The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-11-02
SAM JoNEsls ROANOKE.
His Typical Lecture On .Get Their.
and stay There,

and stay There
Rev. Sam Jones delivered his in
unit a BILE lecture. Get There. and
Stay rhere," in Roanoke last Friday
night.
MIR. Jones said in part. Ladies
and gentlemen. | havegotten here at
last and not by an overm helmiug
majority.
The subject of tn, lecture is Get
There and Stay There That is
slang Slang is not SO Objectionable
when you have sense enough to
know what it means Slang is lust
simply sitting down aud waiting tor
Eli to core up. 1t is a very good
thing TOR u lecture. | might spend
an hour in telling you how to get
there in society, but when you have
got into 'sawciety' you haven't gone
very far or very high.
II might talk to you for hours
about how to get there financially,
but when you have gotten there
financially you have not gotten very
high or gone veryfar. A man who
has spent his life in getting rich is
like a fly in barrel of molasses. He
Is all molasses and no fly. He'll is
nothing but selfishness on fire A
fellow that hasn't got anything but
money is the poorest dog in the set
Element.
Nowadays the whole machine is
run on the dollar. If the preacher
wants a big collection on Sunday
morning all he has to do is TO tell the
brethren that God will repay two
| fold and they can get 2 for 1. Ancient
Rome cared tor nothing but power.
She died and was covered up with
| countries and kingdoms. Greece
conferred all thoughts on literature
She died and was covered up under IL
book, and this Government will one
day lie under the sod with its toes to
the daisies with nothing over it but
Il silver dollar worth sixty cents I'd
rathrr be a rich rascal than a poor
one; the rich rascal gets something
out OF it, the poor one does it for
nothing and boards himself
''GeC there politically. Oh, you
don't get very far. I've been down
in Augusta where they trotted ont
O'Ferrall and Cyclone jim anG
Massey. [ didn't want to hurt him
1 told them not to bring out deaC
man, for nothing but hyena would
tackle corpse.
| Look at Congress today. Grover
Cleveland, Sherman and that gang
on one side, and John Daniel ana
Stewart and that tribe on the other
and the Democratic party split open
wide enough to drive a four horse
wagon through. Now, brethren
while they are fighting let's take 4
recess and clean up the whisky gang
have washday while the children arr
playing.
work they did in this town in the
prohibition fight. Some preacl er
can't reconcile his conscience to make
a political speech. He wouldn't
know his conscience from a wart Oh
his nose. A conscience is like tar
bucket on a wagon; it's the last
thing that comes up. Later on you
people in Roanoke will have to make
out on buttermilk. Whiskey will
make you drunk and buttermilk will
make you tight. If wanted to ruin
a man for both worlds would run
him for office and get him elected. /
have seen good men go in office, but
never saw a good one come out.
craftsmanship is played out in this
country and the statesmen are all
dead. Can you name one now, Bud.
''These old Populists are not get
ting there much. Every time the
Democrats and the Radicals act the
rascal, the Populists act the fool,
and the fool is always at the tail end
of the procession. They are good
people. oh, yes, they may get to
heaven, but they never will get to
Washington. The places are not
on the same road.
you will like this dry business
mere in Roanoke wh"n you get used
to it.
1.-The most important thing is how
to get there in character in all that
is grand and noble.
God never made but one man and
one woman and they are nearly as
scarce now as they were then. There
are lots of ladies and gentlemen.
"The church is the only thing in
this country that is deader than a
cemetery. Some preachers pull a
manuscript ON you and read the
gospel. | would rather a man would
pull a pistol on me than a manu-.
script.
81 like a thoroughbred. Nancy
Hanks is a much higher order OF
animal than Sullivan or Corbett. !
like grit, but by grit 1 do not mean
the town fighter who shoots and
cuts. Whiskey, pistol and the
peniten tiary.'