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 in duunUnOoimiy.AU, United Stetee , on the 
 16th of Oetober, 1347. Hie fOher and mother were 
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 "Sem" wta brought ap to the profiMdon of lAW/end 
 •terted life with e hgrilUent proepeet ol mooim befora 
 him. Shortly ef ter opening his office, he beoune Teiy 
 diMipeted, end bed it not been for hie father*! death-bed 
 eshortationi,a oaefol life would have been loiitothe 
 world. Sam, after hii reformation, married lUf^ Lamm 
 McElwmin, of Eminenee, Kentnokj, and thie eetimabU 
 lady still ofieen hhn in the ardnooi l^bonrs in behalf ql 
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 In October, 187S;Mr. Jones beoame a Ravelling preaoher 
 of the Methodist Ghansh Soath, and was veiy saooessfnl 
 in his work. Shortly after thfi he beoame a tmydling 
 erangelistk and met with extraordinary endoaiageinent in 
 several of the S<mthem States. He then attraoM the 
 attention of the Bev. T. fie Witt Tahnsge^ who for soiee 
 time employed him in a grand reyivil ai the Bnx^yn 
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 Mr. Jones again retomed to the Sonth, and attracted 
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 of great power and inflaenoe. And now hit work hat 
 branched oat to toA an extent that hit Ume it fully o»* 
 enpied in addretdng matt meetii^ and we expeet to 
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 Mr. Jonet often oaet tlang and other uncouth language 
 to attriot attention, which it to be regreit^ but theiault 
 it more than counterbalanced by hit eamettneet. He it 
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 •ad hit meeiingt produce inttnte iaAerett and a great 
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 mTmmd ^ "Lord, what nOt th<m1b«Te me toda^^ 
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 shore. (Laughter.) I'd want to be a aret-daaa swim- 
 mer if I sho^d go out in the depths of divine mystenes 
 and inquire of Qod what an the divine plans and the 
 divine modes, and the divine "when" and the divine., 
 "how.** These are questions that never bother me at ail 
 I simply want to know what Qod wants me to do, and if 
 he'll tdi me 111 do that and trust him for the rest 
 
 And now St John gives ns clearly and pointedly our 
 side of the gospel in these words : "If we confess our sins, 
 he is faithful and just to foigive us Our sii^B, and to deanse 
 us from all unrighteousness.'* Suppose we read the text 
 this way— and we do no violence to the sense of the text : 
 "If we repent of our sins, he is ^thful and just to for- 
 give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- 
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 THE ALPHABET Of MBLIGION. 
 
 Bepentanoe to a man in iltk) world, in every moral 
 spiritual sense, on his way to Gpd, is just what the alpha- 
 bet is to Uie man of letters and to the schobff. We see 
 that little boy four years old standing at h& mother's 
 knee. She is teaduW him the ahphabet, just as my 
 mother taught me ^euphabet And when I learned the 
 alphabet so that I could l^Bgin at A and g6 to Z; and com- 
 mence with Z and »> ba^k to A, then ifiother would put 
 her finger at the mmdle of the alphabet and start me up 
 and down, and I learned uie alphabet perfect and I knew 
 my A B C well. Then my mother ^med ^ leaf and 
 saad: "Now, son, you mav spell Bome.** Ana I thought 
 in my little heart :"WcaV III leave my^A B the first 
 week." So I turned over to tbe-seit page and eom-- 
 jnenoed to spell, but, I sa|v before I spelt a word thai 1 
 oofuld not spell without my A BO, and the first word 
 ^im « ar^b, abi" and "i— b, lb," and I saw that I couldn't 
 spell without my letters, and I spelled on, and she taught 
 me on till I got over to " baker,^ and that's a good way, 
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 thought I was nearly graduated then, but I couldn't even 
 spell *'publiQation*' without the "p,** and the ''n^and 
 the <* h, and so oa Well, after I had started to school 
 and got through the spelling-book, my teacher said: 
 *'Now, tell your mother to get you a First Reader*' 
 " W<dl." I thou^t "good-bye, A B 0,1 am done with you 
 now, but when I opened my First Reader^ the fiist page 
 of my First Reader was covered with the dphabet^ and 
 I couldn't read a line without the alphabet 
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 . And scf I. went through the first, second and thiid 
 Readers, and then my teacher said," Now you must get 
 you an Arithmetic" " Well,'T thought, "I'm in arith- 
 metic." That's the science of numbers, and I won't have 
 any alphabet in that It's •* good-bye, alphabeC now. 
 And I opened my arithmetic and fooiid they couldn't 
 state a mathematical proposition or question without the 
 alphabet, and I went on and on, and by-and-bye they said. 
 "Now, we'll nuiyou into geography/* ♦ 
 
 M " ^l-'^S^r^ geography might glye nie scwne 
 idea of thisjearllL^ssuilaoe, and I won't have any alpha, 
 bet in that Init I fowid my geography, every page of 
 It wascoveted wiOi the alphiOMt And by-ancUbye I 
 went mto rhetoric, and into philosophy, and on and on. 
 and after a while they said, " We'll put you in Latin?' 
 
 l^^vl*^W^^x S ^-'^ "^ never be troubled with 
 . the alphabef*ut I found I needed the alphabet when I 
 took up mv Latin Qrammar; and so i piogiessed in 
 leainiiu;^ and when I went into Greek they called the 
 l^i®?^ different names, but I finind out at last in the 
 Gteek that we needed the alphabet And on and on at 
 I go I need the alphabet mi when the student shall end 
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 very dWi^li wrHton to the alph^ 
 he climbs in literaiore and the higher heights he 
 raehes the more he apprecUtes the Isct ih^ every stop 
 <rf his apwAid Wfty is mi^e through the alphabet and by 
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 " nm ALPBABIT 6W RIPENTAHCK 
 
 Well now, just exactly what the alphabet is to the man 
 
 of letters, inst that repentance is to the man on^:^ W 
 to God. fee first tel^ofious Oiing a man ever did in this 
 world was to repent, and as fiur aj I am concenied. I have 
 been repenting eveiy day since I started ; and about ^e 
 last thmg I ever want to do is to kneel down in hearty 
 repeiitimoe before Ood and go to Heaven a sinner saved 
 
 ^^^SoOTtanoe! Well we'U take the term of the text : 
 « K we confess our sins, he is llttthftil and just to forgive 
 us our sins, and to cleanse us from aU unrighteousness. 
 Now, here is a plain, pdnted declaration from the lips ol 
 Oodl " H we confess our jdnfc"^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 I like the term, -confess." Itisa verypotent ttgi^- 
 \eant term in the 'sense in which this text^usesit^ Ke- 
 Wtanoe- cannot mean more thto" confession means 
 bihistext We mighji understand- repentance ^hetter. 
 Weare^ore familiar ^th the discussion of tiiat word— 
 " r^Dentanoe." aadVet; Aer all the definiti<ma of " repent^ 
 ancT* I have seen in the book, a good old woBwn gave 
 , me the best defiMtion of J»pentano|ft I evo?r heard. 
 
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 Said she^ - It is being so sony for your meaimess that^ 
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 '^ Sheaaye it ii thia: " If God will foivive me for my 
 meanneail won't want to do it any more?' 
 
 " WeU," laid I, " Now, yon have got the whole question 
 down ina nntaheU." 
 
 Repentance ii thli: ^I am lo lorty for my meanneea 
 that 1 won't do it any more," and relkion is, "I am so 
 glad that God is eo good to. forgive ide, that Lwon't want 
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 Confeauonl I hare iioted this !^t in i^^ etpn^nX; 
 that a man's reformation will always go down as deep and 
 oat as broad as his confession is. An honest oonfesdion, it 
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 Now, let me illpatrate what I mean : Ton may take 
 any drunkard in St Loois; let him ognfess his sins to 
 God and man, let him quit and let him join th<ir diunih 
 and nerve God,Mid eveiif azperienoe raeetiogyoa hftte that 
 feUow wiU jump up aaitw, « BnOam^Oiy to God 1 I 
 was savMl from a^bmllM's gmve t I wat the wont 
 drunkM that ^lvmt Hved fam Locds» aod^oh, idiat a 
 miserable drunken wreteh I have been." M% htm quit 
 There's another feUow, he hasn't quit--yoa can tell it by 
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 "No, sir 1 I don't know one sort fi<oin«aotiker. I never 
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 WlMi's the matter with him t He hasn't quit^ you sesi 
 And no man is readv toconfesAi|ntil heis ready to quit 
 ^ Tou take a gambler, ft notmous gambler, and let him 
 be converted to God and join tiieohuieh, and all at once 
 he gets up and sftya^ " Brethren, I haw been the wont 
 
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 gambler. I h»te gtmbled B^itry day. I have gambled 
 all night many a tinie. I have led a miserable gMnbleri 
 
 life.- , '/ 
 
 WeD, yon take one of the blaok-legs of the city* no^ 
 
 and ffet him up here and «ay : .'■-"' 
 
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 « No, ilr 1 I don't know one eardrzrom another. Never 
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 What's the matter with him t He hasn't quit ; don t 
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 A anifUl, PECUUABITT. 
 
 And there is one peonlmHiy about lin. It hot oolv 
 'makes a fool of a man, but it will make him a fraud. 
 About nine-tenths or eleraiii-tenths of the lying done in 
 this world is to get out of something we have done that is 
 wrong. Isn't that true f How manv men in this house 
 who Mnk whiskey can stand up and say, " 1 never told 
 my wife a lie about'it in my life t" How many drinking 
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 bier infiHy that will ever confess to Qoi^vOif man the 
 Maibl«T^altfe that he leads. And the^Ml nroof id the 
 worid that a man has reformed is thU fact of his confess- 
 ing lOs gidlt before (3od and^^iBn—or to illqstntc fur- 
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 tt^e^beni up in the ohiireli for dnmkenniisB. One fellow 
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 « Brethmn, I went to iMrn the other day/and I didn't 
 
 «eat any dnmer and I took one lit^e drink. It flew tb my 
 
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 goes to town I " j^ "'''-■" ^'r':^"^ /'■■'.:.:'■' ''*.' 
 
 They a»id :" How do you know f '^ 
 
 ^ Well," Mud I. ^ be told two or three Uei In hh thort 
 eonfeiiioiL Did yoa notice that f He said be jiut took 
 one little drink, and that wouldn't make anybody but a 
 fool drunk in^the fln^ place ; and in the second place he. 
 Mid tt made him ' sort of tiffht ;' and from all I can bear 
 he was the loosest fellow that has been floating round 
 lately. He told two point-blank lies in one little confes- 
 sion, and," said I, " hell get drunk again the first time be 
 goes to town again." 
 
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 The other doe got up and iaidi 
 
 ■f Brethren, if I may call you sttd^f went to 
 I made a brute of myself. I disg^iMsed myself and the 
 .Ohristthatlpiofess." And, said he, *< If you all oan bear 
 with me and fori^ye tt^ I want you to pray for me uid 
 help msk I have Been begging dod to foigive me, and if 
 you can bear frith such a wretcn as I, I hope you wiU, mA 
 pardon me this time." , . • / 
 
 I si^d to them, afbar he went out: 
 
 Alii go his security. Til oo on his bond almost with 
 my imm9rtaUty, If sueh a thing is neoeesaiy. He has 
 
 grit." ^V:^^ 
 
 '^ How do yon know t" they said. 
 
 "* Why," said I, <* he oonfesM to the bottom, and when 
 a man gets down to the bottom in bis oonfeenon he is va- . 
 formed to the bottom." 
 
 " ; ^' BLUBBKBINQ P EHl T gM M, 
 
 OonfMoAl Rcpentancat It means nothing more iSiaa 
 this; ''Iha^e quiti Ihasredondl" Repentance do&'t 
 
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 mMn blabberinff and crying. Htre's a poor fellow, now, 
 who% been getting drunk every day for a month. He 
 comes home at nignta blabbering and teUa hla wife : 
 
 ** Sho iony (hie) I got drunk ; but—" and it's boo-boo 
 — «nd err and cry. "I'm so sorry I got drunk to-day. 
 Wifey, I h-ope youll f or-give me." 
 
 And he goes right down town and gets drunk a«nun the 
 next day, and comes home dr^nk, and he'll blubber and 
 he'll cry. Well, you see, blubbering ain't the thing at all, 
 and his wile gets disgusted with him, and tells him : 
 
 *' Tou needn't come round me with your blubbering. I 
 despise it i despise it It doesn't amount to anything in 
 
 the world." 
 
 But he comes home sober one evening, and he sayi, with 
 his eye light and all his senses in full play: 
 
 * Wifeil have ouit and done now. Tlf never drink an-^ 
 other drop while Qod let me live." 
 
 Well, he don't blubber about it * Ut That's just what 
 his wife wanted— just waitinff for him to quit, that was 
 all And a man needn't think because he come to Christ 
 snubbing around the altar that " I'm the best penitent 
 they have had," and then go to snubbing and cryinff. But 
 it'p ** I have qnit» quit" That's it " I have done with it" 
 Bepentanoe is reformation, and nothing else is repentance 
 «Kcept rcKformation. 
 
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 ; Jii6 NiiD fOR BjmumwQ. 
 
 Suppose you 4ad a boy that was going into wiokednefls 
 and prodigiOity and intemperance, and going on and on in ^ 
 that^ what would you care for your boy coining to you 
 every day or two and sheddiii^ tears and saying: ** I am 
 •0 soAry, father, I have done tfis way." Ton would just 
 ■tnUghten him up and look at him and sajr : "Son, you 
 needn't come bluSbering around me;, you just quit, and 
 when you are qidt there's no use in blubbwing, and you 
 neednl blubber nntil you quit" 
 
 
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 Qod if mj fkther And I *m hk obikL And whai do«t 
 the Lord want me to do in eTerr eenee f Brother, lei yon 
 Mid me oeeee to do eril and learn to do welL Let the 
 widied man oeaee hie way and the nnrighteoiu man oeaie 
 hie way and eome to Ood and he will pardon him. 
 
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 xo icTsnBT ABOUT Biuaxoir. 
 
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 How mnoh myitenr we have wrapped up with thii thing 
 we call religion I Tne Lord wante erery guilty man in 
 the world to quit his wiokedneee, turn away from his sins 
 and then eome to Gbd, and he shall have eternal life. The 
 devil don't want any better Joke on a preaoher than to 
 get up in the pulpit and split a hair a whole mile long be- 
 tween evangjlioal repentance and legal repentance. 
 (Laughter.) The devil is Always glad when he sees a man 
 ^ving his whole time to that kind of thing. And there 
 18 that preacher, and h« is defining repentnooe no#, and 
 he is giving the world his views of evangelical repentance 
 and legal repentanca I si^ to the Wond — and it is the 
 message of my Lord and Master— ** If you^wmnt Qod to 
 take hold of you, you quit t you quit 1 you quit" 
 
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 Well, many a time we members of the church get vwy 
 sorry, and we get so sony we can shed some tears for our 
 past life. Now, let me *pMk a word to you, brother, sia- 
 ter. There is a broiher wno is neglecting his family altar ; 
 he has let the fMmly altar free go out and he is n^eet- 
 ing his du^as a fSiuier, as a huAand, and now he comes 
 up to the und here and says : ** Oh, Lord 1 I have besna 
 mat sinner. Forgive me for Ohnst's sakcu" And he' 
 sheds a great many teavs, but he don't take up his fiuonily 
 prayer, he don't make any repentance uli the world. Brp-' 
 iher, yon need not get np out of your seat^ bat lit liAi- 
 thwe ind say": " I mii sorxy I haye neglected the hm^y 
 
 
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 Altar, and, Qod helping me, I will quit mr neglect and fol- 
 low up my family prayen until Qod oallii me to him." 
 ^ Tbtff ii another brother jaya \ • I ha^e Ml been to a 
 uwyitln i tiiH lot • fwnr BiotiiA y«i Mii iw« «y 
 abont it^ but MT, ** Ood befping me, I ftm goloff lo be out 
 here every WedneMlay night to the prayer^mfeting ; ebe 
 I will eend my doetor^e oertifloate to my preacher, and 
 ■how I waa aiflk abad and ooui^'t oome," 
 
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 XONBlllii ABOUT FKEMKa -^ 
 
 We haTi got tha(yilM ciMragh ; we have got all lorte of 
 theoriet,and plenty of theories to mn one hundred worlds. 
 What we want now is Mnaiethiiig practical so m ething 
 'that pieans something. A "'. 
 
 A fellow hss done wrongs hasswindled a oastomer, and 
 he is feeUng awfol bad abont it— (laiighter)~he nerer 
 felt so badin bis life; .Now, brother, it doesn^t matter 
 how yon feel Are yon willing to take the overplus back 
 home to your brother and say, " Hera is what I over- 
 ehiigad you with,** or will you keep itf There is some- 
 tUlng prsotical about that I like the sort of feeling a 
 fellow folt when he heard that a nei^diboui's cow died and 
 be said to the other neighbours : "Oh, how sad it is 1 I 
 am sorry for iiJ How sorrr do you feel f ' ** Ten dollars^ 
 worth to help him get another cow f*^ I like to see a f^ 
 low^s sorrow take a turn on him and manifest itself in a 
 practical way, don't you sea f 
 
 somrmiro tRAxmdAt WAiitiD. 
 
 And that's what's the matter with the world to day. 
 They are lookhig for a priMstical test in our Ohristianity ; 
 and they juat simply think that relif^ is confined to the 
 meeting-house and to our connection with the ehnrdi* 
 Oh, brethran^ let us teach this world thisre is eomMhing 
 grttider and nobler about religion than shnply a Um 
 
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 BEPIllTAlfOI WOT A mrVTIlT. 
 
 mynUrioai theoHet About ft pmrmm or « ■dbtUnot. Tfflii 
 
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 HopenUnoe ! Conf<MiioBl I am nsrar trotibl«d nadi 
 Hboiii A uMi when ht ngpv lo ■% * Jon«i, I hftT« iiMid« 
 up mv mind to Quit everything that Ood'e book eondemiMk 
 I will never do it a^ia I got very hopeful of that eori 
 of a fellow ; and wnen he aara to me, " Well, I haven't 
 got anv feelinff." « WeU." aaid I, " What do you want to 
 talk about feeling for f Who aaid anything about (bal- 
 ing t The Ldrd laid : "Let the wioked man foraake hia 
 way and the nnrighteona man hia thooghta." And here 
 you ar^ after y6a know what the Lord wanta yon to do, 
 vou are growlink about feeling. Where do yon get thai 
 ideaf Where cloea that oomo from f " Brethren, I aay 
 to you to-night, if there ia nothing in religion but feeling; 
 I haven't got a bit, for if I have any feeling in me to-n%ht 
 I couldn't locate it to save my life. 
 
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 Feeling t You know the difference between feeling and 
 principle ? Yonder ia an old aail beat out in the middle 
 of the Atlantic Ocean, and when the wind blowi, why, 
 ahe travela ten milea an hour; but let the wind lull and 
 6he will lie Uiere two weeka within one hundred yarda of 
 where th^ wind left her. She don't so anywheM. That 
 iafeelin^i When the wind blowa, on ahe goea. 
 
 What 18 principle f Yonder ia a grand old ocean ateamer, 
 and wh^ the wind Uowa ahe aprMida her saUa and worka 
 her steam and on ahe goeo, ami when the wind lolli the 
 engine^ tuma his throttle wider open and ahe goea at the 
 rate of/ fifteen milea an hour whether the wind blowa or 
 not And that ia the difference between principle and 
 feeling. And if I haven't got any moni feeling this lide 
 of eteirnity I am going to aerve Ood and do ri^t beoanii 
 It ia iightt and I won t do wrong because it la wrong. A 
 miui that'a hunting for feeling t mmmy ^ ^ 
 
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 — And w4 !!*▼• Uughi ihk world i^ $pmi mtokj ilmiiM 
 
 ' IdiM abool rdigion from lb« palpii Then it a mH of a 
 
 ttmi-inadcL He b a litUa follow. Ho hai imtot grown 
 
 much. But bo thinki^ " Wdl. hwn what I hoard iho 
 
 prMohor lij, thero ain't an j hcmo formo. I am ohni out 
 
 of tho palo; no hope for mo. bootoio I don't boUoiro a 
 
 hojp of thintfg in tho Biblo." and ho thinko ho ia niinod 
 
 ■< ■"■ ■ 1m don'i I itriko a hoap of thooo litUo inedola 
 
 ;lliat want roUglon.aiid I novor otniok anj of tho aort ox- 
 
 oopt thooo imaU ooflo. (Laoffbtor.) Ho aayi bo wanU to 
 
 bo a Obriatian, bat don't belioTo that Jonah swallowod 
 
 tho whalo~(laaffhtor)— and ho don't beliove that tho 
 
 threo Hobrew ohildxen wont into tho fiory f amaoe, and 
 
 ho don^ boliovo in thooo big flab taloo— (iaagbtor)— and 
 
 I just lay to him, ** Yon poor Uttlo aimplo-beadod thing. 
 
 God noTor laid, 'Oivo mo jroor hoad/ or ' Givo me your 
 
 foot,' hot 'giro i»«im^»rtb' wid Gpd knows your litdo, 
 
 pt» poiiimmon h ^gBlifc faUafaieyfllont HonoTor 
 
 bothon about yoMRMTHo doSn't tay. « Oivo mo your 
 
 head, bni ho lay^ •Giro mo yonr heart,' and God will 
 
 comb tho kinka oat of yonr head mighty faat if yon wQl 
 
 joat giYO him yoar heart" (Uagh5».) Ho ia jnat ono^^ 
 
 of thooo -end fiddlea.- •■ tho boyi oaU hfan. and ho lust 
 
 thinks booaaso hia little head is chook fbll of little thhMi 
 
 for a great many yean, that wiU make tho Lord tani 
 
 away from him in dispair. 
 
 GOD DOmiV RATI BDnflBfl. 
 
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 hv, brother, when my boy goto wrong notioiii In hit 
 that don't make mo bate my hoy. I kuit torn t6 him 
 I say: ''Myson.ifyoiMdttiabtnityoaiBelf tomydia- 
 110 I will promise you a pare life." And I wiU say 
 to von : Your head will get right straight when I got 
 
 yonr lift otraight. A man d(>n't do like ho bolieyea, bat 
 
 habeUaTwlikahedoea. Don't yon see? 
 
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 H«ra if * SMI tftikiag about domti^ WttiHif IumI naj* 
 
 thing but doubts In my life. Aad if fM mnt to g«t 
 
 J«yii9«lif ^roar hiftrt^ jou gori|^ dowit An¥pidl it qp 
 
 b3rtli«rooli,Midiibmf«i«aM«l*tthe baMHto ofthftttop 
 
 root, and the nM»« of that eeed ie tiii» ^^ 
 
 A qui rom mtiDMwn. 
 
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 And I will aay to fou all to-nkrhi that .._ 
 
 Infldelitj in the earth la form fellow tojiiat__ 
 
 the mife jnreoepU of the BiUe and hie head fiUl beeome 
 stralgfat: A man eannotitart head foremoat t«waitla Qod. 
 Ha wiU atrike a hard mbetanoe and break hit old head* 
 (Laughter.) Ton itavt heart foremost— that'e Mm way. 
 A man gote hsart foreiaoet toward Ood— that's Aa waj 
 
 Qod Mji ! f CHft m^fneheart—giTe W thhie heart" 
 Down in one of the towns in a SoutEem State a man- 
 some of jou know the mwyf I were to call hisname^he 
 .got interested in the mesiin^ and came to me aad ^d : 
 
 f Hr. Jones, I really in my heart want to beagood man, 
 but I don't belieTe in the divinity of Ohristr—I oan't to 
 saYe my life— and I want to be sr good man." 
 
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 " Well," said I. " to-nighft when I open the doom-^tha 
 ohnreh, you come np 4nd join the ohuTtsh." 
 
 * What t " said he, <« me join the ohuroh; Mr. Jones, and 
 I don't beUoTe in the diyinity of Christ,] *^ , 
 
 Said I, " Tour tronble is voor mouth. H yoii Jnsf shut 
 your mouth I will iust get you straight in twenty^four 
 
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 ahnrQh." , *< 
 
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 ; "Nowiugfc listen to that mouth, It has been your 
 
 trouble »U your life and youll just talk youraelf to hell if 
 
 jon 4on't shut vour mouth. (Lauj^ter.) Now," I said, 
 
 ^ **Sf^ ^ ^B*"" *^ ^^'°" to-night you oome up and say, 
 ' The best I can do is to give my heart to Ooa'" 
 
 " Why, Ifc Jonee/V- 
 ,* You don'fc open your mouth. You don't understands 
 
 . v'^"! Pi j"«* anutyour mouth\and I will get you all 
 
 /^^l,'* said het*^Ic^^ not/W 
 — ** Now," says I, "just listen to tot toii wili tattr 
 yottraellinto the pit" 
 
 _i2id the next day! met him andhe said: «llf; Jone^ 
 I have been thinking very seriously of what you saiOut- 
 my headjsiM>t8tnkrht; I cannot l)dieve right" 
 "Well," sidd I, " Yot just shut your mou£ and go and 
 
 do just like a Cairistian ouj^t to do, and you wilioome 
 V out sttai|dit'' 
 
 . Well, Siat n]^t,'to my utter astonishment that fel- 
 low came up trembling and joined iiie chureh, and said 
 
 to me the next day; 
 
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 .. ** ^^"^ ^fc JoM^ ^«i iiioy askine whether 1 be- 
 iMve m Qod, the Father Almig^tv, maker of heaven and 
 earth, and iajJeaus CSnist his onhr Son, our LQid--whmi 
 thmrMkmethat what most i say?" / 
 
 . \Lr^^'**'**y®'^"^*^'' •^ said I, «if yott 
 2!* t**^-V^.«f* y*^ •tntti^t-^ijiist shut yoe* piouth 
 lor aboi^lorfy-eifl^t boon;' (liuglitfir:) f^v^ 
 
 . And^hedMhetSroughashappy.a Cainsfiiaa pto a« I 
 ^M^ i« •? **^ JwwL ButitwaaahardmilSrwith 
 mm. Wb head was wrong, and he gave hia-tongue in 
 ^Mge of his head, and he was talkuig lmnse]l%> per- : 
 
 ^d yim ever see an infidtelln your lifo that oonld eii 
 
 

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 ^penteoool IwffloaiM I wfll«nitrlwffloei^t)do 
 
 ISdS W.^:,^^ i'lf ??1"2^ "^ Prewh* h«i 
 
 fYear 
 
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 g^SAkJ^^ if W do before 1 
 
 W^lTp id S^^ do after I ^ ,^i, 
 
 m^^ 41»fca aaugjhty steuige way to me/* 
 
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 " What are you going to do that Ibr and yoa am*t got 
 reluoon?" 
 
 "Weil, the preacher laid if I ^vTanted to get religion, to 
 do before I got religion as I thought I would do after I 
 flot religion, and you know if I waa a Chriatian I'd have 
 nunily prayen in my houae eveiyj^hi" 
 
 And the next iaomioff befor«^|)^i|pGMt he told his wife 
 to get the Bible, and that he ^ii^^joing to pray again, 
 andfahe said : ■ ;::.:\;'.:-, ■■>/■-■:':..;;. ' "*'1#- :'.'■. .■ ;- '";-■- 
 
 — ^You are the stnmgest man I ever saw, to piay in your 
 lunily when you have not got alky religion." 
 
 And he went oil and oil, and the next Wednesdayiiight 
 she went to the prayer-meetinff wtih himi and at the 
 prayer-meeting the preadier oaOed on him to pray, and 
 he Imelt down and prayed the best he could, and afW 
 he got out of cnurdi nis wife took his arm and she saia : 
 
 ** Ain't you a nice man to pray in public and got no 
 relidon. What in the world md you do that for, hup^ 
 band.?" 
 
 * WeU," he Sfiid, ** the preacher told me if I would do 
 before I got relk^on as I thought I ought to do after I got 
 religion^ I woo^get religion, and I know that Christians ' 
 pnqr in publid" ^ ; . ' 
 
 And he just kept right on, on that Hne for three weeks, 
 and the biggest case of religion broke out on him of any 
 man ill all that part of tlMOOun^. (Laughter.) 
 
 Lnnna beugioub is Bioro BEuaioua . 1 ' 
 
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 A li^ cannot live religious without being religious, 
 and a mui cannot be religious without livinff religioua 
 It woika both ways. It is just as certain thatPhie stzeet 
 leads downAo Fourth streeC and just as certain that the 
 way of grace iKnll take a nun to God. Just as certain as 
 ihd Ll imd N. I^boad Mas from St Louis to NashviUe^ 
 just to certain tho^lam'i:iaked test that God imposes on 
 map wHl take any inaii to God'and Heaven .) 
 
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 wee»U raligiem. I mad to htmr «K. ra»4^!r ^Lzr 
 
 "»yn^t It WM. mrtfl f read it In a boolToS ^ 3 
 ^^4^^ f^,"^ wr»Bilfi4d teeei look mvttiar aftw 
 
 > Repentance I BepentanoaM think 1 neW in mv « 
 penenoe M • peaeher found a «>nl that^ wilS,^ 
 
 8^ I wooflect in my own ei^Httienoe I thoiwht I S3 
 cneaaheH>,andXtlioaj^iI had monnied a ^ a^ 
 
 ■-ai^ wh«i I qmt dying andTmonniimr and^^mv 
 S«t^rQod 
 
 entered yonr house." Aiwl z^^k^l. !xJ^lT , Tf! 
 
 yoor nouee. And Zaochens started teihi 
 
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 }t religion Bomewliere between the lowest 
 
 ound. At any rate he had it before he hit 
 
 [e said : ** What I have taken wr^«fiilly 
 
 I will restore it to him four-fold/' He had 
 
 religion in him when he hit the ground, 
 
 that tree, and 
 limb and the 
 thegronnd. 
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 there is no d(oubt of thai (Laughter.) 
 
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 - ' It we repent of our sins, and if you quit doing wrong 
 and detcokine upon the rights God will meet you. Bishop 
 Marvin/said that r6)^ntia^ was " the first consdoua 
 moveoient of ihe soul from sin towards God," and he said 
 that after a man threw down his sins and%alked off from 
 ttiem, no matter m what direction he started, he started 
 Godward, and the further you walked off fiom sm the 
 closer you got t(^ God, and a man can go back, and gather 
 up his sins and start the other way and every way & hell- 
 ward and downward* It itf not so much the direction 
 you are gping in, but what sort of a fellow you are and 
 what you have got along with you. • 
 
 Bepe^ancel Be^tanoeM wish 1 eould get you to 
 ' see, my friend, to-niffht, that Gdd Is Uie common father of 
 jte al],^d that God loyea the worst of us as much as he 
 loves the best of us. God only asks us to, ** cease to do 
 evil and to learn to do well." If we would confess our sins 
 he IS fiuthful and just to forgive us our sms. "Well, we 
 need tiie pardon. We ought to bepardoned, but we need 
 sometbmg else besides pardoa We need cleansing from 
 all unrighteousness. Let me iUufrfxate thi& -^ 
 
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 A DIBB JmXMMM, 
 
 Yonder IS a man in jaa He iiB sentenced W the cotirt 
 to haiMf Ml the third BVida^ o* »««* month. Now last 
 night he broke out with confluent smallpar. Tbeimpend- 
 m^eacacution is over him and he knows thai the thin! 
 rn d ay of mxi m o nth he is going to be hung, and last 
 

 
 
 BIPS!rTA]l0l HOT A HTSIBBT, 
 
 nigfai he Ibroke (rat itUli'oukiient imAUiKnt. K<m if the 
 doctor cures him he will be htmg. If the gOTemor par- 
 doimhimhewiUdieofsmallpqi. He ie in a bed fix, ida't 
 hef (Uu^ter^ Oin yoa unagine uij wone I 
 
 Here if a nnner. If God would pardon me for all my 
 pastoflbnoes and leave me corrupt in hearty I would just 
 go on and die ae inevitably from epiritnal dieeaie as that 
 poor criminal will die of smallpox. Now what do I want f^ 
 Lord Ck>d, thou great Qovemor of the univerw, give the 
 pardon for all my past ofTenote uid then cleanse me lh>m 
 all unrighteousness that I may « Mm better, nobler and 
 purer l&e. The man who is dmply pardcoed and turned 
 loose IB just like a swina Tou may take and wash the 
 swine from head to footwith Pean*soap, if you please, 
 and it won't be an hour before it is in another muS-^hole. 
 And you can take that drunkard out there» wipe out all 
 his pitfi offences, pardon him for every drunk he ever got 
 OD, and just watch him stagger to-moirow evening. Now 
 what did he want? He wanted not only pardoning for 
 his past misdom^, but he wanted Qod Almighty to deanse 
 his heart and mind so that he would never go mto an- 
 oth^ bar-room or take another drink. Now Ksar me ; I 
 am talkhiff perfectly dispMsionately and am perfectly 
 honest with every man otyon to-ni^ti 
 
 7^ 
 
 A FRACrnCAL ILLU8TBATI0N. 
 
 You take my friend sitting on my rkht to-niriit. my 
 friend Small Thete he sita^ controlled andgovw^ by a 
 passion that was a remorseless as death. It swepi through 
 hjs soul atanost with the power of a cydone. The £y 
 ^ter Ids pardon, the day after he felt • God has fondvoa 
 all mf past ains," this thint for drink came on him%ith 
 all Its newer and eneigy^, and he went to his room and 
 dropped on his knees a^ said, " Oh. n^ God, I can never 
 t ri Dsa s toont of my honsflb; I can ne v er go otti<m the 
 streets of this city wHk soeh aai^ppetate gnawing within 
 
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 m^ Hafotij^t there with that appetite for two solid 
 hours, and he awd, « God Almighty Sme do^ wd hekSd 
 me^tortruggle with jhat thirj? Jd ^^5S mol^mH^ 
 nilL^'lT^L^ "y 1*^ ^ ^« "Other drink? 
 
 . tcKMI^t. I have been •lontf Oiere myself. 
 *W wi "*^tto tell yqulhis old mce n^^ somethinir 
 
 oomimtted. This old race needs cleansinft and oST^ 
 
 poniised that he w0i not on^y naidon on? past Wt thSJ 
 
 •J!? ^«^,«» ««>ni all ri2: Vthere any mSi^reto. 
 
 TQJB £iU)lU|» OF Qjil^ 
 
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 ^ w sins» he 18 ftitWul and just to foigiye lie.'' i^d 
 ^. w^letiw pnt oii«elyes honeiiyand sSardyon tS 
 
 iSr Slff^"* *?* "^ iniiddy.laYe bniltViSd^ 
 jnUl abqjit the pools, and pnt a platfonn over the pod 
 «^ pnt r tronghon <Je aide of the^ 
 
 > old p« were to rear np and took avet nS^^^Jr k 
 would tell th« «fth««. Vrmr"Jrrr.?^5.'** pUtfonn, he 
 
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 ir . ^ r»i * J^"«**" gw up tneae and looked down ^n^ 
 he sai4 "There is n<3hiiJinir fiSt ttS dd ox^i^Sl 
 fti^^ walk. «yun^ J*^ Mift 
 ^^J^^ «n»is we^on the platftmiS^ 
 
 iwt! Slx^T?^°'y* . Brother, this naked promise of 
 Q o di a ni^ovq r thejHialsofthe^tw 
 

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 scien^fic ffonitlemeii have somdiow seen down into the 
 trough and aaid: -There ianot a dtop of iivter in it" 
 Thej are right aboat that ; but let the poor alnner walk 
 out on the platform, and his weight will foroe the water 
 of hfe into the trough, and he diinks and rojoioes in the 
 wt that religion is troo. r^l^^^ 
 
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 m*i 4 ,,^^]l^^yi^r<^ tes% and that Is Hke • 
 littie feUow whose father said to ^m: "Son. how does 
 candy taste ? " and the UiUe fellow stodc tiie eandr he 
 was esimg up to hu faWr month, and w&,-Wiii^, 
 taste^for voursel£»' And henoe the goSdlook says 
 « Taste ani see that the lx>rd k good.*^» we oo^ 
 our ems, he IS faithful and just to forgive us our sitwi* 
 
 ,M7 little Bob, when he was five yean old. had m6n 
 rehnous sense tiian I had when I ias twenW-fouTl 
 went home one^da3^one Mondaar;and when! went inta 
 ^^S!:!^ " ^ ^«~ ie the chlldnin f " ^ V 
 
 tod^our httle feUow was mueh ktmitod and hadlS^ 
 Andwe«itajidtaUcedawhih^anddired^ 
 
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 *f Bobert. what sort of a meeting did you have/" ' 
 
 ;ytot dHyoiigofert» 
 
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 " I w«Kted la iMva my sins forgiven." 
 
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 /< Did you get them foigiveo.^ ' 
 
 *Yee, ma'am." 
 
 ^flbw'do voaknow?" 
 
 * Mr. Snuth sMd if we oouU com<> up and wik the l4)rd 
 to do it he would do it." 
 
 "Bob, are you going to sin any more?" said his 
 mother. 
 
 *'Ye8'm,IexpectIwiU." - / 
 "What will you do then f * 
 
 ' J"^ will.W|»it until Mr. Smith com«fl around again and 
 giupagain." (Laughter.) -nw -uu 
 
 And tiie little fellow ha^ the whole thing as dearly tn 
 lus nund as ever any man had. , ^^ 
 
 "I went up to ebnfess my sins.** 
 " Were yxmlorgi Yen r 
 
 "Yes.". . ..-y'T^r/V;.;:/ ;;,-■. '^^^ ^ ■ 
 
 * How do you know ? " 
 ^Because God says if a man wiU confess he will forgive 
 
 ««^i^ ^r!l?®'®^.9?^ hroughtus when he said : « Ex- 
 SStr ^ •■^**^« duldren ye csn in no wise enter the 
 fangdwn of heaven." « If we confess our sins, he is faith- 
 
 IjN^thismS^^ 
 
 ^2f3«?f# ^ '^A^l^ "^"^ ^^' and he is a pardoned 
 m«n rifht then and ther«.- *^ 
 
 THE 1,181 81!0RT FOB THE NIOHI^ 
 
 Mow this iaddart audi i«l qpit tjlKi I wis puriwr 
 8aiid»TwiK»iitiuatt I pr««jwd tlwie tlie fifth Srtnr- 
 
 WrfteL^^ • 8ei»aeia«n wuned CtaiOMr. not* JU- 
 *to a t anwy Oolhgfc I faJkad w ith him j^ wilr^ 
 
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 , ^BtP«llTAKCl NOT A MTBTERT. f| 
 
 "Mr. Gaither, you are not a member of the charoh ? " 
 
 ^,No, sir," he said. 
 
 Well," said I,« I want you to join 4^e ohuioh to-mor- 
 
 ** Why • he sayii, •• Mr. Jones, I oamiot jwn the ehuioh 
 I cttwe sometimes, and drink a Httle." 
 "That> the reason I want you to jdiL* 
 
 X,. . .?» y®'* ^^'^'^ °^° *<> »y *^w you want 1^ nan 
 tnaMnll curse and drink to join the church ? " '■^^' 
 
 " No, but you are a man of honour and inteffrity and 
 
 ♦K,^?7*" to promise God you would quit ^iort of 
 thing, you would quit it. . 
 
 ^But hehad made up his mind tliit h<i would not join 
 ^e <Auroh «ntU he got reUgioa Many a fellow has iaid 
 
 ifc^^""**?}*^ "otkuow whatrelipon wasif he met it in 
 w^ (Ijag^ter.) He woulJask the first fellow he 
 met afterward what was that! Ohi toe, if a man didnot 
 have more ooii^on sense than he has religions sense he 
 would Aemw asylum, m^ GoodlLsSe on every- 
 
 ^wg^ m the world, but when (i comes to religion £e * 
 
 biggest Uwyer and the blackest and most ignoriuDA^ > 
 stand on the same platform. •u»r*e^ 
 
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 TWO AFPABXNTLT HARD OASBi; 
 
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 Piwetly hia wife etoe Out >na I gaid. «I Ut« been 
 ^ig to_get your hmUnd to jdn tlie ehmd..MdI innt 
 
 ^^t^}±^'^^*P'^ the bMdert SSTl h.d 
 evw raooimtcted. IwentandraedhedtlieiiextAivUil 
 
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 ^ree d*yj On' Satartkv'night wife wm with me and 
 
 , she and the wife of Mr ddtfer went roand in tS ar^ 
 
 njge and he and myadf talked throi^ the ieldT We 
 
 thl®^;?!??^?^^'^!^* ^ <^^^ ^^ ^iw>le duty "- 
 ^^•a Qaitheir'. h^olhei-iii law, whS hadabo joiwS the 
 
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 gmWing. W ftllowj^ h, owne into the chmSbSt 
 Be ouie jdl over UMTti^t Simd»y.«ob«>l ^^Sd !. 
 
 douig hii.whoU duty end lovii/i^S}. "*I*™'**»*«"> 
 
 
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 lb. Gtailher s^d : - Tea Kow.^h there in »n. 
 
 i.^' *? .""^ "^'^ than th«t hone paUing ourwivM 
 to chnwh." He «,& : " I have not onrS kS w dSIi 
 •ny mnoe I joined the drarah ; bat I iTSiSr oTbSS^ 
 mijtaber of O^ church without «ligir- a iwT^tt 
 you wut me to prMr to-night I irill do mv hait W™„ 
 
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 Now, iny Intiilier, my friend. God loves you, Mid ell 
 God uk« of any man ia that igroa " Ceaae to do evil and 
 learn to do well" And foU^ in the footetepe of him 
 who loved you and mve hip life for you and died 
 
 t ^Sl?* ^*^*'" *^ "^^ ^•^ "• ""> mystery about' 
 ^ There la no mvstery about it When an army 
 official advertiaes the eondiiioki on which he will 
 receive a regolar aoldier into the "^army there ie no more 
 mystery about those conditions than when God adver- 
 tises to the world how he will receive men and women 
 into his kmgdom on earth and into his kingdom in 
 heaven. And turn your minds and thoughts away from 
 the mystones connected with re%ion, and just take hold 
 of the plain, practical facts of Chnstianity and iay : " I 
 know right's right^and I wiU do it; andl know Wro^ 
 »^nft«»dlwillquitit" Turn your life to God, and 
 
 5* ,7r ^^\ ^^^ ^ y**" *^ paidon you. Will you 
 do iU God help evMy man not in sympathy with God 
 to-night to^say: " Whatever others may do, as for me I 
 am going firom this day4o trust in my Maker to guide 
 me in the way of everUiting life and peace." 
 
 I am going to pronounce the benediction in a moment 
 and if any man hero b-night-«id I never was more 
 senousm any talk I have made in my lif^-if yon Wt 
 to Ujood men and turn away from your ains and be • 
 UiriBti«i.^iKU you stav hen after the service a^few min.- 
 utos and let the world see and lei the world know that 
 
 cfe " wJii^ "^^J? '2^« hie sin and coma to 
 Gtidl WiU you do that I No mow serious proposition 
 w as ^ver nyde to yon, and God's own word shoN^^nT 
 
 vaonr. 
 
 vT^> «yw>i«3rwi, mx uoasown word s how n« that 
 we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to f^vv 
 Br.sms and to cleanse us from ail unriirhteousnefi^ 
 
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 WBO0OIVIB WILL lar COME. 
 
 
 ** And th«8|Mt and tlM bride MQ^Ooiil. And b4 hi« ftM 
 hMKtih Mj, OooM. ABdklhimftluilkiaUiinloomp.. AndwlKMo- 
 •▼ir wiU, MliiBi Uk* of Um walar of lift fnoly,"— RiWAnon^ 
 
 OIT 8ee I get this t^xt from the last pftge of this 
 
 blattedbook. Thiai«Qpd'slut message to maa And 
 
 for fear that something might W added to, or that 
 
 something might betaken frt>m,the ato^uie^Qod pats tilis 
 
 fearfal admonition. He says : «• For Iteetify unto ereiy 
 
 man that heareth the words of the propheey of this book. 
 
 If any man shall add imto these things, Qod shall add onto 
 him th^Dlagnes that are written in this book. And if any 
 man shaU take away from the wdrds of the book of this 
 ?l^9oy><M shall take awiy his part irat of the book 
 of life and from the thinos th^t are written in this book." 
 I am glad that Qod winds np his revelation to man with 
 thisgiaoiods Terse: "And tiie Spint and the bride say. 
 Come. And let him that heareth say, Goma And fet 
 him thai is athiist oome. And whoMeVer wilL let him 
 take of OiiwiiterqfMfc freely.'' ^^ . ., , 
 
 \ -,^^^^^^^ «^ LITBT WOBD TO UASt, v l;! ' ■ 
 
 ^iliATe been oorresponding with a friend on any given 
 iatg^ot^ and he has imtten me a doaen or a hundred lei- 
 
 
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 now, if I would fcnowSa-g^^.^* 1?** ^f 
 man. I won't nm bS otwqSISTIS** ** "* °^ 
 
 ftro^ tliebb<* »Sri«!ftS.^ Ood to mM. I run 
 
 the» words. Tsf does i wmllff n-ntoke away 
 of the hoolr n» life YjT i **• "*y J>» part oat 
 
 to Su w wu^diu^n^?!; ;sr?si' -^^^ 
 
 hst woidfl. th«n T Jm 2S^ X i?P , * ^^^ '^ not my 
 ;*^^-And who««ver will, let him take X 
 
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 soil E GEAKD DATS. 
 
 son dew and DM*«S^n™«L K *^ ^* their re*. 
 
 ooneeption to them jm tbev InnST™* 5 ??"•* 
 
 Mo<Mn : that th. ri«« .^ n-1^. **?? thought in 
 
 Moomjthat the riven. Wa-dViho^iighJ faibSd^^ 
 
 * — — — — »»' «aT«ua 
 
 .ttat thomountaine were uoaetnonght oiled no ».J thli 
 tt^dewdj^ewe™ "» thoughts in^iPS^°P^,,Sj^t 
 Joviiig tondcaneMaiid join together on the IaBf^ri^!L!f 
 Aadwhemer man lookedTbont UmTilS^^ii^ 
 
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 WHOSOCVn wilH ut oomk. 
 
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 beauty and freahnesa whispered back, '*The hand thai 
 
 made me la divine. It waa a ffiand day in the world's 
 
 histoty when it was announoed through the moral uni- 
 
 verae of God that man had violated the law of Qod and 
 
 had brought misery and woe upon himself and upon 
 
 his progeny forever. It was a mnd day in the world's 
 
 histoiy when Qod met the h&a and dc^^enerate pair 
 
 and said to Eve: "The seed of the woman shall 
 
 bruise the seipent's head." It was a grand day in the 
 
 world's hirtoiy when the last strrag swimmer sank bck^ 
 
 neath the flood and left Noah in his ark with his three 
 
 sons and their wives, and two of ali sorts to perpetuate 
 
 . the race upon the face of the earth. It was a grand day 
 
 in this worid's histoiy when Pharoali and his hosts and all 
 
 of his chariots and men were swallowed up and engulfed 
 
 by the Bed Sea. It was a grand ^y in this world^s his- 
 
 toiT when a burning hail fell on Bodom and Qomorrab 
 
 and all the plains thereof, and destroyed the cities of the 
 
 plain: It was a grand day in this world's history when ^ 
 
 185,000 soldien, under the blast of an arohangers wing, 
 
 were wrapt in thdr winding sheets. It was a grand day 
 
 in this woirld's history; when on Korah and Bathan and 
 
 Abiram, and their widced company, the earth burst open 
 
 and swallowed them up out <^ the sight of men. 
 
 -tj;-;-"^:- ■-■■■:'■■ ;■-: — ■■; THK VKW BAYJOUBU ^ ^ : :l:y"_ , 
 
 It was a grander day in the world's history when the 
 old nrophet of Qod stood on the hills of Judea with his 
 spark m hand And let its beneficent rays shme down 
 through seven centuries, and his vdoe was heard through 
 the seven centuries, say^ : <* i^meon and Anna, nremra 
 the oadle to rock the babe of Bethlehem." liwasagrand 
 day in i^ workTa histoiy when the star poised Itself 
 ov^ the manger <ji Bethlehem, and when the wise men 
 gp^ered about the babe of Bethlehem. There they lodted 
 upon an ever la st in g Qod l ying as leep in Mary's »rma, and 
 
 
 
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 God notified KdnS rdtnil^Yrt*" «« ^m of 
 
 de«l.«d thatf^^,^''^*'"*l"'™tl«»™«Med, 
 w«»« grand d»yT (ie^ J!^ i?". ^« *\^ day." It 
 
 a lood voice: «My GodI Mv ^T i5? f"®" *^* ^^'fi 
 aakenmerv It^T«^J?5f t ^ylmst thou for- 
 
 when tiiey burieTtlds^a^*'^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Joseph, and put the 3 Sttf p^^*' "* ^'^^ «»ve o7 
 
 THE »AC»mcW ACCBPTia>; 
 
 It was 
 
 died. He i« IwLl IraikfJL. ?" '^•""ffewd. Wed. 
 
 m tiie 8q)ulebn and took the m^^S^tZL.^ .'**^ "P 
 }fa#em to <me nda and wS^e?lSrS,*^ "P "^ 
 
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 WHOSOKVIB WILL MAT dOUM, 
 
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 sacnfio^ and grasped the stylos in his own &did and 
 signed Uie ma«ia chai1» of man's salvatioa And ever 
 
 « Whosoever hvetii and believeth shall never die." 
 
 Itwasugiandday in the worlds history when the 
 Saviour <rf^stoo<f yonder, surrounded hv a company ol 
 five hundred, and a^chariot descended from thrstiel 
 and^he stepped into the chariot and above star and m^n' 
 nLi^T^r^ overvaulted the ve^XTS 
 
 21] fl ^t f ^% "**^ p«iii« into^heav^'ii 
 "Xl!r^^ *^ "^ ""^ BhouteS aloud to theJ^ 
 Why stand ye here gazing up into heaven ? As ye We 
 
 W J?^ f " 5^ Man ascending, so he shaU descend at the 
 last day to judge the world on li^hteousness." 
 
 THE CQMFOBTEB. \ 
 
 Tlwt was a grand day iii this worid's historv when the' 
 jmo hundred imd^twenhr gathennj in that 1^'^ 
 that upp«r diambei: yonJer, inferusalem. AnlUeyhS 
 ^T^ **>!?«* *^y ?nd the s^^ day and^e ffl d^ 
 anfon «*^Jilibe tentlr day^ They w4^^p^ 
 jmbuement of power from on high: Christ^haa^d^m! 
 Tarryve here^at Jerusalem until y© are imlraed^^ 
 powerfrom on high. It is expedi4 fo? yTu^fcTS 
 
 ~ij ™ best thing I can do for you is to leaveXft 
 w^d and go home to the Father, anS then the sJS?^ 
 
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 J?!il?Sf^ ?? "^ "'^ «** *^d find pasture. S^ 
 
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 Oh, thank God ! we have in ever-present, omniscient, 
 omnipresent Ood with us to-night When I hid wife and 
 children «good-hye * at home. God hoards the train with 
 me, and he is witii. me all the wewv miles of my road fi^m. 
 homa And then I am conscioos C(od is at home with my 
 family, and when I eome into the Christian homes of St 
 Jx>uiB I find God present in every CbHstian home, and 
 that God is with the missionary in China, and God is with 
 thousands and millions of pulpits on- earth. No wonder the ^ — 
 hlessed Christ said : " It is expedient for you that I go '^ 
 away^ I will send the Comforter." , 
 
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 THE raUIT OF THE 3PIBIT. * 
 
 Oh, brother, sister, hear me to^nkht I Is there in your 
 soul the dedre to he good? la&ere a purpose to he 
 good ? Is there a resolution to bi> good? It was bom ' 
 under tJEe touch of the Divine Spirit upon these o^ dead ^ 
 hearts of ours. And the Spirit oomes to woo. Sto^mes 
 to tea«h. He oomes to implore. - For when he shall oome 
 he will reprove the world of irin and of rightepuanesii and 
 of Judgement to come. i ..'■■.--.. 
 
 Come, Ho^ Spirit, HiatMily Dove, 
 With sll thy qni Aiming powew ; -^ 
 
 Kindle a flame of MMnd IiMra< 
 Insllt h si e hesrtici mnw.^^ ^ 
 
 ^^ |Wlp us to walk ekw witll God I Help us, Divine 
 Spmt^ ever to be tender and impressible ! Help us ever 
 to hear and heed ih<d Gospel of the Son of God I The 
 Divine Spiritbroods over ibf congregation to-night He 
 touched your heart to-day. ^He U>u3ied your h^art last 
 nightand day before yestei^y.: He has touched jk thou- 
 sand hearto or iIei^to, and oalled them to a better life in 
 the last few days in this dty. And tha most fearful sin 
 tii^ yon ma^ commit is to wound the Spirit of God, to 
 dnve him out of your heaH, and to drive him away from 
 
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 Sour preeenoa The book eays : «' Qrie^e not the Holy 
 pirit of Qod, whereby ye are seftled unto the day of re- 
 demption.**'. ■.■/,-■■:, ,;■ "■/ 'ivi:^ ■: 
 
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 You may laugh at me. . You may deride me. You may 
 Bcoif at ,the church. YVm may defy Qod, and you may 
 micify my Saviour afi^and put him to open shame, 
 but I warn vou to-night Take heed how you trifle with 
 the Spirit of all grace I I have seen men i«ject and in- 
 ;8ult the Divine Spirit, until I could almost hear the Spirit 
 of God as he ddsed themtes of Heaven forever in an 
 immortal spirit's face. My friend, to-night, if there is in 
 your soul the desirtf to be a Christian, nurse it, foster it, 
 shield it. Keep it there, and pray God to fan the spark 
 into a living flame that shall Ibum on' and on when the 
 stars have gone and the mo6n shall turn to blood. Let's 
 ▼ou and I pny for thisiTBnd Whatever others |nay do, God 
 Mp us to be hnpressible and movable under the IKvine 
 'Spirit of grace. \ 
 
 " ^lie Spirit siyrs. Come:'' 
 adorable Trinity is the active _ 
 teach roeo, to move men, to sti 
 for his divine presence with me 
 
 cbre to the fact that 1 would n ^^ 
 
 another text in this world. Ohl how many struggles the 
 earnest preacher may have in\ the world 1 God only 
 knows the burdens that I have carried on my own poor 
 hei^ since I landed in yoor dtyl God only knows th« 
 wit efui hours, the tcitra, and the prayers thiit Kiive gone 
 up from my poor heart, and I say : « God save the city 1 
 God antiise tiie cil^ I God save di|r young men I God save 
 our younff women I God save the tathers and mothers in* 
 this city I And J can almost heojr Go^ as be w^peni 
 back: '•m be with you. Til stand by you." Anfwhen 
 the din and smoke of the battle has blown away, you 
 
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 I preach the gospel, I de- 
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 will find tluki I hM,Y% beei| joor IH«iid through the Htdtk' 
 est of the iBght^ «nd all Qod ■ilu of the ChnstUn people 
 of St Louii to-night ie to come up to the help of the 
 Lord apainet the mkhty. Qod aroiue yon 1 And Qod 
 help his ohureh in Bt Loais to heed the wooing of the 
 Spirit, and pome to the helu of the Lord, to the help of the 
 Lord against the mighty. ^^ The Spirit aayi, Come^*^ 
 
 JEHTESATT. 
 
 Well, if <3od had etopped at the point— given his Son. 
 and sent his Spirit to woo men— we would have, died 
 without ezeose. But Qod pushaii his work on and on 
 and on until he shall py to aguiltr world : ** What more 
 could I have done to my vtnej^rd than I have not already 
 ^ne V* Qpd will never leave a stone unturned ; > Qod 
 will never leave an ^ort unput forth as long as mfn is 
 out of hell and out of the grave. And I tell yoi|, my 
 congregation, to-night, I know Qod is in earnest about* 
 the salvation of man, and I have felt thousands of times 
 that the worst of sinners -would rejoice if they were to 
 see his fsce. Qod help men to look up to-night and see 
 their Father^i liMse, with all the love of his heart as it 
 beams fort^ and hear his voice as he calls them to the 
 better life. Qod loves you, and he has given yon every 
 manifestation of his love. He tells you in his bleeied 
 book: ''When my father and niy mother foiaake m^ 
 then the Lond^will take pie iy>."; " Q- J ^ C 
 
 I have 9een a mother as she followed a wayward boy 
 on and on and on to the very brink of hell, and when 
 the son made his final leap f^m his mother's arms she 
 took hiB poor body and buried it, and would go to his 
 mve and water it with her tears day after day. Oh, 
 how that inother^g heart dniag to^thaV wayward boy [ I 
 have jMn the wife, wheti evoiy friend in the wor^ had 
 
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 fonakMi h«t Wb^d. and tU mankind (ooflM him *w»r 
 • ^^ Pt««noe-when he wouM come homoSan^ 
 
 Wm at the front gate and help him up the atew^d 
 
 doaTi:* ,"^,T'»7 *<i wfe do that ? (n.y does mitber 
 P".™*' It " J«>»t » Utae of the natuite of God nour^ 
 
 d^d^ ^"« *°/^* aon Mid to that husband m 
 
 TBS KOTHEBHOOD or ODD. 
 
 .h««~~******'*2«''*J" God's woid to mo is the pUoe 
 whew we aie taught tl|e motherhood of God. Qidis 
 
 fc^n!?'l'"J *'*''"' *»?' ^ » my mother, i^in^hte 
 fcro^ landnMses «Dd tender mercies to us. ormv 
 IM^erl my Father 1 with the rod of con^onTa^S 
 ti^«S?i!^ ^'^^ !^V^- 1 l«>k *" thee in .AnS- 
 toS.™;?' -S** '^^' "'y.F'oions mothenlmi 
 to thy ams! Thou art my mother. I love thae ^th m 
 
 ""^^^ ."-^ the Spi4 «y^ <iiir '•*^ '" 
 
 ;.t^ ' .rr.' ""•" "^ interested for o« and thbn ait 
 
 ttide^.Com^''^'**"*^ "T'«8P«»/^ 
 
 The Church of God is the hrl^e of the Iamb Iwish 
 
 ntT" r»P?*^ ^ '''^«« Twiting to thTbrideri^ 
 
 TBM UHFAITHFUL BRmiL ^ 
 
 ^on see that younffminvonder. He has DlJirhted hk 
 vow- to a young uSy, an/ he bids her i^^rfon! 
 
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 ■boft timd^" I tm going West ; I am goinff West to pre- 
 paid our l^niM and build our bouse and bave eveiy- 
 tbiog nadir^ Bretbren, that young lady, instead of 
 being Cdthf ul to tbat earnest, laborious young man m«- 
 paring good tblogs for ber, is flirting witb ber betrotned 
 husband's enemies and associating witb tbose tbat despise 
 ber busband. Qod forgive tbe unfaitbful girl And 
 while Cbrisi is, by bis divine power and infinite wisdom, 
 exhausting all tbe riobes and glories of beaven preparing 
 for us, bis bride, bere we are consorting witb his enemies 
 and flirting with tbe gay and giddy godless ones of the 
 world. Precious Saviour! forgive us, forsive usl We 
 will not associate wiUi tbe godless any longer. ''Tbe 
 bfide says, Come I** 
 
 ' A CKKMJi WOBD FOB THE CfiOBCH. N 
 
 I wisb' we lived better. But tbere is one tbing I bave 
 founld out — ^we know we bave been unfaitbful ; we know 
 we bave not been wbat we ougbt to bave been. But one 
 tbing J iui say and tell tbe tmtb— tbe Oburcb oi Ck>d 
 Alm&fbty bas not lost ber interest in sinners and in tbe 
 worid For over one thousand years the cburcb bas 
 been on ber knees and praying for sinnerfl^ and tbe mes- 
 sage of tbe Cburcb of dod is a Qod^given message. 
 "Come tbou and go with us ind we'll do tbee good, for 
 tbe Lord bas promised goodr concerning us." Yon bave 
 cursed the diurcb and abused tbe obuid)« and bemoaned 
 the cbuicb and called tbem hypocrites, but do you want 
 to see whether tbe cburcb loves you or not? If the 
 worst old sinner in St. Louis would come with streaming 
 eyes and say to the Cbnrob of Qod, "Mia and ^rethren, 
 pray for me. I want to join your company ai^dgo with 
 you to Heaven." I see the church in a minute^ as her 
 tears come blowing down to the earth and die lifts her 
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 bandf'toQod, and she says, " Bless e d b e God I Ano t her 
 sinner (oming to repentance and coming to life." The old 
 
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 Church of Ood doet love the world, and ah; has been «rav 
 
 thLiLiHSf te; ?** "•g'^'*^* thou«uidthiSg«. 
 
 «nuiK8 pe unto Uod, we have never neirleoted to nmv «nr 
 you my feUow;citi«„e. There i« nofc e^y or n^Z ?n 
 St Louw that in the Church of God her^t mel Jd 
 women are not on their knees prayinir. ' qS T1 X 
 
 "CTel^rfK-'^ •;*' *^^ ^-y ^' *he ch^reh ^, 
 nescue the penahing and save the fallen." ' 
 
 fK OOD fOB THl OHUBGH. 
 
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 ;„^^ ^ f^the old church. I^e has been worth 
 
 all l^e world to m^ I know now I should U^^ 
 
 ft poor, motherless >rphan if it had «nf il!« r ^ 
 
 •nd men on cnth, wi«i ker ohun 
 
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 ••The Spirit and the bride say/ Come* It looks lik«' 
 if Qud haa htopped there we'd haVe died without excuse. 
 It goes further — " And the Spirit and the bride say, Come, 
 let him that heareth say, Come." Oh, blessed thought t 
 •blessed thooi^ht I A man need not wait until he comes into 
 the diurch before he sayi to those around him, "Come, 
 thousand go with us. *^ Let him that heareth say, 
 
 Come." 'J 
 We g^t this flgnr^rom the caravan crossing the desert 
 
 ? When the witer is all given out on the desert and man 
 and .beast are famishing for water, then they hold a coun- 
 cil and they start one on ahead hurriedly, and in about 
 five minutes they start another, junt so as to keep him in 
 sound of the front one's voicer, and in five minutes more 
 they start another, and on ani on until thev are stretched 
 
 ' out on Uie pkins for mile», and tinally the head man finda 
 the oasis, ana he halloes back : " Water. I have found it I " 
 
 . to the next man^and the next man voioea^C on down the 
 line, and on and on until the caravan hears the cr}', "We 
 havefoutidit! Water/| Waterl We have found it I " And 
 they hear the welcome liews and press on with all their 
 miffht, that they may slake their thirst and preservi 
 their Uv^ ^ ^ 
 
 And all the way from Heavetf^to earth God has strung 
 
 ^nt a line, and he shouts it from his own lips in Heaven. 
 
 #and'Wefcatch it up and pass it on and on until we shcut 
 
 "^ at the veiT gates of HelV " Come I pome I Come 1 and let 
 
 him that heareth say, Come 1" ^ '< 
 
 If you ever heard the gospel, preach it to, somebody 
 else and say, "Come onl I^t's go and live right and do 
 
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 r ight and get to Ilea ve n." "Let him that h e ar e th sav. 
 Cornel" Let each man be a power that will echo the call, 
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 up staim jchood it back, " Buddie Paul 1 " He nin dnW? 
 to hia mother and ttid « u.,««»- u ^ • ^f ™'* down 
 thafcimiH ' R«A^ i> 1 1 ^'**™™*' ^l»a<i w that upetain 
 tftat said. Buddie Paul* every time I aaid 'Buddie Pkulr" 
 
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 famds, gaymg. « Boy., look .-low I we UveS d^ 
 
 When I was in Ja«*8on. Tennessee I wmTSr* u xi. 
 ffri..^ • >?*x'"* 'V" «>«m to aee yon. VTh»ve 
 
 iJ^Ju 'r^'^'^ I »m gM to find you iat«w«t»d • " 
 ^ •Np.Mr. J<pe«, wetee loity we are not Wa ««. „-v»" 
 
 is divi£d in this very tomL nSt.^ "^ " kingdom 
 
WHOKHrm WILL MAT OOlUk 
 
 VlAaUfO TBI KINGDOM. 
 
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 When * man ia inieroiited and 8aya» "Boys, let'a do Mr 
 ier/* thai man ia not very far ttom the Kiurdom of CKkK/ 
 He haa juat. put hia foot over the line, and all he haa got 
 to do ii to put it down, and .one othar atep and he ia in 
 the Kingdom of Qod. "l&et him that heareth aa^^ 
 
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 There ar^ £ye hundred man and women here to-night 
 ^t are juat putting their foot over the dividing line, and 
 all you've got to do ia to put that foot down and bring the 
 other foot even with it and you are in the ^in^dom of 
 Qod, a aaved man, saved forever and forever. Will you 
 put your foot down toruight and aay, " Qod helping me,I 
 will give myself to Qod ; I wdtf t stand here any lo^;«r I " , 
 " I^t him that heareth say, Come." 
 
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 '* And let him that ia aihirat come." Whether you have 
 heard anvUiing oir not, Qod bless ^ou^ the call is to you. 
 
 ' n there la down in your aoul a thirat, a hunger fov a bet- 
 ter Ufe, Qod stood with one hand and touched your heart 
 «nd made it hunger and made it thirst, and then he stood 
 with the other hand loaded with the bread and With the 
 watw of life, and he quenched that thirsty- soul's thirst 
 forever. Blessed be Ood 1 He stands ready to quench 
 tfairsi'and to appease hungef to-night, and l^a is goinff all 
 over St Louis with one hand laden with the bread oflife, 
 and the other with Uie water of life^ and the hungriest 
 man will be the flistman to get it; and I tell von, 
 -Irangiy niaiiy to-night, when Qod riiu;a the dinner bcul of 
 graoa, throw down your hearts and come in* dinner is 
 
 * ready to eat and satis fy you r longing needs foreve r . ** Iisi 
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 If down in your oool thdre 18 a desire to be a good mui, 
 start to-night-4|itiFt to-night If there is a hungering 
 for a better life, God says: " Blessed are they that hanger 
 and thirst after righteodsness." ; 
 
 Thcoi he says sgain : " Oh, how iiurdoW the line Obd 
 
 brings this to ns r He brings it right down to where he 
 
 'throws heaven and hell at every man's feet^ and t^Is him 
 
 to take his ohoioe. Now he says r >^ ^ 
 
 WHOSOEYKB WILL, 
 
 "Whosoever will,let him take of the water of life freely. 
 I like that grand "whosoever" there, "ihavereada 
 hMp. Oh, X have read a great deal about eleel^n^ bat I 
 think I have found oat from Uod's word what yoa meaii 
 by election. The "elect" are the " whosoever-wills," 
 aQd the "non-elect" are the " whosoever-wonts." Now, 
 which side will yoa take—the elect or the whosoever-wills, 
 or the non-elect or the whosoever-wonts ? " Elect," whoso- 
 ever will Thank God for that grand old word, and thank 
 God that as the ages wear away men see God in nature, 
 tod see God in all his eoodness, and see God in his books. 
 Preaehersf are oominc doser to that grand old word every 
 day, and J verily believe that I shaU live to see the day 
 when every palpit in this world will be bottomed on that 
 giand old " whosoever will," and there they will stand 
 and meach tlie Gospel of the Son of God. " Whosoever 
 
 ▲NOIHIB 8T0BT. 
 
 That reminds me of the patent down in Q^igia at 
 the altwr. He was agonising; praying. Thepreacher;went 
 up to him, trying to encoarage him/and, " Well,^ hel^d^ 
 "I am not one off the electa I am one of the reprdbatetl^X 
 feel it all over "-Hmd I don^ reckon a poor sool ever cut 
 try to seek God that the devil didn't sUp op with som** 
 thing of that eort^" Yog are one of the reprobates ; God 
 
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 liever died to save yon **— «nd there he waa in agony, and 
 the preacher said to hitn : ^ 
 
 " Weil,my hrother/liston tomeaminuto. NoWi^Mud 
 he, " if yon oonld see your name, 'James R Qreen/ writ- 
 ten upon the I4|nb's book this minute, would you believe 
 then Christ died' for you and you wete one of the eleet ? " 
 
 The poor fellow thought a moment and he said, ^^o. 
 sir. There are other people in ibis world of my namiT 
 (Lauid^tor.) 
 
 ** Well," said the preacher, ** if you could see it, ' James 
 B. Qreen, Scriven County, Qa./ would you believe it waa 
 youthen?" . 
 
 « Well," h^$Ay%**^en may have been other'people of 
 my name in ibis oounty bwore I w9b bom. I d&B^ 
 'know/' 
 
 ''Well," said he, " if you could see it, 'James R Qreen, 
 Scriven County, Qa^' and the year, * 1867,* would you be- 
 lieve it was you!" 
 
 «,WeU," he said, '*it may be thire is somebody in this 
 county now of my name." 
 
 " Well," said he, " if you could see it, 'James B. Qreen, 
 of Sci^Veo County, and tho Nineteenth Distriot^ and Uie 
 year *07,* would you believe it was you ? " . 
 
 * Well." he says, "I could not know definitoly." : 
 
 " Now," said he, " my friend, Qod Almi^ty saw all thai 
 trouble, and he just put it into one word and he said: 
 ' Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.'" 
 
 And the poor fell6w jumped up and clapped his hands 
 and said, "Thank Qod ! I know that means me." 
 
 i. UNIVKBSIL BALtixiON. 
 
 "And whosoever will, let him tii^ the water of life 
 freely/' Blessed be Qod 1 It is for all of us. It is for all 
 of us. " Whosoever will" Listen brother. It ain't " Who* 
 soever feels," it ain't " Whosoever is^fit." it ain't " WhoscH 
 ever has repented," it ain't " Whosoever has got ( aJth,* it 
 
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 ai^«Who8oew dow this or that 6r the other," biit iiiik 
 " WhoaOever idll— -will— wilL" - 
 
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 Godi^owBitallonthewili,ai«dI^ 
 ImowGod travewee mv emotional iiatiue,aiid nma thnttA 
 hope a^ fear and denre and anxietjr and dread andfl| 
 
 senjihUiti^ God ffoea aa he pleaees through my iensL 
 lalita«^ Whwi OocTieaches intellect he goef up &rouiA 
 perceptiott and ocmception and judgment andf memory 
 SlnSI^K ""^f" ^^ faoultiei of tSie mind, God «2. 
 ttrough tiiemaUandaakamenoqueetipna. But when 
 God gMs.to l^e door of thehuman will,he8tands on tio. 
 toe wd knoclM, and aaya: "Behold I stand at the doSr 
 
 S^-x^P.'"?' ^"tt^nd he shall sup with me." Thank 
 God, It IS ; whMoever wiE" II vou wiU, God wUl ; and 
 I say to-night God don't say "whosoever feels." or wltt 
 
 soever says llus or that or the other, but he throws it aim 
 yoM^ asaman, an^ ,^1^ j^ 
 
 trite Ae water pf life freely- Andlliketheeoiolud™ 
 «I*t him tiDce the water pf life freelv." Blessed be^ 
 ye thimty men candnnk, and there is enough for to.day> 
 
 .HIM GQMB. 
 
 And there wanotji^ Uttle word in there I like, that 
 httU^word "let." "Let him teke the water <i^e 
 
 •^SixtiKmsand years aco God said : •Letifliere be Hg^ 
 ttd there was fight. Itwasawoid of commanded 
 God lo<aai>out umm a femidiin|r race with the water pf 
 life in reach, wi he says: "EJt him come;" aad^w 
 
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 WHOBOKVIB WILL MIT OOlOb 
 
 Qod iftyB "Let Mm ootne," he w,j% "Go behind him, 
 powen and prindpalities, imd deer the way. Let him 
 take the water of fife freely." God haa taken down the 
 mountains andfilled up thevaUeye^and mude vou astraiffht 
 and OTen and smooth way, B0^.that yon can ^uink and five 
 forover.and if you perish you perish because you will not 
 live. God never suffered a soul ^io be captui^ and oar- 
 ^ ried away by Uie enemy of souls and will never su£for 
 you to die ; as long as you look^ Christ or lean to Christ 
 or pray to Christ, God WiUjiot suffer you to ^e. Gcd 
 never suffered the devi)^^we possession of an immortal 
 soul and drfig it do^^Ro^ Hell until that soul had 
 walked up to the feet (tf the devU and stacked its arms, 
 and said : T surrender forever." Then God's own arm 
 and power jcan never rescue you. God help you to<^niffht 
 to say : " God's goodness leadeth me tP repentance, and I 
 intend to lead a better life." 
 
 
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 Now, before we leaviB this audience room, how many 
 men in the church or out of the church, will^tand up to- 
 night and say: *<I will set closer to Qod, and drink more, 
 of the water of life, God bein^ my helper." And I hope 
 every man and woman in this house will long to-nignt 
 for the better life, with the sweet assurance that God 
 will reach down and give them that for which ihev seek. 
 Now Avery man and woman here to*night that will stand 
 on their feet and }aj standing up say : ** I will drink more 
 freely of that water, and eat more of that bread. I will 
 get closer to God. 1 will get closer to God." Now every 
 man of you that feels that way stand upi and say, " Here 
 " one t Here is one ! " Now *we will see how many 
 
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 ^We to-nightk in the church or out of it, that will make 
 this declaration. 
 
 fHlie vast audience rose in a body.) 
 'to-mo rr o w night come oat and let ua brii4{ s ouls to 
 
 
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 nigit^ wiU talk and sing and pray with yoii,,iSid 
 
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 2?* ^™^ y^ •^^ ■•^ yc^or «>«J»- Amen. Staj. 
 wenda, if ypu wmt to be iaVed. And now tnay the 
 
 BMin^g of Qod abide with yon Coieveir and ever. Aihea 
 
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 **;9itt wstoli,t]ioii in aU'thlligt, cndm^ afflietbiii, do tli« woA 
 of an •?»ii9«tt9^ nuJu fall ]proof of U17 minktij.'^— II TntoiBT, 
 
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 OW, brethi^ iBn^ fnend^ us, by pnyer jiira 
 ^ ftti<ii» ipoake ibis truly a si^riiiial nervioe. I saw 
 , this morning in prayer and laiUi, looking to Qod» 
 a Inrighi sticiak in tibe morad lieaTen% and ilie sun has al- 
 /niost risen upon us. I have neverpreached more honestly 
 and faithfully anywhere than I W^ here. This is the 
 liardest .rock into/which I Jiave evei^^ut mv dHU as a 
 preacher. But, iihatikOod^ attach tapdfj^e hammei^ the 
 drill has gonecjown a little, and if you as Christian people, 
 wiU put the .pressure on the drill nntil we get to when 
 God shall put m theJblast for ufl^ you will see such a monil 
 npheavid asyou hali never seen in this city. There is a 
 sense in whic^ one v^story will help ^$ some other to win, 
 hut I never iifon anywhere, in the goe^ sense, un<^ I 
 was defeated^ Qod will not glorify ainy man or suffer 
 a mail to glpi^ himself, or suffer anything else to glorify 
 a ttian.^ rti^St oTCbd.'^ There k^ many things on the 
 h^fioan side of the question Qod is always willing to do, 
 "but Uiere are many things on the human side <rf the 
 question diatare enough to lejoioe our hearts. ' 
 
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 ^ Some hiOiixl preachen in the service this afternoon 
 have be^ spending sleepless hours over the fallen back- 
 ^dden state of a great manv memben of the church and 
 the godte estate of th^ dty. They have been praying 
 evejy day. This afternoon these pieacbers wentto K 
 Brookds home and said, " Doctor. Sunday night ^rtth all 
 th<» force we have, we want to unite at yourchurchlitad 
 amr this work on.;* D5. Brookes looked in the fiu?e^ 
 thoWeihren. Said he, "God sent you here, and," s^h©/ 
 aU thewwer of my he^i audjieart and all shaU bd with 
 ?^^ ^*^ has people here. Thereare 7,000, or may be 
 10/)00, or W be 26,000 in this dty timt h»T;not|Xed 
 *t*^®SjS^ I tall yow, bre&en,_^of theto can 
 chase 1.<W0 and two can put 10,000 to tfpf Ood bl«s8 
 the p^d oW Presbyteri^ Chuith of this dty. God bless 
 the Bapast Oiurch of this dty. God bless tEa Oongwga. 
 faonal^Ohurdi of tins dty. (fed blett every diu^^ 
 bearrthe name of Christ, and bring us with one accord 
 together in our movemente against the sins and wicked- 
 ness of this dty. ^d I teU you, when you upite every 
 ^nstian heart and every Christian hand and eyei^ 
 Christian mouth in m dty; all to work igaixist the 
 world, the flesh, and the devil, you have got a biir iob 
 thenu Y<Wbha^got^a^ thea?^ 
 
 ^''^OUJL 1^ M091B FAITB. 
 
 ' Now,br^ren. tet your&ith be inspired and let us 
 look up to God,and Ut us pray to God jfin^hty to carry 
 
 fS^^fL"^'^^ ^^?^) <^eofthepreadienigStupthi 
 aftwnoon, and «ud he: /' BreUuren, this worl nl not 
 laa It«»nnotfail, and I tell.youiirhat, as Christian 
 
 ^r% ^« S.^^. ^ ,*^® ^"^^» ^* ^<»'* do now for 
 us to ika" Said he, "fiuluienowwillimperil thing! here. 
 
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 We can't «%0 it" Saldhe, "This town is waked up.' 1 
 have been on 'Change, I have been ^a the stnet, and they 
 are talking it from one side to the other," and one of two 
 gentlemen said to me this afternoon, said he, " I heard 
 their conversation about talking it on the street cars and 
 feveiy where, and," said he, " we took a streetoar,and sure 
 enough, the conversation turned on this subject, the sub- 
 ieot^of ^e meeting." Well, God is in the movement. I 
 believe God is. . And if Qod is in the movement, and the 
 forces>re wisely directed, you'll see such a moral up- 
 heava^n thi^ city as will put religion on top, and that is 
 what we want. God knows we have been kicked and cuff(id 
 about lonff enough. God knows thatwe have been atthe 
 bottdm. a long time. God knows we oiig^t to get up and 
 shake the dust off of ourselves and be somdMy in " 
 universe aioun<l ua It looks that way. 
 
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 Now, tothis end, asthe goddJfa preaAer said in his 
 sermon, .#e take the text, ithe'^th verse of»the fourth 
 ' chajjter and the hist chapter of St. Paul's Second Epistle 
 tpTimoUiv: "But #atch thou in all things, endure afflio- 
 tions, dp the work oi,an evangelist, make |pU proof of thy 
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 Menceforth; there is laid up for me a crown of right- 
 eousness, which the Lord, the righteous Ju^, ishall give 
 meat that day, and not to meonly,l^utuntoaUthemalso 
 that love his appearing." y. V 
 
 Now in the verse^e text wk^ we read,^ k 
 said four things to Timothy : and %8e words we might 
 denominate the dying words of St. Taul~the last wi^ 
 of one of the greatest men God ever made. And these 
 words were said to Timothy, his own Ison in the gospel. I 
 
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 have been fluently tonohed bjrieadiiiff the words of 
 St. Paul krTimothy. I have seen the fatherly interest 
 and' the I tender, watchful care that Si Psiul bestowed 
 upon Timothy, -his own son in the gospel; and nOw thai 
 they have hadiUieir last oonveisation.as they have preached 
 and laboured and ate and walked and talked together for 
 the last time, and as all earthly association and communi- 
 cation iscut off forever, as Si ranlis about to pass tonis 
 reward, he says he has something to say to Timothy — the 
 last words of rani to Timq^y. \ ^ 
 
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 Hoir the last words of adyine neighboarimpress Tis,«nd. 
 how the last, words of a good father fasten themselves 
 upon us 1 How the last words of a good mother jbre 
 cherished \ij^^ \ We can foif^t a thousand things lither 
 said while £e lived, but we cin never foi^t the last words, 
 of a good father. We foiget a thousand things mother 
 said in life aiid health, bui the last words of a predons 
 moth^ linger with us like the memory ofa preciousdi^am. , 
 The last words of Paul to Timothy, and through Timothy 
 to us I And oh, how much Si Faul compassed in these ' 
 . three line& The first thing he said to Timothy was this : 
 r Watch thou in aU things? ' 
 
 If there ever was a day in the irorld's iiistilny when 
 the pe(n)le of Qod ought to be vigilant and watomul, it is 
 now. , This wa.tchf ul spirit is the sentinel of the sotd-^the 
 sentinel on th^ ontposi I am commanded to be vigilant, 
 to be watchful, because my adversanV the devil, is going 
 about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 
 I am commanded to be vigilant and to be watchful, be^ 
 cause I wiiesCle not simply with flesh and blood but with i 
 pow^ and prinditalities and spiritual wickedness in 
 iiifi^ pl«es.^ ".Watdi thou in all Jhipss.'* ^ 
 
 Gen. Washingtcm said whenever dsoger was immineni ' 
 and the enemy was near by : ** Put no (me but Americiuis 
 
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 on the outpost to^niglii'' Aqd now whUo enemiet mnoimcl 
 UB on all sides and press upon 119 in every diieoUon, is it 
 9ot best tbftt we put none but the most vi^Uaat souls upon 
 the watch-tower and that we put the sentinels that be- 
 loujl^ to our oj^ souk on theou^^osts* ihe most faithful 
 
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 " Wateh ihkln IJl thhig^*'^^n d^ fbr a switinel 
 tpsleep. at his jpost Do you wonder why they were so 
 severe on pow fellows for gpiog to uleep out on post t 111 
 tell you why. The satety/the peace, the life of 60,000 
 men arem the hands of that sentinel out there on the out- 
 poet, and for jam to go to shsep on post means to have the 
 enemy ohai^e lapon a camp of sleeping soldiers and 
 butcher them in their bunks. No wonder the general 
 says to hia sentinel on the. post : >*It is death to ffo to 
 sleep on iJ^ outpost thera" i^dl tell you another thinir. 
 thfi way <]^4talk8 to us,|t is mighty near death to y<Si 
 and death tome if we shall ever foiget to obey the text 
 and fail to be ws^tchfnl; ' 
 
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 t<iought IS this : "^Walk circumspectl^r - Now/ that woid 
 •^circumspectiy »* is a Latin derive^ word, a compound 
 word. It means « Walk, looking aniund you." , The In- 
 
 uTi^*l^"^t?>'? P?™*^^ ^oresU of this country, in- 
 habited by all kmds of wild beasts a^d reptiles, walked 
 F**«P?rf«;<i«^«ty,be<»uso he walked cjrcumsi^ The 
 fiidian bade his squaw and his children good5we in the 
 momuig and went into the wUd forests inhabited by 
 wdd beasts and reptiles, fnd they did not think of his 
 safety. They knew th*t if the enemy approached him 
 froni the right, he saw him. H the enemy Came from 
 the fifont he saw him. To thd left, he saw him. If 
 he approached from the re ar, hjs Vf¥n n^nse of honring 
 
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 on a hmb above his pathway; he saw Mm. .If it wii « 
 
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 hiMOiig ittjMii mideineatli on hit iMitiiway, h» ilw him. 
 And uie xndiaii walked in perf eoV lafetj, because he 
 ' walked circumapectly. 
 
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 plongaBd looking ahead 
 ly. A man who jitft 
 , 18 not walking drcum- 
 
 aides and to the front he 
 
 CSrenmspecUy? Amanwalkii 
 of him is not walkinff oireoms] 
 lodks to the pght and looks 
 spectly. If a man looks on hot 
 is not walking ciroomspectlv. If a man looks to the rear 
 and in front and on both sidea, he is not walking circum- 
 speetly. If a man looks above him and in front and on 
 both sides and to the rear, he is not walking circum- 
 spectly ; but'if he look above and beneath and in front and 
 to Uie right and to the left and in the rear, and in walk- 
 ing lootu around both ways, and all ways, then he is 
 walking drottmspecUy, loolong in every duection. 
 
 X know not from what direction the enemy may attack. 
 I know not whether it shall be from tibe toft or m>m the 
 rights from the front or from the rear. I know not what 
 sort of enemy it may be, and I know not the diredion he 
 m*v come upon me, and so I shall obey the Scripture and 
 wiJOc circumspectly, looking around bioth wm. 
 
 Both ways I Walking circumspeptly ! Well, I must 
 not only walk looking auaroond'me both ways and look- 
 ing outward, but I must look within. Iiook at/inyselC 
 Spnigeon said all our enemies are oomprehendecl under 
 three heads : the world, the flesh ind the devil; Be said : 
 " The devil, he's « cunning old enemy. Oh, how cunning t 
 but," he sajsrs, " by tho gtace of Qod I can conquer the 
 devil! ''Tb^^old world, he says, "is a mnltitndinus 
 affiur with ten thousand things to a^nct and seduce me, 
 bnt^" he says, "by the grace of Qod I ean ccmquer the 
 world. But,*' he said, **gooid Lord delivw me fronLJi^:*- 
 
 
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 Nine-teniha of your trouble and my trouble ia not on 
 the outside at all. It is inside. There s where your trou- 
 ble is. As I lieard a brother say to-day, you can get out 
 in the world as much as ^tu plesse, but you had better 
 mind how you get the world ii^to you. Sometimes we 
 mis-locate uiings,like the good old brother that called on 
 Bishop Whitemai^ Down In Mobile, Ala,, the bishop had 
 been holdinp^ Conference, and a good old brother came up 
 to him in his room one day and said to the bishop : 
 
 "I haven't been to m^ onurch in two years. I liftyan't 
 been out at all in that tinuB." ^ 
 
 " Well," said the bishop, " why is that, brother W 
 
 ^ Why," said he, "they have got the deyil rightlbehind 
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 " What V* hesays. ** Got the ddiril right behind th^pnl-. 
 lit?" 
 
 ** Tes," he says, " me^ have. Just as soon as I walk into 
 the church, the first thmg I see is the deyil right bdiind 
 thegoMi" / ;■•■■■•■ ^.'•■;i^i^;:■" •.' ■ ■■■■■•■•'- 
 
 ^Why/brother," said the bishop, ** what in the world do 
 you mean?" 
 
 "Why," he aaya, "It^ the organ they^W gdt !i#l^ 
 
 "Well," laid Biahoj) Whiteman in his polite way, "I 
 expect. when yon go mto the church, the devil is in there 
 sure enough, but you don't locate him right He's not in 
 there ri^t behina the pulpit, but he's in you. He's in you. 
 Tou'ye mis>located things. There's the trouble." 
 
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 I heard a ffood old brother say once that when a man 
 ft mad with him he alwi^ys qpoke kind woi^ and said 
 nd things. " Why>" said he, " when a man wants to nsss% 
 adifBeolly with me and talk bad to me, if I get mad the 
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 devik with ma. He'i got anouglT 4br Wh/' And ih« 
 trouble with bamanify is th»t tbej don't locate things 
 right And without locating vour enemy, you dm never 
 fight him ■uceeMfuIly. That's the truth. Ti^ wisest 
 
 ffenenJ in the whole war was the general, not that 
 -knew so much how hie troops ware arranged, but who 
 ammged his troops by the arrangement of bis enemy's 
 troops, so thftt bis strongest point was just opposite the 
 strongest point o^ hb enemy. And the Christian man 
 .frho la beat equipped to fight the devil, is the Christian 
 man who not onJy Imows the sireiigth of the devil, but 
 Icnows euoUy where he is located and all about him. 
 
 Watch 1 Tour trouble, if located, is within, and not^ 
 without you. I would rather ^ht a thousand enemies 
 outside of the fort than to fight one enemy inside of the 
 fort. There are more dangers on the inside. And now 
 Jet us see what we havo inside to betray us. 
 
 Well, let's sea^J Is there anybody hoe troubled with t 
 spirit of neffleeif That is a fearful eiiemy on the inside-^ 
 tne spirit of neglect I don't oane what else V6u) have or 
 don't haye-^if you have got thai ^ou lire bankrupted. As 
 I said here once before, tou may ti^e the best man in St. 
 Iionia,he may be eveiythinff you want him to be, but you 
 lust let him neglect to pay his debtl and there isn't any- ; 
 body ill this town ^U nave any respect for him. Ain't 
 that true f And we must readbi the point where we see 
 that the strength of the Christian is in tho earnest per- ' 
 j^stent dischaige of eveiy duty that Qod enjoins upon us. 
 
 THE FOLLT OF MEOLECT. 
 
 N^leet I Neglect to pray ; oMflect to read my Bihle ; 
 n^leet to walk uprightly before Qod ; neglect any Chris- 
 tiw duty — the man who does it does it at the cost of his 
 -souh — llie spirit of negleet i — No w if y o u take « ~nnHr~ 
 ^ho has prayed nifi^t and morning in his family, jusl get\ 
 Pm to leaving it off at nighty say For instance ; or leaving 
 
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 ih« morning for liiitMiM i iiid juat let tilii^ 
 '•% time or two, and you l^i^ ^^^ the next thing 
 • happened ie that he ha^^i^ ^^ altogether. Just 
 
 (a^«llow neglect hie prayer-mleting two or three times, 
 and he gets so lie won't want to go at alU,^ Joet let a man 
 neglect to read his Bible for a raw daysi and he'll get so 
 he won't want to look toward his Bible at all Oh, tha^ 
 spirit of n^lect 1 It baa oost millions of souls I 
 
 Neglect I And every time Christ prefigured indgmentk 
 the fellow that was condemned was oondemiied for negleei 
 '--^veiy one of them — and in no instance were they con« 
 demnid for what they had done, but condemned for wha^ 
 they had not done. 
 
 iHegleet 1 Tou lei a man begin to neglect his business 
 r^i goes right-down. Let % man begin to neglect bis re- 
 ligion — ^it goeaSHit down. Let the member of a church 
 begin to neglecfj^yer-meeting, it goes right down to sera 
 Let the memborol the ohureh oegin to neglect to {Mky the<» 
 preacher 4ktid the fini thing you know he is a pauper. 
 Don't you see how the thing goes ? 
 
 Ana I tell you all, in eyqy part and department of le- 
 ligious life, aggressiveness and fidelity is found in the^HUbt 
 that we do not leave any gaps down but put them 
 
 
 
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 Negleet I Well, then, I will watch M obIj^ the ii^t 
 of ncM^leet that might take pomesnon of ffiie,but I will 
 watch my tongue. Oh^ me ! these tongiies of ours give 
 us more trouble than anything and evelytliingelte in the 
 world I It ain't what we do, but it's what we i^y that 
 keepe us in trouble evenr tinm. It's what weMjT* -^ 
 will watch my tongaa I dedare sometimM ijwiflli I 
 hadn't any tonguei ^ ^^ _ ^ 
 
 Neglect 1 £ad wat^^iy tongue. Watch my 'tc^igoeu 
 
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 word we had uttered, like a president can rofsall aqme 
 minister or some counsel that he had sent off somewhere 
 — oh, what a grand thing that would he I Brethroi I'd 
 «pend the next ten years in recallinff — I think I would-^ 
 I d he husy at it«^ rd he husy ; and the only way I can 
 jlo no-^ is to watch mv tongue ; and I dechure to vmi, if 
 a man opens the door the doff runs out in the street hefor^ 
 he knows it. It is astonishing how many things will 
 come up, and come when he least expects it upon this 
 
 V THE IDEA OF TEMPEB. '' Mk . • 
 
 I will watc^ my tongue. I will w&l^ my. temper. 
 I will watch my temper. The noun " t^mpc^ is not in . 
 the Bihle ai alL The verh ** to tamper** is in tbd, Bihle. 
 Do you know where we set that idea of the word " tem* 
 per ? " We get it fromSie hlacksmith's shop, where the 
 hlacksmith^ for instance, is shaping' an axe and upsetting 
 the bladeHof it; he heats the Dla£ again u^ pushes it 
 down into the water, and taking it out he wSuihes it 
 tSakeits colour, and again he pushes jt into thd wa^ 
 and takes it out and- watches it take its colour and 1^^ 
 directly he passes it to the hand of the ftinner apd 
 says: "I think that is tempered," but I 4<>ii't k^owd ' 
 If you will grind it and take it out' 1»tha^ knotty 
 pine log and throw it in a time or twd I wiU he ahie 
 to tell you ^ether it is tempered or not.^ And: he 
 •takes up the axe, and he go^ out to the knotty pine log ! 
 anil he strikes it a time or two, and it is fnU' or notches 
 aud thd <edge all turned and gone. He takes it hack to 
 the hUick^mith and s$ys, ''You missed it thia time ; look $ 
 here ! it is notched all over with gaps." And he takes it 
 Again and puts it in the fire again juid tests it, and wh4h 
 ] e takes it o%t there to the knotty pine log its edge is all 
 right and he savs, "This edge stands perfect" That is ' 
 where we get what we call our idea of tepper from/ 
 
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 OBBISTIiLN TEiMPEB X8, QOOt) NATURE. 
 
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 Many a time we hJave had oar tempers, our dispositions 
 in Uie shop, and we have' upset them and we have tem- 
 pered them, and now we sav, "Well, now» I never will 
 get that way any more ; I nave got ,the edge all right 
 this time; I got it te»riapered up m ever^ respect," and 
 the &r8t old uiottv log we set to, awa;;^ it goes and the 
 notches are all broke out and the edge is turned oflT, and 
 we say, '\Iiaw, me, it's no use of my trying at all; I did 
 worse this time than | ever did hefore/* Haven't you 
 ever felt that| Oh, this temper of ours. A godd temper 
 will stand anything without the breaking out of a' gap 
 or the tuminff of the edjga Qood temper I Good tempei^ 1 
 
 There is a heap ot difference between good nature and 
 good temper. I bave heard people say, '^ Oh, that person 
 has less temper than anybody I ever saw."' Well, they 
 ar^lesi account than anybody you dver saw, if you m^n 
 by that the^ are eimply good-natured. I tell you iiti&es 
 anybody with immense temper^ and when diat^ temper is 
 ri^ttly tempaiil, then it is you've got the finest eharacr 
 
 ter this wor 
 
 er saw. 
 
 i : * / 4 LOVELlSTEttPEBED 0|EL. • 
 
 I h^rd a lady say about a cook once, -'Tl^at is the 
 -J^t-^ui^f kindest, clev6res^ best girl m this world,^ 
 and: the onhr thii^g I got against her is she is no account' 
 in: the world i^at you ever saw." That's 'l&e only thine 
 sbe had got ag^unst heri ''She is no account in the worn 
 tliaijrou ever sa^'' ' > , 
 
 ^ X iut0 temper, but I want it to be on the edge right, 
 mid Ifratitto be surotha^ iJiat temper is managed rights 
 and we can only haye good temp^ with vigilant^ watch- 
 ltd <«a« over theui. &e best way I eyei' mangled my 
 tempet was to dinch my teeth ^getheir and not let my 
 ,tongqe run a bit My tgngue wa s a s prt of a revolyiB g^ia^ 
 
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 to the fire, and ihe first time you let your touffiie go you 
 are gone. Bid you ever try to clinch your teeUi tlus way 
 together and tiy to keep a padlock on your tongue when 
 you felt like you were going to get mad ? Did you ever 
 try to sit down on your tongue once i If you'll do it 
 you will be astonished. 
 
 I will watch my temper, I will watch my tongue, I 
 will watch my disposition, I will watch within, I will 
 watch without, I will be vigilant, I won't be surprised 
 by anything. I am filing to see my enemy approach ;T" 
 am going to watch him as he comes, and I am ffdinff to 
 meet him as he conM|% '. 
 
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 I thougH afterl was conve^^ed aiid went to preaching 
 Uiatit wiisainan^ duty to #f!Mid himself , and ajnS 
 baa to get mad always to dd thai; and I recollect a time 
 or two when I got what I thought to be an insult^ an^ 
 there was a personal fracaa Well, the last one I had I 
 
 St into the fuss all oyer, and itseemeii like the Xord 
 d about turned me loose fot «>od, and I just said* 
 " Good Lord, if you take me back 1 tell you what M do ; 
 J will never get mad with any man on the face of the 
 earth until they treat me worse than I have treated you^" 
 Wellj sir, I have been now at it eleven years since f hii^ 
 th# difficulty^ and I never found a man yet that treated 
 
 yme worse than I treated the -Lord,.and until I do 1 1^ 
 gfjam to stay in a «)od humour with humanity. That is 
 my doctrine. ■^"~;'^'- "^ , '-■,■:. v ' ■'■■ ■ ■■::'' i ■"'' 
 
 " A feUow ;ifilitell you, "Kafen^ to teeat you 
 lu^^so and ao treated me, you would get mad." **How 
 did^ihejp treat you, anyhow? What did a person ever 
 
 do to VOU that von didn't. Hn ij\ ClnA 7 It *^U^ ^^i j /•^i.^ 
 
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 say. *'ofoottT8e I oui't get mad at folks for tdluig false- 
 hoods on me." * Well, Ibut ^tljafman told the biggest lie 
 I ever H^rd." * Well, but did you ever tell God one ? ** 
 
 A GOOD STORT. / ; ' 
 
 So I often think of the incident Vhere Talmage went 
 to the father of the boy and said; "My brother, yoiir 
 son"-^ littie boy about 10 years old-^" wants to join 
 py chureh: What do yoiisfty?" "Ob,iM)/' wid th? 
 father, "he don't ^ant it j he's too yourig ; ne don't know 
 what he is doing." Alter a while he consented, and 
 'i^lilmage told him ths* he had joined the chiirch. About 
 thre^months after that the father met Talmaee, and Jhe 
 said-: . ■ ' *"■'■■ 
 
 "there. Dr. Tahowige, I told yoai^ 
 ought not to have Joined the church." 
 "Why?" said Dr. Talmage. 
 \ •♦ Whyp he said; " no later than yeslimy I caught 
 him ki a point-blaniilt lie." 
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 ** How old were yojO when you joined th^ church 
 
 He said : Cf I didn^ join the church until I was a { 
 
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 •*Well," he said, ** how many lies have you told sinee 
 you wined the church f" ^- ■ 
 
 " Well,** he said, " that's « gray horse of another 
 colour. J never thought about that (Laughter.) That 
 makes <]|iite a difference, dodsn't it ? " 
 
 I^^U* watch and watch in all directions, and see to it 
 ev6|j^ day*of my life jthat I watch the approaches of 
 every enemy, ana I fght them^as they come. 
 
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 Well, when he told me to manifeftt always and possess 
 I ways this watchful, vigilant spiritb then he said to me; 
 
 " Endure afflictions." 
 
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 It is <me ihing to do the waiofObd and it is quite in- 
 other thing to suffer the will of God. As I said this 
 mmmg i niMt anybody is willing to be a hammer a^d 
 stnl^e for God, and but very few pe<^le are^nUing to be 
 ananvil an^ to be struck for God. And there ii^uifce a* ' 
 difference between the two. Most anybody is willing to 
 go^out and knock anybody down for God, but are you 
 willing to be^ knocked down for G6d ? That is the ques- 
 tion. If they sUp you on the tight che6k,num^our 
 left also. ( 
 
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 think one of the most impressive things I ever heard 
 was where the jroung man belonging to the Young Men's 
 Uhnstian Association was standing but on thejadewalk 
 in a city, handing dodgers to folks— out in the street and 
 pomtmg up to the room where they were going to hold 
 •xi."?r***' and a gentleman who walkS along 
 with the crowd saw this young man hand a dpdger^ 
 to a fellow, and the gentleman, or man, pushed him 
 away with his fist, and nearjy knocked him down on 
 the sidirwalk ; and the feUow regained his foothold 
 and was ready with a dodger as another one came 
 along^; and^ directly another one shipped him in the face 
 as he p;ave himva dodgery and the genUeman got inter- 
 ested m watohing how the fellow took it, and he stayed 
 theij, and m a few minutei^ he put a dodger in aman's 
 hand, and the man just caught him and just mashed him 
 nght down on the ground and tore one of his coat-sleeves 
 off, wid bruised him up |;enerally, and he got up and' had 
 another dodger ready for the next man that ciune along. 
 And the stranger went up in the room and heard a vounff 
 m4n talk,^ and he said : "Gentlemen, I never heard a se^ 
 mon m my Hfe y©t that impressed me, Irat I stood out 
 there before your doorandtew how the rough mistreated 
 tiiat young inan over tiiere, and I saw the spirit in which 
 he acc e pt e d it^ and I w alked in here to your meeting, and 
 
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 Ah, brethren, *< addure affliction/* And iV i« the liard- 
 est thing in l^e worid to do. Humanitv wants to fight 
 back, and £ick back and talk back. I have felt that a 
 thousand times ; and I never fought back or kicked back^ 
 or ttfked back in mj life that I was not sorry that I did 
 it. The best thins is to stand and hold out and let your 
 enemykickhinffi^ to death, and he will soon do that if 
 yoiuwill hold right still « Endure affliction." One of 
 the soldiers in the last war said : <* One of the hardest 
 things I had to do during ihe last war w«i to lie iull under 
 
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 And this afflictioif^ere is,, nbthinff but the bearing 
 and pressure and weight of ^e ." tribuXum." l^t tribu- 
 luii wc get from the^ld threshing floor where the wheat 
 waegnread out In tite^raw on tile floor, and where a m^ 
 gotalong, bigh h rf t otr pole and shaved it down thin ^^ 
 the midle* so . i^fould havct a ffllng to it and he oo 
 dbwu on the wheat and beat 
 
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 and Uu^t was the " tribulum " com^.d|Hj|i <m the 
 Do you know what he was up to 1 iJMwas getti^ . 
 wheat separated £rom the straw and chaffl / The trib ^^^ 
 is the weiffht, you see^ and when God dgmes down hard 
 with the ^bvdiun he is just (>ea<^ing the wheatt^nt of the 
 straw and chaff^ and the great astonishment to me. is that 
 
 seiJl 
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 obliged to be patient and^ with tender merc^, to beat uxty 
 years on some of us and n^ver get mixre than half a peoc 
 of wheat after sixty yeanL (Laugh)||r^ 
 
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 1, 1 .am up one more time in this * 
 id .walka to the 4iP»r by tbe help 
 wonff with him ; he^tuma the ' 
 ttlks bade and he kneels down 
 - — —^--''--^.J^d chair and he says, " 
 God. I am wett on^ip ^im^-gettintf wefl. 
 spared my life, and now, Ooa. on my kn^ I promise^ 
 lam goinff to miJce a better member of the chnroh anda 
 beker fatW and a better husbttid than I h^e^eJ 
 madpe And he«ptedffofhis kneeii imd God blessA 
 him,andhej elap aj|y gmds.a^d sa ys; ** Glory ^ mV 
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 put him on a foHV days ca^e of typhoid fever to get him 
 where he could btpss^him. Don't you see? j'* 
 
 THE MORAL THEBAPEUnCB OF 8ICKNBS& V 
 
 Oh, how mueh goodneiB in the Lord 1 He won't lefuA 
 be lost ui^til he has done his verr best on us. I tell you, 
 take most any fellow and tak^ him over a coffin a time o^ 
 two and turn him loose and he will hit the ground running 
 time. (Laughter:) He will do better; 
 
 " Endure affliction." Sometimes it don't last very long. 
 I recollect a case down in my town, where I was pastor, I 
 worked on a fellow all during the meeting, coiQdn't do 
 anything with him, but he got down with bilious fever 
 and he got to death's door. They thought he was gone.. 
 And, oh, what promises he made that he would do better 
 if he got well And two or three weeks after he got 
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 "Brother B , how are you getting idong ? ** 
 Hesaid: " I am getting better all the time? 
 " Well," I said, "How al>out your ^oui ? " 
 e, " Well," he says," I am afraid that ain't doing much 
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 f^4" Didn't you* promise the Lord that' you wotdd do 
 
 bettte i%ou gotswell I" 
 ^ ^ ;';|k' 1^8 V^ Jcmedfl did, but I tell you a fellbw 
 is going to tfK>Quse i^bst anythinff when he irets down 
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 " MdvmmM^^^^ ( J^l^evetf ii%nt upon you, bear 
 it wi^out a 4lrori|^<«f or Il^are to ybti there is nothing 
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 When <^e Lord's providenbiiiouches us let us be like 
 tlie'moth^ who4iad 1^ son, a j^reat big grown boy. The 
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 out m Uid ywd and picked up a big bruah and nm up to 
 her boy to flaU him, and when tfio ran up to him, she 
 thought the boy would run from her or fight her, either 
 one, aqd whto she ran up to him, he just folded his arms 
 and iffie^rew up the brush and cried just Uke her heart 
 would biWc And brethren, when the Lord runs up to 
 us with a rod of oonrection, let#us not fight, but lean up 
 •gainst Gods anns, and perhaps he wiU fcy the rod down 
 •nd won t stnkejrou a hck. The best way to fiffht God 
 IS to ruir up to^ I found out when I wm twelve 
 years old that iidieu' father wanted to Kck me, the closer 
 I«o**^J|p the better. (Laughter.) I^found that out^ 
 
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 . 'l?^**^® ^*^A oi an Eyangelisi" Now you say, "That 
 just had reference to Timothy ; that does not have a re- 
 fer^ce to us at all." Do you know that God intended 
 in tte salvation of every sdiil that you should be propa- 
 ganduto^ yourselves f Did you ever think of that ? The 
 trouble is you have turned the world over to us preach- 
 ers, and you have turned \t <*ver to a sorry set-^Clautfhter) 
 -Mid we are not half running it, God knows. But I 
 reckon we do the best we can mth llie material on hand 
 (Laughter.) There is some hl^oiy the Lord himself co 
 not^make an ax handloi^iit tf; unless he makes 
 nickory over affidn. ':" -^-'f-^ - -^ ^^ 
 
 ha^J^ """^i^ ?" Eva^geik" We preachers liiive 
 had charge of the churohe8,and the salvation of IbiL 
 world now, in a sense.^for 1800 years, imd we have j^ 
 fiotten one man in evwy twenty-eight to prdf ess to beT 
 UhnsUan, and only about one in those twenty-eight is 
 one when you_weigh him up right. We i^ «ik& big* 
 
 l^^rS w'"*^ Wepre«£eiBaregood,aKer^ 
 and^do the best we <»n, but God never intended that thi 
 world should be handed over to u s. He int e nds that ev e ry 
 converted man ahaU be a preacher in ^ sense, going out 
 
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 and doiog work as an eVaDg^list Supposing this mem- 
 bers of Brother Lewis' church started out on the scrip- 
 tural line to-morrow. Supposing every member of the 
 church said : "Qod helping me, I will win one soul this 
 year for Christ" Supposinff you said last January each 
 member of St John's church will win a soul apiece for 
 Christ The membership was 720 then, and it would be 
 1,440 n6tt January, if that prftiise was observed. And 
 if the promisi were renewed then, aii^e following Jan- 
 uary the membership ypuld be sJR^^ And on, and on, 
 aad on, and in this way,b)efore your n^ grow gray all 
 over, St John's churdi^could turn this whole city to 
 Christ That is arithmetical progreidsion,and God is going 
 to convert this wqrld just that way. Listen 1 When on^ 
 half of the world is converted to God, and that half 8a3r8 1 
 « One soul apiece to-morrow for Christ,*V and all go out 
 and bring one soul to Christ; then everybody is converted 
 and a nation is born to Qodjf^k^y I You see how it 
 works 1 . . "^53*'' "" 
 
 Dr. Tudor— Ood ftpeed the day. 
 
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 Brother Jones^^^D^ne soul a year I It .does look a« if 
 every Christian ouffht to win one soul a year, or go ont 
 pf the business. If I could not do that I would just quit 
 in utter^ absolute deispair ^. I would. . And I want to say 
 to yon all to-night just this :. Just a few years ago, |lown 
 in Geoigi%»Pod stooped down and touched mf*^ 
 Tuined, filted, bkurted soul and called it bads' to ^ 
 
 Started oin 
 when I y* 
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 . ftopped up and laid : '* Jones, tiiat drouit tney !!»▼• tenl 
 you on never paid but $66 a year to ita preacher." 1 
 &Btened,bui that statement did not bother n^e a bit; I was 
 happy that I had a place to go to work in. ^^ started in 
 down there as best I could. My wordly assets, thorouchly 
 marshaled, were a wife, one child, » ppnjr. *nd fa These 
 were m^ assets spread out>M>d my liabiUties were sev- 
 
 ^ eral hundred dollars. (Latter.) ^^^ 
 
 This is just the way I started when I i 
 that circuit I commenced prea4iiiing^ six^ 
 
 height times a week, preaching and meeth 
 ^ % houses, schools and churches^ iforking as hi 
 
 %\ SAd^orking right on. I stalled out to do my dtlvto- 
 / N^ard -did and ?ian, and the three years I spent in Ihaig 
 ^llbrk iiire the lappiost three years, it seems now, of all 
 my life. And God saw to it that we had three souare 
 ineals A day and respectable dothes, and that is as much 
 as you hitve. Do^ou hftve any more f K yon do, where 
 doyoupWtitl Somfrolitydiputit in the bank; some 
 
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 I %> nc^ reckon there iias been a mind in thisH»ntu^ 
 4hat has been under hi|^er pressure than William H: 
 Vanderbili. There were many things about that man I 
 honour — ^many things about his liie I would have the 
 business mm pf this world emulate. I will say this much 
 abcjut him : The last ev^ing, wh^ he dropped out of 
 his chair anctfeH onto the flodr, when the raiuoad presi- 
 dent was talking to.hiiipi---wh^ he sat in that chair he 
 was the Hdbest man ihj Ame|rica; when he f^ on that 
 floor he iras |» poor as I am— ^ poor as 1 ai^ When I 
 le»ve this worlj I want^ioy fiends to say, "I am gkd 
 there is a good man goy jb to H^eaven/* Whffl Vanderbilt ^ 
 died ever/body wantedjto knOw, ** How will it affect the 
 Stock Eatehnige V* TpAt Is^tam to be the only question 
 
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 ia New York City now, "How wiU it affeot Uie Stook 
 Kchange V Thejr do not seem to care muok about t^ 
 maa ^ey do not' seem to have much to amy aboot hia 
 funeral llie whole thing rests as on a pivot on that one 
 question; "How will hit deftth affect the atock markeU" 
 
 WOBKINO FOR S0UL8. 
 
 . ?^^» ."'*» •• ^^^ ^ ™7 judge, all along through my re- 
 ligious life the one burning desire of my soul has been to 
 see others brought to Christ. I have worked on and on 
 and on, and I tell you, the happiest moments of my life 
 have been the moments when I have seen men's souls 
 given to Christ The one earnest prayer of my life has 
 been, "God help me to help souls to Christ" Brotheie, 
 how do you feel about that? I may gaUier together a 
 fortune, but it may corse my children; but if I gather 
 souls to Christ, how gm^at is. # 
 
 This recalls the dr^^mt a young lady— I do not go 
 
 much on dreams, bof Wre was something impressive 
 
 about this one. A young lady dreamt that she <&ed and 
 
 ^ Vi^®'** *^ Heaven. As ^e stood around the great white 
 
 ^^' throne she saw that every one there had on a beautiful 
 
 crown, and that beautiful stars decked each crown. She 
 
 approached a sister spirit and said : " What do" these staiv 
 
 represent in these crowns?" The sister spiiit replied, 
 
 " lliese stars represent the souls we have been instm- 
 
 mental in saving," and she said, "I thought I reached up 
 
 and pulled off my crown and it was blank, and I began 
 
 to foe miserable in Heaven. And all at once I awoke and 
 
 praised Qod that I waa still out of Heaven, and I said, * I 
 
 will spend the rest of my days in trimming stars for my 
 
 crown of rejoicing in the sweet by-and-bye,' " 
 
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 'ABLESS OBOWK. 
 
 How many of us nere to-night if we died and went to 
 Heaven woiud weair a starlMs crown forever ? May Qod 
 
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 help me M I joumejr through life to gather souls to Ood 
 th»t they may be stars, not in my erown« but blessed be 
 Ood, I would put them all in mv Master's crown, and 
 ■ay to him, ** You are worthy of them. You shed your» 
 blood aiid died that they might be redeemed." **Do the' 
 work of an evaageUst." Let us go out and r«aoh some* 
 bod^. Then lastly he said, "ifike full proof of your 
 f ""^"Hjjy'* ^ ^^ ^^^^ to see a soul go and work in earnest 
 « for Christy and work on until the work is completed, and 
 ttien shout over the results. That is just what this means. 
 I will illustrate this. I can get throu^ anioker in that 
 way than any other, i / ? 
 
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 good wife and mother. Fourteen yean before that she 
 married a young man, sober and industrious, but A|iber 
 their marriage he commenced associating with drinking 
 nHik He soon commenced to drink himself, aiid he lea 
 a yeiy dissipated life for several yeftrs, and finally ht ir«» 
 taken home with delirium tremens; One mormiog two 
 dtKrtors nme and aiuutiititd hi^ his wife 
 
 aside and said: r * 
 
 '** Madame, your husbaiid will die to-d^." 
 - She looked at the doctor and said, " So, he i^roii^t die 
 to-day." |, , 
 
 " Well," Oiey said, ** Madanie, these symptoms <liat *« 
 on him never fail He will die." T 
 
 " No," she said, " doctor, he won't die^" ' 
 
 " How^do you know f " they asked. 
 
 ^e said, "I have been praying for fourteen y^an tO 
 God to convert that man and save hiih before he died, 
 Ai^ she said, « I haTe prayed earnestly and with faith, 
 a ny kno|^ he is not going to d ie . I do not care a cent 
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 huflband and said he was beUer. She laid : " I have not 
 been uneasy about him. I knew Ood had not converted 
 him, and I knew God would not let him die until he mm 
 oonverteA If he were to die in the fix he ie ib I would ' 
 die wi iafldel I could never have believed that Ood heard 
 ijd aniweiyd prayer. I have been nnying for hie oon- 
 wmmon fw fourteen jMl» and I knew Ood would not let 
 nun oie before he wai converted,^ 
 
 The BM Mt Mter and he wai converted, and heled % . 
 pure, good life for two yeara, and then, under some fear- 
 ful temptaUon, he feU and began drinking again. She 
 went bM^ to Ood and praved : ** Good LordTsaJe my poor 
 huabtiid «t Mor oprti./ wfll work my hands off to suiiort 
 my seven diUdren. My God, save mj poor husband. Tdo 
 not care what becomeaof us." 
 
 Two or (^months afterwards her husband was taken . 
 pth artteular riieumatum, the most fearful kihd of rheu- 
 ^ iaiism that ever afflicted bnmanity. There he suffered 
 
 (i#y)inerday, and he turned bis heart again to God. He 
 was the most meek and patient suSbrer you ever saw * 
 lust^M^twg in God every moment. One mominir whwi 
 ijf^W^** atanding by he said, "Good-bye, piedous 
 wffe. The moments are coming when I shidl leave you. 
 f5!i J 1-1*15^ ^S you--aad I owe it aU to you itnd 
 bSSed? ^^ ^^^^ «nd pass into the joys of the 
 
 ^ stood over lihn until his last breadbh had gone, and 
 ^Im was plaeid andedm in death. STsoon u she saw 
 W» mmgh that he had gone into eternity, she clasned 
 Wlw^iandmed. "01orytoGod,|ieisiived! iC 
 A wiU woA my hands off to support my chUdren.'' And 
 that woman to-day is a precious Christian mother of seven 
 <»iiWreo, and she IS traming them for a better life. Mo- 
 
 
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 thers and waters, when yon get in earnest ybn will see 
 
 tids world with all its gUtter tod fearfalinlfuences over 
 
 , vour children, Ton i^^see it as it is. and wUl say, « 6od 
 
 help us t6 be ioear^est about children and neighbottra." 
 
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 Now let us say : ,^^ I am^goipg to pray for some persons 
 . and will never stop until they are conVe1rted.'V^iW you 
 do that and int^^ you^ves in souls around us ? I 
 could Atay ^«ce and relate incident after incident where 
 , I have seen parents, neighbours and friends get interested 
 for others, and how they just suinendered to €kid,iind how 
 thw wwe bcoiU|ht to Chrisi Let us go awiwr to-^«?ht 
 and say: «j0«d Mpiii^ me, I wiHn^^^^a sta^ ' 
 
 3!??^ « "^ JI®^J®**- ^ *™ goiDK 1» wi^me souls to 
 ' Uhmt. Oh, if every one in tlue meetiiMrould save a 
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 Now, broker, we have a few minutes longer to stay 
 here to-ni(jht, and wo are going to hold an i2lter-servic4 
 
 •^ ™ .*? W ^ yoa have more impor^t business else- 
 
 wh^ihm you have here you can return after benedlb- 
 
 , Uoj^ :M any of yon feel that you want to hear, the words 
 
 of Faul to Timothy, when he said: "Watch thou in aU 
 
 i [ 1><ungB^ endure afflictions, do the work of «^ %vangelift 
 and aiOMJPl proof of your ministey;»renuuni iWit 
 to see ho^iMany will remain to that after-service. K 
 you aw a Ghrlitian we wotdd like you to remain ; if you 
 axe ^a.Christian Y^nrpiMd Uke you to remain. The 
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 satisfactorily to myself than I ha^e i)reached ti-nurht. 
 but I have done the beat I could ; and I pray God Al- 
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 my liftnd, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at naught all my 
 oomiael, and would none of my reproof : I also wiU laugS at your 
 oM*mity ; I wiU mock when your feai' cometh/'— PaoinBEBs il 24. 
 
 he; more Vread this|»recious boablhold inD^haiid ' 
 the more I am persuaded of «one fact, that God 
 18 domg all that infinite wisd^fc: and infinite love 
 could do to caU back a wandering world to himself, 
 ihereisnot a page of this blessed book I hold in my 
 Jftnd on which I do not find, expressions and declarations 
 that convince me in my own mind that God loves me and 
 w interested in me ; that God wishes me wejjj and that 
 he IS ever ready to manifest himself as a gracious beria- 
 foctor. And when I read thjaiext and look at the uro- 
 nouns of this text—" Becau^I have^called-*^' . 
 
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 .^^isis Gdd^^Mtmg, and when God speaks aE man- 
 kind ought to rise to then- feet and listen to what he has 
 to say—" Because I have called and ye—" Yoti and you 
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 han^, and no man regarded; hut ye have jiet at naught 
 all my council and would none of my reproof. I ako will 
 laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when youE^ear 
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 I said a monjent ago that I was more and more per- 
 suaded evety day that God loves men; that God wishes 
 us well; that^he is contintially calling usfrom-sometMng 
 and ijoritinually calling us to something. Every time uod 
 calls a soul from hell he calls that soul to heaven, and 
 when God calls us to heaven he calls us from hell ; and 
 when he calls me away from, he calls me up to ; and when 
 he calk me up to his hosom he calls me from all that 
 t^ould ofii^d him or damage me as an immortal man. 
 And now we will discuss the tekt in a plain, pointed way^ 
 and will yol give us your prayers and your attention 
 while we ^iscuss^this text ? 
 
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 $ NtJMBERLESS CALLS tO HAN./. |t 
 
 . 1 have catted— " Oh, the tiuffifeerless ways 
 
 ;^t*Which God has been c^Hng this world to rfepentance, 
 ^ d^ing u|f t%, a better Mfe, to nobler things, to higher 
 hSghts, to greater- ^Ise^lnesn, to greater blessedness. 
 And i^ere never has been a call of God to man that did ^ 
 not draw us^nd bid us come to somet^g better, and * 
 something happier, and something wiser, and something 
 grander. There never haM been a call of Gd^dthat did not 
 call us upward. Who is i/^ to-night that do^ not want 
 to be acquiii&tpd with a better state of thin|j8 ? Who is it 
 that woufa not have St. Louis called up on a- higher and 
 better plajie of morals and right living I Who is it would 
 n6? like to see his children on a better and a higher plane 
 J of right Hviii^ ? Who is it that would not like to^see this 
 whole world lifted up into the perennial sunshine aiid 
 blessing ? Who is it to-night that would not like to halve 
 .. ,ihe fact announced : " There is not a drara-drinkei: in our 
 city ; there i^ not a profane swearer in our city ; there is 
 
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 not a widLed penou in oar city ? " Who is i^luit w</ald 
 not like the electric wiroB to cany the grand and gi^ri- 
 0U8 neirs to the world to-night : "St Lonis is literally 
 redeemed from fin and redeemed to Qod; i^ie^ 
 of profamty we have praying; instead of. wickedness we 
 have righteousness; instead of Ihieving and rphlKjry we 
 «have the golden rule — * Do pnto fu^men asyou wooia iodj 
 shoulddounto y^tt?"* ^ « " 
 
 GOb^s gAllb ixa TO BEir^ thinor; 
 
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 And evei^ call of this Qod-hlessed hook. is a call to^lir^ 
 away from something that is wrong and calling us triward 
 something that is better.. Ad I hear God and heed Qod; 
 and obey his commands I am always leavingjthat which 
 is bad and going tip to that which is better. lOoyou want 
 to be a bet&r man? Qod wants yon to be. Do you want 
 to bea better v^oniai^? Qod wants you to be. Doyou wa^t 
 to be a better father and dtizen | God wants you to, be. 
 And this old book dpes Aot taiean anything else, from 
 Genesis to Bevelation; exe^ t^t>it8 troths shall make 
 you happier^ freer/ wiser^ purer ;iubd every call in thIS' 
 book IS to you and me to come up on a plane^ke this 
 to jK>methinjg better. ' ' ^ . 
 
 " Because > have called — " One of thiRUvine agei^cies 
 and one of the most omnipotent in calling men from, sin 
 to r^hteousnesBois the divine Spirit . / . ^ ^ 
 
 ^" I have called you by my spuit" And in his giaclous 
 love God sent his Son to diie for n& The Sofi camb and 
 took upon himself to redeem all ihe° race. Be- jruffered^' 
 .»uled arid died, and was buried, imd he lose again from 
 the dead and said : " It is entedicoit f or^oii that I go 
 away, for when I go away, the (Wforter will come." . 
 
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 And I have thought many tim^ that lit God had leift 
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 ill the sacrifice of hte Son, oh, what an umneaning sacriftw 
 that would have been I You see that croas yonder, witu 
 its bleeding victim, the Saviour of the world, dying upon 
 it. and ^U mankind gazing upon it. It was ihe^dun out^ 
 • line of 8omething.;The world did not understand it. Just 
 as with the hiiS of North Georgia. Some mornings 1 
 
 ^ have walked out on the front porch of acountry residence 
 before daylight and I would look^ou^n the be»«tiful 
 scenery of North Georgia by m^d^i darkness of th^ 
 night, and I could not «ee anything but the dim^ outhncT 
 
 ^ Qf^ountaijlMHid vaUeys. It was an mdistmct Picture 
 that did not mean anything. And I have gone back to- 
 
 -my room, and after a whUelwould walk out on the porch 
 again. Then the sun had risen up over the eastern hills 
 and baihed the mountains and vaUey*in a sea of glonoui^ 
 ligtt And then I looked over these mountains and val- 
 leys and saw beauties and glories my mmd had^ not con- 
 Wived before when I looked at them m th^ dark. - 
 , Then this old world looked on and did not understand 
 it It was too dim. But when the Holy Spirit, basked m 
 the licht of God's countenance, arose on the^w^ne and 
 bathed the cross in a sea of light, thai we oould.see 
 
 One hinging qn ine tree 
 In agoniet of blood ; 
 , - He wdald fix his luiguid eyet on me 
 As near Us oross I stood. 
 
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 Theb I aright say : 
 
 Snre, never to my latest breath -. 
 
 Can I forget *h4t look ; ^ ^. ^ ^ 
 He seemed to charge me ^th his deal 
 Thoq||j||i not a iiroj^ he spoke. 
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 My Qonseienoe would feel and own the guilt 
 ' ^. And pluAge me in despair ; 
 
 By ihat precious, Ug^^t J could see thatr-^ 
 
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 And (£« tlte eR}0fli^it^ have been any^ 
 
 thihgbut a dun outline of Qod's goodness to us unless the 
 divine Spmtl^Ml hfMilwdit in of ^t;so that I 
 
 could see that on; that cross was my Redeemer and pre- 
 cious Savipilr. Oh, Holy Spiritualise on the scene to- 
 night, and iet us If^tl^t cross, and see our Saviour, and 
 see th|it, ** He is the propitiation of our sins, and not ours 
 oidy,1kUi of th^:^ihbfeiro^'^ 
 
 Bte cajls U8% %1^ His Spirit lights up 
 CalTOy;andlet8us see the Mending victim. And then 
 the div^^ S^t calls us to look on that 8«ene. It calls 
 us to»irie^56ttr fifiiMo^ on the cross. It tells us that he 
 is our Saviour and Redeemer. He Calls us by his Spirit. 
 And that divfeie Spirit is goinc into the world," To re- 
 
 . .pfdve ment^ fin, ^and remind them of righteousness, of 
 jud^ent to odmc" And brethren, no wonder H is writ- 
 
 ; teS u^ tbat-|w>ki «<>rieve not the Hojy Spirit of God, 
 
 ;4^hereby ve ar^seal^ unto the day of redemption." I 
 can afford to do Unylbbg else, except tiiat I treat lightly 
 
 c the wooings and mpviDgs of the c^vme %iiit of Christ 
 
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 LISTEN TO OOD'S CALL. 
 
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 Oh brethren, mark theexpresmon I Whatever else you 
 and I do, when God himself by his Spirit touches our 
 heart, let U9 yield to that touch, and obey that voice! 
 And that divine %irit is in thip^ty, in this conmega- 
 ^on, in your heart. He calls you to a better Itfa Will 
 you heed^that call ? Will you obey that call ? Wtil you 
 
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 bay to-nigK "Ob, divinft Spirit, I We long repnM 
 thee, bnt to-night I yield my life to thee ; Iwill be a ^t- 
 ter man ; I wm be a better woman 1" Whenever the 
 df^ine%pirit knocks at the door of your heart like he is 
 knocking at some of yonr hearte to-iwght, he simpl v 
 knocks 3iat you may open unto him, and it brings lue 
 and salvation in his bram where'er he coes. 
 
 He calls us by his Spirit to a better Hfe. I know God 
 is in earnest, because 3l th6 manifestations of lus grace ' 
 show that he has not left a stone unturned to make me A 
 better man. He not only calls me by his Spint, but b^ 
 his word. Do you know how many calls there are ^J^ , 
 book, to men. that they may live better and serve Uod, 
 and their generation by the will of God 1 
 
 ■ THK CULLLS IN THE BIBUt ' 
 
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 Have you any idea how many calls there are in thk 
 book to you, my brother, and to you, my sister ? Oh, this 
 book 1 with each page, and sometimes with each verse, 
 cslli^ us to nobler and better things 1 And this book 
 has been on the table at your home; arid on the shelf at 
 your home* and in your Ubrary at your house, tins book 
 to-day with its millions of copies,8cattered overihe earth, 
 and dmost a milUon calls in each book ! Oh, surely no 
 man can sink down to HeU at last and sy* " 1 ^^uld 
 have gone to nobler heights and to a better hfe ^ I did 
 if I had had just one cafi of mercy and goodness from woa 
 
 tome." This blessed book, how full of calls! Oh, *ihere 
 is many a man, who not only despises tM God of tins 
 book, but he despises this book. I love tins book. I ata 
 . ffkd this book was the precious gift of mother to ber 
 Children. I am glad my mother clasped this b<^ to her 
 heart and said a thousand times : ^ - / 
 
 Holy Bibto I book divine! . '% ' 
 
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 I am BO gU4. my ^ihei^B higheet ambition was to^ live 
 aooordinff to the precepts of tbis book. I am glad that 
 the noblest and best friends I have in this world hav« 
 chiirged me many tiines to read the word of Qod, and 
 obey its precepts. I am so glad of the ten milliqns of 
 Bibles scattered over this sin-carsed earth thai go like 
 blessings into every home. And friends, to-night, when 
 we take this blessed boolip we see the numberless call« Qod 
 makes to ieach man. And in each call he says, ''Comft^ 
 
 ' higher ; live better ; prepare to meet your God." . Then, I 
 say, tf we should die mipenitent^ we mo dumb and i^peech- 
 less in the: end. '-y 
 
 This blessed book, so full of calls 1 ''Come thou," said 
 this book, "Come wittf us and we will do thee good." But 
 I know God is in eariiest He not only gave his Son and 
 his divine Spirit, but he calld us to a better life, and not 
 only gaye his last messa^ to ils and his divine counsel 
 to U8,l>ut he ca^ us by his ministry. Just think of the 
 numberless voices that are raised every day and ev^y 
 
 I hour upon this eartlt 
 
 dSte miidstry, the consecrated ministry of God! I 
 know frequently we think the preachers are not doing 
 mudi. We think frequently " our preacher is a veiy iti- 
 effident man," but I can say this to the honour of our 
 "pulpits in America i There is not a soul in this house that 
 ever heard a sermf^n by anybody — ^I care not if it was by 
 an old, African pireacher^ I ibare not what language he 
 spoke— I «ay^ to you to-night, you never heard a sermon 
 
 in your life that^'did not have truth enough in it to 
 your soul 1 We can criticise preachers — oh, me ! it titkMi 
 less sense to criticise than it does to do anything else iHr 
 the world, and there is many a preacher whose oongr^ga^ 
 
OOD'S OAtLS AND LOYI.' 
 
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 tioii win pack him in an lo6-boiwe and then abate him 
 becaoie he does not perspire. (Lau^hier^ And let me 
 tell you that we would have more faithful preachers and 
 mora perswtent and earnest work in thU pulpit if they 
 got a fitUe sympathy from the world around thejpl - 
 
 . ilOr ILIiUSION *6 iJBBRAt MlSSOUltt. " , • 
 
 Sympathy I 8ay irhat you please about preachers, I 
 have noticed this much, that whatever infidelitv has-done, 
 or whatever infidelity has proposed to do, I have never 
 heard of a project lit6 this would be- an infidel city 
 Without a preacher, or a church, or a Bible. Have you 
 «ver heard^of any such a project as that 1 The meanest, 
 darkest, btiikest old infidel in the world never intends to 
 Uve amonpfcifidels, anywhere in this world; and he is 
 floinir to oS ruined forever, because he b coing to be shut 
 Sp with them in heU forever, and that will be the meanest 
 and most bitter pill he has to swallow down there 1 The 
 meanest and fowest down old infidel in this town--if you 
 were goinrto^tablisha town of infidels and shut out 
 all prSi^*8 and Bibles, |nd pass a kw that no church 
 •hall be erected there, th^ is no low-down mfidel in 
 this town that would move his family there or estabhah 
 himself tbl^ if he was an old bachelor. (Laughter.) 
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 ', I im glad we havie SO niany preachers. And 
 
 another thing : this old Stoddard Addition here, 
 
 ly spires and with its numberless, preachers, 
 
 * goes to Hell from Stoddarcl Addition, St, 
 
 to Hell with a vengeance I Now, you mark 
 
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 was ever lifted, and where no Bible ever comes, and where 
 no influence was ever brought to bear upon me. If I 
 must be lost at last, let me ao from some lonely island of 
 the sea, where no voice of &e pulpit and no pleading of 
 the church was ever heard. But tiie man or woman that 
 sinks down to death and hell from under the voice of 
 the pulpit, you perish awfully and you perish justly. 
 *i I have called you by my ministry." 
 
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 Brethren, there has been one sermon to each sotil of 
 St. Louis preached in this city. There have not been 
 less than 400,000 sermons preadied in this dty since the 
 day it was incorporated. And now, sir, we are assured 
 of tlds fact, that ror every sool'in St. Louis there has been 
 an honest, earnest sermon preached. And, oh, brethren, 
 wheii I think how Peter ran down that day from that 
 upper chamber and preached pne short sermon — and I , 
 say it reverently, and I speak it honesUy and reverently 
 — ^you never heard a sermon in your lue, I dare assort, 
 that was not as good a sermon in la literal sense as was 
 Peter's sermon on lie day of^ Pentecost. And yet under 
 that shorty earnest talk $,000 souls were brought to Ood. 
 And, with the waggon loads of sermons that have been 
 wasted upon us tonday, thousands and hundreds of thou- 
 sands of our people are in the gall of bitterness and in the 
 bonds of iniquity. " I have called[you by my ministry." * 
 
 I have sent you my preacher. I have sent preacher 
 
 • after preacher to knock at the door of your conscience 
 
 and arouse you and awaken) you from your lethargy. 
 
 Thank Qod for every consecrated preacher that walks 
 
 wi]^ev< 
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 don't leoQffni^e how Qod h^i^^s^ has thrown the preacher 
 in the pathway of tsveiy man to check him and stop him 
 and turn him around to bring him to God. 
 
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 And he liVEot only called ns by his ministry. If he 
 had stopped at that, it seems to me that every man who 
 perishea would perish without ozouse, hut he has called 
 us by his providences. 
 
 Oh, how the providences of Qod arouse us and stir as 
 up at times. The providences of God. • T; 
 
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 In our town, an old associate of mine, an old school- 
 mate—a kind-hearted, clever boy. we Were raised boys 
 together — ftnd I walked down i^o his house one day. | 
 heard his child was sick. I walked down to his nouM 
 and I was invited into ^e family room. His wife was 
 an old friend of mine — we were boy and girl together. 
 When! I went in, she sat in the family room, with a sweet, 
 sick child in her arms, and I looked at that child and t 
 looked at her. I caid : " Virginia, Qod is going to take 
 this little fellow from you, too ; it certainly cannot live." 
 And I saw, the tears leap to her eyes and spatter do 
 into the face of the s^eet child. 
 
 Said I : " Yix^ginia, has it ever appeared to you, have 
 you ever thought, that Qod is doing nis best to save your 
 poor husband' • — ^her husband had drank and drank and 
 drank, and he had suflfered with delirium tremens but a 
 short time before that— and said I, " Virginia, did it ever 
 occur to you that Qod is doing his beat to save your hua- 
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 And she broke utterly down and sobbed and says: 
 ** Tins is the sixth sweet child I have siven up, if it dies, 
 but if God would save my husband 1 would give them 
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 josi from your hoiue, old ^llow. And youVe juit got 
 almost VOL angel for a wife, and," said I, " that woman is 
 bathing that sweet, siok ohild of yours with her tears 
 this moment, and," said I, " I said to your wife, ' Yiiginia, 
 do you reckon Qod is d<nng his best to save your hus- 
 band V and she just sobbed uoud and said : 
 
 "'If God can save my husband by taking my sweet 
 chil^^Vf^ from me, he can have them all' £ad, said I, 
 "Jolm, in the name of Qod, surrender and give your 
 heart to Qod and be religious." 
 
 I want to say to yon to-night, that n&n is an earnest, 
 faithful, efficient member of one of the churches in our 
 town, and walking arm in ami with his wife to the 
 ohurdi. . 
 
 GOD DOBS HIS BEST tO SAVE VB, 
 
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 Oh, I am glad that^^Qod will i^ot suffer us to perish 
 until he has done his best to save us. 
 
 If a man had asked me fifken yeara ago— fourteen 
 years and three months ago— if a man hM' asked me, 
 "Ify friend, what is the worst thing could happen to 
 you ?" I reckon I would have just spoken up involun- 
 tarily and said : ** The death of my precious father. Oh, 
 rd rather lose all than him. 1" Ana yet my father came 
 to death's door and the providence of Qod brought me 
 around his dyins pillow, andM$:^watched him as he passed 
 out of this wond, and I want to say to you tras, that 
 Qod Almighty put my lather^s corjjse in my pathway 
 and I turned around and I said, " I^nll go ha/Ski I will 
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 And many a time a man has travelled so far that Qod 
 can never stop him until he has to put his dead wife in 
 Mb pathway, and many a man hiMi turned around and 
 .said, "I will go back I I will so back I" Many a time 
 Qod has tlv^wn the sweet angel babe, like a sweet angel 
 
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 chuellad out of nuurbU, in tlie pathway of tbe fitther, and 
 stopped him. ' This mueh limow : God will never suffeiL 
 any man to be damned until he has done hia beet to aave 
 you. 
 
 There are many happy home oii-clei in this town. A 
 preaeher said to me to-day: " Brother Jones, one of the 
 troubles in St Louis is» there are too many husbands and 
 fathers out of the cbnrdi and irreligious." One preacher 
 said. "In my ooogroflati^on I know twenty gooa women 
 who have wicked jpodless husbands. They are members 
 of my church." I^enty ffood, pious, consecrated wives 
 who have widced, waywara, irreligious husbands I . 
 
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 I just want ia look at every man to-night who has a 
 good reUgious wi|e^ X want to say this to you, and may 
 the Holy Spirit of Qod burn it into ^9ur oonsdenoe. 
 Listen to me, friend I^ Listen ! Tfaeipn who stamps 
 upon a ffood wife's heart and almost cruihtss the last drop 
 of blood out of it, let me say to you, sir^ jrou owe that 
 wife a debt that you can never pay her until you pay it 
 at the cross of Jesus Christ 1 You owe those innocent 
 childr^ that throw their arms around your neck and 
 love you with all th^ir hearty you owe those precious in- 
 nocent children a debt that' you never can pay until you 
 
 y it with your wife around the consecrated altar of 
 
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 A TDIDBB MEMORY. 
 
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 It is a source of everlasting joy to me as I live. (Here 
 Mr. Jones shed tears and wiped his e^ with his hand- 
 kerdiief.) I had at my home a predous child when I 
 was a incked, wayward, godless man. It is the only 
 sweet <^^ I ever had that ever looked in my face when 
 I was a wieked, wayward, ffodless man. That child is in 
 Heaven, but, thank Qod, I have not a single child that 
 
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 looked in ihAir father^t faoe whin he wai not teying tb 
 serve Gk>d and do righi \ 
 
 The Mddest picture in this worid is to see • flood wifb 
 and pood mother do all she can to train her children right 
 and lead her children to Heaven, and the husband by nil 
 example and by his life dtfinp^ all he can to undo the work 
 of the wife and to curse his children. I have thought 
 many a time if thete/^ a deeper, darker, mors awful 
 place ifi Hell for one than anotner, it must be for thut 
 husband and that father who, M spite of wif<^s prayers 
 and children followinff her example, broke througn it all 
 and despised it all aiia made his' bed in Hell 
 
 Oh, fnen(^, when you taUt about children, 1 If you can 
 not touch a man when you bring to hodM||B relation ^of 
 his precious children, then he u dead t^Hnything that 
 is noble and true and flood.^ ^^ ^^ " 
 
 Qod is floing to take somethinj^ frdm us. As I eaid 
 just now, there is many a happy ande in this town—- and 
 the Lord has let' us go on tmugh other means. Now 
 you mark what I say at ^is moment Ton had bettei; 
 look out 1 Qod don't like the way you are doing, brother. 
 He don't like the exam|^9 you are setting ydur children ; 
 and, if Qod t^ee two pr three of your sweet duldren to 
 Heaven this winter, you are going to be a better fitther 
 to those tUkt are left Now^ mark what I tell you I 
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 m a meeting once like tlus, I threw it open foi^talkinfl, 
 i and' one gent&naln stood up in the con^^wgation. Bm 
 he : "I am ftom a distant dty ; I am a stranger to yon 
 all, but I lore Qod, and I want to be a C&risUan all my 
 dayt» bnt^" he said, " J want to ear some things to fiithers. 
 I want you to hear ma" He said : "I went thvaugh the 
 last war and I never went into a battle— and I wan % 
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 with a solemn Vow tliat if Qod would ipara me through 
 Umt battle I would be a OhriitiaQ. Then when the bat- 
 tle waa over I would promiie Qod that after I oot home 
 from the army I would be a C&rietian. And,*^ eaid he, 
 ** God epared me through the whole war, and I came home 
 and oiUy reoeired one sligfat wound duiinct the war, and 
 when I got home," he eud, **! promiaed uod if I mar- 
 ried» I would be a Ohrietian; and then," he aaid» * Qod 
 gave me a good wife, and theii I said, ' if w4 ever haye 
 children that need to follow a father's examine, then I 
 win be religioua'" ''And," heaaid, "intheooune of 
 time God blpfleed us with a tweet little Uakw and 
 sweet little Martha/* 
 
 ** And," he said*, '^ when Maiy wps clffht years ol^ and 
 _^[^uiha six, I walked in, and a thousand tiines, I ledLOn, 
 I h)sd promised dod I would be a Christian ; and I walked 
 in nome from plantation one day, and wife said to me, 
 
 * Hus^nd, little Mary is verv sick ; she has got a tcot 
 high fever ; she is now scarcely in her mind consdoua' 1 
 walked into that room, and as soon as my eyes fell unni 
 that child, I said to myself, ' Now, sir, your ^ows to Qod^^ 
 Do you recollect the promises you made ? ' and," he said, 
 " tiie child got worse, and worse, and the next day that 
 precious child died, and," he said, "over the grave cjf that 
 child, I said I would keep my vows ; but I go^ home and 
 I didn^t do it I kept putting it off till next day. Just # 
 week from that I waltzed into the room* and wife said, 
 
 * Husband, precious little Martha U taken just like little 
 Mary,^ and 1 never went into the house at all-—! juai went 
 (^ to Uie wooda and fell down on my knees imd aaid, 
 'Lord, if you will spare that precious little child I am 
 going to be a Christian ri^^ht here and now.' Andltoada 
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 nifk^ petit* And I said, * Wife, I am not aBUmished. I have 
 Jiut got off my kneei oat yonder in the woods, and I tald 
 the Lofd if he would spare my ehild I wonld be a Ohris- 
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 Oh, yoa don'i know/brother, how many thoasand ways 
 Qod has ased to brinff yoa to a better and nobler life. I 
 know there are peo^ that will laogh and i»ople that 
 will ridieale the veiy thoaght that I am on to-night ; bat 
 I believe in tiie promenoe of Ck)d as steoni^ as I believe 
 in Iny ezistenoe. I believe that God roles m this world 
 yet and that the very hidrs of my head are nomberedi 
 and that Qod does not maw the sparrow that ehirps in 
 the thicket to fall to the groond ontil he has signed its 
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 dod knows me and knows my diildren, and he knows 
 best I have said to Qodon my knees: ''God, yookopw 
 best what is iieedad for my sooL If anything hi the 
 oidinaiy means of grace won't save me, God, ose extraor- 
 dinary means on me ; whatever in thy wisdom will bring 
 me doser to thee, gracioas Father, let those means be osed 
 
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 in grill meeting; and I want to say to yoa, biethien and 
 
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 friends here to-niglii, whatever U heet for me, whatever U 
 best for my ohUdren and for my home, my Ood, m«y that 
 come upon «i If it is poverty, I would rather starve to 
 death in one poor hovel, if that means getting to heaven, 
 than have the wealth of Yanderbilt end ride in purple and 
 .fine linen,. and be damned at last Nothinff in this world 
 will pay me for going to hell, and I alfliord Qodt 1«^ 
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 Ood oaUs us by his providence. I believe in the nrovi- 
 denoe of Ood ; ean not hislp ^m believing it And God 
 not only eaDs us by his providence, and not iXB^T calls us 
 by his ministiy end by ms providence, but as Mr. Spur- 
 ffeon said once, '< God calls us in a thousand ways if we 
 would just stop and listen." « Why," said he, * wheilvwa 
 walk out in the morning, Ood makes his sun preach to us. 
 As the tun dlimbs the slippoy steeps of the skies, God 
 makes hfan whisper down to us : ' Qh. man, look ai my 
 
 .^. ^. says : •Man, i nave gone naix of my 
 
 day's jounto^Have your And as he descends towwd 
 the west he says: 'Han,! aiai going down hehind tha 
 w^rtem hiUs. and you are gmng down to the grave. And 
 when he sinks beUnd the western hills, he says: Mail, 
 will you mdown with me to-day and paint thas^dendouis 
 of your iSe over the horiaoh of your death, or will you go 
 down to a olondy,fiBarfnl, daric. hopeless abyss t'"^ 
 
 And when we walk into our ftnuly room at liight and 
 light the gas, and thelitde candle-fly flits wound, and wa 
 Snahit 3r tad say, •* Foolish thing, don't bum youraalf 
 to dcaUi,'' and then tif little fly, ^e UtUe mote, hurna 
 itself to death, afid God makes the UtUe dead mote speokv 
 and say, "Man, yon are doing the very same thing. Toa 
 are daaded hy the pleasures and appearance of lgi» and 
 
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 When von oomo in to voor tolde and litdown and thei« 
 are Uie ohildrt»fatliered aionndVou, abd yon help thel^ 
 platen Qod tayi* " Aa you are wpngtogivefbod and i«l^ 
 nent to your ohildren around you, man, oome to me. I 
 am more willing to giye yon good thiiwa.than yon at« to 
 give food to ^onr ehUdr^" 
 
 Ai you go into^yonr room at night and ^^^ the door, 
 God aava, ** So, man, heaven'a door ia goi^ to be abut 
 aome of theae daya. Will you be on the outaide or will 
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 And when aome audden more awakena you ^ at n%ht» 
 tiienGodaaya: " Be ye alao ready, for ye know not the 
 day or hour when the Son of IUa oometh." 
 
 Are you i farmer t Eyeiy time you go out into your 
 fiddtoaow»eed,€k)daaya: "Man, I have been aowing 
 thfaeed of hfe in your heart all your daya." When you 
 oome out to look at the grain coming ao beautifully, Ood 
 
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 heart! When tou go out to reap your wheats iQodaaja: 
 "Man, the aiekk ofdeath wiU ivapyou doi^ afto* a 
 
 T^"^^? y®" ihwahit and aeparate the wheat from 
 
 tiie ehaff, God nya : "Man, that ia juat wherd I ahall be 
 
 ilnr-and-bT, aeuwating the .wheat from the ehiiff, and the 
 
 ^ehaff a^U beiyurned with unquendiable fire.*^ 
 
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 _od whiapc^ baek and aaya: " Man, have you an advo- 
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 I tm meek tM lowly in heart" 
 
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 Are yott a blaokamitk t ETery Uiii« you brin? your 
 hammer down on the anvU, Qod layt : "^ih, man, I have 
 been hammering at your heMi^ with thy hammer pf my 
 word and lore all your dm and yet ir will not give." 
 
 Are yon a merehant f Every time you tneainre off a 
 yard of calico, Qod aaya: " Man, I am meteuring off your 
 days to yon." And when you take Ihe ■oiaaoni and^ 
 clip the doth, Qod says, " Man, the BoiMors of death will 
 out you looee from time to time eome of theee daya" Ai 
 you put your luaar iuithe icalee and ^c>ifh it» Qod eay», 
 " Mene, mene, tekel ; you are weighed in the belanoe and 
 found wftnUng." 
 
 Afl I tute my eyee to the burning fire in the grate at 
 night, Qod layi^ *« Man, will you ehun that fire that ihall 
 never be eztinffuiahedf" ^j 
 
 As the grand old MiaeisBippi floats bjm»ur river here, ' 
 Qod says, ** Man, will you now over on tbf banks of the 
 Biver of life, and drink ito water for ever ? " 
 
 And as you look out upon the shade trees of this oity„ 
 Qod says, " Man, will you eat of ^e fruit of life, and ttt 
 down under the tree or lifoin the vi^rld above up yonder." 
 Kb you ltx>k at the stars above your head, Qod whispers 
 back ^d says, * I have sprinkled the canopy of this 
 moral iinivarse with ^Iden promises, and I bid you look 
 
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 As I look at the sun, he says, *< I will grow dim, but you 
 shall live on." As I look at the moon, the moon says^"! 
 shall sink in darkness and be turned to blood, but your 
 immortal spirit shall ttva ill Heaven for ever, or be with 
 the damned oast out" 
 
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 doiiuLQod is calling me eyeiy minute to a noUe and bet^' 
 
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 Qod not only calls me onoe, but he hM called me a thon- 
 ■and timea, and not. only called me a thouMuid timet, bat 
 has called me ten thoosand times. 
 
 And then I saw another thing right at this [k>int, 
 and the Holv Spirit of all jgrace help me to seal these 
 words upon the consciences of thii people here : Qod has 
 not only called you a thousand times, out you have heard 
 every one of ihose calla Oh, mv brother, you have not 
 only heard them with your ears, but those calls have been 
 ringing down through the chambers of your soul, and 
 you have heard them down to the innermost depths of 
 your conscience.. You have heard all the cal^ of God. 
 
 And Qod has not only called Vou ten thousand times, 
 and jrou have not only heard aU those calls, but — most 
 awfnJ point of all>-yon have understood those cslla Toa 
 knew what they meant But there is something else at 
 hand ; there is something else you wanted to look to ; 
 something else you wanted to attend to; and now, my 
 brother, after Qod has called us one thousand times, and 
 we have heard all those callis and we have understood all 
 those calls, then, if we perish, we perish awfully, and we 
 perish eternally! Oh, juet think a moment I Oh, how 
 many calls 1 Howroany calls ! 
 
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 "Beiiuae I have called, and ye have refused; I have 
 stretched out my hands, and no man regarded." Oh, when 
 I think that Qod has not only called us with his divine 
 voioe,ibut he is stretching out his merciful hand and says, 
 « Here, take it ! take it I Whoever idU, let him take tiie 
 water of life freely.*' And bow Qod has stooped doi^i from 
 Heaven and pushed his divine hand out in the reach of 
 every man in the world and says, ** Whoever will, let him 
 take that which I am ofTering to him." I am lost in Idve 
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 lie, end litUe Willie tami hit heed end heere hU memm* 
 celling end he mne on, end roemme oells little Willie lud 
 he peye no attention to her Toice, end directly little WUHe 
 looke heck et TO ft""*^^ end memme hee etretched out her 
 arme to him, and ihoee erme have alwaye been reeistleee 
 to him, and he hae alwaye nm to ihem when they were 
 stretched out And if you just look up and listen to the 
 voice of God to-night^ as you Hear it, yo9 may look and 
 see the great Ibviug arm« of Qod outstretched over you 1 
 Oh, how true this is : " The father saw him a great way 
 off, and ran to him and put his arms round him and kissed 
 him." Qod's arm ie extended to save man. **1 have 
 stretched out my hand and no man regarded." 
 
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 Now : * I wilHiiigh at your calamity, and mock wheil 
 your fear cometh." Brethren, I announce the moet feej^ 
 nl truth this moment in the moral universe of God. Hear 
 ii. Teee men ]aughing to-day and scoffing to-day and 
 reviling to-day and deepising to-day 1 Listen 1 fhe inoBt 
 fearful announcement in the book of God is this :^ " What 
 Qieesure ye mete shall be measured to .yon again." 
 
 Yoitf ume is now spent in lau^^dnff and scoflBbag and de- 
 spising. Just the way you treat God now he will titet 
 you by-and-bye. " What measure ye mete shall be meas- 
 ured to you again." 
 
 ' Good measure, heaped up, shakev dQ#n attd running 
 overt Oh, brother, as you laugh to-night et the pleadins, 
 earnest fiioe of God, just so when ^u plead, the book 
 says God " wfll laugh at your calamity andmock when 
 your fear oometh/^ • X. 
 
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 thought of this wd^ld that I do not understand. " God 
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 oaUj y<m to-nkfht» I wJU Mk you one qutstion. 
 
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 oot hit Undi and b^ and pl«ad% wiU yon, oan you 
 Jjogh t Do you laugfaat God? WiU you explain tlukt f 
 Than if you wiU. I wUl explain to you how God "wUl 
 laugh at your ealamity and mook when your fear 
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 I tell you how I'm going to do. God helpinir me. lam 
 going to treat God to-night iuat like I want fim to treat 
 me when I am helpleia and powerleai at the judgment 
 bar. Aa I look to-night at the loving. genUe face of God. 
 •na be yearna in heart and soul forme now, I return that 
 veammg to God and jay, «My God and mv Father. I 
 hear thee. I wOl obiiy Uiee.'' And then, by-ancfibye. when 
 1 call upon God, when I lift my voioe at the judgment and 
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 Sw me the Aii«ii iUtutimtion of what thia tost toMUM . 
 it I ever found or h«ftrd of Mors. 
 He MUd in the town where he wm peetor there lived 
 oat about two mi]ee in the ooontry a wealthy gentleman 
 — a Terj weaHhv man, and a good man, toa He laid 
 that gentleman bad only one child, a aoo, ana he lald 
 that gentleman just layiehed all hie kindniee and gener* 
 odty aiid wealth upon that boy/ that wae the pride of hia 
 father^! heart He eaidthat young nma went off to 
 oollega. His father sent him to college and just lavished 
 eyerjrthing in the educational line - upon him . that could 
 be given nim. When that boy returned from ooIImo, 
 instead of an educated, refined gentleman, he retumea a 
 drunken sot. And he said, that boy *came honie, and. his 
 father^ after he returned home a drunkeUvSot, just 
 laviihed every kindness that the human heart could 
 oonceiire upon that drunken, wayward boy. And< he 
 said, iim hay went from bad to worse ; and, he said, I 
 have looked at his faUier and I thought tq myself, " That 
 boy is literal^ stabbing his lather to death." 
 
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 Oh, ma 1 There is the way to kill a mother or a father 
 without any weapon. The father of a lot" of drunken 
 ions said to ma— two or three drunken boys — ^he eaid, 
 "Jones, my boys are killing their mother, i^ predoiM 
 wife." He says : " Jones, what can I do f What would 
 yon dot" he says: "It don't look like their mother will 
 live iwelve months longer." "Well," said I, "I don't 
 know, brother, I declare t Tou punle me with that 
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 my house that in • drunken deHuchee, And my bo^s 
 turn out to be drunken vagabonds, and just crush their 
 mother's heart with it» some, night or morning after they 
 
 dying a hundrod deaths 1 Boys, 
 to me : Go up to vour room and get the old breedi- load- 
 ing shot-gun, and put forty buok-shot into each barrel, 
 ^aiKl walk down to the breakfast table this morning, and 
 put it to your mother^s head and fire boUi barrels off. 
 Xou shan't kill my precious wife by indiesi Tou may 
 brinff your shot-gun and shoot her down, but you shant 
 kill ner by inches that way, boys."* 
 
 Oh, me ! ) There's many a precious woman in this town 
 that's <lying by the inch, ana you aka run home to-night 
 and put your ear to your wife's heart, and you can hear 
 the blobd drip I drip 1 drip ! May God haye mercy upon 
 
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 A yoice Irom the sehbbl-room-^Amen ! 
 Brother Jones — Husband, as you look at home to- 
 night, think a moment. Now, to ^ back to my iiitory. 
 
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 That boy went on from bad to Worse, and firom bad to 
 worse untiLone day, the preacher told me, the father 
 droye in town oif^ mominff ; and he got out (^ his buggy 
 and started down the sidewalk and met this drunken 
 boy^ And -this drunken boy in Mb ntn 6om liquor too^ 
 hold of his father and cursed him and handled hun nid^y 
 and mistreated his fatiber. He said the father turned 
 right round and went back and got in lus bumry and 
 dioye off toward home. And he was watchMfT &ey 
 eottld see from his face that there ha4 l^ecoi an awf u 
 change in that father^s mind and hwtt And that &ther 
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 and when he leaohed the farthest point irom the home 
 he^av seen to pat his hands ahove his head this wa;r 
 (here Brother Jones elaqped his hands on the top of his 
 head), and gave the most awftd screams that ever escaped 
 human lips. He tdok his hands down and then placed 
 his hand ahove his^jUd again and a wail of infinite 
 despaiTi as loud almost as hiiman voice eould he pitched 
 escaped his Ups, and then he threw his hands up one 
 mor^ time, ana such mxthsf wail scaroelv ever greeted 
 the ear of human heing,%nd then he turned eahoolv round 
 end walked back to his house. And in about half an 
 hdtar.he said, this drunken boy came staggering up ^ 
 the stepsy and the father met him on the front pprqh anl 
 turned liim deliberately round and said: y' v^ 
 
 " Off these premises forever ! Ton are no longer any- 
 thing to me. I have eut loose from you forever ) -' 
 And he ^ve that hoy off his ^mises. <^ 
 
 And ten days from that, that poor miserable boy died 
 in the gutter m that town, and his father never went 
 about him ! never attended his funeral ; never paid any. 
 more at^tion than if he had been a stranger in a strange 
 land. 
 
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 Listen to me, friend! I know if Jesus Christ ever did 
 his best anywhere, it was in Jerusalem. If there was a 
 spot on earth that Christ loved, it was Jerusalem. If 
 there was a people he had longed for and prayed over, it 
 was the people of Jerusal^n. And listen ! As he looked 
 over the dooqaed dty, he said— "Oh, Jerusalem ! Jeru- 
 salem ! Jerusalem 1 How oft would I have »khered 
 thee under my wings as a hen gatherethher cbickens 
 but ye would not Now, behold, your house is left unto 
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 mnefoTOTer. The ■odI, the wml libit God diiJl qpMik to 
 in langoAge like tluf: 
 
 T« dMll Mdc and didl aol fiad ai, 
 V T« ihaU di*1ii year ri»k * 
 
 Qod hat i^ken it end Ck>d shall never retract his word 
 in time or etemi^ ^ t « 
 
 The Lord Qod have mwf open oa, and whatever elae 
 we do^ Qod help na to attend to the aalvaticni of our aoiilB, 
 and hear and obey the calls of Qod. Will yon to-night f 
 Will you to-ni|^t? ; 
 
 \ A CALL lt» mriTENTS. 
 
 Some of yon will give your sools to Qod to-iili^bt or 
 some of you never will, never wiE There's a noint in 
 eveiy man's life when it is ** now, or never* " !Now, or 
 never.- I say "Now,:' to-night^ and maybe you*^ say 
 ••Never," but it's one or the other. . . 
 
 And now we are going to prcmonnoe the benediction 
 hi a minute, and smg a piece, kid every soul here to- 
 
 many men, and it was, sure enough. I don t know any 
 more about.what is gmng to happen than you do, but I 
 can say thiajnUeh : f have told many men, ^This is your 
 la8tcall,''anditwa8L It 
 
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 .--^C •; . ' \TH«' LAST APPEAL*,; ■, 
 
 WiUyoustayhereafewminutee? Will yon? If you 
 are a Cnristian man, and a member of a St. iiouis ehuiph» 
 will you stay heie to-night for a few minutes ? Qod he^ 
 ua^ Qod help us one more time before we die to do jun 
 what we ought to da If you are a sinner, stay here and 
 confess it ll you axe a Christian, stay here, and let ua 
 
 briM aope jows to Qod to-pight. 
 
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 K<iw, tre ate gdingt to protioiinoe the benediction, and 
 will yon, friend, will you itay if yon want to heed the 
 ealls of God ? And iif^you have nothing to keep you but 
 idle curiontV, then we don't want you to stay any longer 
 to-night We want you to oome Mck to-morrOw and to- 
 moitow night, but we don't want you any longer to- 
 ni^t But if you are interested, because interested for 
 yourself, or interested for somebody else, then, friend, let 
 us Uiis night decide that we swear eternal allegiance to 
 Qod. Let us to-ni|^t settle thili question : " I have been 
 putting it off long enough/' Now we are going to receive 
 the benediction. * . «^ 
 
 -(The benediction was pixniounoed by Rev. Dr. Brookes, 
 and while many filed out, more remained to the after-ser- 
 vice, and many found the confession of Christ to be a joy 
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 «« Win* ti a moekw, itaong drink k ngiiig : tad wIiowmtw ia 
 deoilTed Umeby u nofc'wiM."— P»oviBii » 1. 
 
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 DON'T see the need of writing a lecture on a sub- 
 ject All the preparation a fellow needs, thai is 
 r chock-full of his subjects up to his neck, is just to 
 pull the bung out, and let nature cut heif caper. I 
 am just as full of prohibition, temperance and anU-hquor 
 ttrinoiples as an egg ever was full of ipeai I want to talK- 
 to you about it honestiy. candidly. I ^ssit to speak out 
 of thd abundance of my heaft I reach men better wheiv^ 
 I talkfroin my heart to their hearts— when ejre strikes 
 eye—heaxtology, if you wiU aUow that^exprewion. AJl 
 meu'b hearts are on a level with each other. Their hearts 
 form a great plane without* break in it When wecon- 
 sider reason, imagiioation, Icftiming, the wh<de world la 
 .fuUof mountain p«Uw and lowly vaUeys. The earth is 
 not more irreguUr of surface than are the dw^ers upon 
 it, when thus compared one with another. But when we 
 come to hearts, it is a great plane that stretches from 
 border to border. No matter where ow .hearts inay be, 
 our hearts are dose together. Let us talk heart-talk to^ 
 day liet us pay very little attention to grammar, or 
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 befora it uttera it The heart never ecnitmiMs • proposi- 
 tion to eee whether it is correct acoordinff to the books. 
 Let heart speak out to heart, then we shall come away ^ 
 with clearer views on qne of the greatest iasuee that was 
 ever sprung in any civiliaed country. / ;^ 
 
 , WHICH SIDf SHALL I TAKft 
 
 I wiU not announce formally on which side I am. If you 
 wai^t to know which side I'm on III tell you what you mav 
 do.* Tou slip upjbo the side of the great God that made 
 thU world and whiswr in his ear and askhim whic* side 
 he is on. You julb put me down then on his side. I 
 will wdrk there. If that is a task too great for you,^nd 
 you ask me: " Whiph side are you on, sir ? " you go up 
 yonder to that suffering, toiling, sinless one of Judea, who 
 died for the race of man ; whose every effort has been to 
 lift the world up and make it bettei^you just put we 
 down on his side. I am perfectly wiUJtog to labour with 
 hiin. If this is a tadL too great for ybu, go to the anffels, 
 those being^ that pitch their tents ^ufi4, us and abide 
 with us, that they may catdi the tot faiiiteetmurmiMiy 
 
 a penitent's lips, that there is oneioul that is goingio *) 
 better. You put me down wijth them. I am perfectly 
 willing to cast my lot with them. If ito K*^"^ ^^ 
 great tor you, go out yonder to the cem^rv. There is a 
 grave just six feet long, and a white marble ooveis li 
 Ste^ove this marSle, go down to the coffin, and there are 
 the remains of aprew»us wifa Ask her what side she is 
 on? i can afford to go with that sainted wife. Put me 
 on her side. There is another grave, four feet lonfc It 
 18 the i«*ting-place of Htae six-year-old Mary or Wilhe 
 Biise that^ttle body up long enoug^ to ask one ques* 
 tioo. "Whose side aieyou on?" "1 tpU say put me 
 down on Uttle Mary's or WiUie's side. You go to aU the 
 flood women of earth as. they gather around one common 
 cause and^ a^ them which side they espouse, l^at is 
 
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 my iide. A»k every pale, ruined wife and every devpted 
 mother npon wbieh iMe her eympathiee end pmyeri are 
 
 ¥• ven, and you may inaeribe my n4me among theirs 
 heir iidtf h my side. Ask jOl <4e haopy. bu^ womwi 
 of earth, and say : " Precious women of earth, whicn side 
 of the question are you on ? " You lust put me down 
 with the good women of America and I will abide by it , 
 (AppUuse.) I would not have to stop loUg here to per- 
 suade you as to which side oi this question Qod is on. 
 I would riot have to speak to you long to persuade you 
 what side Christ takes in this issue— which side the an- 
 gels take on this great question. I would beg you to 
 fisten but for a moment, to hear the voice of the precious, 
 sainted wife or mother on this issue. I would ask but a 
 minute to catch the faint whisper of little Mary's or 
 little Willie's voice on this question. Every woman in 
 1^ blasted land of ours says : * Down with the traffic 
 that downs our husbands and children I " If you agree- 
 with me that they are on the side c^ tem^ran^ or pro- 
 hibiUon, you qumot blame me for taking, thit side. 
 Then whatever kind of blame may be heaped on thd man 
 who chooses the side of temperance and prohibition, how- 
 * ever he may have to bear the abuse of men, however,^ 
 much the eryof "fanatic'V may be raised, he has the 
 satisbotion of knowing that Qod is with him. I have 
 the eonsdousness thaMe angek have pitched th^ tenter 
 , around me, and thai I have the prvjrers and sj^pathicte 
 of every good woman in Heav^^ and on earth. ^ 
 
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 I wish to say thi«, that, like all othof issues, ihere m 
 two sides to this liqupr question. There are the prohibt- 
 tionists and the aati-mohibitionists. Yon will find 
 among the anti-prohibittonists three cliwiWi : The whis- 
 key nu^era, the whiskey selleiB, and the whisky 
 dmkeia. ^That is the side we ptopoee to take i^ with, 
 
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 and I wtnt to My to you this, that I haye no fiflfat to 
 wMe against whiskey maken as men, against wnlskey 
 selCri as men, or against whiskey drinkert^as. men. I 
 'haye no fight to make against men at all. I^^Himt to risa 
 aboye ai^rthing that ia personal, that tonehes men as soeh,^ 
 in this question. I want to diseoss barrels and demi- ' 
 Johns and skill-hoases, lor that is the naked iasoe at last 
 In Qeoigia, in our looal option eouniies, when' an election 
 is ordered, it is direeted hy act of the le^^islatare that the 
 tickets most be printed, or written in this way : " Against 
 Whiskey," or "Tor Whiskey." The yoter most haye 
 printed or written on his ticket "Against Whiskey," that 
 IS, '* Prohibitionf or " For Whiskey," that is " Anti^-pro- 
 hibitibn." There is no politics in that. There is no 
 more politics in that than eussin' and stealin' are onea- 
 tions of politics. The Democratie party may roll all the 
 demyohns uid barrels of whiskey in the piurty into one 
 of their oonyentions and say to me : " Look oat 1 if you 
 will bring whiskey into the canyass you will ruin the 
 party." Ify Qod I the/ye done got it all in there now. 
 As long as you keep men out of this issue i^aan't be 
 brought into politioa, and so long as yoiMIMkJNha figlit 
 against barrus and demyohna, and dram-cbrinking and 
 drunkenness, there is no politics in this issue. I am aa 
 far ^m mixing with Dolmca as ainr man you eyer saw. 
 I don^ mix wiui politics, becauae if one lies down with 
 dogs he wUl get up with fleas. On that principle I keep 
 ,' ;Out of poHUca..;; ;■■*/;'■•■ 
 
 ^ BOW BOMS MSWBFAnEBS TALK. . 
 
 t pick up a newspaper, and, howeyer reliable <Mr unre- 
 liable it may be on other thiiigi, it will always tell the 
 truth in polilaGB. Tou can neyer doubt the newspaper 
 on th*t tneme. (Laaghkur.), I quote from this naira- 
 paper:... .■;■. -..^ ^ 
 
 " The Democratic Dttrty ^ been, e|^ 
 
 posed to sumptuaty legislation and unequal tayatto m 
 
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 any fornL It hM ever advocated the l»*»«^y,o/. P"r**f 
 ooDduot adjuated with the public welf^ ; and the mht 
 farthe^ of regulating the liquor traffic and P';ovid^ng 
 J^^ the eVlla leeulting therefrom by a ju»t and pro- 
 
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 that Uter along the line. We have about two parties of 
 S^ Si^ider^le importance ij ^^ f^^^' J:^ tie 
 Sq the RepubUcanjarty. and ^« o^«' ." .f^^J*^ 
 Slocratic party- iSIre i. no dpjjjuse m their pU^ 
 forms, except the difference of the tantf. 
 
 WHI8KST OR MIOOER— WHICB t 
 
 The only side upon which iJiey mav^aim to differ is 
 that the KepuWicans have shouldered the nUKer and ^o 
 Democrato We straddled a barrel of ^hisVey There 
 Jl^y^thetwoparties! Here is t^ Democrat astride 
 his barrel of whislEey. and here's your Bepubhcan with 
 Sil^r on hissWlder. Party affi^mtion says you 
 must s^low one or the other, or we will walk youj)ut 
 and consider you a traitor to the party. I*tus|^kat 
 the two a Utile bit You ask me which I will ^ J: 
 win say I was bom, raised and have be^ a I)emo<a»t all 
 my life, but if I have got to swallow a barrel of whwkev 
 in the Democratic party, or desert Uiat party and swja- 
 tow a nigger:^ I fiave lived all my life among millions 
 STnigwrt^he south, and I say^ Aat all the nigcers in 
 ihe w^ih never did me as muchhurt as one gallon of 
 whiskey dia once. H I have not good hard sense, if I 
 am g<^R to exerdse my good hard sense, then I meet 
 f you as ak honest man that wants to do his duty, and ^ 
 ' i»k you, " Wm you become one if I diooee the brother 
 S^aS Mid gulp him down r ''Oh,- say you, "you 
 ^^dethepiky-itwiUgodo I ^»^ JSJ" 
 
 fore Ckid that the Democratic Pfty.^^^^.^S^'^?*^ 
 liquor inteieiit and come out on the side of the whiskey 
 
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 teller, and I wwiber to godowp.downl and I bave ^ 
 
 between the '"»*»"'*7'it Wtr toZd Vnd the 
 r,m *U this much : I owe my loywty «» "<« """ 
 
 7y wUe ««1 cWld«n .re wnceraji B ^^^^^ 
 ci be kiBg of A™^„J thS w"»t influeJSAat do* 
 
 I defy you to refom ibis country. 
 
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 BAM JONBS'b SERMONa 
 
 begun cursing ui beoaiue we h*d the nigger. (Laughter.) 
 That was just about aa mean aa wanting to destroy these 
 still-houeeB. after tailing money for their liottiie. (tft us 
 be honest while we propose to De moral 
 
 ▲ OOOD TQCI to BUT 8TILL-HOUSBEI. 
 
 I want to tell you another thing. There is not a still* 
 house in America that wouldn't sell out to you cheap, 
 right now. Those little wild-cat fellows around hero in 
 the mountains wouldn't do it, because it is fruit time 
 now ; but if you will wait a litj^o while the^ll sell cheap, 
 too. There's not a ffovemment distillery m the United 
 States that you oonlcm't buy at fifty cents on the dollar. 
 
 WHY DO MEN BILL WHISKKf t 
 
 When it comes to the liquor sellers, I want to say a 
 word or two about them. Do you know what makes a 
 man sell liquor ? Is it for the good he is doing humanity ? 
 Fbr the kindness he is domg the race ? Does he sell at a 
 loss because he is doingr the community ^oodt Did you 
 ever hear a man in the liquor business claim to be a bene^ 
 factor to his race I^When a man propoeed to swear that 
 he was ready to^inauiah his daim on heaven for '1500, 
 is was the money— toe $500— he wanted, for which he 
 was willing to so to hell. That's the very thing that 
 makes men sell iH^iskey. Do you know that 1 It has been 
 my privilege to preach, the goapd to many a bar-keeper, 
 and to t^e him into the churab, and the universal ver- 
 dict of every bar-keeper thus convicted has been that, 
 from iJie time ^e embftrked in the bnsineaB till he quit it^ 
 lie knew and felt it was wrong. One feUow said he was 
 drunk every day he was in i& business. Be was drunk 
 nine months at a streteh. I sort o' admire that kind of fel- 
 low. I like thai The whiskey seller, I say, apart frop his 
 tnJBEu^ may be lys clever a man as anybody. 
 
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 No man In Americ»^iiff»g«i in the Hauor trikfflc on any 
 other principle than for the monepr that U in it No man 
 Bteala for any other reason. I didn't aay that a fellow 
 that would sell whiskey would steal. You thought that 
 was what I waifSlng to say, and your thinking makes it 
 that way. I wlU say this much. I will steal every bite 
 I eat and every bite my children eat before I will sell it. 
 1 would. (Laughter and applause.) Why, I said some- 
 thing like that once, and a bar-keeper took me to task; 
 " I dim't agree with what you said to-day, sir." " What T 
 "Did you not say you would rather Ateal than sell 
 whiskey ? It is as honourable a business, sir, as a man ever 
 followed." I said to him : " You know that widow on the 
 hill ? *' " Yes." " She has two boys. Their father died 
 about the time they were grown, and left them about 
 $3,000 or $4,000, and they bej(an drinking with you, sir. 
 One of those boys is in the penitentiary now, and the other 
 is off somewhere, the mother don't knaw where, and she 
 is grieving her life away. Which would be worse, to have 
 broken into that house and stole that money, or to have 
 debauohed*her boys, as you have done— puttmff one into 
 the penitentiary and running the other off? " He said he 
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 It has been oii«ulated all over this country that I was 
 a bar-keeper and gambler, and all that sort of thing, but, 
 sir, I never, in the worst hour of my life, got my consent 
 to put the bottle to my neighbour's month. 1 never saw 
 A moinent when I would sit down and play cards. There 
 are abme of you triflug fellows listening to me now that 
 are n^eaner and more reckless than I ever was. Some of 
 yoa tbll on me to ihis dav that I won't nay my debts. If 
 you lirin buy a claim against me, you will get paid with 
 
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 compound interest from the time It WM due. If you Vipj^ 
 find me any man at my home that ^ye I won t W "f^ 
 debU, I win eat him riw without «at (O^^^^K^^J'j) 
 Theri U the place to find out all that b bad about a W. 
 low-who» L live.. I «.y it. with idl the earneetnew of 
 my heart.! would ateal before I would aell whiskey, i , ' 
 
 A TU»>J AT THE WHISKEY aUEELUa 
 
 ' Another ihlng Iwlll^oh <m right •lon«><«t.^^t 
 whiskey guMler. themseltea. We come up to this DOor 
 fellow wL drinks, blubbering oyer him and teOlnff 
 him what a «««^ifl«n^ kind-hearted fellow h^^^^ 
 how sorry we are to see him intoxicated. I dont know 
 how mSr people I have had to teU me : ; ^?««. ^J.^" 
 a de^&^«*ted fellow. You diould Suit drmk.ng. 
 Itis a piS? to drink." Now, it makes t\ese whiskey 
 drinking feUows feel big if you bimg ov«^^m. J^^^' 
 
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 7ym'^ ;r»Ik upto <»iof ih-e g"" ' fMBr-r °-J"« 
 teU Urn : « Ton imbni^ hog, yoq mi^riflm^V ^ff** 
 
 
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 a : " wnenevor» iu»u "»-" J^**!T'»"::v'r — Y j^ 
 riiiils his home, pauperiaes hi^ .djilddh and de- 
 ^ own body, lSr£t poUoe l>UUea to persuade 
 ""IwiU leU you what you nfiay do with w^y fdur- 
 ^on thjfl mountain. Just take a pint of tiie 
 mY you dSjt In this count^ and pour it down his 
 HiioaCind whwThe gets sober, ^it doesn't ItiU him, he 
 will qiifc these diggins withouV stopping to say good-^ 
 iTietUehis biir^much Uj^ghterl These two-le^rtd 
 hoffi wiU noionly drink all they cftn get. but will 
 tU their children's clothes to get more. _ _ __^ 
 Wiiich is the wiser hogQf tiietwot i^\^, 
 would get some more legs and a little more htar ^ 
 the o«£er kind of a hog. (Laughter.) ^,J^... 
 whiskey drinker you are not a devte man, a kmd-iieartea 
 mm, a fintssUsa ciUaen. or anything of the aori^you are 
 
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 ft doa. dog. d-o-g I I would rtthtr h»v6 mv liUW Jwy* "^tj 
 wittf^a doi th*5 with you. .Ir, for they mUt «>t fle^ oh 
 them from • dog, but they would not «t Jrunlc. m with 
 vou, A dog will beat you, sir, m • fellow u> run with. 
 You all can underetand that ; you can m« that . you caa 
 nee anything that b on a level with a bottla or demyohn ; 
 that is down on a level with you. j 
 
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 Nobody but a oovetoun rascal and covctoui »eo«ndrel 
 willeell whiskey, anrrnobody but a miserable fool will 
 drink It (Sensation.) ^ Now we are getting the thing 
 down about right (Xpplaw) N^w.thatw cheering^ 
 Ooodl If you want to cWr, just cheer 1 The mwi who 
 makes whbkey ouarht to be re-imbursed fpr the amount 
 he has put into t^ The man who seHs »* ought to b* ready 
 to quitTfor if he has any intelligence at all^ ht i^^^re 
 to \mi, except, perhaps, the three gallon fellow anithese 
 litUe three gallon bar-keepers and the bob-tailed jPellj^ 
 dogs under ithe waggon-^the meanest of their ^m^^ 
 (Laaghter afid applause.) 
 
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 %# « ttiit* said, ihof are three elements invdved 
 on thft wMskey side of thU issue— the men who ""to ^^ 
 the man who seU it, and the m^n who drink it These last 
 form the largest class of humanity. Now we come to the 
 main proposition— prohibition or no prohibition. And 
 just ai soon aa you spring this question, men an going to 
 talk a«out " Uberty,*^ and say. "He wants to ^trov Aa 
 Uberty of the American people." Do you know that hberty 
 meanii ihe power to do right license means the povjr 
 to do wrong. There is the diflference— Uberty is to nght 
 what Moonw is to wrong. Ev«y ll^^skey Ucenja J* 
 Amwica to-day iawld for so much, with the dislinot un- 
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 licensing a bar, because it puts the poor, helpless family 
 at the mercy of the most heartless brates that corse the 
 £ur face of earth. The child of a physician in our town 
 went to one of these fiends and said : ** Please don't sell 
 papa any more whiskey. He has been on this spree for 
 two weeks." And then'the bar^-keeper turned around and 
 crushed the heart of that pure girl with, ** Madam, I pay 
 .license for my business." Her heart bled as she went 
 home to tell her mother. I am down on license I " What 
 ;;^are you going to dot Prohibition don't prohibit," you say. 
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 $yeiy time you say it I can prove that you have lied, and 
 that you are a fool to keep sajring it 
 
 One gentleman, who tninks he is a statesman, says : 
 " The reason I am Against prohibitipn jb, I bdieve it will 
 ruin the trade of the country. ^Amaii can lie, no matter 
 how low down he gets. The first town below my town is 
 Aeworth. Thirteen years ago Acworth voted whiskey out. 
 There were more than ten to one in favour of prohibition. 
 There was not a single nigger in the whole town or dis- 
 trict that voted for'whiskey. There were some white men 
 that did. That was one time I said, and the first time, 
 tiiat t would rather be a " nigger " than a " poor white 
 man." At Murfreesboro' I talked on temperance and pro- 
 hibition, and I said I wanted every coloured man that 
 will put his vote in aeainAt whiskey to rise, andeveiy one 
 'of them stood on his Feet When I was ready to calL|ipon 
 the white folks, a man arose and said} "Jones, you took 
 the advantage of us ; you voted the niggers first. " Nqw, 
 maybe there is something in that for a fellow that ha^ 
 ffoi lower down than a Turkey on a moral question don'if' 
 like to display his meanness in public. "Prohibition does 
 not pxohibit/<luid then it injured trade." All over Georgia, 
 in ( BO i WitMg who|o prohibition has b ee n carried and prac - 
 
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 ticed from two to ten years, and in some <k>unties longer, 
 the oommnnities are growing and are better off, in ft Dim- 
 ness point of view, than they ever have Veen. W^» 7??} 
 say : " We aU see towns that vote whifl(key out and sml 
 keep it there." They are selling it aronnd^e edges, in 
 Cartersville we are doing our best in this mattor. I heard 
 there was a litUe around the edges, and I ttdd, r I will give 
 a $50 suit of clothes to any nigser d: to ai|y/ white man 
 that can get a drink of whiskey.' If I can' 
 way* I ftm going to Atlftnta> vid, ^ nr 
 York, to get a detective to keep^ this 
 three men in a town can see to it that 
 thdi will be no Jtiore trouble. Y<^ 
 vilie and get a fine suit of clothes any 
 get a drink of whiskey there. I am so g 
 out I am raising my boys there. I 
 man there : " I am goin^ to give yo 
 
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 stop it that 
 
 y to New 
 
 lutC Two.or 
 
 out, and 
 
 Imto Carters- 
 
 ing if you can 
 
 whiskey 
 
 id tbia whiskey 
 
 till oie first of 
 
 January to sell out We will put you and your demij^ms 
 bothout then, if you are not ready, ^f my Utue Pam 
 comes to your place for whiskey, take ^im outin th^ back 
 yard and chop his head off. I would rather you would do 
 that than to give him a drink of whiskey. If youj^op 
 his head off he goes to God, but if you give him whisky 
 you ruin Him forever." Bi all the 16ve and kindness of 
 my soul, r believe that every^tizen of this country has , 
 the right to say whether he wante, whiskey or not It 
 every man will take this question fairly, before his mmd 
 there iskot a father that will not |put this stuff out of the 
 reach 0^ his boys. 7 y : 
 
 : THl DRtJinCARD'S OBAND MABOH. 
 
 Out iKjiy mareh--60,000 of them a year— into drunk- 
 ards'^es. St Louis has 1,800 bar-room^ ; OdoagQaiid 
 Cincinn%ti[ 3.000 each. Cincinnati, with its 3,000 bar^ 
 rooms» can alone make 60)000 drunkaids^tliat would be 
 only twenty to the bar-rGiom. The old dog died drunk, 
 
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 118 
 
 %UlM JONES'S SERMONS. 
 
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 bat they say he died of apoplexy, heart disease or come* 
 thing of the sort They always Uo about it. Nobody can 
 say £e died drunk. They will hatch up a *' stm-stroke " 
 if they can't find anything ;EQore plausible— 4hat is, if he 
 has any family. You can till absolutely nothing frH^ 
 the statistiofc But you know what that bar-room if ^ 
 
 is the recdvdiog office <rfjWll And is sustained If |^ 
 yoice ot tbA^^ommnnity 1 Sixty thousand go down iixto 
 
 drunkardi^ grftyes this yeaf^. they^ go into your family 
 for recru^ to keep thejranks of this army of drunkards 
 full. Your John, William or Henry thejr inyeigle into 
 
 THE BOAD TO HEIX* : 
 
 If men will make and8ellan4 drink whiskey, let them 
 hide and skulk in the mountains, and let it be known that 
 eyery man inyolved in the infamous business is a crimi- 
 nal (Applause.) You sav, " we will defend jrou— our 
 laws defend you and sustain you in all yxiu say." Now, 
 this is the very question, "^ur laws fbrbid whiskey men 
 selling Uquor to minors. jThat is a lick at the whiskey 
 business. Your license laws forbid'lellinff li<|uor on elec- 
 tion daya That is an abridgement^<3* the business. There, 
 is a snake. It is biting the race. You belieye in hitting 
 it on the toil or body. I don\ I think you ought to 
 cut ito head off. I dont care anything about its toil If 
 I haye a right to strike its tail I will strike it hard, and 
 I will strike to kill I want to locate ito head and cut it 
 oiffforeyer. (Applause.) If we icould just put it all out 
 of America at onoel ..^. ^ w^.^.^. 
 
 « I would yoto for it» but I doi^\t beheye m pMjiibiting 
 it in one place and soling it in anbther." You say if yout 
 wife wew to start to mako yoii a\coat and shoold say: 
 " I can't sew up all thesledye^ »t\onoe," she would talk 
 lustaa yoaan taking now. TheVdd' man is oilt there 
 shiyerinffin theeokL He8^»4 " Wife, sit down there, 
 ^d talu a stitch at a tim$.^ IietUs take a district, t 
 

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 IKTEMPKSANCB 
 
 119 
 
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 CQunty, a state at a tii&6» until we roU every barrel out 
 kto the Atlantic ocean, and then say^ "Thank God, we 
 arefreenow/* ^ 
 
 SOMK FIBiiOHAL POINTS. 
 
 { The reason we drink is that we eannot control ourselves. 
 do to the hog pen and poiir out com. ^j to one hog, 
 "You take sizgrains of this coxn anid jfta* mora" To 
 another hog, "Yon take ten grains" That is <* temper- „ 
 ance,*' and temperance with a vengeance. I might say, 
 ''Ton take three drmks a day," and soon you will be 
 taking ten before breakfast, ten before dinner, and fie 
 drunk iU night 
 
 Tqu will have drunkards as long as you have these 
 young dram*drinking bucks growing up here. I am 
 against whiskey every time the issue comes up. I am in 
 favour of every measure that is opposed to it^ I don't 
 care how imperfect the method and the letter mav b^^ 
 whenever the questicm of whiskey is raised, j^u will nave 
 my voice and my vote against it. When I fail down on 
 my knees, when I get ^p oif my knees,! am going t6 pray 
 agunst it. % am going to work against it. I am going 
 to live againsMt, and lam going to die fiffhting whiskey. 
 I have drank ^almost my eternal ruin;l)ut, Qod beii^ 
 my helper, I can now say, here is one man that will dii^ 
 sober. 4 will drink no more, and when I get to where 
 nothing but whiskey will save me, get md a shroud ipd 
 a coffiii ready, i>r I am going to ^e sober. ^r f*^ - 
 
 The greatest curse this country has are these Uttle 
 quack doctors who have just sense enough to collect their 
 bills and prescribe whiskey. If anybody is^ck, the little 
 quack wiu say: ''I think a little extm whiskey, with a 
 little Wk in it will help you." If I were a doctor I would 
 not prescribe whiskey for a fellow until he had been dead 
 three days^ nor to an old woman until she had just died 
 mieae^are iii» only two daases in the universe tbat> I 
 wottld give whiskey, ta Whenever the doctor sa^ whia.-^ 
 
 
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 8AX JOHn'S SIRMON& 
 
 I?' 
 
 key is the bert ihlng for thai troiiWe. Smu Jf««««y»s 
 « You are A liM, sir.^ There is iwt a diaeiiie that whie- 
 key doA not Bogn^^ie. You liktte old quacking thing, 
 running abouthere with a sort of trayeUing har-room. I 
 have a contempt for you. ,- T-«.^«-f 
 
 I am dead down on it, now and forever. I am against 
 the tiaflte now. I sbaU be against whiskey when roome 
 to die, and I shaU have no regrets about t^ «»nit \J 
 never heard a man say. " I am sony because I w* • «>^. 
 example; 1 am sorry I never diank before my children. 
 i You whiskey sdlersiHU have to meet yowoustow 
 yonder where there Md no dMn^ohns, and^ whu^ey b«r. 
 rols, and ten eent pieces passed over the bar. You will 
 have to mve an account to Qod for your comer in this 
 buBinesS down here. . ^ ., «. 
 
 This ffrand- oW State! She has gon^ through mwy 
 amndes that have shaken her firom oentoe to cu^^ 
 ^ This oRState has gone through blood and death, 
 and I hope to see the day when every mother can caU her 
 1 ^ ._5-ji v^. ^«;«» mmiaIi AnA AidMiur her iCVCS uDon 
 
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 oils boys wiu never oe oraiiBanM. x u«» wm». r^^y^"-^ 
 ousness that my boys wiU never go down to hrfl thiougi 
 drink." (ApplauseO Apoorwomanm<^ofmym^ 
 inir sat but about ten feet from me, and looking up in nnr 
 fi^said- -Tha^Godfor what that man is saying. I 
 lea my poor husband so drunk he could not get <m bis 
 feet" ABover the land there are hearts and homes d«f»- 
 lato and ruined by this cuise, and if ^J;,»?,'»*^«L"!5? 
 tofifihtfor them, here is one man that wUl standfittth- 
 ful^to the last. We wiU now receive the bened i flwm. 
 
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 f!ONSOISNOE. 
 Wh»t I li*ve wiittan 1 have written.**— St. Jo«v, xix. 32. 
 
 WANT to read three or four veraea of Scripture tiiat 
 
 I hope you wiU fix your mhids upon--get the whole 
 
 of them. "Eejoioe,OyouMman,mthyyo^th,and 
 
 let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth. And 
 
 ' walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the wght of thin(» 
 
 eyes. But know now that tor aU these thingft God wiU 
 
 hVing thee unto judgment." • * • ''Let «« h««^« 
 -^nduMon of the whole matter : Fear Ood ayd keep his 
 commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Uor 
 God shdi hring every work into judgment* and ever^ 
 secret thing^^ether it he good or whether it be evil. 
 • • • 'vSo then everyone of us shall j^ve an account^ 
 tb God. And the hb*&9 were opened, arid «nothpr hook. 
 And then comes the 'text,^hich is the nineteentfi ^«pter 
 and twenty-second verse of the^)8pel hy St. Johii ; What 
 J hav^ i^tten I have written.*^ ^ 
 
 * Now, brethren, jrive us your attention arid ydur prayers 
 for forty or fifty minutes. This service this afi^oon i^ 
 
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 to my mind, the most remMk»M« <»>•,"' •"^•.v''?J° 
 SL ™t wifienoe of men li»ve li»« eome to hew. Some 
 
 S!I:flii^ There ue some thinge that you Mid I ha^ to 
 S^^eetoSJ^ ^eTJehX do^th them yeetor- 
 a:yT«d^^l»>etodowiththem &».ver-H»nee.- 
 
 •°S^S^°Sit teigmng prince in my Wn. »pprov- 
 taffCS and dis^yfcg the wrong j that something 
 
 niiMtions oommanding what is right, .piohibitmg tnat 
 
 n.^1raB me mSemhle ijhen I might be h^py , t*ites my 
 Sn^te^*S^m me when I At djSwn to the nehest 
 SSSs of S^ ! th«t something which wiU not let me 
 • S«? tho^y PUISW is «)ft Md my bed is easy. Con- 
 Soe^S^Se, consdenoel Where » «^ 5SJ» *^ 
 
 sSvfeK p-«. »f »»^^rwSfii J5S 
 
 <i>.i«nl nn a man jsan commit m this worW is to oeuoj-. 
 S^ sir.^^owh «m«=ience.^ -Oirt wom«> n^he 
 
 i?Wite waters «,d drowns it in "?»;« *» *?^^ 
 «f w «niuidenc»— that woman is a better woman, 1 say, 
 fa tSSSTrf O^ th«i that Chri.ti«..«dightoned man 
 
 whi^ooi?t,«y to ^r«i«-^.'^i^^^ru^- 
 
 bZ^I iiiAi^top «nd«ay consoenpe ought *» be edu 
 
 ffiand ^htenU but i*;^? *^J^i 
 alons the line between yon and d«ng«f^between yon mo 
 SStoiStT It is the on^ hand that can run up tl» red 
 
 ^!^^^ Ugh««r"S tell you there is danger ahead. 
 ^^C3o2ything thin outrage your oonscaence. 
 
 ^tZ^ mioMl Above it in your boBOHL Bretlireii, nave ypu 
 ST'riSXl ^rof 4e^»««t»t" 5 th»book r^O««nian. 
 kIwr« W <«11 . yes; I '"'^ i^' anything, aM>°g - J 
 2wi WM Art'it I never bore fUse witness." I didn't 
 
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 Mk you how many you didn't oommit^ but now numy 
 offenees yoik have committed against this book. " Well/' 
 you 8ay» **1 ba^e committed lom^l offences, I will admit 
 that." Let me see. "He that breaketh the least command* 
 ment is guilty of alU' 
 
 How can toat be ? Yonder is a boat chained to the 
 banks of the lake. It is my boat. I hav/Iost the ke^. 
 The chain has one hundred links. Some of Uiem are big 
 and som^ are snlfJil. Now» how many links must I cut in 
 order to set that boat loose ? Ten of the biggest ? Five 
 of the middle-sized onesi When I cut the smallest link 
 in that chain isn't that bo^it as effeetuaJly loosened as if I 
 had cut them all I ;. 
 
 xxptiunKG Md&ALmr. 
 
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 ^ liet's not^boast of our morality. I dare t i ^Tt some are 
 mesiiier than others, but do you know the difference be- 
 tween a moikl nian and an immoral man 1 Hear me, you 
 men who are dean in your lives so far as human* Observa- 
 tion goes It is ihe difference between snuJl^o^ and 
 typhcnd fever. One is external and the other intmai 
 Both, are certain to cause death unless remedies can be 
 brought to bear upon them. 
 
 There is no law to justify a sinner. That man says: * I 
 tell you what my hope is. I used to be a sinner, but I 
 quii*^ Suppose a msn walked. up to the governor of Illi- 
 nois and said : ''I killed a man up at Chicago last ni^t ; 
 I kUled him in cold blood, and I tnought I would oaU up 
 and tell you about it. Governor^ I am n^ver going to kill 
 another man while I l\ve. You can count on IL I am done 
 killing meli,''an£'he -goes. The governor savs : ** Arrest 
 that man. Doi|^ flome and tell me that you nave ^uit - 1 
 will see that y^n i^e hung /by the neck for the killing you 
 have alr^ady^ done." 0, me I if men could see just once 
 ths* going^ quit doing wrong is no daim. Yon ought to 
 hav e p ee n quit nil y o ur Kfe/ a nd now you d ai m s ome 
 
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tj ^^S-cf]^ ^ ^i^^- yF-^ ^ ^-^ V iiif -^ s », _ 1 ,^- ■ 
 
 & 
 
 jj^ BAM JOHlfl^i MW*0"^ 
 
 ** I done qmt Sabw»li oreaKing. "«-« ^^ ^o 
 goiBg to rted »y "»>* j^*,^r ^ whrt arc 
 
 ^^sF^rS^-'^S.^^eUto be Bum the 
 
 »v^5"?ril^ JZxt^;^ .^>gJ>t ko broke ont 
 third Fnc^ypi nexo "^S^ it iitn Sovemor pwdons 
 
 with the eonfl»«n* T"rHv^^Sm3thr.0»U- 
 
 him hewiU dieof w^pox. B y«J'.«"™'^,^dition 
 
 pox he ii going to be h»»gv »^* ^S,^ "ZTin this 
 
 5l tte. poor Mlow » ^^^^g^^^S Xl taM.- 
 , woridtaiBorrilymthat«M^U^>^ 0^^,,^ 
 
 upcm yon. andto »*» •f^^^jSl^ to wudon yoa and 
 
 i,*;;, be «««»*«i. N^jf ^t^^yoodoiith the 
 leav« yoa j«Bt hkeyon^hat wwx y^ ^ 
 
 ,BMa ooitup)»^«gwd«r«l «? y»^ take a hog out of 
 tot meMO^ Wore am « ***!^^_t ^^ wuh him 
 , midhd^aa p»t hun m ^^^^^^ «d he 
 ^Mith Boup ftom head *» fSj-^-^ii^ (orthe mud 
 
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 to-DMMtcnr mo'ni'V- Bwuier, wo bojjj-"/ r~ 
 
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 odNaoiiNoi. 
 
 126 
 
 but we want sometbing else that God alwayi gives With 
 
 4)«rdoii, and ihat is renewed natme. He Ukjs the hoff 
 
 out of, and thus keeps us out of. the mud hole. (Laughter.) 
 
 If the law condemns, then the miestion. is how are my 
 
 ohances by force of testimony ? Every man is kwpinff 
 his own record. The newspapers, and agnostics, and uni- 
 versalists, etc, have had a good ded to ify about Jones s 
 Georjna swamp ideas about heU, and aU that sort oming. 
 
 I want it understood, now and forever, that this old Kmg 
 James'^edition is the one my mother guided her life by, 
 and pillowed her head on, and died easy. It^if good 
 enouffh for me, and I am fool enough, thaxik Ood, w he- ^ 
 lieveWy word in tiiis good, Uessed oW book^^fj^ 
 csis to Revelation. (Applause and cries of ^^^essed be 
 God'O If ^^^ i» » ^"^^ "* *^ ^*y ™® thii^ks nobody 
 but a fool can bsUeve his Bible, then Ood blef«i you. I 
 shall live a happy Jo<^ and die a happy fool, and snend 
 eternity in heaven among the fools who have gone there 
 before me. (Applause.) That is just what is the matter 
 
 with Chicago. .. , ,, l 
 
 She has got ahead of the Bible. (Applause and laugh- 
 
 ter.) Instead of you following this book, this book w 
 close on your track. I'd rather run along an humble fol- 
 lower of this book than have this book get aiHer me. 
 (Laughter) I saw a dog running a hog once for dnr Ufe, 
 but tiie dog was in front. (Great laughterO I will fol- 
 low along humbly behind this book. Iwijl follow its j^re- 
 cepts and adopt its mysteries, and study them in eternity. 
 Oh. my brother, is it a crime, and is a man necessarily a 
 fool that believes his Bible ? (Oies of "Na'') To say 
 nothing about intelligence s^d morals, it is la reflection 
 upon every oiganized Christian church in this city for 
 newspapers and others to twit men with the idea j^t 
 they b^eve in hell. It is sheol now. The new editioii 
 has knocked the bottom out of perdition and put tha 
 
 fires ont This hook is the grand book <^ the_nni- 
 
 verse. Bumitup,iind you bum up our hope. I wUl 
 
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 126 *^ JOMIS'B Bl^MOSB,^ 
 
 ',r«d .pplSmS:) And I think •~'?.™»,*r*'re.fe 
 »!,.* Phniitiiinitv nukkes » m»n heU«ve tbrt uw wn»ie 
 
 i«Jl^S3. KadeUty make. • «">• ''>»^,>*'!« 
 Hdievo one or the other, and you on't^KJge i*. (^wg"?- ^ 
 *^ . TO IMStt 8HA1* M «»«**i^ • ■ ; ;} 
 
 »t the Mae of Ood. But y«» ■»y. ?'"■".,, ipkb Siort 
 Aert U no heU Wid M fatui* punuhmyt The mow 
 
 Shell thi*»T«u«dm<*^ 
 
 ,hut out f^^X^^^t^Xi^t 
 
 ta u»t i^tiT A uttu u «"-• »'°rT£r"°.^r 
 
 u^-ii to an oW coloured 'woman, "^M Ff""*! 
 
 mt all his brimrtone to bum ainners 1 "e om o™»»^ 
 
 ?^ «id, "AJ., ho-oy. *r«y ""^/ri^itlauAto^ 
 k^^kmta there with him to bum him. (Great laugnter.) 
 
 iSd t^^enTent^to hell «.at did not ^^^^ 
 
 &.^^^.:^rurjreSpw^^^^ 
 
 tmS vbur record Kke Gtod can read it, yo« wouM mw 
 SrterS^ Every midni At caroo«l.debauch«g 
 
 S^ ^a^^haU be m a d e b i p'^ - "0 T**? ^ 
 JSXmed ir«n aw t^^ ^*w_th. neord 
 
P'P^'Jf^-'UfTY 
 
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 of tvery day, every unclean Uiinjif, •▼©'Y ui^nitdeed of* 
 life like yours. You needn't say. "There is a hell up 
 yonder in some universe," but, " this hell in my soul— to 
 carry a oonsdousness of guilt and record that makes me 
 call upon the rocks Ind mountains to hide me from the 
 face of Qod forever." . 
 
 " What I have written I have written," and every line 
 of that life to this hour— there it is in your own hand- 
 writing. It is as true as the Bible. The record of that 
 impure man, that^impure husband, of that thief, of that 
 Sabbath-breaker, of that malicio\is man— O, sir, dream 
 not that it is all forgotten. It shall be^read out before 
 the congregated throng when you face it at the final bar 
 of God. 0, brethren of the ministry and brothers of the 
 Church of God. what is our record ? How many of yo^ 
 (turning to the audience) are renting out houses to lewd 
 women to carry on their infernal business in, members of 
 the church? I have not only got no respect for«^he 
 member of the church that wilTdo that, but I have no 
 respect for a pastor that will house a man like tJ^t m his 
 church. (Great applause, especially from the preachers.) 
 Whenever the devil, with the worst influenq^s of earth; 
 can rent his lewd houses and his biuMooms^i 
 dists, and Baptists, and Presbyterians, and 
 aUsts, it is a disgrace to the cause of Jesus 
 insult to every decent man in the communitW (Applaus^ 
 Bemember, old fellow, you are puttinff it dbwn in Wadt 
 and white vho your renters are, and how utiuch yw get 
 each month, and God will read it out on yot^ by-and-^e^ 
 You can hide it no way. One of the leading men of Cin- 
 cinnati told me he had been ail over the town Mid counted 
 up the gambltog lieUs, lewd houses and otW^ nlaces of 
 vice, and had found that Baptwt deacons, I^bytenan 
 eMew and Methodist stewards owned a number of than. 
 And be said: ^'I first iniended to publish the names, but 
 when I saw them I was scaired to aeath ; I wouldn't have 
 publUhed them for aU the world." (Laughter and »p- 
 
 
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 pUoM.) ni teU you whrt. if yon .11 will write m* fto 
 oaU them out for you here before ten thoui»nd people. 
 
 ^rr oJ.'S.t'^T^^I come to ..Jd fi« on e.rth^^^ 
 that U wh.t he me«.t^ oonromingilre of i»f'«J»twn 
 i^inrt a mu who profeeM. to be good end morJ. wd 
 SSTwUl lend him«5f to mieh infem.1 »^»«»«"i°' ,«? 
 m^ • nranth p*ld up in c«h. You «e • wretA dto- 
 .S«oe «»d » «)oindiel. and . dog, rrir, if yon ""«<»"»* 
 W (Loud appUuee.) Won't care w^tou «e. whose 
 
 hSSjd or falfe orU>pn «•, »«» *f^°"^ ^ 
 Michig« aTcnue yo» Uye in. you are a du^nwe to tte 
 
 , worldTf you profe- to be a Ohrietiui end rent yoiir pro- 
 nertv for theM unholy iuButBieet. (Awlau».) / 
 "^e^rl hare bien riled by the newipaper. and 
 «,2Z««dmemb2rof to oturA about the way! 
 
 STXut churehe. in this city. I dofy/ "yfT^?? W^ 
 Zt ha. any more lo'afortheCSiurohof dodOiMlh^^^^ 
 iSd. God hilping me. I wiU d^e in a pool of Wood "her 
 frnrfi door bdtere these mimona of the iOftrH ehall 
 S^ STlnddaim a -home with the p<^le of God. 
 ?ft^t uSwMe.) I«t« of thee* rfd •ooiindieh have 
 KelK^i '^t A« ^y * ^^ bjon going on^ 
 " m^yKS hit Jog. you «m bet that t Wrt^ilTl 
 
 ZLte ud put about forty buckshot m him «»»ry ten 
 SwIi^heSlydp; you needn't have any doubt_about 
 
 0^ d«^ to hoUer t (I*ught».) H. B<!t hi^ Jfc"* •*"• 
 Swtolihurtl M you have beendisgraciBgthetJhurch 
 
 Sl^lhnigWy, yThad beljtor not ~>»«»»«°8»^^. 
 mm.- I wiU sh** you «TMT tune. (Unmter ana AP- 
 
 'Jan e ^youh a TehamMyaone. but ym »*^**g'yt 
 
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 119 
 
 tA iSf^ Voar ooniicieiioe and your rword. Thew little 
 i^^irSXut remind mi of oockle-burr., which 
 
 have to l«y up M»a»t • rto^ jf^" "^„ ^ong .U - 
 
 tKu?Sd c«» Uke you «fe. you «?> » h«^J»^ 
 MM when your h«ir» »« thenght way. J,l*?8"f > 
 ~* doS»r and aonoetlo, and really he ha«nt got aeiiM 
 eB^uSWirtSmak;r. (f^^) ^^^^'^^^ 
 ZXriS "do with his ooDBdence «»«1 ^„«f~L'i* 
 5th Ck)d ? I read TyndaU, and he says he don t tw^^ 
 I?*^^tB.t^T»jdI)aj^»ah.t^^^^^ 
 
 J^erflZTo 
 
 ?ll^»o*iS*t«3L!Men^e- When I turned my Udc 
 SfdTeSSS^p&hy and aU hu.p.n«3ien«.and^ 
 
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 180 
 
 SAM JOMES'S BKBMOIIB. 
 
 
 word and ev^ line of your recoid, and not an angel cui 
 Bay aught a^tmst you. With a record blotted out m the 
 blood H Jesus Christy I can go up to the judgment and 
 pwwmyreooidtotherecordmgangel "»J»"^l*®** 
 snow. God himself will sit on the throne. Who wl [ay 
 anvthinir to the chaige of God's electt It is God that 
 iustifieih. And tiiere I stand aoouitted at the &^*f 
 of God by force of kw, by force of testimoi^y. and by the 
 pardon c* God ; and I am asaved man, not only in ;11 *hat 
 Mblessed in spiritual thmgs, but sav^d in soul and body^ 
 for time and eternity. ^ „« j t 
 
 ' How many men will rise and sav : " My rec»rd— 1 
 will go down under the blood with the record, and have 
 it alf blotted ont^and Uve a better life ?" ; ;. 
 
 Ever? man of you that feels "That is my conviction, 
 my sentiment," will you stand up I and God Ahm|fhty 
 
 immtF<& pardon and life. (Ne«^ **» ^*^<>>«*'*^'«*»«* 
 1^ lfiuiGod,thank G^ 
 
 Now, every on<^ be seated ibr about two mnutes. If 
 eter I have sweated, and Worked^ and dw my best, it is 
 hjie. We are going to work on and work on. And my 
 hifchest hope is that God is going to rewaid tiiese 
 B and &ops of sweat, eamest talks to the thousands of 
 
 y0u men. iSer the benediction if any of yon want M 
 meet me in that room and talk a few minutes, I wiU be 
 glad to meet you there. Now, the ladies Thu|Bday gave 
 me a contribution for the Orphan's Home of my State. 
 >Every mlm of yon who hates orphans and wants <»em^ to 
 perish to death I want youto leavfr-(l«ng^*er>r««* r» 
 balance I irant to stay jiwt five minutes loi«f • I "<*J^ 
 no salary for caring m these orphans, and X beheve God 
 blesses me in my other work while I try ^Wf^ ™ 
 Gospel and try to take care of little orphan childTen. if 
 yon dott't give a cent I w ill think just as much of y<m-^ 
 
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 CONSCIB^CS. 
 
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 hM aoen more »« '* *S« "^l fflfed awful Ud if T0« , 
 
 ^n^Kho'dl^t t?y> br^U neck «etti.^<«» 
 of^^Vose. (]jiughterand«p^au8eO J v# 
 
 ■ '.'.V-: "■■AHiKcroraT. : - ^ 
 
 eoS;±"^L of ^h* l«j4iBg colour^ -» -^^^^ 
 ^r^ I told him that whenever he got hi» schedule 
 
 ^ tf li^l~n.t.ng in ¥^^^^^^!^ 
 «4e aOdouwdOrph«i»^ Home ui our State. I Wiw 
 
 ir™U«tohave^t eueh ahome there. Youhavejpt 
 
 e^effigetoeiniur State that wehaye got eM»l**»^ 
 SS^SZgoingtol»lvethrt»omeom^a«^Jw~» 
 
 . ri^t thatThe wUto man^^^^^ % 
 
 SS^ofwSbyalawwit property to ««M«n»»nt ^ 
 MW(»r«^*»Wte jury gave fiift property tothe rfd 
 
 ^Jired women. (AppUuse.) We '^^^J'^,***- 2? 
 S^^t IZU ^ down ttej.^^ 
 
 ' tata|»^majority of IM^ l*^^wS^ »U. 
 
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 V. SERMON VII. 
 
 WHATBOXVEB A MAN SOWBTH THAT SHALL HE ALSO BKAP. 
 
 " B« not deoairad, God ii not modasd, for wluitMever m min 
 •owotli, tluit ahatt he alao tmp ; ho that aoweih to tho Hedi, shftU 
 of tho Utah rmp oornipftioii. Bat ho ihal aowoth to the Spirit, 
 ahall Of tho Spint reap hfo OTorlaatiiig/'-^ALAnAira ti, 7, 8. 
 
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 IT us heed this ^ortitljon a nunuent— the first 
 eUuse of the text : " Be not dcNBeived." 
 
 THBKK ABSOLUtB l|IFOSSIBILin]E& 
 
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 WTe say t|iera aie tlurae absolute impossibilities in this 
 
 ' Ufa. There may be a thousand^ but we knowd three. 
 In tiie first piaoe, we sav it is an absolute impossibility 
 tor a man to continuously and sueeessfully pnUstioe a 
 fraud upon^^ his immortality. The price God puts on the 
 soul is too ^reat for him, we author of the soul, to sufier 
 ■me to practice ^ud upon him. If I am a good man, I 
 know I am a goM man; if I am not a good mail, I know 
 it. It is perfei^tly natural for human nature at times to 
 brin^r to beiff upon itself the flattery of its friends and 
 
 . the good opinion it may naturally hold of itself; but 
 after we hav^ listened to the flatted cl those who weak 
 to y^^yd after we brulg^ to bear yn our setf «piide, thank 
 
 * God, there^are v^ments in our life when God breaks the 
 
 .w^smsKTsmm 
 
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 WHATBOVm A MAN BOWjrTH. 
 
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 aUenoe of etemity ai^d spe^ out to us in «i^i»»J^W« 
 
 I tosofflad CM wiU nc^t letaman lay do^ and 
 
 Bleep hiB wly to m I ««^ ■<> §l»t *^* ^""""IX Xt 
 Go/wiU wAe hiiEiiity up and sbow ua exactly what 
 
 weaie. 
 
 rXIOUS FOtf FLATTERT. 
 
 Poor human nature! It would lipten to ttie fl*tt«7.oJ 
 ihfTorld,wou3it? ItwouldbriMtobewaUlofito 
 Sf-JrideWfiSk a refuge m 
 
 m^^AMk Awav theje lefufleB of lies and Aow us what we 
 ^tal^lJdtZv^in q>it. «ro»r friend., m 1^^^ 
 
 ilylTltiBrUe-ed «m»oUtioni i{,I «^ •Jt~f "S 
 1 know it It/is an »wful cond^nnM«»i ¥ * *» • ■*" 
 
 It is absolitely impoerible for a man to bontmuoasly 
 nractioe a fraud upon his immortality. 1 
 
 ^ wTSly a«Sn th^ absolutely imposji^ for a man 
 to piacticeTfraud upon his ndj^^ JT^^iS 
 a good man your nwghbour knows it, and if yom avs not 
 a good man your neighbour knows it. y. ? 
 
 CAKV1^MV« YOUE NBIGHBOUia 
 
 The BiWe tens us that the good on «!#J»^^ 
 seed sowed on a hill that can't be hid. W© book tolto 
 STthSi the good are likealight upon tiSe candleetodt 
 
 flettfaiff upon the table, and no 'n»**«»t^<>^. ««f * ^t 
 S3Kfl8 Ue brilliancy of the candle shows ^ to aft 
 
 that are in the room. *. tsi^* 
 
 It is a deludon of human nature, of hjimanldnd, tnan 
 
 > After all, I am not so bad as I thought I was, and after 
 
 "111 mendonHithiiimeasbadasIam. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ t 
 
 Oh what -a lukury in human eKporienee the wmMfoth 
 
 mm that «* nobody Imows toe just as I am. . There are 
 
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 0Oiii# ihingH tlifti ire ooyered up, tiiewi «» jwne t^ngs 
 tut no eye ever looked «fc ; ihiwro are iome thiitgt I can 
 shut ihe door npon the world and aa^. ' Thou canst not 
 ontisr find see/ '^: 
 
 r > , DlOBiyiB NOBOl 
 
 /But aft^ iJl you are deceiving nobody. I tell you 
 
 what if you drees up in disguise ^d go t6-morrow n^ht 
 
 tb i>ne of your neighbours and sit and talk with him two 
 
 ^ ^r three houra. get hhn talking aftwut you and jjet hka to 
 
 spend i^bout an hour on you, he/ wiU tell you things about 
 
 • iSSself that you didnNidreiW anybody in this umverse 
 
 lew anything about; and Vour property may bd for 
 
 k for aught I know—" 1 fill migrate^! thought no- 
 
 idy in the world knew m^ as I ain. Why, that man 
 
 Id me some things aboutomte that I thought were buned 
 
 n fkthoms ill foigetfulness and ignorant" ^r . ^ 
 
 Oh, mel this world kn(ows us as we axe. This old 
 
 world knows prea<ihers, knows official members, knows 
 
 the ^little insignificant meinbeis. This world knows yoU, 
 
 fnend of the world, and Mat you are and Who you ate: 
 
 No man can successftiHy. and persistently practice a 
 
 l^ud upon his neighbiur. W^ know you.. "Bythtoir 
 
 froits ye shaU know Iton.^ ' ' 
 
 Then again, no m^n can su^xsessfuUy M^ continuously 
 
 niactice a feaud upcfe God. ^ , , t» i. ^ iW 
 God knows me through and tiirougK He kndws^ all 
 about ma ^0 k^ows where I Uve. He knows which 
 room I sleep in. /His eye i» upon me fr^ W mother's 
 knee up to&is hoto. He hi« not only seen all the a^ 
 m, hSi he saw/tiie^tHouffhts and the mptiveMJehmd. 
 And God knoWmethrouAJand through. I amij,t»n- 
 Bpaient in his i^t as the dfearest glass you ever looked 
 fcongb. Q o d/taiows toe as I am. ** Be not d eee ived^ 
 
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 WHATBOSrikB A illH SOWWH. 
 
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 Toa c«^ twctioe » firwd upon yo""«W- ^"l^f^" 
 JZwtf tobebegnUed into th« BotW. that you «• aeoeiy- 
 Ltg your nei^bonr, wia, •bov* aU things, 
 
 ■■:;-L v^ ,'■■«» M MOT WO^'P'-.' ■'"' 
 
 Mmto^ •■ Be n«l deodved. God » not modwd Ae 
 meMl worr-day tmnsUtioB of that » this :" Yon need _ 
 
 St is about the nK>rt straightforward and pi»cb«»a^»y 
 we«m not that sentence. That is jnst what it m^ 
 
 A^h WdXongh. « oo? »r*rS- -" ' 
 
 «)evern man soweth. that shaUhealBO reap. ' 
 
 il«^o"— is tone whether there is any God at aU or 
 ^;n toJi. tme whether a numi. ™";«^^.jf; 
 
 Siat text is true whfBthff *«" *» •'•*»T!s/^„ W 
 ISu tenot; that text wonldhave been as ^n* rfTO«t»d 
 Cid it in Hnme's History of Ei«]and.«8itutroe,f^ 
 
 totte word of God ; that would have been •».*"»« 
 SomLl had nid it i it is true as Gpd says it ; «>at t«Lt 
 tataewh^w there is anything else troem the mona 
 
 S^ rfoSd or not ' What«.eyer a nm «weth. 
 
 thai shall ble alio wiap^' .; \. « u^^-^ui^r 
 
 %w airwed. This is one of fagersoU's fevounte texts. 
 -Biat which a man soweth. that ihaU he also^eap. 
 
 ' itoinktterwhethwhebe Jiy oj Ojjtile, whe^^be 
 OuKor Inflriei; whether l»e>Theurt«gD««t. tiiqr^ 
 
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 aU meet on this troiam , " WUtebever a man soweih. 
 thai ahi^l be aljiQ reap.*' ^ ,.' . ^p,. 
 
 ^owTaii. IB true ii tte t*y»S«dworM .bout njj, /Thi. 
 i, true in dJ nrtnre •roandfl* Whrterer you bow. U.«t 
 von nan If I ao into mjsBoden and BOW a row of let- 
 
 ^ mr «ngei» unta they M«,g.thered for the table but 
 ^ce; Hlgo into my field Wbow wheat. I dbiit ex. 
 
 ^jAttuoe. If 1-ffO i"*" •"J ••»»>•""— -^ — — ',' m 
 
 ^wstfnythingVtwheai Mld^^P^^^.^^^yt;/;??^ 
 
 the M ear I donVe^pe^ anything but ooriL Whatever 
 Iim^ihflitlreai^ ' r 
 
 And then,j|gain, J notice the midtiiayiiignftfcure of the 
 
 ' Amemberof owponfereneeJHudto «5 f «^t^ 
 then atationed at Cedar Town, Ga.,and be wddinthe 
 spring that he saw thMM^Beed of o^^ «ime gpand^^ 
 to «ow off. Aa hftifigto cultivating his wrden, he said 
 
 he?3ti^ ^'^^ Sto 
 
 bonchea off unti%inatttred, and he wid r I w«it into 
 
 my g«Sen andE#ed np theb««icb 4rf 
 
 my house and coStedAe seed," and he said, -tiiere were 
 
 8d0 seeds ctfoaia come from tiiat one seed df grain. «ow, 
 
 SS^I^usowinthespruigaioseS^^ 
 
 tii Wt^U. tiie n«t f mmer. you haye for^ ^^^^ 
 Bow tiwse forty bushels, then you hn^^e 1.600 bushels 
 sow thos0 1,600 bushels, and you could 
 werepooBibto, tiiere could not be less ♦ 
 feet «»jp in oats, all come from ft " 
 
 I, if such a th^ 
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 tuT^M i« fall #«« veA full of vroe. Like not only - 
 
 truetotheph^ical univer*. Every .n.n »«><1, "O"'"' J« ^ 
 
 • S hou8» to-mght. you carry about w.lh you with this 
 
 ^. fcinJl onM dowiJsto the bteket, and yorf are i cat- 
 Sg^'ft^J^toX^ht and to theleft. and they 000^ 
 W^d grow oft, and p^uce wd reproduce "fter the^^ 
 kLd- aSd the iniquity and tlio abominatiorns and the 
 ^k;hr«**f St. ]fi,uiJto-day follow » 'X^^ 'wS^ 
 Ue aeed sown the pa»t few years^a; evei eftct fo>low«d 
 Muim or that water runs down niu. - ■ . 
 
 Wh» Iwould know the inoml atatu.. and tj* »9«^ 
 Ufeof a community, « would know aomethipg of ite hi*. 
 i^lft^pS. hUry of ajat c^unlty. It you 
 
 ^ tiU mS what kind of seed J^^S^^fJf.TL. whiJ 
 . JSmmunity inthe last twenty years, I w.11 ««• /»» '^^'J 
 SrSwveat will bo. Just as truly as if you told me what 
 tod^^lJ»«P»tmtheiro«nd, [.^.f 75,"^ 
 whaksort of Wvestthere will be m the fidd. Whatw- 
 ■rVe?aman».weth,th«tshaUheiJsorea^ . ^ 
 
 * Everv att of my Mf o is » at«A, every word w^a seed, 
 «yfwle^i.*t^<«»'»^'^ "°^ goiBgaboutthrough 
 
 th«e hUlmdes. but. we are scattering them m human 
 h2!rts.M!d&«y oome upand and^rSuce andre^^ 
 
 ,.jn8Ulike the aeed wiftebw. "^.. 
 
 Aiia-^d then fewftfl lihoagbt I . When once a teed 
 a^^MhS^ liwMl it i. gone foreven Thexjd ^jojnto 
 inSTw^t to her wiert and ecmfeased. .rnong otherj^ingj, 
 SSSTS tdk^i»d talked nnwieely and nnjcnptu. 
 ^ to one of the nelghbomi> a nd t he ie w a s a fwr u» 
 
 
 
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 tbat community on account of it, and ihe had been th^ 
 cause of. it by her tattling to one of the neighbours, and tha 
 prieBt said to her : « Now, I give you as a penance, as a 
 putushment, before I absolve you, thia to do. Now go and 
 father a basket of thisUe seed and go in the patliway be- 
 tween thoa^eighbouw, and scatter those thistle seeds to 
 the right and to the left, and when you have done that 
 come back to me," apd in a few naomente she returned and ^ 
 she rtdd : * I have done as you bid me." 
 
 80M1TBLJJO IMPOSSIBIJB. 
 
 -Now,' he said, "I want vou to go and gaj^wun those 
 seeds in the basket and bnng them to me, " Oh, she 
 said " that I can never do 1 " " Oh," said the devout pnwt, 
 "neil^ercan you undo the mii«jhief you have done in that 
 
 oommunity." _ . -^ _ 
 
 Fearful thought ! Whenever a seed is gone Worn my 
 
 grasp, it is gone forever, *« Whatsoever a man spweth, that 
 
 shalfhe also reap." • ^ . ^ , 
 
 There are a few great principles m the moral upivera© 
 
 • around u6 we might notice, and then na^w the discussion 
 to the practical one, so that we may take hold <rf it aa in- 
 dhridualB. 8uppo.eI«uK,uncethi,ftctr ^ ^ ; 
 
 -- Sfm yfBlSKXTt REAP mtUNKABDii. .» 
 
 Sow whiskey, reap drunkarda WouW you d^ 
 proposition 1 If you do I beg you go to the desolate home, 
 to the fatherless children, to every staggenng drunkard 
 that curses this city to-night, and as they look you in the 
 face you wiU say it is a tfuth as deep as the «nive^ ?' 
 yoiJisow whiskey you WiU reap drunkards. Ajid St. Lopw 
 with her 2,000 dram shops is illustratmlf this truth in, 
 God's moral universe to an extent that is enough to make 
 the angels themselves V eep tea r s of blood. And m this 
 sowing of whiskey and reaping of drunkards, you,^w the 
 Qod-f«tfing people of St. liouis, are partviepB ormnmB in 
 
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 ihe whole biudne«. r Uvery iii«i m ^f ?>«^W« '^. •J^^j 
 drop of liquor jold in this dty, tmid he^iM done hU^d 
 bett to put it oot. I ^ow thw it a cry ^"f^^ 
 PeiM»r when thete^nopewse •lid to long a^^^ 
 18 indorsed by the press sndpsJrlbtitsnd winked st bv the 
 ^^ firfiil^ wilfbUght^mwiity !^ alf ages 
 to come. • -■ - / . ■" ■ ._..:i:--i.J ._ ..,. ' --^j ^^iili^v: i: _: 
 
 my follow-dtiaens, accused oi exaggerawou. /";^J 7^- 
 Biieak in hyperbole ; that I over-colour things ; thai 1 "^ 
 &i that Se too strong. I can go to <»' ^j^^^^-J^*^ 
 niSS, and I can unearth a do»en skeletons and teingUiwn ^ 
 
 an^ stand Ihem at this sacred desk by my ride and M 
 you look, and 1 defrearth and hell to exaggeAte Uie p»- 
 lure. yJu can't exiggerato what sin « ^iojnR^r hum«^^ 
 ity any mor« than you cin exaggerate the l)eautiw and 
 joys of heaven. Not one bit 
 
 BUOAH^CSOATED BKUaiON. 
 
 But humanity leans toward the i^Jga^-^frte^ Thg^ 
 want everything sugar-coated, no matter what, and I de- 
 dSwtoySto-iSght^isworldis sick and ric^^^^ 
 ^Y^l?B the matter ? You take the old book, and rf ^ 
 WU Aid lis book fromGenesis to Rev^tions,and 
 T^ it with an eye to the truth it <w«rts, you^ 
 
 preachemexacgerate any morel / "~t-::1«-^k«w« 
 
 Here's a paSent, sick ; and here's a nurse tending by his 
 
 side. The doctor gives the prescription to the nuise and 
 
 "Give it every two houia / ^ . _*;^* :« 
 
 < Next momiM the doctor returns Mid the patientiis 
 
 oWOTM* and thecExstor says: ■ t^ j j. I *jwk ^« 
 
 «I see the patient is much worse. Did^ou rive tha 
 pacription a tU e r i ght t i i h e? Did you give them to 
 like I told you r^'« 
 
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 SAM ^OMU'B BIBMOXS. 
 
 "No— I— doctor. I thought theife powden were "o 
 large I w. afraid to give tlem to him tjat ^/'X^*,^^ 
 toolL>ut about half of the powder, and I thought it 
 iJ^ISf km r fellow to give ifto hiAi juat Uke yoti gave 
 it to me. and I took out some of the powder* I ^ 
 
 A^ the paUent dies I Who is to blame I Who is to 
 
 Bidr3^eaeaai.bed of tfea world. and 1 g^^/ou the 
 pr«wription. Now give it to the patient" And we as 
 *^ . * :^ Ai^A^^ «i«v fYiA <1nfl«A. and we say. "It 
 
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 Nf^SPAPEBS. 
 
 I know this old worid is ricfcr lean shut my Bible 
 to iwelvvn«on«-,«jd^«S^ ^J ne.^^ 
 
 I you the pcNrdeis just as ne mvmvuKm, — , « — «j 
 &e paiieR then no one ean point his bony finger at 
 
 ^% t/^^ -i^ to ^ to do. dr, 1 
 
 wouldn't have been here in this condiaon./^ _ / 
 
 As 1 said y^jsterday morning at SMoV*. thf^** <>«• 
 beauty-aUmtt religioi If Pwjsideirt aevelwid had com- 
 , SSid.bemea^^ UieDem*Jaa4ie party and showing up 
 >. ItecSnipti^^ tried toAow up the conniption 
 
 * havi been disrupted jttid disbanded "nd gone to i^cea 
 to^ Ii>mSl|.B^ 
 
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 Bepnl 
 
 meanness 
 ■how up the 
 
 ol ^town, tke Kepnbliean party would have gone t^ 
 
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 pieces. But ihe LoitL^enie Ohrisi, with hii mud iyiUm 
 of recovery — the more you let fire to fuid the more you 
 bum up the more there is left, Uuoik Qod. A^ (he 
 more you denounce the thing, the more the thloViriU 
 rally to the riffht; snd to-day Jesus Christ with >is 
 system of religion has the only system that will hear 
 such an Ordeal as thai And I tell you peonle, to-day^ if 
 yoii^want to mi^e the world good, set on fire and bum 
 up everything that ought to be burned up, m^ 4iU Qod 
 to Uke what is left— and there's more Iei(l than there 
 was when you commenced — and use it for his glory, and 
 we wiU have a grand churchdowil herein this woild* 
 
 
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 ^ ** Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall be also reap. 
 Announce the troth to the world 1 If you sow whiskey 
 you'll reap drunkards. You'll ieap drunkardii 1 dedare 
 to you, if t were ever to seU whiskey or wantW to awj 
 ^h]skey^^-«nd I never will add never shall-^but if I 
 should, I would want to go t6\a CSiriatian city in • 
 Christian country^ and I would warit to have the ii^one- < 
 mentof Christian aldermeoi and ChriipkH oounoih(n«ii.v^^ 
 And when I procured my. license, ugnod up add iiidofM^|. 
 I would file it away in charge of my wife^ and tett h^: ^ 
 ** Wife, when I oome to die put this lioenae in my tmxk 
 
 with! me " i ;, , ^-^ 
 
 Aild when the resurrection trump shall wake me fnnn 
 the dead, the finrt thing I Would think of would by my 
 license. (UugUter) And when God called n«/%<^ the 
 judgment and showed me what I bad dona for^the race, 
 I would pull out'lby lioefise, indorsed by Christian people 
 and signed by Christiian mayorB and council, and tell 
 
 God: 
 ** I didn't know there was a bit of harm in it Theae 
 
 Chri a tian p e ople b a c ke d me. ** ^ . — -~~ , — 
 
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 ikiid Ood Almighty will pour the whole -^f «^°g .[".^^J] 
 |o«iber. Nowyoumitfkihi^ (AppUa«».) It w time 
 ibr ui to wake up. / : ^ 
 
 #f^^^^^^^ 00W> DO rr If TBwr wAHtto TO 
 
 9m wepon-ihle for the eowipg of aU evil unUl I Uve 
 done my beit to aTTOit it mnd stop it 
 "^TiSri'll teU you aooiher thiiiff : There's enough pm- 
 fe^g ChriMiii.. I expect. SuSthe churches of Qii- ^ty 
 toput a st^ to the sowing of this seed In » month, if you, 
 
 .•^ru^ anotlier thing : I^ 
 ctaSei in this town will stop drinking whis^cey. t^ 
 ^^ut up about half of the barwrooms. *i;^,Tl t 
 rWhter and applause.) You old red-nosed devil m 
 
 • gS^&PsXwh/youareadisgrw^ 
 Yone. (Laui^terO . ?- r 
 
 f aoinjio piofAW»T. 
 
 . -Whatsoever a«ansoweth.aiiji 
 If w» sow liquor, we rsq? dninkaids. Well.we C*"^ 
 
 STaSJdSwn^eSr "^^"^ ^7 V^^!^"^^^ 
 pniu^. Oh.lk)wmanyswewringboysin8tlK)uisto. 
 
 SSu fcw mai^Uttle ones 1 bow ««if T^^^fZl 
 ffa ooavewaSon with ahouse-full of HtOeboys the other 
 
 day.IarfMdtheqo^: , „ 
 « Boy, do fou uS) bad words t 
 
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 «Mni leaiMd ne to lay bad words,'* was the reply. 
 - plSSty.^P«*«i*7- 18W7 Utile molanebo 
 Win thA mmite of this to#n is a U^ 
 
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 WflATBOlVIB A MAN SOWETH. 
 
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 Bow profanity, r^ profanity/ Tn one ^^'^^'^ 
 tliere WM Derbaps, the most profahfe man in the State, ana . , 
 SL pX^iST^a-tbe fXrof alittle boy. Onemom- 
 Se Uttle boy. the «>n of this man came walking down 
 S» aidewalk. and ju»t before he got to his father a store. 
 K hU fTther aild several othe« -- J^/ J^^^^^^ 
 front of th^ door, some one tnpped the htUe Jf^o^j; *V^^ 
 %hen Uiey tripp^ him he had like to have UUen on tht- 
 wal£ He roi)^red himself and then turned «ind 'uch a 
 Ttrim? of ithsyou hardly ever heard escape from human 
 Ur^^The fbth^ tunled with the other gentlemen and 
 IcJoked. and thf Hiier said : ^^ v=^ * 
 
 "Why, son I was that you ? „ ^ 
 
 . And the Uttb boy dropped his head and laid . Xea, 
 
 "^ihe father said : « aenttenii«,hear me I 1% n«ver swear 
 another oath while I liW 
 
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 MX KABLt HABTWr. 
 
 Bnt why Stop It now f H^^iad sown his htaeW-hewt 
 ^IttlTSTtoseeS of damnation and rjaped a harvest for 
 bell before hi» child was four years old. ^.\ ^iJi^ 
 Oh,wbatathoughtl Oh what a thought I ^PJ^ > 
 the man who will BeUberatoly demoralize the V^^ 
 Xnof bis hom^^ Profanity I Sow prdamty, re^ pn^L 
 
 Now I disousaWal propo^Uons.. ^.W^,^^ 
 aissffiee with me, but I reckon we will aU agree m tbe 
 
 affim hi to-night l^^^^^J^ 
 SSTSTenougb to dSny any nropoaition when its legtaj 
 SS^multe2dwhenaUits%cisasclei*a^^ 
 ^Godandasremstkssaeibe ^gment of O^i ^ J^^ 
 Mn'i net round these retnlte. They are before yon. •• 
 rto^rdl^bioad^i^^^^ r What s o e ver 
 
 now ioweth, thftt ihaa he leap. ^ *-^ 
 
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 iS^ il hernia «. Sine gambtera out oC ^nW Um» pro- 
 n^ofSmtian homes., Suti^ 
 
 TO ikiaJJSIQHS TO CWTIOWpB M 
 
 ia««r T have said a ereat many hard things, s6^c^led, 
 ana • ff^*"T'^._u .nt>ivTbiqm I run a sort <« 
 
 von know, and goes out (Laugnter.; iv"*T "^5 . 
 
 made by press or people inao w *"«»-^ -- j u^r^nv mfer- 
 SdU-t/bs and miih-tube the other ^^^}^.^^ 
 :™l, the Oo^orand Snpren^ 
 
 '^y* tr ^t 2l ""LTwhf 5^ ple^^of the Sta^ 
 about them at ^alL ,ff^^l^l ^^^^ the Governor . 
 should have such an idea as that \"J^;Tr ^^^^^ 
 Af MiMouri U the profoundest mystery in the ^ono w 
 01 Jiwsoup 18 *"" F ^_ «^4idly and honestly, the 
 
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 i-Whiitsoeyera i^ soweth ihat shaU ^•J-^SSS, 
 
 lyTsow cards y^^^^ '^.g'^^r-^ 
 
 T J«n* ♦« «A.v to vou p*renta here to-mght* I know man 
 

 
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 WHAT80BV1B A MAH BOWBTH. 
 
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 •^'SJ!;/:^^ There i-one very in^pj 
 
 underetwd. It is where.David^ 8«id : •'Blessed »re ye 
 
 simple ones oonoeming m»S .^- .u * :i^'* WnAi how to 
 m^^aed are you boys wid girls tot dont knof how to 
 
 '^' wSWS ^^™»y vie-, tat r -e^' "-^S . 
 
 kern to jSmX I »S^ « >»y ^'J^ri"^ 
 
 W.B<ZiHAth»tvi« added to ottiMii. beyond ^M- 
 ^wrftolwr Md towver. Ctod beiag my Mper. cMd. 
 
 Sd ^riiT.^ kill. «<»">di «*«* •^.IS'ILJ^ 
 
 «w dS^^2^»««' ~™» mtowvhonie «mtd I »»« 
 ^f mrlirt dwp «l Wood rt the ftfettt dw. 
 *^\St^6»»y. " y<«»ti<* to that, md you cm Mwr 
 
 HSyl^Sitt . look of igflnito d«W««-«j« W 
 
 laedi of tke eonl. th«t ioeks the «ml una t^^ 
 kSo"«B»dmml NoUung in tiiere I Nothing ma»»I 
 
 ^onmrnim Mount to-<am^ 
 
 ao(«k»l th«heMtl«8.oldi»wtAI ffl»»l«»fw^**" 
 tt*S3hc»i in «u. worldi-«)««rfy. «H»Ued. I mew. 
 
 te^^W mr iudgewithe fiiwldfty, I Adlnew go into 
 
 !««»^diikben when I«n deed end gone. Jntm «• 
 S£«.3K»1n1hi.h«n«.I«M*inginth»r^ 
 
 !4^^ I em »Ting thismoment, indif yon oonM j«t 
 **^?***^T ^^OTfaoin<Ma moment end eee ewne 
 
 
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 toembe^ ^ your iouaehoia, yoii would »twluk4y ^p 
 tcittn of blooi tod faint in the pew whwe you nt (Sen- 
 
 *^°£lve hud wives who set wine around thwr table in 
 tbe firet yeaie of their married Hfe, Mid cut up a big shme, 
 acoording to the latest faahion of society-I have had that 
 wS^ri^ etreaming eyes and with a face that Ood mast 
 Sy n)Sratia& -Oh.hdpmeaave my^ 
 
 husband! « He's goneTwever/' . u.^-!/w^.«-^ 
 
 And Tve laid it many a time, if I was the infe ot any 
 man and he brought Ms demijohns and his ^"f^to my 
 home, I would teffhim : « Sir, m^e iiwie of 0(^ Jont 
 bring that here in the presence of my children instead 
 offing like some of you, who stir it and sweeten it and 
 fix it for him. And r would teU him in the presence of 
 my chUdren. « You go down and gej your ^"keener to 
 do that. I won't soil my hands and damn my chUdien, 
 stirring your^toddies for you 1" (A|»plajtteO ■./ ^- 
 
 MyUodI We need some wives in this country tod 
 mothers who wiU suffer anythii«r before they ^11 suflfer 
 their little children to be demomliwd and damned mt^ 
 
 Cairistaan homelhat can't get alohg without a deck of 
 caids. (Applause and lan^^ter.) (Tummg to the l»ethren 
 iie" iKtform) I iS^^^ *tt say rAmen" along 
 
 on 
 
 ooeasionaiiy. (liau^ter.) _ \ . 
 
 And now, I won't say which one of your boys may be a 
 ttambler, or wHch one of your daughters wiU marry a 
 SSaer-^man tiiat you taught tppUytwds around 
 ^r social drde at home ;buawTmttTtiWrf^^m^^^ If 
 iou'U bum up xour cards and quit card-paying; you 11 
 never have any reason-to regret it ,^^^you oojje to ^ 
 laiaay that much, God being my helper, I Imow that cards 
 bateenrsed thousands of lives in this world, and we know 
 they wiU curse thousands more of Uves. But I s^ they 
 Witt never curse my c hildren with my knowledge tod 
 
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 Mpecially' with my consent. 
 
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 WBAVBOItrgB A UkJX SOWBTH* 
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 spoci loif Ammcft to giv© th»fc thing a loreign^njme. 
 
 (fiuAt^ Gennanl (jLaaghtor.) Thwe flj ijbthing 
 ^ - -^ ' fcluring to joeieby than what you call ^e ger- 
 
 more 
 
 mrmaa 1 (Laughter.) And when you sow the 
 C^liter) you ate inkhty nearly run out I rureat 
 ^udbteri) ^w germans and reap spider-lecged dudes! 
 (I^ense laughter.) And sow snider-ljggod^dudc^ 
 reap half a tMmhleM o! calves' foot jellv— that ^(Hfco 
 bnwDsh^got (Applause and laughtAy^^^^^^ 
 
 I ffot fightiug the ottdes overbore m Nashville, and the 
 »' boys "unloaded on the darkies. (U«ghter.) Ypu could 
 see mow darkies going about there iWUl tight pants and 
 toothpick show on than I ewr saW in my hfe. Come 
 orettvnear reformiuff the town. The darkies dont care, 
 ™ifaiow. (LsughierO Bud I don't think they 0ver 
 got oigo the joke. (Uog^iter^ ^ . v .^^ 
 
 Oh?$Ml 1 tell you humanity is ronmng out mif^ty 
 ^al<»i^ those lines. Aiidthey say tome r "Except you 
 iMfftake. ezoept you mix with and go unto these Uaagt^ 
 v^ daoghtws wiU all die old maids.^ Well, blew my 
 6fe, th6t?s ten thousand things worse than old maiddom. 
 Theif^isthatl (^ughteranda^^ > 
 
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 lEh^Iiord knows! would rather have fifty old maidson 
 my hands than have a son-in-law like some of jrdu have 
 got (lAuditer.) I would, I say to you all to-hkht» that 
 Sbe legitimate end of such lives as are manifested, in 80m» 
 homes in ttiis town is thiMfeaping of just sudi son-in-law. 
 
 I have thoufi^t about tha^many a tune. If the d^VU^X 
 
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 ' ; do not care how mn^' he Iim agaimi a fellow-- if the 4^Til 
 
 'just puts^me or two droiikeii eotie-in-lAW off op himyou 
 
 era get a ijleMi leeeipt on him right there, ^ere in 
 
 libthing- in earth or hell that will befuk one. Some of yoa 
 
 have tried it W know. (Laiii^terO My l myl And 
 
 the nattt^ ind legitimate end of anch a life aa aonie hply 
 
 ehami^ thia town manifeat in their homea, ia thatydu 
 
 Kwill rea^ that wbieh will cuzae v<m w^hen yon are dead 
 
 :raiid gone. The Lord Qod Almiffnty^^% na aa parenta to 
 
 Vnildai^itmii? high anmija onr hmnea to keep out 
 
 everything that ever demoraUaed humanity or cursed the 
 
 iimiioiiality ^ 0^ the aoul That la what we want But nqW^' 
 
 io^l^veihe diacuadon for pUw momenta, in eoncluaioD^ a 
 
 practical tum-^I mean more peraonal in ita application 
 
 ^^ Wha(eoeverWiMWeth« that ahall he also rei^'* 
 
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 Sow profanity i^^d r^il Sow dram-drinki6g» reap 
 dnrnkenneea &w/card8,reapflamhlenL Sow halla, reap 
 germane Ttie german ia the legitimate product of the- 
 hall-ioonau 1 teU you humanity, when you atart it down 
 
 ^^ hilly it ain't going to atop. 'It goea firom one to the other. 
 This-world Was content with tl^ aauare dance for a while. 
 Then they nid, **^Xiet us go a titUe further," and then it 
 waa the round dance, and on and on and on. I could tell 
 
 "^ yon aome thin^ at tma point that would make your blood 
 b^ lEmt I forbear. It will come up legitimately before I 
 leave h^ There are aome thinga along on that line that 
 evety faithful preacher on thia earth ought tto aay; He 
 
 ' oweeitto thoae who are just aa' certoinly drifting to de-. 
 stmction aa we are certem that we are in the honae ol 
 Ckid tO'^Bight. ;/ ; 
 
 ia parante let ua go 1|ome a whiles I preached on the 
 ai^jeetof family religi<^n wbto I waa a paator once, and 
 abont three or four weeks ailerward I met ye of tto 
 leading mfmbftm vf mj tViV'^ He waa (me of the moat 
 
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WHAISOKTIB A MAM BOWITB, 
 
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 |iiiaIligMtinM& ^ whom I wwevw pwior. Aad when I 
 met Wm in the totA^ l^e in hi» buggy and I in mme. Im 
 stopped lAe ahd he ewdj/* You know yoa pwtfflied^ft fgr 
 Veeni MO down at oar ehttreh on fanuly reU^on. ne 
 iid : •«Th»l'w*ked me \Lp ; ii pnt me to thinking ; it put 
 
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 ?• Wh«fci« H t" I aaked. V^Iiet meheer it 
 ••Alter three weeks of i^w ajtwdv of my ehUditea I 
 ha^ f<^and out that my cl^dreii"-^^ ^ ^tohte- 
 " have no^ a single faull that mi or Hk^ pother, one 
 ^ tiie other hm ' im* goti** * J1»t hi ^«J^ ^ w^ng 
 parents to th^ sensss^ fjOfy children hi^ve not a single 
 '^ItUiatme^ ih& moth^,on6 or the other, haa^ not 
 
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 I was leadjtog oniM whin^ ft ftme^ climber;, 
 
 great iii stiength and mn8de,Me» climbing up the Jh 
 ateep side of the inoant|dns» and as he was making the. 
 most iSrful s^rimgles in forcing Ws w*y headwi^ he 
 heard the v«toe 3^ Httle h<^ slwingi -fWher, keep; 
 in the safe pi^, your Uttle boy is foUowinjryou. ■ , 
 
 Borne years ago a fitther started ddwi^ «> the rear of 
 his phmtaUon to look afliiBc the stock, end sfter he had 
 ttimib one hundred ywda or mcwe, his* 11^ WilUe^^seven 
 years old— litUeWSliecaUed out: * Fiatheynay I cwne 
 with you ? * "* Yes, son, come ahwg." i^Bspondil his father, 
 " The snow was ten inches deep, and the fitOwiSwent mi a 
 piece, and turning around and looldiu(.M^ ><^^: * How 
 m you gettii^^3o^ wn t" "Bine. SltajT siOd f»^ 
 "I am putting toy trades Ji jpur ta^* end ^ htOe 
 fdtow was jumtdiu; from bne^hisntoi's 
 other, Caear and thrill the v^ce of the Uttle bey ran^ 
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 "I •m putting mj tracks in your tndu." TIm gocUess 
 Ikther Mad , *< Tbftt is 
 
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 true in more senses tliaik one, ftod 
 by the hdp of Gk>d ni refonn my. life. Ill never lead 
 that koy to belT • 
 
 "I am potting my ti»dcs In jwa tricks.* Oli, my 
 feUow-cttiaois, wnen you bring this thing down to where ' 
 :'My diildren will imitate and Mow me," then I say 
 jftbove all things, ** May Qod guide my donbtifal footsteps 
 aright Let me make no mirtakes. My children ire on 
 my track/' ■■'-.■, 
 
 When I was preaching In ascertain town there was a 
 boy eame staggering into the ehnreh two or three nights 
 soooessiTdy, aiMt laid down in a hack pew and went 
 asleep. BSs fiither got him home that nignt aikd pat him 
 to bed. The fiither of the hoy, eight years before/ had 
 been converted, when he was the worst drnnkard in the 
 town. Hie father was now a consistent and official mem- 
 :ber of the dmr^ doing hk dnty. The father carried 
 Mb dro^en boy home ai^ watched him, The next nighty 
 ea^ly, is the boy came down the stairway,hb lather met 
 Inm at the foot of th^ stairs and said: ** Son, hold on, son, 
 Iwint you to getsob^and gowith me^and ffive yornr heart 
 to God andbmme rdigions, like your foth^ has done.". 
 And the son said : "Get out of mjr way, lather, and don't 
 try to stop me." The man stood in m»nt of his s<m, and 
 Mttd : " Son, please stop, you will break my heart," He 
 kokidii^ his fother with a wild gUre, and said s** Father, 
 get out of my way ; I tell yOu iioi to itop me : 1 am go- 
 Sig down town." The father said : ** Oh, sqn, your mother 
 hik not sU^ a wink, of late, thinking of you. and* your 
 
 foifaer has be^ praying to Qod fot yon. Oh, iny son, 
 don't go." The t>oV looked at him igiln with a wild 
 
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 good brother told me : *" If mj boy Li^ ihot me tbroagh 
 the hewt witl^iA ininie bell Se coqldnot hi^^e haft me 
 
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 Anilher ikther toM lo^ he luid g^ tk gnmry 
 it<xre to get provyomi, and in ^le beck room of thai 
 aton ^ a bar. A gentleiDin aajd to him : ** Won't voir 
 go ba«ktod take a Maea of lafler beer with me? "^ and ha 
 aaid: f^ot tbinkhig^-and IhadiijOt taken a glaMof 
 lager beer or anythii^ else in te yeura— I did ao ; and 
 Men the beer waa £awn, I took it tip in my hand and 
 preaaed it to my lipa. Then |br the firat time I remem- 
 bered that my little boy waa witb me» and aa I preaMd 
 the glaea to my Hpa he pulled my finge^«nd said : ^ fmgtk, 
 What ia that you are drinking t^ I took my glaaa from 
 my Upa ftnd aaid : ''Xifiger b^, aoa" After I M iMnk 
 tlie bewl put the glaaa down, and we w^^d oui df the 
 atore, and aa we wi&ed out of the domr the little fellow; 
 pulled my finger again and aaid;. *I^apa;. What Md^ 
 aay that waa yot| were drinking in there Just now 1^ 
 i said 'Son, it waal^er b^r7" And h^said, ''Aa^e 
 .walked <m home the IHtle fellow pulled at niy fingers 
 again and said: ^Ftepa» I cannot recollect w^t thai Waii 
 you drank itiat now ; what waa it, papa T " i^nd h«^ iwd 
 the little fellow asked thraame question agaili tha next 
 dayiidhe said/ *< J would h#Ye jii^oi tbousandfe if I 
 couldMvereadNrthaiVme aci I am afraid that one 
 thi^ will J^^ a drunkatd out of my i^r little boy.** 
 -Ohl liiy^rienlK you had better mind how you aow. 
 The harvest is coning. " Whatsoeyer a man aoweth, that 
 ahall he also reap.** . j, \ 
 
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 to-BM^ithet r«» ^ ^.^Oaa. end pethape I led 
 
 nndArfthoMlledijtoy. X^ly/^^^aar&i^i 
 tth.ch«d.^ Pl6«rtown «d^o^^ 
 
 to thet ■»f*^^i«fl Wbd MtSrwlio fa iwt • 
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 ,,„,,^ng ifi^ down to Beu. 
 
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 ^m lihAt tow^ to ilie Spirit ihtll of the Spint reap 
 
 life everlMting.- Thank God for that Thoiij|h tfi* lowing 
 
 of twenty-four years of my life wa. aowing in the wr^g 
 
 . direction. Ood has given "•Jowto^yewrs of nght sow- 
 
 „ ing-of sowing the right sort of seed. And, Aank Godj- 
 
 while I have led a sinner or two away from Ood 1 tnu*^ 
 
 him to t>fay to him to help me to l«f ^ *lo«ens hack to him 
 
 in righteousness and in peace and tn joy m Oiat holy 
 
 Zini B«»thren of the cUS of Ood^tW have you 
 
 r not sowed Ibng enough in the wrong direcUon » ■•o^*^ 
 
 have you not sowed long enough in the ^V^S^";^;^^ 
 
 Let eyeiy mother say as this gwxi woman m Chattaiiooga 
 
 ^ /did* ■. ;"■?,-•• .^'■";- c 'r^-:- ■■■'''' 
 
 mtmn entered the house one evening and he »id; 
 -Mother.you andbister co and «et thecards. I»nb«t 
 you a ganfe to-night" fib moAcr s^pke; -You didn t 
 tiear tSat sermon 1 did thU evening/; She said: "Swi 
 those caitls are burned up, and th^ will be no ^orecards 
 he.^/' And Hhe said in "''^ition ^that^ ?! J«*mi^e^ 
 
 evening at the meerin^ to R'*^♦<>-"'fi^^^°^^f ,^^^^ 
 the men's meeting, and I sfiall go upstairs and bepn to 
 niay now. It is neariy meeting Ume. And he said . 
 '^S^ter.if Igetmoreiirds,wm youplay?''. Shesaidr 
 - No. I heard that same sermon, and I am going upetaiw 
 to piay." The boy turned right round, went downtown, 
 ana ^ikcd into the meeting, and that night he was jc«^ 
 vcted and ga^e his heart to God. and when he g^^ 
 
 home he toik his mother ^^^^^f^l^ ^^ 
 
 ' your saved boy. and from this time on I shiai bea^^J 
 
 tian forever and ever/* That boy was soundly ^co^vjrted. 
 
 Look here, niothera . Let us say to ^^^"^'g^J^ 
 
 ^^ouT^^doTlber^^ 
 
 ULil a toul or cuwed hun«mity shaU «vcr U 1^^ 
 
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 in my ho«M%uiy longer. Out with it I am done, T am 
 dona. An(^ tliAt /nay produce conviction in your boy's 
 heart and b^forenezt Sunday night meeting i» over^^ery 
 child you h4ye got may be a Cmiatian, and on iti way to 
 heikvtto. ^ 
 
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 ▲ U-UNION Of THS J0NKSS8, 
 
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 Now i> ii^ordh>f perional history' and yon w01 pardon 
 ine, although I do not know whether it is necessary for a 
 preacher ever to ask anybody's pardon. Whether you 
 pardon or not^ I will say this just in illustration of the 
 thought i am on. About six years ago now in Februaiy, 
 I received a letter from my old grandfather J^ones. He 
 ..wrote me this: . ■ . ■.. . •■ .rS^. 
 
 ** My dear grandson, youiiid your wif 6 aud your chil- 
 dren come down on the 27th of February to our humble 
 homa Tour g^ndmother and myself will have becm 
 married fifty years on tUat day. We have lived fifty 
 yean in haf^v wedlock, ahd we are going to celebrate 
 our golden wedding:'' ^ ^ 
 
 I never thougnt much about it for a flir days,1>ut as 
 llie time drew near I said : ** Wife, let us co down to old 
 ffrandfather'a" He lived two counties below me, and he 
 lived in a double loff cabin. He had been poor idi his life, 
 ttid h# had alms been a hard- working man. We got 
 down to grandfather's, and there Were gathered all nis 
 kinsfolk, sons, sons-in-law, grandchildren, and great- 
 jrandchildren. W»«tedinner in that humble cabin, and 
 if ter dinner went into the lanro room, as it was called. 
 Andjwe gathered around grandmther and grandmother in 
 a double circle; Qrandfalher and grandmother sat in the 
 centra of the cirde, Imd my old grandfsfther, a saintly old 
 man, said: " I want to tell you some history anid btAtis- 
 tifls." He said: 
 
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 * Way hack yonder, in Elbert County, Qa., when a six- 
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wera both dead, and I wm bound out to * ffentleman on* 
 til I WM twentv-one yean old. When I was lixteetk 
 yean old the Methodlite eame into that county and 
 'pi«ached. And they atarted a meeting, and I went up to 
 the altar and I gare my |Mr|^ Uoidt, and I Joimd ti^e 
 church. \ 
 
 Ax^d he eaid," Shortly after I joined, they mad6 4 ohuM- 
 leade^out of me, and then an exhorter, and then theyi^ 
 licensed me to preadi, and for fifty years about I haVe' 
 been a pt^iacher. In the meantime, when I waa about 
 twenty-one, I married this your grandmother and mother y 
 and my wife, and U^e first night we went into our hum-r / 
 ble home wexoommenoed evening and mopdng family 
 prayer, and forNfifby years steadily we have kept up our 
 devotions night And morning." 
 
 And he said : ''I have preached the gospel in my poor 
 way the best I could," And he said: ** I have thought 
 many a time that I might just as well give it up «nd quit 
 it all I was doing no good, but I have been laithiiif to 
 Qod and duty. iSni now;" he sak)/ '* children, here are 
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 " There are fiftv-two of us in all, children, grandchildren 
 and great-grandcnildren." " And," he teid, " twenty-two 
 of that numb^ have crossed over and^f[one to gloiy." Hi' 
 sud, "Sixteen of the twenty*two were uifants. and! have 
 Qod's word for it that they have gone -^*'» ''^- '»♦'•'»» «-' 
 
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 remaining ones that have passed over a^ died happy in 
 Christ and went home to Heaven." 
 
 And one of these six was the man I had the honour to 
 cill my lather, and I stood b^ his bed and saw him liter- 
 ally shout biiET w:ay out 6i this world. ** And now," said 
 my grandbther^" there are thirty of us living, and evary 
 one of those thirty are in the church and on weir way to 
 
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 ^'Now," Mid my old giandiathor— twenty-two over 
 yondor, thirty down h«ro— " and," Mid ho, << I do not oara 
 mnoh whother I itay down here or go iipyonteandit»y 
 with them nntil you eoma." ^ 
 
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 tod gai^ hia heart to OoA and we^boat now; 
 
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 JSUeve it ia five eona and two giandaona that are preach- 
 
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 old grandfathet'a crown and teU God he la worthy thorn 
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 doubt on hia Icneea prayinff God tol>leMhiagratidaon and 
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 two are aale over there fod^^^^^^^^ ibe.w»y. 
 imdl cannot nuas that «orioua world ; I am <m,my way 
 theieta-^t, bleesed be Go4 ! yUl the momsy l^hive got 
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 gitwto heayen, I expect toknow mjrniother thereand see my 
 ^ei^^re and loyed ones there, and it will be a jo^^to 
 look np.in the faoe of Jesns Chriat^my predoog 
 mour as I walk the golden streets ; but I'll tell yon the 
 grandest hour that I shall see in heayen is some a#eet: 
 ^moment as I walk the golden streets, when J shall secf my 
 piecious wife winging her. way into the shining courts ;; 
 and I shaU join hancb with her." « We joumeyed haodtl 
 hand down yonder, and we are here foreyer.*! 
 
 Then the grandest moment shall be when wife and I 
 shall sit down in the shade of the tree of lifeandanareh- 
 angd win« his way to us andlights atoor side andbroshei 
 our littlekiuy tmt from under his win^ He 9ays : 
 « Here she is. Ton trained her for eyerlasting life and she 
 shall liyei with you foreyer." 
 
 And another glad hour wiU be when an aii|;el shall winjS 
 his Way to us and brush sweet little Annie $om under his 
 
 wing and shall say : ** Here die is, another ohernb yon 
 ' tosined for joys on high* untU at last every sWeet chi)d 
 
 shall c(«me sweeping in, and we shall all join hands in thii 
 . courts aboye and shout it aloud ; 
 ^Hei^all<ilu8,andhom6foreyerl'* 
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