The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-03
GEORGIA'S BLACKBOARD.
The sERev." Sam P. Jones Losses the
Fountains of His Wrath.
A Flood ofBiIIingsgate and Slang Belehed
Forth From the Tabernacle Pulpit
in Nashville.


NASHVILLE, June 1.-Sam Jones,
the Georgia evangelist, commenced
his revival at the Gospel Tabernacle
Yesterday morning. The crushing
crowd that used to greet him did not
put in its appe arance. While the
Tabernacle can seat about 5000 peo-
pie, not more than 1000 were present.
Jones took as his text the 18th
verse of the 4rh chapter of Epheslans.
His theme was, Unity OF Faith"
Among other things Mr.. Jones said:
II thank God, the world is APP
preaching the great ideal; the bad
are getting woree, but the good are
getting better, and l bless God that
Christianity is to-day manifesting
itself in power and glory, andI be-
lieve we are approaching the ideal
nation.
II want to talk to you on a line to-
day which l think will do you good.
There are more preachers and more
churches to-day than ever.
"The DEVILS crowd and their dOings
are getting more disreputable than
ever; it's getting so that nobody but
VagabOnd will get drunk. Men who
count themselves respectable will MOI
do these things.
-
man and sell whisky, but, God bless
you, there is not a saloon man in
town vino pretends to be anything.
"The most principalist girls in the
town used to be the German girls, but
Lord bless you they are low down.
al am so glad we are sitting things,
and the things that are little enough
we just let them go through.
"A woman who will send her child
rem to dancing schools and run around
to theatres used to be considered a good
Methodist or Baptist, as the case
might be, but now there amt a Mig
ger in town who believes they have
got any religion. We are sitting
things-sifting sand, as the fellow
says.
aThere is all in unity. The devil
has got his crowd so united that il
you hit one you hit all, but if one of
these preachers here gets hit the
other preachers stand off and say,
Hit him, that's right; he had no right
to put his mouth in it,
"If we had as many wheel-hOrses
as we have leaders, we would carry
everything to God.
"The dancers in church-we can't
agree what to do with them. Some
say preach them out, while others
says add moral 'suasiOn.' God bless
you Brother Steel, you can't toll hog
out of a corn patch; you have got to
set the dogs on him.
"The unity of the faith and Gods
effort is going to conquer the earth,
and we will never do anything until
we get together.
al can take the newspapers, preach
ers and consecrated women and run
the devil out of town.
r,al, alNF lot ion 10 q
handicapped himself by saying some
thing before the movement is to be
begun.
FThe crowd that is fighting the
evangelist sometimes get on the
track, but the only sign | see is a
little blood and hair on the wheels
[ can't tell whether it is a dog or a
'pOssum.
at is time Nashville had come to
the conclusion that it was time to
stop talking about Sam Jones and his
methods. If / had done no more the
three weeks l stayed here seven years
ago than to pull old Tom Ryman out
of the DEVILS gang and set him on his
feet, L would think | had done good
work. Now, instead of talking about
me you just go and pray that L pull
out another sinner.
"YOu can't get dead member out
of the church. You have just got to
let him stay there. You Baptists
might get him out. Maybe you Dan
float him out; but that's the only
way.
"Old Sam Steel, you have been out
with your old flint musket during the
past twelve months, but half of your
members were out behind trees won
dering how you were going to come
out in the fight. You preached
against sin and then the trouble
began. The devil don't care how
much you preach against sin, but
when you turn against sin and devil
ment, you are going to raise Cain.
One OF the charges against you was
that you preached against the princi-
Palest folks in town.
Brethren, if you will pray for me
1 will take the town for God. l do
not want your endorsement, because
if I had that / would not get thOus-
and miles from here before some fell
low will want to know who you are,
and saw he never heard of you.
Nashville is full of little folks.
When you go around to take up col
lections they say Here's little and
if that amt enough come back and l
will give you q little more They re-
mind me of one of these little puny
woods cows which runs around and
won't let you milk but one tit at a
time.
What we want is an honest.
united effort to win souls to Christ,
aud now let's go away from here
praying for it. Let's all do onr best"