The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-09-26
WHY ARE YOU WAITING?
THIS MORNING AT THE SAM
JONES MEETING


Church to Get Right, for Feeling
Ain'o Fit-No Excuse-"My
Hope is in God"
Sam Jones took for his text We'd
nesday morning, Sept. 18th, these
words: "What wait l for? My hope
is in God"
He took the position that the great
God who made US all and who will
finally judge us all, is under everlast-
Ing obligations to every man IN this
world to show him what wrong is and
how to quit it and what is right and
how to do it. After doing this, God
then and there unloads the RESPONSE
bility on you. He did not believe
God ever arbitrarily made a man do
right or wrong. He must have human
cooperation.
WAITING TO CONSIDER.
"What wait l for?" Some say they
are waiting for time to consider this
question. What is it you want time
tn cans der? Whether it is better to
90 right than wrong, to be sober than
drunk, etc. How much time does
sensible man want on that PROPOSE
good than bad, better to do right
than wrong, better to go to heaven
than hell Sin not only makes a
rascal of d man, but it makes him a
fool. Asking for time to settle ii
question like this, that a sensible
man could settle in the twinkling of
an eye. LII is said that every pave
ment in hell is laid in procrastina
tion.
DENOUNCES PREDEsTINATION.
The idea of preacher preaching
that from the foundation of the
world God predestinated men to
hell. He didn't believe there was a
man in hell that didn't have chance
to go to heaven. He didn't believe
there was a man in heaven that didn't
have chance to go to hell and
wouldn't go. Predestination. He
didn't blame the devil for preaching
such stuff, but the idea Of preacher
preaching it. He was sorry for them.
The idea of God settling it a million
years before man was born that he
| would go to hell. If there is d man
on earth that Christ didn't die for, he
would come down and go on Calvary
! again and shed His precious blood for
him.
Predestinated to hell! II a man
will go before a magistrate and swear
to such a doctrine he would prosecute
him for perjury, and have him put in
the penitentiary, where he belongs.
A man don't have a chance to go to
heaven! It's a lie! It's lie. He
knew God well enough To know it's a
| lie. 1t can't be proved by the Bible
and if it could. he would say God didn't
write the Bible
| WAITING FOR THE CHURCH.
| ha hn
| Church to set right. You'll be in
hell thousand years before that
| comes about. One of the apostles
. was bad man and if Bro Turrentine
hasn't more than one bad man out
=, of twelve he's ia the line of apostolic
| succession. There amt a man in
| America that would do more to clean
up the hypocrites in the Church than
Sam Jones. You stay away from. the
| hypOcrites in the church and keep out
o. the church and then lie down in
hell with 'em forever.
Waiting for the Church to go right.
These old cusSeS are like the blue
! bottle fly that sees d sore spot on the
back of d fine horse and lights on the
spot. If there's a trif!ng old hypo-
critic in the church they'll light on
him and say i've got him! Ive got
him.'
Live the best we can, folks will
criticiSe US. Do your duty aad come
out on Gods side, and let the hypo
critics go Oh to hell with the crowC
that's stunning them.
WAITING FOR FEELING
Some say they are waiting for feel
ing. You will soon get feeling if you
do what the Lord wants you to do
Get at it and the feeling will COM
like the sweat comes when Sam Jone
gets to preaching. When you d.
right when you don't feel like it yol
deserve Thousand times more credi
than if you feel like it If you wan
feeling take the back track and go t.
Strengthening out your evil deeds.
WAITING TO GET FIT.
Another says he amt 1t. Il yo
are fit you are the very man for whoI
Christ did not die. If you are fl yo
amt invited; Says he amt itten t
get ftten. What are you going to
: with fool like that? The lawye
T says 81 amt fit." The ignorant fe
low says Il amt fitten." Ones GO
as much sense as the other. Ain
fitten! He never felt fit to live i
the church. Amt running on hi
fitness, rnnning OF his Infitness.
, AFRAID CAN'T HOLD OUT.
One says, if 1 just knew 1 coul
= hold ont. The devil worried Sal
Jones there worse than anywhere els
!. He believed in the. final perseve
n ance OF the saints and he was goin
:. to persevere. Religion is like su
> cession of wagon shops all along I'll
N road. You break down and there's
wagon shop man at hand to mer
e your wagon. Roads get mighty ba
# but the rougher the road, the thick
d the shops.
1t /; GOT NO EXCUSE.
le Then there is the fellow that's G
q no excuse. There's some hope f
r, him. "My hope is in God" A m;
f., is just as strong as the thing he col
j, mits himself to. If you commit you
N self to the arm of flesh you will
;e down with it. If you commit you
le self to God you will never go doy
ne until God goes down. He had ql
1s looking at things seen. He was loo
IT ing at unseen things. All he want
III was to feel the everlasting arms uno
IN him lifting him toward heaven.
ee THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS
n
ne EVANGELIST Stuart breaches WI