Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-19
A SENSATIONAL SERMON.
SAM. JONES, THEETANGELISE
Extracts From His seventh sermon In Cincin-
pati-Pretfy Plain TaIk.

Extracts From His seventh sermon In Ciocln
Bau-Preuy Plain TaIs.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette j:
reporting the evangelist Sam. Jones,
who is now preaching in that city, IN
eTtenSo. Trinity church is crowded to
overfowing every night. The ERquireI
suggests that hc and Bob Ingersoll
have "joint discussion" The fol-
lowing is from the Ga5ette's report
sam. Jones is an erratic, eccentric.
inexplicable ministerial tornado, and he
carries his hearers along and demolishes
their pet hobbies much as does a Texas
" noriher " carry before it all that lays
in ITS path.
THE SERMON.
The text selected for the evening $
discourse was from the second verse OF
the second chapter of Second CORN
thisns Receive us we have wronged
no man with our tongue; we have
corrupted no man by our example; we
have defrauded no man in any business
transaction"
st. Paul knocked at the inner door OF
the Church Of Corinth. lie was met
by that Church. and he was asked,
Upon what ground do you demand so
great a privilege " And he replied,
On the grounds, first, | have wronged
no man with my tongue; have cor
rupted nc man by my example; have
deirauded no man in any business trans
action" Jesus Christ watched the
doors of Ills kingdom when lie stood
among men with the most 'uncOmpro-
missing and most untiring scrutiny.
And that young man approached
Christ, and would have entered
the kingdom, and Jesus looked upon
him as he asked the question What
must | do that | can get into the king
dom? ?" Jesus looked at him and said,
Keep the Commandments The
young man said exultingly, Why,
Master, all these have | kept from my
youth up And Jesus looked him in
the face and said, Zone thing thou
lackest yet -; and the young man
walked Off. expect his disciples, If
they had been as worldly as We are,
would have said, " Master, that's a
magnificent young man; he's a very
rich young man he stands well in the
community, and if he only lacks one
thing let's take him in. lie will give
tone to the church. and he will pay
largely. We have few members of
that sort, and he's got money to pay
our expenses. Why. Master, if he
doesn't lack but one thing let's take
him in." d" One thing thou lackest
yet" said Christ, and the young man
turned and went away, and that's the
last he heard Of him. The disciples
caught at the same spirit and taught
men this : That YOU must deny your
self and take up your cross and follow
Christ. They taught rs if any man
love the world the love of God is not
in him; if any man have not the spirit
OF Christ he is none Of His.
I'm a natural, innate, constitutional,
inborn hater of shams and humbugs,
and above all humbugs that ever cursed
this world the religious humbug is the
biggest. That's so. will give you a
little illustration. At Harvard, | be-
lieye it was, there was in the college an
old profeSsor--one Of those thick
glassed old fellows, near-sighted-whO
was wonderful bugologist. He knew
bugology better than he did manology,
and he was acquainted with all the bugs
from Adam down, and he had all kinds
of EN- in frames hung up around his
office. In their mischief, and as a joke,
the students got the body of one bug
and took the legs of another and the
head of another and the wings Of an
other and put them together just like
as if nature had formed it that way,
and they all trooped down stairs to-
gether into the old professors room,
and one Of the boys says, Professor,
what kind Of a bug is this Z" and the
Professor stood up and took the
card on which the bug was
pinned, and he cast his eyes on it, and
after looking at it awhile he said, "Gen-
tlemen, this is a humbug." Now you
have my idea of q humbug. It's a
fellow that has a heart that belongs to
the Church, and head that is run by
the world and his hands by the devil,
and he's Just nothing but a sort of
a compound. God deliver us from
humbugs in the Church. Let's be
only one of a kind. and let that be a
good Christian. If was asked now
what was the trouble in Cincinnati, the
greatest trOuble-a trouble YOU can't
overcome as easily as other troubles
| believe | would answer that the great
est trouble in Cincinnati is that you
have too many churches here
| am willing for anybody to have
more money than / have, and more land
than ever expect to have, and more
stocks and bonds than can eyerg get, but
amt willing for any man that walks
this earth to nave more religion than |
have. | can get as much as a soul full,
and that's about as much as an angel
can GET If am a Christian | will he