The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-10-29
SAEy JONES, THE EVANGELIST.

masses, Sam Jones, in his rough and peCu-
liar way, has been doing work that has
few parallels. No disrespcct is intended in
speaking of him as Sam" He calls him
self Sam Jones, and wants other people to
do the same. "Rev. Samuel p. Jones
would be oppressive to him. He has no
relish for dignity. "The more dignity fell
low has, the nearer dead he is" is the way
he puts it.
Jones was born in Georgia. He first
chose the law as a profession, bat failed of
success in consequence of Incorporate and
dissolutc habits, to which he became adj
dicted i'll his early manhood. When he was
% years of age his father died, and Sam
"turned over new leaf" He abandoned
his evil ways, embraced religion, gave up
the practice Of law, and entered the minis
try. He is now So He has been preaching
for II years, his labors having been, until
recently, almost wholly confined to the
Southern States.
Most people who have either heard or
read his utterances would suppose him to be
uneducated, but such is not the case. He is
man of liberal education and extensive
reading. He is close observer of men,
events, and the circumstances of everyday
life, and has very thorough knowledge of
hnr II, fI,o of n
success. He chooses the simple and often
rude and "slangy" forms of expression
solely because he finds them more effective
with the classes of people who, during all
these years, have chiefly formed his audi
ences. Denominationally he is Methodist,
but his sermons, or talks" are wholly free
from sectarianism or the slightest faint of
bigotry. He directs his efforts against pop
ular vices, which he handles without mercy.
Perhaps the principal charm of Joness elo-
quence is in the abundance of bright apho-
risms and pungent sentences that are so
plentifully interspersed through all his ser
mons. We give few samples by way of
illustration:
when began preaching, was afraid would
hurt somebody's feelings. Now I'm afraid L
won't"
IF anybody don't like what say let him come
to me, and I'll forgive him"
81 have let my bucket down SO deep that have
stirred up your mud; but its my bucket and your
mud"
Here are some of his shots at whisky:
Whisky is good thing in its place; but its
place is in HE'LL
Some fellows say Don't mix politics with re-
ligion.' When you hear fellow talk that way, you
may know he hasn't any religion to mix"
"Aint you sorry for a woman who has to put her
tender arm into the handle Of old demijohn
every time she goes to church,"
Look out for your drug stores; look out for
your little cyurly headed dsetors.
THE liquor traffic ought to be made odious
that nobody but an Internal scoundrel will sell it,
and nobody but an Internal fool will drink it,
Talk about high license for whisky; I'd as soon
have high license for smallpox"
God will put the barkeeper and the legislator
in hell together"
I'm town in Georgia a number of girls married
men to reform them. and now the town is full Of
little whip poor-will widows"
The following, selected at random, viii
give very good idea of his fertility of
mind:
"A man gets religion good deal like he gets the
measles fellow gets tangled up with the measles,
and in about 10 days the doctor comes and gives
him a cup of good hot tea, and tells him to keep on
taking that until it breaks out, and then keep
it broke out and he will be all right So
some of you have got tangled up in this meet
ing until you feel as bad fellow with the
measles before they break out. few hot cups of
gospel tea will make religion break out all
YOU Then keep it out, and you are ell right. But,
like the measles, if it goes in on you it will kill
you, sure"
The difference between the devil and the peni-
tertiary is, the penitentiary works you hard, and
boards you; but the devil puts you to the meanest
dirtest jobs in the world, and makes you board
yourself"
A wife who has a baby Christian for a husband
ought to- get him some soothing-sirup and tin
horse with wheels"
"A leading business man in Nashville said the
other day, that woman should be paid over 50
cents day for her work. That man ought to be in
hell"
God pity the brute-the human brute-that will
swear before his child. L don't believe there is
hog-a regular old piney-woods, razor-back hog
low enough to degrade its young i'll such dcspica-
BILE way that"
his heart and then down 10 his pocket
"The devil is too much of gentleman to stay
where lie is not welcome and il lie isputtng up on
you, it's sure sign you are treating him we'll"
~ creed is the skin of the truth dried and
stuffed with sand and sawdust.
Many man iinagine5 that he has got religion
when it's only liver-complaint.'
"If you will just walk right up and surrender
your heart to God he will comb the kinks out of
your head mighty FAST
1t will do you good to see these preachers with
mud on their horns in their pulpits next Sunday"
God is holding the Devil by the TAIL and letting
him kick himself to death"
1.-THE matter of church doctrine is an accident.
| If my mother and Bro. Witherspoon's had snapped
babies he would have been IL Methodist preacher"
ITO n meeting, it takes grace, grit and green
backs. God will furnish the grace, can furnish
| the grit and you the greenbacks. like division
| of labor"
"Some preachers never up on a sinner until
he is on his deathbed. About all they fit for is
to marry the living and bury the dead"
THE natural tendency of sin is To take every
| brake off a mans moral nature, and turn him loose
| Oh the down-grade to hell"
- am no metaphysician; but hole
through ladder, if there is any light the other
| siden
| Il have never asked the Georgia Legislature to
pass law requiring my wife to treat my children
| Iny isl