St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-08
OUR HEAVENLY GUIDE.
Rev. Sam Jones breaches on Gods Willing
ness to Lead Us Away From
Corruption,
Having First Become Partakers of the
Divine Nature-We Must Cooper
ate With God.
Those Who Would be Saved Should
Step into the Outstretched
Hand OF God.
Sam Small Discourses Upon the Wor-
ship of the Golden Calf by
People OF To-Day.
sam Jones, Chicago Sermon

sam > ones
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, March 7.-Rev. Sam Jones
preached his last sermon on the North side
at the Chicago Avenue church this morning.
The church was crowded TO the doors. His
text was: whereby are given to us ex-
ceeding great and precious promises; that
by these We might be partakers of the di-
vine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust. I'll.
Peter, l., 4. Mr.. Jones said: The first
thing noticeable in these verses is that ac-
cording to Divine promises God has given
us all things pertaining to life and gOdli-
ness. He is the source of all life. He is
the source of the animate and the inani-
mate. He is the source of the physical,
the spiritual and the intellectual life. He
is not only the source OF all life
but the pTeseTver as well. i was not only
redeemed by grace but L was born in grace,
and have lived in il up to this hour and will
go to heaven by the grace of God. What
are the conditions by which live physic-
ally? If 1 meet those conditions 1 live
physically; if L meet Ithe intellectual condi-
tions
LIVE INTELLECTUALLY,
and if meet the spiritual conditions l live
spiritually. Partakers of the divine nature.
What does this mean? l may discuss more
wisely the manifestations of renewed
heart than l can discuss the nature of such
a renewal. Whenever l start out as man,
not as preacher, to preach the point laid
down in the start, say: Father, take me
by the hand and lead me-" There are some
things in this world that we don't know,
and never will know, but they don't bother
me. I'll have plenty of time in the next
world 10 learn those things. Let us live up
to the commandments in this world and
afterward in the next we will be able to
understand them from One who knows all
about them. Having been made partakers
of the divine nature, let us escape the cor
ruption that is in the world through lust.
God has done his part, and will continue to
do il. Don't be troubled about Gods will
ingness TO help you. The trouble is, will
you cooperate with God? / see a man
climbing up a narrow path of the Alps.
He keeps on going higher and higher, and
strikes a narrow, inaccessible cliff. He
comes to a rock, and he can't go any farther.
HE CAN NO MORE PASS
that point than he can fly. He can't get
around it, he can't get over it, and he can't
get under it. There all personal agency
ends. But he has guide, and he comes to
his assistance. The guide lies down on the
pathway, and barring the brawny arm, tells
the traveller to step into his hand. The
man does so and he is lifted around the
rock and he goes on his way up the noun
tain. There is point in every mans eX-
perience where human aid ends, and then
it is that God tells you TO step into his hand
and he will lift you across. Have you ever
stepped into Gods hand? You must do it
if you wish to be saved. / had to go up
to that rock before Christ put out
his hand to help me. You must
do something for yourself. God is too busy
to help a man who wont help himself.
When 1 get out of breath preaching, that's
when God comes to my assistance and gives
me my second wind Ilaughterl. Now,
Matthew was a seallawag. Down South
scallawag was Southern man who held
office under the federal government.
Matthew was a Jew holding Office under
the Roman government, and therefore
WAS A sCALLAwAG.
Jesus came along to the seat of customs
and said to Matthew, ''follow me-" 1 sup
pose nowadays they would have stopped
him, and asked him if he was Christian,
if he had repented of his sins, if he had re-
ligion. If, when Matthew took after Christ,
he didn't have religion, what did he have? He
wasn't one of the shouting kind, though.
l have known man to shout a mile high
in August and be drunk before the 1st of
September. Laughter. You take the
shouting man in church and the man who
makes no noise. The mum man will give
YOU $500 where the shouting man will give
you nary nickel. Laughter 1 used to
think that if God couldn't get the whole
heart He wouldn't take any of it. That is
a great mistake. If you give God square
inch He will cultivate it better than you
could, and if you watch God farm any one
heart you'll find He can raise more on that
square inch than you ever thought, and it
wont be long before you will give Him the
whole plantation. Take these things to
yourself and think of them. Be busy in
your religious life. God is willing and
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