Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-02-27

BAN p. JONES.
CINCINNATI, Feb. IA The greatest crowd
that has yet assembled to hear Rev. Sam
Jones Oh any week night since Lis labors be.
h gan. Mir. Jones preached another effective
sermon, as follows:
"Bretnren | want to read from the Word
.o-night. If you miss some things say,
you won'5 have missed much; but let US
give cur praytrful attention to what God
chapter of Ezekiel:
SO thou, oh son of man, have set thee
Waterman unto the house of Israel; there
fore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth
and warn them from m
w hen say unto the wicked q wicked
man, thou shalt surely die; il thou dost not
sneak 10 warn the wicked from his wer,
that wicked man shall die in his inicaty I;
but his blood will require at thine hanl'
" Nevertheless, ii thou warn the wicked
at his way TO turn from it; ii b. do not turn
Z from his way, he Shall die in his inlquity;
but thou hast delivered thy soul
".Therefore. o thou son OF man, speak
4 you unto the house of Israel; thus ys speak,
n saying IL our transgressions and our sins be
upon us, and we pine away in them, how
should we then livsf
Shy unto them as live saith the Lord
u tod, have no pleasure in the death OF the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from his
why and live. Turn We, turn We, from your
evil way; for why will ye die, o, house of
Israel
"sTherefore, thou son of man, say unto
the children OF thy people: The righteous
n ness OF tine righteous snail not d,livar him
4 IN the day of his transgresslou; as for the
Il wickedness of the vic Iel hB shalt noj fall
thereby IN the day that he turneth from his
II wicke1ncss: neither shall the righteous be
E able to live for his righteousness in the day
that be sinneth'
"'When shall say to the righteous that
E he shall surely live; If he trusts to his own
Righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his
Righteousness shall not be remembered; hut
En- for his in!quty that he hath committed, he
u shall die for it,
"'Again, whom / say unto the wicked,
E Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his
Sin and do that which is lawful and right
Z :" If The wicked restore the pledge, give
again that he had robbed, walk in the stat
uteS OF life, without committing iniuulty,
he shall surely live; he shall not die
:" Mono of his sins that he hath committed
shall be mentioned unto him; be hath done
L that which is lawful and right; he shall
I surely live
+ "'Yet the children of Thy people say the
way of the Lord is not equal; but as for
them th 4ir way s not equal
Brethren, we read as the text the
eleventh verse, Say unto them, as I live,
s:ith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in
4 he death of the wicked; but thattne wicked
4 turn rom lis way AM live; turn we, turn
ye from yoLr evl ways; for why will We
n die, O, house CT Israeli
Brethren, in the lesson read in connec-
b tio1 with the toxt we have the whole matter
plainly set forth God had said frequently
r to the children of man, Come, let us reason
together al out these things God is a rea
sonable Gcd, and yon are reasonable men in
+ many things, and God challenges you into
his presence, and He said Now let us req
son together about this, I have no pleasure
in the death OF the wicked In other words,
L I have nothing TO do with the death of the
wicked | say there is nothing in the grace
u of Col, and nothin i'll the blood OF Jesus
\ Christ, to save an imp9ai5ent man. Isay
f thare is nothing in the grace of God, moth
atoniny merits OF Jesus Christ, to save any
man who DOESN'T want to be saved.
A "fhese ara clear, honest statements OF
practical scriptural truths. There is moth
A ing in the Cincinnati Southern railroads
movements of its trains to make you ship
= your goods over that road il you don5 want
4 TO ship them thtt way, There is nothing in
the management of the Cincinnati South rn
1 road that can compel man to travel over
its lines if the man don't want to go over
them; and we say honestly ami emphatically
that there is nothing in the atonament OF
Jesus Christ to save any but the lost, and
no man is lost, in gospel sense, until be
sees and feels he is iost. Wh3n man gets
to he lost in this sense thank God he is get
ting to be found in blessed sensel Your
saivaticn depents on your patient continu-
ance in well doing, What is the notation al
lasts We'll cone, thou good and faithful
4 servant Not we'll commenced
"Hear me. God has no pleasure in the
Il death Of him that dies f1y mother loved
h me because she has some of the nature OF
Il God in her own heart my wife loves me be
H cause some of the nature of God has been
I'D 10 horh nd ie Iowa and he
4 great storehouse of Go1's love is His heart
ami we all draw from that storehouse; and
all the love my wife AMI my chill have
for me has been drawn from the great store
4 house of the lows of God Did my wife's
i love save met Did my mothers love save
1 me from wicked 1ife' No sir No, sir
In that sense Gods love can't save any man
and it never did in that sense save any mar
either.
Il declare it to be as true as that I read
my billie that there is not a man here to
night but what may be in heaven within ont
L hundred years from to-day. There isn't a
man here tonight but what. if he makes The
choice, he can be in hell in one hundred
Il years from to-day. Those ten decades viii
soon be gone brethren. Oh, how ths time
fliesl Let's you and settle 1T to night, BY
II the grace of God, il that be true, I'll be il
either place hundred years from now W.
may be there in ten years. msybe in tel
months maybe in ten days; maybe in ter
hours we will be in one place or the other.
Brethren, let's choose tonight to give ouI
hearts to God and be in hssven.
Here's merchant that's been merchan
dising ten years, and he's been losing money
r,gnt along, aud now he's almost near Il
bankruptcy and he resolves he'll close on
his stock ON hand and quit the business anC
20 10 farming. There's a business turn
about that thing lie don't want to 60 OF
lo,iug money; he sees he's sinking every
year, and he resolves to quit merchandising
and GO 70 farming. Turning away from sill
is Just as actual as is that man turning from
merchandising Wien ] started to Musi,
Hall this evening | stepped out OF the Glib
son House and Just as actually as turneC
nv back on the Gibson Housean1 started Z
Music Hall, Just that actually must yol
turn your bacx on your sins and walk OF
from them. No farce about that
"A great many people in this world wan
tn If paw before they'd the JOB. There ar
two Lad paymesters ono who pays beforJ
ths i,b is dons and the one who nsver pays
@. all; aul tIs oas thas never pays at all i