The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-17
TIE AFTERNOON SERVICE.
The Evangelist breaches Il Powerful Ser


The Evangelist PrCuchcs II Powerful Ser
As early rs o'clock, an hour and a
half before the hour appointed for the
services TO begin, fully 3 1000 people had
assembled in the tabernacle 1t was
estimated that at the morning service
not less tban !, 500 of the 1000 people in
attendance lived outside the corporate
limits Of Roanoke, ana vcrs nearly, if
not quito, this number wcrc present in
the afternoon. Very fcw, Il any, of tho
men who arc engaged i'll Carrying tho
gospel Of Christ 10 the people Lan draw
and hold such cro~as as SAN jones.
Prof. E:;ccl led in singing HYMN No.
l2i and NJ. Gray, Of the Lutheran
Church, led in braves. Mr. Jones tn. IL
announced the words: :. What must
do to be saved? Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shall. be saved
and thy house
Tho Lord Jesus Christ is the hope of
the world and tho Saviour Of mon. The
text says, What must | do?' not what
must think. or what must road or
where must go. hut what must | do?
II man does VIVA, God Saws he is 4
Christian: ii he doesn't he is u sinner.
There isn't sinner in this audience
but what. if you don't do something
That God tells you to, you will be
damned.
For instance, Il man is in Jail under
sentence To be hung next Friday week.
To-day he breaks out with small box.
He's in bad fix, amt he? fine doesn't
die with the small poX he will he hung,
and if he is not hung he will die with
the small pox. IL you ask the Governor
~ M don II h.. 1 sIN
use, the fellow will die any way If
you 60 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 chat fix because sin will be
sure TO kill you, whether there is any
God at all o. not. The way to treat
that fcll,w is to go to the Governor and
get his pardon and then 20 and have the
doctor cure him. First get pardon for
all your sins and then comes the cleans
ing power.
You say you are not going to do bad
any more. What are you going to do
about What you have already done?
What mus, do: Mark my words, not
what must shink or what must feel,
but what must do?
Some people think that they don't
have To do anything; that what is to be
VIII be, that if I'm going to be saved,
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 III stay here
brethren keep good company. Yes,
that's good advice. There is not an
angel i'll heaven that is proof against
bad company. There are some fellows
OFF by themselves who are keeping the
worst kind of company. There was q
stingy old Methodist steward: somebody
asked him for some meat for preacher
lie was keeping his own company and
talking to himself. He would bring
one ham out of the smoke house and
leave 1T half way. and then another, all
the while muttering. He said, You old
rascal you, if you don't shut your mouth
III give him every ham in the smoke
house
The stingy old Methodist was going
TO town and had to pass by the house of
poor widow Smith. lie said, Il will
stop and give her 81 because she hasn't
got enough in the house to eat When
ne got nearer he said to himself CHARITY
begins At home and need tho money
myself Lots of people think that
IS in the Bible. Eless YOU
! wouldn't have an almanac that had
that i'll it. If charity begins at home
then your wife and daughters arc
pauper5. our son John and YOUR
daughter Marv is paupcr. 1t is more
blessed to give THAI to receive. Its
more blessed TO be- where you can give
than 10 be where you have To receive.
! had rather be /, man in good circum-
stances and give Il blind bcggar 81 than
TO be the blind bnggar. fes. stay in
good company. There is not il drunkard
In the world that did no. commence
by going with drinkln4: people. There
10 not pcofanr lnaa Mo did not learn
% swear by keeping conIany with
IMAM aman who sweat fOt dog can'tc,iss
and had Father be with a nog than Il
man who drinks whiskey for decent
hog won't drink. When YOU get drunk
you can say, I'm lower down than any
hog In Roanoke county If I were some
OF your wives when | saw my husband
coming homo half drunk would SLY.
'pig-c-e. ADD call hogs That would
make him mad but its the Way to call
thcm-call hogs.
II used to dance and | gucss | Was
falr average OF the dancing young
DUCKS. II | was there, the bail room *
not ht place for a pure young girl tn
be found. The girl is ali rio ut, but OF.
my the fellows She meets. Your dane
ing huc's in Roanoke may be angels.
out We II. yer seen any wings abuddine.
81 stand here and plead for the purity
and the nobility of American woman
hood. can give you advice. | nigh
advise you to join the church, and