St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-07-31
Sam Jones on Mortgages.

In sermon at Trenton, Mo-, on
July 18th, Rev. Sam Jones is reported
to have said:
"Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and gave
his son to die for us. We
love him because he first loved u.s."
A little further on Mr.. Jones said =:
You have heard about brotherly love,
have you? You Methodists and Bap-
fists and Presbyteriens have all got
brotherly love for one another. You
love one another just like step broth
ers, don't you? [Laughter.] You all
help one another. A Methodist will
help a Methodist if the other Metho-
dist will give him mortgage on every
thing he has got. [Laushter.] A Bap-
fist will help Baptist if he will make
him safe. Laughter Did you ever
notice that? | have got contempt
for a man that won't help poor broth
er without taking mortgage on every
thing he has got
BOUND TO HAVE A MORTGAGE.
There's an old Baptist. He has got
money to loan. He will sell yon goods
on credit ii you'll give him mortgage
on everything You have got heard
about one of. this sort some time ago.
| A good Methodist, kind fellow and
temperate, went into the store OF
another Methodist and said: =" want
about 5000 worth of goods on credit"
"Well," said the other Methodist, Il
will credit you if you'll give me Il mort
gage on your plantation" "Oh,' says
the other, lyon know | am able to pay
nv debt Amt any sense in You want
| aVapVthlnO | i1V
got, and amt going to give you one; =
"Well,r said the other, II never vary
| from my rule. When | give credit in
large amounts | take a mortgage on
everything a man has got. | don't sell
any goods on credit without doing So.
Now the name of the Methodist farmer
was Johnson, and the sturekeeper was
Bill Green. Presently there came in
another farmer and he saw Johnson
standing thure looking kind of glum,
and he says: johnson, you don't look
jolly to-day like you usually do: what's
| the matter y
A TERRIBLE DREAM.
Said johnson: Il had a terrible
dream last night and was thinking of
| it," What was it? "Well," he said
81 died and went to hell. walked up
to the devil and reported for duty
| [laughterl, and he said he was busy
| right then and for me to knock round
and enjoy myself Llaughterl, and he
would attend to me later; and' said he,
Il was knocking about there-it was
powerful hot-and | walked along
down by the lake of fire and saw a
great wash pot turned bottom side up.
! I turned to another one and asked
What is this? What's in this wash
pot? But he didn't know, and |
walked over to another, and he couldn't
| tell me, and so thought | would find
out for myself what there was under
that wash-p So | looked around
and got handspike, and just as | was
about to turn the wash pot over the old
devil came running along, crying out,
Hold on there. What are you about !?
Don't go to turn that pot over. Bill
turn him over and set him loose he'll
have a mortgage on half hell before
sundown.'' [Laughter.l And there's
great many of that sort of people
that are going to the bad world. and
some of them the devil will have to put
under washpot to keep them from
getting a mortgage on the country.
What we want in this country is broth
erly kindness.
Mr.. Jones is opposed to mortgages,
he makes his customers pay the cash.
He takes no mortgages. on the souls
he wins for Heaven, but charges the
cash, at the rate of $1,000 per week,
whether he accomplishes any good or
not. The Livingston Parish Gazette
appropriately says:
THE DIFFERENCE.
The Rev. Sam Jones. the Evangelist
charges and receives $1,000 week for
his preaching, and is clothed in purple
and fine linen and fares sumptuonsly
every day. But Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, and founder of the Christian
Religion had not where to lay his head.
He preached His Gospel free, and in
addition fed his famished hearers. He
also ordered his disciples to get into all
the world and preach the gospel :" free
without money and without price,
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