The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
THE PULPIT ACROBAT.
The Georgia Blackguard Continues 10
Attract Big Crowds.
He's Got the Bishops and the Preacher,
and the Laymen All BulIdozed.

NASHVILLE, June 6.-Yesterday
evening Sam Jones preached" ~
men only. The Tabernacle was
crowded, the audience being estima-
ted at 5000 people. Bishop HargrOve
offered prayer. Jones' witticisms and
and digs ut the leading clubs here
seemed to tickle the crowd and they
were in almost Il continuous roar OF
Laughter. Sam said among other
things:
al nave no respect for a married man
VINO belongs to a club. At II o'clock at
night, when his poor wife at nome rocks
the baby and sings, rock baby bunt-
ing, daddy's gone bunting and you
are hunting, you miserable scOundreI
you. Laughter.
elf a lot of negroes were to organize
club and do as you do, the police
would raid them every night.
zone of the sweetest women / ever
knew III this city had husband who
belonged to one of your daiunable clubs.
He pulled out because ho said he did
not want his boy To grow up and join
the club and hear the talk in the club
rOOmS-it WAS 80 nasty.
"When l was in Augusta, Ga, /
jumped III fashionable club, and some
of the members threatened to cowhide
me. L replied, yes, and when you buy
the cow hides you had better buy II full
suit of mourning for your families"
Laughter.
~ have no special disposition to be
cowhided. Laughter.
"a fellow out in Texas tried to cane
me-. but he won't try it again. Laugh
ter.
- am not jumping on anybody per-
SOnally. There are some nice people
that belong to clubs, and / like them.
Il am not preaching for the club
members; they have through tickets To
h1i | m hs.U n
the youth. Oh, save the youth!
"There is n widow woman whose sons
belong to the club. If l were to go to
that widows house and hit her fifty
iashes with a cowhlde' you would hang
me to a lamD-pOSt, and you would do
right. But if you were to go to that
woman and ask her whether she would
take fifty lashes to see her boys out OF
the clubs, she would say: BEAT me AS
much as you please, but save my boys
'Whiskey is at the bottom of the clubs
and of West Side Park. Some of those
who run the places don't drink. l al
ways did have more respect for a
drunken rascal than sober one. A
drunken rascal is to be pitied-a sober
one despised.
eff you Will put whisky and cards out
of the clubs, and try to do right, L will
brag about you. l will. 1 will extend
to you my hand, but if you don't, pre-
pare for my foot. Laughter.
you people who claim the club all
right, how many professions DO Nou
generally have at the club a season?
Would you take convert of that insLl-
tuition, Brother Stael?"
(Brother Steel-"No.D
well, they get lot of yours.
Laughter It's poor rule that won't
work both ways. Now don't go Off
from here mad with Sam Jones, you
fool you. If you are offended and come
to me and apologize I'll accept it.
Laughter.
81 am getting tired of dogmatic doc
tors of divinity going out from Nash
vile and talking against evangelists
and women working in the Church.
Those old fellows never make a convert
and they are Jealous of anybody who
does. 1 am getting tired of their talk
and their articles, and if ever l come
across one of them l will spank him till
he will have to eat his meals standing
for month. HOwls of laughter.
81 do not condemn anything that L
think ought not to be condemned.
~ am down on everything that ever
made a woman cry. l am a friend to
your mothers and your wives. / am
"a regular hen party-and l am going
to leave these questions to them, and If
they do not sustain me, why I'll take
back all have said.
eff knew that just after this sermon
1 would be borne to the undertaker's l
would preach just as l am preaching
now. l will meet you at the judgment
bar of God on this sermon"