The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-09-26
MY HEART IS FIXED. :"
CLOSING SERVICE OF THE SAM
JONES MEETING.
The Evangelist Throws in Fonsider r
able Pepper in His Strong aud
Logical Sermnn-PastO Pull
ing Church Members.

Logical Sermnn-Pastors Pull
ing Church Members.
The Sam Jones meetings closed last
| Thursday afternoon.
| The last service was attended by
more than six thousand people. The
warehouse, as usual, was packed with
| humanity, and Notwithstanding the
| heat, the Z eat preachCrs by his ear
nestness and magnetism held them
| spell-bonnd, so to speak.
The closing service was opened with
| prayer by MIR. Jones who most earnest
ly invoked Gods blessings upon our
towns and people.
The Evangelist began his discourse
by saying that it was not so much
what the results or impressions Of the
hour but he wanted to talk of tomor-
row, next week, next year.
He announced his text. taken from
the Psalms MY heart is fixed
o. God, my heart is fixed
The old adage says there is nothing
fixed until it is fixed right. Nothing
is settled until settled right. If tiIis
is true our resolutions are not settled
until settled right.
God will keep turning over things
until the right side is up. He will
have nothing but the right and right
has come to stay. The bad goes. The
churches and Sunday schools are still
here and they will remain. What
ever is good has come TO Stay. What
eyer is bad must gO-SdloOnS, ball
rooms, dishonesty, curslng, etc. must
be done away with If you are tied
on to the bad, neighbOr, you will go to
he'll with it.
My heart is fixed. Well done, well
finished. You hear it said that bad
beginning makes good ending. That
is not so. Give me good start every
time. There is nothing like begin
ming right. Then if we keep right
the applaudit Of ''well done" follows.
| don't like a horse that won't pull
without Looping, neither do l like a
''slow coach" | wouldn't be as slow
as some Presbyteridns or as fast as
some Methodists. like good every
day lick.
Give me a fellow that is pious at his
home, in his store and everywhere
else. 1t is just as sacred to plow, or
be blacksmith as anything else. The
kind of work we do determines the
sacredness of it. The effectiveness of
railroad engine may determine
| whether or net the blacksmith has
done sacred work.
/ want us to quit talking about the
sacred and secular things. Be relig-
| ious in every trade and profession.
My heart is fixed on it. We ought
| to do everything cOnscientiOusly
| Keep our homes neat, but one can't
| do this by bringing deck of cards in
| the house. l like wax floors in ball
| room, so every fool can break his or
her neck. / never enjoyed dance
only when | was drunk. They say
some of your club boys get full up.
| Some of the preachers tell me that
they found on the court records where
four members of the club were up fol
gambling at the last term and fined
Sl5 each and cost. Judge ought to have
put them in Jail. | have found out
that you have got louZy SET up there
If | were you decent members | woulC
pull up and out of the club. Boy:
tank up on liquor. Am | hitten' 'en
right, preachers? about right, saiC
several l am learning you how Il
hit 'em, then.
You said you were the best people
1 think you are simply ''lying" undel
a mistake. Neighbor, if you are
Christian man get out of the Clui
| and go to the Y. N. G. a. and do you
reading there.
If the preachers have misrepresent
ed you, l will give you bucks time t.
reply. / guess you are like the lyin
drummer about buying Whiskey il
, Cartersville You are afraid, or dom
want to disturb the meeting.
: Friends, don't let any good thin
) die. The Secretary tells me that un
| less the people come to the rescue O
the Y. NJ. G. A. it will die. If th
fathers here who have got boys ar
not interested in the Y. NJ. G. A
they are making big mistake
When my boys die | will never lie
! them say father fostered club, ba
room, etc. If any Of you Club buck
get caught gambling again l hope til
Judge will put you on the chai
gang.
D Some fellows want to kill me or
e time, and beg like a dog the ne>
y | time. In the ante-rOom they wi
fight, but when they are up for bein
: drunk or robbing girls virtue, the
i they will beg for rothing to be sai
!. about it. l am telling the trutl
What is the use for a preacher to te
lies when the truth is bad enough
can kill you with the truth, Bud.
fellow don't have to tell lies on you.
} You girls are not mean, you al
good little things, but the trouble
= there is not much of you. You dan
{ days you will evaporate and the
: will be nothing left on the ball-roo
floor but slippers and bangs.
/ married a prayer meeting gi
. from the country aad / wouldn't gi'
- her for any girl that ever cut t.
n pigeon wing.
Ii any fellow ever gets you. s.
= your husband will be like the Iris
3 man who said he knew of one pers,
who would be sorry when he died
the fellow that got his widow. Y
get a little buck and fiddle and tn
Y say you are the happiest little thi
: on earth.
g You old women go around frc
]. house to house with deck of carr
\. You went to sleep on your side, a
the brains ran out of your ear.
You fix your life and hearts on
tie things, boys and girls. There {
in women and preachers who have I
P. 1 been out to hear me. There are So
in cattle in the churches, too. They
s5, me that one preacher and five sale
ne keepers have not been out here sil
fk = the meeting began. The preacher
I'D guess, will say that he stayed at no
lid and prayed for Mr.. Jones and |
meeting. He asked God to come
. the place where he 1.-THE preach
could not or would not come. Al
that nice. You say / ought not
IN step on preachers toes. Your prea
}tPe ptPs ers' toes ought to emigrate.
rec They tell me that one of y