St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
THE GREAT PAVILION,

there will be no need of crying and weeping.
Good Lord, show US that this is the gospel
that makes US cease doing evil and urges US
to do good. You aid follows who are not
praying in your families, you haven't got re-
ligion. The best way to go to God is through
the means of good. Religion is negative
goodness and positive righteousness Now,
man who just stops his meanness, he is only
half Christian. He becomes an old goody-
goody, in the church, and when he dies and
goes to heaven I reckon the angels will say
there comes Brother Goody-goody. They
never do anything wrong, you know. If that
is all that is necessary, why, preacher
might put half dozen wooden posts in his
church and he would have one of the
best churches in the world. This is
negative goodness. Negative goodness, posi-
tive righteousness. that's it: Of the two I
think the most of the negative goodness. I'd
rather have man in my church that gets
drunk once in a while and works when he is
sober for the salvation of souls than to have a
man all the time who will do no work at all.
The first lesson that God ever taught my
sinful heart was to quit my meanness. tried
to cry my way into the kingdom of God, but
it did no good, and at last threw down my
sinfulness and said, will quit my meanness,
and 1 started for the river Of decision,
and when / got across I burnt
the bridge SO that couldn't get back and l
hadn't been on the other bank of the river a
half an hour before was in the arms of Je-
sus. Repentance is to turn your back on sin.
Some say repentance is sorrow for sin. 1t
amt so. There amt sOrrowful thing in
repentance. Sorrow is no more a part of re-
pentance than my coat is part of Sam Jones
In the expression, quit your meanness, there
is gospel enough for a thousand worlds.
There's many fellow who wants the Lord to
repent and believe, while he goes up to bless
and save. There's many preacher in this
f1,I,, al
and there amt nothing round there
but God, and he amt going to bite
at your common old bait. Brother, brother,
get to fishing on the sinful side of the boat.
/ never go round on Gods side of the ship at
all, for / know he will do what ought to be
done. I'm going to preach like the fellow
that catches the fish. Old fellow. just drop
you will catch fish.
Thank GodfOr a sobriety that makes us
laugh at thirst and makes US happy in a dun
geon. I've seen many fellow have joy and
peace when he didn't have righteousness. He
had enough to eat but he didn't
the time come when Methodist
or Baptist will have credit
as good as though he was worth a 81, 0O0, 900.
Righteousness! I like q righteous man:
like them old hardshells down in Georgia
Their credit is never questioned. I say if q
nun Call pay Ills UGDUS NE ought 10, DuU u HILL
can be saved if he don't pay them, but if he
can pay his debts, and don't t, God will put hin
in hell. A man who'll buy Injuries when he
owes money, he's a scounGrel of the deepest
dye When 1 went into the ministry I was
bankrupt and my wife hadn't but one dress
and had but one coat, but [ worked and
paid hundred cents on dollar fol
everything owned, and yet
was no better after paid the money than ]
was before. There are many preachers in
the country VINO don't get half ratiOnS. You
don't pay them half what you promise to.
tell you, you want to look out. You'll fee
mighty cheap when you walk up to the house
of God and find that preacher there and he
points you out to God as the man who wanted
to cheat him out of his salary. Let's do right
toward the church and right toward all man
kind. Oh, how it inspires the Christian to
have the star of hope beaming over his path
way! Thank God for that blessed
hope that is the inspiration of my
heart to-day, and the joy of my life
Some say that man Jones is after money.
tell you if [ could have given you check for
$500 and gone to my sick wife l would have
done it. After money? II I was after money
shouldn't have come to Red Rock. Preach
ing at q camp-meeting for money; ha, aim
that funny? I can make arrangements now
to lecture 100 nights for $500 night, but
won't use the reputation that God has giver
ME to preach out and TO sell In parcels tt
augment my finances. I've never got dowr
low enough to preach against tobacco There
are so many other more important
subject to preach about that I haven't go
time to give my attention to tobacco. A mar
can't chew tobacco and be gentleman, bu
he can use tobacco and be Christian. I know
II, FOL / did it for thirteen years, just as sure
as you live The best mani ever knew chewet
tobacco every day, and one of the meanes
men l ever knew never touched it in his life
Let me tell you, I'd rather be a member OF the
church and do my whole duty most of the
time and once in while have big drunk
account members, drunk or sober. Qui
your meanness there's gospel enough il
those words for the whole world.