The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-28
HALLBLUJAH SWITCH
Point Where The Sinner May
Be Turned to the Road
Of Life.

At the holiness meeting Of Corp No. 1
Of the Salvation Army yesterday morn
ing Captain Findiey spoke on 1.-THE blood
Of Jersey City's souls on someone's
skirts. Whose?' He said In part as
follows:-
IF we neglect to do the will of God in
saving souls God holds Us responsible e.
I believe that In this city there are thou
sands of souls streaming down every
week to hopeless etern ity. OF course we
cannot hope to save the city, but we have
9 work to do and God expects us TO do 1t.
I! am to Talk to You today on mn old sub
ject. blood Outlines. The words | have
chosen for my text are, so thou son of
man 1 send Jou a watchmRD.
AT the time OF the recent cholera
scare. when all the vessels lay in quarau-
tine, Health Ot1cer jenkins had the re-
sponsibility of cleaning those vessels of
all injurious germs. The health OF the
whole community was in his keeping.
II he had let people land W ho mad cholera
about them aud scores had died through
his negligence he would have been held
responsible for their deaths. By being
careful, however, he killed the germs
and q plague was averted. / feel that
there Is e plague in oar midst. the plague
of sin. There IL a remedy for it aud It is
for us to apply it. We have perfect con-
fidence In the remedy.
YOUR B~RoTHER's KEEPER.
EVERY child of God Is made his broth
er's keeper. We mustn't try to shake off
the responsibility. IL would not be RICH {
to do so. ! hope everyone here will say |
Will be my brothers. keeper. Paul, the
Apostle. was called to d this work. God
gave him 4 message mud he deliv cred it.
he said. Woe is me if / preach not the
gospel" Everv soul here has a divine
com mission too. We have been made
would be In the Judgment Day to stand
before the Master and see the souls of
OF those We might have saved going down
to hell. Their blood would be ON our
skirts. There are FOULS in this city going
down every day. and the question is:
Who is responsibie? We are II we don't
do all III our TO II them.
Sound the alarm. Waterman, sound the alarm:
For the Lord will come with a conquering arm
THE WAY TO WORK.
NOW. as to the way iu which You shall
go TO work to save souls. The devil may
tell you to go 10 every man you meet ana
get YOU so discouraged that you will give
up the good work. The Holy Ghost. If
You will trust Him, will point out the
right people, the right time and the right
way. Col placed US ali mere as watch
men on the lower of Zion. Can't we all
consider ourselves watchmen this morn
ing? Ii we do onr duty we shall have
tho pleasure OF knowing that our
skirts, at lenst, are free from the
blood of our broth era souls.
| have often thought | would put q sign
on our building. reading-'9'his is the
halielujah switching point, where the
sinner who is sliding down to death may
be turned 60 the road of life.' Blood is
Oh your skirts II you do NOT try to save
sonis. Some of you MAJ say | am TOO
week, / haven't strength enough to fight
the world. II you only have au ounce of
brains say. Lord, / will use them to rhv
glory II you Can only sing a half a note
slug tito the glory of God. aud If you can
only stammer. go out and speak for
HIM.