The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-19


Now, / am going to talk plain to you. We
dou't want no fine spun theories or nice sermons
about this matter; we want something that will
do you good. That's 1t. You've had enough
good-some of you. The second verse of the
text says be not conformed to the world but trans
formed First get in the right relation with God,
and then with the world, the children in this
country to day are harder than their parents. In
nll my meetings / have found it easier to con-
vert five grown people than one young man
woman. What's the matterf I'll tell you; it is
because such tide of wordiness has swept
over us all as 10 harden children, make them
nnapproachabe ard impossible to the truths of
the Bible before they are eighteen years old I'll
tell how you brought it all about. too. when your
little Mary and little Annie were not more than
six years old. You beg your husband to let you
give them a little party-just little party
there can't be any harm in such a little one-just
Rs your neighbors do At first he refuses, and
says they are too young. but he is finally com
PEELED to consent, so as to keep you from scold-
ing and pouting around and making everybody
unhappy for couple Of weeks; and so you have
1he party, and that's the way it all begins
little party is just big party with short clothes
on; that is ALL We put short dresses at the bot
tom little girls, and short dresses
At the top on our big girls. Laugh
ter I believe that IL / had to cut
eff dress would cat it off at the bottom.
don't like your down-in- front dresses. Nothing
could insult me more than to see such dress on
my wife. as have seen in some of these fash
ionabe gatherings. If my daughter don't have
but one dress in the world am going to get her
enough cloth to make her a whole dress-not a
piece of one. Look here sister. If the Lord had
intended for you to go bare up here indicating
his breastl He would have covered it with hair,
or feathers. something Great laughter.
Yes that's the way. You start out with little
parties and then it's big parties, and then its
germans. until your eighteen year old daughter
is so hardened that you might as we'll preach the
gospel to the swine in the streets to her. We
don't have no little or big parties, nor card play
Ing, nor dancing done at my house, and my chill
dren are just as happy all the day long as chill
dren can be. When can't my house with
out these things want to bury all my little ones
10 one common grave. Amen, amen, in differ
snt parts of the hall
/ see some old mother sitting in dancing
nall and smiling at her daughter and saying she
In the best dancer in the settlement. Poor, DID,
hoilow-souled thing! You send your daughters
20 some hooked-nosed old Frenchman for him to
teach them manners instead of teaching them at
home. as you ought to. If was pastor of
church in Indianapolis, and had sister in my
congregation who sent her daughter to dancing
school, I'd turn her out. hate dancing mas
Ter as hate saloon-keeper their business,
mean. OF all demoralizng influences the
dancing school and the ball the worst
Let me lay down this proposition: l never knew
"a intellectual woman in my life who was pre-
sumably fond of dancing. | think of that Cath
Ole bishop In New York who said that the
records of the confessional showed that nineteen
cnt of every twenty fallen women lost their vir
the by attendance upon the ballroom and don't
you think it is time to wake up this subjecU
Dancing is based upon the sexes That's it.
There amt girl in this town who would want
to dance if she couldn't dance with boy or a
man, and get up stag dancing party and you
won't get single fellow to go to it.
SAY to you that | have been denounced for
being vulgar in the pulpit, but, God be praised,
am pure in my lfe and l intend to remain
pure. Applause l want to build wall
ia hioh md nj pf 1licx
and am going to do 1t if can. Amt it true,
when it is announced that right here in Indian
apolis there five thousand fallen women?
Ain'tit time to call a halta Young lady, keep
your person as sacred the heart of God, for
when you allow young man to put his arms
around yon in the german, say to you that, al
though you may he as pure as an angel, the
Ischerous arms of damnation are around you.
Applause. People say am vulgar, but, thank
God, l am never vulgar to pure people-it's the
Osher sort I'm death TO. No gentleman wants to
see another mans arms around his wife or daugh-
ter, and I'll never do to another mans wife
what | wouldn't want him to do to mine.
Mothers let your daughters be kept pure in
word pure in thought. pure in life, and keep
your homes pure. You know the devil is mad
with women, and God has implanted in the heart
Of every woman a hatred for the devil Don't
you know when the devil ever puts his foot on
woman she can mover get mp agan9 Oh fash
ionable mothers, if there ever was mean, heart
less, goddess old BRUTE it is modern society. /
never belonged TO society mySef; they wouldn't
let me in. Don't know whether it was because
poor they afraid l would tell what
saw there Suppose could get In now, that I'm
rich l reckon | am. for the papers say so. One
OF them said the other day that owned three
plantations. Well. there's about four and half
lies in that one statement. Laughter. Some
OF these Indianapolis papers will keep copy
Ing lies about me until they will get to telling
lies of their own am afraid they will come to
that.
Society will make woman neglect her home
and family. Did you see pious society
woman9 l never have If you've got one here
would like to have her picture to carry around
with me and show it. / will stick to it till die
at would rather see my daughter rattlesnake
ett than society Bit for rattlesnake bite only
'sIlls the body and society bite kills the body
lad soul both. Sisters. you know that since the
first day You entered society you have been fall
Ing off in piety, and don't you know that you've
got to get out of it go to hell with it! Some
of you say you want to move ia the highest cir
cles, so that your children can marry we'll. Look
here want my daughter to set her cap for
some poor. honest. Woodworking young man
who wears jeans clothes and is maxim about $40
month That means business. you see. Keep
your daughters out of society If you rant them
TO marry well; for these young bucks that run
around to germans won't make good husbands
for them; that's my judgment. You just say to
the world. L am going to be religious and do
my duty, whether you like it or not" and the
rest of them will soon fall in You make it fash
ionabe to be religious, to be faithful to God and
to do your duty; that's the kind of fashion you
want to set
Mr. Jones discussed at some length the third
avision of his text, in the same style, urging
those who heard him not to depend on their own
sxertions to make their homes what they should
be. but to depend upon God. He closed with
word picture of two homes-one where fash
ionable, foolish mother presided, and another a
happy Christian home in which the daughters
grow up to be blessings to all around them. AS
the mothers have been. so would the daughters
DO, he said; and he asked all mothers who want
ed to do better and be better to arise There
was general response, and he said: II want
you reporters to say that three thousand moth
ers in Indianapolis have consecrated themselves