The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-11-29
SAM JONES'.
Some of His sayings at Jackson and
Greenyille.

i u'u / usS sung. luis Hul sidI
to call a man & dog. The two legge
kind are numerous.
always hate to see a hog in a man
sion.
Some people say | use too mucl
toolishness. Do you know what fool
ishness is? 1t is the stuff | rub OF
fools. See.
use illustration rather than argu
ments. People cqn understand Illus
trations, and they won't listen to ar
guments-and wouldn't understand
the language if they did.
Some ministers complain that they
don't have good audiences. No won,
der. The audiences can't stanC
everything.
People go to church to hear some,
thing, but many go away minus
the article.
am not lighting the saloon keep.
er. 1t Is the other fellow | am after.
The saloon mar sells whiskey to get
bread and jeans for 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 v~agabonds.
The religious old hypocr tie swim
dies his customers six days in the
week. On Sunday he spruces up,
goes to church, occupies the amen
corner and plans deviIment for the
future. What is he? I'll tell 0 !:
He is all old hound of hell.
What we want is grit-right or
wrong give me the man that has
grit and backbone. Why Cleveland
had a backbone as large as a circus
pole.
Patience! Have patience! If the
woman had patience they would
DC better mothers, and If some Of
them had more patience they would
be grandmothers. Now what are
you laughing about?
Be man, a good man. Be as
good Il man when visiting New
ork as at your home in jackson.
You understand? Yes, | see, sonic
Of y0u have travelled.
lfyDur wives know as much about
you as God does, the cnancery courts
would be crowded with bills for d.
vorce, You sly old dogs. You ought
to quit your meanness-or move to
We have too much foclo=aphy IN
.he pulpit.
1t amt how often you tall down
'ut how often you get up.
The little fellow that never gets a
nile below the spring doesn't know
uuch about the river.
Just in proportion you think and
like n mule, you will be a mule
minus the shape.
The reason a man don't enjoy re-
.'Fion is because he hasn't got any.
Some say Sam Jones is low. He is
'nly trying to get on a level with his
iudience.
can take a lot Of nickles with
roles in them and fool many fellows
nto heaven, or the other place.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest
nan that ever died in America. beg
red his wife to sing, II am a sinner
DOor and needy" at his death bed.
Christianity is something that can
'e tested like anything else. 1t can
'e tested and illustrated like the
rience of mathematics.
God can't save a mar without hui
nan instrumantalities, and the dpv-
cant damn a man without human
nstrumentalities.
What church members need is some
hing that will fix them 50 they will
.eep.
Its Gods grip on us, not our grip
n God, that saves US.
Whatever else / may have done l
ave never compromised manhood
please a rich old hypocrite,
a man who does not held family
hes got no more religion than
goat.
1t is worth a trip to the end of the
'Orld to see one good noble man.
The meanest people in the world
re the. ones that will pack a preach
r in IN ice box and then curse him
ecause he Q0n | sweat.
1t is not so much what you believe
s what you do.
1t would take a l0-foot room 10
old all the first class me- mbers of
IL church here.
have got the profoundest con-
,mpt FOR these little female things
nd these little male things wearing
like people,
Father or mother, # you know a
rand noble man in all the world, buy
ticket for your boy At whatever ex4
and send him to talk with
i'm. Let him he able To saw hava