Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-18
Jones as Smith Sees Him.
Falcon in the Times. |

To say that he has a high admira-
ton of himself is to draw 1t mild
enough for the digestion of a teeth
ing baby. The substance of his teach
ing is. 81 am better than you. Do
as I do if would be saved. Find a
fault anywhere in me and will quit
the pulpit" do not mean TO say
these are his exact words, but they
represent the substance of his teach
ing.
For those who sit under his minis
trations he expresses the most SUI
preme contempt, both by word and
look and intonation. Now you are
a pretty kettle OF fish, amt you? ]
could 90 to Foo Chow, in China, and
find better Christians. You are an
innocent looking set. You are the
most innocent looking gang ever
saw. You look as though every one
of you wanted pair Of wings right
OIL to fly into glory with. Now you
will go away from here and and say
Il don't like Sam Jones Bit and
when you say il you lie, for you will
be back here tomorrow, and couldn't
be kept away If you were chained
with a log chain, and you know it.
There amt no love lost between us,
and if you go away and tell people
that you don't like Sam Jones and
they ask you how Sam Jones likes
YOU, lust tell 'em he don't like you
neither" These and similar eX-
pressions were constantly falling
from his lips, and thought he
would have given half days salary
once TO be at liberty to say: 81 don't
give damn for your good opinion
no how, and you may travel to sheol
by the shortest route as quick as you
think proper"
But TO the women he was quite
complaccnt, and gave them every
time the best of the argument, even
though he didn't have pendulous
under lip or thick neck or bald
head. Pointing to fine looking
young sister in front of him, who had
a crying baby in her lap and stall
wart man by her side, he said: "Now,
sister, amt you ashamed of that poor
little two-whecled husband ofyours
If was you | would go home TO-
night and give him dose Of sooth'
ing syrup and get something to quiet
that baby of yours, and take down
the big Bible and read chapter and
pray for my fatherless child and my
poor little timid husband. lie is NJ
: account to you, and great, gawky
gangling fellow he is too. Now
= don't you go out when you go away
from here and take him by the arm
aud cuddle him up aud say to him
Now, darling, don't you mind wha
4, that preacher says. l won't nevel
throw it up to you, and don't thinl
you are a poor little timid husband
Don't you mind him. Don't do tha
sister! Don't cuddle up your littl
triflng husbands. l tell you, sister
you must hold ,Chiie Iskin."
To the preachers present he was a
impolite as he was to the husbands
= Even when announcing some start
ling Sam Jonesism he said: snow
n every one of you knows that is tru
but you dar'nt acknowledge it,
Every preacher here knows tina
what say is true, but he wouldn'
g. say so for dollar"
Iwillnot multiply instances, becaus
your readers have seen his reported
sermons. And besides, it would tax
% more space than l feel privileged t
occupy. The man has point an
force and courage. He does not fea
to speak out in meeting, and tn
preachers who sit by and listen I
him tell the good sister that he
"the grandest man in the world tC
day." because they are afraid of hin
and, knowing their own impotence
seek 10 catch from him some viriI
and strong idea. Behind his bac
they will strive against him, for the
do not consider his methods propC
ones or his expressions such as ougl
to be used in speaking of sacred ma
ters. BY their words they will il
dorse him, but by their actions the
will illustrate the truth ofhis declar
tion that they are all afflicted vii
moral cowardice. He shows them l
quarter, and they fear him becau
they know their armor is vulnerabl