Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-07-01

your money, but ruins your soul.
Here he requested those in the audience
who endorsed that to rise, whereupon a large
portion OF the audience arose. when he said
facstlously, now you liquor sellers can tackle
that crowd. for he feels feeble ;.
He Is not clever fellow who drinks. but g
dog. in fact whols kennel of dogs. An cd
woman says she mnst have some little fol
camphire-she will have hell-fire. She would
better die and go to heaven.
, He had, he suid, more respect for a saloon
keeper than for citizen or church. m ember
who takes neither side. They have a cotton
string for a backbone. Ii liquor be good
thing hang dipper on everyilImb. but If 1t be
an evil thing down with it. A fellow held up the
letters w-r-o-n- and says, see 1t is all wrong.
Then he covered 1t with S.. bill and Md now
you can't see the wrong, but the wrong was
there all the same So when you put the
license on. 1t is merely hid. but the wrong is
there still. hit is bad thing drive 1t out. If
| he was a woman he would make 1T hot for a
| drinking husband-he would get divorce.
Show him man who is not hen-pecked and
| he would show you one who is devil>pecked.
| He liked to see woman who had courage and
| grit There is no room in Carriers ille Ga, for
| a saloon and his boy. When saloon shall be
established there his boy will be taken away.
| After they had abolished whiskey-selling
| there, 1t wss reported that some one contem-
plated starting an original package saloon.
| but the citizens determined to make an origi-
| nal package of any man who would attempt 1t
| in Is minutes, and the purpose was abandoned.
| If you have men for polics-officers and not
trundle- bed trash you can keep liquor out. II
the officers won't do their duty, put them In
| the chain-gang.
| He then excoriated what he called the quit
ter''-the man who joins the church and then
quits. and then joins and again quits. He said
the devil would get him. but he wouldn't get
| much. The gutter feels like dog-if be don't,
he don't feel natural.
The congregation was then dismi Used with
| the benediction to meet again at O'Clock In
the afternoon.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SERVICE, AT O'CLOCK.
The choir sang No. "a There is found filled
| with blood" &c.
| Then fervent prayer was offered by Rev. ].
| T. Williams, Pastor of The Methodist Episcopal
Church of Staunton.
| Rev. Sam Jones then announced that the
| B. & O. train would leave at half past o'clock
I and that he hoped those wishing to take that
| train would not get restless and nervous as he
would let them know in time to go. SO he ad-
monished them to keep perfectly quiet till he
did SO, He then announced that the Society
| of the "King's Daughters" OF this city were en-
deavoring to establish hospital here for the
siok and INDECENT. landable obj ect. and that
| they had requested that a collection be taken
up, one half for that object and the other half
for the Y. M. @. A.
Sometimes big whiskered man would put
In nickel and say he would give the Widows
mite He was the biggest liar in the neighbor-
I,o 1axr ,nt vuiA ny nd ba not
give all he had Some say Jones has come to
staunton for money: Now. who would come
| to Staunton for money. when they have here
now set OF half-starved preachers?
| Observing number of colored people in the
audience, he addressed some remarks to them.
saying he was glad to see them here, and
would, before he left, hold special service for
them. The way, he said, to settle the negro
question is for the white men to go to them
with the Bible in one hand and O spelling
book in the other. They say the negroes will
steal. SO do the whites, and II the cases were
| reversed and the negroes owned the property
the whites would steal all they had. The
whites owe them debt they can never pay.
His advice to the negroes was to do right
and to let politics alone-to think more OF
themselves and less of politics and whiskey.
He thought there was more In character than
in color. He would rather have black skin
with a good character. that white skin with
q bad character. He does not believe in social
equality and never did; white and blacks mix.
but they mix at the bottom-the worst negroes
and the worst whites.
Mr.. Excell.then sang a solo.
Mr.. Jones again asked his congregation to
remain quiet, and not go out to catch the train
a half hour before 1t would start-to get there
and walt halt hour for the train. He, Jones.
may be many kinds Of fool, but he was not
train-fool to hurry to the train, and then have
to wait half hour, feeling like fool all that
time.
He then took for his text part o. the 18th verse
OF the last chapter of Joshua-"Choose We this
day whom We will serve for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord"
When he read of the .blessings showered up
on Joshua. and Joshua not saying word In
grateful acknowledged emit, he thought he was
the most ungrateful wretch in the world, but
in the last chapter he said the grandest thing
ever said In the words of the text MIR. Jones
said that Is years ago when he reflected on
what God had done for him. and his wife and
children. he resolved that whatever others
| might do, as for him he would serve the Lord.
Christianity. he said, Is simply and only
| matter of choice. God can't make a man
christian unless he chooses to be. You must
| choose between Christ and piety aud the devil
and the worId-you can't have both-1t must
| be one or the other.
| Ifyou want to be good, pitch In and do good.
and God will help you; If you want to be bad
| the devil will help you. You can be good
| christian If you choose to be. Most all are
merely ten 18th. class christians. He then inquir-
ed Of Rev ]. T. Williams If he could not get all
| the good christians of his congregation in his
parlor, aud receiving an affirmative reply, he
| said, Eyes, and that without crowdIng them"
One christian is as good as another II he is as
good. Where you see sectarianism. there you
see the devil getting in his work. If the
| Methodists have not religion. they have no
| thing The Catholics have their Pope; the
presbyterians their starch and education; the
Baptists their water but the poor Methodists,
God help them. If they have no religion. they
have nothing at ali to fall back upon.
Some don't know whether they are the chill
dren of God or not. If his boy, VIII en- he asked
him who his father was, would tell him that
he thought that he (Jones) was, or believed he
| was, but was not certain, he would take him
| out and larrup him well. He liked to see a
| man who had religion and who had sense
enough to know 1t. The Methodist knows he
| has religion, but is afraid he win lose 1t; the
| Presbyterian don't know whether he has 1t
not. but If he has it. he can't lose 1t. Some
ministers don't believe in revIvals and neither
does the devil. On that question such min.
listers and the devil agree. however they may
disagree on others. Such ministers are like an
old hen setting on door-knobs-they never
hatch anything. What we want Is q live con-
secrated. soul saving ministry. Soma run the
devil as the hog ran the dog-the dog behinp
Pastors need tapping up like other people
| and they are like mules, some get up and
| others kick up. They havea't got wings. foi
he saw one with his coat of. and there was nc
| sign Of wing.
II the old-fashioned, dignifed preaching
! would do it. you have had enough of 1t here &c
have taken wings and flown to glory long age.
Some ask, can Jones take in Staunton. He
, could put It In his vest pocket and not know
| they were there.till he felt some riding around
J | On his tooth-pick.
He news. he said to the line. and If any on,
gets his tail cut off 1t Is because he had 1t on
the line. He would say just what he pleased
} Some preachers can be ridden. but they DOM