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Winter la a ; thing of the past,
, Spring nearly bo, and Summer, with
its dust and heat, ia almost upon as.
Cotton Goods are to the fore, and the
feminine mind is busy planning and
contriving; ravishing- costumes for
the coming campaign. The cotton
. brigade is now formed and Is on
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.However much we admire the Ging
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pSVERYTHINO OOES AT
T BUTLERS.
What He Had to Bay Last Kieht-His
Sermon Tody Scenes in the Tab
ernacle. There are possibly a few people who
didn't think that Sam Jones would
draw much of a crowd to Charlotte.
After tho scenes of the past twenty
four hours it Is safe to say that they
have changed their minds. The like
of it was never seen here before. It
beats the old time muster days. The
railroads empty hundreds of people
Into the city by every train, while
they come in along the public roads
in all sorts of conveyances, from i
fine carriages to an ordinary seventy
five cents pair of brogans. To get an
idea of a Sam Jones audience one
will have to stand in the street and
watch the people coming out of the
tabernacle at the conclusion of the
service. It is simply astonishing.
Last night the big tabernacle
almost filled. There were over 6,000
people present, and possibly 500 more
eould have been seated. Mr. Jones,
;n beginning his sermon, said:
Now we invite your attention to
these words, in the 15th verse of the
24th chapter of the book of Joshua:
'Choose you this day whom you will
serve, but as for me and my houso,
we will serve the Lord."
We have before us one of the grand
ast declarations, one of the finest ex
irtations that human ears ever lis
tened to and human hearts ever pro
nounced. "Choose you this day whom
you will serve," is the exhortation,
followed by this declaration, "but as
for me and my house we will serve
the Lord." Now we have to do first,
with the exhortation of the text,
'Choose you this day whom you will
serve." Christianity is simply and
only a matter of choice ; it is not a
desire simply, it is not a matter sim
ply, or "I wish I was ;" but Christian
ity Is simply and only a matter of
choice. "Choose you this day whom
you will serve." If everybody who
desired to be good, was good, every
body would be good ; if everybody
(who purposes to be godd would be
good, then everybody would be good.
If everybody in this audience who
wishes I was good, all would be good.
But it is not a question of desire,pur
pose, or I wish I was, but It isa ques
tion of down right, square outchoice.
Now I am ready to say in my place
again, God himself cannot make a
man a good man until a man intelli
gently and deliberately chooses to be
good. No man ever went to sleep a
sinner and waked up a Christian.
No man ever accidently fell over into
Christianity. It Is a matter of delib
erate, intelligent choice of the will.
Now to illustrate what I mean by
"choice." If you were to lay an ap
ple or banana on the table and say
Jones take your choice, I would take
the apple and leave the banana, or I
would take the banana and leave the
apple. I have got seuse enough to
know that you did not mean for rne
to take them both. You see? Now
listen: Before every intelligent per
6on in this audience Christ places
purity, holiness and heaven here,
every sinner In' this town' would be
one. There is no doubt about that
And if there Is anything that makes
ine ashamed of humanity it is for
one of you to say I am waiting the
Lord's own good time.
Now it is to that sortl have a good
deal to say in this meeting. A Bister
said to me: Brother Jones, you use
more foolishness than any preacher
I ever saw. Well, you know what
foolishness is? It is stufl you rub on
foolx: well, it takes a sight to go
round as sure a you live, ii any oi
are, Brother Pool? Do
there are 100 there?
there
suppose
nearly every body in Charlotte goes
you
' Yes.
to preaching. 4
Now. you take the churches of this
town, do you reckon them ever? Now
somebody told me tat was one thing
about Charlotte they would go to
cburoh. WelL'it is a terrible case,
brethren. Lam sure. i you are not
preaching Gospel . to them. You
preachers are cutting It fine 'and
warming it, and Just giving them a
little at a time j and if anybody asks
you if you endorse Sam Jones, you tell
you get any rubbed on you you will I 0" J hi. t 6 With &Ul
know your name atVr this. Now, . 2eJ m here' 1 won 4
n au intelligent I ""1 """J w "uuoree me.
ad I believe my L.We not hunting endorsers.
Vrir-8 waai 8ort or a member yon
will be. Choose you this day whom
you will serve, not only choose ; that
you will choose God or not; but
choose what kind of servant you will
be. If you want to be a good man,
pitch in. God will help you every
step. If you want to be a truthful
man, God will help you every step.
If you all don't do better you will
have to take down part of the church
spires. You have already run them
up higher than you own. You had
better look out Consecrated, earn
est, diligent, faithful Christians,
these are what we want
The saloon keeper is after our boys
and the dancing master Is after oiir
girls. Ain't that so? We can sort of
back and give up our boys, but let us
uie in our tracK ratlier than give up
our girls.
We get it in courses.
hear me: I believe I
choice of the right, and I believe my
father in heaven approves and sec
onds it. God will have all men to be
saved and coiue to the knowledge of
the truth. "In due time Christ tasted
death for ever for every man," and I
say to you if you want to be good
now or over you nave got to choose
to be.
We look too much to the means
nnd too little to the end; we look too
much to the parnphenelia of the
ends und too much of the deliberate
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and He places worldlness sin and
death, and most of 3011 members of
the church say, "I'll Just take them
all."
How many members of the church
here ever came to the deliberate
choice I'll take Christ and Christian
ity, and you may take the rest Oh .
j nroiner I'liristiau, when looked at
I from a practical standpoint, eive me
purity, holiness, happiness and there
is not another thing this earth has
that I would turn aside to take.
"Choose you this day whom you
will serve." With all of the light be
fore you, with all of the facts staring
you in me iace; witn tne past, pre
sent and future, time, eternity, the
grave and Judgment before you,come
to the conclusion, which is the best,
and conscientiously and deliberate
ly choose the good the balance of
your life. I repeat what I said, God
himself cannot make a man good un
til a man himself dell berately chooses
to be good. If He can, how can He?
Suppose I want to make a farmer out
of my boy and he doesn't wan't to be
one, but I'm going to make one. I go
out here and buy 500 acres of land
und stock it, while my boy is here in
town drinking whiskey and playing
billiards. I am going to make a far
mer out of that boy with a vengeance.
ain't 17 wnne 4 rauea on mm as a
farmer, now I want to make him a
lawyer. How shall I do it? I build
him a law office, put all of the best
law books in the office, such its Black
stone, Greenleaf and others, and the
boy driving around town with the
girls and I cannot get him Inside
of the office. Now, ain't I making a
lawyer out or mm with a vensreance.
Listen: If God Almlirh tv Mn't
make, you a good man until von
choose to La good, how can he? Til
tell you bow: Now build him a
ohurob, give him a Bible aud start
him a Sunday school, and hire him
a preacher: because thev all hva
hoice of Christ, and the risrht means
of salvation of the soul itself, and we
preachers are sometimes to blame
for it
Listen: "As in Adam may all die;
in Christ so shall we all be made
alive." You talk about humanity Just
no if TMiriaf nova? auffi.k? T .n
" jk . ouurtou. uuit X lull
you this much: when God wanted to
become the Redeemer of man He
took human naturejustlikemy own,
and if it is good enough for God what
are you growlingfor? I get disgusted
10 near people taia about humanity.
I am nothing but an old worm of tho
dust; an old worm with whiskers:
an old worm with breeches; an old
lady wormess with a dress on, and
feathers in her hat I would he
ishamed of myself. I tro around and
say nothing, nothing, nothing, until
it nas turned out to te the God's
truth, and I am nothing, going no
where, and old sister nothing with it
wnat 00 you want to De nothlnarfor?
How can God crown nothine? How
can nothing play on the harp ; and if
you get to- heaven nothing, they
would be everlasting running over
you, because they could not see you.
I do not want to be nothing; I want
to be something and somebody. Now
let us quit being nothing, and let us
be somebody. Unless you say broth
er, I Just made him out of nothing.
Now hear me: There is not a man
of us but what can choose any min
ute that be can be good or not and
then in a minute can choose J ust how
good we can be. I don't only choose
whether I will be a Christian or not,
t have got it in my hands Just what
sort of a one I will be. If I choose
to be a first-class one, thank God I
can be and if I choose to be a -20th
rate Christian, I can, can't I? can't
I? can't I? Of course I can. One
fellow said, Brother Jones you know
more about backsliders than a.nv
fellow I ever saw. I ought to begin
to know something about them. I
never associated with any other sort
ince I came in the church. A fellow
ought to begin to know something I
about his gang, and these churches j
are all about on a dead level.
The Baptist church will not take a 1
fellow uiit'.l he gets experience, aj
Presbyterian won't until he gets In- '
telligent experience and a Methodist ;
will just slosh around and take any- :
body, and we are Just as good as any
body. Now that's about rieht Ain't '.
it so? I do not say that because I'm
a Methodist You know there is as
much religion in the Methodist
church in this town as there is in
any church in town, and you know
it Let me say to you you can choose
what sort of a Christian vou will he.
and if you choose to be a first-class
Christian the devil cannot keep you
from it It is "choose" all the way
through. Now here; I want you to
listen along here for this service is
not all giggling. You can choose
just what sort of a member of church
you will be. Now let's look these
pastors in the face, and I am sorry
they are not all here. I was preach
ing one day along this line aud said : ,
I wouldn't take a man la the church j
who woldu't pray in his family or in
me cnurcn, ana ao anything his pas
i tad Display.
A Great Stock.
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Generous Bargains. ' Generous Brains.
First thino-
you know it is the skating rink, and
everything in town is rolling on
wheels; and the next thing you know
it is cards, cards, cards, and evnrv-
thlng in town is playing cards, and
every little vagabond wlio can run
after a horse is a wheel horse.
Old married women dance and
dance right up until your old figures
get so stiff you cannot get around,
and many a woman never quits
dancing until she dances down with
rheumatism or "swinney," or some
thing else. "Swinney" is lameness in
the fore shoulder. I don't know
what that is. Now hear me: Choose
what sort of a Christian you will be.
nann uoo tie nas made it possi
ble by His covenant grace and His
omnipotent power for the last man of
us to 00 as good as we want to be.
You slip shod, wisby washy, dancing
and card playing members of the
church, suppose the salvation of the
world was turned over to you. Where
would the world be? Be it said, to
the honor of Texas, when I was In
Fort Worth preaching, I said I would !
give any man in that audience,-who !
was a Christian, $500 if he would get !
up uu uiui piauorm ana oeiend danc
ing and give me 15 minutes in con
clusion. A man in Dallas, Texas,
took me up. I never pay a party for
gathering a crowd together for a bus
zard to spew on. He was a profes
sional dancing- master and was go
ing to defend dancing. Do you think
I would irive $500 to have that don
when I can hire a whole lot of them
for $5? Beit said to the honor of i
Texas, but one man in the Htate had I
A.n.ii.. in ;
nid icuieiuY or nara noon tn an-
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Gent'
Leath
er txTo
ivr wauieu nim 10 ao. une or 011
merchants said I went today to Join
the church but you shut the door In
my face, and I said how did I? H
said you made a remark in vour ser
mon that any man who would not
pray in his family or do any thing
the pastor or church wanted him to
do. Now that let's me out Well.
you mean business. What sort of a
member do you want to be. I want
to be a (rood ono. Do vrm bnnu-
Brother Green over here? he wouldn't
dancinc. Mv! Mv! Mvt
have danced a good deal lu my time.
1 tnius 1 nuve. 1 uuucea up 10 tne
i time I got religion, but I say this
much, I danced and frolicked with
; the girls until the time I wanted to
marry, and I had to go for a woman
I could call wife aud ono lit for the
training of mv child run uiwl T n-ont
500 miles and I drove out in the coun
try four miles and got one of the
pray,er meeting girls, and I wouldn't
give her for one of those dancing
girls that ever danced. I am Just
talking about my choice. Boys.dance
around with them, but when you
want to get a good wife go to the
prayer meeting, hunt her up, she is
worth the balance all put together.
Now let me tell you another thlng.l
and I haven't got time to fool away
on that sortof thiutr. Home folks sav
'our church don't object to dancing'
What church do you belong to. I)o
you belong to the. Episcopal? Why
that church denounces It Do von
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church also denounces It Do you
belontr to the Preshvirinn
,' It hurls its anathemas again&t it Do
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you belong to the Methodist church?
She denounces It In verv unmistahle
terms. Do you belong to the Roman
Church? The Bishop of New York
has said that two-thirds of the girls
stated in the confessional that their
downfall commenced In the ball
room. When a pastor don't object
he alut fit to be a pastor of a litter of
puppies. I mean what 1 say. He
win urjuK wine with you and
piay carus witn you, and he
will
says
1 VI MMWJ TT 17 11 111 II I I.I ... . UH d
pray in the church or family or an. I nat .notnlilP 18 ",ore delightful than
thiug else. Lord, he says, that's an ! an5,nS- 1 ,,ore " ' a saloon keeper
insult to ask me that Question. I ! hftt ever ours?d this town that Is do-
would rather be like lam than to I mu&? na,rm ftS th,s P"aoher
be like him. There is Brother John- 1 vau . saioou Keeper is only
siou, no win pray
a revival and he
Well,
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re is Brother John- oan ??' ,.lV 8a,oou 1kHep' ,9 only
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the nKSohe T wVn. L Ain't that so, brethren? Well say
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got Bibles, Sunday schools : and
hymn books, and Umckmenld make
A fellow ft Cbrlitj8n.rcry day and
public 1( he likes the preacher.
air. Jones, 1 never called you
nere to insult me. There is Dr
Watts, who prays in church, Sunday
school and family. How would you
like to be like Dr. Watts, said I? I
like that Vou rascal, you want to
live like old Green and be like Dr
Watts. There are those in he Ah
Just that sort They would live liko
old Green and be like Dr. Watts.
What sort of member are you goinr
w &vu unto UlUtWlli JU
You may talk about the sinners in
this town as much as vou dIajuia h,,
there is not a church Lu this city that
aiStf nilAfl . 1 1
uui udou gvuu uiein oers. x ou
want more to run your prayer-meet-
t. uu wu't KHb will Ton n DVII
got to attend the meetings. Ton have
"WUl 10 or TOt WUO QOeS All tho nav-
illg and half of them don't pay what
You do not want more nrmKa
nan as mucn as you need good members.
Does Moody's crowd atinb?
Sam Jones' converts stick? They
maybe In the chain tramr. hut.
can say one thing about Sam Jonou
ne never preaouea nere Deiore and 11
I don't leave then better than I
found them. I'll be sorrv I
1 mean the most of them. Yon ...,
not lay them to Sam Jones or to
Moody. I don't know whose thev
are.. )":-
You take the churches of this
town, how many, do vou uth.
pose ; there are at,., the Methodist
prayer meeting every Wednesday
C'2bt.ill0W many do ws annnnal
"amen." Brethren I -Brethren I t
woutdn't let a man come her o-nH
clean out m,v ditches and never bring
uiiu a uluum. iu water or uo anytning
to help him. (Response. amen!) Now
cnoose; choose what kind of Chris
tjan you will be. Oh I listen: Now
there )s a very serious side to this
queston. I wpuld have called you a
don't take any side at all I am on
tne ience. You take a tooth pick
and lay l( dv.wn, he will get astride
01 it, ana tie thinks he is on the fence,
He Is a 11 ttl fellow, and his llttl
feet hardly touched the ground strad
dling a tooth pick. I like one of
tnese fellows that walks up like
Aa. . J MM At
w ue man auu gays 11 mere is one
Christian in Charlotte, I will be that
one. 1 line a Christian that atanria
ont like a man, whether anybody else
uwi or not. -jam as ior me and my
house we will serve the Lord." Thfa
1 is wnat l said 17 years ago last Autr
uu join 11 was not 17 nours oerore
me uevji wuu teiunir me 1 nau a hi
Job, but for me I will serve God. If
there is one man in the world to
serve God and be true to him, I will bi
that man. "But as for me and my
house we will serve God.B Hut 1
have got a wfe-and : 8 children! 6
times 1 are ft. and 1 makes 7. and 1
makes 8. ; Now I have got 8 times as
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