Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-27
SAN JONES MEETINGS.
The Closing Services Attended With In
creased Numbers aud Interest

The Closing Services Attended With In
creased Numbers and Interest.
The meeting at the Pavilion yesterday fore
noon was unusually well attended, and of more
than usual interest. fully 1880 persons remain
ing at the close to give their hand to Mr.. Jones
as an evidence of being fully persuaded and de-
termined for the future. The meeting was
opened with prayer by Rev. Jordan, of Dixon,
followed by the usual song service.
The text from which Mr.. Jones preached was
from the 10th Psalm II love the Lord because
He hath heard my voice and my supplication I;
because He hath inclined His ear unto me !;
Therefore will call upon Him as long as live"
there are three classes here this morning,
said the speaker: Those who know they love
God, those who know they don't love God, and
those who don't know whether they love Him
or not.
thank God for every man and woman on
this earth who can stand up and say heartily,
a. love the Lord" / am sorry for members of
the church who don't know what to think. /
am really sorry for those who know they don't
love God. There is only one reason why man
don't love God. and that is because he don't
| knew anything about Him. If man could
see God III His goodness and mercy to him, he
would be compelled to love Him. Even my
dog and horse love me, because | am good to
them: and when you see how good God has
been to your father, mother and your wife, If
then you don't love God. you are lower down
than my dog and horse, and il had got below
the brntes l would sell out and leave the
country.
When a man realizes what God is to him, and
don't love God, he is the most degraded wretch
upon the face of the earth.
There are some people who don't believe in
prayer. / am sorry for that sort of men. When
your prayers are answered, the devil slips up
and says, Your prayer didn't have anything 10
do with your getting that; you would have got
believe the devil before you believe God.
believe in prayer hearing and prayer
answering God. You may maze ne disbelieve
anything else but that God hears and an
swers prayers of his people that call unto him.
If God were making a new world believe he
would roll it out of his hand to listen TO his
child and give him that which he prayed for.
Every upward movement of the soul is from
made better, until he was convinced that he
was bad and wanted to do right. A mans re-
ligious experience don't go any deeper than his
conviction. With great many members of the
church religion is sort OF moral code. A
man may feel sorry he stole, got drunk etc.
but when you wake up to the conviction that
you are a thief or q drunkard, YOU are getting
down where it hurts.
Some of you people say, well, Mr. Jones, if
you think it Will be any accommodation to the
Lord. will come up there and admit my short
comings." The reason some folks don't get re-
ligion is because they want you to run after
them, because you awaken more interest and
are lionized more as sinners than you would as
l have known old sinners to sit and look
prim for you to come and talk to them sort
of Big Ike" when he is mean and Little
Ike" when he is good.
| don't know whether there has been any con-
viction in these meetings or not. Oh. for pro-
found conviction upon this town that ii some
thing isn't done we are ruined, world without
end
said last night your town looked like burnt
district, and it does. No place can support 500
saloons in town of this size without going
down. l was sitting in a barber shop this
morning and the Dnfbpr said. fsThnv pan;f
anything here | said, Whose fault is it?'
He said, '.lt amt the liquor mems fault; there
amt enough of them. 1t is the fault of the
good people of this Town, they fall out before
they can do anything"
1t is the truth; it is our fault that we are in
this condition. You cannot agree; you won't
unite and work together.
The speaker then rounded up the members
of the church for ball and theater-going, and
for card playing. and said they were snags
in the way OF others: Why don't you all
preachers, with our tongues iolling out, Try
ing to pull a wagonload of you fellows, and
you feeding your preachers on wheat straw.
Get out of the wagon, every one of you, and
pull or push.
We Amt paying our preachers enough-that's
the truth about it. You haven't got preacher
was once pastor OF stingy church and I was
afraid the devil was going to get them, and
had to pray like forty TO keep from being glad
that he was.
EVENING SERVICES.
The attendance at the Pavilion last night was
the largest of any since Sam Jones commenced
services in this city. every seat being occupied
and over one hundred being compelled to stand.
Professor L. y. Excel, by special request, re-
peated the beautiful song composed by him.
- The Road to Heaven"
The meeting was opened by Rev. A. C. Bane
in prayer. Mr. Jones then spoke for over an
hour from the words: "What must do to be
saved2" and st. Paul's reply to this inquiry
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved and all thy house" A large num-
Der went forward at the close OF the services.
There will be the usual 1890 A. NJ. meeting to-
day and tonight at 7:30, which viii be the last
evening meeting. Thursday morning at 1879
the closing meeting will be held.