Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-30
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after he had preached and perhaps l0I
persons had come up and given him thu
| hand. and the preachers and workers
bad gone among the inquirers and were
earnestly talking with them, and aitel
DR.. Greasy had offered fervent anc
melting prayer, and when great solemn
" prevailed, up jumped Sam. Jones
and began to talk, saying, among othel
things. lyon need give yourselves M
concern about your Uncle Jones, he car
tote his own little skillet" Instead o
pointing sin-sick souls to the Saviour, e
obtrude his own little personality II
such hippant slang, seemed to me littl'
short OF sacrilege. He was somewhat
less smutty here than in Charlotte, bu'
he said enough in Wilmington to out
rage propriety, common decency, ano
good morals.
ABUSED AND vILLIFIED.
was soundly abused and villified in
some papers and by private correspon-
dence for styling Sam Jones yulgarian
and BLACKBOARD. Even the distinguished
son of North Carolina, DR.. John Il. Ed
wards, shot an arrow at me from away
over in Virginia After fuller acqualnt-
ance with him, am sorry to say ! can
not withdraw those charges; on the con-
trary. must add to them one still more
serious, that of profanity, and If the ut
terances / submit below do not make
good each Of those charges, / am ready
to be branded a slanderer OF my brethren.
"lf you Jump on your Uncle Jones
YOU have got Government Job on
hand. 81 love to see man that stands
independent of rules, etymology, seed
ticks, and 'possum skins" sect up on
your hind feet" "Shoot off your little
old mouth" "you old fool. " lyon old
liar" "you old Aop-eared hound,
"you contemplate puppies. you
lousy calves" whining pigs, l
heard it was likely ] would be arrested
for slandering that damnable club. 70
Damnable seemed to be quite favorite
with him, as he used it often. " If you
get between me and the club | will knock
the filling out of you." "Got up, tell
God you did not approve of Sam
Jones-you little blear-eyed fool go,
shucks, | have got the dead wood on
these things" meaning by things the
doctrines of grace. 1.-THE pastor that
allows his members to sell whiskey is not
worthy to be the pastor of litter of
puppies" OF some of our citizens he
said that il buzzard should get scent OF
them he would fly straight up nalf a
mile TO get away from the smell.
These are samples OF the elegant ut
teranees OF Sam Jones III the pulpit,
and they are by no means the worst
things he said. The Messenger, one OF
our city papers, promised the public full
stenographic reports of all Sam Jones's
sermons.
On two occasions / asked the editor
why he had LETT out some of his utter
ances-once when he preached to men
only and once when he had 300 ladies
before him. His reply was as follows:
doctor, | just couldn't do it. My pa
per goes into families where there are
women and children" This editor got
out a special edition of his two sermons
to men, and most excellent sermons
they are, too; but some Of the dirty,
smutty things the preacher said are not
there. do most sincerely believe that
the tendency of all such language, no
matter where uttered, is to debauch pub
lie morals, and that it will be many a
day before this city will get over
the evil effects of such baneful
talk. Sam Jones's slang is IN the air,
and Sam Jones's profanity is in the
mouths Of the children of Wilmington.
lady OF my own charge told me she
had to correct one of her children for a
profane expression, when the child re-
piled: "Why, mamma, that's nothing
to what Sam Jones says. Another lady
told me she was reading aloud one of
Sam Jones's sermons, when the next
day she heard little boy use one OF his
ugly expressions, and when the child was
he replied 81 thought l
could say what the preacher said. Still
another case III another town where sam
Jones preached was that Of boy
who called his mother can internal
hound" and made the same ex-
cuse that Sam Jones said that in the
pulpit. An ungodly man said to me a
few days since: 90 We wicked men can
learn plenty of cuss-words from the
devil without going tc the pulpit to be
taught new oaths" Another man, who
sometimes swears, said to me yesterday:
of / wanted to cuss man blue L
wouldn't want any stronger words than
Sam Jones uses. Pusillanimous pole
cats OF hell is good" We have GER
tainly fallen upon evil times when our
and wicked men learn new
forms of profanity from the pulpit. God
never made two laws of proianity-one
for Sam Jones and one for other people.
INSULTING sLUBs.
And what shall say of the insulting
slurs cast upon Wilmington and her peo-
pie, especially when he said that the
aristocracy of Wilmington would not DO
allowed to sweep out the kitchens OF the
aristocracy of Baltimore. / have lived
in Baltimore and know many OF her best
people, and dare assert that the best
people of Wilmington are equal to any
on the face of the earth. IL he meant
his words to he taken seriously he knew
he uttered what was false. If he said 1t
in spirit of bravado and designed it to
be taken as a sort of Joke it was a silly
Joke and none the less insulting, and |
for one Wilmingtonian am ashamed that
hundreds OF our citizens quietly sat and
heard their neighbors and friends IN
suited without protest, but actually
laughed at what they knew was a SLAM
der.
This tendency to degrade the pulpit
began years ago in the North. Henry
Ward Beecher gave the weight of his
great name to it by telling jokes in the