St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26
HOW TO BE SAVED.
Sam Small Explains the Plan of
Salvation.

HOW TO BE SAVED.
Sam Small Explains the Plan of
Salvation.
The congregation in the large pavilion
last night was lighter than that of the
morning. At five minutes to s o'clock Sam
JONES' with his coat hanging over his
shoulders, came in and together with Sam
Small and Maxwell and Excel, mounted
the speakers stand. Rey. DR.. Hobert
opened the services with prayer. At
the close of the prayer, the hymn
Sound the Battle Cry'' was sung, after
which Rev. W. w. Satterlee made the an
nouncements for to-day's exercises. Mr.
Excel sung 1.-The Handwriting on the
WALL" a solo which was beautifully exc
cuted. 1t was fifteen minutes past 8
| o'clock when Sam Small advanced TO the
front of the stage and looked down into the
sea OF faces that was upturned to him. He
deliberately opened the Bible and read the
thirteenth and nineteenth verses of the
second chapter of Ephesians.
But now, in Christ Jesus, We, who some
times were afar off, are made nigh by the
blood of Christ.
Now, therefore, we are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and of the household Of God. Said he:
L came here tonight to speak to those who
are not members of Gods household. But
even if we are out of the kingdom we know
1t. We know that there is a God. We know
that He is the supreme sovereign of the uni
verse, and we being His creatures, are under
obligations to Him.
We know that God must regulate all ply ST.
cal nature, by laws. We know that he must
bring us under certain laws for our govern
ment. We know that if we do not keep the
laws Of God, If we do not live I'D to our
allegiance to tho government Of God, then
we are strangers to that government.
we know as long as we are transgreSsing the
laws of God, that we are rebels. We are
strangers and we are foreigners. We know
that if Gods existence depended upon US,
God himself could not exist. We know if God
was dependent on human creatures for his
government, then the commandments of God
would disappear from among men, then
might would rule. We cannot conceal from
how little can we conceal fP6m G6d
We cannot conceal from yourselves
the fact that we are at war with the will of
God Turn this old world loose tomorrow
and turn it over to the domination of men
and there would be no peace, no justice, no
order SO long as man knew he was to
be the only arbitrator of his own acts. And
how long I'VE were apparently self-satisfied
with our works. How long we hold out in
our rebellion against God. That would all
nothing further of our lives.
We know that we cannot trust ourselves in
this rebellion up to the time of DEATH for
there is something beyond the grave. man
may walk up to me and say that we are the
same as beasts of the field, but there is some
at it, A philosopher may walk
up to me with his schemes Of how man origi-
mated in this world and tell me that am one
of a class that had its birth in
MUD PUDDLE,
but my reason tells me that l was fashioned
by hand that is divine. There is to be an
Immortality beyond this life, and when g man
looks into himself and finds that he is an
intelligent piece of mechanism then he
knows that there is something that is immor-
tai in him. Then if there is something in me
that is immortal, l must assure myself of the
possibility of securing some means to obtain
that higher life beyond the grave. and
when seek to prepare myself
for eternity, I must look about me for
the means for that preparation.
and when begin, my observation tells me
that cannot rest my hopes for immortality
on my moral resolutions. My own resolutions
will not suffice for my preparation for the
will stop my sinful ways, but this will not
suffice as platform on which shall stand to
| leap out of the mortal into the
immortal life. My resolutions will not
do me, they will be my safeguards
| perhaps for awhile. Nor will the ma n-made
PHILOSOPHERS of earth satisfy me. They are
too high in their flights of imagination for
the ordinary use of mankind and I cannot
trust myself to thing that is improbable,
nor can risk my mortal existence on the ex-
amples OF any man who has lived be-
fore me. l dare not die in re-
bellion to God. I dare not
go down to my grave wearing the uni
form of Gods enemy. / dare not go to an
! swer the questions and solve the mysteries
OF eternity in any such an armor as that. 1
| dare not test that there is reward for
REBELLION AGAINST GOD
dare not leap into that pit where all is
| darkness, and into which no ray of light has
| ever yet penetrated. If I die in rebellion
| against God, shall never go to heaven and
! look upon the face of my Saviour He who
came to earth and suffered the agonies of
thousand deaths, saying with his expiring
| breath it is finished. My work in behalf OF
| man is ended at last. The thought is abhor-
| ent to me that l shall never go where can
see my mother again and look into her low
ing eyes. / cannot die in rebellion to God,
when to think of it is to think
| OF forever departing from my wife and chill
! dren. Oh, my God, save me from such
fate as that. The things 1 have spoken to
| you tonight are true, and. my brother. they
come up to your mind in your lucid moments.
know they have come to me
| with terrific emphasis and terrible
| force. The trouble with the sinners
to-day is that these people are carnally blind
and they can not apply the truths of God to
themselves and they don't understand the
| scheme. We don't understand how we are to
be regenerated and live forever in blessed
unity with God. I don't know as
can explain it, but let Gods
| love shine in your heart and try to un-
derstand how it is that you can be saved A
man says, Il want to get in to the Kingdom
of God but don't understand the process.
You say to me that there is fountain drawn
from lmmanuels veins but dom t understand
it. How is it that the death of Jesus
Christ 1880 years ago has anything to do
with me in Minnesota. 1t became necessary
for God to send his son Jesus Christ to pro-
claim liberty, and it was through his blood
that man was offered way of salvation. AS
our forcfathers shed their blood and died for
the salvation of this country, SO did Jesus
Christ die for the salvation of mans soul. No
man is enjoying the liberty of this country
tonight, unless he is u law-abiding citizen
and just man will not obey the law of God
he is q foreigner and alien to the govern
ment of God How is it that the love of
Christ brings a man nearer to God?
Why, because he walks I'D and
says renounce my allegiance to the devil.
He confesses that the devils government is
wrong and he wants to get out of it, and SAYS
he wants to become fellow citizen of the
saints. If you are tired of serving the devil
and want to serve God, you have got to come
up and say you want to renounce your allegi-
ance to the devil.
At the close of these Of these remarks,
Sam Jones arose and spoke briefly, inviting
all who wanted to be prayed for to come
forward to the altar. and about fifty ~