The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-23
JAWED BY JONES.
WHAT A MISSOURI CONGREGATION
HAD TO GRIN AND BEAR
From the Great Georgia Evangelist, Sam
Jones-A Red-Hot Dissertation on
Preaehers-The Need of Sand"
in the Pulpit.

the ca mp meeting now In session near mere
a specimen of his eloquence at the afternoon
service. He began by urging the necessity
for working membership in the church-a
membership in which there were no
lukewarm or drones If church had
30 members and only fifty Of them were
Christians who Nsre active in good work, 1t
was Ike the man before the war who had
200 slaves, only fifty OF whom did any
thing-he would havs hard time getting
living from the remainder Of them Mr.
! Jones then turned 10 pastor on the plat
form AMI said:
How many members attend your prayer
meeting, Brother U'dJvelIt HOW many 90
You have Wednesday nights
I Brother O'HJweI3-AJOut twenty.
Brother J0nes-Wel, I would sell out 10
1 the niggers AMI quit # that Is the case.
lLaugLtsrl III sell out On credit. More
/ iaug EJer.] l would no more put
my wife and chllren il such 2
| church as tdau-msrS what l ssy--l
/ woul.n' suffer my cAll4rea . De raised IN
4 q church o. that SORT. Vow, you can run
| that llns i Won want t.. l dare assert
/ there IS not 8 c5lor5d church IN me couu-
/ try that can not make a better showing taan
/ that, ami every spiritual co.ored man
I you have got i at prayeT-raee ilng
( that. Every man in TIE church VINO has
| religion goes TO PRAYER meeting. You say,
| How d. | know; | know because | have
81 religion, and it walks me about.
WLaugbterl You see, l know what religion
VIII do for fellow. got it thirteen years
ago was right there when the thing hap
reDed, AMI know Just exactly what it will
do for fellow. / bave tried IT,
Mr.. Jones then, after remarking that the
] Il faT "a. L
on the women spoke Of preachers and
preaching. Said he:
Now, the general pulpit style OF America
is about Ike this: Here / am, the Rev.
jeremiah Jones, doctor of divinity
saved by the grace Of God, with a
message to deliver If you repent
and Believe what | believe you viii be
saved, and if YOU don't you viii be damned,
and | don't care much II You are That is
the style. That's the general style of the
Amer. can pulpit every where-except IN Mis-
souri,, Of course. Laughter You all do
the thing right out here, brother. Laugh
teri won't make any charges against
you all great many preachers
go into the pulpit with ramroi en1
a pump. They ram back everything that
they think will hurt, and pump out
every thing that is pretty and piee-and the
people just busting TO He'll by tie thousand !.
! tSGn sdlIOu livery CCHitItISt Ou AOt4N6
delegation going up 70 the bishops from the
leading churches. One delegation will so to
the bishop and viii say, Bishop, want you
TO send Us a preacher this year that is
popular with the young people,
another delegation will go in and
say, Bishop, please send Us a preacher
that is popular with other denomina-
tons" [laughterl; another crowd Will GO in
AMI say, Bishop, please send US preacher
{ u hot l. hnF
crowd viii go in and say, Bishop, please
send us q preacher that is popular with
every body But, tell you, have never
heard Of delegation going up TO confer
ence and asking the bishop, "Plea.e, sir,
send US minister that is popular with
God Almighty We want a preacher
that walks and talk with God Oh, my
when you get this sort they will turn this
country over. No doubt about that ] made
a preacher sort Of mad the other night !
turned round to him and said: IL ! was
pastor here at this station, and this thing
was as dead as il is, l wouldn't lie here four
weeks until found out what killed the
whole thing. and then would slip fourteen
pounds Of dynamite right under it and would
blow it up shy-high, and not have It lying
, round me in its sbrout in this way; no,
sir Laughter and apViaGse.l Tie whole
church perfect graveyard-just thinl Of i;
every old fellow in his tombstone, YOU
know II you DO anything to arouse and
wake up the community the ola fellow raises
: his slab up over his head ami po&es his head
out aud say: Be quiet out there then
, draws his head back and pulls down the
, | slab Laughter BE quiet out there.
don't want any excitement cut there.
want things to 50 nice, AMI stlA and easy
cut there
The greatest blessing any community ever
4 had is a game preaCber-never afraid Of tho
DEVIL [App!ause.l And tee greatest cur,
a / is tirae-serviHE preacher who J. afraid @
hurting 1me bolg'S feelings if he does BIZ
, dstv Poor little fellow. You should seaj
: him over some molaSses can IL this evening
and let him chew i.
Brother. 1t is Just as neces .ary that yoJ
. prepare v0ur ear % hear as il i, u uTe
. rare your Erouu fo~ the seed. How many
. II ylu have been gU- wrestling VITA 60,
I'll, morning that the power Of HEAVIER
may rest N tie work. and that yoJ
nav re prepared 70 hear, I want evaT1
one Cf YOU that have been wrestlin.
: with God T. stand up [Ab-u- half Dozen
y stood IN mostly women.l Now YOU set
e You have got eight or ten here, AMI vii
D venture the assertion hist i ! nal been i
a Hong Kong, China, ana male the sam
s rropOsiti-u, more than eight would hsv
+ stood " l think the best thing 20
> an do is % shin your car
u you can be with tie sure-en0uE
beathen. Idon't wonder preaching has n
effect mere Ian this was said in the mos
scoruf III wsv.l Eight psople in thou,an
> that thought it their duty TO pray God t
f bless AMI save tie people and make II
e gospel power. Now YOU keep your ca,
, ca ses BY Themselves. That Is the best vo
= can do and don't you come back under hi
L tent any more Do you hear thati
! believe the worst thing that can happe
ls to meeting is to be led by lot of -raYel
less preachers who are as full of curiosit
as g niger. God help you and put you I
praying, and, il any of yol don't like thes
$ remarks you know the way home.