Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-03-04
SAM JONES'S LETTER.
The Good Getting Better.
THE BAD GETTING wORsE-wHY sENsA.
TIONAL PREACHING is NEEDED.

TIE BAD GETTING wORsE-wHY sENsA'
TIONAL PREACHING is NEEDED.
CARTERsvILLE, Fet. Is.
To The Editor Of AiIdntd Journal;
was asked to-day, SIS the world grow
ing better or worse 7"
| replied that in the financial world the
rich are getting richer and tho poor are
getting poorer, so in the moral world the
good are getting better and the bad are
getting worse. IL is as true in the one
case as 1t is true in the other.
The united ranks and the aggressive
spirit of the bad, and the divided ranks
and indifferent spirit of the good gives
/ the devil fair play in the race.
| Combinations on the side of the devil,
between the saloons, the gambling bells,
the shameless house, etc, etc. The in
difference, went of harmony, and COW.
ardice OF the church, makes it an easy
force to unit and defeat
StagnatIon, stinginess and slavIsh fear,
have bound us and carried us like Sam
son, shorn of his locks, into an enemy's
country.
If there is anything the average preach
! Ell IL dlIdlu VI. duu iut tuilOi W III
pitch into, it IS sensational preaching. II
almost gives some editors hydrophObia.
And yet it remains the truth of history,
that, whenever the Church or cause OF
God has made formal movement it has
been amid tremendous sensation, from the
day of Penticost until this moment.
The press of the world has admitted
the fact. that sensation means subscrp-
tions and circulation. and every news
paper IN the United States to-day not
sensational is having a dull time and but
few readers.
pve often thought that would love tC
sec the daily papers published at Jerusa,
lem in the day Of Christ and the apostles
OF course there were none, but you i'm
agiue the dailes of this decade on the
ground then. The morning after John
the Baptist was put in jail, see the big
head lines:
"John insulted the king and his wife
He is now looking through the bars
Served him right"
Then when his head was cut off they
said "He will no more shock this COM
munity with his slang and vulgarlsms.
And those head lines, the morning aftel
Peter got a licking and was put in jail
"Old Peter in jail initiating John the
Baptist" And again, when st. Paul wat
scourged and imprisoned for initiating
John and Peter, etc.
/ wonder what the boy vendors of those
papers cried ont on the streets of Jerusa-
lem next morning, as the papers sold
thick and fast;
"Al about John the Baptist" etc.
The newspaper must be sensational OF
take back seat. The preacher must be
sensational or join the nnumerable com
pany of those whose most principal job
is to keep out of devilment."
| | have an abiding cODfid' nee in the
piety and goodness of the ministry, but
also have an abiding fear that unless we
move out more aggressiyely upon the
enemies OF God and the Church that the
Salvation Army will yet make history
say that their pluck, vim and consecra-
ton saved the Church from utter over
throw in this nineteenth century.
A presiding elder of North Carolina
SAID to me the other day that he "wonld
give me fifty dollars to kill all these little
tekid evangelists gong through the
country"
replied, will give you 500 to kill all
the "no count" pastors IN the countrv.
He answered, That won't buy the
powder and shot, much less pay me for
my work"
Seriously. no wise man, who knows
that the right side is the strong side, and
that God and one man make majority,
but will say as he looks at America
"The woe has come, for we are at ease
in Zion" SAM z. JONES