The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-14
Hundreds of People Unable to Get Within the
Reach of His Voice Yesterday After
noon and Last Evening.
The Evangelist Says If He Doesn't Get
Large Audiences He Will Not Preach.
The Liquor Traffic Bitterly Condemned in His
Sermon Last Evening as the Great
Source of Sin and Suffering
THE DAY MEETINGS.
Evangelists Small and Jones Each Ta1A
Briefly at Roberts Park Church.

EVang6I1StS Small and Jones Eacn Talk
Briefly at Roberts Park Church.
In spite of the pouring rain. Roberts Park
Church was we'll filed yesterday morning by a
crowd which had assembled partly to hear Sam
Small preach and partly in the hope of seeing
Sam Jones, who, it was anticipated, might be
present The hope was rewarded, for when Mr..
Small stepped upon the platform Mr.. Jones was
with him. Mr.. Jones looked tired. sick and
careworn, and would not have been readily
recognized from his pictures that have been pub
lished. He was rather carelessly dressed, in a
loose black frock coat and light pantaloons, and
his vest was partly unbuttoned. He sat quietly
upon one side of the platform and listened at
tentively to Mr.. Small's sermon, which, in view
of his intended departure for Greencastle at IL
O'clock was brief
After two solos by Mr. Excel and singing by
the congregation and choir, Mr.. Small spoke of
the distinction between the spiritual-minded and
and the carnally minded man, and of how the
latter might become spiritual minded. Jesus
was the wisest teacher the world had ever seen.
He knew how to reach the mind and sway the
heart better than any other. BY the opportuni-
ties which the disciples had to study Him, they
had reached the state of spiritual culture by as
sociation, SO that it was not necessary for Jesus
to talk to them, as to the common people, in
parallels. They asked Him why He talked in
parallels, and He explained to them
that the common people could not
derstand teaching in any other way.
The carnal mind could not know of the things of
heaven. Spiritual minds alone could appropriate
and appreciate them. The reason the world
accused some men Of being monomaniacs on re-
ligion, OF cranks, was because it could not un-
derstand The pessimist looked at the side of a
wheel which was turning downward and saw
that it was going down and down to destruction.
The optimist looked at the other side and a
that 1t was going upward and upward, but the
man of right mind was he who saw both sides.
and saw that it would make no progress until it
touched some, material thing. A man rcse by
successive planes in spiritual culture by contem-
plating virtue and the things he was told com
posed the kingdom of God. Men believed in the
pyramids, in the city of Pekin, or other
things they had never seen, because of their
faith in the testimony of other men.
By faith in Christ men believed likewise in the
things of His kingdom. To the pharisaical
scientific world, Christ was in His day the grand
est enigma in the world. They crucifed Him
because they could not understand anything
about Him. He was yet the grandest enigma of
the world. When the carnal mind studied
Christ till it saw Him as He is, the only perfect
being on earth-when it saw all that was neces-
sary to perfect character, then the light would
stream from every page Of the Bible. and the
things Jesus taught would become real No
matter how the philosophers, scientists, poets,
stoics epcurians and others made against the
spiritual kingdom it was the duty of the Chris
tian to say ''you can never understand how great
and omnpotent God is, or how kind Savior
Christ is until you give yourself up to it." The
great object of preaching was to overcome carnal
mindedness by spiritual mindedness. Those
who were spiritually enlightened must illustrate
it by their doings.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Small's sermon he at
once left for Greencastle. and DR.. Mcconnell
asked Mr.. Jones to say anything he might see fit.
Mr. Jones spoke but briefly. He came to the
front, laid his hand on the Bible-stand and spoke
in low tone and with great earnestness He is
very deliberate in speaking, making long pauses.
His pronunciation would be at once recognized
as that Of Southerner. He is ungrammatical
and frequently says 'you all' and '.me
and you." He said: Eve have had an instruct
i've line of thought presented to u.s. and
may get real good out of it if we will. Mans
moral condition determines what the gospel is to
him, and what Christ is to him. When Christ
talked with certain men He asked Who am II
They said, You are an impostor and the son of
harlot.' Christ turned to Simon Peter and
said, Simon Peter, who am " l wish / could
have seen the flashing of Simon Peters eye
as he answered, 'Thou art the Christi Peter
had got into the secret Brother Small talked
about jesus is what we want Him to be. He is
profound enigma to those vino want Him to be.
He will be a profound mediator. He will be
knowledge comfort, life to the dying highway
to the lost, light and truth in to those who
want Him to be. AS our Brother Small said,
there are two different classes of men, There is
q mountain between them. One class live
in the flesh, the other in the
spirit If / walk in the flesh live in the flesh;
if in the spirit. / live where God and the angels
walk Let me illustrate: Here is a father who
is wise and immensely rich, and who dies. leav-
ing to his only his palatial home In that
home is library of chice books and an art
room, where are found the finest specimens
of painting and sculpture. Adjoining these are
pantry and kitchen. The son locks up tho Ii.
brary and the art-room ana stays In the
kitchen. He lays under the stove and waits for
the wafles to get done. Laughter. All he
thinks about is waffies, and Jersey butter, and
honey. He sleeps in the pantry. and all his
thought is about what is going to be cooked. He
never cares for what is in the front part of the
house. That illustrates the man who lives in
the flesh. for what he can. get out
of the flesh. Brother. let us live up on
higher plane "Amen." from many voices.
AS I have said, we preachers talk too
much about the heaven over yonder and too little
about the heaven over here. The moro heaven
/ have here the moro | willShaye to carry with
me into the inheritance of life. God help US to
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