Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-10

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pie OF the South. / hope Gods blessins Z
viii come upon them. want 10 hold one
special service for the colored people. have
preached to 10000 OF them at one time;
and God always blessed the service: i
preached in one town where they didn !
want the colored people TO come in. Butt
when you como to deal with the good Lord
you have got to do the clean thing. You
can run your politics any way you please
but you can't run your religion that way
TRIKSDs AMONG THE NEGROES.
Some of the best friends have in this
world Ore colored people and some OF the
best neighbors have at home are colored.
! They come and sit up with my family
whom one of them is sick, but my white
neghbOrs don't como over and do that waY.
| ] don't know why. These negroes were
! born and raised among rs, and say 10
you It is our privilege 10 make the last one
of them our friends. We ought never 70
forget their fidelity TO our children and
| wives during the war. Let us do our part
! by them.
! Don't understand me to say that am IN
favor of social equality. i don't believe IN
it among whites. There are some white
| folks in this town / would no more asso-
ciate with than would fly.
The first-claSs negro never wants 10 come
among white folks and the best OF the
| whites don't want to 90 with the colored
] people. II is the low-dOwn OF both races
| that are doing the mixing. am KIND 10
/ the colored people, but they never bother
me with social equality. If a man wants TO
run with colored folks let him have his
| choice: don't care. That is my doctrine:
] repeat, am glad to see them here i
pray Gods blessing on the colored people
of this city.
THE HORRORS OF SIN.
Mr.. Jones took for his text the words Of
| Solomon in the Proverbs: =" He that pur-
sueth evil pursueth it to his death" 10
picture the horrors of sin the speaker
| drew an illustration OF woman diseased
with leprosy and bearing III her arms q
| spotless babe. When the child becomes
| ten years of age the malady of its parent
will begin 10 defOrm the child, and when
| il Is twenty wears of age il will die. There
| are plenty of homes in Richmond, he de-
clared, where sin has come and taken hold
Of the parent and it will be transmitted TO
the now pure child, and will ruin Its life
and destroy its soul.
The speaker next told of the bite of a
serpent In foreign land, from the effects
| of which the victim never RECEIVERS. 1he
poison first affects the foot, and then passes
! up one side of the body, which loses all
feeling, and the flesh dies. The poison goes
over to the other side of the body, and
finally the heart is reached end the victim
dies. Mr.. Jones used this illustration TO
show how SIN comes upon man by de-
grees and takes hold upon him until 1t has
captured conscience. .sensibllltles, intellect,
and soul.
THE CONSCIENCE.
He then went on 10 say that the con-
science o. the people is dead. The con-
science oe the family is dead Church
conscience is dead. Individual conscience
is dead The conscience is dead all over
the country. from Maine 10 California and
from the lakes TO the gulf Conscience
has been stabbed 10 DEATH"
The greatest PRAYER that pray for Ame-
rica and for Richmondis. Lord God, como
down and take up our conscience from
that grave. Let conscience walk and take
a breath again as living ministers In the Al
fairs Of men, Conscience! Conscience.
Conscience. IL we could get the munich
pal conscience in this city moved we
would move this city as it never moved be-
fore.
CHURCH MEMBERS AND WHISKY.
Further on in his discourse Mr.. Jones said:
" Let me tell you. you will never put the
whskey out of the city until you put the
demIiohns out of the houses of the deacons
and stewards Half the whiskey drunk IN
this city is by members of the Church.
Half the dancing is done by members OF
the Church half the theatre visiting IS by
members Of the Church, and if you talk
about il they absolutely laugh at you.
Some of You are like the fellow who said
when he first joined the Church his con-
science hurt him for every little thing he
did, but after awhile he got so he could
steal horse and his conscience wouldn't
hurt him bit.
WOULDN'T RIDE HIM.
"There isn't church in the United
States that would call me for its pastor"
said Mr.. Jones further in his discourse.
They would ask: Is he prudent? l. he
cautious? Is he conservatives Ia be
pusillanimous puppy and can we boss
no church or Board of Stewards could
boss this man. To God stand. God
bless the preacher and help him to be the
most Independent man IN the wIold.
There is many apreacher in the land
that you can get on and ride him any,
where in the world. Talk about being
'priest-ridden.' Here's one priest you
can't ride. If a man tries to ride me the
next thing he knows when the dust blows
away he Will fnd me standing at the
trough with one of his gallowses wrapped
around my hind leg. lGreat laughter.l No,
nv brethren, what we need IN this countryis
a Gospel preacher at the conscience of
men and a Gospel that will raise men. We
have sinned against God-we have stabbed
conscience TO death.
DISTINCTION.
Returning to the temperance question,
which Is IA favOrite theme of Mr.. Jones. he
said: This is the stronghold of whiskey.
1t is in all this whole section. You have got
your saloons as thick as the lamp-posts on
the street. You have got fashionable clubs
l., ira In n No
drinking man i'll this city is to be out of
society. Now listen to me. If you are not
a member of the Church have nothing to
say to you at all but will say this much
" l. Sam L. Jones, n minister III the Method
ist Church of Georgia, have as much right
to 90 down town and get drunk
as any man in Richmond. | have as
much right to break IN your house
as any man in Richmond. God being my
Judge. Some men are permitted to do
wrong, but with others you will kick like
forty. Some of you old swill-tubs get drunk
every day and nobody VIII say anything
about il. If | get drunk or swear it will be
telegraphed all over the country: Sam
Jones drunk and swearing on the streets of
Richmond This is distinction between
a man who is q gentleman and one who is
not. / am glad there is distinction"
NO DESIRE FcR Evil.
Mr.. Jones went on to argue that if man
is truly converted he Will have no desire
for sin.
Now" said he, 81 am perfectly
honest when | say to You ! went to the
theatre and the card-room. | enjoyed all
those things, as God is my Judge. Since
became a member of the Church have
had no more desire. tor such things than |
have TO 90 to hell. You thought you got
religion ten years ago, but it was some
thing you ate that affected you. Laugh
ter | got it seventeen years ago, and
was right there on the spot when il
happened and know all about it. But
the trouble IN our churches to-day
is that two thirds of our people
do not know God in His pardoning and
saving power. Baptists won't take a man
until they know he has it. never did tell
a fellow when lie had religion; let God
tell him. God is the only being in the uni
verse who can tell u man when he has go
it."
NO sECrARIAEIsM.
Mr.. Jones expressed his dislike TO am
feeling in most vigorous terms,
and invited the cooperation OF all denomi-
nations in his work. He SAID: Come on,
brethren. we will shake the tree and dowl
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