Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-24
THOUSANDS LISTEN.
The Sam Jones Tabernacle Crowd
ed Day and Night by Sinners,
And the World Famous Exhorter POurs
OPatOrieaI Shot Into the In
visible knemy.
Ths Evening Discourse in FulI-GOd's Helpful,
Sympathetic and PardOn'ng Love.
Sam jones anecdotes and
Witty Sayings.

Not less than. II 900 people heard Sam
Jones preach yesterday and these figures
do not include the large numbers Of peo-
pie who were unable to get within reach
of his voice and who went away from the
| tabernacle 10 await q more opportune
time TO hear the gospel preached by the
eloquent stranger. Morning, noon and
| afternoon the tent was crowded to over
| flowing. All the benches were filled,
persons standing up flied the aisies, and
| crowds clustered about the entrances.
At the evening seryiee some folks came
as early as O'Clock in order TO pre-
empt the front seats. From then until
| the people swarmed in that leighbor-
! hood. All available space outside the
| tent was occupied by the carriages of
! those who drove to the preaching, and
/ when the service was over a couple OF
/ dozen street cars awaiting outside were
| jammed and packed before any diminu-
| ton of the crowd was observable.
| Professor Excel lead in the singing
| as usual, and the harmony of some 500
trained voices raised in the utterance OF
| the sacred hymns was such as is seldom
| heard in these parts. Professor Excel
sang a couple of solos during the day
with fine effect.
At night, preliminary to the regular
service, the choir rendered GAS thy
! days thy death shall be- and "LOOk
| and live.
Rev. i. Morgan Wells came to the
| front. He SAID he had little subject to
which he wished the audience to direct
its attention. 1t was the subject OF
money. The'people smiled, which he took
as a good omen. The expenses of the
meeting so far, he said, had been about
$1,000, and he wanted to raise that
amount right now. The reverend gen.
tlemsn assumed his most fetching tone
and manner, and pleaded with the peO-
pie to come 20 time. He asked for con-
! tributions of SO each, but only few
scattering gentlemen and ladies re-
spOnded to the appeal. During this
time Mr.. Jones came along and, taking
his chair on the platform, watched the
slow process After awhile he seemed
to get tired. and rising to his feet, said:
"You people here are harder to get
at than most folks. But here We have
this debt. They tell me they want $500.
And what are you going to do about itI
There is only one way to get out Of it,
and that Is like the old Niger woman
said. She was aecosted one day by white
man who knew her, and who said:
Aunt Sarah, where is Uncle Nose,
your husband? He promised me couple
of weeks ago that he would come around
and do some work for US, but 1 haven e
seen him since. It's time he was show
ing up
90 is dat so, boss? Well, now, youth
have to excuse Nose dis time. He's
dead.
Brother Wells will have to excuse
Fort Worth for the same reason,
reckon. She Is dead, relgiOusly. Now,
the brethren say the preparations for
these meetings cost $1,000, and we are
going to make you pay it if we have
20 get it out of you nickel at time.
don't like that way of doing. and I'd
rather chip in myself than to go at it in
that way. would rather be one of ten
to pay down $3.50 a piece to help the
thing out, and if there are nine others to
come l will head the procession. l would
rather do that than wait at every meeting
for the hat to be showed under your noses
to get nickel every time. We will have
to seine 1t odt of you. If you can stand
it 1 can. Te will have to 20 on the.
seine principle, I guess. We will pro-
coed with the seine. If you want TO do it
that way let the show 20 on
The show went on. The result was not
announced.
When the hat had been passed around,
Professor Excel rendered a solo, care
You Ready, - in fine style.
Then Mr.. Jones spoke. His text was:
''For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son that whose
ever belieyeth upon Him may not perish,
but have everlasting life.
Tonight, - he said, eve shall
speak of our obligation to God in return
for the great love which God has given
us, and of which he has given Us every
manifestation. There are two classes Of
people: Those who love God, and they
are the ones who know God; and those
who don't love God, and they are the
ones who never have known God.
God must be loved if He be known, for
He is the most Iovable being that mortal
eyes ever looked upon. 1 have only to
look upon God and upon what that God
has done for me and for my loved ones
in order to call out every sentiment of
gratitude in my nature and make me
tall down in adoring wonder at
His feet. This is true. II we
know Him we must love Him. / have
WIN bnO AOfC VI hOS OJ AnO
power of kindness to him, so that when 1
90 home after long absence and walk
to the gate, my dog is the first one to
run out to greet me, and he jumps up as
If to kiss me, and he seems over
joyed at my return. 1 can
scarcely get to the house for him,
and he seems to say, Il am so glad you
are back. And where have you been all
this long time? And now, if you want to
60 hunting O-morrow viii be on hand.
Just count on me. I Will be there
And he just prances around and talks
just like dog can talk. And I say to
him, What is il that makes you
love me SOP and he answers, Because
you are good to me. You never struck
me a lick in your life, and when you have
gone away you have told the children to
be good TO me when you are gone.
have won him by human kindness. Same
with my horse. Next to q good woman