The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-11

FRIDAY, SEPT. II, 1885.
SAM JONES, THE TENNESSEE NEGRO
PREACHER.

of the larger cities ten thousand
persons have listened to his addresses
in one day. Mr.. Jones was engaged
in law previous to his conversion.
While one may object to his eccen-
trio use of language, his earnestness,
and his desire to bring men and
women into q realizing state of their
dependence on Gods mercy, none
can deny. lie is attractive TO the
multitude because he deals with the
homely phrases of life and uses
homely illustrations. In recent
discourse his theme was the treat
ment of wives by husbands, and
uice versa. This is a specimen:
"It's ten thousand times harder
to be just than generous. 1t is easy
enough to give poor woman n
dollar, but when it comes to follow
ing a straight line, being just in all
things, just to God, to your family,
to your children, to all men, it is a
different thing. Some men are
never just to their wives. They pay
their cook So very willingly Satur-
day night, but when the harkworl-
ing, economical, painstaking wife
asks for a little money on Monday,
the brute will say: ooh, wife, what
do you want with money!
81 knew q fellow in Georgia who
had been married ten years. His
wife suggested that that was her
birthday, and he said to himself:
1--WE got a good wife; she has been
kind, self-sacriflcing and true in all
respects; l must buy her present.
SO he went down town that day and
walked into hat-store and bought
himself new hat, consoling him
self that nothing would more please
a good wife than to make her hus-
band present of new hat. He's
the meanest man l ever saw, and
there are great many men just that
way.
1--WE are too often unjust to our
children, eXacting of them things
we don't do ourselves, and berating
them with our tongue when they
don't understand what we want.
Aud then we are too mean to say ten
words to make one of them happy.
Oh, how unjust we are to wives,
husbands, children!
eff you'll put a little downright
justice in your conduct to your chill
dren, you'll have happier homes. Did
you ever start anywhere with your
wife, and keep hurrying her up,
when you ought to know she has not
only to dress herself, but five chill
dren besides, while you have nothing
to do but to get ready? Hurry up,
hurry up, l don't want to be too
late! If you don't hurry, I'll go
On by myself And after a while
she tells you to go on, husband:
Pm afraid can't get ready in time !;
| don't want to hinder you
"I've done just that way. have
walked off, out the gate and fifty
yards down the road, and then I'd
stop and think. I'd say: Sam
Jones, you are the meanest man
living, and you sha'n't go to church
nor anywhere else till you learn how
to behave yourself And then L
walk back and go in and find worry
in my wife's face and tears in her
eyes, and 1 go up and put my arms
around her and kiss her-there's
nobody there but us two-and say !:
Wife, I'm just rs mean as n dog !;
know l am, and 1 want you to for
give me- and she forgives me, and
we get ready and go-and find our.
selves the first ones there.
".The Lord have mercy on us 4;
how unjust we are to our wives, our
children, our brothers and sisters,
and our neighbors.
"Therc are men in this town who
meet a neighbours wife on the street
and take off their hats and bow, and
smile so sweet and tenderly, How
are you, MADAME and then 60 home
and wound their own wives with their
tongues. Clever to all wives but
their own. And so it is with some
wives. They are all smiles and kind
words in company, and cut their
husbands to the heart with their
tongues. God pity the man who
has such wife as that.
81 don't scold. If 1 do, / in
tend to scold somebody else's wife.
/ have heard mothers say when a
neighbours child would break some
article of value: 'Oh, it doesn't
NATTER when, if their own child
were to do it, they'd slap him clean
across the room. Lord, give us a
religion that will make us good to
our wives and children and friends
and neighbors."
His sermons are full of sentences
that cling to the memory, and have
a habit OF coming to the front in