The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-23
THE SERMONS SATURDAY


On tho Moundsvllle Camp Grounds-Twu
Talks by Jones.
In Sam Jones sermon Saturday morn.
ing, the most striking passage was that III
which he paid some attention to the
editor OF the INTELLl0ENcER. He said
among other things:
We invite your prayerful attention,
brethren, 10 the 9th verse Of the Sd chap.
ter OF tho first epistle general OF st. John
"Whoaoever is born OF God doth not com.
nit sin; for his seed rematneth In him
and he can not sin, because he Is born oil
God" There is no verse, brethren, in all
tho Scriptures which In the past oil my
experience, the frat years Of my religious
experience, gave me more trouble than
the one / have read. Really, q mans
moral condition determines for him what
the Gospel is To him. To one man a text
OF Scripture Is as o two.edged sword; to
another sitting by his side, 1t Is tho bread
OF life, and my condition, morally, deter.
mines which II is:-whether 1t Is bread or
whether II Is a sword. The Bible itself Ia
like Christ himself-an open secret. Jesus
stood before company OF men on ono oc.
casion, and he said to some OF them
"Whom say ye that amH" And they
said, "You are the son OF hRrlot, and an
impostor." He turned 10 Simon Peter,
standing by, an said, "slmon Peter, whom
say 70 that / amp" / wish l could have
looked at Simon Peters face as II flashed
with heavenly radiance and light az he an.
swered. "Thou art the Christ, tho Son Of
the living God.n Oil what blessed
Scripture that is, that turns every sword
In the word Of God into bread and lets me
eat II and rejoice.
Brethren, you beChildren OF God there
IL q great deal Of comfort In the text. Now,
this IL a particularly difficult text, and you
must aid me by your prayers; and trust
God will, by His spirit, throw light on His
word. | believe l would rather make a
partialiallure on this text than 10 succeed
on any other text whatsoever is born Of
God doth not commit elm for His seed 70.
malneth In him and he cannot Hln, " reCk.
on we might az well spend moment here
on what we call tho new birth, orregenefa.
ton. The divine side Of this question,
never touch at all. believe my Savior
never touched II but once, and lie did II
on that occasion, at midnight, when there
was but one man 10 hear him. And when
he mentioned Il to him, giant In
intellect, lie staggered back and said,
"IIow can these things be7' And Jesus
seemed cory ho mentioned II At all.
OH the wonderful things God would i'm.
part 10 uB, II we Just had the eyeglght 10
SEQ, tho ears 10 hear, and tho minds 10 I'm.
defStand them / think / know what Tie
human eide Of being born again 10.
HIS yiEw or FOREIGNERS.
We have a wonderful country over hore,
our America. We have thrown ouf doors
open 10 the world. We invite to Tie lib.
critics and blessings Of America every ila.
tlonAllly, | atn sorry anybody should lilo
90 40 10 say / don't believes German has
q Boul, and that German 10 q brute.
We throw our doors open and invite oil
mankind az our brethren 10 come In. /
am glad 10 say that some OF the best
friends have In the world are French.
men, lflshmen, Germans and Italians.
Thank God Tor friends Of every national.