, 1886-03-21
REV SAM ONES.
short Extracts Prom His ~Iievivai Ser
mons In Chicago.

mons In Chicago.
have preached in many cities and seen
thousands of people converted, but / never
have yet, as God Is my judge, known of any
member OF a city club ever being converted
to God, and that Is tho saddles commentary
that God or man could pronounce on those
institutions. A mar is almost certainly
doomed when he goes into those institution.
! don't care If l was as pious as Jol, su-
joined one OF those clubs. | would swap
chances with Judas Iscariot for a hope of
Heaven.
Stop lying for ten years and you'll starve
all the lawyers. l don't say that this pro-
fession lives by defending roguery, for l have
the highest respect for the lawyer who de
tends "a good man against the onslaught of
the wicked. But for the miserable fiye-dollar
lawyer ! have nothing but contemplation the
fellow who docs mean and petty tricks, and
says he didn't do them as a man, but as a
lawyer. Perhaps when he goes to hell HEN
say he's there as a lawyer. Naughter.)
Somebody says an honest man is the noblest
work Of God, but a man can be dishonest
without stealing anything in the usual way.
Way down in Georgia there Is a man who
the people say Is honest-dead honest-and L
often felt like going out and taking him by
the hand, saying: "Well, old man, amt you
kinder lonesome TO be all alone in the world,
and you dead honestf7 They say every
honest man has a tuft Of hair growing on the
back Of his hand. have no hair on the back
of my hand. Gaughter)
/ partake Of the nature Of a thing l look at
Bring me a beautiful bouquet Of flowers, and
put my mind and eye on it, and the first
thing l know l will be saturated with the
aroma OF flowers. | partake Of the nature OF
things l look at; hence God tells me that He
will keep me in perfect peace of mind, and
therefore we have something to do with the
creation Of the world around us, when
we partake OF the mind OF the world in which
we live. Some preachers are always dis
c~oursing about heavenly recognition and
are singing the 'Sweet By and By but l
have quit singing the "Sweet BY and By
and sing only the sweet now and now. |
want recognition | want 1t here. l am
poor, lowly and weak, and l want your
recognition, but when l die and go to heaven
and am twanging the harp under the tree of
life, | don't care whether you recognize me
or not Q.aughterl But we all want recog-
milton here. II Chicago had the recognition
the Christian people could give her, instead
Of being a suburb OF St. Louis, she would he
an adjunct Of the new Jerusalem
The finest illustration Of taking by faith l
ever saw was at Louisville, when Holcomb
called his four little boys out of his mission
Sunday school, and he gathers the little wharf
rats and newsboys of the town there
Sunday afternoon in the mission room.
And he had the subject Of faith up, and he
said: Boys, | will tell you what faith is
now, and he called out Jack, and Henry, and
Bill, and John-little fellows from 6 to s
years old-and he pulled a half dollar out Of
his pocket, and he said, John, you may
have that and John just stood there
and grinned. Then he says, "Bill,
you may have this Bill just stood
there and grinned Then he says, Henry,
you may nave this, and he just stood there
and grinned, and he says: Jack, you may
nave that" and Jack just took it and run it
down into his pocket. Now said he, 'that
Is faith-taking what is offered" The other
three little fellows just stood and c~ried-liked
to cry their eyes out because they didn't take
it, you know. They were mad because they
didn't take it.
"Yes, but if | was a common poor woman
like some Of these ladies | would sign my
name, but live on Michigan avenue, and
can't put my name to it," The Lord help
your soul. Don't they die over there just
like they die on any other street, You go up
to Judgment and tell God you lived on Michi-
gan avenue laughter, and you didn't do
some things; how w1l you come outup there,
sayi Talk to me about Michigan avenue.
You had better go to work now and sign your
name to these things and try TO save some
body and bring some soul to Christ
And | believe it is n mans religious duty to
kiss his wife, l do. qlaughterl don't mean
out before everybody, but l believe it is n
mans religious duty to kiss his wife. l know
| love my wife ten times as much as | did the
day when | married her. And l love to court
her over again about every month or two.
The old colored man hit it precisely when
he said a work Of faith is this: IF Goo were
to tell me TO jump through a wall ten feet
thick 1 would jump headforemost, and it
would be Gods place to get me through y
Now, that is a work Of faith.
God pity the man that has got enough OF
the real, genuine hog in him TO sit down and
eat his breakfast or dinner without having
the blessing of God on his table. You are
eleven-tenths hog. All the animal in you has
turned to hog, and all the human, too, and
that makes the other tenth, There you are.
Qaughter.G
There Is a whole host OF you Christian
people, II you go home and live right one
day, your children would be launching one
another and saying, "The old folks are going
to die" 1aughter) II just tell you they
are going to die soon"