Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-17
JONES' FRANK SPEECH
The Noted Evangelist Delighted a
Good-Sized Audience.
HE TALKS ON THE BATTLE OF LIFE
And Tells His Hearers Just Eow he Would
Win the Struggle.
WIT AND SARCASM IN TIE LECTURE

telling 900 people in his own unique and
cheerful way about the "Battle of Life
and How to Win It" Rev. Jones is
pleasant talker He entertained every
body who heard him last night, and during
the evening he drifted from the sublime to
the ridiculous with the grace of an intel
! lectual athlete. He is at ease with his au-
dience, and brilliant ideas sparkle through
his lecture like perfume from a rose.
Mr.. Jones has the appearance of thrifty
| business man. His face is thin and earn
est. His hair, black as a ravens wing is
worn cropped and smoothly brushed. His
mustache, black as his hair, curls back from
| positive lips. He dresses we'll. His clothes
have business cut, and withal, he appears
just as he talks, and he talks with his hands
in his pockets like one thoroughly content
with his opinions and beliefs. His audi
ence last night was a good one, and he knew
it. With a shaft of wit teathered by
humor he fairly convulsed them, and in the
next sentence, filled with Patio, and senti-
ment, he threw over them a thoughtful air
that had he allowed it to continue long
enough would have been oppressive. But
the flashes of sunshine and shadow followed
each other SO rapidly that the merriment
was practically unbroken.
How Sam Jones Would Fight
He would fight and win the battle of life
in the home standing on the heartEstone
with the father, mother and children about
him. He slashed insincerity, hypocrisy
and selfshness in every direction, and in his
assaults he was more pointed than polite.
He illustrated every point with a timely
story, and if he is not an eloquent speaker
he is beyond question good story teller
At the opening Mr.. Jones said God had
made but one man and one woman. The
rest he said have simply grown, and he said
he was convinced that men and women
are nearly as scarce now as when God COM
pleted the original job. He condemned So
ciety in general way, and said that those
who win the battle in the social world, and
succeed in getting into New York's 400,
don't get very far at that He considered
that society is responsible for the dude and
the dudine. He described the dude as
pimple on society, and the dudine as the
pimple after it has been squeezed.
"The disposition of society is to put gold
above God and chattels above character"
the reverend gentleman said "I would"
he went on, "rather be royal, regal, great
man than be all the angels in heaven. I
thank God for womanhood - lovely
womanhood that burns out through the
world like never failing star. T..
Doesn't Believe in Evolution.
'I don't believe in the theory of evolu- |
tiou. l do not believe the tadpole story. |
l do not believe that we came from monkeys |
but 1 frequently see manv people who are |
rapidly heading in that direction. I am
firm believer in blood. 1 think blood is
thintar than rafa and hold Re
much higher in my estimation than John L.
Sullivan or gentleman Jim Corbett. Nancy
Hanks is daisy. 1 like anything that has
the power to 60 ahead and do something"
Mr.. Jones said it was gratifying to know
that we were to be born again. The second
birth idea he considered good one. He
alleged that not one in ten people were
born right, and he is hopeful that in the |
second birth many wrongs will be righted.
He looked upon society as being bad at the
top and bottom, but he believed that much
good is to be found in the middle laver.
He thinks there is salt enough in the mid
die layer to save the earth. He had been
in society from the White House to
the lowliest cabin, and he had
found the finest type of social life in the
quiet home where the honest father and the
pious mother Joined with God to do good.
'It is from the middle classes that men and
women come who make the history of our
world worth writing" the speaker went on.
'God has done much for man where He
has given him a wife and ten children, but
He has done mighty little for the fellow
who He has given a mean little sickIy wife
and a canary bird.
The Value of Home Influence.
"The home influence is the influence that
controls the world. Anarchists are not
born. They are warped into discomfort and
by home influences before
they are 16 years old. We have steel rail
trusts, sugar trusts and whisky trusts, but
we should have a trust for raising our chill
dren which should be made up of every
father and mother in the land" 4"
The speaker then told of the general de-
sire for heavenly recognition. He con-
tended that what he most wanted was
earthly recognition. He wanted to be
recognized as an honest, good, sensible
man, And, he went on, "it get recogni-
tion here when get to heaven, with my
harp on an easy chair under the tree of life,
1 care little whether or not 1 am recognized
there. The speaker then discussed
the church people and said that If all those
who belong to churches get to heaven the
angels will have to sleep with their clothes
under their heads to keep from getting
robbed "There are some of the best and
some of the meanest people on earth in the
churches" He said society is burning the
hearts out of the women just as whisky is
burning the stomachs out of men.
'You don't run society here much" the
speaker said. "You have a cheap edition
of the evil, but many people are doing the
best they can in imitation Of society.
Pessimistic View of Wealth.
The speaker then told of his hatred for a
mean man. "Hell or no hell, he said, "a
man can't afford to be a mean old sinner.
The fellow who rises above the mighty dol
lar and dares to be man is the real hero,
The devil will get 999 out of every 1000
people who die worth more than $50. .OOd" {
This pointed remark was received with
profound silence. 81 knew that would
create sensation" he said. 'Those of
you who have that amount realize that
what say is trne. The rest of you are
mad because you don't have that much
The speaker then devoted his at
tention to selfshness. He said selfishness :
was the meanest thing in the world.
"Hell," he said, sis selfshness on fire, and {
it is great wonder that some of our selfish
people don't get on fire from combustion ]
and go rushing into hell a sheet of flame" I
The speaker said the hero is the man who {
makes money his servant instead of being
the servant of his money. In discussing
politics he said he hated politicians. He
couldn't pray as high as he could
spit for politician. He said
he had been raised Democrat
and had remained in that party just as long