Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-15
THE MEETING ENDED.
Something About the Last of a
Great Series.
Mr.. Jones On Clarksville Bovs-Ee Has
Them In Mind and is Coins to
do Something For EN-.

( Last night brought to close the
! ten day series OF the sam Jones meet
ings. The same great crowd packed
the building and to the very last the
interest Was at high pressure. There
were not seats enough to acc0mmO-
date the people last night, aud ex-
tending from the entrance right and
left were long lines of men who stood
patiently ard unweariedly through
out the service.
The evangelist, before beginning
his sermon, had good dea to say
about the young men OF ClarksvilIe
generally and of E. p. Loose and F.
N. Smith, meEbers OF the Y M. @.
A. especially. Denying disposition
to fiatter, MIR. Jones said that in the
whole history of these great move
ments he had scarcely ever found
finer class of young men than he had
found in Clarksville. TIE success
which had attended this meeting was
largely due to the young men. they
got it up, stayed with it ana did
their work nobly. He congratulated
a community possessing such boys,
whose worth can never be estimated.
The great mistake the world makes
is that it does not invest enough
money in the manhood of our cOun-
try. Far above your tobacco ware
houses, your city property, your
banks ought TO rank your young
men. The young men of to day will
be the old men of to-morro~. A
great many men take no interest in
young men because their sons are all
daughters. .Old fellow, if there is a
man in the world who ought TO be
interested in boys it is you. Those
girls of yours have no better sense
than to marry, and you might rake
perdition through with a fine comb
ard you would find no wors' hing
than drunken son-in-IaW. Yes,
those girls will marry or die. They
put it off sometimes till they ere &c.
| | know of case where the bride
was SO and the groom ga little be-
lated, but they got there. You have
invested in CIarksville in things that
will ruin your boys not less than
half million dollars. No wonder
boys go to the devil.
All of this was preliminary to
something else. Here Mr.. Jones ex
planned his purpose to raise 81, so, to
be applied to the maintenance Of the
Clarksville Y. M. G. A. for the cur
rent year. He set ABOUT ii with a
vim, saying that when you hai TO do
a thing the only way to do it was to
do it. Somebody here thinks I'm
not going to raise this $2,500. Wait
and se". Now, hurry people. And
he not only raised that amount, but
went a thousand better, the exact
total of the subscriptions being $3,-
500.
Disposing of this matter in com
paratively short order, the evange'
list took his text. 1t was more Of a Cos.
pei sermon that any preceding ii. 1t
was occupied with the consideration
of the three great queStions-Who is
Christ? What is Christ? Where is
Christ? Affirming that there were
more inqniry and thought along the
lines of these three great questions
than ever before in the worlds histo-
ry, in simple language the preacher
told the story of the cross and point
ed the sinner the way and showed
him that by no other way save
through the merits of "A crucified
Christ can sinner get to heaven.
AT the close of the sermon so
lemn scene WAS witnessed. Men
women and children to the number
of nearly three hundred pushed theil
way TO the platform and gave theil
hand to the evangelist and pledged
themselves TO join the church OF theil
choice.
And now the closing scenes. Mr.
Jones said that he had never spen
nine days more pleasantly OF profit
ably, or among II nob'er or kinder
, hearted people. He thanked indi
vidually everybody who had rallied
to him during the meeting-the min
istry, the choir, the ushers, tn
newspapers, the police and the pee
pie generally for their muuiticen
and generous expressions to himsel
and co,workerS. Without your ei
forts no such results could have bee
accomplished, and we Ourselve
would have been small factors.
Mr.. Stuart followed Mr.. Jones in
few words. lie had never known
meeting from which proceeded NOR
gratifying results than from this one
or one save this one in which ther
was not hitch from start to tinist
or had he ever received more genel
ous or considerate Treatment froI
any people.
Mr. Ionsa of the Y NC A. her