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May 2nd.
Hale commences Friday morning
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Progress fibf -the Meetings -Charlotte.
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WATCHES,
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Special Services This Afternoon to the
Colored People The Watte reopis
Turned Out to Make Boomme i wo
Partial and Vhiikey.
Aiit person deslrouH of getting an
Idea of the colored population oi
Charlotte and Mecklenburg county,
should have had a srlance over the
town at three o'clock this afternoon.
That was the hour set for the special
services for the colored people at the
tabernacle. They commenced com
ing in early in the morning and be
fore noon, they crowded the streets
and their turnouts filled the back
lots. There was no flaming paper on
the bill boards, but they were here
all the same. They had heard oi
Sam Jones, and they wanted to hear
him. The scene at the tabernacle
was a wonderful oue. The darkies
completely filled the building
and there was a full colored
choir. The roof, however, is of Inch
plank, put down with ten-penny
nails, and it remained intact
The sermon to the colored people
cannot be reported in this evening's
News, simply because it occurs al
most simultaneously with our press
hour.
It had not been supjxwd that the col
ored people would fill the tabernacle and
a number of whites went in and got seats,
but thev were all driven out Ix-fore ser-
i
vires began to make room for the negroes.
Tito building was filled to the very roof,
fully sis thousand negroes being there.
The colore J choir was led by Prof. Excell,
ami the singing was really of a wonder
fully attractive character.
The services at the tabernacle last
tftght were attended by as many peo
ple as could be packed into the build
ing. Before the services, requests
for prayer wore read for a clerk in a
shoe store, and 19 requests for hus
bands, wives, scps and daughters.
ii'flteou for frTencIs alratgfrbors.
A letter of thanks from a convert
was also read. Beginning his ser
mon, Mr. Jones said :
I invite your attention for a short
while tonight, and I want the atten
tion, if you please, of every thought
ful man and woman while 1 discuss
this, one of the most important texts
to be found in the word of (iod.
It is time now for action to begin.
Man desires to be good; but
it is action that the devil is try
ing to prevent, and if it is the action
which the devil does prevent on your
part, he has you securely in his
grasp.
In the 17th c hapter of the Gospel
of St. John we have the words of
Jesus: "If any man will do his
will he shall know of the doctrine."
At the time Jesus uttered these
words he was surrounded by the
sharp cunning Pharisees, and the
shrewd calculating Hadducees, and
the learned doctors, of the law, were
probiug and discussing and weigh
ing every utterance of his lips. He
threw the gauntlet down at their
feet and said : "If any man will do
the will of (lod he shall know of the
doctrine."
Now, it is perfectly natural for man
to doubt. Men have been doubting
ever since men have been sinning;
and really doubt is the legitimate
child of sin. You never had a doubt i
in your life but what if you would
take hold of it and pull it up by the
roots there is a seed at the bottom of
the tap root, and the name of that
seed is "sin"; and us loug as men sin
thay will doubt. The quickest, clear
est conversion that Christ ever had
under his ministry was the case of
Nathaniel heu he approached
Christ. Christ said: "Heboid an
Israelite, indeed, in whom there is
no guile," and the door of Nathaniel's
heart Hew right open. My Lord! my
Ood! with a heart and soul emptied
of sin. And the Scriptures teu&h us
that without faith it is Impossible to
please (ud, and it is by faith we are
saved.
Now men have doubted in all ages
of the world, aud never since Adam
disobeyed God down to this moment
have men ceased to doubt Man is a
very incredulous thing, and it takes
a great deal of point blank proof to
make a man believe anything, and
some men have doubted until they
began to believe that they doubt
whether they doubt or not
Now whatever has been a declara
tion, an affirmative declaration, that
is what the Gospel is. It is an affir
mative and impartial end of circum
stances which is in the affirmative.
1 aui sorry for a preacher who Is so
lot to Itls. calling as, to go around
defending Chtistlauiry trying to
move Christianity. Novfe'r did 'it 'in
my "llfe-ajways begba wltn tVt
Ood is God, heaTenis"beaveu,heil-lsJ
A preacher went home with a good
old woman as4 found all about-pn
the margin of J?ftjs few letters
T. P." Sister, what do these letters
mean? '.where u)d you see them?
saw them right 'hers. "Thy bread
i hall bs glveii me and watct is sure.1
"Wherever you see T. PJn jny Bible
if "stands "for TriecTand Proven,"
The main thing to do is to put tt to
the test I don't blame you for
doubting, but I blame you for sin
uing. "
Men have been . skeptical in all
ares, in ancient days etymology
meant Au . earnest inquirer lor
truth." But in these davs it means a
rooi tailing.
Men doubted Oalileo when he dls
covered that the world rotated in its
axis. lie . was arralirned and con.
vie ted. And Harvey discovered that
the blood circulated frolm the heart
back again. Well the earth does ro
tate, but here is a man says that the
blood wouldn't circulate,'" 'Watts
discovered that steam had a power
almost omnipotent, rney arraigned
him and tried him, and said the
World does rotate, and the blood cir
culate. But here is a man declares
that steam is to drive wheels. When
Morse discovered with electricity
that one could talk to another 500
miles away, they said the earth ro
tates, the blood circulates, but here
the greatest', fool the world ever
uw.
The greatest discovery came to
your house with the greatest blessing
they ever received, und yet today
they doubt, and fight and work
against earth's greatest deliverer and
greatest discoverer. I said to you a
man can believe that there is a power.
A man can believe that the blood
circulates,and he can be as licentious
as sin would have him. He can be
'leve that the blood circulates, and
he can be Just as mean as he wants
to be ; but us soon as he believes that
Jesus Christ can save sinners, a man
has to call. That's all.
I tell you I go out sometimes in the
school of philosophy and science.
What little fellows t hey are. Man, if
you iust come over into Christianity
and let me show you a Christian,you
will never call that a man any more.
You would get some other name for
It
It is worth preachlne to the end of
the world to meet and shake hands
with a errand man. 1 met oue such
one day, sat clown and talked with
tiiui. He stirred every ambition of
my soul. 1 tat and looked and won
dered. I betran to nrnv: Oh! (loci
make me a man, and I have beeu
praying it ever since.
ing grainier than good women ffnd
men. Tho other dav 1 met tit gran
dest woman. Thank God my mother
was a woman. Thank (?od my daugh
ter is n woman, rftul I felt good for
days and weeks.
Another dfty I met a little fellow.
TUat'9 s man. Well ! What is that if
that's a man? I don't want to be a
man. I'd rather be a dog. He was
not all there; part of him was miss
ing. Let me tell you, I see just hun
dreds of those little fellows everv
curative power was destroyed rby
wetting h earth, and he had bathed
many a time before In that pool; but
he lust groped his way In darkness
to the pool and "stooping down he
washed tbjs clay from Ma.yesvnd
looked up aud saw rocks and rivers
and mountains that his eyes never
looted at Deiorev ana ms evesaano-
inar in hie head, the neoDle said let's
give Ood the glory, but as for this
fellow he hAS the devil In him. The
fellow said : "I don't know whAthnr
lie has a devil or not: but Ihls I do
know that whereas I was blind,
now see." ' ; .
There is another case the world has
failed on utterly. Do you know that
the lener has balked the ne.lmA nf
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America for a thousand vears. Well.
give me a leper, rney brought ten
lepers to Christ aud they nay: "Mas
ter that we raav be made whole."
J esus said J "Oo show yourselves to
the priest"- Master the priest would
not let us go about him, We have to
hold up our hands to keen the neonle
off before - anybody touches them.
They started to go to the priest, and
before they cot man v varus the scales
dropped from their bodies and one
ran back and praised the Lord for
the healing of the 10 lepers.
Jesus Christ never failed to do any
thiug that a fellow wanted done. He
Is not only a Divine Saviour, but the
best physician that ever wrourrht
ver a diseased soul. That's what 1
am talking about And some of you
little fellows imagine your case is
peculiar. Bless your sweet little soul,
He would straiirhten vou ont heforn
you could say "Jack Robinson." He
would want half a dozen of your sort
to make one jaw. It is a mighty hard
matter to pic k up one little clover,
seed out of a bushel, and little fel
lows like you ought to come iu groups
Peculiar, sir! Absolutely there is
nothing like you. Law! yon would
be surprised to know how many little
fellows were down with the very
same complaint you have got Lis
ten! If any man will do what God
says to do, then he will know what
God wants him to do. What God
says, is to do. That's tho text That's
the reason why 1 am such a doing
creature. We fellows around here
believe. Believe! and these fellows
believe until they won'tdo anything,
out mat leiiow wno Deueves In the
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clay. They ain't all there part of
them is gone. Another day I met one
of those giggling, dancing, novel
reading girls, and I sat down by her
and got up. Absolutely she never
could get there, she will evaporate on
the way. Why, If I had half a dozen
like her to make one woman out of
1 would be mighty careful with the
dirt until I got my woman done. I
would.
I adore Christianity because it has
introduced nie to the grandest per
sons tins world ever had.
Christianity in every sense of man
hood and womanhood is the highest,
is the grandest plane that mortal
man ever walked. That's a fact
Christianity is as susceptible of
demonstration as anything else. If
Christianity is not as substantial as
mathematics you may have my part
oi it ii you cannot demonstrate it
as easy you can mathematics you
may nave my interest in it. Here
if a gentleman was to sit down by
me and say Brother Jones do you be
lieve in mathematics.' Yes sir. IJe-
moustra te it Twice 2 are 4 ; 6 times
uare;w. un, that's silly. What kind
of a demonstration do you want?
France and Switzerland a tunnel to
begin on the opposite sides of the
mountain and come together right
in the middle. Science and mathe
matics step up and says: I will
guide you through the mountain and
bring you together. Hut you might
ake a mistake. Mathematics savs
I don't make mistakes. Thus the
two governments say if you make a
mistake we have lost thousands of
dollars. And the engineers brought
their instruments and told the work
i ion to go to work right hero, and
they worked days, weeks and
Months. Tli no pie thought they
had missed taen other, but mathe
matics said, be patient, I make no
mistakes. Oue dav the France side
was sitting eating their dinner and
me Switzerland side rose from th.ir
meal and commenced work Mi-it
The French workmen dim titffcll till
and gathered their picks and shov
els when they suddenly heard tin
rumbling of picks andshoveUon tin
other side and the middle wall of
tho partition fell out and tln-v sinu
each other to an inch. Now' if t.
cannot test Christianity !! that
you may have my interest. I m.-.m
what I. say, and you can suli..-t it r.
a severe test and demonstrate it
Well,- religion makes me happy.
That's silly. Well what do you want
WelL-a Ood that can do any great
wonderful thing, with nature for in
stance. What do you want don
Well, suppose on that great lake of
Oenevereta ship was just rolling
and Pitching under the wmv.- T
would liked to see that hushed i'i .n
minute. We started th -c i-! ).
on that lake and Jesus was asleep
and when the ship was i..iiinK ttfe
frightened deciples waked hm,
and asked what they could do. He
just looked at the wind aud waves -and
took up one little wave. What
a Calm I Did the world ever wh,,.
more than that
Let us try him on this case ; where
a man was born stone blind. What
can you do to him. My Saviour can
give him his sight They stood him
on- the roadside, and cried- o
uuiu, wiuu cwu ui isnviu, nave mercy
npon roe. and Jesus and Jesus passed
the multitude and stobnerf
Mhcosolav with his spittle aud rubs
y i .u . "Mu" man's evfes
ana aid, fto wash lu .yonder pooL
'islenust, would haro known that tb
Bible won't believe anything but
what God says. I will tell you an
other thing. I don't are what a fel
low believes or what he ''j,. JXOt 1 thctm1 ' ' wjl 'At
unnor, ii i iiiivi. yrt inni io ao
what (iod telLi-fcfni to do. Now a
There is uotb'" ,,el1,ow et A ''"I6 keP-
chance for you at all. Now listen:
I don't care what a man believes,
and I don't care what a man don't
believe, if I can get him to do what
God wants him to do. That's the
reason why, brethren, I have a con
tempt for infidelity. It Is because
an infidel denies a proposition that
they dare not sit down and work out
i was preaching in one of our South
ern towns and a man walked down
street with me aua said: "I am
what you call au infidel. You have
got something I haven't got If you
cau do any thing for me I will' be
much obliged." If you will take my
medicine I'll warrant to get you
straight In 4s hours. I'll do that,
lint I want to tell you I dont believe
in the divinity of Christ I don't
care what you believe. Now tonight
you kneel down aud pray, "God be
merciful to me a sinner." You shut
your little mouth and don't open it
for 48 hours. That night when I in
vited penitents to come forward he
was one of them, and when I walked
down to him that night he was
kneeling down praying ''God be mer
ciful to mo a sinner." Now when I
open the church you come up and
join the church, but "keep your
mouth shut" You have nearly
talked yourself to hell. But I said
shut your mouth. He got out his
bible and had family prayers. When
he HPked me if I believe in God, I said
shut your mouth. Didn't I tell you
not to talk to me. The thing I told
that fellow cinio out all right and I
believe kept up, too. If you give God
your head he will pull the kinks out
of your hair every morning. God
don't earn what a fellow believes or
don't believe. God never said give
me your head, hand or foot and
the Lord knows the head has not been
the start of vour life. If you irive
(lod your heart he will straiirhten
vour head out, you little old fool.
rhese Christians K"inir arouud the
country saying now, If you are skep
tical, there is no chance tor j-ou. I
have irot many au infidel. I have
uever kiiowu one to turn out to be
much, but they are worth saviujr. be
cause they belong to Adam. They
belong to the Adamic race.
A man don't do what he believes,
but he bellevos what he does. If you
show me your faith, I'll show you
your works.
Sam Jones, I am a little skeptical.
Thou the end of you; you will die
with a cold In your head. You know
doctors tell us if we take a hard cold
it will always settle in the weakest
part. That's' the reason agnostics die
t-arlv. because it is with a cold In
their head. A cold iu the head! And
a preacher that will sitdown and ar
gue with au infidel is a goose. Re
member, you cannot argue with an
Infidel. "What is an infidel?" "Just
a jrreat big mouth going around
talking," and all you have got to do
l to Inmyine his mouth, and that is
all there is left --- . 1 .
If I was not a Christian, I would
walk up to-night and say ; , "Here's
mv hand! I loin the church. I would
go home and erect a family altar and
put myseii - in me nanus oi uie
Ereacher, and if a man will do that
e will get to heaven just like a man
going on the Richmond A Daville It
It will go to Washington. I am not
talking theology. I am talking
Bible common sense. 1 am talking
the text for one time, and I am afraid
1 am wandering off from my crowd
frequently.
If my boy had good sense and
religion, and you picked him up and
sent him to a theological seminary, 1
would sue you for damages.
I was preaching iu Middle Geo.
gla. We had five chargea WEfdl pirice.
I preached to that little piece. The
first Sunday 1 went there I walked
homejwltu a brother and asked him
hW many members have you got to
this church. Four. Who are they?
Me, my sister, her little boy, and my
little jrfrl. Well, I said, "Shuck" is
that all you got I aske
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community know that I LEAD in the latest
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a ua nHtly 3uarter of century. "Think of this." One
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