Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-06-25
REV. SAM JONES TO men ONLY.
TWELVE THOUSAND HEARERS.
Text-"what L Have Written. L Have
Written"

DRUNKENNESS, GAMBLING, LEwDNEss, AND
SIN IN GENERAL DISCUSSED.
In our issue of last week, we noticed the
fact that Rev. Sam Jones had preached to a
large congregation of men only in the
Tabernacle in Richmond on Sunday after
noon, June 18th. The following is a re-
port of that sermon as given in the Rich
mond Times, the day after-Monday, June
10th. In commencing, Mr.. Jones said:-
Let the thousands of men gathered here
this afternoon think occasionally of wife,
mother, and sister. Thousands of the good
and true women of Richmond are now on
their knees at home praying for blessing
on this meeting.
Give me your sympathy and prayers, and
God give US His presence and blessing.
He then read several selections, laying
special stress on the words, "Rejoice, oh
young man, in the days of thy yeuth,' and
said that the whole divine law was laid
down in the injunction, "Fear God and
keep His commandments" He then an
nounced as his text, "What have written
| have written"
He divided his discourse into three parts
Conscience, the Record, and the Judgment.
Conscience and tho Record point like an
index finger to God and God points to the
Judgment.
Conscience is the voice of God in the
human soul, and go where you will you
cannot escape it. 1t is something that will
not at times let you eat or sleep or study
Where is the man in or out of this multi
tude that has not at some time suffered the
papgs and pain of an outraged consciencei
The record of your life is as truly part OF
you as the head, the foot, or any other
member of your body, and it cannot be
severed therefrom.
Our hearts are but drums beating funeral
dirges to the grave and the great judgment
seat of God.
Every man is arraigned before that
tribunal and cannot escape except by the
force of the testimony or by the exercise Of
clemency.
AJURY THAT CAN'T BE BRIBED.
Fellow. citizens Of the great Common.
wealth Of Virginia, said Mr.. Jones, warm
ing up to his work, there are many ways to
defy human law. You may bribe the
judge or the grand jury, but tell you, my
| countrymen, that you can't evade the law
of God.
Are your laws properly executed in this
city? Is your Sabbath perfectly kept
Have you no shameless houses that carry
on their Infamous traffic openly every
day?
tell you il is lawlessness on that line
that begets anarchism and communism,
and you can't stop it by hanging a few
anarchists in Chicago. .Fhe damnable
| liquor traffic is at the bottom of all crime
i / e hi, al1 = &l,ok II
disorder is Aatched and ripened. I have
said that no one but an Internal rasca
would sell liquor, and no one but an in
fernal fool would drink it.
look upon the saloon, the dance-room
aud the lewd house as the three leading
roads to ruin, and they are more or lesl
connected. The grog-shop is the heaG
centre of wickedness for the men, and tht
ballroom for the women. This is plair
talk, but my brethren l mean every wore
l say, and statistics will prove 1t, and it il
against this monstrous trinity of evils tina
am here this afternoon to sound my note
of warning and TO appeal to the manhood
of Richmond, old and young, TO strike ant
strike at once for the purity and brightness
of better life.
YOU NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY MEN.
How many Of the thousands gathere,
here this evening claim to be moral men
Say they are decent men? How many Q
you who never violated Gods laws?
Some say l never violated mary. / ar
moral; am generous, and I am charita
BILE.
What does the Bible say? 1t says, il
substance, that he who has broken th
smallest law has in fact violated all.
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