Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-10

| haven't seen a minute that l WOuldn t
give to God every dollar of my money,
every minute of my time and every drop OF
my blood. And when a man makes that
surrender of himself to God, God will
use him in his own fashion and Man will
have to stand out of the way. You'll see
lot of dudes talking about drumming
Sam Jones out Of town! Why bless your
little souls we got all the drums and L IN
going TO drum you out OF town.
The elders and deacons and stewards Of
the church of God ought to be as pure as
the preachers. If an officer of God S church
can vote for whiskey selling, then the re-
cord of the bar keeper at the bar Of God is
all right. / have been drinking man, but
I never got so depraved as to advocate the
selling of whiskey OF as to vote for it eth
Ell. The saloon keepers could get me blind
drunk but they could never get me so low
as to vote for them selling whiskeY. You'll
hear some old Colonel or Judge saying
he's in favor of High License. You might
take all the money that High License ever
brought, and carry it to one poor woman
whose son has died q drunkard and she
would put it away from her and tell you
with tears streaming down her face that
money could not pay her for her lost boy.
What is your whiskey license here? What
is it Chief of Police?
Capt. Waters-From $3.50 to $500.
MI. ones.-Seventy-five cents a day for
a E0apco fn Iyao1 Ii1.tu hn1ac &c
the saloons you have here! My! My! /
| wouldn't take the record of a saloon keeper
and stand at the bar Of God with it for all
the money on earth.
| MI. Jones then gave scathing descrip-
| ton of the character of men who live
dual lives, and closed his sermon with
one Of the most eloquent, touching and
| thrilling descriptions OF his own conversion
| to Christ that has ever been uttered in a
| pulpit. Old and young men were III tears,
and when he asked in conclusion that all
| who will hereafter lead better life, Use,
the whole audience of eight thousand men
rose.
THE FAREWELL SERVICE.
Though the audience Of the afternoon
was dismissed before 5 O'Clock, nearly two
thousand staid on the ground to be in read
| mess for the farewell service at night, and
long before the night services were begun
there were several thousand people in their
seats. After the excursion trains and the
road vehicles commenced arriving, it seemed
that the whole face of the surrounding
country was covered with people. By s
O'Clock there were over 5000 people in the
house, The subject taken by the evange-
list was ''Who, where and what is Christ
and his sermon was a practical and solemn
appeal to those present to come to Him.
| When the sermon closed he asked that
all who, during the meetings, had resolved
to lead better lives and who intended to
join the Methodist, United Brethren, Bap-
fist, Presbyterian, Episcopal OF Lutheran
churches, would come up in the order of
the churches named, as the denomination
was called out, and give him their hand.
Hundreds responded to the invitation.
LACK OF PASTORAL COOPERATION.
In taking farewell of the great audience
MI. Jones made a few remarks. He spoke
of the fact that he had had less co-opera-
ton of the ministers in his work in Staun-
ton than in any place he had ever preached
at. He said he was not responsible fol
this. He had wanted every absent minis
ter of God in Staunton to help him. He
hoped God would not lay it to their charge
People had different opinions about his
method, but he could assure them that it
was the sermons in the two Oh three first
days of the week that did the work. He
had been at this work so long that he knew
What he was talking about when he said
this. If he had been prayed for in Staun-
ton as much as he had been criticised, NO
man could estimate what glorious work fol
God could have been done. Ministers mol
people should be content with reading
newspaper reports which give no correct
idea of what was being said, and then stay
ing away. They should come and hear fol
ton he hoped the Staunton pastors would
then be with him. He thanked Rev. j. T.
Williams of the Methodist church, and
Rev. J. d. Donovan of the U. B. church
who had co-operated with him at the meet
ings, for their work.
LAST CHARGE.
I charge you men to stand firm in your
Local Option contest. Don't be afraid to
talk out. If you belong to a Christian
church remember what you owe to God and
your fellow man. Be firm, you cannot lose
the fight. The best advice | can give you
whiskey men is that you just go and agree
among yourselves to quit, and not give the
people the trouble to hold an election and
make you quit. Be wise in time. I have
talked with the best men in this town and
they are going to carry the town.
i MI. Jones made feeling allusion to MI
J. W.. Bodley, who was chiefly instrumen-
, tai in having these meetings in Staunton
: If there is one man that West Virginia
didn 1T want to give up, it was j. W. Bodley
| Stand by him, he will help you in every
good word and work. l want those of yor
who appreciate his efforts in bringing these
meetings here to show it by rising. [Tht
whole audience rose to their feet as one
man.
After exhorting the people of Staunto1
to stand by the w. G. 7. Union and til.
Y. M. G.. Association, which were doing
good work, and earnestly asking the people
OF Staunton to pray for him, Mr.. Jones
, closed with the benediction, the mos
wonderful series of religious meetings eve
held in Virginia.
WHAT SORT OF A MAN SAM JONES IS II