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


! preachers who go around browbeating
! human nature. It makes me laugh to
| see some little old preachers go back and
| dig around Adam. I've no respect for
| Adam except in a grandsiriele way.
| But, brethren, let me say this,
| human nature must be put into
| right relations with God. Can It be-
| lieve. Faith Is just like anything else.
| When you comply with the conditions OF
taste and sight you can taste and see
| So with faith; repentance is the condition
| of faith and faith is the condition of SAL
vation. I'd just as soon pray for corn as
| pray for faith! I look for my corn at
| the end of the hoe with the sweat run
ming down the handle. Do you remember
| any place in the Bible where
there is prayer for faith? Do you Ito
the members)?p Finally one voice re-
| peated ''Lord increase my faith, - and
Mr.. Jones retorted like a fash, eyes,
and Jesus rebuked him for that prayer!
Faith is the gift of God and SO is sight,
but seeing is my part. Faith is the gift
! of God, so is taste, bat tasting is my
part. You needn't go down and pray
for faith. Let me knock that idea on
the head. You are good but you are
goose TO get on your knees and pray for
faith. Ask God to help you believe what
He has saidl You re good but silly Let's
take God at his word and go ahead /
don't believe in begging. There g a
heap of religious folks who say, o,
Lord, give me something. What? Oh,
1 don't care much, just let anything
drop. That must be the reason He stays
away from so many prayer meetings
He's been begged at till He's left. If
you take your vows and go ahead He'll
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clothes if He has to put the angels on
half rations. The man who does what is
right and goes ahead, that the man who
will be millionaire. Come AMI JOIN the
church and give God something and do
something. Don't join just to commence
the begging process.
'fHear me! What must I do to be
saved? Just remove the obstacles aud
impediments that oughtn It to be there
and then the soul will be the center of
gravity of good. FaithI It doesn 4
mean good feelings when you look at the
Bible. You must believe in the Bible.
A clear case of faith, the real, sure
enough article, is when & man will
stick to it through thick and thin.
Sometimes it seems as if Christ
was tired of that metaphysical word and
said, Follow me- Salvation in its
did and do, how He lived and loved,
and suffered and died. and follow Him.
Then you'll feel good. Feeling is re-
suit, not cause. It is moral perspira-
ton, the result of moral activity. Say,
you fellows, who are sitting off there
waiting for the feeling before you do
anything, you need boring for the hollow
head and bleeding in the frog of the foot.
That's the only thing that viii save you.
Listen! If [ was some of you men
I'd walk up and say twas coming out for
God and measure arms with any man in
Texas. It's not what happens when you
take the step, but what happens after.
Some minister would say he can't take
you until you are saved, but when you
are saved what's the use of joining any
church? / tell you getting religion Is
good deal like getting the measles. No
joking; it's so. Once when 1 was in
Jacksonville 1 met an old fellow who
said: Mr., Jones, what ails me! Since
you we been here I've felt so mean all
oyer. Said l: You've got re-
Iigion, that's all. Just come
down and let US pour few
cups OF hot gospel tea down you and
you III be all right. You know if the
measles goes In it II kill. The trouble
with your congregation, Brother Wells,
is you want less cold water and more hot
tea. It made me feel good when Geor-
gia boy told me to-day he had decided
for the right, and know an old woman
in Georgia that IL shout q mile high
when take her the news next week. L
never saw a sight that did me so much
good as when those strong men this
afternoon rose for God.
''Afraid you can't stand out? Yes,
Io< ,oF1 i1fy
WASH I for that. It's the very objection
the devil poked in my face, but I've
been sticking for seventeen years, and
I've got more Suitability to-day than
ever had before. Yes, was so afraid
that 1 ID not hold out, and am yet, that
hold on for all N worth. That IS the !
safest time in the world.
''Thou and thy house! Thank God for
those words. [ believe in whole families
going to heaven. It's a privilege one
has, to take all the rest with him. Thank
God for religion that viii take in house,
holds. You fathers can put your arms
around your children and take them to
God. What thought! If salvation is
to love the right and hate the wrong !
what is simpler. But you say what about |
regeneration. never preached on regen- |
eration-never thought I knew enough. |
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but do know that seventeen years ago |
Sam Jones, the sinner, died, and Sam |
Jones, the saint, was born. Some |
power made the change. I don't know |
what If was, but it was done. And that /
was regeneration. Let's lay that aside |
and do what God wants US to do, and |
there would be such breaking in the |
ranks of sin as would make the angels |
shout in heaven. -
When the sermon was over in the after /
service was seen the fruits of the after |
noon and evening sermons. The anxious |
seats were thronged, and all the clergy |
men were kept busy taking the names |
and church preferences OF. the penitents, |
who pressed forward TO clasp the evan |
gelist's hand. 1t was long after the SER
mon closed before Rev. MIR. Jones could |
retire, and the tent became slowly /
cleared.
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