Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-08-19

1 don't care what he believes.
Mr.. Jones' lecture was not SO long as
previous ones, bnt well mp to the point. He
told how be had converted great many
whisky drinkers and liars, and would con-
tinue the good work in Corpus Christi at
the pavilion.
July 2Sth.-At Rittcr's pavilion today
Sam Jones was greeted by the usual ap-
plause. His text was
"Wbat will it profit m IN if he gains the
whole world, &c."
Jesus, be said, was a practical preacher.
He talked to the fisherman about nets, to
the farmer about wheat and tares, to the
housewife about her leaven bread, and to
the merchant about profit. We are all
nation of bargain makers. 1t is bred IN us
from the time when the little boy trades his
tops and the little girl her doll to when the
man lies awake at night pondeTiug over and
planning his gains. Profit-hunting is moth
ing but sefisEness. He'll is nothing but
selfishnesa on fire. It's wnndar TO me
some Of the old selfisi, sinners don't catch
on fire end burn up. Seifshness is COM
psnion Of avarice. Avarice is the founda-
tion of most vice. All saloons, gambling
dens, houses of shame, are bottomed with
avarice. Whoever heard of one beipg run
for charity, for the benefit of the race?
Who ever heard of saloon man keeping
free counter for thirsty humanity? Avarice
will stand by starvation and be unmoved.
Just this same spirit causes the train rob
ber to rifle the pockets Of all the passengers
and makes the stingy old Methodist keep
his purse strings tight from the poor
That's fact! What man ever gained the
whole world, or even milionth part of it,
I,n fhn hnlo or
had two like it in his coat pocket, and
should go up to the dog star he would find
them very small pieayunes. On the other
hand, if you look at the world unselfishly
it is very beautiful. What are mountains
but Gods thoughts piled high? What are
the valleys but his thoughts spread out?
What are the oceans but his thoughts in
depth? What are the dew drops but his
thoughts impearled?
If God built with such infinite care and
beauty our temporary home, how much
more care and spendor must have been
spent on our dwelling place for all eternity.
When a man buys real estate he may be
pleased with situation, with view, with i'm
provements and with price, but he will not
make the bargain until he can get good
title. What sort of a title does man have
to earthly possessions when Death calls
him? How far will his good titles prevent
him from having to give up his land then?
The rich are never happy; they are always
in trouble. / would not be that old rich
codger yonder, who has to run here, there
and everywhere looking after his money.
That's fact. One of VanberbiIt's daugh-
terg once asked her father what he would
have for New Years present. Herepied
that he wanted nothing SO much as a good
nights sleep and an appetite next morning.
Why, every niger and poor white man
down south had that! No man will buy
property that he can not insure. If she
house is On fire IN the cellar, what agent
will insure it? Well, the old world is on
fire down in the center and will one day
burn up. Wealth, like some other things
have often mentioned, never troubles a
man till he gets it. That's a fact. 4
mans wife never troubles him until he gets
her, then be often finds out he has bitten
off more than he can chew. What kind of
title does he have to hel? Why, the old
fool, who has toiled and worked aud sold
his soul to the devil to build her fue
house and make her rich, will be scarcely
dead three months before she will buy a
new set of teeth and marry some old dead
beat who will set up on the front porch and
boast of marrying the rich widow. I have
get married after l die if you want to. but
be sure aud keep the old fool off of the
front porch"
Every boy to make man needs poverty
He needs poor parents to aid betwee 1S
and 25 The lap of luxury very seldom
cradles great man. The rich man is the
poorest man, even in regard to earthly
things. I once knew an old Georgian who
wheu asked how much meat be had, said
that the smoke house was full, he had plen
ty of hogs to kill next year, but had no
idea what he was going to live on the year
after. Why, the old fool was actually
starving with three years provisions on
hand; that's fact. Moneyis good thing;
it can help you get to heaven; it can buy
you ticket to New York, or it can enable
you to get ticket to heaven. Give 1t
away, aid the poor, and when through the
poor you have fed Christ hungry He will
receive you into eternal plenty. A poor
man, however, has to walk on the railroad
ties to New York. and he also finds Jordan
hard road to travel.
The millionaires on earth are eternal pau
pers in hell. Why, Stewart, Vanderbilt or
the Rothschilds would give millions in hell
now tor one drop of water on their parched
tongues. jay Gould offers thousand dol
lars to be cured of neuralgia. He is miser-
able aud am glad of it. He ought to be.
A man with two hundred milllons while
his brothers starve, ought never to see any
peace, never know anything of heaven. l
never preach of heaven because go few of
my hearers will ever get there to se e wheth-
er have lied about it or not. The only
way for poor rich man to be really rich,
to see heaven, is to help the poor, to feed
the widows and orphans, to pray with
them, and in that way pile up an eternal
inheritance and thereby become million
aire In heaven.
ASSAULTED WITH ROTTEN EGGS.
! Rev. Sam ones held a revival in Hous-
| ton, Texas, some two months ago and STIR
red I'D the town. AZ result of his work,
the gambling houses were closed up and
the Sunday law was enforced, and party
of citizens formed for the purposes Of en-
forcing the laws.
Since then there have been two factions
in the city, one favoring this idea and an
other element condemning the laws and de.
nonnoing Sam Jones as Mountebank.
| Sam Jones left Corpus Christi and reach
ed Houston, Texas, July 29th and was Sc
cured to lecture at the Hutchin's Pavilion,
where he had large audience composed
principally of ladies, who occupied the paw
lion. Il had been given out during the day
hat a crowd of toughs had bsen promised
ten kegs of beer to rotten egg Mr.. Jones,
but this was discredited. Inclosed find a
clipping from the Galveston daily Neaos, Of
the affair which hope you will publish
that the whole facts may show that the bet.
ter class of our Texas citizens are not to
blame for such things.
| HOUSTON. Texas. July 29.-This evening Rev.
Sam P. Jones, who arrived here on the O'Clock
| train from the west, delivered a sermon at
| Hutchins park to large audience considering
| the fact that an admission fee of so cents and