Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-18
SAM JONES.
A sCATHING SERMON DELIVERED
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
Local Corruption, Politics, Gambling
and Saloons Receive Attention
Before Vast Audience.

Yesterday afternoon the immense tent at the
Pavilion, seating 5000 persons, was crowded.
there not being even standing room sufficient
tor the great crowd of men who attended Sam
Jones sermon to men only-fully $500 being
present The meeting was opened by Rev. Mr.
Kilgore with prayer. the usual song service fol.
lowing. Professor E. O. Excel then sang aTbe
Feast of Belschazzar." and il was very yrarmly
spplauded. Mr.. Jones text was from John xiv
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| WHAT HAVE WRITTEN, I HAVE WRITTEN,
The speaker said There are two SOMETHING'S
and one someone that you and had to do with
yesterday we have 10 do with them TODAY. and
we shall have to do with them foreyer-eon.
science, record and God Conscience that
reigning prince in my bosom, commencing
what is right and prohibiting what is wrong
The poet was nearly right when he said
What conscience dictates TO be done
Or warns me not to DO,
| This teach me more than hell to shun.
That more than heaven pursue.'
Where is the man In this audience that never
ieit the pangs and pains of a tortured con-
science that something that win not ist ~ q
eat, be the table loaded with the richest food :.
| that will not let me sleep, though the he'd is
SUI .s anu y! uoWny that something. when all the
word Is gay about me, makes me hang nv head
IN shame Oh, conscience, thou awful tribunal
accusing condemning me for a thousand acts Of
| my life ->'' -
Every man in this audience has his record inst
| as truly as he has his conscience NV record is
as much part of me my conscience: NV
record Is as inseparabie from me as an indiyid-
ual as tnls hand is 1nseparable from this body
" Oh you say. Mr.. Jones, the surgeon can
ainputate my arm No, sir. was once sitting
y 6y the side Of an old soldier and his empty
sleeve was dangling by his side and he said
rms hand has b. en- hurting me all dsy
Which hand?' I asked. This one. renlied
the man, holding up his empty sleeve. why"
said ], there is no hand there" "Yes. there
is, he said: they told me this whole arm was
buried on the battlefield near Gettysburg. but il
IS as truly there to-day as it ever was, and the
palm of this hand and the fingers have been
itching and burning me all day5 Inse1arable
MY record, your record, is part of you and l.
THE CONSCIENCE AND RECORD,
Like two index fingers pointing right mn to the
great 1od 1t was thought like this that made
the poet say:
1tis not all of life to live.
Nor all of death to die
Judgment is a forensic term and simnIv
means the equitable adjustment of an issue In
an ecclesiastical sense it means the final seq
sion OF heavens chaucery, when God shall
summon men and angels around the great white
throne and judge every man according to The
deeds done in the body. Judgment has refer
ence to that day when the druBkard shall have
staggered his last step, when the polluted man
shall have done his last wicked deed when the
murderer shall have stabbed his last victim
Wnen the profane swearer shall have uttered
MS last oath. when the world is congregated at
the Judgment seat of Christ. When a man yio-
lates the law there are three ways by which he
can escape. grant you
HE MAY BRIBE THE GRAND JURY
Or the jury before whom he first stands: he
may bribe the Judge but there are bI,t three
ways by law whereby he may Justly escape
First, by force of law; second by force of tesfi-
mony. and third by the prerogative of par
oonlpg power. There are many sensible men
opened, In spite of your political bosses in
spite of corruption at almost every poinr Won
are beginning to see that something must be
done II you have a law on the statute books
OF this state and cannot enforce that law,
YOU HAVE ANARCHISTS RIGHT HERE
1ou have communism set up in this State
IL Is well enough for US TO rise up occasionally
ana hang four or five anarchists at some central
point IN the Union, and we may claim that
anarchists and communists will never grow in
america, although they may be imported but as
long as the lawlessness of our own citizens pre-
walls, you furnish the soil in which communists
Will grow, that will burn you up in your house,
some night when you are sound asleep
When a maa is once aIraigned before the bar
OF Justice in this country, as have said. there
are but three ways by which he can rossihlv
escape, When msn is brought before the bar
OF Justice in this country, and one witness after
another testites, and the Judge charges the iury
unless the prosecution have proven beyond a
reasonable doubt that the prisoner is guilty. you
must acquit him of this crime then the iury
orings IN q verdict OF not guilty, because tn;
evidence Is insufficient and The prisoner is
ACQUITTED BY FORCE OF TESTIMONY.
If the Judge says, according to the statutes of
TINS state the offense charged against this man
IS not a crime in this State, then he is acautted
by force Of law, but if he is found guilty by the
testimony and is proven guilty as charged in
the Dill OF indictment, of the crime charged
against him, then MS only hope is that the
Governor ay extend his clemeney and exer-
nrar att ix-n of r1otx ~
that last day when you come to the final judg-
ment it may be the same as it is here: but no
man can defsat the ends of justice there
YOU CANNOT BsIBE GODS GRAND JURY.
They have already sat on your case and a
true bill has been found. He that believeth
not Shall be condemned" You cannot hy away
from G a. justice. If take ,he wings of the
mornlag aud fly to the uttes most parts of the
eartn, God is there; if / make my Ted in hell
God is there. Whittier shall | fiy from that
presence? Whittier shall fiy from Thy spirit ?''
Our hearts are bet mufiisd drums beating the
funeral dirge. When you men leave this b1fId-
ing some may go this way ana some that way
but every street IN Sacramento leads right to,
wards the Judgment seat of God You may
never again look Oh the yir;uous face of your
wife, or the innocent faces of your little ones.
and IL Is settled fact thet sooner or later we
VIII all stand before The judgment seat of Christ
nave seen men who Were not afraid to die,
who would walk up
IN o THE FLASHING MOUTHS OF CANNON
looks at his record and says II am not afraid
to face the judgment bar of God" Mr.. Zackery,
the Sherih OF Newton county, Ga was made
Sheriff Ia recognition of his bravery and has
been Sheriff for thirty years. During a revival
meeting the pastor of the church said to him.
MT mr. L1ckery, you are growing gray headed and
and give your heart to Cod He said. Why. I
am not afraid 10 die" THAT know is trtie''
said the preacher. "a brayer man than you
never lived, but now about the Judgment seat of
Christi The old man turned pale and his lin
quivered and he said my God Mr. Wadswor&h
am AFRAID of the Judgment seat of Christi
me grave and the collin, the winding sheet and
the sick bed. the hectic cough, is one thing and
the Jud dgment seat is another.
AGAIN, CANNOT BRIBE THE JUDGE
That sits upon my case. up there. To the judg-
nent must go, and you and will stand there
by and BY and the question Of ali questions is,
With This record how shall l stand before the
Judge of all the earth | know this style of
sermon is disappointment to some of YOU and
thai many of you don't enjoy sermon that
viii not make you giggle God forgive you II
you thought you
WERE COMING TO A MONKEY SHOW
il will be lhe most interesting one you ever
came to before get through with you. You
VIII know when Get there lLaughter] When
you stand before the Judgment seat there are
but three ways by which you can escape-by
force OF law, by force of testimony, and by the
Divine pardon extended. First, by force of law
is there man IN this audience that can stand
up and say. II never violated a precept of that
book (the Biblel in my life 2" Some saw 81
don't ike to read that book, 1t condemns me-
II this book condemns you here in California
to-day. 1t will condemn You there at the iuig-
ment bar finally. This is the same book and
You VIII be the same man. And this is the law
of God
GOVERNING EVERY MANS ACTION
Some of you will say. +" never violated many OF
its p ecepts- He that breeketh the less is
guilty OF al.' You say, 81 cannot see how that
is 1onder is little boa on the lake; 1t is
fastened 10 The shore T. long chaiu. Now ii
have no key 10 unlock the chain, how shall
loo en- The boat? shall have TO cut so of the
largest links or ten OF the small onesy No. ifI
cut one of the smallest links the boat is free
You cut your soul as loose from God
WHEN VOC VIOLATE ONE or HIS LAWS
AS If you violated them all Suppose want to
go TO San Francisco and there is one rad
that leads there and hundred that diyerge
nom there would not go far from my way
II took one OF the divergiug roads as If took
them ail2 ST. Paul said NO iesh can be justi-
fed by the works of the law; the law kileth
and the spirit maseth alive
IL thee is no chance by law then what
about testimony? That brings US directly TO
the text. what have written have written
| say that when you stepped across the line
of accountability, our hearts were blank talbess
aud since then
WE HAVE BEES WRITING DOWN TESTIMONY
Ry which we shall stand or fall at the judgment
seat. You may 90 down here To this fier,of and