Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-12
SOLEMNLY WARNED.
The Horrors Of He'll Pictured
With Awful Realism.
A Hand to Hand Grapple With His
Satanic Majesty Over the Possess
sion of the Sinner.

The six big electric lights in
the Gracey Warehouse sized
aud sputtered last night over the
! heads Of the largest religious assem-
bly, that was ever witnessed in
Clarksville. 1t was the sixth night
Of the Sam Jones meeting and by
large odds the most important. Saint
and sinner alike were swayed, as it
were, by one great sympathetic i'm
pulse.
Mr.. Jones took no text, affirming
his purpose to talk informally-as If
he were sitting in their homes look
ing his auditors in the face. 81 ask
you the plain, honest question,
why will you continue in sin? l do
not ask you why you were born or
why you have lived in sin. That in
wolves questions that are not perti-
nent to the point at issue. But why
do you continue an impenitent sim
ner before God? What is sin ? st.
John says it is the transgressi0n of
the law. Man is sinner; he delib-
erately and persistently disobeys
God. Why do you continue TO re-
fuse to do things God imposes on
you? In view of your past and your
future l have a right to ask you the
question" Holding up a Bible, the
preacher said it contained truths that
outweighed the world and all the
stars. "If what is said in this book is
true, man must die, and die he must,
whether true or not. Wonderful
book In Genesis we read Of our
creation; one page is devoted to my
origin and a thousand pages warn
ne OF my death. In view of these
solemn warnings of the fiual judg-
ment to which we are all approach
iGg, / look you in the face and ask
you, why will you continue 10 sin |?
Is there man who says he
will go on because he does
not know what sin is? Is
there one here who has never read the
ten commandments, or one nOt in
fcr,ued all along the moral lines Of
life? Every criticism that you pass
upon the conduct of another denotes
to God and the angels that you know
what is right. My foot slips and in
stantly | am seized upon and merci-
lessiy criticised. Then if you know
what is wrong in others why plead
your own ignorance.
AT this point Mr., Jones took from
his pocket letter. Some lady had
written him the information hat
party of gentlemen proposed to start
on hunt on the Lords day. Said
he: "God have mercy on their souls;
woe be TO that town and sentiment OF
community when protesting chris
tians load guns and call dogs TO desc
crate the Sabbath-an institution that
we should hold as sacred as the honor
OF cur wives and the purity Of our
daughters. The Lord will hold to
stern account the Sabbath break el !,
the adulterer, the covetous. Is there a
man before me who is 50 ignorant
that he will plead that he doesn't
know what sin is? Did man ever
look Il criminal judge in the face and
say he committed crime because he
didn't know it was wrong. There
are men here who will say they are
| ignorant OF the consequence of sin
full life; some men say there is no
hell, no future punishment. Such
men must fly into the pages Of the
bible. What OF Noah and Pharaoh;
the burning hail that destroyed So
dom and Gomorroh; the destruction
OF Sennacherib's army and lis 1885,
600 sturdy soldiers. Look at the past
with its drowned worlds and burnt
up cities; Ananias and Saphira.
Look the facts in the face
and say that the wicked shall go un-
punished. Wicked men want no
judgment; no future punishment.
AS certain as there is a heaven there
is hell, into which all men and ma
tions who forget God shall be turned.
Deny it and you are Drawer man
than am, or ever expect TO b.. The
only facts of the future are revealed
in this book. Men of science have
climbed to tie stars and delved into
the earth aud yet they know no more
OF the hidden future than ten-year-
old child. Science never yet sent
emi>saries to or brought messages
from that unknown world to which
we are all tending. The man who
takes issue with the great God will
find at last that He meant what He
said. The natural, inevitable legiti-
mate home of the good man is in
heaven, to which he gravitates as
naturally as does the bad man TO hell.
No minister is loyal to God who
doc sn't preach this doctrine. Me.
lanthon, Edwards, Spurgeon, Moody
aud a hest of others believed that
every sinner will be turned into hell
Tie mistake of many a mans life
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