Sermons by RevSamPJones : as stenographically reported, and delivered in StLouis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Nashville, Waco and other cities : with a history of his life, by Theodore MSmith : with sermons by SamSmall . h brother told me once. He said therewas a young man in a revival-meeting he was carrying onwho was seeking religion earnestly for two or three da3^?.One day he walked out of the church after the young manand said to him: You are in earnest; you are in earnest. Icannot see why you are not blessed and saved. Oh, saidthe young man, I think I know the trouble. Every
Sermons by RevSamPJones : as stenographically reported, and delivered in StLouis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Nashville, Waco and other cities : with a history of his life, by Theodore MSmith : with sermons by SamSmall . h brother told me once. He said therewas a young man in a revival-meeting he was carrying onwho was seeking religion earnestly for two or three da3^?.One day he walked out of the church after the young manand said to him: You are in earnest; you are in earnest. Icannot see why you are not blessed and saved. Oh, saidthe young man, I think I know the trouble. Every time Igo to the altar and seek God on my knees, this fact comesup before my eyes: I clerk in a grocery store that retailsliquor by the quart and pint, but not by the drink, and everytime I kneel down and pray, the fact that I am clerking andselling liquor by the quart and pint comes up before me andstops my prayers. Well, said the preacher, I would giv Prisoners of Mope and Prisoners of Despair 185 up my clerkship. If I do, replied the young man, itlooks as if my mother and sisters will starve. My motheris a widow, and my sisters are orphans, and every bite theyeat comes from what I earn. I would surrender it in a mo-. A Business in Which a Man Cannot Fray. ment if it was not for that. Well, said the preacher,trust God and do the thing you ought to do, my told me the young man went on down to the store andtold his employer: Sir, I have been seeking religion earn-estly, and I cannot bo pardoned; I cannot pray as long as Iclerk for you and sell whisky in this house. 186 Prisoners of Hope and Prisoners of Despair. Do you hear this. A man cannot get religion and sellwhisky at the same time. That is as true as that G-od madethis world. And then I will tell you another thing: A mancannot keep it (religion) and sell it (whisky). A man can-not keep it and drink it. Listen to me a minute. FOR CATHOLICS. I saw in a paper in this city the other day a boast thatthis was a Cathol
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