The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-12
He Speaks Of the Supernatu.
raj in Religion.
And Pays bis Respects to a Number Of Pre-
yailing FOlIieS and FoibIeS.

noon to an audience that almost
filled the immense tabernacle.
After the usual amount of sing
ing Mr. Jones offered up a prayer,
and began his sermon.
He read part of the second chap
ter of Ac's, referring to the great
meeting held by the apostles on the
day of Pentecost, when every man
of every tongue in the vast multi
tude heard the sermon each in his
own tongue, and all were filed with
Holy Spirit
He said this was tie history of
the first revival of Christianity
Take the supernatural away from
religion and you have but refined
present alton of Mohammed anism Oh
Budd hlsm- the church is mere
literary or charitable association.
In these days the supernatural has
about died out in the chury h, and |
can be as good church member as
Whaling has without a particle Of
religion or supt rnaturalism. | could
pray in my family without reli- Tor;
could give tenth of my posses.
sions 10 Christ and still have no re-
ligion.
May not man be az good a
preacher as there ia in Waco with.
out speck of religion2 The best
sermon ! ever heard On honesty was
preached by preacher who wou,d
not pay his debts.
The minister who does the most
for God and the church and
humanity is the man who has the
supernatural fully developed in his
religion. He heard of an evange list
who had been conducting a very
successful meeting, and in the
midst of it ran eff with another
mans wife. Judas Iscarot could
outpreach the other eleven, 30 he
rad heard it said. But the man to
be really useful, aud to keep on
being useful, must have religion
which is full of the supernatural.
| give a dog biscuit in which
there is stIychnine; that little boy
gives another deg a biscuit without,
strychnine. My dog dies; his fat
tens. What killed mine-the bis
cuit9 No, the strychnine. Just so
with sermons. The supernatural is
the strychnine in the biscuit which
has the etfec'. Without it sin
could feed on the sermon and grow
fat.
That old brother who has no
prayers in his family, if he had been
there at pentecost he would have
declared that they were all drunk,
ard bringing the church CT Christ
into disreprte. And the litt'
preachers would have run away say.
ing the dignity of the pulpit must
be maintained. But there were no
pulpits in Chrlst's day, and, so far
as | am concerned, | wish there
were none now.
just here a train went by and
when its noise got out of his ears
he said: 81 we had railroad on
the right we would be ele cted.
They are on three sides, and if there
was one on the fourth we would be
dressed up right. The reason this
meeting is held here is bee use you
people of Waco were too stingy to
build a tabernacle " here decent
folks could worship without inter
ruption. Do you ketch on, bud?
Come to me after the service and
get nickel to buy you tome chew
ing gum"
He liked meeting where the re
suits were 20 large they could be at.
tributed to the supernatural, and
nothing else. Let him catch fish
and he cared nothing about what
the people said of him as a fisher.
man. See some of those little ID.
DPS fishing whole year and never
get so much as nibble. If | fish
in one hole an hour and don't get a
bite, you can hang me. I'll either
change holes or bait.
Sectarianism is the evil of the
hour. When my Methodism keeps
me from being useful, Pm no Meth
odist, and that would be hard, for |
was born and bred and but.ered a
Methodist. My ancestors were
Methodists clear back to Adam.