The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-21
Mr.. Jones Thinks that Indianapolis Needs
More Pocket Book Religion and Talks to
the Moneyed Men of the Church.
Mr.. Small Tells, with Very Good Effect,
the Story of His Conversion.
The Columbus Baptists Contradict Mr.. Jones's
Assertions in Series of Resolutions and
Demand from Him q Retraction.
MIR. JoNEs's MORNING SERMON.

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The Evangelist Talks Plainly About the OBJ
legations OF Wealthy Christians.
Roberts Park M. Il. Church was crowded to
the utmost limit of Its capacity yesterday morn
ing The services opened with singing Come
All that Dwell Below the Skies" DIR. l. w.
Joyce of Trinity M. E. Church. Cincinnati, led
in prayer. He prayed for the success Of the
labors of the two evangelsts and for the news
papers, asking for the latter that God would
bless these messengers as they go out upon the
wings of the morning CARRYING these sermons to
thousands Of souls in hidden places.
Mr. Jones said, quoting his text:
| Whereby given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises that by these might be partakers
OF the divine nature having escaped the corruption
that Is IN the world through lust.-Second Epistle
General OF ST. Peter, ], 4.
| The kingdom Of heaven is condition of mind
| and state Of heart, and my charities and my good
conduct are but the clothes which are worn by
| this state of mind, this condition of heart. The
ultimatum of religion is to put us into the pres
enee OF Christ that we may be like Christ frst,
| and then secondly to do like Christ. 1t is not
| everyone that sayeth Lord, Lord" shall enter
| into the kingdom Of heaven In other words,
not everyone that seems outwardly to be familiar
| and we'll acqdainted-not everyone that seems to
know God-shall enter the kingdom, but ne who,
protesting to know God, is careful to do the will
| of God. Our Savior put the test at this point
| when He said he that heareth these sayings of
| mine and doeth them not is likened to man
| who built his house on the sands. And
when the rain came, and the flood beat,
| and the winds blew upon that mans
house it FELL and it fell just at the time the poor
| fellow was obliged to have a house. and ne was
| ruined because he did not have one But he that
heareth these sayings Of mine and doeth them,
| liken him unto a wise man who built his house
| on the rock, and when the floods came, and the
winds blew, and the rains beat-I do not care
| how fair it is to-day, nor how calm, brother,
| there are foods and winds, and storms ahead of
! us-and when the winds beat and the storms
howled that mans house stood securely, and 1t
| stoo lst when he needed one and it stood
when lie would have been ruined if he had not
| had one Blessed fact-he that heareth these
| sayings of mine, and doeth them-the difference
between genuine Christianity and practical inf
| delity-the worst form of infidelity-s that one
| hears and won't do, and the other heareth and
doeth the will of God.
| Many confound ST Paul's conviction with St
Paul's conversion and renewal. St Paul had
| stubborn mental trouble. He could not see the
| divinity in the Lord Jesus Christs life and char
| acter. That trouble was as deep as his nature.
| st. Paul was honesr. God knew he was honest,
and one morning God turned the biggest cannon
| of heaven loose on st. Paul When that cannon
| fred ST. Paul fell, and when he fell he asked
| ''Oh, Lord what wilt thou have me to do?n He
| surrendered right there I will tell you another
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trouble from that day until his head was cut off.
| He was an honest man. All God needs here in
Indianapolis is class, intelligent and honest
men to start with. st. Paul was honest. There
| is little, old, dishonest man out there with 81
thimbleful OF brains who says: IF God shoots
| that big cannon at me l am going to
be converted" little. old sparrow
sits on rail. saying, when a cannon ball hits
be neither flesh nor feathers left of the little
| sparrow when bail like that hits God doesn't
shoot cannon-balls at snow-birds. You can put
that down. He is too wise in the management
| of the moral universe for thing like that. God
adapts the size of the shot to the size of the
| game. Brother. if you never have been power
fully convicted, it is beaause there isn't much Of
you to convict Do you understand! Laugh
| ter.
The deep things Of God, brother, you and T.
| brother will be studying millions of years in
| heaven. can afford to wait have too much
| else to do here to be giving time to studying
these deep things. When get to heaven I
| will have time enough to solve them all, with
| that Divine Teacher to teach me. am going
| to try to put with the Ten Commandments and
| the Sermon on the Mount while am here;
and I will take bold of the other things when
| get up yonder. We will all be in the b c class
when we get up to heaven, and angels teaching
u.s. Here we are wanting to sound the profound
| est mysteries of psychology, theology AND the
Godhead-Ettle fellows trying to solve Shose
questions here When you get to glory the an
| It is not the mysteries of the Bible that bother
me. 1t is the Ten Commandments 1t Is so hard
to live up to them. 1t is not the mysteries of
the Bible that hurt me. It Is the Sermon on the
Mount That shames me and shows me how
mean I am, and how good could be. Many a
/ little cimbiin' headed fellow-the main object of
his life in this world is to find out who is the
father of Melchsedek-if he only knew that,
would be elected for all time. Laughter
| assert 1t that except man be born again he
| cannot enter the kingdom of heaven-born from
above born from on high elevated from lower
strata TO higher strata Wbyl A rock cannot
live the life of flower; flower cannot live the
life Of horse q horse cannot live the life Of a
man. When you lift a rock on the plane with a
flower it blooms like a rose bush When you
take flower, and bring it up on plane with an
animal it will have flesh, and bones, and in
stinct like an animal. When you take an ami
NAL, aud lift him upon the plane with human
being, then he will have intelligence, will and
sensbilitY like man. When you take human
beings, and elevate them on the plane of Jesus
Christ we walk in the Spirit. That
we are too low down-little fellows
living in the cellar or lying under the cook stove
in the kitchen, waiting for waffles. Many fel
low in this country Is running ON his stomach
on a plane with the fesh--living down in the
flesh. You can tell who man is by whore be
lives. A man who lives under the cook stove
and sleeps in the pantry belongs to the anima
tribe. Laughter Yes he does. man who
lives In the nOrary, Win the luest autnorSi is at
intellectual man. A man who walks arm ir
arm with God is spiritual man. Brother, We
have got 50 get mp higher.
Religion is like the measles-it is only catch
ing when you have the fever do not think
it was catching here when got here. You have
been having too much heart religion hero a
Roberts Park Church. You cannot catch re
ligion from a man who hasn't the fever on him
tell you religion is like measles If 1t goes II
on you it will kill you. That is what is th,
matter here in Indianapolis Nine tenths of /
has gone In on you. People say. II have it u
hereS-[pointing to the heart Got what II
herel religion is just as much thing of tn,