Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-28
The G.. A. r. flag is flying at half.mast

A0ulCoS hiiooSo ~
ing low to close out, at Clagett's. nov2stf
Clagett is closing out his majolica and china
ware at low prices. Patronize him for your
holiday presents. noV2S'i
The ladies Of the city and county are invl-
ted to call and inspect my stock of millinery
notions and fancy goods. Mrs. S. A. Moore
head. oct 3m2
Itch and prairie mango, cured IN So MIN
utes by woolferd's Sanitary Lotion. This
never fails. Sold by Chas. W. LOOMS
druggist, Lexington. mar21-1y
Zephyrs. Ssxonys, Germantown wools,sm-
ported worsteds, SC. Also common yarns,
now in the greatest variety, at tie Ahrens
Dry Goods Bazaar. noV2lt2
Mr.. Lewis Neale has built up a first-class
reputation for the Commercial Hotel. and we
are glad to see him prosper. A good hotel is
a great advantage to our city. oct3lIf
By others loss we profit. A large importer
of decorated china, recently failed in the
east. The assignee for the business sent out
circulars offering to close out the stock at
fifty cents on the dollar, and from them we
ordered q line of tea sets. which we can af-
ford to sell from 81 so to IS. one half their
real value Call and see them at Young's
China Hall. nov2St4
Well, we heard Sam Jones, at Centenary
church In st. Louis. last Sunday. When we
entered the church we could not help think
ing of the old Centenary on Fifth and Pine
in the days when we used to go there 10 hear
Mr.. Marvin preach, long before he was a
bishop. That old church had the flavor Of
Methodism about it-primitive Methodism,
when the churches were plain. the services
simple, and few Of the women had for
gotten that the discipline used to forbid them
to wear feathers and flowers in their bonnets.
New the flowerless or featherless bonnet Is the
exception. Indeed the ladies go so far for
feathers that they wear whole birds as Orna-
ments, thereby bringing death and destruc-
ton to the songsters Of bright plumage.
Even this is better, perhaps, than wearing
hearts skewered upon relentless arrows as
some of the coquettish beauties do, even in
this staid and sober sect. But there have
been great changes since the days when
Brother Marvin received a dollar and q half
and q pair of pantaloons for his first years
service in northern Missouri. From bare
walls, deal benches and a pine pulpit, not al
ways strong enough to bear the usage Of a
very fervent brother, we have marched on to
arched and tessellated ceilings, stained glass
windows, with figures approaching the APP
pearance of the cross; carpeted floors; cush-
Toned pews and k~neeling stools; candle
sticks behind the pulpit, emblematic of the
golden csudlestIck In the Jewish tabernacle,
representing in the three in one the triune
God; the aesthetic frescolng and the grand
organ which thunders its melodies through
the aisles and up into The vaguest recesses of
the lofty roof. A peculiar feature, other
ministers might copy-the large marble
clock, behind the congregation. marks half
past eleven, and nothing else. The restless
INNER who thinks the sermon is getting long,
looks back only to be convinced that it is
earlier than he thought, and that after all the
good minister has not preached so long. DR..
VIM. V. Tudor is the regular pastor, appar-
emily q most excellent man. The church be-
gan filling up early. and feeling that we
probably needed the heaviest blows that the
plain spoken brother might deliver, we Sc.
cured q seat pretty well up to the front. By
the announced hour the hurch was full
After the hymn, "Safely through another
week God has brought US on our way, the
Rev. Samuel B. Jones led in prayer ,reverent.
ly. he asked q blessing upon the approach
ing work in st. Louis. His language wa,
calm, unimpassioned, earnest; not loud, bu'
forcIble; and he used excellent English
The prayer was q beautiful one. Then wa.
sung the hymn "How happy every child O
grace, after which Mr.. Jones announced his
text, Matthew SIG -''Let your light so shin,
before men that they may see your goot
works and glorlfy your father which is il
heaven" He told us our light was under
bushel and that he was come to knock tn,
bushel Off. He said that he might, before b,
got done, use some very incorrect English
but if he did we might safely reckon that b.
had just about found the level of the congre
cation. He illustrated that by telling
story of an old colored sexton Of a church u
Memphis, who said he liked the ministe
mighty we'll except that he put the fodder to
high. Going into tue preachers study on
day he found him preparing his sermon GU
of six books. which Mortified him into tellin
him that If he used all those books to &c
one sermon out of, the fodder would be :
high that no one could reach it. .Afte
q while, meeting the old darkey, he eXelaim
ed, 20, its all right now; we've got a preach
er who puts the fodder right down Oh til
ground where we can all get at it," ii
promised to put the fodder right down on tn
ground. He told the people he wanted thel
to laugh il they felt like it; TO cry if the
wanted to. lie said if he had robbed Il he
ro0st or stolen someone's bacon the night be
: fore, he couldn't laugh in church, but wOul
! have u face AS long as your arm, but if he W:
: honest and had done nothing mean he coul
y laugh and smile and be happy. He the
Q lapsed Into the southern grammarless vel
> nacular, which he adhered to. TO the end
: of his sermon. He said many things wei
b attributed to him by the papers that he hi
. never said or done, but he would not ha,
!. one thing unsaid. The devil" he sal
u 'does Il great deal of advertising for me
{ He said he always threw in a few bones
{ he went along, because there were alwa,
some dogs in every crowd; that some
{ these dogs would be yelping down tow
after a while. but let 'em yelp, they can {
x no harm, and will only show by the moi
y they make that they are hurt. He drew
Il vivid picture of the selfish mln--tw
:, hundred pounds ~avoirdupOis of selfishnes
= with a big I. a big me, my wife, etc. He sa
If he had a church he would not have SUI
u cattle in 1t. [Sensation. He said cattle W,
y a good biblical word; that he had come the
: to loosen their hides. They were hid
bound, and needed Il shaking up. He pa
his compliments to church members who
/" to theaters, and pay IS cents to hear vulga
{ foul language. which they think very fun
. and fine, whereas if the same persons were
utter the same language in their pIriOrs, f.
e nothing, they would kick them over Il
front fence. lie said, yes, women would
IS and hear that sort of stuff and then come al
~ turn up their noses at Sam Jones' coarsenes
e he said whenever he saw u woman with
turned-up nose (and he turned his OWE no
L up with the end of his finger) he knew tn
the devil had a mortgage On that nose, al
n that he would soon fOreclose il and get t
" whole gal. He said preachers had reno
r. strated with him for his style, who hadr
f. been able to produce q grunt intheir church
y for twenty years. He was willing to sw}
fishing tackle with any Teller whose tack
Il had caught more fish than his. Unit th
kind Of tackle was produced he would Ike
his own. He Told them he was here TO VOL
He had no time to fool away. ii they can
i out to the services, well and good; If not
H. would hull out to Cincinnati, where his ne