Omaha daily bee., 1886-11-23
sam JONES AT HIS BEST.
The Evangelists Able Effort at the Bxposi-
tion Building Last Night.
"euRLlNeToN" IMPROVEMENTS
Plating the Poor Farm-A Cutting
ARRAY = Misplaced Confidence
The Cattlemen's Convention
Court Notes-Locaf.



The evangelist preached one Of his best
sermons at the exposition building last
night to four thousand people. The fol-
lowing is synopsis of the effort:
We invite your prayerful attention to the
twenty-fOurth and twenty-iifth verses of the
first chapter of the Book of Proverbs: "Be-
cause have called and ye have refused, 1
have stretched out my hands and no man re-
garded. also will laugh at your calamity,
Will mock when your fear cometh.' The
first three words of this text ought to get the
attention of every man present, because
have called" | believe 10 was Mr.. Spurgeon
who said IL we just had eyes to see and ears
to hear, how multudinous are the calls of
Tod, He calls us Dy everything, he calls us
everywhere to
NoBLER, BETTER AND HIGHER LIFE.
AS we walk out of our homes IN the morning,
the sun, as he climbs the slippery sleeps Of
the skies, he looks down upon us ana says:
'Oh man, my pathway is upward and on
ward, brighter and brighter; how Is it with
your? When the sun reaches the zenith and
pauses for a moment he looks 1own and
says: "Oh man, have reached the zenith,
have you reached the zenith OF your life; will
your your "a days now decline as your days go
DOWN. And just as the sun leaps over the
western hills and the earth is covered with
darkness, he looks back once more and
breaches another sermon, and says to us,
Oh man, have my setting and you shall
have your grave; will YOU 90 down to your
grave bathcd in spendour as you see me
clouds and Hl s sSs '0% When SNss
into our homes and light our candle and
the little mote as 1t flies around the blaze,
and we say, "Uh, poor little foolish thing
don't burn yourself to death, get away from
again and is burned to death and drops on
the foor--and God says, ooh. man. you are
doing the very same thing: you are
d,azzled BY the fleeting pleasures of
is scared by them, and finally you shall
plunge into that fire that is unquenchabe for
ever" When go into my room at night to
go to bed shut the door and God says: "oh,
man, tl
HEAVENS DOOR WILL BE SHUT
some day; will You be on the outside with the
lost or safely shut in foreverr' At midnight,
when some strange noise shall awaken me.
thlnk there Is ermon in the noise. "Be We
also ready, for we know not the day nor the
hour when the son of man cOmeth." When
l wake up IN the morning walk down to my
breakfast table, and my children and wife are
gathered around the table and tod says: "Oh,
man, as you give your children bread, and as
you care for the wants of your children. come
TO me; you are my child, and will feed yomI
When Walk down ana to s
If l am a merchant, every, time. |
measure yard of goods. and clip it off with
the scissors, God says, MAN am measuring
of your days to you, and some of these days
the scissors of death will clip you loose from
time" If am grocer and put my sugar
and coffee into the scales to weigh it. God
says. "Mene, meme, tekel you are weighed
IN the balances yourself and found wanting"
If am lawyer whenever client comes
and sits down by me, God says "Y ou are the
counsel, you are the advocate for that man,
now come to the Lord Jesus Christ and let
him be your advocate at the final bar" Am
school teacher, as the school children gather
around me, the Lord Jesus says, Come my
child and learn ofme; will teach you things
thought about" If You are blacksmith, at
every stroke of the hammer. upon that iron
| God says, "Oh man have been beating on
your heart with the hammer of my word
this iron does under your hammer"
Every house l see going up
the streets of this town, God says, "O6 man.
will you have house not made with hands
on the streets of New jerusalem" AS
look at the majestic river flowing by your
city, God says, "Oh man, will you drink of
the river of life and feast yourself upon the
waters that shall quench your thirst for
ever" Every tree and particle of shrubbery
that look upon about this town, God SAYS,
'Oh man. will you ever eat of the tree OF life
and an sit down beneath its foliage and enjoy
the blessings SO OF eternal ter lifeP .. Every time
final destiny amid the fires that shall never
| never de?" Every dog see trOttlng along
dog back to his yomit, or as the hog hog wallow,
ing in the mireg' Every horse and OK 1 see,
God says, THE OK and the horse knoweth its
owner and you will not consider" And
say il we Just had the eyes to see and the
ears to hear the multltudinous cries of divine
grace to every man OF us to lead better and
| a higher life we would see that
GOD IS PREACHING TO US
| ten thousand sermons daily, sermons calling
us to better life, sermons calling us to God,
| sermons calling us to purity and heaven.
But God calls more strongly than this.
know God is in earnest about the salvation
called i have called y" God calls us by His
| holy spirit. Oh, how many hearts in this
avdlence tonight have been called by the
ings commenced. The spirit Of God has
| knocked upon the door Of your heart, and
| your heart, and your heart, and every knock
| of the divine means do better, live better,
On, thou spirit Of ali grace, the true light That
| lighteth every man that cometh into
the snS% world this tbe sRhTt lRhnss that comes ns
| the spirit that takes me by the hand and
leads me to Christ; that gives me life; that
| gives me purity; that gives me heaven, Oh,
this divine spirit, the third person of adorea
| BILE trinity, has been to your heart and bid
you be better man and be better woman.
| Every good resolution have ever had, every
| good purpose have ever felt in my heart,
o. s sG0S Wiz % MY Of hsar As
every good resolution and inspiration of
| your soul was born OF the spirit of grace that
comes to mems hearts to warn and implore
| and conjure us to lead better life. He calls
us by Ills spirit, but oh, my brother, have
| you any idea how many calls God Is giving
| you by this spirit of grace Oh, they are
| past numbering.
GOD HIMSELF HAS SWORN
| that he who comes already lost may be for
| given. All sins in this world can be forgiven
| except sins against the Holy Ghost and for
| that sin there shall be no forgiveness in this
world or the next. Sin against the Holy
| Ghost is to have a neglect of his presence
| until and when the spirit of God takes his
| everlasting flight from the you utterly
grieve Him from your heart and he is gone
| forever. Oh human heart, salvation Is i'm
| possible for all time to come. You may
| trifie with me and you may lau,h at what
say and you may deride these preachers and
| scott at the meetings, but tell you sir. God
| the treatment of His divine spirit
| that he has sent to your heart
| know God is in earnest because he not only
| calls MS by ten thousand things around us,
| but He calls us by His holy spirit, but He
| calls us by His word Oh the ten thousand
| calls in the word of God; on every page of
| that book there is call TO every one of us
to do better to live right, serve God and
| eschew the evil. You may turn to any of its
pages and you may lind OH every page of
this blessed book call to serve God and to do
right TO yourselves and towards Your neigh