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WAS A WARM SERMON.
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r us e.i me the use of the place. Listen!
jj'l were running a soap factory In hell
3P.i they hauled me the carcass of an
1 ,4 alderman like that I'd say leave it
out.
•Hear me. my countrymen, you talk
. i:10 i)t a man having stabbed his country's
conscience to death, the time has come
i:i this so-called Christian country of ours
w hen we ought to lift our prayer that
. , consciences be resurtected.
■Who'd accuse your Mayor of having a
conscience I’m just asking a question,
tt everybody who believes he's a con
c, j.-nce stand up?”
Tl’•re v.-as a roar of laughter at the
jj r .t question, and no response whatever
to the second, no one either speaking or
nuking any move to stand up. "Gentle
j.i.n of the press,” said Mr. Jones, turn
ing to the reporters on the platform, “put
down the facts; don’t cover up anything
to! either God or the devil; give us a
~, ~1 it-, deal.” Then turning again to the
congregation he said: "Your Mayor’s
j.M-rnal character is out of my reach,
nu t as your Mayor, he's public property,
and he's my meat.
“What we need in this country,” con
tinued Mr. Jones, “is to put Into every
ptflec m the state, from that of Gover
nor down to constable, a man that has
~P fear of God in his heart. You may
tie a thousand-pound rock around my
neck and drop me in the Savannah river,
■put every little babbling wave that
passed over me would say ‘you have
drowned an honest man who. had the
courage to stand up and preach conscien
tiously to you.'
"Is life so dear, Is peace so sweet, that
you don't dare help yourselves. Every
preacher In this town ought to be a mix
ture between a billy goat and a mule so
that he could butt with one end and kick
with the other. To do good here we
oust put our people on their feet to look
and long for better Things.”
“Listen! I put you on notice now; I’m
going to make every man and woman in
this place indorse what I say before I
get through or make them hug those
benches like sick kittens, Bub. And you
shan’t say I didn't give you notice. You
can think'and get on your feet or you can
think and get under the bench. You'll
do one or the other, but you'll indorse
everything I say, not the sermon as a
whole, but every sentence, every word,
and every syllable of it.
"He that pursueth evil stabs Conscience
to death—when he does he is already in
the way! the devii wants to have him. And
there are a lot of you old deacons, and
stewards, and vestrymen down there, all
you lack being in hell, you old devil, is to
die. When the conscience is stabbed to
death the man is out of the reach of
God.”
Turning to the ministers on the platform
he said: "Brethren, are you praying?
We!!, it's a good time to pray, for we
want to say those things in this town
that will make Savannah a better city
than it has ever been before since it was
incorporated.
"He that pursueth evil pursueth not only
death, but the death of sensibility—sensi
bility the parent of sentiment, which is
the power that allows us to enjoy the
grandeur of the sunset, the beauty of the
landscape and the fragrance of roses—the
power that keeps us close io mother, and,
in that way, close to God.”
“There are men in this lown who have
killed their sensibility and are so dead to
all that is noble and pure that I had as
lief shake hands with a dead man as with
them. Every sin is a direct stab at sensi
bility.
"Again, he that pursueth evil not only
pursueth death, but pursueth death to the
intellect, until after stab, and stab, you
reach that point where you believe a lie
the truth, and the truth a lie. God pity
the man who has stabbed his brain with
sin until he can’t take hold of truth.
What a contempt I have for these big,
brainy fellows who sit around and drink
champagne and curse and stab their
brains until they become an, enemy to
God and society. I would like to see ev
ery office in the state filled with men
like Judge Jackson, noble hero that he
is. I say now, right here, that I’ll never
vote for any whisky-drinking, cussin’, dog
for office, I'm too much of a gentleman
myself.
Here he turned To the ministers again
and said, “There you- preachers are a-slt
tmg, and I know you agree with every
thing l say. yet you’re as silent as a
tombstone without an inscription on it.
If a man came to help me dig dirt out
of my ditches and I couldn’t help him I’d
at least, stand on the bank and say amen
while he worked. But, never mind, if
you'll hold while I skin we’U make hides
go down.”
He described the awful accident that
once befell a train because on a dowry
grade the brakes refused to work. "The
greatest lower God has given men is will
power," he said, "and the next greatest
Power, is won’t power. The won’t power
is Mke the brakes to the train. Every sin
is a stab at the brakes, and to-night I'm
talking to men who have stabbed their
brakes and are rolling to hell.
"Many of you,” he said, “have prom
ised to stop drinking and have not done
it. many have promised to stop blas
pheming the name of God, and have not
done it, and if you ar’n’t careful, you'll
sink into hell at last as dirty as you
are to-night. God pity the men in Sa
vannah, who have gone where they can't
stop. Brother, put on the brakes where
you are.
He that pursueth evil pursueth death
fo Ids own soul. What is death to the
anil, what is death eternal? You have
seen the death of the body—the heave of
the bosom, the glare of the eye, the
twitch of the muscles. Is the everlasting
'ieaih like this? O that God would help
ps to shun the stab.”.
Mr. Jones here called on every man, wo
man and child that had heard the sermon,
so l who, by the Grace of God, believed it
to be true, to stand up. Apparently the
entire congregation rose. "You reporters
up and see,” said Mr. Jones. "Nine
ty-nine per cent., Including the colored
hoopla are up.” Then he continued.
Thank God, old Savannah's not so bad
®nd ignorant as not to know the truth
"hep slip hears it.”
Mr. Jones concluded his address with
'cine advice. "I want to see you,” he
■'aid, "a Christian, noble and pure and
good, hut, remember, a human resolution
_ s no stronger than is the man that made
"• tnd only God Almighty can keep a
man on his feet. I know by own case,”
be continued; "If I hadn't believed bet
,lr,g sinful I could have won every dol
in my county when I first reformed;
Pv vry man there was willing to bet it
wouldn’t last. Rut it did; it was a case
r, f stick and etlck. I stuck thirty years,
’md have got more etlokabillty about me
now than I ever had before. I like the
Old Presbyterian doctrine that gives every
v iint a chance to persevere.. I don’t like
| b way some of you persevere. Yes, I
Ido ihc old creed, and old sort of Pres
byterians that it made."
Again he said that the reformed man
was an entirely different person from his
old seif. What you want to do, he said,
* to tie born the same night the old self
<Jie R You, over there, sitting by yaur
* fe. you’d better be born to-night when
vour old self riles and give your wife a
-ent husband and the town a decent
1 Itizen.
Hies* you, I’m not mad with this town
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for what you've done. Y"ou folks ain't eas
ily stirred, blit when you are stirred you
are the stirredest lot I ever saw." To the
ministers he said, “Brethren, did you ex
pect anything like this? You never
expected it, did you? I wouldn’t be at
aii surprised if some of you didn't have
to pull your old pocketknife out of your
pocket and prose to yourself you own
identity.”
When the call for penitents was made
the response was the largest probably
that has been seen at any of the meet
ings.
HAD MANY PENITENTS.
Hev. G, H. Stuart Preached a Strong
Gospel Sermon.
The usual sized congregation tvas pres
ent at the afternoon service at the Tab
ernacle, conducted by Rev. G. R. Stuart
yesterday. The sermon was a plain gos
pel one, Though it abounded in the anec
dotes, and graphic stories of persona! ex-
■ v”. nnirrri-wi-—niiniuiiii ny i mum
perience with which the speaker has so
well illustrated all of his previous ser
mons.
It was also one of the most successful
afternoon meetings that has been held, as
an unusually large number of persons re
sponded when the call for penitents was
made.
Mr. Stuart’s text was drawn from parts
of Matt, v, 29-30: “And if thy right eye
offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee”—“And if thy right hand offend
thee, cut it off and cast it from thee.”
“There is no compromising verse in the
Bible." eaifl the speaker, “and God does
not compromise with sin. He does not
tell you if your right eye offends you to
put eye-drops in it, or to put a shade
over it, or to go to a doctor with it—he
tells you to pluck it out. Nor does he
tell you if your right hand offends you.
to tie it behind your back—he teHs you
to cut it off. Now I want to talk to you
this afternoon about some of these right
eye, and right hand sins—and everybody
has got ’em. and, it would seem, that
we’re all apologizing for 'em and fixed up
for keeping 'em.”
'*'&*%!}'l
Mr. Stuart then explained that almost
everybody was willing to admit that ab
solute holinfts In llvlnsr necessary,
if one would set Into heaven, yet each
not only found It hard to. but sometimes
even didn't try to pet rid of the little
sire. “Too many,” he continued, are
satisfied with being average Christiana.
Now my opinion of the average Cnrls
tlan Is that if ho doesn't repent, he'll go
to hell."
netting back to the question of little
sins Mr. Stuart said that everybody had
then, possibly Just one. One man might
be a good man, except that he drank an
other would be all right If he would M
wv* tell the truth, and still anoth r
man's fuly falling might be that lie
didn't pay his debts. "And now let mo
tsil you right here." he saJd. “the man
that owes an honest debt, and yet wears
a silk cravat, steals the difference be
tween the price of silk and cotton.
Again returning to the question* of
sins, he snlci. that he had onee r-sid that
worry and ill-temper nre the germs ol all
mental and moral sins. But that they
could he overcome by God's help, lit In
dorsed this statement, because lie had
proved It In his own life.
In illustrating many of his points ho
told of Incidents that occurred to himself
or to members of his own family; then ex
plained to the audience that he had been
criticised for doing so, but continued to
do it, because after all families are alike,
and he talked of his own family by pref
erence, because he knew it better than
he did any other family.
Before he finished speaking he told the
congregation that many of them were still
victims of these little sins that he had
been talking about, not because they
could not get rid of them, but because
they didn't want to, because they found
it hard to do so. “Many of you in trying
to die to sin," he continued, “are like Pat
trying to commit suicide. A friend came
along one day and found him suspended
from a limb by a rope around his waist.
'What are yez doing?’ asked the friend.
'Committing suicide,’ promptly answered
Pat .
" ‘But,’ said the friend, ‘that's not the
way to commit suicide; put the rope
around your neck.’
“ ‘Oh no,' said Pat, 'Faieh, I tried that,
and it nearly stopped my breathing.' ”
HAT OF ACCORD ION PLAITED LACE.
TOUT* OK LOST DOGS.
A Varied Chorus of Complaining
Howls.
From the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
. Anyone walking alone 102d street, near
Eeast River, would have his attention
' arrested by the complaining howls of
j many dogs. These howls come from the
low, wooden dog shelters, for it is here
' that all the vagrant dogs picked up by
| the men in the dreaded red carts are
, taken, as well as sick dogs and lost
\ dogs that the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals as asked to take
1 away and dispose of.
Once inside the shelter the noise Is al
most deafening. Dogs snarl and howl
their loneliness In every key. But the
\ officials at the desk merely asks the
visitor politely: “Have you lost a dog?”
as though a hundred or more dogs were
not whining behind the closed door back
of him. He does not mind the noise; In
fact, he says that he is so used to It
! that he would miss it if the dogs should
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keep quiet. When the visitor enters the
dog room the barking stops for a mo
ment; large and small dogs, curs and
well-bred dogs crowd forward to the bars
to see who It Is, each one hoping, un
doubtedly, that the new comer may be
his master. Then as one passes along
the line of pens the yells of the disap
pointed dogs break forth again. On the
opposite side of the room the cats sleep
calmly In their separate cages. They
have enough to eat. and they barely
blink at the visitors; their Indifferent
attitude implies that they have learned
to wait, unlike the Impatient dogs op
posite, that are upset by the mere open
ing of a door. The pen* arc scrupulously
Clean, and one of the men exvlalns the
division.
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“The dogs in this first pen, their time
is short; they’ll have to die this after
noon. They’re Friday’s catch. We'll save
that one,” pointing to a bright-eyed
Irish terrier, that alone had not rushed
to the side of the bars. He had watched
eagerly, had seen that we were not his
people and then dropped his head be
tween his paws. He was lying where he
could watch the door.
“Each one of 'em takes it different,”
the man went on. “Now that there ter
rier that didn't get up has hardly moved
since he came, an’ he won't eat. There's
quite a few like that, among the older
dogs. Now, here’s Saturday’s catch. They
got until to-morrow. You see that yellow
pup making all that row? He ain’t stop
ped a minute hardly since Saturday. Here
you ca'm yourself.” he said to the dog.
The yellow pup in question sat in the
middle of the pen and barked and yapped
persistently and unemotionally. He held
up one pathetic paw, that had been hurt.
But his yelps were not of pain, but of
indignation. He wanted to go home, and
did not intend that any one should for
get that for a moment.
Most of the dogs in this pen were curs
of the worst description. Y'ellow dogs,
nondescript black and tans, scraggy and
unkempt. But most of them showed by
the way they crowded toward visitors
for sympathy that they had belonged to
someone, while the little, thin street
dogs that had been lost so long that they
had forgotten they had ever had homes
lurked distressfully in the back of the
pen. Among all these "no dogs” stood a
magnificent black and white setter. His
whole aspect was of deepest grief. He
could not understand why he, who had
always been such nn object of care
(for even after two days at the pound
he looked well groomed), should he shut
up here, and he stood on his hind legs
against the bars and poured out his
troubles in low whines.
“He needn’t feel so bad," said the man.
“Some ohe'll come after him. sure. He's
too fine a dog to lose. Here's the Satur
day’s catch at Flushing. Some o' them
out-o’-town places seem to think their
dogs don’t need a license. We got a
pretty good haul there," he said, com
placently. Theiy’ll be kept till Thursday
to give their people plenty of time to
get ’em. Here’s the licensed dogs and
well-bred ones " Then he darted for
ward, for in the aristocrats’ pen a fox
terrier had killed a little Italian gray
hound and was tearing a hole in his
side. In the meantime the other dogs, a
St. Bernard, a beautiful greyhound ond
several good terriers looked on while the
fox terrier made his unnatural meal.
The dog guardian took out the body of
the other dog.
“It don't happen often,” he said, “but
now ar.d again they kill each other be
fore we can get here. As soon as we
know a dog’s quarrelsome or has got
a spite against another dog we take
him out."
When the visitors were returning, they
found the setter dog had lain down in
a corner, and half a doaen short-haired
little mongrels had settled down on top
of him, grateful for the warmth of his
long hair.
“Now that dog there’s a fine home
dog. He was picked up outside this
morning,” said the guide, pointing out a
fine coach doy. “The hoys up to his
place'll come down in a body when they
get our notification. Seems like he know
ed it, for he ain’t worryin’ none. No,
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we don’t get many cats, except what
we call emergency cats,' they're the sick
ones that people asks us to take away.
Inside here is where they meet a pain
less death," and he led the visitors into
a room where a big box stood. The
dogs are placed inside, and illuminating
gas is turned into it.
“Oh. they get homes lots of times,”
said the man, reassuringly. "A lady
came the otlier day to get her dog,
and took away three others with her;
paid their licenses, of course," And as
the visitors went out they heard a voice
demanding; “I vant a smart dog fur a
vatchdog. Can you gif me one?”
—Alfonso Leon Ferdinand Marie Jacques
Isidore Pascal Antonio, King of Spain,
was born May 17, 1886, and will soon be
fifteen years of age. At 16 he will be con-
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as queen regent since the death of her
husband, which occurred some months
before the birth of their son. Aironso
I XIII will always be remembered in his
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should happen to distinguish him from
the ordinary category of monarchs.
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