Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-17
SAM JONES',
Brilliant SCi~ntiIIatiOns of the Great
ReviYaiist,
The Devil Knocked All Over a twenty
-Four Foot Ring by the South
ern Evangelist.

exists. that church membership doesn't
amount TO much. The world has done quit
asking the question, What church do you
belong to- bu. now ask5, How DO you
liveY' not How were you baptiscd?'
Were you immersed? but DO you live
right and love God and keep his command
menrsY' Brethren, the outward profession
rha, is not backed up By the practice OF
Christianity is 70! worthy the psPer on
which your name is enrolled. | am a
rational. innate, constitutional hater OF
! shams and humbugs, and above all hum
bugs that ever cursed this world a religious
humbug is the biggest. You recoliect
the instance when the students st
Harvard believe there vas in
the college On old Professor, one
Of those thick.glsssed fellows, who was a
wonderful bugologist, he knew bugology
better than humanology, and he knew al!
the bugs from Adam down, and be had
one of oil sorts up IN the frames IN his
olice-the boys, in mischief, hunted up
one bug and took the head the legs OF an.
other and hen the wings Of another and
ont them together aud carried it in, say
inp; Professor what sort o! 2 bug ID
thatY' The professor looked at it, turned
around and said: That is a hum. rug ~
And there you have got my idea of e. hum
bur fellow that has a heart that belongs TO
the church, aud legs run by the world and
hands owned by the devil. Let us make
one sort. and let that be q good and a
sound sort.
ltIam q Christian | will be a Christian.
III ON q Methodist | will be a Methodist
tight through aud through, aud don I
want to be little one horse, mule headed
nothing nowhere! Brother, have you never
had q glor Gus swelling in your soul that
made sou feel for a moment that you wont
ed 10 be a whale2 You never knew what
religion ia unless down in your soul you
did want to be something and somewhere
in the Kingdom Of Jesus Christ.
\ poor tempast.tossed, tempest.driven
soul lost Further and further it is beaten
a1d driven from God in hopeless wander,
ing, tired, restless and hungry, | know
what it means Oh, how dark it onca was
for me. How hungry this poor soul was
How like q rough sea Religion! Religion
Its very meaning is TO tie back, to tasteu
the soul back to its ~moorings. Religion is
not only the best thing in the world, but it is
free to ell. There may be a thousand req
sons why haven't 90. a house, or land. or
q store, but there Is no reason in the world
why | haven't got religion.
Lord Jesus, help men to see that reli.
gion does not consist in what | profess, but
/ it consists in how ! live. | don't quarrel
with a mar protesting sanctifcarion so
long az he lives up to the level Of what be
processes, hut as soon SO ne drops down !
an going for him,
The tongue-"Ao unruly member said
St. James, full of deadly poison There
is many q person who, il you will 90 to
their homes and put your cor 10 their heart,
you will hear the blood dripping, dripping
You will ask, What did that and they
will tell You, IAN inhumsn tongue stabbed
me there" God pity the man that will
take his tongue aud stab a human
character. The tongue is the cause of
oil the trouble in our homes. 1t is not
what we do. 1t ia what we say. \ man
unkiud to his wifel | have known q man
TO be polite and kind to every man that
comes into his store that pay just polite,
and then 60 home and stab his wife With
meanness. Brothers, haven't you seen
cases lust ike thst2 Did you not gee one
lust while you were brushing your hair this
evening? How many times a gOod, pains.
taking wife has arranged all day to make
home pleasant for her husband, and when
he comes in she greets him with q kiss,
aud before be has been OF home ten min
utes he takes that tongue OF his and stGbs
her to the heart. She goes NJ stairs and
cries as if her heart would break. God pity
a woman who has got an old bear for o
husband.
The saddest thing e father ever said to
me was this. l WAS q pastor then, and
had preached on Home Religion
have been q pastor nov eight years of
my life. De said to me about four weeks
after had preached that sermon: Jones,
have studied my children for four weeks
in all phases Of their lives, and | have
reached q verdict" What is the yer
Dict He said. after four weeks Of
study | found out my children haven't 90.
a single fault that me or their mother, one
of US, has not get. A direct copy Of my
wife and myself our children TIRE
Mr.. Jones then brauched off on q mag.
nifcent, brief Prohibition SPEECH Said
he: In one town where | was talking
prohibition there was an old snaggle tooth
ed who said: 4 hope God will kill
that man before election for trying to rob
the people here Of their Liberties She
bad buried three husbands with deliriun
tremens.
he wanted to see the day in this worlds
history when o Methodist word behind an
assertion for money is worth more than q
VsnderbiLt's promise to pay. Would You
not like to see hat state OF thing, when If
a Methodist told you anything it was Just
as good as if God told IT'D But | tell you
you cant run your Methodism on mer.
chants in this town. | want the day to
come when every member in the church is
an honest a | never met an intelli.
gent man yet who has been damaged by
Boo Iugersoll, and the only difference be
tween DOO luBeTSOll buu any DtutE man
running after him is, Bob Ingersoll is play
ing the fool for s 1900 a night, and those
little fools running after him ore playing
it for nothing and boarding themselves.
If had a dog that would 60 to hear him
| would kill him.
Let US have an honest church. SO long
as a member Of the church who has failed
for $4,000 drives in his 81, 2OO carriage
by the poor widow whom he has failed to
pay, the church is harmed. If there i sany
hell that man is going there, and there is
no use talking. | will tell you another
thing. There are too many men in this
country counting with their wives. | al.
ways get rather squesmish when | get
a fellow that signs himself agent
Tor his wife-that boards with his wife. If
q mar does the clean thing, and just shells
the corn down like God wants him to, the
Lord is going to stand by him and give
him three square meals every day, even if
BE has got to put angels on two-thirds
Now, bless your soul, if | am going to
be kind to any woman on earth il is my
wife, because ! sort of like her. | cant
help it to save my soul. feel a good deal
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