Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-19
sam JONES ON ssGEr THRRE.n

The wsll-Known Evangelist and Lect-
 urer Psrpesrases Many or His Trench
 ant Sayings With Turns and Au.
 morous Touches at the Grand opera
 House.
 A small audience was scattered about the Grand opera House last night when MT. Bunnell walked upon the stage, accompanied by Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist and lecturer, shortly after 8 o'clock. MT. Bun- nell introduced the speaker. made his bow and retired. To begin with, the evangelist stated that he would give his hearers good lecture but that he could not give them hearts to appreciate it. The man who un- derstsnds what ''get there" means, under stands the whole of life, said he, and after discoursiug upon this total clement of suc- cess, he turned to chastise the dude, who doesn't have any "get there" t9 him at all The dude is pimple on society, he ex- claimed. Did you ever wake up some morn- ing and find little white pimple on your cheek That is dude. When you squeeze 1t, that Is dudine. They don't know what "get there" means. They're travelling on tho opposite road all the time. have little sympathy with that society which can pro- duce these. We need change Of environ,
 
 in all its phases. Let us not spend this hour in talking how to "get there" socially. Perhaps we might talk how to "get there'' politically but that would be downward in- stead of upward. We have two great parties and sometimes think, that is the difference between them. The difference between the two is this: The Democratic party is an old, mean. drunken party, and the Republi- can party is sneaking, hypocritical one. We talk about . free ballot, and fair ballot, and straight count. I was talking to a southerner some time ago at camp meeting up in Vermont. Says he: Down South we use lead, and up North you use silver. We can kill them cheapest, and you can buy .em cheapest. While we are here discussing Re. publicanism and Democracy the devil and whiskey are raising havoc all over the land.
 As to avarice, the speaker said it was the meanest and most debasing passion on earth. l We won't talk how to "get there" financially. | No man will ever tget there" till he puts | God above gold. and manhood above mann. mon. What's Jay Gould's fortune compared with the whole of New York citya
 What is the whole of New York city com pared with the United States?
 What is the United States compared with the worldi Why, if Jay Gould had the . place to go to bed in.
 like live man. never like anything | dead outside of the graveyard. go into some places and see ministers running the devil out of town as the dog ran the boy out. | The dog was in front. God never said read my gospel; he said preach my gospel. If preacher springs manuscript sermon on me once haven't heard it before. If he does | it again it is my fault. Usually I won't be there. They say lightning never strikes | twice in the same place. No; because the same place isn't there again. Life! Life
 It is life. I like live man. like live lawyer, if he is @ good one. A good lawyer is next to good preacher. Some lawyers however, are peculiar. fancy they will squeal when they are hopping about hell fire and say: I'm not the man; I'm an attorney
 ed into man would fill him with courage. I liked old Grover for this. He had a back
 bone as big as a hitching post. He was C
 man who had the courage of his convictions
 You can't kill a courageous man. You car shoot him all to pieces and he won't die un. less you kill him. But the coward dies before
 he is hardly hurt. The next thing I would
 have in man is patience. We should all
 have patience. Girls, if you have plenty oi patience you will be mothers bye and bye
 and if you have enough of 1t you will be grandmothers.
 Another thing is kindness. I believe every
 man ought to go home and put his arms around his wife and tell her she is the sweet. est thing on earth. He'd have to tell lie to say 1t, but believe he ought to.
 The best thing in the world is religion which does good out of church. Some of you old people would get up in the night and ran to meeting if you thought you had re. ligion. You think religion Is only to go tC church with. Talk of all the old hypocrites in this world getting to Heaveni If they did you'd have to sleep with your pants under your head every night.
 Some of you made a religion of charity. But just get on a street car when you go home and when the conductor comes for your fare tell him you are 6 great philsn- throphist. Tell him you have given $500 here and $500 there, and see what he does. If you don't pay your fare he will put you of the car. Think of 1t, If you can't ride half mile on Q stree, car for your charity, how ia, do you suppose 1t will take you towards heavens But had rather be . liberal gam. bier than . stingy Methodist. Mind ysu, wouldn't be either one. But you convert the gambler and he will become power in the church. The old stingy Methodist has been converted and Is worse in his crabbedness than half dozen gamblers.
 In closing the evangelist poured forth his most pathetic rhetoric in striking metaphors of power and pathos, Illustrating the lives oi those who do and those who do not ''get