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 . ^ ac-cident. The grace of Grod never made any man religious. TheBible never made any man religious. Preaching never madeany man religious. These are all grand instrumentalities in135 136 Partakers of the Divine Nature. the hands of Grod, but no man was and no man ever will be re-ligions until he settles it once uncompromisingly and forev-er, I will be religious, w
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 . ^ ac-cident. The grace of Grod never made any man religious. TheBible never made any man religious. Preaching never madeany man religious. These are all grand instrumentalities in135 136 Partakers of the Divine Nature. the hands of Grod, but no man was and no man ever will be re-ligions until he settles it once uncompromisingly and forev-er, I will be religious, whether I am anything else or I fail in everything else, I will succeed in this. If I dontdo anything else, I Avill do this. Like the great one whosucceeded in the highest sense—St. Paul. He said:One thing I I succeed. I am a success for all worlds. Sup-pose I fail in this and succeed in everything else, like Corn-elius Yanderbilt, the richest man that ever bade America*good-by and stepped into eternity. He turned to his old-. The Millionaire Beggars Dying Request est boy and passed $75,000,000 into his hands; $25,000,000additional he turned over to the rest of his heirs; and then, inhis last moments, turned to his Christian wife, and asked her;Wife, please sing, Come, ye sinners, poor and needy;Weak and wounded, sick and richest man that America ever produced asking hiswife to sing the song of a beggar!The next verse reads :Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that bythese ye might be made partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the cor-ruption that is in the world through lust. Partakers of the Divine Nature. 137 PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE. What does that mean—Being made partakers of the divine nature. Here is, perhaps, one of the plainest, clearest statementsof the beginning of a Christian made partakers of the divine nature. Eow, heres a man who has been, perhaps, intemperate attimes, worldly-mi
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