The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-28
REV. SAM JONES'
He Talks of the Way and Truth, Allie
glance and Loyalty to God, and
Deals a Blow at the Supreme
Court on Liquor, etc.

house in the new nome which nobody
could take away. Many were moved
by Prof. Excell's pathetic rendition of
it, and as Mr.. jones came forward he
said that there was not a soft, sweet
cord in human that is not moved by
listening to a song IKE that.
The words carried him back to the
time when he a child, nestled in his
little trundle bed and his mother, now
dead, spoke those sofa gentle words in
his ear. The old broken ties will not
always be broken. Ny mother. he
said, is just as much my mother now
as when she put her hand on my head
on her dying bed and said, Now |
lay me down TO Sleep" for me when [
60 to Heaven, I'll know her. | could
pick her out of the whole choir of
Heaven.
The text was from the first verse of
the eighth chapter of Romans:
''There is therefore no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus, etc"
He would, he said, conine his re-
marks to the three wor DIS sin Christ
Jesus"
The three great questions of the
nineteenth century are, "Who is
Christ p ''Where is Christ p ''What
is Christ ?"
The salvation Of our souls depends
largely on the answer we give these
questions. The wiser the world gets,
the more it wants to know about
Christ. There are more great minds
thinking and writing of Christ, in this
than in any other age.
The questions may be looked at from
various st%andpoints. Christ's miracles
stagger some men. Those men are
very superficial. If that sort of man
looks at the miracles and then looks
close at the words of Christ, he will
not wonder that Christ could do the
miracles.
But we need to look more at the
thoughts of Christ than at his words.
the closer you get to the side of
Christ, the closer your forehead will
be to His forehead.
You will not 60 to Geike, or Pet
wood. or to Young, or to Deems to
get to Christ. You would go to Christ
Himself.
Away back in the earlier days of
Israel, God said, II am" When
Jesus came He said, Il am" Oh. the
Jews said, God said that thousands of
years ago. Jesus said, Il am-the
way Practically speaking, religion
is nothing more than the way to Heav-
en-, and walking in that way.
You see a road of steel rails, and
you ask what is that road for. 1t Is
for that great locomotive engine to
run on, at the speed, perhaps, of a
mile a minute. But when the engine
gets off of the way that was made for
it, it can't go a step. I've found the
way for my soul to go to Heaven,
You can't get there by the dirt roads
of incompetence, licentiousness or pro-
family.
Il am the truth" Christ said. "and
the truth shall make you free"
You negroes say Lincoln set yon
free. Nobody, but Christ, can set you
free. There are 1900 of your sort on
the chain gang in my Sta tie, and it's
the same way in this State
When those PEG pie told Daniel h.
had to quit praying to his God, or be
put in the den of lions. Daniel said,
eff I do pray I'll be put in the lions
den, and if I don't, I'll go to hell.
I'll take the lions den in mine" But
God got in there ahead of him and
said to the lions, "You treat him hos
pitably ;" and when Daniel got sleepy
| He said to an old lion, ''You lie down
and let Daniel rest on you" And
when Daniel had pillowed his head on
the name of that old lion, he said
This beats hell"
NV first allegiance is to God.
| staid in the Democratic party as long
1 could, till I saw I couldn't stay any
longer and be a christian.
There are things in the past of the
Democratic party that is sacred, but
when that party put in that non-sump-
tuary plank, it pledged itself to liquor.
During these rem arks a negro, in
the negro's seats, jumped up several
times and shouted.
Mr.. Jones said, I'm glad there's
some prohibition niggers in this town.
| hear there's a prohibition eolored
church here that won't let in any thai
amt prohibitlonists. l wish some O.
Vou white churches were that way.
But you old Republicans needn'I
crow. God bless you, | never did get
low down enough to say anything for
YOUR party. The Democratic party
says it's for liquor. and they drink it
and don't care who knows it. TIL,
Republican party says it is againsi
liquor, and lie about it. I'm neither
a Democrat nor a Republican. I'm
religious mug-wump.
You men that will vote for the sal
of liquor are as mean as the saloon
keeper. I don't care who the presi
dent is, if God be the king of thi.
enl1ntrr and ne walk every daV Oh