The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-19
san, JONES'.


whose name we write above will ap-
pear at the tabernacle, lately erected
for him, In series of meetings cover
ing about two weeks. His visit to
Waco last fall and the startling results
following II, are all fresh in the minds
of the people. Since lie left here alter
the close of his series of "meetings"
he has grown to enormous proper
lions as one of the active moral influ-
cnces Of America. lie demands at
tention at our hands, however little
we may DO inclined TO fall In with the
tenets Of his faith. More than any
other single individual except Grant,
he has been distinguished during the
past year by the attention Of the
press aud the people, Of the. country,
In New York, Brooklyn Nashville and
at other points south, we have had re-
mark able reports of his doings and OF
the well-nigh supernatural power he
has exercised over the people, both
of high and low degree, of ignorance
and intelligence, Of wealth aud power
", of religious and irreligions opin-
iona. There is power in the appar.
emily unlettered man which Is mex
plicable upon any other theory than
that il is heaven-boru, derived directly
from devibe, sources. AT least this Is
what is claimed for him by his follow
crs and we have no present or future
purpose of disputing 1t. We shall
deal with its manifestations only, and
leave the task of its explanation to
others more able and more willing to
attempt it In Brooklyn he
preached to vast crowds of
people people not renarka-
BILE at any time for the
strength and vigor of their re
ligious feryor. Indeed. they had
very large per cent. of infideis, skep
tics and scoffers among them. Nc
matter, they came and humbly bowed
at the affairs erected among them b,
the swarthy little Georgian. Even thu
great preacher who had invited bin
there, and under whose suspices thu
services we're held, came with the I'M
numbered crowds and knelt with then
before the mercy seat. In cultured
Brooklyn, where Beecher, Talmag'
and other ecclesiastical phenomen
have been laboring for q quarter, o
indeed, for a full third Of a century
there lived and listened men who's
hearts remained all untouched b.
divine grace until the brave it'll
southerner in the homcly vernacula
OF true crackerdoGi, came anon
them with his dreadful denunciation
and with his soft, honied words O
hope and confidence. Later on, i
Nashville, the proud capital of one q
our leading southern states, this sam
insignificant looking little ma
preached, and the crowds of Pentecos
were not more dense, nor did the grea
apostle gather from his over-rip
harvest field, larger number Q
sheaves than did the bold little stran
ger whose alma mater was mort
Georgia grog shop or the dense, quie
forests, beside whose quiet, seclude
; and shaded streams his heart was le
, 10 God, and the wicked worldlin
bloomed out into one of th
greatest ministers of whic
the christian religion hs
had to boast In all the Dinteen hug
drcd years of its history. Gods way
are not our ways, and they are yer
wonderful and the rising up of thi
great teacher from an origin so oil
scure and so mean IL competent eyl
dence of this.
This man comcsto Waco for Waco
good. lie does not intend TO d
harm, TO aveDgc any wrong or =
serve any bad, immoral or selfish pun
pose. II he beckons one drunkar'
from the dangerous haunts of tn
vice, IL he induces one profane maj
TO mend his course, IL he succeeds i
reforming one iibertinc or wins blu
one lewd woman from the ways o
sin, his mission will be grand one
aud be will be entitled 10 the graft
tude Of every good citizen of Waco
The EXAMINER bespeaks for MI