The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-31
SAM JONES IN INDIANA.
PREACHING THREE TIMES EVERY DAY.
Culver Park at Lake 1Iaxinkuckee Crowded
Daily to Hear Him-Peculiarities of
the -Witticisms-Hits, Per-
sonaIity-The People Affected.

Culver PARK, MARMoNT, Ind. July %
Especial. Sam Jones preached three ser
mons to-day, speaking nearly four hours. His
subject in the morning was Being Made Par
takers Of the Divine Nature or Manhood and
Womanhood." In the afternoon it was Work
ing Out the Problem of Christian
Character Oh Character Building" and
at night the same subject with special
remarks about intemperance. In his
morning sermon he made many very hard
hcks. In his evening sermon he was exceed
ingly witty, keeping the audience in laughter
half the time. He had spent the interim be-
tween the afternoon and evening services fish
ing in the lake and had caught fine string Of
small fish. 1t made him feel good. Beginning
his sermon in the morning he said: ITS puz
zle 20 me how a frst-class farmer can be a
tenth-class Christian; how first-class lawyer
can be a methodist, or how a frstclass doctor
and twentieth rate presbyterian can be found
IN the same hide; how woman can be a first
class housekeeper and have a clean house, but
heart foul with sin and uncleanness.
God has given to US all things essential
70 good life and yet you fail. How do you
account for that? Lord God ransacked heaven
and earth for four thousand years to get every
thing humanity needed to put in this book.
All things that pertain to a life of goodness in
spite of all God has done for US we are getting
on at a poor dying rate. We will never
lift the world up till we get
broader manhood. We little fellows
are measuring ourselves by each other. As long
IS we are as high as that other fellow we think
we are all right. A perfect man is just so high
I, - i,
er, don't you think that if you are the best man
IN your church you are all right? You don't
have 10 be much to be be that Sister, you
think you are all right if you are at the head of
your church, and you don't have to move up
much 10 get TO the head OF the procession. /
an sorry We preachers have got things in the
shape they are in now. We have been brow
beating the people and telling them
they are nothing, and now they be-
lieve it. One preacher says he
from the crown of his head TO the soles of his
feet Perhaps he's got the scrofula. Laughter I
They say we are nothing and nobody. / don't
know what makes preachers do that way unless
II is that they may boast that a sinner was
nothing I'LL the preacher got hold of him
and made something out OF him. I'm
tired of this tomfoolery about you running
around here laying all your sins on Adam.
I've no respect for Adam if he'd died earlier
he'd a-lIFed longer ] never heard much about
Adam till I got into the church among a lot Of
backsllders and heard them talk about him,
Because Adam ate apple 6000years ago is no
excuse Tor you running around and committing
all kinds OF sins now The devil would rather
fight thousand Adams than one average job
He knocked Adam out in one round; knocked
him down with an apple, but after he had
knocked out every prop from job ne couldn't
conquer him. Adam tumbled at the
s5 5sf tsf@ 65gt5t tb but doh lob stuck t up
run him of the ground. On, the poor little
piddle-puddle fellows that are calling them
selvelves Christians. If they get to heaven
they VIII look like lot of little tin soldiers
that never had the paint knocked of them
Do you know Pm glad all the church men,
bers wont get to heaven. If they ali get
there you would have to sleep at night
with your brooches under your head. One
thing / Ike about heaven is that you can 20
running about the streets OF the New Jerusalem
and leave all your doors unlocked. God ain {
mad ct your tongue. He is mad at you for
taking that tongue and lying with it. We
methodist preachers get up and preach about
falling from grace as hard as we can CO. and
DIR church members fall from grace as hard as
they can go. / think the presbyterians Will all
Eet 70 heaven, but they will be a little late
They need tappin' up a little"
Ny. Culver was closing the tabernacle win
nOWs when Mr.. Jones stopped ard said, you
had better give a good deal of air. I'm
going to make IL might hot for some of these
folks before they get out Of here. Some OF
them may get hot under the collar. fGreat
laughter God quit making things more than
5000 years ago He has not made a man from
the ground up since he finished Adam. He
helps to make them, but he don't do
II all Sister, teach your boys man.
hood, teach your daughter womanhood.
Come women whip everything manly
out of their children, whip them for things
they admire IN their husbands. mother or
father has almost much to do with what
child Is to be as God has. BE man yourself
L
Ter, you be woman yourself and teach your
daughter how TO be. Imputed righteousness
makes God fraud and man q white sepul-
cher. II a man is a persevering man he's q
persevering man; il he amt, he amt. That's
common sense. don't know how to
preach on regeneration. If did there amt
man here who could understand it. Christ
never tried 1t but once and that was at mid
night to one person and he like to have tainted
Christ could preach on il but He couldn't find
anybody who could understand it, so He didn't
try il but once. / relieve things / don't
understand. l see that old sheep out yonder
fpOinhng TO an adjacent field nibbling grass
but don't know how the grass is going to be-
come WOOL but do believe IL; and there an old
goose picking az the same grass but don't
know how it is going to turn into feathers, but
II will I preaching about he'll in Cal
lfornia and the fellows out there laughed at me.
They don't believe in hell out there, but they
have got lots Of it.
Il wiz tell you what let us preachers ali do
Let us go home and preach manhood Let's
quit talking so much about hell and heaven
warning our people to shun the one and travel
for the other. But let's talk about what we
are and ought 10 be here. would rather be a
yascal IN hell than loDsided old church mem
Der in heaven The end at which God drives is
manhood and womanhood. Let's set in 10 be
something and somebody. Why don't you
preach of heaven, Brother Jones? asks lady.
It's because half my crowd viii never get there
10 know whether told them the truth about it
OF not, and the other half can see for them
Selves- Don't make out that you are an angel
Ri your wings are az least a foot long and you
Dan fly a mile. Some preachers measure of
their sermons By the minutes just like a mer-
chant measures his goods OF by the yard. It's
impossible 10 talk an hour without having
some greenhorn when you get tired get up and
rack out. There amt no law against grazing
On the green grass out there"