Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-12-13
REV. SAM JONES.
SOME OF HIS SAYINGS AT JACKSON
4 AND GREENvILLE. ( Z

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I'd rather be learning my b c's II
heaven than reading Greek in bell
Il l don't usc slang. 1t 10 not Sian,
to call man dog. The two leg.
ged kind are numerous. i +,
l lalwaJe. hate to see q hog in &
mansion. J.. Z !.
Some people say use too much
ioolIshness. Do you know what
f)olisbness is2 1t is the stuff | rub
on fools. See. II !
l use illustrations, rather than ar
guments. People can understand
Illustrations, and they won't liaten
10 argunents-and wouldn't under.
stand the language if they did.
| Some ministers complain that they
don't have good audiences. No
wonder. The audience can't be ex.
pecied to stand everything. People
go to church to hear something. but
go away minus the article.
am not fighting the saloon keep.
er. It is the other fellow ! am after.
The saloon man soils whisky to- ge,
bread and jeans Tor his children.
You grant him the license to- get
money to fix up your streets. The
saloon man is the gentleman and you
are the vagabonds.
The religious old hypocrite swim
dles his customers Six days in the
week, On Sunday he spruces up,
goes to church, occupies the amen
corner and plans devilmont for the
future. What IS he? I'll tell you:
Hc is an old hound of hell.
What we want is grit right or
wrong, give me the man ,hathss
grit and backbone. Why Cleveland
bad backbone as large as circus
pole. a"
Patience! Have patience! II the
women had patience they would be
better mothers, and If some of them
had more patience they would be
grandmothsrs. Nov what are you
laughing about? =
Be man. good man. Be as
good man when visiting Nav York
as at your homes in Jackson. You
understand Yes, see, some of you
have travelled
Ii your wives know as much ae
bout you men as God does the chan.
cery courts would be crowded with
bills for divorce. You sly old dogs.
You ought TO quit your mean ness
or move to Utah.
Yonn have got too much foolosaphy
in the pulpit. '''e =
1t amt how often you fall dawn,
but how often you get up.
The little fellow that never gets d
mile below the spring, doon'i know
much about the river.
lust IN proportion as you think
and act like mule, you will be
mule minus the shape.
The reason man don't eniov re.
ligion is bccapse he hasn't got any.
Some say Sam Jones is low. He
is only trying to get on level with
his AUDIENCE.
| can take lot OF nipkles with
holes in them and fool many fellows
into heayen, or tho other place.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the riches,
man that ever died in America, beg
ged his wife to sing, Il am = sinner
poor end needy at his death heo.
Christianity is something that can
be tested like anything elsp. 1t can
be tested and Illustrated like the sci.
ence of mathematics.
God can't save q man without hn.a
man instrumentalities and the devil
can't damn man without human
instrHmcntalities.
What church members need is
something that will fix them 40
they'll keep.
lts Gods grip on us, not our grip
Oh God, that saves u.s.
Whatever else | may have done
| have never compromised nv man.
hood TO please rich old hypooritc,
A man who does not hold family
prayer has got no more religion than
goat.
II is worth trip to the end of
the world to see one good noble man,
The meanest people in world arc
the ones that will pack preacher
in au ice box and then curse him be-
cause he won't sweat.
] have got the profoundest con.
tempt for those little female things
and these male things wearing
clothes like people,
Father or mother, ifyou know q
grand noble man in ali the world
buy = ticket for your boy at what.
ever expense, and send him to talk
him. Let him be able 10 say, / have
seen and talked with one good man,
There is moro religion in laugh-
ing than cry,pg. II religion con.
sists in crying l have the bost bov
in the world
A christian who will do things ii
, New York that he would not do at
: homo is very poor christian.