St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26
Sam Jones' breaches Powerful and Flo
quent Sermon on Sanctifcation and
Regeneration
lie cages His Hearers Not to Sit Like
Brass Monkeys, but Say
Amen.
"God Gave Job His Arm. and Said to
Him, Let's Take
Walk.'',
Sam Small Tells His Hearers How
They Must be Saved from
Eternal Death.

under way. Great interest is beginning to
be manifested in the meetings. The morn
ing prayer meeting yesterday was largely
attended, the service lasting nearly two
hours, and the morning air resounded with
the sounds of prayer and song. The SER
mon preached at 1880 by Sam Jones was
one of the most beautiful and powerful dis
sertations ever heard in the Northwest, and
the heart Of everyone who heard him was
touched with the eloquence of his words
and depth of his Incompatible illustrations
and word pictures.
A congregation of 800 or 1000 people sat
in the great pavilion when the regular
services were opened at 1880 o'clock.
Several seats had been moved near the al
tar, and these were crowded with people of
all ages. Fresh floral decorations were on
the platform, and an added number of sing
erS had been secured. A half hour was
spent in singing, under the direction of Mrs.
j. S. Bailey. At twenty-five minutes past 10
o'clock Sam Jones, accompanied by
Sam Small and NJ. j. MaXfield,
came through the western doorway
and mounted the singers stand.
Mr.. Maxtield took the leadership and sew
eral hymns were sung. The regular serv-
ices were opened with the singing of
hymn 16. Behold the Bridegroom" Sam
Jones appeared unusually fresh and bright
and dn immaculate tie shone at his throat,
which contrasted strikingly with his roam
muStache. Rev. j. w. Martin led in
prayer. He appealed earnestly to God to
help the good work that had already begun,
and invoked Gods blessing on Mr.. Jones.
Hymn II, Are You Washed in the
Blood?" was then sung, after which Sam
Jones advanced to the front of the stage
and requested that Brother Excel sing the
old Ethiopian song, keep in the Middle of
the Road" The song enthused the audi
tors, and at the close they loudly clapped
their hands.
HUMOR AND PATHOS.
Sam Jones arose and said:
l hope if you ever prayed for minister
you will pray for me, for came to Red Rock
on my way to heaven. We are not here to
cry and shout, but we are here to know the
will OF God and swear allegiance to God.
say God give me q working blessing down
here and will spend eternity in rejoicing.
Now we have selected subject that it will
be hard for us to get through with even with
prayer. will read this verse: whatsoever is
born of God cannot sin, for God dwelleth in
him and he cannot sin because he is
born of God" Sanctification is
good thing if it doesn't put a man
Georgia who said he had found out the differ
ence between Justification and sanctification.
The former satisfied God with man and the
latter satisfied man with himself. A fellow
has to be justified before he can be sanctified.
What is the difference between regeneration
and sanctiication, anyhow? There is no out
ward difference, but I'll tell you the differ
ence: the regenerated man has fears without
and fears within, but the Sanctified man has
his enemies all on the outside. Now let's I'M
derstand one another. l am not standing on
sanctiication to-day. I am down on the
plain of regeneration, and if you stay down
on that plain, I tell you you will go to heaven
wheE you die faster than an archangel can
fly. That old brother that prayed, ''oh, God,
give me
MORE COMMON SENSE
was making a powerful prayer. Common
sense is the greatest thing to mix up with re-
ligion on earth, Real good horse sense is a
great thing 10 mix up with religion in equal
proportions. When man gets more religion
than he has common sense he topples. He
gets visionary. When a man tells me that he
has had vision, 1 tell him, old fellow, you
are On your way to an asylum Why, I can
eat piece of fresh pork before go to bed
and I'll have more visions than anybody be-
fore morning. Religion is a very common
sense thing. Holiness of heart is the attitude
that the dying man must sustain towards
God if he expects to go to heaven when
he uleS. Inc LOrQ nelp me to-
day to make this text plain. Every Christian
man and every Christian woman is of princely
character, the child Of God. Brethren I
have said many time that l don't like to
have heaven away over there, but I want 1t
now. Why, brothers, what is the use of your
fooling your time away on heavenly recogui-
ton! want earthly recognition It's not
heavenly recognition. It's not heaven here
after, but heaven in Minnesota that we are
after. Talk about heaven hereafter. Gra-
cious Father. give US heaven down here
Some peoples heaven is in the future; good
Lord give US some of it now. I am the son
of king. and the wealth of my Father is in
eXhaustible. And, tell you, brethren, we
don appreciate that fact enough. Hold your
head up and sing your way through this
world. Oh. this sad, melancholy religion.
Brothers. you've got liver disease. I know
what an talking about, I've had it once. l
am the
SON OF A KING
and have a divine heritage. 1 say 1 IN glad
in my heart that this old world expects some
thing of q man who processes to be Chris
tan.
Now, brother, am not the son of the queen
OF England, but am the son of God, the XII ng
of the universe, and ought to behave my
self. My Lord, if I am Thy son, let me so
live that l shall never bring reproach on the
family OF heaven. Child of king! Brother,
when you make that profession you lead
CiedF leu you. DrOtQer, WneQ we real
lie that God is our father and Jesus our elder
brother, then pray to God that you may never
bring reproach on such a family. The chill
dren of king! Brother, wake up to-day to
the grandest Of thoughts that you are the
Child OF king. 1t is the divinest thought on
earth. About the hardest thing a man ever
tried to do in this world is to be Christian
without religion. He is like q fountain of
unclean water. I'll tell you, brother, if you
want to clean the stream of your life, you
run the devil ont of the fountain head.
Purity! Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God. Brother the greatest
prayer that you can pray to-day is, Oh, God
let the light of your kindness shine into ev cry
crack and crevice of my heart and let me see
what is in it. Brother when you turn over
some rooms in your heart and keep the keys
to a room in which are the beasts and reptiles
of pride, then God will turn the key back to
you. He wont dwell in house in which is
room filled with beasts and reptiles.
If you get good square look
at your old carcass old fellow, you will love
anything else better than you do that Carcass
amt slang. 1t means dead body and there
are many dead bodies in the church. Say
amen, brother. This is the coolest campmeet-
ing ever saw. What's the matter? Why
don't you come in and say something? Warm
up. Say amen, don't set there like
BRASS MONKEY.
Purity; purity is what we want. Purity of
not violate the law of God. What command
ment are you obliged to break before to-mor-
row night? You say none, and the same
blessed grace that keeps me q minute will
keep me half a century. Some men go into
religion on the installment plan. They want
to be good by the week. Say, sister, suppose
your sin is tattling. Why tattle for God? Cat
this point some man remarked ''amen.'')
There's man who has been hit said
Jones.
Now here, which sin is that that you and
are obliged to commit before sundown to-
day? IT you can get to heaven with SIN, how
much can yon get there with? Let's us look
at it that way. Look ahere, brother, if you
ever expect to get to heaven, quit your
meanness, and quit it now. What's the use
of tampering with sin? Some members of
the church ask me If 1 think it's a sin to
dance. and ask them if they want to dance.
and they say yes. 1 say go along then and
dance, for it's going to be too hot for you TO
dance where you are going. A true Chris
hates al ha cl,oIo