Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-07-18

At your request give you fey
items about our meeting here at tn
gospel tent. Nearly 200 joined lh
different churches yesterday lnorning
and ut the afternoon and might seryi
ces. nearly A. many more lif.,iesse.
faith in Christ. 4 pastor told me jus
now that he thought there had heel
close TO Eve hundred conversions NJ
to the close OF the service last night
There were perhaps six thousand PEG
pie present yesterday. The most per
feot order prevails; There has beer
but one arrest by the police in Muir.
freessboro since the meeting com
menced and Sam Jones said last night
the fellow was arrested for doing some
thing he told him not to do. It has
rained nearly all the week and an
umbrella was the article stolen. The
G. P. pastor sud to me awhile ago that
the fellows who had given up whisky
showed it in their faces, they looked
pale.
This morning, (Monday.) at O'Clock
Bro. Jones preached to the colored
folks from the fifteenth Psalm. He
dug deep and struck unsparingly at
the vices to which they were most
addicted and / guess that if an cleo
ton should be held here tomorrow
Prohibition would get Il solid support
from them. His preaching produces
conviction and he makes his pictures
SO plain that We can't help seeing
them. And let me say that the con-
verts in the meeting are of our most
solid people. l received nine addi-
tons to my charge yesterday and six
of them are heads OF families and
business men.
AS 10 the Causes of Sam Jones sue
cess l cannot hope to throw much
new light on the subject, but it is evil
dent that nature has endowed him
with rare gifts and every fiber of body
and soul is consecrated, and localized,
on the one work in which he is en-
gagged. His humor is perfectly nat
ural and don't seem to be out of place
when you are listening to him, how
ever it may seem to you when read in
the papers. A preacher said to him if
l were to preach like you do L should
lose my religion, and Jones said if /
were to preach as you do, l should
lose my congregations fellow can
get religion once in while but it is
mighty hard to get congregation.
One SAID to him you use the devils
name too plainly, 1t sounds harsh and
in the pulpit. Well, what
shall / call him, Mr.. President OF the
the burnt district?
A spontaneous collection OF nearly
five hundred dollars was raised yester-
day, Jones not being present and
knowing nothing about it. / don't
know whether he will accept it or not
as he has on other occasions declined
such gifts, but we suggested to the
to hand it to his wife who
is here and tell her to lock it up in
her trunk. She and her children will
need it before many years if we mis-
take not for it seems improbable that
any man can live long with the strain
of work that is on him. He and his
wife and six children dined with Bro.
Dinwiddie yesterday and we had the
pleasure of shaking hands with them.
They we're envited to see relatives in
Kentucky and our people met them
at the depot and detained them as
guests of the city. | think our chill
dren would divide everything they
have with the little Joneses as our
grown folks would with Sam and
Laura.
Since penciling the above lines, /
have come in from preaching and the
evangelist was in his happiest mood.
At the close of the sermon we met
with treat that was not in the pro-
gramme. Bro. Jones nIotioned to the
choir to be silent and called on the
'olorrd people who occupy part OF
he tent tu sing Cheer the weary
traveller" 1t was the first time | ever
lesrl him shout and he isa hearty
linsd at il and it was catching and |
never saw So nlany folks laughing and |
;rying at once. Then he called on
hem to sing Red Sea. MY! myt my"
low the negroes can beat Us singing. !
As the chorus rolled up "Pharoh he |
got drOwntLod," merchant, banker, col
eye president and doctors of divinity |
ii seemed to he children again and
used int, one spirit.
Bro. Jones leaves US tonight for a
Meeting at Plattsburg, Mo-, which be-
,ins day after tomorrow. If he were
lot SO nearly all soul such labors
would soon end his earthly course
j. w. G.