Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-22
SAM JONES.
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pirate. Notwithstanding the fact that
he only arrived Friday, he has made a
marked improvement in the render
ing of music of both choir
and audience. Without Excel, Jones
would not have one-half the effect he has
After singing, and prayer by Rev. l.. l..
Stewart, Rev. Jones began his sermon. He
took for
HIS TEXT
the nineteenth verse of the twelfth chapter
of Proverbs: AS righteousness tendeth to
life, 80 he that pursueth evil puSueth it TO
his own death" The Bible is wonderful
book. 1t goes back TO the beginning of all
things In the first chapter of Genesis !
read of my own origin and the origin OF
created things. The first chapter of Gene
sis tells me whence | came. The thous-
aud chapters that follow warn me Of my
destiny. Ii have read my Bible TO any
profit, God warns me 10 have nothing 10
do with sin Sin will ruin everything. |
can open my eyes and walk the streets of
the city, and every drunkard that meet
tells me that sin is running him. All the
cannOns of fHeaven are turned loose against
sin. We are taught, in word, that godli-
ness is profitable TO all things We are
taught in the word of God that the wages
of sin is death. Sin does It's work grad
ually. 1t doesn't kill man
WITH ONE FELL. BLOW.
What a mercy it would bc if some men
were struck down at once by sin.
Young man, have you got n right Ia
crush out your mothers life? A friend of
mine said to me, Brother Jones, my two
boys are killing their mother. What would
you do?' | said TO him that some morning
after they had had protacted nights de-
bauch would 80 up to their room, AVA
ken them and say: Boys, there is n wo-
man down stairs that is the best wife q
man ever had, and she is the best mother Il
boy ever had, but You are killing her
Iou had better take down your shot gun
and load il heavily and shoot her down in
the breakfast room. That would he more
merciiul."
YOI' CALL 1T rREEDoM
to break your precious mothers heart. II
that is freedom ! would rather be bonded
slave. My God, deliver me from all such
ideas rs that, | saw a group of four men
the other day, and one of them had drag
gcd his associates into trouble. What
right had he To do this? Every saloon
sign is IN insult 10 every woman and child
in the country. IfeNery har-kcepcr would
20 10 preaching, or teaching, or praying,
this country would bc n great deal better
Amen. Say II again. Amen. SAY
IT AGAIN. Amen. That will do.
If man is sound asleep he
can't say Amen" ! like the Ohio
McthodiSts. They will shout Amen"
quicker than you can say Jack Robin
son" Christianity is life, Wr, LIFE. !
like live Christian. Good Lord, don't
! let medic until the breath leaves my body.
! If had some of your blood and muscle
could run mile while you got up out of
your chair. Sinners are wide awake
In some Eastern province there is
A DEADLY SNAKE,
the bite of which is always fatal. Some
explorer gave an account of the biting of
sat down and waited for death. 'fift
he said that his foot was dead.
You could thrust knife into
il and he could not feel il. Then he
said his leg had died, that there was no
feeling in it; that you could thrust II
knife into it without his suffering. Then his
left side died; and the poison pcrmeated
the other side and finally reached his
heart, and hc died horrible death. He
died by the inch so il is with sin. Sin
kills by the inch. The speaker illustrated
this point by describing the commence
mcnt and growth of the cancer that
brought Senator Hill, Of Georgia, to his
death II first commenced on his tongue,
spread to his check-tO the glands Of the
neck, and finally destroyed the force Of the
entire vital system.
SIN Is A VIRUS;
and Just as certain as the virus Of cancer
killed Senator Hill, 10 will sin kill you.
Sin kills conscience iirst. Sin stabs II
again and again till it dies in
the bosom. How many of us To-
night have murdered our own CON
science. At first, our conscience is,tcndcr
You would not do anything that conscience
condemned But now, We neglect every
duty. and are not concerned about it.
At this point Jones took occasion to
give progressive cuchre an oyerhanling.
i tell you the man or woman who viii
sit down and play progressive euchre.is a
gambler and "A blacklrg IN the sight OF
God
There is always prize to bc won or lost,
and if you win it you know yon have won
it at cards If sinners
WANT TO PLAY PROGRESSIVE EuCHRE
let them do il. You call 1T scientific
game II you get Ia heaven you will find
that God has set il down, gambling.
You pat the harkerPer on the shoulder
and say: "if YOU will divide with III
and help pay our taxes We will license
you" had rather walk To church
in streets knee-decp with mud than
on streets paved with whisky money.
THIS OLD GOVERNMENT
has no conscience. II you were TO go up
to Congress and mention the word con
science they would all run up to the die
+. tionary To know what that means. Con
science don't enter into legislation in this
country. God help 10 dig up the conscience
of legislation. We will have different laws
then. You 90 into the newspaper Office
and shout conscience. II would scare
them almost TO death. They advertise the
. New Orleans LOTTERY III Hn cene
line. and advertise all the saloons
in town. What does the newspaper man
know about conscience. If God would
stir up the preachers conscience it would
be better for this world. The preachers
run around this country looking like they
were wanting to apologize for something.
There are people who say, 81 will pay my
mart That is not the idea. DO all you
can, and pay all You can. Twill venture,
Brother Ifite, that you have many Meth
odist in your district worth fifty thousand
dollars, who don't pay twenty-five dollar,
a year to the church. He says he has got
them.
ALWAYS WAS GOOD At GUESSING.
/ will tell you my brother, q man that
won't tote fair with God in money matters
won't tote fair at all. Some Of you laugh.
You think tote il slang. Tote Is as
good as any word in the language. A
man said TO me the other day, Jones,
YOU use too much slang" Where do ust