Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-22
REV SAM JONES PREACHED A POWERFUL SERMON
TO A LARGE AUDIENCE IN CARTERSNLLE SEPT. 4TfI

titled by faith which is in me-" Brethren,
bear with me for just a few personal
thoughts and reflections now, won't you?
I am thinking more about the inheritance
today than ever in my life. 1t is said the
older we grow the more We look back.
1t is said old people live in the past.
want to tell you it is not so much that
with me. 1 am getting along where I feel
some of the infirmities of old age, and
feel tremendously the thirty years work
1 have put in. In spite of all the devils
forces, for thirty years I have worked
almost without a vacation, and 1t seems
sometimes to me like my work is well
nigh DONE and I want to tell you 1 am
thinking about the inheritance, the in
heritGnce. think more about the things
ahead of me than 1 do about the things
behind me. / want to tell you have had
many a victory for God and the right.
have seen Gods militant host march to
victory. But 1 want to tell you today
look to the inheritance that is incorTupu-
BILE and undefled, and that fadeth not
away There is not a cloud, there is not
a mist. 1 wonder 1 wonder, which one
of this audience, before we have gathered
here at another tabernacle meeting. will
enter into the host of saints above. Which
of us, brethren? If my tongue is silent
twelve months from today think of me,
think of me as having entered the inheri-
tance that 1 am talking about today.
The inheritance. And what is it? / don't
know. 1 don't know what that inheri-
lance is. Paul told US, Eye hath not
seen, ear hath not heard. neither hath it
entered into the heart of man, the good
things God has in store for ME-
Little as you think of it, 1 have got
more friends in heaven today than have
on earth. have met and shaken hands
and prayed and sung with more people
rov oct
and shake hands with on this earth. An
Inheritance thai is incorruptible and unde-
filed and fadeth not away. God make me
ready. 1 am just thinking about getting
ready for the inheritance. My, my, my,
when Sam Jones gets TO heaven. Many
fellow don't think will. but will.
oh! may God give us victory over
wrong and triumph in the right, and give
us a Christianity that will stand and then
having fought to the end, let us look for
the inheritance. 1 don't know what 1t is
brother. I'll tell you what I'm going to
do, I'm going to be mighty busy finding
out what it is when / get there. will
be busy while. l want to see some folks
up there about the first thing. Some folks
say we won't know one another in hea-
ven. 1t has been just now about 46 years
since kissed my mother goodby, and you
tell me | wouldn't know my mother. /
could shut my eyes and could know the
sound of mothers voice in heaven. You
tell me 1 wouldn't know my mother.
know every ligament and lineament Of
her face Tell me wouldn't know mother.
oh, brethren, 1 stood yonder in little
cottage I'm Gainesville 80 years ago last
August, over the most triumphant DEATH
bed 1 ever read of in my life. 1 saw my
father who had fought and fought the
dread disease until strength was all gone,
and in that hour of triumph he called me
UP to his dying bed and said: 'Son, my
poor maynard, wrecked and ruined boy,
YOU have broken the heart of the wife of
your bosom and brought me in sorrow to
my grave, will you promise your dying
father that you will give up your sins
and meet me in heaven?" / stood there
convulsed moment. and then 1 grasped
his hand with a grip that meant all my
soul, and I said: Yes, father, make you
the pledge and 1 will die by it." And I
want to grip that hand again over yonder
and say: Father, kept my pledge and
here 1 am, redeemed by the same Christ
and in the same heaven.
BOYS, set your faces like steel today, and
say, stand by God and the right. Broth
er, do it, live for God and eternal life,
and hear me these concluding words, for
hsSVe spoken too long today, know IT, but
my heart is in the sermon I have offered,
and I beg you go away to consider the
things that have spoken to you.