The Arizona sentinel., 1886-04-03
REV. SAMUEL JONES.

years ago to Mrs. McIllwaine, of Kentucky. For several years he was wayward in his life, and dissipated periodically, but on the death of his father in 1872 he was brought to a knowledge of his situation and was converted. Since then having joined the Methodist Church, North Georgia Confer ence, for about nine years he was engaged on circuit and station work in Georgia, and was everywhere known as faithful, fearless preacher.
 He has always had his present style of preaching, and it is not a matter of recent development or growth, but natural. The last three years he confined himself to con- ference work. The fortunes of the North Georgia Orphans Home were in a preca- rious condition, and the conference made him its general agent, and in this way he began to travel beyond his conference bounds to build up his present fame and power as preacher. So rapidly has this been done that he is now in demand in all most every city east of the Rocky mount aims of any considerable population. He redeemed the Orphans Home from debt, furnished it with new buildings, and still maintains it by his. own efforts. It cares for a very large number of the orphan chil- dren of the poorer classes. He has held a great many successful meetings prominent among which were those at Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle, January, year ago; at Waco, Tex; Memphis, Tenn; Nashville, Tenn; Plattsburg, Mo-; St. Jo- seph, Mo-; Bermingham, Ala; Knoxville, Tenn; St. Louis, Mo-, and Cincinnati.
 Sam Jones is of smallish stature, rather slight, dark complexion, dark hair, light dark mustache, clear-cut features and bright piercing eyes. His tirm-set under jaw typifies the strength and resolution of the man. He is full of natural wit and humor in the pulpit as well as out of it. He has not been great reader as to quan- tity, but has read many of the best works in the English language, and is familiar with the best moral essayists of the world. His vocabulary is almost purely Anglo Saxon, and in that fact consists the great pungency and strength of his speech
 Jones is very plain and outspoken in his dealings with religious and moral ques- tions. He has an intense hatred for all shams and hypocrisy, and believes in peo pie living up to the apostolic standard of righteousness. His sermons and methods of work have made a good many critics, and sometimes make people mad, but the earnestness and brotherlv love of the man triumph over all these things, and they come DacK ana near more. UrauualIy he gets a wonderful hold upon them. His idea in meetings like these is always to get the church people right first. He says he wants the Lords crowd and the devils crowd separate before he brings on the-bat- tie, and heis as merciless upon the sins and sham of church people as he is upon those of non-profcssors. He is hard-worker in all his meetings, preaching two and three times day, and has great powers of phys ical endurance. His habits are simple and regular. His health is generally good. He is very popular throughout all the com munities he has ever visited, and is admit ted now, through the size of his congrega- tions, the reports of the newspapers and the circulation of his sermons, to be preach ing to more men and oftener than any man now living.