St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-29
WAKE UP, BROTHER.
Sam Jones Makes an Example of
Cornelius.

Cornelius.
Three thousand people were in the pa
vilion at $50 O'Clock in the afternoon when
Sam Jones stood up to preach, and he
opened discourse which proved to be a
severe tongue lashng to church members
with the following words:
I trust we Will pray that Ged will baptize
the people and the preacher with the Holy
Ghost this afternoon. for / feel that I shall
need His blessing on this occasion. We IN
wife your attention to the second verse of the
tenth chapter of Acts, and in connection ]
will read the first verse:
There was certain MAN in Caesarea called
Cornelius, centurian OF the band, called the
Italian band, devouJ man and one that
feared God with all his house, which gave
much aims to the people and prayed
to God always. The first century of
the Christian era produced some of the most
remarkable characters OF this world and per-
hapS the most remarkable man was this
heather man Cornelius. When look at him
am ashamed of my self and every man on earth
l say, without hesitation, that in this age of
progress and advancement the peer OF Cor
nelius doesn't live to-day lily character can
only be injured by myself, and, thank God,
what rnen say of us doesn't go beyond the
graveyard 1t don't go into eternity. When
the character is scared. it is Scared for
ever. If / were 10 hunt a bedrock on which
to rest character what would / choose?
could not make the will the base of charac-
ter; could not make conscience the base OF
character. Whist is the base of character?
Affection is the base of character. I've
heard a man say i haven't committed a sin
in six weeks, and he is probably telling the
truth, but a man should be able to say
every day that he hasn't sinned
What man can look into the law of God and
say, II haven't violated it IN five yearsY'
There cant anybody do it. I say, brother,
you take all the mercy you can get, mixed
with justice, and you'll get along better. If
we ever get to heaven We'll be sinners saved
by grace. And if you do what you ought to
you'll take your Bible ana say: "God have
mercy on ME. sinner" God and his law is q
mirror. and the furtbur Off | am from God
the better think I am. Distance lends en-
cbantment to the view. The hardest thing to
do is to remain in perfect harmony with a
brother VINO has got a little more religion
than you have. fellow hates to get heat in
anything. don't he? L believe there's enough
water in the river Of life to wash every speck
of dirt out of the human soul. / believe that.
Brother, stand up and boast of your Christ.
If He has sanctfied you say So If man
was converted and ashamed to say so I be-
lieve God would take His spirit away from
him.
TESS UP, BRETHREN
/ fear we are too clamish / say dear bro
theirs stay with US. we heed your company,
we need your sweet disposition. The reason
you don't want more religion is because it
would break into year program powerfully.
1t would make you pray in your families; it
would compel you to stop cheating. My, how
religion does break down our rock some
times. The book says Cornelius was a deyout
man and when the book says he was q deyout
man it means all the ground: he was a thor
oughly religious man. When a man saws Tn
going to heaven at any cost. he means some
thing. No man was or ever will be religious
till he settles the question himself aud with
the help and grace Of God he win be re-