Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-06-25

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your wealth, buy drop of water to coo
your burning tongue with. If there is :
generous rich man in this audience I ain
shooting in mile of him, but if he is {
stingy and mean old hog, want to put {
cannon ball straight through him.
l have never yet seen preacher wht
would take hold of mean, rich man anG
stamp the feathers out of him. You gen
erally make them deacons. don't you?
| Rev. Mr.. Atwill, of Clay Street M. E
church, said he did not.
Mr.. Jones "Well, 1 don't know how
the Richmond preachers preach, as never
heard them, but that is the general way
SUFFERING FOR THE LORD.
! Suffer and endure all things for the
/ Lord. Remember Daniel in the lions den.
Daniel was told if he served the Lord be
would be thrown to the lions, and Daniel
said if do not will 60 to hell. But the
back with his head on the shaggy name
and other lions caressing him, he said this
beats hell all to pieces. Said St. Paul :
What does it matter what I eat, for to.
night will sup with the Lord and wear a
crown of glory forever. And so it will be
with you, my brethren, if you endure all
things for the Lord and keep his command
ments.
Mr.. Jones then proceeded to give the
modern version of the Ten Commandments.
Thou shalt not steal, but you can appro-
pirate; don't break the Sabbath, but
bend it as much as possible; don't covet
anything, but get all you can, and keep all
you get; have as many wives as you please,
&c., &c.
He then discussed sin in general, in
cluding drunkenness, gambling, lewdness,
avarice, worldiness, and was especially
severe on fashionable card playing, theatre
going and dancing. He said the fashion
able card-players were no better in the
sight of God with their progressive euchre
parties than the Chicago blacklegs.
THE PARTICULARLY NICE YOUNG MAN.
Mr.. Jones then turned his guns on the
nice young men. While giving them some
wholesome advice he did not forget the
older ones, and the married ones especially.
He said no young man would care to go
to stag dance. He did not want to dance
with the handsomest man in the world
He wanted to dance with woman. He
opposed all kinds of dancing and he called
on the people to do So. But if hugging is
the game, and you want your wives and
daughters hugged, just keep it up. And
God pity that man who can't run his home
without a deck of cards. And now let me-
tell you about virtue. No matter what
becomes of the boys, God keep our girls
pure. I tell you the price of virtue should
be the life of the scoundrel who violates
the law, and it should be paid at the blaz-
ing end of double barrelled shotgun with
forty buckshot in each barrel.
Now, 1 am not going to take any ad-
vantage of you, and if there is any man
here who wishes to reply just get up on
your hind legs and have your say.
MIR. Jones spoke of the record Of men as
merchants, attorneys, and in all pursuits.
He said that a little pettifogger, who did
dirty act in this world, said, "Oh, did
that as an attorney" Yes, and when be
hops about in hell he will be acting as an
attorney there.
Mr.. Jones then made general review of
the law and the testimony, and again
thundered his anathemes on the leading
worldly sins. He was especially severe on
drunkenness, bathrooms, lewdness, avarice
and indifference in church members.
PARDON SOUGHT AND PARDON FOUND.
After his review of the law and the testi-
mony and vivid description of sin and it's
consequences, Mr.. Jones came to the close
of his discourse. This was on the theme
of redeeming love and the pardon found
which had been truly sought. His descrip-
| tion of his own conversion and that of Mr..
Sam Small was beautiful.
| The vast audience seemed in full SYM
pathy with him, and there we're tears in
many eyes unused to weeping, and tremu-
lous lips all over the grand Tabernacle.
His psroration and climax were truly
eloquent, and when at the close, with tears
in his own eyes and quiveriDg lips he asked
all to stand up who, by the help of God,
| would try to lead better lives, the scene
has never been squalled in Richmond or
probably in this country.
While the choir and congregation sung
hundreds came forward and pressed his
hand, and many announced their determl-
nation to turn from the evil of their ways.
The sermon was said to be one of the
best ever preached in Richmond. Con-
trary to expectation, there was but little
''smut" iu it. It was plain, practical and
forcible, ard more pointed than was to be
expected in man talking plainly to his
own sex about their glaring sins. No one
felt disappointed in the effort except those
who went expecting to hear an unclean
| sermon.
| SOUTHERN REPUBLICANs.-Refe tc
the proposed National election law, the
Lynchburg VTginion says
"The attitude of Southern Republicans
on the bill is contemptible and despicable
to the last degree. Not one of them hai
uttered :. word of protest against any of tht
measures that have been proposed. They
will support either or any of them indis
crimiuately, except that they would OBJ
viously prefer the enactment of the mos
extreme and obnoxious one of the lot Mel
of this stamp in representative positions ar
a disgrace to the politics Of any country
) And the fact that the chief object of tn
! law is to continue such men in ofice by un
fair means is the most Objectionable thin,
in connection with The whole dirty and dis
honest business"
! "Pa," said lad to his father; II hav
often read of people poor but honest; VIII
| don't they sometimes say, rich bn
hoEesr?" "Tut, my son; nobody woul
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