The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-16
THE GREAT REvIVALIST
SAM JONES RIPPING WlckEDNess UP
THE BACK IN CINCINNATI
81 am Neither Republican or Democrat
II Either Party Comes to Ne with .
Bottle In One Hand and DemiJOhn
ia the other, Vote to Beat It,

CINCINNATI, Jan. 1.-THE revivalist had
another packed house Announcing text
from the Acts Of the Apostles, he used it for
his opening remarks, and then for the re-
mainder Of the hour was governed by sug-
gestions OF the moment He makes his
listeners forget the fight of time, for the
thought. when viii he get throughr never
arises His talk is a conversational drawl,
Its tones reminding one strongly Of Frank
Mayo, differing only in having CHEEKY life
in it, Out OF his text he managed TO make
the following quaint paragraphs:
There is a good deal of downright honesty
in man before he gets within half a mile
Of Religion
''Only men who have convictions are OF
any account Every one has opinions"
II want convictions that will enable me
to stand at the stake and see without fear
the flames rise and rip the flesh from my
boues."
"Yon don't need the bible to tell you that
things are going wrong; read your
papers; they'll tell YOU
In defense of the charge Of exaggeration
often made against him, he said, placing his
uhul VI Tue Dibits II oLi ~ a. bON ~
out Of this crazy book "
Every night and every morning the
prayer wagon comes down to my little home
in Georgia, and the whole family gets in
and goes to heaven for few moments"
II am neither Republican nor Democrat.
II either party comes to me with bottle in
one hand and demijohn in the other,
vote with any body for anything to beat
tn
Until converted, / was, | expect the
toughest man ON earth, although if any I'M
converted man present will LOOK in the glass
he will see pretty much the same kind OF q
feller.n
This is not a free country. Majority
rlles 1t is a majority in political sense
but minority in religious sense. In our
state we are driving the ungodly out and
some of the cattle are coming this way.
They are here now, on the streets, but you
don't notice them, you have so many of your
own.
Defining the difference between glancing
and seeing, he said: while in strange
parlor waiting for some one to come down
you glance at picture on the wall. 1t is q
landscape with house and bunch Of
trees Step closer and you see beautiful
mansion with winding walk. a meadow, q
mountain, brook, magnificent foliage, the
outline distant hills-tnese AMI thousand
more things you see."
"Ohio people seem to be good for nothing
now except politics, and if close application
| does any good Ohioans should be politlca
gods. once saw a hog so gorged with corr
that when few more ears we're thrown
over into the pen he ran. wish Ohio PEG
pie were gorged with politics"
mo man can be religious until he gets thu
hog out of him. There are several of thi
kind here tonight could lead them t.
hell by walkin' ahead an striDgin' on
nickels
''No man can be good with bad heart
You can't put new wine in old bottles; thel
will break. You can't put new patch in al
oldgarment; it will rent once saw felle
trying TO drink out of creek an clear i
at the same time. He was dom poorly un
til man came along an said; Mo friend
you'll make no Roadway until you go an
clear out the hog that's wallerin' up Their
in the branch and SO, my hearers, yol
can't be good man with good heart unit
you drive the devil out of your head.
His description of a man who made up hi
mind TO be religious for one day was funny
| Coming down from the bedroom to tn
breakfast room, and announcing his re
solve, they had great time finding tn
biole. He got through grace all right a
| breakfast At the store the clerks did no
know what to make of bis kindness. A
dinner and supper he recited prayers, an,
that night when his two boys turned in on
said to the other:
Say, Jim"
"WhatT
"The ole mans goin' to die
''Thasso; he's actin mighty queer, an
they went to sleep fully expecting to fin
the old man dead in the morning when the