
went on from year to year, and at last nv
wire ceased to love me and my
children would run from me when went
nome as though they were afraid of angry
words that would utter while in drunken
stupor. On and Oh l went, the devil strug-
gllng with me and dragging me down like a
| trophy into hell. At last my wife served a
notlce on the barkeepers in Atlanta, forbid
dlng them to sell me liquor but in defiance
OF the law and humanity they sold me the
accursed fluid. Some people say they have
got nothlng against the bartender but have
LII man comes into your home and robs YOU
OF the care OF your wife and children and of
your selt-respect and your character and YOU
dont cry out against him, you have not got
ihahn0oo enough to die on, much less to live
on. Ihey employed detectives to shadow me
and warn barkeepers not to sell me Eouor
| but these tax collectors of the devil wonId
| surreptlt1ously smuggle it to me- and robbed
my home OF its comforts and it's lows. They
! are the generals the colonels the CAPTAINS
| and the recruiting officers of the devil and
| devil IN he'll. The devil has no mower IN
eternally damn the soul, but a bartendr has.
aI ia.st reached That point where suicide or
insanity stared me in the face, and my wife
never knew when would be brought to her
a bloody corpse, so often had I been carried
nome from the bar-room emeute cut and shot
While raging under the influence of liouor
was losing all my self respect and uniting
myself for usefulness to my fellow men. on
the 10Th OF last September took my chill.
dreu and went
TO HEAR SAM JONES
preach. took my seat at table to repor,
his sermon, in the capacity of a newspape,
man. The words he spoke fell on nv heart
and went away convicted, but went tc
drinking again, to drown the pangs of an out
ragged conscience and for nearly three days
kept it up, but the liquor would not give me
lnsensibillty, and at last in my misery wen,
TO my library and kneeling down wrestlet
with the spirit for four hours anc
arose redeemed man, singing
praise GOD from whom all bless
lngs now. l went own stairs and tolt
my wife, and She could hardly believe it.
went to printer and told him wanted I.OO(
circulars printed announcing TO the people o.
Atlanta that had been saved through the
love OF Jesus Christ, and that / would tel
them about ii that night. The printer though
was crazy, but the circulars were distrib-
uted, and that night, with my child. I wen
to the public square, and on a platform bull
Of boards and barrels told my story tt
thousands of people. went to work in thu
churches and later Sam Jones sent for me
God bless him. And now happiness dwells il
my home, the love of my wife has returned
and l am saved. And what Jesus did for m,
he can do for you. ! have never wanted .
drink OF liquor since the day Of my CONVEX
sion.''
ETERNAL DEATH.
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