The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-25
SUNDAY At THE GROVE.
Elder Jones Talks Of the Ooxey Movement
and Sunday At the Worlds Fan, and
Against the Christian Nation
Idea.

Saturdays report lett the revival
meetings in progress at noon. Probably
$50 persons came forward Tor prayers.
After prayer they divided into several
companies which repaired TO different
tents where labor was continued through
out the afternoon.
Sunday morning at the social NEST
ings offerings and pledges were taken
for foreign missions to the amount OF
over S1,400.
ED. Farnsworth preached ut IL
o'clock concerning the great commits
sion to preach the gospel, ound in
Mark 16;15-20.
The gospel is the power Of God. Rom.
l;16. There is great difference between
preaching about the power OF God and
preaching the power itself. / Cor. LIS.
We are commanded to go and preach
the power of God to save. No matter
whether a man has been through col
lege, no matter how pleasing bis ad-
dress, unless he has the power Of God
in his soul he a have no true success
in preaching the gospel.
The gospel is the power OF God unto
salvation to those only who believe.
Heb. AZ. The method is very simple.
The wisdom OF the world calls the
preaching OF the gospel foolishness.
I Cor. 1;21. But the ~foolishness OF God
is wiser than men. The gospel as
preached 10y Jesus himself had connect
ed with it the healing of the sick and
the relief of suffering. The disciples
were to do the same in connection with
their work. Luke 1913. There Is heal
ing in Jesus Christ for body az well as
for soul. The elder maintained that the
signs which the great commission says
MARK 16;l7-1s) should follow those
that believe were not to be coufined to
the apostolic age. bat may be looked FOL
in I'M age when the faith OF the people
OF God is sufficiently strong to claim
his W And he fortified his posi-
ton by the use of many strong texts
and apt illustrations.
While the reporter was looking into
the German tent, his curiosity wai
aroused by seeing several men rise al
. different times in the congregation. AT
|, ter standing awhile they would quietl,
seat themselves without either sayine
! or doing anything, 50 far as he coule
perceive. What it meant he was at
loss TO understand until he asked n o
|. the ministers, who told him that th'
men were sleepy; and wanted to heal
. the sermon, and SO stood until IT,
} drowsiness passed away. The scrib'
was speechless in admiration OF tn
seif-sacrifce Of SO heroic 9 deed. i
was a public confession that the maj
. wlnted to go to sleep, and 9 public com
. pliment to the preacher that he woult
. rather hear the sermon than do il
. The plan is hereby earnestly recon
mended to all English congregation
who have the moral courage to try il.
The prominent feature Of the after
noon was the address Of A. 7. Jones
editor of the American Sentinel OF New
. York. He began with q graphic sketcl
: OF the Coxey movement. Eight thou
J sand unemployed men in all parts Of tn
i country marching on Washington
J What dees it mean? They demand GOV
b eminent help, and are organizing TO
8 e lf-protection. There is revolution y
] the principle. The government wa
Y founded on the principle OF aelf-hell
J and governmental protection. tn
movement proposes to reverse the o.
der. and require the government to fur
nish the unemployed work. This, i
the nature OF the case, the government
could not undertake to do. 1t wouls
encourage men to look to the govern
b ment for work rather than their owl
o diligence and energy. Besides, the gov
! eminent has no means for employing
? surplus labor except as it gets mean
: by taxing the people. II the propose
scheme were once entered upon Their
would be no telling where it would END
d The army Of those depending upon COY
eminent empty would grow larger an
larger until it would be impossible {
supply their demands, and the burde
: upon the people would become unbears
! BILE. At the same time the speake
4 Ieympathized with the commonwealth
] in the treatment they received at tn
hanns Of the government at Washing
II ton. They had o right to assenbl
! peaceably at Washington and petitio
y congress, and the arrest Of their leader
J. for t-respassing on the capitol ground
: ! was ia violation OF civil liberty. Th
reason assigned was only q pretex
The government did more harm In .
resting them to keep them of the gral
y than would have been done IL the who
81 Of the capitol grounds had been tran
alb pied into the mud.
To- The speaker said that the Coxeyit
,st had been denounced as anarchists =