The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-25
SAM ON SPECULATION.
Brother Jones After tho Chicago Ex-
change.

CHICAGO, March 12.-Rev. Sam Jones
to day said in his sermon: Chicago sets
the keynote for the price of every pound
of meat with which the poor African in
the South and the poor white man in
the North must perpetuate the lives ol
his family, and when men reach the
point mean church members-if those
who resist Christ want to gamble, let
them rip; but, God bless you, if you are
member of your church I want to tear
some of the bark off you tonight. You
will catch it. The idea of Christian
man gambling in the bread and meat Of
negroes, and poor white people! God
bless you, that exchange down there, if
you don't mend, is going to throw out
enough wood to feed the Communicate
fires of damnation in this country. You
mark what I tell you. You continue
speculating in the meat and bread OF
poor people, and, GID bless you, you will
catch it some of these days. Mark what
1 tell you. know the sentiments l am
talking now. You say that is Commu-
nism. That is lie, sir. Inever uttered
a Communistic sentiment in my life.
Never. I am down on it. Lam doing
my best to keep you, sir, from having
burned up everything you have got some
of these days. What right have you to
speculate in the commodities upon which
we live in this country? Righteous I
don't want any of that sort of money. 1
tell you, you pile up that sort of money
for your children, it is going to ruin them
after you are dead and gone. You mark
what I tell you. don't want to live in
a house and raise my children with
money that I have procured by means
which, to say the least, are questionable
from Christian standpoint. I am
going to lay, if I lay up a dollar at all,
and want to say will never want to
leave one of my children cent. Why?
If they are of any account they won't
need it, and if they are of no account
every dollar give them will sink them.
You know that. [Applause.] I would
provide for my precious wife, if I could
against want as long as she might live.
She has given her energy, and her all to
my loved ones at my home, and if |
could keep my wife from want would
do it, but not dollar for any child 1
have got. I tell you what, would rath-
or my daughters would sew. for living.
FASHION.
IL will tell you what is so: I would
rather my daughters would sew for a
living ). it would be easier for them than
tits for your daughters to keep up with
the fahion with all the money you leave
them. This is the fact; yes, it is. Jap
plause.] It will kill your daughter
quicker to keep up with the fashion than
it will to sew for living, and I know
that sewing-girl has heap the incest
time. Ny! Ny! Ny! society.bitI !
You have to sit up with the wound the
balance of your life, and there is no an
tidote for it. If rattlesnake bites, you
can say whiskey will cure it. l would
rather be rattlesnake- bit than whiskey-
bit. But I tell you, my congregation, let
us have some righteousness reigning in
this country, and above all things let the
church of God be honest. Let the
church of God be honest.
Look here The church, my brother,
has gravitated and gravitated, and gravi-
tated until we have got down 80 low now
that. yoL can't teach the church up to
saveyour life; the world backs water on
her. 1t is a fact; We are getting down
too low.
What is a mans Metholism or his
Presbyterianism worth on the market here
now?' How much can a Presbyterian
hypothecate his religion for in this town,
and how much can be draw on it? That
is the way to talk it. Here Go down
town tomorrow and say, Look here, 7
want to borrow s5,OOO." swell, have
you got gilt-edge security what can
you give me?" "No; 1 have got no
security at all, butt am Presbyterian" :"
90! O! you are what? ?" 81 am Pres
byterian." "My my my you can't
borrow any money or that around here"
[Laughter.l Another goes and says, 81
am Methodist" 20, you can't borrow
any money on that sort of commodity
around here"
Go to your merchant and try to get
him to credit you on your religion. He
will say, CLAW, just come in here; let me
show you how these members of the
church have swindled me. My my I
can't let you have any money on your
Methodism, no how; that is not worth a
cent in this community"
Lawl Law! brother; you talk about
Bob Ingersoll he has never been any
more in my way in getting men to Christ
than a broom stalk. Bob don't get in
the way; no, but 1 will tell you who
does; it is these dishonest members of
the church. There is hardly an old
sinner in this town that some one, a
member of some church in the town, has
not got to have a. talk with him about
some business transaction; and every
time you preach Christ to.that old sim
ner, he looks at you and says, "See that
old carcass; he is a member of the
church, you know; just make him settle
up with ME and then 1 will be religious" ="
There is where the rub comes in; it is
not Bob Ingersoll; it is dishonesty
between man and man; in the church
and out; that is it.
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