The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-05-15
A Whooping Evangelist.
GEMS FROM BROTHER SAM JONES, THE
GEORGIA PREACHER NOW STIRRING
/. Up TENNESSEE.

Of IENNESSEE.
We see God all around us. The noun
tains are Gods thoughts upheayed. The
rivers are Gods thoughts in motion The
oceans are Gods thoughts imbedded.
The dewdrops are Gods thoughts in
pearls. F
believe that the whale swallowed Jo-
nah, and the only reason don't believe
that Jonah swallowed the whale is be-
cause the bible don't say SO.
You don't believe what you don't un-
derstand. Do you understand why some
COWS have horns and some are muley?
You don't believe what you don't see.
Did you ever see your backbone?
The hardest thing for me to believe are
the Ten Commandments and the sermon
on the mount.
Custom is the law of fools, and is ruin
ing this country.
God. pity the man who can't run his
home without deck Of cards. He ought
to have been in hell long before he had
children born unto him.
used to dance, but when / wanted a
wife went to the prayer meeting, and /
beat your sort, too.
II any man don't like what 1 say let
him come to me afterward and say so,
and I'll forgive him.
Yon dance with this world and you'll
go to hell with this world.
have no respect for Mahone's politics
but like his answer to the question how
much he weighed. He said: j weigh
ninety-five pounds, but ninety pounds Of
that is backbone.
Some men think they have backbones,
but it is nothing but cotton string run
up their backs.
There is more religion in laughing than
in crying. If religion consists in crying,
have the best boy in the world.
photographed your own ugliness, and
you sit here and laugh at it. You ought
to be ashamed.
am Methodist, and want to be the
best one God ever made.
When st. Peter said add to your knowl-
edge temperance. he didn't have refer
ence to you, old red-nosed Methodist.
Any man who pretends to be Christian
and drinks whisky is great big old hum
bug-a two-legged hypocrites
Society is a heartless old wretch, and II
you don't get out of 1t you will go to hell
with it.
When the doctors say you can't live but
an hour you'll want just such a preacher
as is talking to you.
God bores through the top of mans
head to his heart aud ON down to his
pocket. so5 p.
The lawyer who knows rs little about
Blackstone and the supreme court reports
as the average christian does about the
bible, would never have but one case
The sheriff would be his next client.
If any Of you don't like the way these
services are going, there are three doors
You are cordially invited to leave.
When your little cups full you can just
back out.
Red liquor and christianity won't stay
in the same hide. ss -
In Georgia number of girls married
men to reform them, and now the towns
are fun Of little whipporwill widows.
How lovely is = patient woman. God
pity the man who has q forked tongucd
wife. h
The matter of church doctrine is an ac-
cident. II my mother and Brother With
erspoon's mother had swapped babies he
might have been Methodist preacher.
The devil Is too much of gentleman
to stay where he is not wanted.
The churches Of Nashville furnish whis-
Ky to the surrounding country. Some Of
your wholesale liquor dealers belong to
the church.
II Brother Barbee would draw the line
where the Lord wants him to draw it,
there would pot be hundred members
in the church. Is
The back door of the church ought to
be opened once year and give all who
have not lived mp to its rules an opportu-
nifty to pass out.
Bob Ingersoll (and never call his name
without feeling the need Of . disinfec-
tanD says whisky is Gods worst enemy
and the devils best friend. He is good
authority on that side.
Whisky is good thing in its place,
and that place is in In hell. I'll get there
will drink all can get. but won't do
| it here.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.