The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-06
YOUR UNCLE SAM JONES
REV. DIR. PRITOHARD PUTS HIM ON
GRIDIRON.

1 O~~~A@s-~
A GRIDIRON.
He Shows That the Pious Ways Wit is
Neither Scriptural Nor Decent, and
Charges Him With Profanity.
The following is an extract from
DIR, Pritchard's article on Sam Jones
in Charity and Children. He still
holds to his unfavorable opinion after
hearing him preach twice.
was soundly abused and vilified in
some papers and by private cores
| pondence for styling Sam Jones a
bulgarian aud blabkguard. Even
the distinguished son of North Carroll
ma, DR.. John E Edwards, shot an ar
row at me from away over in Virgin
ia. After fuller acquaintance with
him am sorry to say cannot with
dra v those charges; on the contrary,
must add to them one still more seri-
ous-that of profanity, and if the ut
terances I submit below do not make
good each of those charges, 1 am ready
to be branded a slanderer of my
bi ethren.
"If you jump on your Uncle Jones
you have got government job on
hand" II love to see a man that
stands independent of rules, etimol-
ogy, seed-ticks, and possum skins. :"
"Get up on your hind feet" "Shoot
off your little old mouth" "you old
fool" "you old liar" "you old flop
cared hound" ''you contemplate pup
pies" you lousy calves" !" whining
pigs" "I heard it was likely I would
be arrested for slandering that damna-
bic club" 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 "Get up and tell God you
did not; approve of Sam Jones-you
little blear. eyed fool" "Oh, shucks,
I have got the dead wood on these
things" meaning by things, the doc.
trines of grace. "The pastor that al
lows his members to sell whiskey is not
worthy to be the pastor of a litter of
puppies" He called some of the
most respectable gentlemen of Will
mington "pusillanimous pole cats of
hell.' "Pole cats Of heH," a brand
new style of swearing, he used Ger.
tainly as many as three times, and of
some Of our citizen he said that if
buzzard should get scent of them he
would fly straight up half mile to
get away from the smell
These are samples of the elegant ut
terances of Sam Jones in the pulpit,
and they are by no means the worst
things he said. The Messenger, one
of our city papers, promised the pub
lie full stenographic reports of all
Sam Jones' sermons. On two occa
sions asked the editor why he had
left eu,.. some of his utterances-
once when he preached to men only
and once when he had 300 ladies be-
fore him. His reply was: doctor. /
just couldn't do it. My paper goes
into families where there are women
and ehi!dreE." This editor got out
speciai 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
I do most sincerely believe that the
tendency of all such language, no mat
ter where uttered, is to debauch pub
lie morals, and that it will be many
day before this city will get over the
evil efft cts of such baneful talk. Sam
Jones slang is in the air, and Sam
Jones profanity is in the mouths of the
children of Wilmington. A lady of
my own charge told me she had to
correct one of her children for pro-
fame expression, when the child re-
piled: why, mamma, that's nothing
to what Sam Jones Gays" Another
lady told me she was reading aloud
one ofSam Jones sermons, when next
day she heard little boy use one of
his ugly expressions, and when the
child was reproved, he replied: 81
thought l could say what the preacher
said.o Still another case in another
town where Sam Jones preached, was
that of boyswho called his brother
.'an Internal hound" and made the
same excuse, that Sam Jones said that
in the pulpit An ungodly man said to
me few, days since: I'VE wicked
men. can learn plenty of cuss words
from the devil without going 10 the
pulpit to be taught new oaths." An.
other man who sometimes swears said
to me yesterday: "If I wanted to
curse man blue I wouldn't want any
stronger words than Sam Jones uses.
'PusilIanimous pole cats of hell' is
good" Welhave certainly fallen up.
on eviltimes when our children and
wicked men learn new forms of pro
family from the pulpit. God never
made two laws of profanity one for
Sam Jones and one for other people.