Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-21
THE MORNING DISCOURSE.
sam Jones Talks Entertainingly to n Good
sized Audience.

sized Audience.
Well, now, you have had a good look at
me, let us look ut the Lord Jesus Christ
the Savior ofmen. IfIcan get you to see
yourself once and then turn your eyes to
Christ have done you a service that You
will thank me for in Heaven, if | am for
tunate enough to get there. And we in
vite your attention to these two verses be-
cause they present the gospel in its entire
". That is what we want: Herein Is
love. not that we loved God, but that he
loved us. and gave his Son to be prOpi-
tiation for our sins" That is the Divine
side of the gospel. We love him because
he first loved us. There are two sides to
the Gospel Of Jesus Christ. There
are two sides TO this great queS-
ton Of salvation just rs truly as there are
two sides to farming. know that in
Christianity we are very much like we are
in farming. 1t is my place as a farmer to
plant and to pillow, to hoe and gather and
Gods place to rain and shine.
There is many an old farmer that would
like to swap with God; that is, let God do
the blowing, planting and hoeing, while
lie NlOlte tue idlllliS anu AhSAN IL
many q sinner that wants TO swap work
with God; TO let God do the work and let
him have the blessing. Seed time and
harvest will be given. have never known
them to fail. have never known man
to do Just what God told him to
do In this question of salvation, but
what God met him and did
his part, and then salvation was the result.
God never does for anybody what they can
do themselves, because He is too busy.
Whenever God tells you TO do something
you can't do, just try your best, and when
YOU get out of breath He will take hold
and help you. We rely too much on be-
lief. The whole country is Just believing
everything, good or bad. The good brother
here is afraid if he don't believe he will be
damned, and he thinks he must believe
everything he hears. There is only one
kind Of faith would give pop of my fin
ger for, and that is the kind that says,
Here, Lord, is man You can take and
control" Don't you 90 away and
say, That man just abuses every
body" L am not after you ut
all. A horse with an unsOund spot on
him will shrink from the curry comb, and
this country needs curry combs worse
than it needs corn. There is many an old
Christian in this country, if you would
catch hold of his hide and pull it to-day
it would pop when it went down, like an
old Texas steer hide.
Don't get shocked at plain, honest
preacher. We say there is n God side and
a human side 10 this question. Brethren,
let US stay on our own side, tend to our
part of the business and let the Lord at
tend to His, from this time on. Preachers
have been telling what God is and does for
q hundred years. Let us pick up
man and tell him what he
must be and do. Frequently when we
teach the divine side Of this question we
misrepresent both God and the truth.
Brethren, tell yOu the honest truth,
don't know whether it was a Pigment OF
my brain or not, but give it to you. i
got this idea, that when Adam ate the for
hidden fruit God got into q passion, and the
only thing that saved Adam from being
wiped out then and there was Jesus Christ
coming to the front and offering to bear
the punishment. And thought that if it
hadn't been for Jesus Christ God would
have wiped up and damned this world long
AGO. / wouldn't have an almanac with
such doctrine in it. God mad
at somebody! All, if Christ hadn't
placed himself there as kind of lightning
rod to carry off some of this passion the
whole thing would have been cleaned up
long ago And l got the idea at Church
that God was waiting to wipe up the old
sinners the first time he got chance. God
loves the worst man in West Virginia as
well as the best. / say God loves sinners
believe will take that back-I believe
that God loves sinners better thln Chris
tians. ] said to my wife some time ago:
Laura, believe You loved me more when
/ was an old drunken Yagabond than Won
do now" She said: "You needed Il
more" Christ didn't die to reconcile God
to man, but man to God.
They used to sell niggers down South