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

Sunday at. The Methodist CHURCH, Ill UoWH,
which, though large building, could not
hold one third of the people who went. AT
the Bodley Wagon Works there is room
for all and more. The number of persons
who heard the preacher at all three services
each day may be figured up as follows:
Sunday ......lO,OO0
Tuesday o,Voo
Thursday .......... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5.OOO
STILL GROWING.
The Sam Jones meetings, large as they
are, are still growing instead of diminish
ing. When the last train arrived at the
Bodley wagon works Wednesday evening
at $40 and was unloading it's passengers
the fields were still lined with people going
there on foot. and long strings OIL vehlcles
were on the roads, though both fields and
roads were wet and muddy. 1estefday
the dav was beautiful and the throngs OF
foot travellers were still greater. People
from the country were in town yesterday
morning as early as O'Clock, to be ready
for the first meeting of the day.
THE SERVICES TODAY.
There will be service conducted at the
WAGON Works this afternoon at O'Clock
for colored people. On Sunday next at
some hour of the day yet to be fixed on,
there will be a service for men only-a ser
vice that is generally crowded. MI. Jones
said in one of his sermons that at one OF
these services for men only he had seen as
MANY as a thousand men surrender their
hearts to God.
The service this morning and tonight
will be at the wagons works.
LEADING A BETTER LIFE.
For the last two OIL three days, at the
close of each sermon, MI. Jones has invi-
ted those who desire to lead q better life,
whether church members OF not, to come
I'D and take him by the hand. In response,
many hundreds have shaken the Evangelist s
hand.
Sam Jones' Sayings and Methods.
A church without revival is like hen
setting on a lot of door knobs.
Commenting Sunday night on the col
| lection taken up for the Hospital and the
Y. M. G. A., Sunday morning, when there
were 1000 persons present, and which
resulted in only $40, he said, Zone cent
a head There's collection for you from
the F. F. VS.. "A cent head. And you
country people there! You come and spend
the day, and spend cents for a lunch and
10 cents for car fare and you think you art
running the whole world on fifteen cents q
day. l hear there are 500 Methodists herr
and some of them worth $3.50, 900, and here
a collection of $40. Either you are great.
overrated OF you are a mighty sorry lot
I don It know whether the other denomina
tions here are more liberal than you are
but I expect the difference between you
only whichy- whichy one"
, There is no levity about my sermons
You can take every one of my jokes ant
crack it and you'll find the sting of a hor
J, net inside.
I don't think God wants his ministers t
lie down in the dirt and be trampled on by
every dirty dog that comes along.
) I've got no use for those doctors tina
prescribe whiskey; that go about with pill
, in one side of their saddle-bags and quar-
2 ticker in the other.
!, Four thousand people gave one cent each
} One old bar-keeper in this town takes IL
more money in day than 1000 people WI
: give to such causes as hospital and tn
Y. M. C. A.
+ Show me man that don't run religio
: at his home, and I will show you an oil
) fraud.
In the home of some of the church men
bers if the head of it was to hold famll
PRAYER, the children would be so surprise
. :, that they would get together in the me-
room and say, DADDY is going to die. u
Il A man who has family prayer at hon
- wouldn't have to come mile down to 30
~ ley's Wagon Works to get warmed up.
" If there were twelve men and one du
:. in line, for the girls to choose from, eve
y girl would go for the dude.
- In Richmond the other day dudes ca
fell on him and killed him.
= When you see woman running arOu
~ getting up an oyster supper for the churc
-. OIL to get the pastor coat, you can just
:" it down that her husband Is hog W
~ won't give her money to give the church
~ What the Staunton churches want is
If real good blowing up, and l am going
= plow them and pillow deep, and know
- turn up lot of old logs too wet to bu
- and too rotten to haul away.
~ I believe in Apostolic simplicity and pl
~ gressive Theology. You have seen sch
- boy copying the first line written in the co
~ book for him by the school master.
.. first line below the masters is his best, tt
comes one little more like his own and
10 on until the line at the bottom of the p;
, .. is the worst of the lot. So it is with
lieion. Jesus set us a perfect copy. j
Apostles who wrote the first line under
~ wrote nearly like it. But as each general
has come the lines have been growing M
er and more unlike theirs until this gene
90 ton has the worst milk and cider rellg
he the world ever saw.
VII If YOU were to run any store In otalln
gu as a Staunton church is run. it would be
l the hands Of the sheriff in six months.
gia The Methodists of this generation tt
)ne ND their noses at the Salvation Army. "
nd bless your heart but ahundred years ago
my Methodist were no better than the Sal
lch ton Army, and didn't have the money
y l buy drum. A hundred years from n
md the Salvation Army will have schools :
zen colleges and turn up their noses at sol
oh body else.
icy There are some men SO busy in IL
,ur stores that they haven't time to come
L." the meetings. God has no more hold
the these men than you have when you pull