Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-07
SAM JONES (!
The Great Evangelist in
Clarksville.
Three Thousand People Hear
His First Sermon.
Sin and the Devil Catch His
Fire.
"Clarksville Dying OF Responsibility y
So Says the Evangelist-H
Sermon in Full.

At2 o'clock Sunday evening the
doors of the Gracey warehouse were
thrown open and three thousand
people soon had secured seats in the
vast building to hear the init ial ser.
mon OF the Sam Jones meeting,
They crowded in until nearly all the
pews were full, and the audience
seemed impatient for the services to
begin. At2 o'clock Prof. E. o. Ex-
cell arrived and took charge of the
choir. The Y. M. G. A. orchestra
was there; DIR. @. G.. Wilson presid.
ed at the piano and Mrs. Frank 7.
Hodgson manipulated the organ
keys. This, backed by. at least one
hundred and fifty voices, is what
will make the music during the
meeting, and il will be grand music,
After brief song service Rev. SAM
p, Jones appeared on the Platform
and engaged the attention of The
ushprs. "After the text had been
read," said be. "Don't bring any one
to the front. Perfect quiet we
must and will have during
this meeting. Any woman, /
don't care wh0 she is, who
arrives after the text isread seat her
IN the rear. If she persists in com
ing to the front keep her bonnet and
CLOAK. Ifsome old red nosed colonel
or Judge says he is bound to come to
the front, let him come if he willard
I'li fix him when he gets here. If
some minister has to go to funeral
and gets in late stop him. Don't let
him come up here. Brother, if you
don't like this stay at home. We
must have quiet. Sam Jones is no
respecter of persons, and if any man
or woman misbehaves while he is
preaching he'll catch il. If you do
misbehave, you'll wish you hadn't.
have come among you asking your
aid and leaning on the arm OF God,
/ must have your aid or my preach
ing will be as sounding brass or tink-
lkg simbai. / believe white man "a
as good as d nigger. II some of you
white folks don't like this you can
just get up and get" After saying
this the evangelist pointed out seats
for the colored people.
After announcing the hours Of ser
vice, 1O:30 a. M, 3 p. m. apd 1880 p
m. each day and night the minister
read his text, which was the familiar
passage of scripture, II have fought
the good fight, etc"
"rhcse Words" said he, "are the
last words Of the greatest man God
ever made. When great man like
Paul has something to say, especially
when they are his last words, we
should grip them. The last words OF
a mother are treasured as the mem
ory of precious dream. We cheer
ish them and keep them alive. When
a good man is bidding this world
adieu we listen to catch his every
word. When Paul uttered the Ian
guage of the text he meant two
| things. He had come over on the
Lords side and he had come to fight
| When he said he had come over on
Gods side he said big thing
The great trouble all over
the christian world is, thai
men are not on Gods side
Members OF the church are on God's
side in some things, but on ths
DEVILS side in Others. Some Of them
don't drink but they cheat They
don't drink whisky, perhaps, huI
they can't run their homes without
a greasy deck of cards. The church i,
loaded down with members wh(
can't see any harm in this or that
They are mixed up al! along thi
line. We can't understand wher;
men are. Come over on Gods side
There is no such thing as being I
christian this side of right. Ifa maj
steals he is not right. II he drink
he is not sober, and he is a damnabl
drunkard. We must draw the line
There is no such thing as victor!
without a fight. A line must b,
drawn. When | was boy | rea.
about Mason's and Dickson's line.
didn't know what it meaGt. Th
guns sounded at Fort Sumpter. Al
Southern men who were in the NortI
crossed that line and came home
The Northern men who were in tn
South all went North. Then l knew
what it me Mt 1t was fight whic
had no parallel. The lines had bee
drawn. a terrible victory was tn
result of drawing thai.line. There