The Russellville Democrat., 1886-06-30
SAM JONES' SAYINGS.
Old Ones Dressed Up, and New
 One Not Already Printed.

oA''A q ~He pfeHy St~t i"Ss so VI StN'N' v >fN " this week were the following:
 Satan trembles when the weakest saint gets on his knees"
 'I'm sorry for Christian people who have reserved rights"
 ''rll lay aside my hat, coat, shoes, everything, and run into the gates of heaven bare, rather than carry all the earth to the tomb and lie down in hell pauper."
 sTwenty thousand dollars will buy two boys in every three through ticket to hell, and they will check their baggage and never get of the train till they get there"
 ''If there's anything that tickles me, it IS to see man with six-inch whiskers slipping the widows mite into the box"
 it takes a poor fellow to put Tn the widows mite"
 "A good man will go to heaven so fast that he will scare the angels with his velocity" "You'ye got enough sin, whether it's total or partial deprayity, to damn you, and if that ain't enough for you, you must be greedler than l take you to be-"
 s'The charges of cxaggeration brought against us arc no reflection on us, but they are death to the pas tors in town" "Anything that makes my neigh bor's wife's heart bleed I'm going to fight against till pcrdition freezes over, and then I'll fight it on the l ice.''
 l Any church will do as your tenn porary home on your way to God.' ''There are some men I'd us liel preach to as horse.''
 ''If was sinner I'd have as much fun as l could on my way to hell.'
 sIt does not cost much money to purchase religion, but It takes great deal to keep up repalrs after you get l it"
 "God shows what he thinks of riches by the kind of people he gives them to"
 'rhcre is very little difference be tween man of great honor and great success and | streetcar mule. The mule pulls and the crowd ride. When the mule dies you get another in his place and he docs just as well. It's the same with the man of great hon or and success" "A fellow never gets to position of honor until he's covered with mud from head to foot.
 There has never yet been q presi- dent in the White-house but it took him all the four years of his term, with soap and hot water, to wash away the mud he got covered with on the way"
 "Pd rather be an humble minister oft the gospel than Grover Cleveland. " Enough shoe leather has been worn out in pastoral visits to save thls town, if It could be saved in that way"
 ssA man IS a fool who will load his conscience with money"
 "A man must believe in Christ or in himself. There is no other al ternatlve."
 q will willingly go to preach any where except in cemetery. The cemetery IS no missionary ground for the cross" "Death bed repentance IS the re- treat of coward, and an insult to God"
 ''Salvation and damnation are per sonal matters.'
 Iii Baltimore, with all it's boasted morality, culture and neatness, can't get along without it's penitentiary and police stations for criminals. what will God do in eternity with the millions who have lived and died impenitent and been shut out from heaven forevcrr
 "Card playing, dancing and drink ing are the subteriuges of the devil to keep us from thinking of our I'm mortality"
 My Savior never got into respect able society while He was in the world"
 There will be no so-called society people Tn heaven to cuff me-"
 "The worst man in Maryland is not in the penltentiary. He's too sharp for that"
 "There are no striped clothes above. All arc robes of shining white"
 "Pd rather be Christian in the penitentlary than sinner outside. I'd rather be Christian in hell than q sinner in heaven"
 Religion Is the bes. thing in this world, and there's no better thing iii heaven"
 "ll don't go to heaven I'll turn around and walk of from the gates the worst disappointed man that ever was"
 Christ is not sentiment. He is not simply historical character, but a living presence"
 "l'm glad our salvation does not depend on our relieving this or that creed.
 'Onr creed is nothing more than the duster we put on over our dress coats. When we come to the peagIy