The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-14

At the First Presbyterian Church,
Nashville, Rev. Sam p. Jones preached n
sermon of great power on Friday, Fcbru.
AIRY 18th, on Pisa. 15:a; "And speaketh
the truth in his heart" Bro Jones said:
y man is never better than his heart.
n clean heart is the need of every Chris
ulan man ana woman. This should he
the cry and the Flea and the earnest OBJ
lect of every believing child of God:
Create i'll ile Il clean heart, o Godr
Thank God that this is our privilege
Think God that many people seek and
obtain 1t. don't care what you call it.
whether the second or third or the thou
sandth blessing, it cleans out and then
cleans Impurities the heart, cleans I'M
the life, and. thank God SO benign and
wondrous and so needed II work of grace
can be possessed by men and women
welcome it under any name, and have
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 want to say this: |
nave never seen II holiness man that
wasn't Prohibitionist from his hat To
MS ncels. have never seen one who
dldn' vote prohibition always and every
where. have never seen one that didn't
light liquor, card playing, and every
phase and form of worldliness in the
church. have never seen second bless
ing man or woman that believed in or
gave cMd purties, INDUCED in punch
singing, went to the theatre, or dancing
parties. or engaged in or encouraged any
phase or form of the deviitry that is ours
ing the church to-day. i lave..never seen
n second blessing ,nan or woman that
wouldn't pray anywhere and everywhere
when called on, and that wasn't ready to
stand up and testify for the Lord when
ever opportunity offered. have never
seen II second blessing person in my life
man or woman, at the head of Il family,
that didn't get down night and morning
and pray for the children in tnat home
and for Gods guiding hand in all things
pertaining to their sacred home respnnsi-
biities
Twill tell you another thing: never saw
u preacher in my life that was fighting
the holiness crowd that wasn't n dead dog
in his pulpit-can't bite You NAV watch
It. Every little preacher that you hear
lighting the holiness people is fellow
that hasn't had IL revival or conversion
IN his ministry III years. unless he got
somebody else to hold his meetings. God
Just wont honor any such IL preacher.
You never see man in the church who
fights the holiness people nut what if YOU
will search down far enough YOU will find
him wrong in his life or rotten i'm his
character.
will tell you another tEing: When
ever yon hear one of the sisters i'm the
church just pitching into these .second
blessing fanatics" us she calls them. Won
may set it down she is one of them old
gals that either has punch bowl in her
house, or she slips across to her neighbor
and Just takes IL little, y or leads i'm some
form of worldliness.
Sometimes folks have said that .ftn
the second blessing people. I want to say
here ana now it is not true ] never do
any such thing don't fight 'em:
just trim them up sometimes like 7 do all
the other gangs, and they need trimming
just like the balance of YOU folks need
trimming. The second blessing people
are right III heart: some of them are
wrong in the head. There are black
sheep in thar flock rs well as in your
flock. Some second blessing peope so
called. haven't got the fright spirit, and
maybe don't live right. | can say this
such folks haven't got the second bless.
ing, and if they ever had it, they have los,
IT. And can say that some of the crowd
that Is evcrlastingiy fighting the second
blessing folks may have had the frs;
blessing VIXEN they commenced the fight,
but they have fought until they have lost
the first blessing.
You hare got to have clean heart if
you have a clean life, and God desires
both; and yet some of you worldly gang
in the church are whining: II just can't
live without sin; Just have tc SIN every
day; am Just poor worm of the dust,
aud poor human nature is so frail that
Just can't live without SIM Veil nov