Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-31
THE EVENING SERVICES.

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THE EVENING SERVICES.
The Practical Side of ReIigion-Happiness
IS the Result of Moral Activity.
The threatening rain last night did not
prevent the great canvas house of wor-
ship from being crowded to its utmost
capacity. The wives and daughters who
assembled in the First Baptist church in
the afternoon were under the tent last
night, and it was packed so densely that
il was almost impossible to move in it.
Before he began his sermon Mr.. Jones
again alluded in kindly way to the gen.
crosby of of the people Of Fort Worth,
and said: al came here only with good
viii and leave with the kindest feelings
TO everybody. People do a good deal OF
talking against me, but it's those who
haven't been here, or been here only
when / was preaching to a certain class
1t takes all kinds of preaching to reach
all men. I've been here and talked
grammar and ungrammar, and I've
talked the choicest language the world
contains. If haven't reached every
man here 1t IS because my stock in trade
didn't hold out. A preacher who would
please q crowd of 5000 people every day
could have preached better, but l We
done what 1 could. -
The text was the question 'What
must do TO be saved?'' and the answer,
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved and all thy house. -
''This is a practical, personal ques-
ton, - said Mr.. Jones, ''in different
ways, 1t is a practical question, Hhat
must I DO to be saved? and it, per-
sonal question, What must do TO be
saved? And the answer is just as simple
as the question-Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. 1 thank God for the last
three words there-aTd thy house.
''What must do? You might come
to me for advice, and I've no right to
advise you to do anything that you
couldn t die doing and be happy. But 1
can tell you some of the things you must
not do. You must keep good company.
There is not an angel in Heaven who is
good enough to keep company with some
folks and keep good. Ii IS fact that the
associations of the ballroom are not what
they should be. Your girls may
be as pure as the morning dew
drops, but they can't stand it. I've
had good deal TO do with these ball
room bucks, and they won { do. l was
q dancer, and if I was fair specimen of
them, and I think 1 was, then no pure,
sweet girl ought to go on the ballroom
floor. Young lady, hear me, l would
see your life and character as pure as the
morning dew, and see you move in an
atmosphere such as angels breathe, but
you can't find It on the ball
room floor. Listen, dancing is based on
the sexes. There ism I boy would give
a nlckle to dance with another boy nor
girl who wants TO dance with another
girl. It's based on the contact
of the sexes; / tell you I never
want TO see another man 3 arms around
my wife's waist, nor around my sister 3,
and what I don t want done to my wife
and sister I'll never do to another man IS.
It's a craze, q craze like wine and gam
bling. Fathers, mothers, young men
and young women, keep pure. l would
have you as pure as the dew, there
would be nothing like it under the skies.
Seven tenths of the opposition which I
have struck has been when met the tide
of worldliness that is dragging il down TO
hell.
81 might advise you TO read good
books. Oh, the bad books that are
brought into these homes!\ Not one in
ten reads history or literature, and there
are a hundred ten cent books read TO
one good one. It speaks III for Ameri-
can homes! / might advise you TO join
the church and to read the Bible, to be
baptized and to take the sacra-
mentl These are all crowned
instrumentalities. But there is
only one sufficiency. What must
1 do TO be saved? Believe, believe! Is
isn't singing or shouting or feeling
happy, but it's getting things right side
up with care.
Salvationl What is itg IT'S getting
yourself in line with God and LOVING what
God loves and hating what He hates.
It's being in harmony with yourself and
God. It's setting the commandments to
music in the soul, music that would
charm an angels soul. It's religious
harmony, and that is heaven. Hear
me! Salvation is 8 state OF heart and
mind that stands up in line with the
right No man is saved but loves what
Is good and pure ana hates everything
that is low down and mean. The reason
/ know Pm not the same fellow 1 was
seventeen years ago is because I'm not
IN sympathy with what was then.
''Listeni No Christian is in right at
titude unless he sees every SIN is covered
with the blood OF Christ and SAYS away
with that sin If the church were only
in that attitude how strongly would it
march forward TO the conquest of sin and
90 the reign of universal love.
What must ( do TO be saved? You
viii hear preachers talk OF a change
from nature 10 grace, but there is moth
ing in the Bible about It. All we want
Is a change OF relation and Of attitude.
II makes me tired TO see one OF the