Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-25
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Sam Jones On 1.-THE Second Blessing

AT the First Presbyterian church, Nash
willie, Tennessee, Rev. Sam Jones preached
a sermon of great power on Friday, the
18th instant. on Psalms 1872: And speak
eth the thruth in his heart" Brother Jones
aid
A man Is never better than his heart. "A
clean heart is the need of every Christian
man and woman. This should be the cry
and the plea and the earnest object of
every believing child of God. Create in
me a clean heart, Oh, Godr' Thank God
that this is our privilege. Thank God that
many people seek and obtain it. don't
care what you call 1t, whether the second
or third or the thousandth blessing, it
cleans out and then cleans Impurities
the heart, cleans up the life and, thank
God, SO benign and wonderous and so
needed a work of grace can be possessed
by men and women. I welcome it under
any name. and have a profound contempt
for the spirit which would depreciate the
people who possess 1t, or the great grace
which has come to them.
You may say what you please about the
holiness people, but 1 want to say this: I
never seen a holiness man that wasn't a
prohibitionist from his hat to his heels. l
have never seen one who didn't vote for
prohibition always and everywhere. l have
never seen one that didn't fight liquor,
card playing and phase and form of world
Illness in the church. have never seen a
second blessing man or woman that be-
lieved in or gave card parties. INDUCED in
punch singing. went to the theatre or
dancing parties. engaged in or encouraged
any phase or form of the deviltry that Is
cursing the church today. I have never
oaan n oa~0,r I1a,e,,- ..o, r. n,
that wouldn't pray anywhere and every
where when called on. and that wasn't
ready to stand UP and testify for the Lord
whenever opportunity offered. l never
saw a second blessing person in my life,
man or woman. at the head of a family,
that didn't get down night and morning
and pray for the children In that home
and for Gods guiding hand in all things
pertaining to their sacred home RESPONSE.
bilities.
l will tell you another thing: l never
saw a preacher in my life that was fight
ing the holiness crowd that wasn't a dead
dog In his p~ulpit-can't bite. You MAJ
watch 1t. Every little breaches that you
hear fighting the holiness people is u fell
low that hasn't had q revival or a CONVEX
sation In his ministry in years. unless he
got somebody else to hold his meeting.
God just won't honor any such a preacher.
You never see a man in the church who
ghts the holiness people, but VIII at if you
will search down far enough you will find
him wrong In his life or rotten in his char
acter.
l will tell you another thing: Whenever
you hear one of the sisters in the church
just pitchiug into these second blessing
fanatics" as she calls them, you may set
1t down she is one of them old gals that
has q punch bowl in her house. or she
slips across to her neighbors and just
takes a little" or leads in some form, of
worldliness.
Sometimes folks have said that I"ft"
the second blessing people. I want to say
here and now. 1t Is not true. 1 never do
any such thing, I don't fight 'em; just
trim them up sometimes like I do all other
gaugs. n they need trimming just like
the balance Of you folks need trimming;
and you will find that all the fellows that
have got the blessing don't mind the trim
ming. The second blessing people are
right in heart; some are wrong in head.
There are black sheep in that flock as we'll
as in your flock. Some second blessing
people. so-calied. haven't got the right
spirit, and maybe don't live right! 1 can
say this-such folks haven't got the second
blessing, and ifthey ever had it, they have
lost 1t. And I can say that some of the
crowd that Is everlastingly fighting the
second blessed folks may have had the
first blessing when they commenced the
fight. but they have fought and fought
until they have lost the first blessing.
You have got to have a clean heart If you
have a clean life, and God desires both
no1 x,ok rnr,.N & -. z.Jt H.
church are winnings: IT just can't live
without sin; I just have to sin every day;
1 am just q poor worn, of the dust, and
poor human nature Is so frail that 1 just
can't live without SIM" Well, now, just
; tell me what sin it is you are compelled to
commit every day? Just sit down and
write 1t on a piece of paper and look at 1t
and see which of the commandments you
have got to break every day of your life?
What a libel on the Savior! What a SIAN
der on the atoning blood of the Lamb! For
> what was the Lamb slain7 Why did the
crimson tide flow from the side of Divine
Innocense If 1t was not to cleans US from
oil sin3 Did He not come to save from sin.
] Where sin abounded. did not grace much
l more abound? No, brother, sister, thank
God 1t is false when you say that you
HAVE TO SIN; you sin because you want
r to sin, and you insult your Lord and mis-
represent the atonement when you seek
to cover your gilt or apologize for your love
for something forbidden by pleading a ne.
cessity for sin.
Let's suppose a case: Here is a man who
has a fine ten'room house which he sells
: to a friend; makes him a deed in fee sim
pie; receives the cash in payment and then
turns over to him the property. giving to
him the keys to nine rooms. but retains
the key to n room. The buyer says;
Well. hello. friendl didn't you say there
were ten rooms in this house! Why dom
you give me the key to the tenth roo1n?'
oh" said the other. I've got some
snakes and lions and bears locked up in
that room. and I don't propose to turn that
room over to you." We'll. but didn't buy
the whole house; and didn't you deed it tc
me and pledge yourself In the deed to de
liver the same and forever warrant and de
! fend the title to the same to me; and dc
you suppose l am going to move my fam
lily into that house. one room of which is
filled with lions and snakes and bears tc
7 endanRer my family and the lives of my
children" Now. brethren. you know thai
would burst up the whole transaction or
the spot. There amt a man in Christen
dom hat would stand any such piece o.
fraud as that. and you know it: and yet
there are a whole lot of you folks hat pro
fess to make a full conservation. and will
z a heart thoroughly e1nptied to invite the
Lord to enter md take full possession il
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