The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-06-05
SAN JONES.


During his first week in Baltimor
Sam Jones has preached to yer,
large audiences. notwithstandin,
some days the weather was unfavor
able. At several of the meetings il
the rink, which seats about 400,
people, there was not space for tn,
audience. His preaching has beer
the subject of much talk, and di
verse opinions have been expressed
Everybody comedies that the blow.
he strikes are very hard and telling
He says he means them to be. III,
declares that he knows what sin is
and means to fight it, no matter What
hydra headed shape it may assume
Candid, straightforward, outspoker
men say such talk is just what Bal
timore wants.
Some of the most telling shots
fred by the evangelist have been in
the form of aphorisms. Among
those used during the week were the
following:
"You pack your preachers in an
icehouse and abuse them all the year
because they don't sweat"
MANY Of Us are too decent to be
religious"
II never call names, but every fcl-
low knows his number when talk. !"
IL know in one church where TWEEN
ty we're praying for the millennium
and two hundred were playing for
BOBBY prize in n progressive cuchrc.
Such Christians as that would
not be in heaven six months before
they would be gambling for each
Others crowns"
II am Methodist till l find some.
thing with more get-up-and get about
it."
Il never became satisfied in Geor-
gia till we put legs on all the barrels
and demijohns in Atlanta and moved
them far away from our boys"
II had rather be a man in the tru-
est sense of the word than the best
angel in heaven"
"rhe church is the last place in
which to be solemn, provided you
have lived right"
IF have lived right, I'll wear a
smile as broad as heaven; but If I've
been swindling and doing wrong,
I'll have one as broad as a grave
yard"
II want to be n good man and
good husband, but God keep me
from being a nice preacher"
God never made two men alike
but one was no account"
sd rather be man than digni-
fed preacher"
I'D rather die on well-fought
field of battle than run away and
speculate on the spoils of the war"
I'D rather be an agent for tar
kiln than for a wife"
"A cross is Gods will one way and
yours another"
"Some men want God to quit ly-
ing and drinking for them. That's
your job"
"Some people think they can't be
pious unless they are everlastingly on
the beg"
II pray for my daily bread, but l
have to hunt for my corn pone with
the sweat running down the hoe han
de-"
I'D rather go 70 hell than to go
e,5
Dignity is nothing but the starch
Of shroud."
Every society woman who claims
to be Christian has got to get out
Of society sometime in her life or 60
to hell"
I'D rather a daughter of mine
to get a snake bite than a society
bite"
Society is a heartless old wretch,
sapping the spiritual life from thous-
ands of people"
when q man is Dragging that his
father is a colonel you may put it
down that his father is ashamed of
him." sH1e sff44
MANY a man will lie down in
hell and say: MY tongue damned
me-"
: "You may baptize man all over,
but his tongue will come out as dry
rs POWDER.
"Some Of us would get muss up
in heaven by talking about our neigh
bors.
II am not singing the Sweet
By and By but the Sweet Now and
Now"
please recognize me down here.
When / am in glory, with palm in
NY hand, if you don't want to recog-
1ize me you needn't do it."
Il pray God to give heaven to 60
10 heaven in"
''I'll put up with less in heaven il
can get more down here"
Every true man is an eternal mil
"The greatest gift of God is game
preacher"
IF horse is sound from head to |
'Oot he don't mind the currycomb,
out if there are unsound spots on
him when you come into the stable
% curry him he kicks"
"Hell is sin intensified, and sin is
nell in all its aspects"
The devil has no better seryant |