The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-24
HOT SHOT FROM JONES.
The Evangelist Rakes the Chicago Sinners
Fore and Aft

Sam Jones had big congregation Tues
day. 1t included young and old, male and
female, aud was composed very largely of
people from the lower classes. A good
many people had their children with them
from infants in arms to halfgrown boys.
The house was crowded.
A Chicago News reporter gives the follow
ing as sample of the evangelist's talk:
These fellows say: II never saw anything
wrong about cards. It's not sinful game;
it's a scientific game" They allus ring in
that word scientific somewhere along the
line. I'm sorry for man that's got time to
play cards or dance. When look round
and see sinkin' world God knows tell the
truth when / say I've not seen the time in
thirteen years when had a minute to spare
for those things and you wouldn't either if
you were OF any account. You'd Just as
well be at that STARS you're concerned,
though, as anything else, for if you wasn't
at that you'd be asleep. The only difference
between moral sinner and an immoral
sinner is the difference between the ty-
phoid fever and smallpox. Ones internal
and the others external, an both'll kill nine
times out of ten if they amt tended to.
These moral fellows are white sepulchers
You scratch off the whitewash and they're
terribly deformed objects. Did you ever see
it scale off? Amt you seen it?
All l want to know about any man is if
he is member of city club. If he is it's
only question of time when he will be
drowned.
Mr.. Jones came down on this word drowned
with terrible emphasis, dwelling on it in his
lowest tone. He continued:
/ have preached in many cities and seen
thousands OF people converted but ! never
have yet, as God is my Judge, known OF any
member of city club ever being converted
to God-and that is the saddest commentary
that God or man could pronounce on those
institutions. A man is almost certainly
doomed when he goes into those institution.
| don't care if | was as plous as Job, and
joined one of those clubs, | would swap
chances with Judas lscariot for hope of
heaven.
i knew a fellow down in Georgia who lied
so much that after three square trials at tell
ing the truth he couldn't do it. George
Washington, you know, couldn't tell lie
and he was the father of his country. He
never begot many offsprings in his own like
ness. Sometimes I've asked everybody that
never told lie to stand up. Every fellow
was looking around 10 see if anybody was
goin' to get up. II anybody had got up
Pd-a given him the floor and set down. If
you'd all stop lying you'd starve the lawyers
to death. l like grand lawyer who defends
the good man from the assaults of the wicked
But these mean little So lawyers They
do some mean. thing, and then say:
81 did that as a lawyer, not as man."
When they drop down in hell, 1 suppose
they'll go about saying, I'm here as a law
yer"
Now, look out, modesty; you're going to
get a slap. Naked truth. Do you know how
that phrase about naked truth started?
Truth and Error went in swimmin' together
l never understood what business Truth had
in such awful bad company. But they went
swimmin together. After they Topped
about in the water for awhile, Error sneaked
out, hauled on Truths clothes, and ran off
as tight as he could cut When Truth came
out, there wasn't anything for him but
Errors old clothes, and rather than wear
them he chased off naked. He's been run
MIN naked ever since.