The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-10-09
THE REV SAM JONES.
Some OF the Great ReSiyaIist's
Sayings at Wilmington.

y bad associate or "A i'ad boot can
never be estimated in this world.
/ had rather associate with 1t dog
than Il man who Will swear, the as
sociation with the dog may make
you doggish but ii will not make
you profanc. ] never heard II dog
swear; ] mean Il four legged dog !
har rather associate with Il hog
than with It man who will drink
Whiskey, because | might become
hOggish but never would become
a drunkard
| believe the elect are the "Who-
sOeverwiIls, and the un-elect are
the "Whcsoever-won'ts." Like the
old darkey who said, II do not
know how TO explain il. but nobody
is ever elected 'ceptin' he is can
didate.n
All this quarrel we get up among
the denominations about the age
Of church is all nonsense. You get
up . Baptist brother and he will
run back to John the Baptist and
say they have come down in Apos-
tolic succession; but we Methodists
have got the pull Oh him; we go
back to Adam. Did not Adam tall?
And | believe as truly that Adam
was Methodist as l believe that /
am one; he manifested every practi-
cal evidence in the world by his
church relations.
l can't have what we call enmities
or jealousies; some of the best
friends / have in the world are
Piesbyterians, some of the truest
men L knO" on earth are Presby-
terians. Baptists: ! Will love them
as long as l live. / got my wife
out of that pond. am brother-in-
law to every Baptist in the world,
and our relations are most pleasant.
AS far as the Episcopalian Church
goes, that was the mother of the
Methodist, and bey that will go
back on his mother, he WON'T do
at all.
Tie grand old Episcopal church is
the best equipped church in the
world; it is the best equipped regi-
ment of Jesus Christ in the world
but the trouble it, that it has be TN
in camp hundred years and il has
not fired gun.
Every time there is a split off,
that part jumps nearer where God
wan sit, that is fact. When the old
EpiscOpalian church .plit, the
Metht dists Jumps out on great,
broad platform; when the old
school Presbyterian church split,
the Cum berland jumped out toward.
common centre and there follow.
ed a grand work; when the old
Hard-shell Baptist church split, the
Missionaries jumped out anil jump
ed towards us, bat they fell i'll the
| creek.
You can take a man and immerse
him in the river OF Jordan three
times Il day, for a hundred years
and if he don't quit his meanness
and live right. he will go to hell
like he vas shot out of a cannon.
Salvation is not joining the church
it is not being baptized, it is no
taking the sacrament, it is no
praying in your family, it is no
visiting the sick, it is not helping
the poor, it is not feeling good
those things are no more salvation
that my coat is Sam Jones; it is tht
rig we wear.
What IS salvation? 1t is GOt
Almighty setting the Ten Command
mentS TO music in your soul, ant
setting every Christian duty t
music in your lift that woult
charm the angels ear.
I will tell you preachers righ
now, you need not be jumping ant
stamping on your people SO much
they need medicine more than tht
club. The little fellows are puny
Whenever child will get up from
a nice table and won't eat, 5ut g
out and gnaw dirt from chimney
that child don't need whipping,
needs some Of that candy wit
directions OH the box.
never went much Oil TheolOg'
with big 'sO' In the middle of it
The theOlogian, and the "foolosc
pher' and the "muddyphysician
are three twin brothers.
When one of those theologian
comes fooling around me, he wi
get tangled up with the busines
end of a mule, every time. l al
} about it a good deal like All oil
Deacon, who said, Brethren, if
were going to preach the funeral o
a mule, would stand at his hea
while | was doing it.'
, l understand that it is the inter
r tion of someone to go for me in tn
papers under nom de plume. d
D you know what Il nom de plume is
1t is buzZard with the feather
f stamped off.