St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26
HOW TO BE SAVED.
Sam Small Explains the Plan of
Salvation.

HOW TO BE SAVED.
Sam Small Explains the Plan of
Salvation.
The congregation in the large pavilion
last night was lighter than that of the
morning. At five minutes to o'clock Sam
Jones, with his coat hanging over his
shoulders, came in and, together with Sam
Small and Maxwell and Excel, mounted
the speakers stand. Rev. DR.. Hobert
opened the services with prayer. At
the close of the prayer, the hymn
Sound the Battle Cry" was sung, after
which Rev. W. w. Satterlee made the an
nouncements for to-day's exercises. Mr.
Excel sung 1.-The Handwriting on the
WALL" solo which was beautifully exc
cuted. 1t was fifteen minutes past 8
o'clock when Sam Small advanced TO the
front of the stage and looked down into the
sea of faces that was upturned to him. He
deliberately opened the Bible and read the
thirteenth and nineteenth verses of the
second chapter of Ephesians.
But now, in Christ Jesus, We, who some
times were afar off, are made nigh by the
blood of Christ.
Now, therefore, We are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and OF the household of God. Said he:
1 came here tonight to speak to those who
are not members of Gods household. But
even it we are out of the kingdom we know
it. We know that there is a God. We know
that He is the supreme sovereign Of the uni
verse, and we being His creatures, are under
obligations to Him.
We know that God must regulate all ply ST.
cal nature, by laws. We know that he must
bring US under certain laws for our govern
know We do fbo
laws of God if we do not live I'D to our
allegiance to the government of God, then
we are strangers to that government
We know as long as we are transgressing the
laws of God, that we are rebels. We are
strangers and we are foreigners. We know
that 1t Gods existence depended upon US,
God himself could not exist. We know if God
was dependent on human creatures for his
government, then the commandments of God
would disappear from among men, then
might would rule. We cannot conceal from
ourselves our own sinfST state, and
We cannot conceal from 20 Ourselves
the fact that we are at war with the will Of
God. Turn this old world loose tomorrow
and turn it over to the domination of men
and there would be no peace, no justice, no
order SO long as man knew he was to
be the only arbitrator of his own acts. And
how long I'VE were apparently self-satisfied
with our works. How long we hold out in
our rebellion against God. That would all
be very well we know, if there was to be
nothing further of our lives.
We know that we cannot trust ourselves in
this rebellion up to the true of death, for
there is something beyond the grave A man
may walk up to me aud say that we are the
same as beasts of the field, but there is some
thing In my nature that revolts
at it. A philosopher may walk
up to me with his schemes Of how man origi-
mated in this world and tell me that am one
of class that had its birth in
A MUD PUDDLE,
but my reason tells me that I was fashioned
by hand that is divine. There is to be an
immortality beyond this life and when a man
looks into himself and finds that he is an
intelligent piece of mechanism then he
knows that there is something that is inmor-
tai in him. Then if there is something in me
that is immortal, must assure myself of the
possibility of securing some means to obtain
that higher life beyond the grave, and
for eternity, I must look about me for
the means = for that preparation
and when begin, my observation tells me
that cannot rest my hopes for Immortality
on my moral resolutions. My own resolutions
will not suffice for my preparation for the
will stop my sinful ways, but this will not
suffice as platform on which shall stand to
leap out of the mortal into the
immortal life. My resolutions will not
do me, they will be my safeguards
perhaps for awhile. Nor Will the ma made
PHILOSOPHERS of earth satisfy me. They are
too high in their flights OF imagination for
the ordinary use of mankind and I cannot
trust myself to thing that is improbable,
nor can risk my mortal existence on the ex-
amples OF any man who has lived be-
fore me. 1 dare not die in re-
hnli ion n>I
go down to my grave wearing the uni
form OF Gods enemy. l dare not go to an
swer the questions and solve the mysteries
OF eternity in any such an armor as that. ]
dare not test that there is reward for
REBELLION AGAINST GOD.
dare not leap into that pit where all is
| darkness, and into which no ray of light has
ever yet penetrated. If I die in rebellion
against God, shall never go to heaven and
look upon the face of my Saviour He who
came to earth and suffered the agonies of a
thousand deaths, saying with his expiring
breath 1t is finished. My work in behalf OF
man is ended ut last. The thought is abhor-
ent to me that l shall never go where can
| see my mother again and look into her low
ing eyes. / cannot die in rebellion to God
when to think of 1t is to think
of forever departing from my wife and chill
aren. Oh, my GOD, save me from such 9
| tate as that. The things 1 have spoken tc
| you tonight are true and, my brother, they
come up to your mind in your lucid moments
L KNOW they have come to me
with terrific emphasis and terrible
force. The trouble with the sinner.
to-day is that these people are carnally blind
and they can not apply the truths of God tt
themselves and they don't understand the
| scheme. We don't understand how we are to
be regenerated and live forever in blessed
unity with God. I don't know a:
can explain it, but let Gods
| love shine in your heart and try to un
derstand how it is that you can be saved.
man says, II want to get in to the Kingdom
of God but I don't understand the process
You say to me that there is fountain drawn
from ImmanuePs veins but don't understand
it. How is it that the death of Jesus
Christ 1,S00 years ago has anything to DE-
with me in Minnesota 1t became necessary
for God to send his son Jesus Christ to pro
claim liberty, and it was through his BLOOD
that man was offered way OF salvation. A.
our forcfathers shed their blood and died fol
the salvation of this country, so did Jesus
Christ die for the salvation of mans soul Nc
man is enjoying the liberty of this country
tonight, unless he is law-abiding citizen
and just as man will not obey the law of Goo
he is a foreigner and alien to the govern
ment of God. How is it that the love OF
Christ brings man nearer to God
Why, because he walks up ant
says I renounce my allegiance to the devil
He confesses that the devils government il
wrong and he wants to get out of it, and say:
he wants to become fellow citizen of the
saints If you are tired of serving the devi
| and want to serve God, you have got to com,
up and say you want to renounce your allegi
ance to the devil.
At the close of these Of these remarks,
Sam Jones arose and spoke briefly, inviting
all who wanted to be prayed for to come
forward to the altar and about fiftv ~