Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-05-25
REV. SAM JONES IN ROANOKE.

was adopted.
REV. SAM JONES IN ROANOKE.
On Sunday, May 18th, the collection
taken up for Sam Jones amounted to
81, 100, and that for the Y. M. C. A.
$1,000. He preached in the morning,
and afternoon, and gave farewell talk
at night. The report of the afternoon
service, we copy from the Roanoke
Times as follows
AS early as o'clock, an hour and
half before the hour appointed for the
services to begin, fully {, 900 people had
assembled in the tabernacle. 1t was
estimated that at the morning service
not less than $500 of the 1000 people in
attendance lived outside the corporate
limits of Roanoke, and very nearly. if
not quite, this number were present in
the afternoon. Very few, if any, of the
men who are engaged in carrying the
gospel Of Christ to the people can draw
and hold such crowds as Sam Jones.
Prof. Excel led in singing hymn No.
124 and Mr.. Gray, of the Lutheran
Church, led in prayer. Mr.. Jones then
amounted the words: what must l
do to be saved? Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
and thy house."
1.-The Lord Jesus Christ is the hope
of the world and the Saviour of men.
The text says, What must l dor not
what must / think, or what must l
read or where must go, but what must
do? II a man does what God says he
is Christian; if he doesn't he is a sin
ner. There isn't a sinner in this audi
ence but what, if you don't do some
thing that God tells you to, you will be
damned
For instance, man is in jail under
sentence to be hung next Friday week.
To-day he breaks out with small pox.
He's in a bad fix, amt he? If he doesn't
die with the small pox he will be hung,
and if he is not hung he will die with
the small pox. If you ask the Gov
ernor to pardon him he will say,
What's the use, the fellow will die any
way If you go to the doctor he will
say, What's the use to go and see him,
he will soon be hung any way Now,
every sinner is in just that fix because
sin will be sure to kill you, whether
there is any God at all or not. The
way to treat that fellow is to go to the
Governor and get his pardon and then
go and have the doctor cure him. First
get pardon for all your sins and then
comes the cleansing power.
You say you are not going to do bad
any more. What are you going to do
about what you have already donei
What must do? Mark my words, not
what must think or what must I feel,
but what must do?
'Some people think that they don't
have to do anything that what is to
be will be, that if I'm going to be saw
ed, I'm going to be saved. Why don't
you sit still and say, If I'm going to
eat dinner, I'm going to eat dinner, and
if amt, Amt, so I'll stay here
Brethren keep good company. Yes
that's good advice. There is not an
angel in heaven that is proof against
bad company. There are some fellows
off by themselves who are keeping the
worst kind of company. There was a
stingy old Methodist steward some
body asked him for some meat for g
preacher. He was keeping his own
company and talking to himself. He
would bring one ham out of the smoke
house and leave it half way, and theI
x,
| said, You old rascal you, if you DOM
shut your mouth I'll give him every
ham in the smoke house.
1.-THE stingy old Methodist was coins
to town and had to pass by the house
of poor widow Smith. He said, Il will
stop and give her S. because she hasn't
got enough in the house to eat Wher
he got nearer he said to himself CHAR
ty begins at home and need the money
myself Lots of people think that il
in the Bible. Bless you. l wouldn't
have an almanac that had that in it
If charity begins at home then YOU
wife and daughters are paupers. You
son John and your daughter Mary are
paupers. 1t is more blessed to give thar
to receive. Its more blessed to be
where you can give than to be where
you have to receive. l had rather be
man in good circumstances and give
/ a blind beggar S. than to be the blind
beggar. Yes, stay in good company
There is not drunkard in the world
that did not commence by going with
drinking people. There is not pro-
fame man who did not learn to swear
by keeping company with cussin' men
l had rather go with dog than man
who swears, for dog can't cuss and
had rather be with hog than a man
who drinks whiskey for a decent hog
won't drink. When you get drunk
you can say, I'm lower down than any
hog in Roanoke county, If l were
some of your wives when l saw my hus-
band coming home half drunk would
say, 'pig-e-e,' and call hogs. That
would make him mad but it's the way
to call them-call hogs.
II used to dance and l guess l was a
fair average of the dancing young
bucks. was there, and the ball room is
not fit place for pure young girl to
be found. The girl is all right, but oh,
my, the fellows she meets. Your dane
ing bucks in Roanoke may be angels,
but I've never seen any wings abud-
ding.
II stand here and plead for the puri-
ty and the nobility of American wo-
manhood. l can give you advice.
might advise you to join the church,
and think everybody ought to be in
the church, yet can see how a man
may belong to the church and still go
to hell.
II knew an old man his wife was a
good woman. Forty years ago the
Methodists started meeting in his
neighborhood. About 100 yards from
the church was a soggery, or hoggery
or barroom, and he would take his
wife to the door and drink whiskey I'M
til meeting was over. One night the
preacher held on longer than usual,
and the man reached the church door
drunk, just at the time the preacher
was receiving new members. The fell
low reeled down the aisle and gave the
preacher his hand and was SO drunk
the preacher had to hold him up. He
and his wife went home. Next morn
ing the wife said, Did you know you
Joined the church last nightr No, /
never joined the church, l wasn't
there Yes, you joined the church,
Did 1, Maryr Yes, husband, you
did, We'll, if did I'll stick up to it,
Well, he did, and he preached the Cos
pei for forty years in our conference.
'There is not man in the world
who couldn't be a Christian if he would
join the church and stick up to it,
Brother Flippo, isn't that what's the
matter with some of your members
They won't stick up to it. An old ne
gro caught fish. Some one asked
him what kind of a fish it was. He
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