The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-08-13
Sam Jones on Whisky.
His Farewell Sermon at High
Bridge.

His Farewell Sermon at High
Bridge.
Rev. Sam Jones preached his
farewell sermon at the High Bridge,
Kentucky Camp-meeting on Sun
day, August %. There were fully
5000 people in attendance. He
spoke with great earnestness and
power. The following is an extract:
eff I have been charged with
anything, it is exaggeration. They
say Sam Jones speaks in hyperbole,
and Sam Jones exaggerates. They
charge me with that frequently. l
will tell you what will do: 1 will
go to some graveyards in Kentucky,
where the poor drunkards are bur-
led, and defy earth and hell to ex-
aggerate the picture. viii words
paint anything darker and more
fearful than that? Things have
happened in Lexington in the last
ten years that I have referred to;
are they exaggerated? Take that
husband in his downward course,
and see him as he progresses to his
ruin. He loses all his self-respect,
his love for his wife, and then see
his wife's feet gradually being
brought to the grave day by day,
and see the wife's heart, as the
blood trickles from it drop by drop,
hour by hour, until its last GRIM
son drop is exhausted and she sinks
into the grave; see the little child
rem brought to shame and desola-
ton and want, and see the whole
family, and, when you have, bring
it and throw its shadow into one
picture before your eyes-a ruined
man, a ruined soul, broken-heart-
ed wife and beggared children and
hopes blasted forever. Is there a
word painter in the universe Of
God who can exaggerate that pic.
ture? The only difference between
the man who has done that and
you, brother, is that he has gone a
little further than you. You have
the same disease, and unless it is
arrested in its course you will
reach the same point before long.
have been very strong in my
denunciatiOns of some things.
denounce a thing in proportion as
see it is an evil, as I see it ruin hu'
mainly. denounce it in that pro
portion. 1 have said in the pulpit
that no one but an Internal scOun
drel would sell and no one but an in
fernal fool would drink whisky
That is strong language. They say
You ought not to sayit. The liquor
dealers at Chattanooga said "daml
it, he insults a man to his face" ant
have cursed promiscuously abou
what l said in the pulpit, and
have been cussed about as much al
discussed, too. I told them, too
the next time they heard me, Il
meet the next morning and &
down a certain street with me un
til we arrive at the desolate HON,
and see that pallid woman and Sc,
themselves what a horrid wrecl
their trade has made of a once hap
Ply home. See the wrecked firesid,
and wretched children on the floor
and then ask that woman who wa
her father and how was she raised
who she married and what has be
come of her husband, and thel
place your ear to her heart ant
hear the blood dripping, dripping
from it and then see the besottet
form and bleared eyes of the bloat
ed man lying drunk on the floor il
the back room, and ti.en say If
exaggerate.
THE WORLD FULL OF FOOLS.
A man in Tennessee wrote m,
the other day about as follows
Jones, / understand you have offer
ed $500 reward to any man VIII
will take oath before a justice o
the peace and sign his name tina
he doesn't want to 60 to heaven
and if you'll write me I'll meet 20,
and take the oath and get tn
money
l would be a fool to offer $500 70
such a man and such an oath.
can get them all over this countr,
for a dollar, and some even for fift.
cents, and some would sell out TO
nothing and board themselves
Look at the picture. OF course
never made such a proposition. A