The western sentinel., 1895-09-26
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.
NOT CHRISTIANITY AS AN EX-
PERTINENT
Doubling, Doubling, Doubling, and
Deyiling, Deviling, Deyiling-Do
What the Bible Says Do and
You VIII Go to Believing


You VIII Go to Believing
Thursday morning Sam Jones said he
wanted to talk awhile on Christianity
as an experience-notC Christianity as
an experiment. He quoted as his text
these words: 'If any man will do the
will uf God he shall know of the
doctrine"
At the time Christ uttered these
words he was surrounded by the
Pharisees and Sadducees and learned
doctors of the law. Knowing their
thoughts, he spoke the words of the
text. Men have doubted in all ages.
A man is rot a sinner because he is an
infidel but he is an infidel because
he is d sinner. A man don't do like
he believes, but believes like he does.
Faith is warped and woofed TO do evil
things.
Some say there's no harm in any
thing unless you make harm of it. He
never met piOuS person that danced
or play ed cards If you have you have
been more fortunate. As long as you
are going to do wrong you will find
excuses for it.
The man that lives right don't
up and you will find a seed at the tap
root. That seed is sin. Quit your
meanness and you will quit your
doubling. The fact that you go
around doubling, and doubling, and
doubling, is proof that you are going
around deviliBg, and deviling, and dew
ling. An jnffddle. Never been five
hundred miles from home and you've
found out there's no God. Never read
literature but you've found out there's
no hell. Little Winston hair-brained
inffddlel Amt you dandy? could
just sneeZe where you are and blow
you off. Amt nothing. middle.
Don't believe the Bible. Have you
ever tried it? No. Come and try it.
Aint't got time. I'll pay you for your
time. Amt gwine. Then keep
your mouth shut. He had seen a pict-
Gre of an middle. 1t was all mouth.
Smash his mouth and you've got him
from Snout to tail.
Do what the Bible says do and you
will go to believing what the Bible
says. Doing is believing. Crying
won't do any good. It's what you are
going to do and keep on doing after
you get done crying.
Common sense is the most uncom-
mon thing in the world. Many
preachers go off and swap common
sense for book learning. Some little
preacher reads book on modern
science and gets up and lambasts his
brethren on higher thought and ad-
vanced views. The Lord help the
little preacher that never breaches
anything except what he read in a
book. Some of them don't know any
thing in books or out of books. A lit
tie preacher says the Lord fills his
mouth. Yes, he filed it with air.
There's many air-gun going around
this country. Give him the common
sense preacher of forty years ago.
Every father that's got religion has
family prayers. These preachers
won't say SO, because their most best
members will get their feelings hurt.
One preacher said they'd hold family
prayers if they've got it good. Well
how do you get it, bad ? Are there
two ways to get religion?
When a fellow gets religion in
preacher said it didn't effect them
that way in Virginia. In answer to a
question, Mr.. Turrentine said it eff
fected them in North Carolina about
as is did in Virginia. Sam said he
would charter train and take them
to Georgia and get them straight and
fetch them back.
Do you say join the church without
religion? Amt most of these here
done it, and why can't you? Jesus
said to Matthew, Follow me-" Mat
thew was a Scallawag. A Jew holding
office under the Roman government.
The MethOdists would have said to
Matthew, you've got to wallOw in the
straw, Bud. But Matthew said to
the clerks, you can run this business.
He followed Jesus. / that isn't relig
ion, what is it?
Men of sense and conviction
run on something higher than emo
tiOn. We don't run on guSh, and
wind, but on principle. Mr.. Jones,
don't you believe in being born again?
Yes, but you have no more to do with
being born the second time than you
had to do with being born the first
time. Nobody but God can regener-
ate soul. God says repent and be-
lieve and He will do all the rest. Go
on and do what you ought to do and
let that being born again alone.
Religion is the most practical thing
in the world.
There isn't trst-class church in
America that would have Sam Jones
as pastor, and there isn't a ffrst-class
church he would serve as pastor. He
never had any appointment except
circuit. He used to pray the Lord to
give him his appointment and He
always did it. He used to think the
Lord made all the appointments. He
knows better now. All the good ones
are done and made before the Lord
gets whack at 'em.
Naturalization is taking man and
making him over again into what he
ought to have been all the time.
Religion is taking a fellow where he
is and what he is and making him
what he ought to have been all the
time. An Irishman, Dutchman
and Frenchman take the oath of
allegiance to the United States and
then and there an Irishman and
Dutchman and a Frenchman die,
and three Americans are born.
Sam Jones walked up and took the
oath of allegiance to Jesus Christ and
right there, on the spot Sam Jones,
the sinner, died, and Sam Jones, the
Christian, was born. God help you
to take the oath of allegiance to Jesus
Christ today.
MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE.