The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-10

was ira sixcd with convictions deeper thanenv
iaturc In u few momcn,s turned to Herbert
Spencer and said, Il have read you with delight
NOW, III this extremity OF my being, what about
conscience! G. ID rrowns upon nc Yuu said /
was feed of conscience AMI OF record. and that
God Is unknowahlc. Good hyc To You forever
turned 10 Darwin and tn Huxley ana said, Here
/ am Win conscience on lire ana record CON
dcmnins ANA Il God frownu" on nc. wha, have
you to say And they said. 'Sii GA; theories are
altogether Inhtetialistic, and turned my back
OF them and said, Never. never will | hang my
Immortality gu philosophy that duc-i.'t teach
cons :icncc and record and God And then iu m q
hoacic.s despair
~ looked aud saw one hanging on a tree
- tvoncs and Blood
liz liked his lau@uid eye on nc
A. near his cross | stood.
Ncvcr to my latest breath
IAN forget that look:
IL seemed TO charge me with his death:
Gan forget that look:
lis,eonct to charge me- with his death,
Though not u word he spoke:
My conscience fell and owned the rmilt
And Ulun rcd III. In dispnir
riw my -ln- his hooi had split
And helped To kill him there
A second louk he gave, which hid:
freely all forgive,
MY hioon II ransom for yon IL shed,
Gle that You may live
And rushed mp under that hlcedin. cross and
y precious blood washed out the gniltsat my
1lc. Ana say TO you give me the usc otS a>u-
sciencc and let me put my arms around the ms
OF God, and let me call Him Father And ss,S5
1
thing for mortal man that he wants IL blots
ont me- record II cases hit COINCIDENCE.
u think know what the poet meant when he
said:
There T. n fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emanucls veins,
And sir ncrs plunged benesth that Hood
Lose All their guilty stains
ticrc the speaker repeated in full that we'll
Known ymnJ
brethren, when the blood OF Jesus Christ
came on the record OF my life. II hlotted il all
oui. don't know. Some things ] VIII nevcr
Know fou might pc r-nade me that ( wasn't in
Roanoke, or that Ind no clothes on INV bod, or
shoes ON my feet; but glory to God. there il " n
:act deeper than knowledge, and fnct dvner
Than hci' f, that nineteen years ago last August,
] made pence with God through the Lord Jesus
Christ ] know that better than / know my
thing.
GOD AID let the world ohnrge me thus You were
h'asp hcmvr. fon were 2 drunkArd. Yc,, |
, was But took The record out, hleachcd in the
blood OF Jesus Christ, and pass It into the Re
cording Angels hands and God looks upon IL
hicachc in the blood OF Ills Son who will lay
anyihin. to the charge OF me: I stand there by
nc iorcc OF tcstim, ny and walk into Heaven
'hi!d az God. i.rt me esy to you tbn1 the grand
day when innn Jcsu-- ~ whom the Law and
-nc Prophets did tnlk
''Will You c.''ue THE day and offer your heart
10 God. wish !On would.
=! want t" say this and then will quit. This
world has never said hut enc thing about lie
That ever hart me. care hut very little abo NJ
what men or papers OK editors say about me.
They never Md hut enc thing about me that
nurt inc. ana that il where occasionally some
man or paper says about nc. sam Jones il ILL
bred That hurts me God never mmdc n purcr
woman ihnn my mo'her. She has been wal king
the golden streets thirty wears. God never
inaica nobicr MIX tliin my father. who fought
with Lee until broken down in health he cume
lone To die.
al nm not il'brcd. sometimes ask myself tn.
question: Why dln you stray or and go so far
way from God and the teachings OF your horne:
anu the only answer could give myself was
thai my father was on in the war. ana my mother
vas hurled, 80 drifted on. God let me go TO
the very sates of hell and then brought me back
and aid: Now go back 10 the very gates OF hell
and pull some poor wandering souls or
You never heard II ronghcr man talk. reckon,
IN AL Your life. but II You come and ny your
heart against my heart you would eay: Il never
found heart that beat III swceter yInpathy with
man than that heart to day Yov may take me
down to the river. tie rock Ito my head and
swing me In, but the very ripplcs that How over
The rpot will say: You have drowned nm honest
hard all along, but m, life has becn rapture.
know pay -dav IL comingtO me. Won't that he
gates ana am cafe forever. And have thought
that the sweetest moment TO me would be to
my precious ,.i,h wife come sweepins in AM Join
life together, and now we are heretogcthcr for
ever
And then one df my children. comes md drops
ike pure snOv AXE Mt my side and on. and on
and on, until the last precious one comes sweep
ing in. II wont be long Let us join that glorious
company.
before quit YOU / want every man chat IL here
10 day 10 say. God helping me. Twill he "A better
man from this day. wait yon to stand up and
ray hat
(IIcrc the vast audience npr0sc and >swellcd in
chorus the words tlss1 intentionally
u want every man not in TN: ,thurdh to come
mp and say. MIR. Joyio+, Mr.. Jones, pray for me
trat may he good Christian man. God bless
you There arc six shoIsand mon hore to cav
C"me young men and fathers and hrn:hcrs and
husbands. and you whs don't belong to the church
and are not Christians. Yon arc the ones we
""nnf Come and Join che churcN.'
The speaker here ttt typed down in trent OF the
Hhstrnm, ana while the strains "f thu; grand
hymn blessed lie the Same OF the Lord" arose
IN giofioii harmony. asottinuons +.rcRn. OF men
hwayed towards this great evangelist and moral
rt
Tears were streaming down their .checks IA
thcy pressed forward To cake his I.nnd. and So
quick was the nrtss ihat luIh his h. ntss were
cip.ed IN welcoming those VINO cfSwdni upon
MN Many not content with a clnsp Of The hnDd
q checry wOrd at encouragement tut their
arms Ground his neck and s0hhcd ia penilc CO
uno1 his breast, Tears, Tears! Pen;tential
tears while the soul or the nlnn who cansed this
rudde1 and vast upheaval-fhis great seyuision
from We ways OF iniquity-ehonc Translucent in
around els face
Tears - far as the eye c,uId reach wc,c to
ne seen IN The eyes of not only the 80 men who
9 tme FORWARD and Openly expressed their deem
fheir ways, but In that vast audience II l. safe To
y tnat There was not single eye tn did not
Ieel ne limpid moisture weiiing from the heart
Oh sooner, coat Won bar have Witnessed this
thrilling scene YOU assuredly must have snid:
''Ihoryh this mans ways are not my way-:
th'o:h he l. of:'n rough ani un,or.h in hi-
r'er: though his Go be NOT my C,! We. he
who can melt III tea Is OF 600 world Soin men
int tents and hy his m cactism caq attract
in him some hing OF the Divine
Rev ME-. Culpopptr here concluded this MAYER.
20 hc forgotten mect!Dg With prayer,