Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-14
SAM JONES' MEETINGS.
AN AUDIENCES OF 5000 PEOPLE
LAST NIGHT.
The Preacher Pays His Respects to
False Virtues, Cloaked by
pocracy, Bob-Ingersollism

Yesterday morning Rev. Sam Jones preached
to Yery large audience az the Congregational
Church. The meeting was opened with prayer
| by the Rev. Mr.. Mcknight, Of Woodland, fol
lowed by the usual song service. after which
| the speaker Mr.. Jones, announced the follow
| ing text; Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
Make Straight His Paths.p He then said A
practical view of whatever God may say TO us il
| the most sensible and the most useful view. ]
| think the majority OF us would understand what
| man would mean were he to say, Prepare
the way for locomotive engine" we would
| understand that mountains must be tunnelled,
valleys filed up and rivers b'idged, or if the
way was to be prepared for the erection of a
college, mortar must be mixed, lumber pur-
chased and books and professors supplied, and
we seem to have a very practical view and idea
about everything but religion, which we think
is a sort of
"cATcH-As-cATcH CAN ARRANGEMENT;
Get it if yon can, if you get it you are lucky,
and If you don't get it now you will some time
Just as surely as you have got to overthrow
mountains to build q road lust SO surely Won
have got to make preparations for God com
ing. If our ranches are all nicely irrigated the
only way that those who own ranches back of
us can get water is Tor us to dig bitches so as to
let them have the benefit OF the water through
our land, and the best shovel for you to use in
supp ying paTched humanity with the water OF
life, is
THE SHOVEL OF REPENTANCE.
1t don't do any good for man or boy to come
numbering around and say g / am sorry that /
drank :" quit your numbering aid stand up
like man aud say, 81 am done, have drank my
last drink and then stick to what you say.
Blubbering amt repentance.
Take the best man in XOUr town and LET him
be everything that is kind and good and let
him neglect to pay his debts, and no one has any
around giving you hali-truths well, halttruths
are like haif-bTicks-good for nothing but to
knock some one down with-and many d fellow
has been
KNOCKED INTO HE'LL WITH HALF-TRUTHs.
Some of you folks come here and sing Jesus
Paid 1t All" am like the old fellow that said
well, If Jesus paid it all what are you COM
ing around dunning me for?' When you put
up all you have Jesus computes the amount and
supplies what is wanting. i remember one fell
low who jumped up in revival and said, =" | am
the happiest man living, have found the Sa-
viour Another fellow got up and said, " l
would give everything possess TO be able to
say that" "Well,'' said the first man,
THAT'S JUST WHAT II COST ME-
Everything, that's it Suppose woman has
been fractions with her cook. and SAYS that
she is sorry for her actions and amt going to
do 1t any more, and then stops it, that's repent
ance. l tell you there's heap more religion
sometimes in the kitchen than there is in the
parlor. l am tired Of seeing folks playing re-
ligion. have seen a church with SO members
ali of whom together had about as much reiig-
ion as one man ought TO have.
REPENTANCE MEANS
have not done the clean thing, but by the
grace of God | am going to do it. There are
some of you church members who will do any
thing in your power for the Sunday-school or
put your hand in your pocket for your preacher,
promised God that you viii do anything in your
power that he asks you 10 do.
If YOU AND GOD SPLIT
On one thing that demonstrates your disloyalty
to God. We Methodists don't believe a fellow
can get religion until he goes to the altar and
agopiZes for il. l believe in the altar but
sometimes penitent viii worship the altar and
not worship Christ. This altar business was
started by an old Methodist preacher down in
Georeia about seventy.nine years ago l Won
der what became of all the sinners before that
old preacher started on that track. II a fellow
won't get religion until you bring him to the
sltar ard beat him on the back and tell him to
agonize,
THEN GIVE IT To HIM
The speaker then compared the telegraph
wires to the line of Christian duty and said that
il a tree fell on the wires you could not send a
message over the wires; no more could you
and answered if you had broken family altar
or
AN OLD JUG or DENIJoHN ON THE WIRES
don't know what a Christian can do with
whisky; he can't sell it nor give it away nor
should he empty it into the street, the filthy
stuff and IL he pours it into the river it will kill
the fish. / was told of q gentleman who at
tended the services last night and becsme con-
yicted and said that as soon as he could get
there he proposed to roll his barrel Of whisky
out of his back room. l think it would be a
good idea for him to
KNOCK IT N THE HEAD
At the same tire Well, good for him, but
don't know what t. say to the minister who has
been preaching to him all this time and allow
ing him TO continue in this way without stop
ping him.
The lpeaker then told of lady, the wife of
Rev. Richardson, who had COW that she said
she was afraid was going TO die aud her bus
band asked her if she had prayed for the good
Lord TO save its life. She said she bad not, and
he asked her IL she
HAD ANYTHING To STAND on.
She asked him what he meant, and he said,
Have you given any poor folks any milk or
butter from that cowT and she said she had.
well" said the husband. stand on the mill
and butter, and pray for your cow" This she did,
and the COW got well. Thus, the speaker said, a
man should have something TO stand on when
he expects God to answer his prayers. Did You
ever see man stand on nothing? l did.
HE WAS HUNG.
Do you know, a great many Christian people in
this country are just hanging by some little old
experience; just standing on nothing He then
referred to what a preacher named Raviing,
living in this country. had said. that some
people just run around and gathered the rich
together md after getting their money ran off.
There is no man that ever heard me preaching
in whining way around anyone that has
money, for the sake of their being rich.
THE DENoMISATIoNAL PASTURES.
l am for the bottom dog in the fight, every
time. would owe to see all the cross fences
torn down, and the Congregationalists come up
and eat the long grass OF the methodist, and the
Methodists go arm and arm with them and eat
the short grass of the Congregationalists, and
then both go down and drink from the Baptist
pool. / don't care much about getting inc
| The Episcopal field, for they
HAVEN'T CT MUCH OF ANY CIR IS.
The speaker then asked all who wished to
lead better life, all wives who were praying
for husbands, and mothers for their boys, ana
and nearly the entire assembly arose in re-
Spouse.
The Evening Meeting.
Last evening sam Jones preached his first
sermon at the Pavilion to an audience of fully
| 5000 persons he's. A. T. Eeedham opened the
meeting with prayer, which was followed by
| the usual song service led by Professor Fxceil
The speaker Then propounded the following
query as his text:
"wHY WILL YOU CONTINUE IN SIM"
| lie said: This is very pointed question and
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erosion of the law. Do you offer as an excuse
| for the commission OF sin that you do not know
what sin is? Don't you know what the Ten
Commandments are? You ave ready enough 10
criticise church members II they make false
step. thus showing your knowledge of right and
wrong. Let my foot slip here; you will be the
| first fellow to talk about ii. II was to
| co DOWN TOWN AND GET DRUNK
II would be published from ocean to ocean, but
/ you old red uosed fellows can get as drunk as
| you please and no one knows r. That's the diff
/ ference between a Christian gentleman and 9
I vagabond Applanse.l II l were to swear in
| this town everyone would be told Sam Jones
was cussing to day, but
| YOU OLD BLACK NoUTHED RAs~ALs
| Can ouss all day and no one ever knows it. A
! member of the church is like white canvas
| the least spot of dirt shows on it but you old
! sinners are like dirty canvas-you can Gaub 4
| ali over with mud and it never shows. Every
1 sinner who cTitcizes a Christian is seifcon
| victed when he does IT, A preacher told me tn,
other day that some ministers are
PROVING THERE Is NO HE'LL
/ said Is that so Who has been sent there t,
| explore it," He said: Well. no one, guess
| / told him Whenever they sent man there Il
| telegraph me on his return, as / wanted to hav'
a talk with him. never saw Bob lngersoll bu
once, that was on sleepng-car. heard som,
an old bals-headed. red-faced fellow, with hi
clothes on his arm. ccrsIng as he went Som,
one ssked the porter who il was, and he said:
"DAI's OF D c0L,SsI. IS5ERsoLLi
'spises for him to get on my ear cussiDg ga