The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-09
Brother Stewart Takes a
Crack at the Devil,
Sam Jones' Able Assistant Begins the Fight
Big Crowds Hear Him

m, 3 p. m. and p. m. Rev. Je-
romes Duncan conducted the i
o'clock services, and at 9 o'clock
Rev. George Stuart, Brother Jones
assistant, preached. Bro. Excel
lead the choir at this service, about
100 voices joining in the first hymn,
.'Come Thou Fount OF Every Bless
ing After which Rev f. n
Calvin, Of the Christian church, led
in prayer. The choir sang "Nearer
My God to Thee" aad Brother
Stuart announced his text from
Isaiah SCI, "Awake, awake: put
on thy strength Oh L on put on thy
beautiful garments, Oh Jerusalem. "
Mount ZION here represents the
church. Zion va tte highest pin.
nacle around Jerusalem, and comes
down TO us representing the church
of Christ. In other words, the text
il, wake, awake, Oa Church of
Christ, put on thy strength and thy
beautiful garments So Z on is a
local application; it sound peculiar,
but / would say, "Awake, Oh
Waco, ana put on thy strength and
beauty The Christian church is
asleep, dead asleep. The peopia of
Waco are aeleep, so dead asleep
that the pastors think they are dead.
1t ID only q trick of the d vii, to
put people to sleep. lie & 1es around
with bottle Of narcotic, and puts
you TO sleep That is the best way
the devil has TO get rid of mem.
Der of the church, to put him to
sleep. Ho is not in the way then
The burg lars have new trick when
they want to 'ob d house they slip
up to an open window, put sponge
saturated th a narcotic on long
pole and in this way put the father
and mother to sleep, and then the
children to sleep, after which
they go in the window
and take out all that
is beautiful The devil has the
same trick. don't know whether
the devil caught the trick from the
burglar or the burglar from the
devil, but think the devil knew it
first. The devil comes up and puts
the mother aud father asleep and |
they cannot see what is wrong. He
then puts the children asleep and |
takes from the home all that ia
beautiful. During this meeting
some of you women will wake up.
God help you to wake up and see
what is wrong.
Charles Darant in his book of
travels tells of an experience he
had with parrot which he owned.
He was sleeping one morning under
a tree and Re heard the parrot cry.
ing: wake up, wake up He was
angry at the interruption when he
was enjoying himself and raised up
with fist doubled to strike the bird.
He saw rattle snake right at his
feet preparing to strike. He sprang
away and killed the snake with a
stick. Then what did be do? He
caught the parrot in his arms and
caressed it, saying: You beautiful
bird, / was angry at you for dis.
turbing my slumbers, but you have
saved my life Some times the
preacher comes too close to home
and robs you of the pleasures you
ara enjoying. He wakes you up
and just as you raise your fist to
strike him you realize what ia
wrong and then you thank him for
saving yon from the Danger you
" ere IN. remember once in Chat.
tanooga | announced that | would
preach on gambling That morn.
ing there was a large congregation,
and one of those d amend stud gam
olers was sitting in the front pew,
with his wife and daughter |
knew if | shot off the load | had
about gamblers, i. would kill him
or kick me over. l thought | ought
lot to preach it, but | considered
IN matter had prepared that
sermon on my knees, CHATS the
way, God bless you, said a brotheN
Ind SO | started in. l arraigned |
he gamblers all along the line, and
f there is a point on the line where
'ou cannot arraign gam. ,
der l have never yet found