Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-21

SAM p. JONES.
Gus hgrangue, lasted nearly two hours and
was listened to with apparent delight by an
audience numbering about $500. good
many ministers were among these present,
and women were in the majority.
1t was Sis O'Clock when the Rev. Sam
Jones appeared on the platform and began
his lecture. H said:
The subject affords us broad field, over which
We may roam at will and pass pleasant, and,
hope. a profitable hour. The expression get
there with the Ell left of of course-for you
know am opposed To slang-sugGests diversity
of ways. First might discuss how we can gec
there socially. find So much peryersion in social
life that the dude and the dudine are now its
highest expression Then might Ill 'cuss how to
get there financially, but when you do get there
financially you are not very high. / was lately
told by man in New York that Jay Gould was
very unhappy. Just think of the richest man In
America being the unhappIest man!
Then, again. might discuss how to get there
politically. Some of us didn't get there at the
last election; we got left, There is mourning
down in Tennessee and Georgia. and to tell tine
truth haven't been shouting much myself. But
Still we ara not entirely discouraged; We are
looking for four years Of peace and prosperity
under Gen Harrison II We can't get pudding
Wen take pie. As for me, III rather be an hum
BILE minister Of Jesus Christ than to be prpssideut
My job lasts the longest.
Did You ever see q true, honest, noble kind
manly mani have me such one and prayed
God TO make me like him l have met such
woman and thanked God for noble, Christian
womanhood. remembering that my wife and
mother We're women. You must lift man up TO a
level with his Maker and then he'll live the life OF
God every day. Just fill some men up with waf-
fies Jersey butter and honey and they a. e in hog
heaven Plenty TO eat and nothing TO do is the
ideal Of many. have Seen young women whose
greatest ambition was 10 hear fiddle scraping
and to dance with young buck while his arm
was around her. Nin--tenths of our girls want
nothing but good time. They have no higher
or better purpose Of life.
You viii never put whisky out OF Chicago till
you put the bottle an demijohn out Of the closets
of churches and church members houses You
will never stop gambling in Chicago till you stop
progressive euchre in the homes Of deaconS and
elders The church goer who plays progressive
euchre anu wins fayors is Just as much o black
leg gambler as any one As for the saloonkeeper
l have the same objection to HIM that have 10
iOuse-its the way he gets his hving-off the
heads of families. You license men 70 do wrong,
10 kill TO murder can't see bit of difference
between the saloonkeeper AM the bartender, the
good deacon who owns the saloon property and
the man who votes TO license the sale Of whisky
/ think barkeeper will feel very comfortable
In he'll with a lot OF you good Methodists
and baptists round him.
Ike live men full OF the breath Of Christianity
Christianity is the science of life and Of living
admire Chicago for its lie and enterprise: but
there's he'll enough in this town TO start branch
Office. snd you'll find men on every corner ready
anu aEfAfosa~ TO take charge or tho ON So 49,
old fossil preachers wake up and do something, If
It is ONLY TO step down from the pulpit and throw
al old doing bench warmer out of the window.
People will soon crowd around a church to see
preacher who has enough life left in him TO do
that Sometimes We berate the newspapers, but
you'll find the editors have got some sense. They
send their reporters to write columns aud columns
about dog and chicken fights and base bail be
cause something always happens at those events
II a man has the life and pluck TO get there
| he'll need good deal OF grit and courage TO stay
The moral forces OF this country are largely co.'s
ardy We need brave judges and brave iuri--
under them We need preachers who ar no
| afraid OF man nor the devil Except in illinois
| hardly know Of a preacher you can't ride jus
| where you please He's sfraii of hurting some
body's feelings But here's talking 10 yo,
| tonight they can't ride Let them put their foo
| In the sttrrup and attempt to mount and whel
| the dust clears away they'll find me across th'
road at the trough eating. with one OF their gal
luses round my hind leg. There isn't a leadin,
| church in the country that would have me for IL
| pastor and wouldn't have them for my sheep
II we had mora preachers in jail for telling tn
| truth. like John the Baptist, we'd have bette
| time They say II , blood OF the martyrs is tn,
seed Of the church If that is so we are nearly ru
out of seed.
At this point a man in the rear part Of tn
hall put a torch to his cigar and began putin,
as if he were attending a mill between Xii
rain and Mitchell smoking car ahead, m,
friend" sang out Jones with his nasal twang
In conclusion he said he believed in mar
risge.
Whom God has Joined together let no man pn
asunder Whom the devil hath joined together
let them came to Chicago. They'll be put asunde
In short order Go home and tell your wife IN a
kindness that you love her, and that sh
Is the dearest sweetest old thing o
earth-some OF you will have to tell a Ii
to say it-but say it just the same. Tv
talked an hour and twenty minutes now an,
whenever you get tired admission to the street
free-I haven't got there yet.
Then followed a plea FOR kindness an
sympathy and the brotherhood Of man. H
also made a strong and pathetic appeal 70
prohibition. "They will say Sam Jones
after money! Well, what are you after, oil
coonf II you will find man in Chicag
who isn't after money, I'll eat him raw.
there be any he is so lonesome be won't sta
here long. Let man do good with hi
money and it will come back to him"