The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-15
Mr.. Jones Ends the Controversy with DR.. JEFF
ferry by Expressing Regret that He Spoke
Unkindly of the Baptist Denomination.
The Evangelist Expresses His Views
About Card Playing and Dancing.
He Can't Understand Why People Don't Want
to Know the Worst About Themselves
The Start Given the Revival Last Night.
THE DAY MEETINGS.

OnAlnuly OI the fSaptiSC Denomination.
The audience which assembled at the City Hall
yesterday morning to hear Evangelist Jones
| comprised about 1000 persons, the majority of
whom were ladies. Before beginning his SER
mon, Mr.. Jones remarked that he regarded the
audience magnificent one for Monday morning,
and believed it was an indication that the meet
ings would be successful He thanked God for
the spirit of earnestness and zeal which was no.
ticeable. Those who had come for personal
good would find it, and those who were hunting
for something to criticise would find that also.
II always carry with me- he said, "a few bones
to throw out to those who growl and gnaw, and
you know what kind of an animal does that.
The more barking and growing some OF you do,
the moro people. will come out to see
| what it is all about, and what you have
freed have found out this much since l have
been here-that if smooth, nice preaching would
save you, you all would hove done been in glory
| long ago. for you have got the snoothest lot of
preachers here in Indianapolis almost ever saw.
There is room enough for one un-nice preacher
here, and am willing to be that fellow. If
am un nice it is terrible reflection on this town,
amt it9 that more people come out to hear me
than to hear nice preachers. After ALL believe
! am a nice fellow and you are nice people, and
we will move along on that line. want you all
to feel perfectly at home here, and if you feel
like laughing, crying, praying, shouting or going
| out, why you DO it." The hymns which were
sung before the beginning of the services were:
Wonderful Words" "Are You Washed in the
Blood9" "Glory to His Name" Jesus Is Call
| ing" and Look Ever to Jesus" Prayer was
| offered by Rev. Turner and Mr. EXCEL sung
Sweet Rest at Home" Mr.. Jones's text was:
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him
and He will bring it to pass"
| Mr.. Jones said that the precious promise made
| in those last words meant that God would grant
the supreme desire of every Christian, but, like
all of His promises, it's conditions must be ob-
| served The fact upon which his entire religious
| life was based was that God was faithful to His
promises. and all he needed to do was as God di-
rected him to do. The term commit" used in
| the text was the pivot upon which the whole
question turned; the sort of faith that moved the
heart of the Deity the faith of committal
Said he: There is great deal of trusting TO
God for faith. People trust God for everything,
just like little boy trusts his mother and she
causes him lots of trouble, too. Don't you
think that the Lords children in Indianapolis
cause Him heap of trouble, too7 The church
is continually goin' around cryin' Lord, gimme
somethin'.' Well, what do you wantr Don't
know, sir; l just want somethin-and
want it mighty bad One old fellow says Lord,
give me more grace. Well, if he ever gets to
hell, it won't be because he hasn't had enough
grace. If the Lord was to come down now and
give him weeks rations OF grace, the devil
would have half of it before to- morrow night
Laughter Some pray for faith; would just as
leave pray for muscle. If want more faith I'll
pitch in and use what I've got, and it will grow
IN me. We've been runnn on believes in this
country. Lots of church members profess to be-
lieve everything that is in the Bible and yet
don't live ur to any of it. Look here Bob In
gersoll is gentleman, and scholar, and
Christian beside some of you who don't do what
you say you believe Ingersoll is an infdel and
you are a hypocrite That's the difference, and
I would rather be an infdel than hypocrite any
day. Besides that. he gets 5000 or $4O0 nj ght
for bein' an infdel and sou don't get nothin' for
ben' hypocrte and board yourself. Laugh
ter. We have been running on faith for about
fifty years in this country; let's live on works
awhile and try to catch up. Whenever YOU
hear a man say that he believes in this and that
and don't do it, set him down as either a fool or
liar. You say that's pretty strong language
for preacher. Well, we've teen using weak
language on a lot of you old fellows for
fifty years. and yet you in a half
mile of hell-lets try something stronger"
Continuing MIR. Jones said that something
was the matter with the churches-they were
not doing their duty. What they needed was
the faitn of commital--of conservation. The
church of God has too many militia and too fe
brave fearless, earnest soldiers in it. ''Many Of
them are afraid to speak their minds" he said
land when this world gets so nice itcant bear to
hear the truth straight out from the shoulder, /
want to 60 right away to heaven. There amt
enough men and devils in the earth to scare me
now" Following ont this line of thought Mr..
Jones made the following reference to the mat
ter recently in controversy between him and DIR.
Jeffery: Now, of all men on the earth, love
the preachers best, for every place have been
they have been my best friends. have been
sorry dozen times that the remark made to
half-dozen cowardly proselytes should have been
taken to have meant great Christian denomi
nation AS God is my judge, meant only few
men who were running around trying to do
harm here / wanted to do good. God
bless the Baptist Church; l love it. for
/ got the best wife out of it that ever
man was blessed with; but do hate a prosely-
ter as / hate the devil. When I said what did
at Columbus, | meant the Baptist
Church or the Christian Church than l meant
the angels in heaven. 1t was the only thing in
all my ministry that | ever said that seemed to
reflect on any denomination, and that applied
only to those who were trying to do mischief
love the preachers. If you have got any here
and You don't think love them, bring him out
here this platform and will hug MIN until he
| holiers; and if you have any woman that You
don't think love, bring her here also, and I'll
send for my wife to hug her. The greatest
blessing God ever bestowed upon community
is game preacher, and the greatest of all curses
Is little weak cowardly, pusillanimous preach
er. who hits everything he should miss aud
misses everything he should hit never have
had man in my church that didn't love we'll
enough to try to keep him from going to hell,
and when | had church for eight years |