Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-10
LARGE CROWDS
Flock to she Sam Jones Meeting
Day and Night.
The Sermon Last Night Unsually I'm
pressive-Special Services For
Children and Colored People.

Weather considered, the attendance
at the Sam Jones meeting was sur
prlsingly large last night. There
were very few seats unoccupied. The
magnetism Of the man is marvellous.
There were people there last night
who had come miles through rain,
mud, sleet and snow. Possibly there
were never got together before in
Cbrksville such miscellaneous as
soltmeut of people as flock to these
meetings. The good and the bad,
the rich and the poor alike are drawn
by his influence.
At the conclusion of the song SER
vice last night, prayer was Cfferd by
Rev. Mr.. CoWan. Mr., Jones then
made the following announcements:
Friday afternoon at O'Clock, there
will be a special children's service ;
on Saturday afternoon at 3 O'Clock,
there will be a special service for col
ored people.
He said he had found that the
special children's service generally
was the most profitable. He wanted
the front seats reserved especially for
the little ones. He wanted it under
stood that at the colored peoples
meeting they were to have
the whole building if necessary. Ii
was his rule to hold one meeting,
at least, wherever he went for their
benefit. He wished this appoint
ment noised abroad among them as
much as possible. OF the progress OF
the meeting thus far MIR. Jones said
that none in five years had moved
so touch to his idea. In his opinion
it had begun and shaped itself for d
great victory. He used the figure OF
a pimple and carbuncla to illus
trate; the former ripens in night,
bursts and disappears. Not 50 with
the deep-rooted carbuncie, whose
movements are slow, but finally ii
gets there with both feet. Just so
in religious movements If they are
not bottomed on stern conviction
and thought they won't last
long. He thought the great trouble
in CiarkSville was a want Of convic-
ton. For this the preachers were
more or less 10 blame. BY authority
are they COMMANDED to speak the
words of truth and soberness, regard,
less OF this or that ones opinion.
Every man sees a thing for himself.
My opinion OF IA thing doesn't change
it. Truth is truth, and the best thing
a man can do is TO yield to it. To
nights meeting, | believe, will be the
best of all. God is always with them
who approach him in the right spirit.
Beginning his sermon proper, the
evangelist took the same text he had
for the previous night-"Turn you to
the stronghold, you prisoners OF
hope; even to-day do | declare | Will
render double unto yOu."-Zech.
9-22. EXplaining that he had taken
off t tangent the night before in
the relation OF an incident (reiter-
ating iD he proceeded scripturally
and methodically to deliver a very
powerful sermon. MIR. Jones was
solemn IN his utterances
last night, appealing directly to
mems consciences, omittlng his usual
tactics. Tender, persuasive,
he appeared deeply moved.
Said he: GLOW hard It is for
men to believe that God will
keep His word. Twenty years ago
vas Il wrecked and ruined man.
Quitting sin and joining the North
Georgia Conference, God has since
found for me 1000 homes in place of
the one | left; 1000 friends in every
State of the Union IN place Of those
at home; / 900 mothers as good and
kiud as the sainted one in heaven !;
900 fathers as true and tender as
the ore long passed to his reward.
Religion pays 1000 fold in this life
and is passport to the one to come.
ReligiJ IN demands of us nothing but
that which we can afford to give up !;
nothing that will not make US better
for giving it up; it fits us for all
emergencies Of life. If / had Il
thousand hearts l would give them
all to God; if a thousand lives l
would give them all to Him. The
twenty-four years of my wicked life
were not worth day in Gods
courts. Thank God for Christianity !!
1t brings to man his greatest joys"
The remainder of the sermon was
occupied with contrasting the differ.
ence between three classes of persons
with hope and three classes without
hopeF Invoking the Spirit Of God 10
go before and strike conviction into
mems hearts, the preacher held up TO
selfscrutiny the individual case OF
every man and woman present SO
that he or she had no difficulty in
deciding to which of the two classes
they belonged. Terminating his re-