The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-12
HOW KING SAVES SOULS.
HE rs NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE, BUT
HE is E4RNEST.

He Has the Honor to Resemble Colonel
Samuel Diclinson-HopefuI Views of
Atheists Sentiments-A Peculiar and
Classified Abode of the Blest.
During the pastweek Ihave seen notices
posted in all the conspicuous places i the
city that Lincoln King, the Western evan
gelist, would save souls at the TABERNACLE.
/ have on many occasions seen persons
have their souls SaVeda at revivalS, but I'M
til last night / never saw it done on the
Western plan. 1t almost equals Western
journalism.
At the Tabernacle nearly half the seats
were occupied. On a platform in front OF
the magnificent pipe organ was a choir OF
young women with q lonely looking man
here and there. In front of this choir was
q parlor organ that furnished all the IN
strumental music. Miss Turner, the solo
list, and the Rev. DR.. Scudder and Evan
gelist King occupied prominent positions;
Mr.. King resembles Colonel Samuel
Dickinson very much, except that when
standing he is seen to lack the martial
form of the gallant colonel, and perhaps
he also fails in that intellectually OF pres
ence for which Colonel Sam is so noted.
Mr.. Kings discourse was marked by
grammatical eccentricities which are sell
dom eQualled outside of Kentucky, and a
few of his statements were more striking
than accurate. However, he appeared
very much in earnest, and succeeded IN
saying many things which aren't SO In an
interesting manner.
CHRIsT's UNIVERSAL SWAY.
His text was, "Behold the man, Jesus Of
Nazareth, King" This naturally sug-
gested a consideration of the broad sway
Of the Christian religion, and Nh. King
took up the subject lovingly and with
eager exaggeration.
sTThere are many in this world, " said he,
"who have have rejected Jesus as the
Christ, but the whole world acknowledged
the factthat Jesus did die onthe cross. Jesus
is a fact with the Jews, Mohammedans and
Christians now u~ndisputed, and he was
unquestionably the best man that ever
lived. Even PLATE, his judge, could Il
nothing against him and Herod went to P1-
late, who was his enemy, and they became
friends to find some fault with Jesus, but
they could not, inc PLATE said, i can
ind nothing against this man. Pilates
wife h%ereupon said to him, Have nothing
to do with this man. PLATE could n
nothing against Jesus, and in a basin OF
water washed his hands of the whole
business.
The Jews today admit Jesus was the
greatest of Rabbits, and they are proud 10
look ON him as a model man, n today
every sceptic admits he was a model man,
and no one has been able to find anything
against him as such. He was the grand
est of all men, and the infidels of today
WILL say, III you IO1OW Ills UtdCLluSS 9Ou
will be all right"
1t is certainly unfortunate that infidels
do not more readily proclaim their posi-
tion if it is what MIR. King believes 1t to
be. His next statement was still more eX-
traordinary.
A SLIGHT ~INACCURACY.
During the eighteen centuries that
have passed since the birth of Jesus" said
he, "no other man has borne the name
Jesus. Why is this? Surely there must
be some reason for it. All other names
nave been repeated many times. On the
other hand, the name is exceedingly COM
NOR in some parts of the world, and I'M
fortunately many men who bear it are not
apparently improved by any contempla-
ton of the sacred associations that cluster
about it. Mr.. King could learn this fact
from the daily papers.
Continuing, Mr.. King urged the neces-
sity of a proper choice in life, for, of the
two roads which the soul may take, one
leads downward as surely as the other
mounts to better heights.
ssCall the two ways what you will" ex-
claimed the evangelist. when q man
asks me what hell is, / say that ] don't
know. I don't care, for / don't want to go
there"
OF Heaven Nj. King holds the idea that
gthere will be a certain classification. He
Efdid not make very clear just what this
lwouFu be, but expressed the belief that
I s'ah intelligent white man would not be
e.obliged to associate with a lot of ignorant
A prayer meeting followed the evange-
lists address.