Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-03

we did it. There wasn't room enough in
Gainesville for my boy Bob and even one
saloon. and there never will be. When
got home not long ago they told me that
some men were going to start an "orlglnal
package place. We just held meeting
and resolved to defend our homes as the
people OF VicasDars and Jtc1soa 9iid
their homes from yellow fever, with shot
guns. and that was the last Of the ''orlgl-
nal package" place-the men said next day
they had never intended to open it. Local
Option acaI prohibit. have had standing
offer for six years, Of $50 for any man that
can get drink Of liquor in Gainesville,
and in six years [ have only had to pay 1T
twice. When you get Prohibition in Staun-
ton you only want one Man. Maybe you
haven't got real man here; then you will
have to piece one'out. Just one real man
can make the law efficient. One real man
can make officers, judges and jurors do
their duty OF get out.
MI. Jones closed with an allusion to those
church members who had left their
churches, the 'squitters'' as he called them.
He made a moving appeal to them to re-
turn to Christ, and at the end of it pro-
nounced the benediction.
THE VARIETY OF SAM JONES STYLES.
1t is not possible to hear Mr.. Jones once
and say you have heard him. In some of
his sermons the style is wholly different
from that in other sermons. For in
stance, at the Methodist church Monday
morning he preached on prayer, and large
portion of the congregation was in tears.
On Tuesday morning at the Wagon Works
he preached on cOnsecrated Christians, and
hardly any five minutes passed that there
was not ripple of laughter. While on
Monday night at the Wagon Works he
preached one Of the most peculiar sermons
ever heard in pulpit. His text was: He
that being often reproved and hardeneth
his neck shall be suddenly destroyed and
that without remedy" The sermon was
simple narration of q long list of sud
den deaths which had come, within his own
experience, to those who had pushed the
battle against God too far and resisted the
efforts of His ministers to bring them TO
Him. He gave the full names and residen-
ces and witnesses in each case he mention
ed. and said: "These are exact facts; you
can telegraph to any Of those cities and
find them to be true. You may be sure
know exactly what I am telling you, fol
there ism It saloon keeper in Staunton who
wouldn't give $500 tonight to catch San
Jones in a lie.
THE COLLECTIONS FOR THE HOSPITAL
AND THE Y. NJ. C. A.
On Tuesday morning MI. Jones, before
taking up the collection, made some re
marks about it. He said he had no inter
est in it. 1t was not his collection. Ill
was paid nothing by hepeople Of Staunto7
for coming here. His interest in the mat
ter was that it was for a hospital in Staun
ton. one of the MODEST objects in tn
world, and for the Y. M. G. Association
one of the best institutions in the world
There were just three ways OF getting
thing in this worldly paying for it, b
having it given to you and by stealing ii
Do you catch that? The collection ism
for me. I charge you nothing for thes
services. [ get so well paid by people else
where that I can afford to preach here TO
nothing This pleases you don't it?-th
idea that you can get something withou
paying for it. l didn't come to Staunto
for money If I had, when [ looked at th
size of your collection Monday would hay
cut and run that minute. I just want
tell YOU this; if you haven't anything t
give to these collections [ don't expect 20
to give anything. But if you have anythin
you can give, you can be Christian gel
tleman and give it. OIL you can turn yol
back on the collection and be somethln
else. Now pass around the hat and let
see how many pigs there are here.
ON THE LOCAL OPTION FIGHT.
At the opening OF the meeting Mond;
night at the wagon works. MI. Jones sa
of the petition for Local Option electit
in Staunton, tn at we are going to bring I
this fight and we are going to clean up tt
,iouor traffic You hear me? L never he
meeting in but one town that voted afte
wards on Local Option, that didn't go oil
and that was Lynchburg. And the liqu
men only carried it then by the aid of S
Stewards of the Methodist church. ga
it to these six Stewards when [ went ba
there afterwards. | just skinned the
You 90 around the streets of Staunton n
and you hear every old drunkard and eve
old gambler and every old backslidd
nt 7
you, give them all they can stand.
YOU believe the Devil is dead you are III
taken. We are going, to the best OF
Judgment, to clean the saloons up. Ma
of YOU Methodists are holding back nc
but six months from now you will all
wishing you had been among the first in
I want YOU ushers to take around tn
lists and get signers tonight for the pc
ton. don't want any usher in this ho1
that is on the whiskey side. We've got
Whiskev men on the run and we are gol
to keep 'em running.
HIS EARLY EXPERIENCE IN THE MI
ISTRY.
Some of you preachers say, Brotl
Jones if l was to raise the devil like you
Id lose my job. No you wouldn't.
thing of it is that if you raise the de
you've got to clean him up too. If
don't do that you'll lose your job, sure.
was down on a poor circuit IN Geo1
getting $50 a year, with wife and
child. My wife was doing the cooking,
when [ wasn't preaching OF visiting
people / was at work in the cotton pa
to try and piece out living. One ola
went home and my wife came to me
said MIR. Jones your stewards have