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 . A woman can be a perfect lady and dance, butshe cannot be a Christian and dance. That is as true athing as ever I uttered. A w^oman may be as true a lady as What it is to be In Christ. 131 ever walked the earth, and attend theaters, but she cannotbe a Christian and do it, to save the world. A man may beas nice a gentleman as ever walked this earth and playcards ev
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 . A woman can be a perfect lady and dance, butshe cannot be a Christian and dance. That is as true athing as ever I uttered. A w^oman may be as true a lady as What it is to be In Christ. 131 ever walked the earth, and attend theaters, but she cannotbe a Christian and do it, to save the world. A man may beas nice a gentleman as ever walked this earth and playcards every night in his home, but he cannot be a Chris-tian and do it. That is as certain as this world exists. HOW HE KNOWS IT. You ask me how I know. I got religion fourteen yearsago and I know how those things served me, and I reckonthey serve about every fellow the same way. If I, as a mem-ber of the Church, were to begin dancing, or playing cards,or carousing in my family, I would go to the preacher andsay, Take my name off the roll. I will never be a hypo-crite. Submission! The idea is this, Speak Lord, thy servanthearethj thou art true and just. Oh God, sj^eak out and Iwill hear it, and when I hear I will obey. That is what!. A Roge7s Engine (Kogors Locomotive AVorlcs, Puterson, N. J.)—SamJones* Beau Ideal of a Live Christian Man. mean by submission. I think every Christian man in theworld ought to givehimself upasfully to Grodas one of thosegrand Koger engines gives itself up to the engineer. I havestood on those engines, and as I talked with the engineer Ihave seen him stand with his hand on the throttle and hiseye on the track. Prcscntl}^ he would pull his watch out andlook at it quietly. Then I would see him pull the tnrottle alittle wider open, as much as to say, Grive me six or eight 9 132 What it is to be In Christ, more miles an hour—we are getting a little behind. And Ihave seen him as he approached a station shut the throttleoif, drop the lever forward, and stop t
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