St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-24
SAM S1IALLsS TALK.
HE ExhOrts Christians to- Let Their
Light Shine.

Three hundred people assembled in the
great pavilion at o'clock in the even
ing to listen to Sam Small. The
choir consisted of twenty mixed voices led
by NJ. j. Maxwell. At five minutes before
Sam Small entered the building with a
leather-covered bible in his hand. Seating
himself in chair on the speakers stand, he
buried his face in his hand for few mo-
ments as if in silent prayer, while the choir
sang Wonderful Words of Life" in which
it was joined by the congregation and Mr..
Small. At the request of Mr.. Jones, the
congregation arose to their feet and stood
while Rev. DR.. Hovey prayed that the
blessing of the Lord would fall
ON the meetings now in progress.
At the close of the prayer the hymn, Fall
Into Line" was sung. after which Mr..
Small arose, opened his Bible and, speak
ing in rich baritone voice, said:
1 ask your attention this evening while I
read portion of the sixteenth chapter of
Matthew, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth
verse. After reading these verses he said:
''Simon Peter, ever impetuous and anxious to
do something, said: Thou art Christ, the
son of the living God. Jesus knew from the
character of His disciples after He was gone
that they would preach Him and His influence
in Him would be tested.
Peter tells us in one of his epistles that
Jesus left US an example and we should fol-
low in his footsteps. You go into some COM
munities and take some one who processes to
be a disciple Of Jesus Christ and you go I'D to
him and ask him if he is acquainted with
Jesus Christ. That man will look at you with
a stare of holy horror and call you crank
and yet that man ought not to be aStonished,
for when that man gets himself before the
world as disciple OF Jesus Christ, he is Civ
ing the people to understand that he lives
near the heart of the Son of God and that he
is thoroughly acquainted with His ways.
When man becomes a professor of Jesus
Christ, it becomes his duty to study Jesus
Christ. 1t becomes his duty to know who
Jesus Christ was. 1t becomes his duty to
walk in the steps of Jesus. If this profes-
sion of Christianity consists in the wagging
of the tongue and the talking a>out Jesus
Christ, then we must live closely allied to
Christ, that we may know what
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
1 never take man into my confidence
that am not thoroughly acquainted with
and no man will take Jesus into his heart
unless he knows him thoroughly. and
if he knows him thoroughly he can
speak Of him intellgently and tell in glowing
and truthful words of the good that he has
done. l care nothing for what mans pro-
fessions may be- unless they agree with the
acts OF his life. A great many people re-
solve to profess religion in order to bring to
them again the respect of the world that they
have lost. There is no set rule for taking
Christ into our nature. 1t must be worked
i'll. A man in Christian life may start out
and make some blunders st first but after he
has got into the principles of the life of
Christ then he begins to live the true Chris
tian life, and he opens his heart and
lets the sunshine OF Christ's life
shine in and fill him with enthusiasm. Have
you noticed the life of many of the pro-
fessors OF Christianity? Why is it that q
barkeeper will think that Christ was q wine
bibber! Il is becacse he daily sees professors
OF Christianity coming in and going out of his
saloon after drinking Of the hellish fluid that
he sells. Do you wonder that the larger part
of the unconverted world SAYS TO you that
Christ said man to live like Him must DENY
himself and walk in the ways of righteousness
Yet those who profess to be Christians do not
deny themselves but attend the ball
the theater. and many of them places
OF riotous amusement. Brother, let me tell
you tonight that there is not greater OAli-
cation laid on the Christian tonight than to
walk uprightly and live as nearly as possible
to the example set by Jesus Christ. You are in
duty bound TO lit up your lie and make it
GCdly thing. This old world is cunning it is
furnished with intidelity and foibles TO cheat
and fascinate you. The world at large is
looking towards every Christian for the truth
and an example of perfect life. Men some
times think that all that is necessary for them
to do is to attend church once or twice g
day, or to have his name enrolled on the
church book. There is many professed
Christian who, ii you talk common sense to
him and explain some Scriptural passage en-
phaticaliy and plainly. will be terribly
shocked and will talk about it for Il week.
II we make profession of Christianity we
ought to be willing to live so that people will
look upon us as Christians. Every Christian
who wants 10 be q light in this world ought to
make sure OF it that he uses the light that
GOD gives him mentally, so that the
world about him may be benefited
May GOD bless Us tonight and open our eyes
to the Importance OF letting our light shine
that the sinner may be warded of from the
shQal and saved; and that we may enter into
the glory of the eternal life in cloud of
everything life.