Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-10
SAM JONES ON LOVE.
THE LOVE OF GOD, HARDSHELL BAPTIST
HALLELUJAH AND SHOUTING.
from the Baltimore Sum-

THE LovE OF GOD, HARDsHELL sAPTIsTs,
HALLELUJAH AND SHOUTING.
From the Baltimore Sum-
At the early morning service at Epworth
church Sam Jones talked about love. He
said: "Love is the fulfilling of the law.
God is love and nothing else. am so glad
that amid all the trials and hardships, amid
the thunders of grief and the tears of the
grave, Gods love is round about US. That
God made me have no doubt. God also
knows me and loves me. Life is worth
living under such circumstances as these.
God is all kindness and goodness. There is
nothing so wonderful in the world as the
love of Good. AS look at the fathomless,
bottomless, shoreless love of God, my soul
is lost in wonder. Look here, brother, SIS
ter, do you know that love can pour Itself
out in kindness and compassion, but love
cannot save? If love could save, that moth
er's tears and prayers and vigils would have
kept that boy from dishonored grave.
That loving wife would have snatched that
husband from q drunkard's tomb. Love
can pity-love can be kind, but love won't
save. If love could have saved, the sacri-
fetal death of Christ would be meaningless.
Love is wonderful, but it cannot save.
Away down in the East a family were re-
duced to extreme poverty, and the only
condition on which they could get some
thing to eat was to sell one of the children.
There were five of them. The wife said,
Husband, let's sell the oldest boy; he is
young and strong The father said, No,
wife, he has your eyes; cannot let him
CO. The husband then said, We'll, let's
take the second child' but the wife said,
"No, husband, he looks like YOU The up
shot was that none were sold, and they re-
solved to perish together. God did not
select any particular one of His children for
US, but He gave His only Begotten Son.
Some people think that God loves us because
Christ died for US. have heard it preached
from some pulpits that the reason that God
did not cut men and women down with
one fell stroke was that Christ died for us.
Jesus Christ never came into the world to
be target for Gods wrath. God loves
every sinner, but hates sin. You may take
the meanest old sinner in Baltimore and
God loves him as much as He does the
pastor of this church. God did not say, i
gave my son for any particular man. but
He gave Him for the whole wCrld. Down
where came from there are set of Hard
Shell Baptists with just enough sense to
keep out of an asylum. Laughter.] They
have monopolized God and cornered grace,
and think they are the elect of earth. I'VE
are the church, and other such items, are
played out. There are no elects now.
Thank God, we are getting broad enough to
get out into the ocean of Gods love and de-
clare that all are elect. All who are candi-
dates will be elected. Talk about Jesus
Christ dying for one man. Think of min
lister standing up to-day before an open
bible and reading as follows: God so loved
the Hard Shell Baptist Church that all who
believe on the Hard Shell Baptist Church
shall be saved Loud laugter.] Thank
God, His love is boundless. He takes in all.
Look here, you would all have been cut
down long ago but for the love of God.
Now, if Gods love is so wonderful, what
ought ours be to him. love my dogs,
love my horse. My horse knows l love
him. Every time 1 90 to his stall he rubs
his nose up against my cheek. My dog
jumps out to meet me at the gate. Yet
God cannot get us to be responsive to His
love. You talk about hell. Where could
you place that sort of fellow who loves not
God, in any other sort of a place, and make
him happy? [Laughter.] He'll is selfish
ness, and the man who has no response in
his heart for God is downright, upright
solid lump of hell himself Laughter
1 could talk about the love of God for weeks
at time, but when come to talk about
my love to God can wind up in very
short time.
"The love of trust is the lowest kind of
love. You are low down when you have
got that kind of love. Five-year-old Will
lie has the kind of love for Mamma. If
his face is dirty he trusts her to wash it;
if he gets sleepy he trusts her to put him
to bed. 1 trust the Lord. The only use
l have got for the Lord is to get all ne has
got for me. [Laughter.] Now sometimes
little Willie is lot of trouble. If any OF
YOU are step mothers you know that.
Well. now, 1 reckon there are about 500
children of the Lord in this house to-day.
You have the love Of trust; you are lot
of bother. If you get hurt you cry. II you
want anything you whine around until you
geti Laughter.] You're on the outlook
for heaven, its golden streets, etc. st. John
must have had his eye OH the average soul
of the nineteenth century when he wrote
about Heaven, being paved with gold.
Why some old fellows will scrape their toe
nails off to get those gold streets.
"This kind of love will do for little Will
lie, but we must put away childish things.
You ought to be men and women for Christ.
Some of you are 81 years old, [LaughterJ
and it is high time you were raking out
the trundle bed. Suppose man 40 years
old when he was hungry would say. "Mam-
ma, give me cake' Laughter or when
he was sleepy would say Mamma, put me
to bed.' Loud Laughter.] What would
YOU think of him? Religion is not all 'hol-
ler' and hallelujah. Loud Laughter If
you only shout hallelujah the devil will
have a joke on you. Laughter.
"The next step is the love of admiration.
1t appropriates every good quality of an
other. We want more of that kind of love.
1t pulls up the noble traits of others and
transplants them into ones own life. The
best of all love and the highest type Of love
is self-dedicatory love-the love that gives
itself. Here's a fellow who will give God
his love, but no money. Laughter IL
is easier to shout hallelujah than to give
$1,000.
Here are two fellows who Joined the
church at the same time. One comes up the
aisle shouting and jumping all the way