The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-08-31
Jones Gets Warmed Up
AND GOES FOR THE HYPOCRITEs.

of truth. | care not for the Pres
byterian creed or any creed. If a
preacher breaches creed more than
anything else, he is not much of
preacher. Thank God! Methodism
has less of creed than any other
The Catholic Church has its Pope
and bull; the Episcopal Church has
its gown and ritual; the Presbyte-
rian Church has starch and educa-
tion; the Baptists have water; but
the Methodist Church has religion
rs there a Presbyterian minister
here? If so, what are you and /
quarreling about? If our mothers
had snapped babies when we were
three months old, you'd been
Methodist preacher and / Presby-'
tcrian. 1t is the merest accident in
the world that we're as we arc. 1t
is no accident that I'm Christian.
What's salvation? Is it shout
feeling? Feelings no more religion
than my coats Sam Smalrs. / don't
want great big preacher running
round, when I'm away, in my wife's'
way. He's great big strapping
Methodist, and he's growing be-
cause preachers don't do pastoral
work. If you take him home and.
feed him well he's got no more sense
than to 90 back again.
If pastoral work would save the
world it would have been in heaven
long ago. Salvation's obeying the
ten commandments, and the man
who gets his soul in harmony with
God is full of music. A big fellow
gets up snd tells how the birds sing
and the trees look. always thought
that was true until l saw it in a
book. Now when he tells the story
l say-old fellow, you Saw that in d
book. If You'll tell me what you
love and what You hate, I'll tellyou
what you are. s'l,1}sa
~What's conservation? Listen
When man lays down all his mean
ness in a pile and says, 80 God, give
me something to do, if you please
There is but one road in the moral
universe of God. Every man is on
that road. Every sinner faces hell,
every Christian faces heaven. All
you've got to do is to turn around,
and, sinner, if you want to go to
heaven, Just turn around and you're
on the road to heaven as much as
anybody. But you're facing the
wrong way. Turn around, old fel-
low.
7 Its infidelity to say Gods mad
with you because Adam fell. Twen-
ty-four years under load of sin
like / was makes man want rest. y
(Jones here gave an elaborate de-
scription of Jesus quieting the wa
tiers. Tears dimmed all eyes and
sobs were audible.
1 For years / sang Simply to Thy
Cross ] Cling but now "a sweetel
song, Safe in the Arms of Jesus.'-
I've read the best hooks on, faith
/ got tired. The hest books on faith
make the whole subject as clear as
mud (He quoted a long sentence
of big unintelligible words. Turn
ing to Small he said, l don't get all
those big words from Small, either
I[Great laughter. + r
Il never tried to preach to-thc in
tellcct but once. My wife asked me
what kind of a sermon it was.
said it was a. whoppcr.i she said
Don't do it, you'll fail on whop.
per- That's the reason l always
preach by conscience! Sights tht
gift of God, seeing is my job. Some
times men pray for faith. I'd just
as soon pray for sweet potatoes
Was your prayer ever. answered
when you prayed for faith?
"'Give us this day our daily
bread is my prayer. Itell you this
praying is "a hmnhug. We're 8
thousand miles ahead in prayer, and
a thousand miles behind in every
thing else. Some people are ever
lastingly begging for something
Lord give me something What
do you want!' Don't know, sir
only just give me something Quit
praying for grace. If God woplt
come down and give you a weeks
rations of grace the devil would
have half of it before Saturday.
Quit telling people that you hav'
doubts. It's shy way of confess
ing your mcanness. : It's not the in
fidel that makes the sinner, but tn,
sinner that makes the infidel,
have my dOubts-that means | hay,
my meanness. Jones here eulogizet
| J. Stewart Mill and created a sensa
: tion.) My! My. I'd stand her.
and talk longer, but you amt biz
: enough, you little puppy, you. Yol
amt big enough in faith to be call
ed a-dog.
; What must / do to be saved?-
Listen, Comply with the ordinar,
, condition of faith. Now listen
preacher; ! never have believed any
thing since l was converted that
didn't believe before l was CONVEX
; ted; but now l believe and do. !
; you want faith that saves your souls
this morning, quit your meanness
Amen! Amen!
Now I'm within two minutes Q
$ my time to quit and am not hal
a done. What's the hardest thing fo
! man to do? Listen. To qui
: drinking whisky. I'd give any ma
S my head off my shoulders if YOU
1 show me where sorrow for sin is
: condition of salvation. preac
: reformation. God tends to convel
D sion. What must / do to be saved
Believe. What must do to b'
lievc. Quit your meanness,
d There you set, fifty years ole
: waiting for Gods own good time
= You want to be saved by fire. You
be saved in fire, that's what yo
will. Jones told of old father Gi!
d ger down in Georgia and made
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