Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-22
REV. SAM JONES.
The Great Secret of His SUGGESTIVE
Results that Follow His LabOrs.
The Great Evangelist Should Be Heard BY All
What He Did in Tyler and the Fruits
Fort Worth May Expect
HON. T. R. BONNER.

often coming through the drenching rain. On
the last Sabbath of his stay here there were at
least 1000 people who attended the services. he
has been gone four days, and yet his name and
labors are spoken of by thousands, and the love
of God is in the hearts of at least 1000 people
who never before tasted of the good word OF God.
The great meeting which he held here marked
most wonderful epoch in the religious history OF
Tyler. Sam Jones is Methodist preacher, but
his great labors here were shared in and in
dorsed by all Protestant denominations except
the Episcopalians. The pastors of the Baptist,
PRESBYTERIAN and Cumberland Presbyterian
churches stood side by side with the Methodist
pastor, and people came forward and joined
these several churches al the same time. spirit
of fraternity among these several churches mark
ed the whole services, and they all reaped the
benefit of additions to their membership, from
among the solid, substantial business men of the
city, as well as among the mechanics and labor
ing men. Sam Jones is emphatically the friend
of the lsboring man. he cries aloud and
spares not.n He attacks sin in high places as
well as low. He loves all men but desplses sin.
His invectives against the liquor traffic are I'M
precedented. and tax the whole power OF the
English language. Some men condem him who
have only heard him once or twice; but an in
vestigation into their religious life will show
that his denunciation of sin is calculated to con-
vince them that they are at lease in Zion
living outside the pale of Christian duty. Others
condemn him who have never heard him. They
have seen garbled extracts from his sayings, ana
satisfy their consciences by the thought that he
is coarse or vulgar. There is a third class who
take advantage of the objections urged by more
respectable people to condem him on general
principles, because ''his ways are not like their
ways'''
woman will attend Sam Jones' meeting for ten
DAYS and listen to his defense of Christianity,
honor and purity, and his wonderful pathos in
illustrations, unfolding the life, character and
death of the truly religious man or woman, but
will receive new impetus toward the better
world, No man outside of the church, who is
nil IN hos and n h taught n
God word, can listen to his ten days preach
ing and fail to be deeply impressed, and resolve
to lead better,life.
I have listened to hundreds of sermons and
political speeches, and yet can say that Sam
Jones' style, manner, language. and power over
his hearers is without a precedent, so far as L
know. His wit is inimitable; his style and man
ner are without a model; his language is fluent,
and his power to control the vast audiences who
hear bespeaks him one ''born to command
His wit is only exceeded by his pathos, and both
are aptly illustrated by an unlimited fund OF
and his knowledge of the Bible furnishes familiar
Biblical illustrations, which deeply impress the
truth of his theme upon the minds OF the peo-
pie.
national. God has wonderfully blessed his
laboTs in every part of the American Union and
in Canada. Each succeeding year is widening
his reputation, extending his influence, and
adding thousands to God and the church through
hts ministry. Happy is the CITY in Texas whose
people receive him and heed his admonitions to
duty and higher life.
The great secret of his success is found in the
/. He Is astruly converted Christian.
2. He is earnestly earnest.
3. He is man of great sympathy.
4 he has profound knowledge of human ma
S. He loves mankind and has consecrated his
life to the salvation OF his fellows.
6. He has that perfect love Of God which
casteth out all fear, - and hence he boldly de-
nounces sin in the great and rich as well as the
lowly and poor. He declares the whole coun-
sci Of God. -
I. God is with him. No man could command
the muItitudes who flock to hear him and rlvit
their attention for hours on any other subject
except Christianity.
The immediate results that follow his labors:
The revival of the church and the awakening
of sinners, and the far-reaching influences that
live after he has gone; in the devotion to Christ
ian duty by the thousands who have hung upon
his words, all attest that God is with him.
His preaching is direct and pointed. He
draws no fanciful pictures of heaven. He does
not spend his time portraying the attributes OF
God He does not tax theological books to
ascertain the technical definitions of justlhca-
ton, regeneration. conversion and sanctltica-
ton; nor doeSShe attempt to lift the gaze of his
hearers into The mysteries that lie beyond the
confines Of time. The divine side of the gospel
is made to give way to that which is human. He
does not care when, or where, or how you We're
converted in the long ago; but the all-1mportant
question which he thunders into the ears and
drives into the hearts OF all people. in and out OF
He sways the multitudes by practical questions
and practical answers. Many or his so-called
savings OF men, and his manner of saying them
keeps the great audience constantly on the qui
The leyity caused by his anecdotes, to which
some over-pious people object, is invariably fol-
lowed by the word, ''Listen!'' Profound silence
reigns. The scene changes. Words the most
pathetic, incidents the most touching, utter
ances full OF the deepest sympathy from lips
quiverIng with strong emotion, all emanating
from heart overlooking with love to God and
man. fall upon the ears of listening thousands.
and tears, unbidden, moisten many eyes unused
to weeping.
hear him. If his novel pulpit utterances crate
harshly upon your ears, do not mention 1t TO
breaches you will like him better. If he de-
nounces any sin OF which you are guilty do not
get mad, but rather thank God that one minis
ter has the courage to tell you of it. Then re-
solve in your heart that you viii quit, and you
will feel better. Hear him every time he
be raised to higher plane of Christian love and
experience than you have ever known. Do not
attempt to defend him on the street by argu-
ment with infidels and unbelievers. He needs
no defense. He can and will defend himself
With the sword of the Spirit he can put 0 900 to
flight. Do your duty to God, TO the church;
your family, your neighbor and yourself, and
Sam Jones, as an instrument of God, Will do
mighty work in your town, as well as in your
heart.
Ever and anon God raises some man from the
depths of sin to light in the church and among
the ministry. verify believe that Sam Jones IS
one of the chosen men Of God, plucked as
brand from the eternal burning, to warn sinners
to repentance, to arouse the church from the
lethargy into which worldliness has plunged 1t,
and to fire the hearts of the ministry TO more
zeal and activity, and to embolden them to de
clare the whole counsel Of Cod His ChT1s-
tian life is real and the church challenges the
world to name an instance during his career as
an evangelist in which he has devfated
from the path of true Christian life. bis
preaching is real and modelled after
the teachings of Him who spake as never man
spake.' Nine-tenths of the vast multitude who
have heard him all over the United States are
witnesses to the truth of the mighty earnestness
which moves his soul, as he masses the words
of the English language, and hurts them all with
power of an intellectual giant against the PreVa-
Christian men and women who have been con-
verted and who are to-day praying for the con-
tinued success of the gospel nnder his ministry,
attest the fact that Sam Jones is working IN
harmony with the God OF Calvin, Luther and
Wesley, to the pulling down OF the strongholds
of satan.
Poverty-stricken in religion must that man be
who PROCESSES to love Christ and yet through
sectarian prejudice pretended purity refuses
to hear the words of Sam Jones during one OF his
great revival meetings; or. hearing him, does
not receive the words TO the Joy and comfort OF
his soul.
He is to commence his meetings in Fort Worth
on the 2lst of March.
All Gods people, without respect TO denomi-
national line, should rally TO the standard Of
Christ as he throws il to the breeze in the goodly
CITY of Fort Worth. Let the 500 converts from
the great revival of Dixon Williams stand side