St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-29
NO USE TO WAIT.
Sam Jones Urges EAis Hearers to Got
OFF the Fence.

OaK JHe renee
The congregation that greeted Sam Jones
last night was light, but his brief address
interested those.who were present deeply.
He opened the services a few minutes past
O'Clock and preached from the passage of
scriptures:
what wait for: my hope is in God.''
He said: l propose to talk to you tonight
as a man to a man. l suppose one man on
this side will say L m wasting time to consider
this question. It's an important question,
and I want time to consider it. Do you want
time to consider whether it is better to be
good than bad? How much time do you want
to consider the pro position whether it is better
to be good Or better to bad? Better to go to
hell than to go to heaven? You settled the
question twenty years ago that it is
better to be good than to be bad.
You don't mean that you want time to con-
slider. l am ready to say that Il man is not
honest with his God when he sits back there
and says want time to consider. One man
says he's waiting for better terms. Religion
is TOO hard on y fellow. There is but one
class of free men in the world and that class
is those who love Jesus Christ with all their
heart. There's many man sitting right now
looking me in the face who, il he broke the
laws of Minnesota as he does the laws of
God would stay in jail the better part of his
life There isn't anything in religion that
won't make me better husband,
a better ueiehbor and a better citizen
of the United States. I'm so glad
that the conditions Of religion are just as
they are, that man can't enjoy it unless he
quits his meanness. God wont have any
thing to do with YOU unless you get up out of
the dirt and shake
THE DEVILS FLEAS
Off of you. I'm glad the conditions are just
what they are. Pm not in favor of tearing
the fences from around the churches in this
country and turning tho goats in with the
sheep. There's too many goats IN the church
now. Brother, Christianity demands of every
man that he cease to do evil and learns to do
good. I should hate to get down so low that
would have to believe that everybody will go
to heaven in order to go there myself
Better terms! The terms OF Christianity are
simply that men come up and decide to do
right and quit the wrong. Do you know
what's the matter with this world? l tell
you, old sinner sitting round on the fence
criticising the workers in Gods vineyard
get down Off that fence and go to work. I've
got as much right to get up there as you
have. Many q FELLOW in this country says he
wants feeling, but he won't do anything to
get it. Like a man who goes out to out tree
and won't do it until he sweats. Another
says I'm waiting till l get fit. Do you know
that Jesus Christ come into the world
to save those fellows who amt fit.
/ IL you are waiting to get fit, old fellow, how
long will 1t be before you get fit? Don't you
know that yon are less 1T to-day than you
ever was, aud don'tyou know that the longer
you putt off the more unfit you get2 You'll
generate grace faster running than you will
standing still. Lord God show us that all we
need Is steam enough to start with. tell
you, old fellow, you start with what you've
got tonight. Now, brother, we'll take
David's conclusion, My hope is in God
Brethren, my hope not in the angels. Ii L be-
lieved that wouldn't get to heaven, the very
thought would make me maniac.
Tuesday Waits.
The Minneapolis branch of the w. T. NJ. s..
will meet in the naviliOn MT 2.2n a,clnclS this