Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-05-01


i5o DaVdsoe, sae "toN "to bo cnrystian y a and M he
then called upon all who desired to be
such to rise, and many responded to tho
invitation.
The evening sermon was on tho value
of the human soul. Tho preacher
climbed from thought to thought quot
ing scripture the while, with the utmost
facility. Among the crisp things that he
SAID were these:
"You mnst get heaven into you before
you can get INTO heaven"
"How uncomfortable some sinners
could feel If they did get into heaven by
mistake"
"About the hardest thing in this world
is for a man to be Christian who
hasn't any religion"
"A good many men in North Dakota
are in danger of losing their election to a
kingdom OF heaven for the sake of some
petty Office in this world"
The devil gets some men wonderfully
cheap. What does he offer for your
soul?
"A woman can not afford to spend her
eternity in the society of devils
for the sake Of getting into what
is called the best society Of this world"
Young man, a few nights Of revelry
here are eternity Of sorrow hereafter"
The religious interest awakened by the
meetings now in progress is very evil
IDENTIFY widening and deepening. The ser
vices throughout have been characterized
by lack of the excitement which too
often prevails IN such meetings; while Il
spirit of inquiry is everywhere manifest.
Monday evening, though some were drawn
from the service by tho concert in the
Opera house, yet over 800 persons assem-
bled to hear Mr.. Davidson speak on
'The Evidences of Christianity" This
subject could not be exhaustibly treated
in single discourse; so the speaker con-
fined his remarks to a limited range of
argument; advancing some practical
proof that was undoubtedly convincing
Some very striking contrasts we're drawn
between nations, and families. and lives
that were christian and those that were
not. Mr.. Davldson's thirteen years of ex-
perlence as an evangelist, together with
his travel abroad, furnish him with a
fund of material with which to embellish
his sermons.
At the close of the sermon ten Or
twelve enquirers came forward. The
following are a few sharp arrows from
the bow w.strlnS Of the evangelist cauSht
on the fly:
"Multitudes OF men who throw the
Bible aside, have never read single
book on the evidences OF christianity"
''lhe marvellous fu!tillment Of proph
ecy was No accident"
II have Snown religion TO change more
than one home from a hell to heaven"
God will save any man. any where,
who wants to be saved, il the man will
quit his SINS"
"A strong proof Of christianity is that
it does for man just what 1t claims to do,
when they accept it."
I'm the stove is splendid place for a
pack of cards." said the evangelist in
speaking of gambler who had been con-
verted.
The Touching of Christ was very simple
teaching. He never went beyond the
bounds Of his own little province. He
gathered about HIM few hundred of the
peasantry and talked to them of truth,
duty, love, God. His message was indeed
a simple one-GoG's love for man and
his desire to save man-and yet simple
as that message was, the world
has never grown weary of hearing it;
and today when E. Il. Davidson, quietly
ignoring all attempts at the sensational
act, goes back TO the simple teaching of
that Galilean, thrOngs gather to hear
that teaching, as they did when it was
first gwen on tie shores of the lake of
Capernaum. Last night the rooms we're
crowded with eager listeners to hear Mr..
Davidson speak on eternity. He spoke
only thirty minutes. but his thought
was we'll condensed, and the sermon a
suggestive one. This evening the sermon
will be on "Hell' and those desiring seats
better come early. Speaking last night,
of the future life the evangelist said, If
there was only one chance in ten mil
lions, of me losing my soul, 1 should
spend all my life trying to gain heaven
"The man who insists that he has no
soul, evidently has very little soul.'
II sometimes wonder why God did not
create some men before He created any
thing else, and then consult them about
everything else that was to be created"
"lt is just as marvellous to study drop
of water through the microscope, as to
study world through the telescope
At the close of the sermon number
of lnquirers, old and young, came for
ward for instruction.
Mandan Pioneer: About 500 bushels
of millet seed has been sold this spring
to the farmers in the vicinity of Mandan,
and there Is Still demand for the Ger
man millet seed which cannot be sup
Piled, as there is mono to be had IN Man
dan. Some idea Of the millet crop in
Morton county this season, provided it
is good year, can be had by applying a
few figures. A bushel OF seed will sow
two acres, so the 500 bushels will cover
1000 acres of land. Two tons to the
acre is not high estimate for good
season, which would give crop of 5000
tons. Over half of the 500 bushels of
seed was sold for spot cash. This does
not look like destitution in Morton
county just at present, neither does 1t
foreshadow poverty for next year.