Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-16
SAM JONES'.
SOME BARBEDf 0UGHfs THROWN
INA H0MELY WAY.
Denomiuational "Isms" Cieyerly
Handled Questions of Dancing,
Wine-drinking, Etc.

The meeting was opened with prayer by
Rev. Mr.. Atkinson, of Oakland Prof.
Excel was unable to lead the singing, be-
ing confined to his room by painful in
jury received the evening before, occasioned
by fall on the sidewalk.
The text to which Mr. Jones invited the
attention of his audience was :" For our
Gospel came not unto you in words but
also in power and in the Holy Ghost, and
in much assurance, as We know what man.
ner of men were among you for your sake"
The speaker said:
The Gospel of Jesus Chiist is the power
of God unto salvation. To know how
to preach and to do it is about the
biggest thing in this universe. ST. Paul
was my ideal preacher. Whitfield was
good preacher Spurgeon exhorts some; |
think Frederick w. Robinson preached
little; we have had few preachers. There
were giants in those days. but if we are
samples of what is going around now there
are no giants left. One of our little preach
ers said to me, Brother Jones, if they call
On me to preach in the Bishops place,
what text shall | take?" | said, "Take
There were giants in those days. and
lueTe Will DC OHS tiliDS cStdUitsDc0 Watu
you sit down, and that is, that there are
NO GIANTS LEFT, IF you ARE SAMPLE OF
WHAT ARE STILL LIVING"
If there is anything we need now in this
State it is gospel power. In proportion
as we get the Holy Ghost we shall have
power. a sermon must be weighed and
measured by what is accomplished through
it. What man does is test Of what man
Sc T vi oh, oil Of
the most eloquent sermons ever listened
to, but when he got through there were no
penitents, and as l walked out of the
church heard one brother say to another,
Wasn't that convincing The other
brother said
"wHo DID IT CONVINCE?
Preaching the gospel is different from
proving the gospel is of God. One preacher
spends an hour proving the divinity of
Christ. l never inquire into mans
orthodoxy. Here are two proposition in
religion, and l will shake hands with any
man who will agree to them: First. is man
lost ruined sinner? Yes. Second, is
Jesus Christ the only divine savior? Yes.
If you will let me chain you to those two
propositions l will get you to heaven, if
you will do as l tell you.
YOU CAN BROWSE ALL AROUND
And you will get some grass that viii do
you like some cattle | have seen in Georgia;
it will turn their hair all the wrong way
and they get SO poor they have to lean up
against tree to loaf Some OF US get up
on literary dissertation. l have seen
preacher sit down and open dozen books
and take the whole week up to Friday 10
write his sermon, and all the time the
DEVIL WAS LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER
And knew just how to go to work to hedge
against him SO that when Sunday came
the devil had the best of him and be
accomplished nothing with his carefully
prepared sermon. If you think the devil
is dead you are mistaken; he ain't even
sick. believe the best way to preach is to
get up in your pulpit Sunday morning and
NOT TO LET THE DEVIL KNOW
What you are going to preach about; then
he don't have any time to work against
you. l never knew a man to be converted
| by read sermon. Some of you say, be
careful, you are treading on our minister's
toes. Well, your preacher ought to emf
CRATE. SO as not to get his toes trod on.
| / believe that God never called q man to
preach that didn't have sense enough to
preach without manuscript. There is a
| world of difference between dissertation
on the truth and the application of the
truth; for example, my illustrations are
not always elegant, but they express my
meaning. Here is
MAN WITH THE cRAMP collie.
He has got it bad; is done up in double
bow knot Directly an old dIgnified doc
tor walks in; he has got can of mustard
in one hand and in the other dissertation
on mustard. He says, Ny friend, be quiet
there about an hour and let me read dis
4 I Al. J.
to explain where the mustard grows, when
it is planted, how it is cultivated, ETC., and
about that time the man is seized with an
other paroxysm and he yells, sOh, Lord,
doctor, | don't care where it grows or how
| it grows;
PLEASE SPREAD SOME ON A RAG AND SLAP IT
ON Me-
Thus il is in religion. tits not dissertation
on truth, but it is the application of truth,
| that is going to do the work for the soul,
and the preacher who will spread out the
good, plain, naked truth and slap it on the
conscience of men, is a preacher that is
going to do the world good. 1t takes two
things to get up a good sermon. First, a
good preacher, and, second, a good sermon.
I have seen preachers that say they don't
! have to study; they just open their mouths
| and the Lord fills them. Well, he does
l
AN OLD AIR-GUN GOING AROUND THE couH-
TRY,
But it never hits anything. Do you be-
| lieve that God would encourage laziness
| that way? Take the best seed from the
granaries of the earth and plant it on your
streets and it will not spring up; but plant
| the same seed in your fertile valleys and
cultivate it, and it will yield thirty and
| forty bushels to the acre. The speaker
| then told of an old lady who went to hear
her preacher whenever he came around
| to preach, which was once q month,
and always got some good out
of the sermon, and when the
preacher asked her how it was that she
seemed to derive benefit from all of her
| sermons, no matter what they were, she
said that she prayed for God to enable her
| to derive all the spiritual benefits possible
| from the sermons, and that it would be
strange thing if God should disappoint her
after she prayed for whole month at
time to be thus benefited
IT DEPENDS ON A MANS APPETITE
Whether he will enjoy his meal or not,
and it is the same way with religion. If a
man has an appetite for religion he can get
some good out of any kind of a sermon.
preacher that prays earnestly breaches the
best sermon.
The speaker then told of preacher who
stopped at a country home, and when the
lady of the house got the neighbors to-
gether to hear him preach he was nowhere
to be found. She sent her little boy to his
room to have him come down and preach,
and the little boy came down and said
THERE'S SOME ONE IN THE ROOM WITH THE
PREACHER:
heard the preacher say he would not
come down unless the other one would
come with him." The old lady spoke up
and said, That's all right; just give him
time; the Lord is with him and he will
bring Him down with him. And so be
did bring Him down in all his power.
God goes on weight. He don't count
noses to see how many he has got in the
fight. There are great many old fat zoo
pound Methodists and Baptists in this
town, who, were they placed in Gods
scsles would not even shake them at all
with their moral weight Ask an engineer
HOW MANY CARS HIS ENGINE WILL PULL
And he will tell you thirty. You ask him,
How do you know ?" and be will saw,
Because there is sixty tons weight on the
driving Wheels Some time ago man in
Columbus, Ga, had big, splendid draft
horse and one man who saw it STANDING IN,