—
Sam Jones’ Last Sermon
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that being often reproved
his neck, shall suddenly
destroyed, and that without
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The bare announcement of this
lough to bring every
to our feet with this
aon: “Unto whom does God
those fearful words? Un
whom does God address Him
in that fearful language?”
There are in this audience hun
Idreds of people who ought to re
main standing and announce an
other fact, and that is, “Surely
God means me, for I have been
often warned, I have often been
reproved and have often heard His
Word. Surely He means me.”
I announce strictly a fact when
I say there have been more sud
den deaths in the last twelve
months of this world’s history than
since the evening and
■ning of the first day of
rld’s life. More men in
twelve months h,ave sud
gone into the presence of
than in any twelve months
all the world’s history. You
hardly pick up a leading daily
newspaper in the United States
that there is not from fifty to
000 persons that have been
away suddenly and have
into the presence of God.
earthquake, by fire, by tidal
waves, by accidents on railroads,
by storms at sea, by apoplexy, by
paralysis, by heart failure; day
by day the register has gone way
up; and, mark my words, just as
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multiplied in all the earth. More
men have hardened their hearts
and more men have been swept
into the presence of God, and as
you hear me tonight I shall re
call illustrations of these fearful
facts that lie beck in my brain
and which have been gathered
from all parts of the country.
I was preaching at the memor
able meeting at Nashville, Tenn.,
some years ago. On the second;
Tuesday night Captain Ryan, a
man who owned all the steam
boats along the river, came for
ward and asked to be prayed for.
Shortly one of the pastors walked
up to my side and said, “Mr.
Jones, that man, Captain Ryan,
is the most wicked man in the
city and a very great sinner.”
That night Captain Ryan was con
verted, and he walked up to me
after the service and said, “I
want you to come to my house
and I want you to see my wife
and children.” I answered, “I
cannot come before a certain
date.” He said, “I will come
for you on that day.” On the
morning of the day arranged he
was at the service, and after
the service we got into a buggy
and rode up to his splendid home.
When we got out of the buggy
he introduced me to the mayor
of the city and three of the cap
tains of boats which he, himself,
owned; also to lawyers and other
influential men of Nashville.
Presently Mr. Ryan’s wife walk
ed in and I was introduced to
her, and after a few moments
of conversation, she said, “Now,
gentlemen, dinner is ready.” As
we crossed the hall into the large
dining room the captain took my
arm. “Mr. Jones,” he said, “not
one of these four men are re
ligious, and I want every last one
of them brought to Christ.” He
put me at the head of the table.
The mayor of the city sat direct
ly on my right and at his side
was one of the captains. Immedi
ately on the left side were the
other two captains—four great,
big, stalwart men. I addressed
my conversation right to those
four men, pressing Christianity
and the question of religion on
them with all the force I could,
incidentally mentioning the fact
that within twelve months there
would be sudden deaths among
those sitting at the table.
After the meal was over we
parted and not one of the four
men were Christians or came to
the meetings. I had not been
away from Nashville three months
before, the steamboat captain who
sat next to the mayor on my right
hand side walked up to his home
one day, and when his feet struck
the front porch of his home he
fell with a heavy thud and was
dead when his wife and children
reached him. Not three months
more had passed when the man
who sat on my left stepped onto
his boat just as the'boat started
to move off. He fell on his face
and never spoke another word.
Not two months more had passed
when Captain Ryan sent me a
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tain who sat ,
went suddenly into the
of God. A few days later I saw
where the mayor of the city had
been out hunting and while load
ing his gun the gun went off,
putting the whole load of- shot
into his head. He fell forward
and never breathed another
breath; and before I had been
away from that town twelve
months those four stalwart men
had all been suddenly called into
the presence of God.
“He, that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly
be destroyed and that without
remedy.”
I was preaching at a Tennessee
camp meeting a few years ago
and we were having great crowds
there. On a certain day a young
man who had been in the hack
of the tent, standing up while I
was preaching (and I was “say
ing things” that night) turned on
his foot with an oath on his lips
and said: “I have had enough
of that.” He went out and went
toward the railroad station. There
was a freight train passing at that
time which was going about eight
or ten miles an hour. That young
man grabbed at the side irons
on the side of the train, lost his
grip and rolled under the wheels
and was in the presence of God
almost before I was done speak
ing.
I was preaching at Gainesville,
Miss., some three or four years
ago. There were only a few days
left in the meeting and I said
to the men who were helping:
“Let us all get down to work.”
Next morning Pastor Brown came
up to me and said that he had
passed two saloonkeepers on the
street that morning as he was
coming down and had asked them
to close up their saloons and come
down and hear Sam Jones. They
said, “Does Jones think that we
can close up our business and go
down to hear a man like him
talk?” I mentioned this incident
in the meeting and said that two
saloonkeepers of that town had
cursed on the street and said
they could not close up then
places of business to hear the
Word of God. I said, “I have
seen doors closed with black
crepe tied on the door knob;
they had better look out.”
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Gainesville one of the saloon
keepers who had said this went
downtown in the early morning
to open his saloon, and just as
he unlocked the door and pushed
it open he fell in the doorway
and lay there dead when the first
policeman came around on his
beat that morning. Dead before
his wife and children could say
“goodbye!” Mr. Brown sent me
a marked copy of a paper a few
days later which said that the
other saloonkeeper went up to his
home and fell on the floor as he
was going in and was dead when
his wife got to him. There was
black crepe on the doors of those
two saloons, and, mark my words,
there are men in this town that
are cursing the meeting and curs
ing on the street, who will be
suddenly struck down. I am not
a prophet nor the son of a
prophet, but you will have deaths
in this town that will startle it
before the last day of this very
month. Mark that! God hath
said it. There are people in this
town that are turning against God
and despising His mercy, some of
them in the last sixty days of
their lives, and every time you
turn your back on God and walk
off from His mercy you are re
fusing the greatest offer that a
man can ever have.
“He. that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly
be destroyed and that without
remedy.” .
Years ago a corps of cmi
engineers came to a little town
in a valley in Pennsylvania and
went up into the mountains and
examined the dam which controll
ed the waters of the stream which
flowed down into the valley. They
came back to the valley am* said
to the people of the town, “That
dam is unsafe. The people in
the valley are in constant dan
ger.” The people said to them,
“you can’t scare us.” That fall
the men came back to the valley
and examined the dam again and
said to the people in the valley,
“We warn you people again, you
are in danger every hour.” They
laughed at them again and said,
“Scare us if you can.” The men
went up again in the spring and
warned the people again, but the
people said, “That is a chance.
We have been hearing that so
many times. Scare us if you
can.” . . .
It was not fifteen days later
that a boy with his horse on the
dead run came down into the val
ley shouting, “Run for your
lives! The dam has gone and the
water is coming!” The people
only laughed at him; but he did
not wait to hear their laughter;
he went on down the valley still
shouting the warning. In a very
few minutes the dirty water came
and in less than thirty minutes
after the water struck the town,
Johnstown was in ruins with more
than 3,700 of those who had been
utes It to Mi unprecedented peace
time Influx of Federal employee to
Jobs In the scores of new bureaus
and commissions functioning during
the past few years at Washington.
These are significant facts. They
Introduce an arresting element of
novelty In the American picture. Ex
cept during the brief emergencies of
war-time our most striking growths
heretofore have occurred along what
might be described as our geograph
ical and Industrial frontiers.
Population Increased at the swift
est pace in states where new and
productive lands were being devel
oped by agriculture; in cities where
new and productive industries were
originating and expanding.
Inevitably such growth meant
greater opportunity for the men and
women who took part in the devel
opment; greater wealth for the na
tion and its citizens as a whole.
But an unprecedented increase of
Job-holders at Washington has quite
a different meaning. It shows only
a growth of Bureaucracy. Unlike the
men and women who, by their en
ergy and their labors, continue to
develop America and to bear the
costs of its government, many politi
cal Job-holders produce little or
nothing. They consume, instead —
out of the share of all men and
women who labor in the home, on
the farm, in the factory or in
business.
And the greater the number of
those who merely consume, the
greater the burden on those who
produce.
in the town in the presence of
God. You have been reproved
many a time yourself, and fright
ened many a time yourself and
you sit out there and say, “Scare
me if you can; get me by fright
ening me if you can.’* But on
God’s judgment day you will
run and call for the rocks and
mountains to hide, from God’s
just fire, your little soul. God
gets closest to the man who is
honest with his own soul and is in
need of Christ. God help you to
pray about this, “I am not to be
frightened into Christianity.”
“He, that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly
be destroyed and that without
remedy.”
It is an awful thing to die,
anyway, but how awful it is to
die without a moment to pray,
without a moment to counsel the
wife, without a moment to talk
with the children; but to be struck
down suddenly.
I don’t know when I shall die
or where I may go down, whether
in a railroad wreck or in a storm
at sea. I might even go down
on ,a wagon or I might drop
dead with heart failure; I don’t
know how I shall die, but I know
I prefer to die easily. I know
I deserve to die suddenly. I
may be taken with a stroke of
paralysis and would have to be
carried to the train and from the
depot up to the old home where I
could live for years, into the room
where I have sat and talked hours
at night with my wife and child
ren. I would suffer and linger
there for days talking to them
about the responsibilities that
would rest upon them when I
was gone, about right living, and,
when the last day would come
and the last night would come,
and the doctor had packed up his
stuff and gone; wife and children
would stand around my couch and
I would bid them live good lives;
at the last moment I would turn
to my wife and speak the last
words of my heart to her and
bid her be faithful to the end;
I would kiss them all good night
and go home as happy as any
school boy ever went home from
school; but to die suddenly and
without preparation, without a
word of counsel to the wife, with
out a word of comfort to the
children, without a moment to
utter anything to this world:
“Cut down, why cumbereth he
the ground?” God help me to
go home easily.
“Suddenly destroyed and that
without remedy?” How we look
to remedies here. Millions of dol
lars are spent in patent medicines,
doctoring and all that sort of
thing and it shows how men dread
death and how they lean upon
remedies and' how they look to
remedies to heal and remedies to
effect the cure; but “without
remedy.” The saddest hour that
I ever saw was after ten weeks
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"0 Lord Jesus Christ, who raised
Lazarus from the dead when he
had been buried four days and
said, ‘Come forth, Laoarus, and
he stepped forth and had the
napkin taken from his jaws and
the grave clothes off him and
walked home with his sisters; keep
the words that you spoke that day
and spare my wife.” She lives
today, cured by the only remedy
of God.
The day will come to you, fath
er, mother, man and woman, when
youY- doctor will pack up his medi
cines and go, and when every
instrumentality shall leave; mark
my words, and you will turn your
eyes toward humans and human
instruments and they will say,
“There is no remedy.” Then is
the time when that man or woman
shall turn his eyes from human
remedy to God and God shall sit
upon His throne and say, “No
remedy.” There is no remedy in
either human or instrumental
power and' there is no remedy in
Heaven for that poor fellow.
“He, that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly
be destroyed and that without
remedy.”
1 want every man ot you Here
to settle this question tonight,
either surrender your life right
here tonight or deliberately make
up your mind to run on to ruin.
You are daring God to His
face to execute His Word on you.
If you feel that there is more
important business than we have
here you may go, but I tell you
what I want to do. I want to
take the hands of you mothers,
I want to take the hands of you
fathers, I want to stay and let
the other people do what they
will. I want all the sinners here
tonight to say, “God help me, I
will be a Christian from this time
on.” I want you to come up
here and say, “Here is my hand
and I endorse every word you
have said tonight,” and I like
the man with courage to do what
his convictions tell him to do.
Come on now and give me your
hand and let us pray for you.
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The Rural Electrification Ad
ministration has now become a
permanent set-up as a result of
the recent act of Congress, and
Morris L. Cooke has been appoint
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10 years, with the task of lend*
mg some $400,000,000 in » way
to bring electricity to the farm
ers of the nation.
Since last August the REA has
managed to lend only about $12,
000,000 but under the new Bet-up.
Mr. Cooke intends to take the
initiative and actively show farm
ers how to organise in order to
obtain loans.
The central idea behind the
Administration will be to prevent
the building of new lines to skim
off the cream of the customers,
leaving other families in situations
where they would have little
chance to obtain current.
What has been accomplished
by REA is not to be measured
by the small amount of money
loaned for the construction of ru
ral lines. As a result of its op
eration, there has been a consid
erable gain in mileage of electric
lines in rural areas. Much of this
has been constructed without fi
nancial aid from the REA.
FARM PRICES WEAKEN
Farm prices are tending toward
weakness and Secretary Wallace
is on record as expecting “sur
prising” things to happen to farm
prices if normal weather contin
ues end the American-farmer fails
to recapture foreign markets for
his surplus production.
Given extremely favorable
growing conditions, it is feared
that production will outstrip pres
ent demand and thus pile up new
surpluses. How to avoid this is
the question. Of course, foreign
outlets for excess production
would answer the problem. With
out them rigid production control
will apparently be necessary to
the welfare of the farmer, re
gardless of the methods adopted
to secure such control.
LAND VALUES IMPROVE
Farmland values in the prin
cipal agricultural section of the
country increased again for the
year ending March 1st, according
income was made by fanners of
the country during tile first four
months of 1986, when the sale of
their products, plus government
benefit payments, reached $2,
079,000,000. This compares with
$1,970,000,000 a year ago, ac
cording to the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics.
Interesting also is the fact that
only $62,000,000 came from gov
ernment rental payments, as com
pared with $221,000,000 for last
year. Lower prices of wheat, cat
tle, hogs, and other products were
offset by larger marketings.
The experts believe that farm
income for the second half of
1936 has a good chance to exceed
that of last year if industrial ac
tivity continues at its present
level, although this forecast may
be affected by new crop yields,
causing lower prices.
That farmers are buying in
creased goods is also apparent.
This is evidenced by ,a report
from Moline, Illinois, where a
housing shortage is reported as
a result of the influx of hundreds
of families, attracted by booms
in the factories of three pricipal
farm implement companies. These
plants recently set an all-time
high for factory employment.
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walking about the town all day.”
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