The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-27
rascals anyhow; the hide don't pay for
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rascals anyhow; the hide don't pay for
the skinning."
All this was merely preliminary. The
sermon proper was preached from Philip
plans, iii:l0 and Il: That l may know
him, and the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship of his sufferings, be-
ing made conformable unto his death: If
by any means might attain to the resur-
rection of the dead"
Mr.. Jones began with an impassioned
eulogy upon Saul of Tersus, the Apostle
raul, who he said was the greatest man
that ever lived. He com bined in himself
and in his life and character the three
essential elements of greatness a big
mead and big brain, big heart and the
accomplishment of something in this life
me three great questions of the CEN
fury, said the evangelist, that are be-
ing asked by men on every hand and in
every land, are these: Who is Christ?
What is Christ? Where is Christi? The
honor OF Christ and the salvation of your
soul depend upon how you ask and how
you answer these questions"
Many times, said Mr.. Jones, the mes
sage of God has come to the world. Man
has not been left an orphan by fate, nor
mas his destiny been made dependent
upon the whim to time or chance. The
ginning were those the world was asking
itself to-day, and the more science flashed
Its light over the nations the more Gull
ture and education broadened and ex-
banded, the more eagerly and anxiously
does the world look up to the skies and
| ask these questions again.
He said that it was not so important
that a man should know the deeds or
the words of Christ. as that he should
To
by a study of the thoughts of the Saviour
! can man come to the best and truest and
tenderest comprehension OF His character
Man must be made to think, and he must
| be made to think on a high plane.
The greatest preacher of to-day is not
| the one who attracts the largest con-
! gregation or induces the greatest number
of men to forsake evil and love the good.
The greatest preacher of the time is he
who gets men to thinking on the highest
plane. AS man thinks, so he will do
and the thoughts of to-day are the acts
| of tomorrow
From Toistoi's Census of Moscow" Mr.
Jones drew an Illustration of the fact that
a mans deeds cannot be better than his
thoughts. The great Russian philosopher
following the census takers around the
| streets Of Moscow, had taken a moral
| SeASuS Vi inc CITY dS the WOrk proceeded
| He selected some individuals whom he
attempted to benefit and reform.
boy. whom ne picked up from the
| slums, from life of squalor and vice and
| wretchednesS, took to his own palace
clothed and fed and started on the way
| to school, disappeared a few days later
| Tolstoi found him in the geological gar
dens, arrayed in gaudy calico rags and
leading an elephant around for a penny
a day.
HE thought that was the best thing
on earth and as long as he thought so,
there wasn't much hope of making him
decent boy. God Almighty can never
do anything with you, bud, as long as
| your thoughts are as low as this.
Take that man over there. He's a YES
tryman in the Episcopal Church or may
| be a steward in the Methodist Church
don't know which. On Sunday mornings
| he passes the plate in church and on
Sunday afternoons goes out to the Yacht
Club and passes his glass for beer AS
long as he thinks it's all right to do this
as long as he believe he can desecrate
the holy Sabbath in this way and still
be good man and a good Christian, he
can't be raised much above the butter
milk trough, where hogs drink.
You think the way to be gentleman
is to come to Savannah and join one of
these hog-wallows of city clubs. You
think it's all right to leave your home,
| your pure, sweet mother and sisters, and
sink your manhood in RIGHTEOUSNESS and
debauchery. Why as long as you think
it, neither God, angels nor man can lift
you an inch.
You got hard head, too, and when
I'm preaching to your kind l pound your
noggins. Why, if some of you hard
headed rascals would wander around this
park tomorrow and come across half
dozen billy goats and get in a buttin
match with 'em, you'd have those goats
going around to the drug store and buying
antikamnia to make their heads stop
aching.
You colored men over there. You
think it's all right for you
to get drunk six nights in
the week, just so you go to church
and shout on Sunday I'll tell you. your
religions all heart. You better get some
head in it or get some religious sense in
your head Maybe you haven't got room
for it, but if you haven't, you'd better
dig hole in your skull and pull out some
of that nonsense and put in little sense
| and a little truth"
What does Christ say of himself in
answer to our first question? He says. I
am the way. Brethren, l want to tell
you that Christ is the only way.
"A railway locomotive on the track is
a thing of power, beauty and speed. But
did you ever see one off the track? It's
the most helpless thing on earth-it looks
like a giant lying in the ditch.
MY friends, you want to get on the
| track You can't move along in the dirt
road of drunkenness, of debauchery, of
profanity, of inidelity. You must get on
the track. 4 am the way says the Lord,
| and the hope of the world is in Him.
What says He 10 our second question?
I am the truth, and the truth shall make
you free Nothing can stand against the
truth, nothing prevail against it, nothing
| overthrow it. The man who speaks and
| lives the truth is the freest man on
| earth.
I'm as free as the air When 1 came to
| Savannah | said l was going to stay as
| long as l pleased and leave when /
pleased and, bless your heart, that's just
what I'm going to do. I'm free. And just
| as I'm free to come when | please, and
stay as long as l please. and go when |
jlease. I'm free to say what l please. l
| tell the truth. | couldn't tell lie with
out being silenced and driven out Of Sa-
vannah You little fellows can lie and
| nobody objects, but can't
Nobody has said I've lied. I've talked
| n Ittf1a about some of this precious gang