The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1905-10-21
Sam Jones on the Second Blessing"

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The following synopsis of Sam Jones'
sermon preached February 10, 1897, has
been sent in with the request that we
republish 1t:
At the First Presbyterian Church,
Nashville, Rev. Sam P. Jones preached
a sermon of great power on Friday,
Feb. 18th, on Psa. 1852: And speak
eth the truth in his heart" Bro. Jones
said:
"a man is never better than bis
heart. A clean heart is the mead of ev-
cry Christian man and woman. This
should be the cry and plea and the
earnest object of every believing child
of God. Create in me clean heart, o
Godl' Thank God that this is our priv
ilege. Thank God that many people
seek and obtain it. / don't care what
you call it, 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 wondrous and so
needed work of grace can be possess
ed 10y men and women. | welcome it
under any name, and have profound
contempt for the spirit which would de-
preciate the people who possess it, or
the great grace which has come to
them.
"You may say what you please about
Al l. l. l., 4
this, / have never seen holmes man
that wasn't Prohibitionist from his
hat to his heels. | have never seen
one who didn't vote prohibition always
vnd everywhere. have never seen one
that didn't fight liquor, card playing,
and every phase and form of worldli-
ness in the church. l have never seen
a second blessing man or woman that
believed in or gave card parties, in
dulged in punch siuging, went to the
theatre, or dancing parties, or engaged
in or encouraged any phase or form of
the deviltry that is cursing the church
today. l have never seen second
blessing man or woman that wouldn't
pray anywhere and everywhere when
called GU, and that wasn't ready to
stand up and testify for the Lord when
ever opportunity offered. 1 never saw
a second blessing person in my life,
man or woman at the head of family,
that didn't get down night and morn
ing and pray for the children in that
home and for God 8 guiding hand in all
things pertaining to their sacred home
responsibilities.
81 will tell you another thing: 1
never saw preacher in my life that
was fighting the holiness crowd that
wasn't dead dog in his pulpit-can' t
bite. You may watch it. Every little
preacher that you hear fighting the no.
linessness people is fellow that hash t
had revival or conversion in his
ministry in years, unless he got some
body else to hold his meetings. God
just won't honor any such preacher.
You never see man in the church who
fights the holiness people but what if
you will search down far enough you
will find him wrong in his life or rotten
in his character.
81 VIII tell you another thing: When
ever hear one of the sisters in the
church just pitching into these second
blessing fanatics as she calls them,
you may set it down she is one of them
old gals that either has a punch bowl
in her house, or she slips across to her
neighbor aud just takes little or
leads in some form of worldiness,
Sometimes folk have said that fit
the second blessing people. want to
say here and now, it is not true | never
do any such thing. don't fight 'em
just trim them up sometimes like
do all the other gangs, and they need
trimming Just like the balance of you
folks need trimming. The second bles
sing people are rightin heart; some Of
them are wrong in the head. There are
black zheep in that flock as we'll as in
your flock. Some second blessing peo
pie. so called, havn't got the right spir