Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-18
SAM JONES.
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She would scorn you from her presence. Zap
plause. How low down man must be who
can only maintain the respect of his wife as has
life is hidden from her eyes. Record record !!
What is your record sir as a husband? If men
can't stand little talk about IL here, how are
they going to stand before the bar of God when
If God will help me- and keep my strength for
thirty minutes longer will preach the truth to
you. You may take me 10 the Sacramento river
and throw me in, but every bubbling wave viii
tell you, you have drowned an honest man that
had the grit to stand up and
TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE.
TApplause.] Again. what is your record as
father You Old bloated. cussing deoauched
father. The very day your children first opened
their eyes on you, they saw an old bloated, stag
geriDg wretch, that they must call father. Rec
ord record Il If you touch me on this question
of children, yon may tell me am the lowest
down man in the world tell me anything, but
never tell me have lost interest in the children
of my home. [Applause.] You man stepped in
whisky, going 10 your homes and taking up
your little innocent child in your lap, the day
your wife gave birth to that little one 1t was
born half drunkard, that boy will grow up
and
BE DRUNKARD NISETY-NINE TIMES OUT OF A
HUNDRED,
And man that will drink the whisky which
you old red-nosed fellows do ought TO be driven
out of decent community. Laughter. said
in Chattanooga, Tenu that no one but an in
iernal scoundrel would sell viii Ky, and no one
putting it pretty strong, isn't it? lLaughter.l
They cussed me all around town when WASN'T
there. lLaughter.l / challenged them, the
barkeepers and saloon men OF that town, to
meet me at the corner of Ninth and Market
streets in the morning, and asked them to go
with me up TO house in that town and see
poor woman aud get her to tell us how her
home had been demolished, her LITTLE children
beggared how her husband was convicted of a
crime and sentenced to the penitentisry for
twenty years, and then for them TO walk up and
HEAR THE DRIPPING OF THE BLOOD,
And then say that any who sold whisky. that
would curse home like that, was not an internal
seoundrel or anyone who drank it an internal
didn't go. They didn't want to see that poor
woman. AS far as you men that drink whisky
are concerned L havn't got bit OF respect for
you, have no patience with you. / was in a
barber shop in this town and man was read.
ing in the paper where man was fined s475
for getting drunk, and he said, That's pretty
low gets drunk and kills his wife or his best
friend IL don't look like Si75 was too much; II
looks like that was cheap enough don't it?'
Yes" they said,
THAT'S CHEAP ENOUGH"
"My,' you say, i have never been talked to
in this way before" Well. the preacher may
have been patting You on the back and saying.
" You are clever fellow; lisa pity you drink
That is a lie; you are dog and a scoundrel.
Applause Tell me that clever man will
break his wiie's heart and destroy his home
God save me from being clever man. No one
but an internal fool will drink it,. In Gaines
walked up in jail He had been one of the best
citizens Just as The jailer walked into the jail
he woke up and calling to him MIN said Where a9i
"What am in here for?'
You ARE IN JAIL FOR MURDER"
For murder" said the man, whom did
kiln" Your WIFE" said the iailer. The poor
fellow staggered back ana fell on the floor:
When he came to himself about an hour latera
he cried to the jaior, Go out and get posse of
men and let them take me out and hang me to
the nearest tree, have killed the best wife
man ever had" If whisky viii make man
kill his precious wife, then will aay one but an
internal fool drink it? [Applausel There are
men i,tening to me, who If you drink on in less
than ninety days your wife may be found lying
10 pool of blood In her home God being my
judge, never. never will tolch drop OF the
fearful stuff again while | live. am done.
tApplause.]
WHAT Is YOUR RECORD AS A FATHER?
| Debauching your families and bringing them
| down TO ruin, with a bad example for your
children and an accused life before their eyes.
! Look at yo1r record as Il member of the church.
Some of you who have come up and made your
vows TO God have teen selling liquor, cheating
| and swindling. God deliver me frsm the infamy
| of hypocracy (Applause.] The meanest men on
earth a'e such members of the church. APP
plaEse. A mean man in the church adds
| hypocrisy 10 his meanness and hypocritical
| meanneSs is the worst on earth. 1t tickles me
| to hear you old fellows out of the church saying
| those hypocrites are in my way in the church.
DO you know those fellows couldn't get in your
| way unless they were ahead OF you. If every
old hypocute were ahead OF me would shut
| my mouth and never open IL any more lAP-
| plause.l What is my record as a preacher. There
| are
a GREAT MANY PREACHERS IN HELL
And great many more going there. Laugh
ter and applause You say, Jones that IS "a
MANY will say, Lord have not l prophesed
| and preached in thy name;" and Christ said,
Depart would rather take the record OF a
| bar-keeper 10 the bar of God, than hat of an
| unfaithiul preacher. have MADE up my mind
that if there is but one man on earth who will
| stand up and talk plain and straight from the
| shoulder, by the grace OF Sod l will be that
man. Applause. None of YOU cah come to
the judgment seat and
POKE YOUR BoNY FINGER AT NE
And say you had a chance to talk to me once
and save me but you didn't do it,. No, sir My
record as preacher, as a member of the church,
as a legislator, everywhere and under all cir
cumstances what is it? A man talks one way
! with his mouth aud writes another in his heart.
With your mouth you say, Il don't believe the
told big liz" With your mouth you say 81
am Just as good as ybody,' in your heart you
write down, ''That is a lie. | know my good
mother and members of the church that are
| Christians are better than am
OH, THE AWFUL RECORD
OF some men. When your tDOdy mas mOlOereu
to dust so there is not enough left to fill match
box with, what is ieit7 Your record, that viii
live through all eternity. can never get away
from my record. Look here, young man. your
record of last Sunday, what was il? gentle
man was telling me that young man IN his
employ had done wrong, aud they went TO look
for him. They went into all the Sums and
dives of sin ia this city, and he said it Yves
enough to make every man stand up In his
manhood in this city and say this thing has got
TO be stoppeG-gambling, drunkardness and de-
bauchery in sixteen and eighteen-year-old boys,
that ought 10
BRING THE BLUSH OF SHANE
To the cheek of the most hardened drunkard.
Young man, il you don't stop drinking you wi !
end your days in the peniteLtiary; that IS, Il
crime were punishable in this state. Laugh
teri You are nobody, you gambling, drinking
| young man If were q merchant IN this Town
wouldn't hire Scu hat minute / woudn
trust you with a rusty copper. Some of You
don't like that but you have got the poort st way
in the world OF heping yourself drinking,
gambling young nan
WILL ROE HIS EMPLOYER
Sooner or later, and some OF you have done II
| already, but it IS goiug TO come out on you,
mark my words. Oh God, the gambling spir I
in This State. steve Holcomb, an cd gambler
OF Kentucky, alter he had reformed, said u
me. 81 hay gambieo Tor forty years in every
CITY in the United States and / tell you, old
steve Holcomb swears that no msn VINO is q
gambler is an honest man. Applause. Thai
| Is what one Of your own crowd Gays after he
| SIralgnteDC out. lSppiduAe
Ny record lou cant dodge it il is made, II
is written III indeliible letters, and all the
chemicals of earth cannot erase 1t. II is the
| best evidence that the case is susceptible Of
God would not suffer the worst enemy you have
to touch that record. He would not suffer your
mother TO put her finger on IL. Every word and
deed and act of your life is recorded you will
carry it with you when you come to Judgment
SAM JONES RECORD.
FL Sixteen years ago last August / walked up Il
where and what / was, with a record enough Il
damn world, instead of one immortal soul
and in that cond ,tion turned my eyes towards
Mr. Spencer. and told him about my conscience
my record and God. Mr.. Spencer told me h,
| knew nothing of God and did not treat OF
4 record / then went TO Darwin. He said .
am dealing with evolution; know nothing
abort God and conscience and record said
Goodbye, Mr. Darwin" ] then turned to Mr.
Tyndall and asked, !" Have you anything 10 So,
upon
Gon AND CONSCIENCE AND RecoRDT'
',No,r said he. " deal only with the past an
/: present" Sixteen Yeas ago waIkes up 10 tn
a dying pillow OF my father, and no boy eve
q loved a father more than loved mine. | hav
y wished thousand times that had him bacl
with me for az hour, that mig lean my hea'
y | on his bosom and have him ialk 10 me kindl
: as he nsed 10 in days gone by. He said TO M