The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1889-10-06

spoke of the conversion of impulsiv,
spirits, as Simon Peter and others, who
had once been converted and had faller
and returned to the faith All of those
who had gone astray since the last meet
| ing he invited to come forward with 9th
ers who were not then present and re
consecrate themselves to God.
After reciting an affecting incident
which occurred in one of his meetings in
Minneapolis Mr.. Jones repeated his invi.
tations to those who had received benefit
from the sermon to come forward and
give their hands to him during the sing
ing of hymn. A number responded tC
the invitation and went forward After
the services Mr.. Jones' many friends
crowded around him and would have
kept him busy shaking hands for an hour
had he not torn himself away from their
grasps and to go home
gIGHe SERVICES
A much larger attendance greeted Mr..
Jones at the night services than listened
to his afternoon sermon. The tabernacle
began to fill long before the hour of begin
ming. At half after seven o'clock the
choir under Prof Excel sang a number
of hymns and promptly at s o'clock Mr.
Jones arrived. Rev. J. L. White of the
Baptist church offered a prayer, after
which Mr.. Jones said that he had re-
ceived a characteristic message from Rev.
NJ. Culpepper who communicated the fact
that he got left by putting dependence
in lone gallused' hackman, but will be
here by tomorrow.
R. A portion of the railing in front of the
pulpit had been cut away in the after
noon, and Mr.. Jones remained in his
chair during the entire services. He
apologized for this apparently lazy atti
tude, because he had undergone consid-
cradle fatigue and when in this condi-
ton the position of standing brought
about a state of nervousness, that inter
fered with his labors.
He took the life Of Job as the theme
of his sermon and Though he slay me,
yet in him will | trust" was his text
He said the most loyal character in the
Bible was Job, that for upright, down
right, unfinching loyalty, there was
none other like him on all the earth.
He dwelt in his own inimitable style
upon Jobs persistent love Of the Lord
in the face of every affliction, and made
striking local application of the moral
The devil had his eye on Job. He
keeps posted on every man in Durham
that does right. If you think you can
start out to be christian without the
ueVn DOtnerfng1 you yvu ure 1n1sUaKeH.
There are some men in this town he does
bother about. Why? Because he's got
'em solid already.
Mr.. Jones spoke of the rich man who
is pious because of prosperity and who
under adverse circumstances would be
less religious. 1t was not SO with JOB.
He was prosperous man, served God
acceptably and Loyalty, when he became
less prosperous, when he became stepped
in poverty and when aftliction encom-
passed him about he still remained
staunch to his Maker
Mr.. Jones afforded a good deal of mer-
riment in the audience by alluding to the
early days of his ministry when he had
to swap horses to supplement his salary.
He said he learned to become pretty
good Judge of a horse. He would look
at the animal up one side and down the
other and make his trade upon the merits
possessed by the horse and paying little
attention to the character of the man
with whom he was trading. On one oc-
casion soon after he had made the best
bargain with n IN, the sheriff put in his
appearance and claimed that the horse
had been stolen from another man.
Since then the speaker said he had looked
at the man more carefully and less scru-
tinizingly at the horse. And so with the
rich man, he looked more closely into his
motives for giving, his honest desire to
do good, than to the amount he gave or
the good he accomplished.
He moralized at length up Jobs char
acter Said he, character Outranks every
thing. A man may be as poor as pauper,
but a good character is worth more than
the crown of king is the wealth of the
Rothschilds. He touched feelingly upon
the character of Gen. Robert Z. Lee,
whom, he said wonld live as grandly in
history as [. 5. Grant though he did
not lead the triumphant army.
This allusion to the great Confederate
produced a slight applause among the
back seats. Mr. Jones said he could say
that ncrth of Mason and DiXon's line
and get better cheering than that. This
rally produced a vigorous applause.
He said some men would be better if
they had better wives. 4 man whose
wife W as one of these little old worldly
try-to- -be-sassiety creatures was to be
pitied You can fix up so cheap nova
days. You can play sassiety for 50.
Spoke of jobs wife, said she was prob
ably one of that class who were in doubt
as to whether the best people went TO