Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-18
SAM JONES' SUCCESS.
THE CBARACTER OF Tine COSVERTS
OF THE SOUTHERN REyIvALIsT.
Men OF Brains, Courage and Convictions Fol-
lowing In His OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Bar Rooms Closed in Knoxville,
Tenn, Amer One Revival

Of the Nashville American.
Prominent among those who have made l.
IN open profession OF religion during the
week under the ministrations of the great
in Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
are Captain James Clayton, William $
Mitchell, Col N. G. Collier, N. G. Nancy, ,
Dan Brown, the Hon. f. b. Wade, Major ID.
ii. c. Taley, Capt. Ben Beatty, sheriff Ma
jor Drum Ridley, attorney James Lane,
g. G. Roberts, A. @. Tompkins, w. T. Gum, =
Il. +. Burton, attorney A. q. Hill, o. 7.
Hill, Horace Keeble, Wat Keeble, John V.
White, William Kimbro, w. B. Patty, J. Nj.
Overall, mayor William johnson, p. Over
all, John De Jarnette, Frank Avent and
John Fleming. He leaves there Monday for
Missouri, with Mrs Jones, where he is en-
gagged to evangeiize several weeks
l freely confess myself much less at n loss
to make up my mind as to whether Brother
Jones Is great preacher than have been to
finally determine whether Grant lis great
general. If he were not throughly earnest
and honest IN his professions he could not de-
ceive not only the people where he has
preached abroad, but those at home who have
known him Gas a saint and sinner) from in
fancy, as a minister for II or l3 years. have
| Just conversed with gentleman who was
long resident of the county in which Car
| tersville (Jones' home) Is situated. lie |
| thinks very much of this modern Jonah |
says every word is true the story he himself |
| tells of his former revelry and rapscaliorism. |
That he drank, drank, drank, and went |
| q dray for living, This may be true or not;
If not, ! hope Brother Jones, in his next ref
erence to the press, will candidly admit that
not the newspapers but the people, are the
champion liars of the age Newspapers are
always honest, truth-telling Interpreters.
Indeed, they could not be otherwise. They
reflect, lust as a mirror does, that portion of
| tho world held before 1t, and If liars are
abroad, or lies, like lousy bats, encircle the
| air, they must be represented IN the faithful
newsgatherer. Papers are invariably truth
full /; 1t il you, sir, and you, and you, who
| are the liars
No ordinary Georgia scrub could come to
Tennessee and take possession as Brother
, | Jones has done. He is either the greatest re-
, | vvaist of the United States to-day or
: : | Tennesseeans are the most consummate asses
| living. So, indeed, are the Texans, Mssis-
sippans and others, for he has aroused the
the same excitement everywhere. Col. B. +.
5 Lillard ofMurfreesboro, pronounces himthe
J. great pulpit commoner, as Pitt, Clay, and
n | johnson were the great commoners OF the
! | political world. Pick out from the list OF the
!. converts the names of the few "bardened
y sinners" at the head OF this letter. They are
:, men Of brains and courage and convictions
'r | men whom no ordinary breeze could move
h from any position Read his sermons. Are
D. they not, for the most part, full OF plain,
!. practical sense and theological orthodoxy
1 | If the Christians Bible is the foundation OF
u hope, who could better testify TO the common
10 | people (for the uncommon people either,
st his faith in the divinity of the written wore
a. than when he says:
of al believe the whale swallowed Jonah
=, believe il literally. l only do not believ
III that Jonah swallowed the whale simply DC
cause the Bible dosen't say he did"
as To the sinner who hesitates, who waits fo
,e- his I" feelings" To move him, who wants I
ly - feel " that he il good enough to go befor
ar | he makes any change i'll his conduct wa
. there ever a more homely more convint
W. ing illustration presented than the anecdot
iat of the man who sat down, axe in hand, at tn
.rs root OF IA tree one cold, frosty morning, wal
ing for the sweat to break out before he weI
to work
,ia Brother Jones admits his natural veal
,,, ness He has the appearance of "A man OF
=" hasty and once violent temper IT my
have been difficult at first to keep loc
| upon his lips he is no doubt aman, brav
u'- impulsive, courageouszz.be very sort ope
yer to temptation. Mas there ever bett'
in illustration of5ne liable to fall yet dete
he mined to stand, than that made yesterday
lrt himself%
Ia ~ don't care how often one err, If he
49,, honestly strive to restrain himself and r
'i' cover his proper balance when he does or
DIS All along the way we meet with conflicts al
re temptations When l stumble and Ia
res thank God / always fall like an india rubb
in,, ball. fall bouncing God will put b
10 angels on half rations to keep an honest mi
eei and his family from starving"
are. Withal, he reaches men of less impossit
en- sympathies by mixing horse sense logic wi
me horse sense anecdotes and illustrations, ]
the no one can more clearly establish TO the M