, 1886-02-21
REV. SAM Jones.

Sayings of the Celebrated southern He
v~ivalist.
The devil is too much OF a gentleman &c
stay where he is not welcome. Why does
be stay in your hearth
Nothing Is more lovely than a gentle,
patient woman God pity the man that has
a forky-tongued wifei
Perhaps il you don't talk about your re-.
hgion, it is because you haven't any religion
to talk about
/ would not take the record OF some PEG
Pile who hear mo to-day, and go to the Judg.
ment bar OF God with 1t, for all the money
in the universe; and goodness knows | am
poor enoughl
Thank God for a Decline TO the good
worldi Do you know what "a bee line isl
The bee, after going from flower TO flower
with its velvet troad, extracting the honey,
scars abovs the tree tops and makes a bee-
line for its hive. Happy, happy-thrics
happy-will we 10 when, after extracting
all the SWEETS out OF this life, we eau soar
above the world, and make n bee-lne Tor
the glory landl
When l started out preaching, | was 50
much afraid l would hurt somebody's feel
ings | did not know what 10 do; and now 1
am so much afraid that 1 won't hurt some
body's feelings l don't know what to do.
God pity the poor fellow who has his feel.
ingsstuck out like rorcupine quillsl 1 don't
know how one of your sort will take care
OF his feelings when he gets Into heIl fre.
Preacher of Righteousness, tell me the truth
and save me il you canl
l want no fences in farming and politics,
but in religion ! want the DEVILS goats
fenced out. l will not let the fences down
for you, but l will help you over them
You, my brethren, may take care of tho
ology, and L will take care OF these sinners
Don't you let theology get hurti II you do,
we arc all gone. Lord, Lord, help me to
TO save these sinnersl
God bores through the top OF a mans head
TO his heart, and then on down to his pocket.
He has never got down to your pocket yeti
IL tickles me to see an old sinner como In
and pull out an old, lame and dwarfed mem
Der OF the church, lay him down and meas-
ure by him, and say; Look here, boys, 1
am as long. as broad, and as good as this
member OF the churchf' Why don't you 20
and pick out one Of those grand old Chris
tians Because you would look like a rat
terrier ly ing by an elephant
Many a fellow is praying for rain with
his tub bottom side up God cannot fill a
tub when it is wrong side up without re-
versiDg the law OF gravity. God is holding
up his clouds for you while you ars holding
your tubs wrong side up Turn them up,
and push them close under tho caves, for the
shower is coming.
Creedl What is a creedi 1t is the kin OF
the truth dried and stuffed with sand and
sawdust II 1 had a creed | would sell 1t to
a museum. Orthodoxes have ruined tho
world. Ny, myl how a man will fight for
he Ao~f- unl IAN $40 hfu Saviour fna.lfaH
and never resent It'll You must not step ON
my creed, IL you do, you are a gonerl
L can understand how men can be wicked;
l can understand how a man can turn his
back ON God and live in sin; but the great
est moral monstrosity to me is a mother
with the tender arms OF her children about
her neck and their eyes looking up into hers
with innocence and love, and that mother
despising God in her heart
II l ever get to heaven, and the angels
congratulate me on getting there. | will
say: Hunt up my precious mother, who
took me by the hand and led me along until
| was s years old, and then said, Son, you
can come TO me. but l cannot come back to
you;'n and she wen. home to live with thu
angels forever.
Thank God, this old world has never seen
the time whom IL did not take its hat of and
mako n decent bow TO a good womanl The
infidel can get over and around every thing
but "a good ~oman. He walks up to a good
woman, takes of his hat, makes a respectful
bow, turns around and goes back That is
as far as no can 60.
Ono sin is enough TO cut the soul sdrift
from God. Two seen men who were not
afraid to die; but l never saw a man who
was not afraid Of tho Judgment bar OF God
W., . Won have dot,hta VIM Ifttia own.
ling-headl No wonder. Now II you will
pull up one Of your doubts by the roots you
will find something on the tap root, and the
name OF that something Is sin.
A good plan for a young man proposing
10 marry is to court the whole family, but
not to marry but one. ! want TO court my
mother in-law, and father-inlaw, and my
wife's sister, and find out sort OF
people they are. l want To know what sort
Of a family I am marrying into. There is a
heap in that