St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-24
HIS FIRST SERMON.
Sam Jones Makes HIS First Appeal
for Hard Work.

At 4:30 the two evangelists and Mr..
Maxwell entered the pavilion. Mr.. Small
was inditferently chewing blade of grass.
He walked across the front of the building,
and with Mr.. Maxwell sat down on a front
seat. Sam Jones mounted to the speakers
stand erected just in front of the choir,
and seating himself in an easy chair,
leaned indolently back and cast his eyes
over the congregation. Picking up hymn
book, he said:
Let's sing No. L, ''Oh Happy Day When I
Fixed My Choice"
The choir. led by Mrs. Bailey. opened
the hymn and the congregation Joined i'll
the singing. Mr.. Jones arose, but did not
sing.
At the close of the singing Rev. DIR.
Marshall led in prayer. He thanked God
that His servants had safely arrived on the
grounds. and said that possibly the people
had relied too much on these two men anil
hoped that the people would bow before
God and trust more i'll Him than i'll the
work of individuals. He invoked the bless
ing of God OH the evangelists.
bringing In the Sheaves" was then
sung. after which Sam Jones slowly arose
with an open Bible in his hand. and in a
slow. deliberate voice said:
We invite your ptayerful attention this
afternoon to the fifth verse OF the Thirty
seventh Psalm. After reading the verse he
said:
The st. Paul railways carry passengers on
two conditions. Que is ge. your ticket, the
other is get aboard. When this II done the
railroad company IS i'll Guty lOind to carry
the passengers to their destination, and SO
will COD fulGll his promises ii man will carry
out the conditions upon which he can be
hnt-n I
woali like 10 swap pl ices with the Lord ami
lei Him do our part and We do His. Just as
ii G farm II, who wanted God 10 do the
hoeinc utd blowing while he did the raining
aud shining. am so glad the Lord spad you
do so AID So ana l will do so ana so. God
HAS COMMANDED
us to do this ana that. and be ore we do rs he
has cCinnnnLed, we wait around our Father
in helveu To ascertain if be can fulfil the
promises that be has maize. We've got re-
ll:y,Uds sentiment enou III to run dozen
worlds like this. Why man is relig Gus by
nature. We are willing TO believe Sayth. n :
in the world that the Lord wants us to, if He
will let us do rs we want TO 90. Do you cntch
what mean. | den take much stock in
what Bob Ingsrsoil sgys, but l don't
blame him much, for he gets
500 for lecture hut these little
follows who run after him get nothing and
run in debt for their beard. There arc too
many Christians who are willing to believe
everything. He believes that if he doesn't
believe in God he will be damned. and he be-
iieves. don you know. There are too many
people who stand around with their hands in
catching attitude, and say, ''God. rive me
something;' and the Lord says, what do
You wantY and the man says, Lob. | don't
care; only give me something" The Lord
gets tired of this kind of people, and DON'T
come around them much, and L wouldn' t
wonder if that was why He doesn't trouble
some of you people more. Catch the idea?
! believe in praying for corn, but | believe
that if l get corn will find it at the end of a
hoe-handle with sweat running all down it
We can meet at camp-meeting, and sing and
sing and sing. There's many n fellow up
here who sings, surely the captain may de-
pend on me- and you bust a cap ut that fell
low and ne would run Off with the gun.
''Surey the captain can depend on me-" He
can depend on us
FOR DRESS PARADE,
but when the cannon roar and the musketry
| rattles, where is he? To him L say, you pu-
| silammous, Old deserter." II we've got any
any of that stripe around this camp, we want
| them fired out. / want special police force
| for that purpose. We want to drive them
| out, and while they are running, we will fiji
| their back full of shot. What man
| does Is the test of what q
| man is. not what he believes.
| never ask q man what he believes bur how
| he lives, say brother, do you keep the
H--ara aaa6eaanfs of God? II like doing