St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-30
SAM JONES, FAREWELL.
The Evangelist Urges Christians to
Stand or Fall Together.

Stand or Fall Together.
At 1890 o'clock yesterday morning Sam
Jones preached in the following strain:
We invite your prayerful attention to the
ninth verse of the sixth chapter of Galatians,
which reads as follows: BE not weary in
welldoing, for in due season We shall reap If
ye faint not
This verse is very appropriate, and will aid
you in the future days of your lives. Some
say, Jones, when I hear you l declare will
be good and live a Christian all my life, but
when you get away, somehow l get forgetful,
and slide back. There are 10000 roads that
lead to hell, but, thank God, there is only one
road that leads to heaven. Thank God, when
we get to heaven it will be grand old heaven.
DO you know that some one verse OF almost
every chapter in the bible is a key to that
chapter? Those verses are like a keystone of
wall, and you take that keystone out and
you have marred the beauty and symmetry
of that wall forever. Now take this key;
let US not be weary in well doing. The first
duty OF every Christian man is to ignore him
self, cruelty himself, and live only for others
1t is profound scriptural truth that no man
lives happy who lives for him
hell that selfshness does not enter
into. The grandest mau that l ever saw in
the world was the most unSelfsh man I ever
knew. He was little circuit rider down in
Georgia. When / met aim begin to whittl-
uOWn aIQ ue pEBlI1S 10 develop. WnyI be
cause he is the most unself1sh man that ever
lived. He just literally lives for other peo-
pie. and he don't care any more for himself
than he does for dog. Every man is for
himself. We are running on selfshness in
this country. The nominative runs us. The
most unhappy person in this world is the one
who lets the tongue run and the hands
work in the interest of self,
Lord have mercy upon us and show us that
SelhshneSs runs into every ingredient of I'M
happiness. Do you know, brethren, that our
Savior came down among us and took on him
self the character of a servant? Do you
know that amid all the coined money Of this
world Jesus had to send to fishers mouth to
get money to pay his taxes? If you'll show
me man who is, unselhsh ! will show you
happy man. Christ was supremacy happy
because ne was the embodiment of unselfish-
ness. Do you know, brethren, that we all get
together and all pray for a great revival?
Well, God don't look at the revival, but he
wants to know what you are going to do with
it when you get it.
say it is fact that God can convict
every sinner in Minnesota in the twinkling of
an eye, but his mercy keeps him from doing
it. Suppose everybody in Minnesota was
convicted at once there wouldn't be enough
working Christians left to lead the others to
the cross. I wish we'd get up: way up.
There's father out there who wishes his son
would get converted. Well, now suppose he
it be before the whole community would
know about it? 'Twouldn't be long, would it?
There's many fellow who has sort of got
religion. We're playing religion in this coun-
try, that's what's the matter. I've seen
whole churches. and if you'd put all the re-
ligion in 1t into one man he wouldn't have
enough to
GET UP AND SHOUT
with me as you live. Brother, the best way
to look after yourself is to look after some
body else. We members of the church don't
care about anybody else. Look here, brother,
tn tell you what'll cure you: When You see
a fellow doing evil you go off to one side AMI
say to yourself, here, I amt doing
what that fellow is but amt
doing something just as mean?
The only class of people that abuse is the
Methodsts. l don't abuse anyone else be-
cause the Methodists keep me busy You
take poor old Methodist and if he amt got
anything else he's got religion. Wherever
you find MethodIsm if it Amt running on re-
lgion it amt running at all. We're getting
now in some places so that we are too decent
to be religious. / say. my brethren, this
world will have something to say, but what
ever it may say don't let it Say that We lack
sympathy.
The Pioneer Press says it is hard to tell
whether Sam Jones is in earnest or not NV
God, that is the worst thing that's ever been
said about me- If ever a man was in earnest
III
earnest to stand up
The congregation rose to man. ssThank
God said Mr.. Jones, whatever else
am I m in earnest, and never want to have
it said of me that am not, andi is a great
consolation to me TO know that the Pioneer
Press reporter stands alone to-day against
me. Stand by me, / pray YOU Voices
throughout the audience said, 1--WE will stand
by you. Wen stand by you till you are dead"
and well stand by you after you're dead"
And one good sister, whose eyes had been wet
with tears few minutes before, said in a
still, small voice, ''I'll stop my paper"
Now if q brother be overtaken in fault, we
that are spiritual restore him. Stick together.
l want to see the time come when the church
will stand on plane together and join hands
and say: We will go to heaven together.
How many times we have said bad things
about one another. How fearfully wrong it
is for us to backbite each other with onr
tongues. If there's nything that's base, and
base as hell, its base ball, and If had boy
who would go and watch game I'd kill him.
A race-horse course is nowhere to a base ball,
aud won't go and get down and whoop up q
crowd that know the people are betting
moneyon. I've nothing against blooded horse
but while love a blooded horse can't stand
a man who can't hang around one without
putting his hands in his pockets and saying,
III bet you so and SO on him..
YOU LITTLE IDIOT, YOU.
wish our church stood so close together
that when one of us fell we could catch him
on the first bound and then the devil would
be out. ~ seen many soul who could be
saved with a ten-dollar bill, but nobody had
the ten-dollar bill. Some of us
when we do propose to help fellow
we want to take mortgage on
him soul and body. There are some mortga-
ging Methodists who, If they got into heaven,
would set up on corner lot and have mort
cages on the streets at the New Jerusalem in
less than six months. God pity you, you sell
fish old hog, you. believe those Salvation
Army people have got more religion than
anybody know Of and any fellow who