The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-05-19
SAN Jones IN ROANOKE.
The Great Evangelist Roasting the
Magic City.

The Great Evangelist Roasting the
Magic City.
[staff Correspondence
ROANOKE, Va, May 13.-Roanoke
has been the scene of many string
events in recent years. The magical
tongues of 600 real estate agents and
land boomers once swayed the city
with wonderful power. But when the
women and children were talking
about nothing save the buying and
selling of lots and the 100000 people
shat were Non to take the place by
storm, the tension of popular interest
a was not drawn as tightly as it has been
for the past few days.
j. To put it briefly, Sam Jones has the
own in his fist. Roanoke is just the
kind of place that 'your uncle Jones"
delights to clean up. There is no
~ work for him to do in a community
where the laws of the land are obeyec
-~@~ and executed to the letter and where
all the people are strictly religious.
Sam Jones is not on the defensive pre-
fering to invade the territory of the
devil.
Sam Jones in Roanoke is the same
great evangelist that has attracted
tn thousands of people throughout the
n country His methods are the same
that were employed when he first cam
the methods of the only Sam Jones
His great physical exertion is telling
on him rapidly. Instead of preach
$40. ing three times day as in his early
a. evangelistic work, he is compelled to
let his co-labors address many of the
vast audiences that crowd to hear Sam
Jones'
His face is growing more pale, his
head will soon be gray, and in his
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platform there is lack of physical
vigor that once was one of his most
striking characteristics. Last night |
after he had roasted Roanoke for an |
hour and a half and pea.ed the bark |
from all the timber in the vicinity, he |
was the very picture of exhaustion.
However the lines Of determination
and earnestness in his countenance
have grown deeper. With the in
creased pallor of his face, by contrast,
if not in reality, there is more fire and
life in his flashing black eyes, His
voiceis more mellow and though never
a ranter, he is more deliberate in his
speech.
He. is doing in Roanoke just what
he does everywhere he goes, drawing
larger crowds and holding them long
er than could any other living man.
Despite the fact that his methods are
his own and not altogether pleasing to
everybody he is undoubtedly doing
q much good.
Rev. Geo. r. Stuart and Rev. j. B.
Culpepper are helping. Prot Ex-
cell still travels with the ''show," to
use the venacular of the newspaper
office, and is getting fatter on the
of the land.
Appropos to the recent talk of a
movement to have Mr. Jones hold
meeting in Winston Salem, 1 asked
him about the possibility of his COM
ing. He said there had been some
correspondence about the matter at
different times.
81 never go through door that is
~ not open,' continued the evangelist
1t would be necessary to provide a I
building tabernacle or warehouse
and to have the cooperation of part
of the preachers and Christianssof the
community. Of course | would not G
expect to have the help ever of all the t
:. preachers for there are always some
=. little jacksnippers ready to say, when
others try to do anything, that amt 9
my way. '
He said that he had ten days in {
july and ten days in August that }
have not been filled and these days '
are the only times for which he will :
be open to engagement this year.
-ial Referring to Roanoke and the strong
ord and sweeping sermon of the evening
ssos before he said that his charges were d
true, or the people would have taken 7
him off the platform. Roanoke need .
- ed "a healthier public sentiment and it g
was being created, dead sure. His au- 9
80 dience Of last night, he said, reminded
8 II him of prairie fre-everything was
10 on arun from jack rabbits to buffaloes.
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