Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-07-15

The following are extracts from an arti
Gle contributed to the Basic City Advance
by Mr.. w. E. Christian.
"He prayed with strong simplicity, brew
ity, dignity, earnestnese. A brother sinner
sitting near whispered, that wasn't so bad
The reply came. "wait whilel' After
clearing up the ftatter and buzz and send
ing out an old countryman with shorl
breeehes and crying baby, Sam commend.
ed. He was facing strange audience
He descended upon the Phillistines. he
was like David, only he don't use smooth
stones and uses more than five. He let fly,
and the sinners hair began to bristle up on
the backs of their heads. They were mad
at his vulgarity. They showed fight and
But in that sermon he had struck Goliath
plump. Sermon followed sermon, each
built up differently. Sam gives tie sinner
bIuemass one day and euinine the next
Re let's him down and tones him up, and
now ana t6eu, in ono Of lis pathetic ..ioods,
he takes him by the hand and leads him
into green pastures and by the side Of still!
waters, and the fellow lets tear fly without
knowing it. Sam is man of big heart
and says vulgar things at times; but what
he says is bold truth clothed in the Ian
guage OF the lowzbred man. He talks this
way to catch the low-bred fellows. He
fishes at different depths. For the deep,
heightened fellows, he introduces now and
then longer line. But he knows low
down cat fish and bluo- blooded stuck. up
mountain trout bite best at different bats.
In the midst of his black portraitures of
lifo he will now and then let in clear, mel
low, chaste bit OF rhetoric as sweet and
translucent as deep cool pool of blue sky
through the ragged edges of circling clouds.
He handles large bodies of people for good.
1t takes bigness to do this. Ii he is COM
mon in speech, he is also coDmoner in
speech. He gets TO the great middle class
that class which is here to average up the
sum OF people u this country, that which
Is lea7en to the lump, which is to stand be.
tween the highest society deprayity and the
lowest rab5le depravity and apply tho rem
edy of home and labor and temperance aud
domestic love to either. Sam was made
he would do ne harm. l. Fashionable novel
says: aNo man is worao for being like
Christ" do not believe God Almighty
sinners to repentance if he we're fraud
! once in newspaper denounced Sam
Jones as Fakir, because 7 believed he
was. do not believe it row. HI called
for collection to his Crphanage. They
went up in scores and delivered up their
coin. He got my trade dollar and l told
him was glad l didn't have more, because
he would have gotten it all. You don't
want to carry more to Sans meetings than
you can afford to give, for he'll clean yon
up, because you'll think he's right and be-
lieTe in him and forget you have got pot
a-boilipg at home. I told him was not
in the chu CHI joining business just now,
being a newspaper nan, bgt was very
wealthy for the same reason and my scads
were his. He replied, "God bless you p'
| believe he left Stauntcn with the GOD
bless you'll" in his heart for sinner and
ChristiOn alike,
Sam Jones is doing great work, Whys
Because he is making some people better.
When he got to the Episcopalians Sunday
night, Professor Excel turned around to
the choir to change the tune, and, for
some technical reason, said supper Ten,"
and the brethren thinking he was talking
to them strutted up in apostolic success
sion With Q tony thirty two stroke which
knocked the lowly limp of the poorly clad
shouting Methodist sky high. apologiz.
ed to Sam for blackgua riding him, and the
preachers should stand by him as long as
his arm is strong and long enough to reach
down and lift the depraved to better living
and to REACH mp and drag the exquisitely
debauched to normal level. w. e c.