St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-10
Is Some Faith, Says Sam Jones, With
Nothing PerOeptible in it but Mos
quitoes and Miasma.
Every Post Would be Rubbed Smooth If
One Had Spiritual as He has
Physical Itch.
An Able-Bodied Man Impressed by
the Lord That Mr. Jones VIII
Pay His Rent.
When the Evangelist Gets TO Heaven
He VIII Unpin His Wings and
Lay Them Down.
Sam Jone. Unusually Sensational.


CHICAGO, March 9.-Rev. Sam Jones
preached in the Casino rink again this even
ing. He said: The three constitutional
elements which make up the Christian
chaerater are works of faith, labor of love
aud patience of hope. The Thessalonan
church had power with God and influence
with men. l believe in the primitive
church, and l would take il with its pUTi-
tanism and tTanScendentalism before L
would the nineteenth century church with
all its fun. Apostolic Christianity involved
a great deal; believers gave up all and re-
celved all. The way TO heaven was straight
and narrow. but the reason SO few found
the gate was because they were not looking
for it laughter. Now we have made
great many improvements in other things,
but where have we improved apostolic
Christianity. st. Paul said to this church:
Remember without ceasing your work OF
faith" What is faith? 1t is giving some
thing to God that He asks you for. That's
all il is 1t is heap more
PLEASANT TO GIVE
them than TO receive. / would rather be an
American citizen aud give $1,000 year to
foreign missions than be heather and re-
eeive the $1,000. i would rather be
father with a loving wife, caring for the
loved ones at home, and giving $500 year
10 an orphan asylum, than to have my wife
dead and my children have TO 60 to the
orphans home. You see it is more blessed
10 be where you can give. Every perfect
gift comes from God. but he doesn't say 10
stand and receive salvation with fear and
trembling. He SAYS work out your saliva
ton with fear and trembling. Scriptural
faith either takes or gives something every
hkan
like an old pond; it receives everything aud
gives up nothing but mosquitoes and
miasma. and there are good many such in
the church. Laughter. II you only got
spiritual itch like you have physical Itch,
you would keep every post rubbed smooth.
Laughter. Faith is TO take what IS
offered you. When God offers you thing,
take it and go on. Then there is
A GIVING FAITH,
and that is what we are talking about.
There is work Of knowledge, and 1t is
such when a man knows he is going to get
his wages at the end OF the week. The
work OF faith is to believe that God will
save the old major, and then to go to work
and pray for him and help save him. The
work of faith is not one of feeling either.
The devil is preaching feeling the year
around and God is preaching faith. There
is past and present and future faith. but 1t
ought to be like the Hebrew verb and only
have present tense. Whatever faith we
have got. let's have it now. If you have
got faith that we will have good meeting
next week, Just pull back and have good
meeting and a better one tonight. The
best way know for any children to have
faith in me is to see them go and do thing
when tell them to, without my explaining
a reason why. If the Lord had TO use time
and eternity explaining why he wants us to
do a thing. he might as well come down
and do it himself. and be independent of
US 4 fellow came 10 me the other day and
said the Lord impressed him would
PAY HIS HOUSE RENT.
/ was a little in doubt about the
Lord wanting me 10 pay it. He was a
big. able-bodied man. Laughter. But
paid his house rent all the same. Bless
the Lord, Oh, my soul. The best hours l
have are reading the Bible and at family
PRAYER. 1 presume if Brother Lorimer
should go to prayer meeting and find his
house full he would think something was
wrong, and would take to his heels.
Laughter ! know of man who started
out to be religious, and to lead right life,
and he commenced by having prayer and
saying grace. and kissing HE wife, and
saying: Now, we're going to start out
out right and God pity the man who has
got enough real hog in him to sit down TO
the table and eat without asking Gods
for the food. Laughter. And l believe
il is a part of a mans religious duties to
kiss his wife. Laughter. / know l
love my wife ten times better than when /
was married laughter, and would like to
COURT HER OVER AGAIN
about once a month. Laughter But
there are some men like the Irishman who
said: Faith. know one fellow will re-
gret my DEATH" and why is that? Faith
1t will be the one that gets my wife"
Laughter. There are hosts Of Christian
people that would frighten their relatives
if they commenced living right, and If the
old man should commence with saying
grace and family prayers. the children
would put their heads together and think
he was going to die. Laughter. Brother,
let us start out and live right one day, and
commence at o'clock this afternoon. I'd
rather be a preacher than be king, l
would. / would not swap places with
Grover Cleveland. Oh, you say that isn't
So Well, wouldn't let on but what it
was so anyway. God helping me, i will
do my part. and I'll outshine any man
that's been president when / get to heaven.
other things being equal. Glory TO be God
for the privilege of doing what God wants
me to do, and when i get to heaven I'll
unpin my wings and lay them down. I'll
have no further use for them. I've got
there, don't you see? Laughter.