Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-25
And Evangelist Jones is Begin
ming His HOg-Killing Business.
There is No One in He'll To-Day Who
Didn't Have Chance TO
Be Saved.
You Can't Live Without Prayer-You Are Little
Because You Are Not Willing to Start
to GrOw-Largs Crowds.

times filing the old cloth tent and
threatening to tear it to pieces. MIR.
| Excel was present, and led the choir in
singing several hymns. Mr.. Jones then
came to the front and called on one OF
the ministers for prayer, after which he
selected few verses from I. Timothy,
Id chapter, beginning: 81 exhort,
therefore, that first of all, supplicstions,
prayers, intercessions and giving OF
| thanks be made for all men, - etc.
Mr.. Jones said: Everyone has
| chance to be saved. There is no one in
hell to-day who did not have one chance
at salvation, and not one in heaven whO
could not have been lost. 1t is sometimes
asked, will the heather be saved? The
question is, will we be saved? 1t is the
American heather am concerned about.
Foochon is better to-day than New Or
leans. Hong Kong is better than san
Francisco. Instead of Outstanding
China they are heathenizing US, and
China has the easiest job. -
Mr.. Jones gave the number of Bibles
andImissiouaries that were taken in every
ship, with the barrels of liquor far out
numbering those that went out to
heather lands.
''I believe in prayer, in all sorts OF
prayer, praying with my tongue, praying
with my feet, praying with my hands,
praying with nv pOcket-book, praying
with the whole man. Most of our prayers
are mere word prayers. Most all Chris
tians say prayers. Now and then you
will find one who prays his prayers.
prayer is the SOULS sincere desire
Uttered or expressed,
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
''The man who can pray the most
effectually is the man who has the most
power.
1.-THE great Jonathan Edwards wrote
out some resolutions. Among them was
this: Il will never try to put of on God
or my own soul anything called PRAYER
that 1 have not every reason to believe
God will hear and answer. If you VIII
pass that resolution you will do some
praying.
ssYou real estate men? How many
times have you got down on your knees
to prav, thinking about something elsa
all the time? Lord, I want something
and 1 must get it. have got something
to say to God.
'sDo you know that to send a message
to heaven is like sending a message to
Galveston. The message Won't 60
Something mashed the wires down. Next
day the message goes. jumping up and
out at the other side. Have your wires
of conservation thoroughly insulated
with good works. Don t let your wires
be neglected. With your card tables and
your ball rooms, your wires have got
down so that you can pray no higher
than you can spit to save your life. Keep
your wire thoroughly insulated with good
works.
'sIt takes q clean man to pray. If
I regard iniquity in my heart, GOD will
not hear me. If you reach q point
where you can't pray, there is some
thing radically wrong in your life.
s'The rising and falling Of the sap in
the tree proves that it has life The
circulation of the blood shows that there
is life in the body. If the soul is in
communion with God you will pray.
You cannot live without prayer. Let
me say another thing.
&c A man who maintains aud possesses
a spirit of prayer will pray anywhere.
You hear people say I pray a great deal,
but not in my family lay it down as
q proposition, that if q man maintains
the spirit of prayer he will pray any
where you call on him.
Mr.. Jones paid beautiful tribute to
Miss Laura Haygood, the sister Of Rev.
Atticus G.. Haygood, author Of ''Our
Children. She is now missionary TO
China. In large audience he called on
her to pray, which she did earnestly.
He asked if she would have prayed under
fun
time. She said no. Why? Because shs
was not fully consecrsted to God.
." 'Oh, says one, 'if he prays well he
should be called on. I wish you could
have heard Bro. Wells first public
prayer, or of any of these preachers the
first time they ever prayed.
cdr. FELTON, called on good fellow to
pray. He said: FOh, do Lord-do Lord
grant. Lord-oh, Lord-haYe mercy
upon my poor soul, for thine is the
king pows- glo- forever, amen. -
Here Mr.. Jones spoke faster than oiled
lightning-fa than real estate agent
could talk-hence it is unreportable.
'sThe great DR.. Darlington, one OF
the grandest preachers Methodism ever
produced, when starting out to preach,
was advised to get his old horse and go
home. He could not even commit as
sault, still less battery. His
presiding elder said: you can's
preach a lick. One said listen
to God, and not your presiding elder
He was the grandest preacher IN ths
South.
So Large trees from little acorns grow
"You are little because you are moi
willing to start in aud grow. A New Or
leans preacher thoroughly prepared his
sermons and was always watching to see
If they would take well; was not viii
ling TO be a fool for Christ's sake.
Henceforth am willing TO be fool for
Christ 3 sake if can win souls to Him.
hate these little butterflies In the pull
pit, futterilg from flower 20 flower.
want honey bees in the pulpits that step
with velvet tread and convert everything
into honey. do not like these female
butterflies that hang diamonds on them