The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-14
SAM JONES IN OMAHA.
Shaking Up the Souls OF the Non.
Believers

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Sam Jones seemed pleased as he STEP
ped upon the platform in the Exposition
Building last evening and viewed the
large audience. Il desire to cal your
attention "ssid he. "to the same lesson
as last night, Let Us not be weary OF
well doing for in due season we shall
reap, il we faint not 1t is the we'll
doing of the text 20 which the apostle
cals attention. Ii we are not weary Of
well-doing we shall in due time reap our
rewar ;" After some talk upon we'll
doing. IN general wav, the revivalist
branched off upon the evils of the liquor
traffic, describing the suffering and the
sorrew OF the many poor womsR In
omaha and other citIes, who have
drunken husbands. The young ladies
who offer wine 10 their visitors OF the
male sex were scored severely and ne
stated that many a man who was now a
sot IN the gutter, or filling a drunkard's
grave, had been started upon the down
ward course by some smiling siren, who
invited him TO partake Of glass of wine.
Go out on the street and clap your
hands and shoot your mouth of on the
subject, il you want to do any good -
continued he. An the liquor men
want is for you to slap your hands in
the churches but not say anything out
side. We can never be what we ought
to be until we do away with this inside
way of working. What we want badly
IS not high license preachers, but total
abstinence ones. When the devil can
get preacher o take glass OF wine, at
the dinner table be has spiked his gun
right there, and l had rather try to
make q new gun than 20 uaspike such a
one. A good Presbyterian preacher at
q temperance meeting said, Il am in
favor of temperance, but l cannot sign
the pledge; that's total abstinence An
old sot in the back part of the room
arose and said. The preachers right;
them's nv sentiments. too The
preacher went up 20 the front at once
and said, If IL comes to that l will
sign. l will be on the side Of the good
and vIrtuous people Aud he signed
the pledge. 4 good many doctors pre-
scribe liquor for their patients, but l
want TO say that if | was a practicing
physician l would rather give a man
whiskey after he had been dead three
days than before.
The only way TO prevent backsiiding
is to take an interest III your converts
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special interest in the young men. He
has taken IN over Loo new members al
his church. What have the old mem
bers done to help him? Very little. You
pack your preacher in an ice box, and
then curse MIN because he don't sweat
| never saw such a field as this is. There
| are 20 600 young men here between the
ages of 10 and 25, who might be made
grand trophies TO the church of Christ
II the Christian people OF the city would
only throw their arms around them and
invite them 10 participate in the happi-
ness and glory that they have. God
help MS 10 pitch in and do our best IN
tnst line"
The church, as an organization, was
then compared TO an engine, and the
statement made that il was the work
accomplished that was the test OF each.
The test Ct what a church J.,
Is found in what il is doing. .
continued he. What are you
doing2 Gcd wants you for what
/ you are doing, not for what you are.
| We pay our preacher. say some of YOU,
and take up missionary collections, etc. :
You run yourself, don't your WHAT is
wanted of en- engine is to pull cars. II
it wont do that any longer it is thrown
on the scrap pile. III q church don't :un
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devils scrap pile, and will get there. /
/ saw q steamboat in Georgia that would
run along the river all right unit, a
/ landing was reached. Then the engi-
neer would blow his whistle and the
| boat would stop. When the whistle
blows the boat can { run, and when the
ooAt stops the whistle can't blow. So IL
is with some Christians. What you do
Is the test OF what you are.
We read sgain IN the same chapter,
Bear one another's burdens and so full
ill the law OF Christ. Ii Is the spiritC If
Christianity 10 say this. Christ bore
The burdens Of life. Amid all the palaces
He never selected one and said, This is
mine He never staked off corner lot
and claimed possession of il. Thank
God you have got heap Of good people
here, some of the best | have met; but
YOU haven't enough Of them.
That walking must stop" said Sam
uel, as several persons walked in. To-
morr night all who come at aduarter
of Q can't get in. have got considera-
ole patience; as much as a woman, but
not as much as scme men. Ii you come
late why don't you come in the back
door and sneak down the aisle as il you
had done something you were ashamed
of, and then you won't disturb the rest
OF tue auulcuCc.
Il want you TO ask yourself the dues
ton, Suppose everybody was the same
as We, how would the church stand at
the mercy seat?' IL is your duty to be
as good as any other member. I would
not accept any man in my church who
would not pray IN his family and IN
public, and do anything the church asks
Of him. If you do your dHty in this way
US preachers would be in hog heaven
all the time. Do you know what that
Isl IL is to have plenty to eat and moth
ing TO do. Let every man resolve TO do
Whist he can for his fellow man."
He related an incident told by Bishop
Marvin of the latter's early circuit work,
showing that in one church, where the
members were cold, seventy-two
out of seventy-6ve converted people
went back and became as bad as
before. while il another, which
was full of FIRE and enthusiasm, there
never was 4 backslider. An old drunken
blacksmith who attended the first meet
ing. was sought out by a class leader,
given new clothes and finally converted,
with his family. II was predicted that