Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-04-14
Rev. Sam Jones in panville.

them by the arrival oil Rev. sam jones'
The following is the report by the Dan
Vile Register of the sermon he preached
on Sunday evening, March Goth, in the
Tabernacle, as the church was too small
for the audience -
Mr.. Jones announced his text-WIsdom
is better than weapons of war; but one
sinner destroyeth much good.-Ecclesi-
astes tx, Is.
The text, said the speaker. might read
this way without impairing it any way
"Rsligion i. better than weapons Of
war;" etc.
10 PLAIN English, the text furnishes the
best weapon for this world and all worlds
-f)r il is religion that beet equips man
for all the duties Of lite.
While the strength Of a government is
measured by her facilities for war, religion
is something stronger than armies, and
more powerful than guns.
All nations respect christian. Nan and
woman, boy and girl who are religious
are we'll equipped for the struggles of life,
while heaven has nothing better 20 give
than religion.
Mr.. Jones then took up the second part
of his text, and dwelt pretty largely on
who is q sinner.
After asking "What and who IS a sim
ner I" he asked, Who is liar who is a
drunksrd theft The plain and CON-
mon day answer to these questions is
The man who tells lies is liar; the man
who gets drink Is drunkard /; the man
who steals is a thief Who is the unclean
man The man that ia unchaste in life.
If man is unclsan. be is lechereus
scoundrel, 1t matters not who he is
whether Judge or general. WHETHER mar
ried OF single, or how he is dressed.
A sinner is the man who commits sin
whether IN the pulpit or pew, whether in
the church or ont of It,
It looks like little matter that man
told lie yesterday, or got drunk, or was
guilty of nameless crime, or committed
q theft; but it is considered an awful
thing to cheat by overrsachIng for trade.
Yet all these things are SINS, and it 10 an
awful thing to be sinner. Every man
in the house knows whether he ls guilty
OF any Of the sins enumerated. Did you
do 1t 7 If 30, then you are gnilty, and the
awful thing that is running through your
conscience il guilt. God has ne higher
realm than innocence ; the deyil no lower
than guilt.
l would rather be in the Jail, sentenced
to be hung, and thea go to the gallows,
have tho rope put around my neck, know
ing my innocence Of the crime, and God
knowing my innocence, than to be like
some men walking the streets OF Danville,
who know if they had their just deserts
would be hung.
1t is not where are You, or what you
are, bat what are you doing.
Some glrls have let their tongues of
SANDER wrap them mp in Tho hablliments
of hell.
You will keep Oh running some things
in this town until it winds up with shot
guns. Put this in yOHr note book
Some times it seems the only way out of
these things is a denble-barreled shot gnu
with forty buck shot IN each barrel.
Seine of these pmps are running around
to see who they can despoil. They will
not be satisfied or settled until they run
head on in a collision with buck shot.
Then there are young men writing
notes to married women. The man who
would destroy the sanctity of home de-
serves to walk in the lowest depths Of
perdition. But what should bs done with
the woman that reads it 7
A good woman Of this tSwn sat by my
side and poured INTO my ears things hor
rible enough to starte tAe dead.
Some people say there are some things
no body can say but Sam Jsnes. Am ].
not a criminal then il do not say them
There are some things needing handling
in this town and handling roughly. A
lady told me that it has gotten so that the
character OF young women is banded
about.
Say what you may about sam Jones,
but before God, th> man who enters my
house to despoi NY home, crosses the
dead line, and would shoot him as quick
az | would mad dog.
There is a tremendous effort IN Dan
willie to play "saw-ciety." Why, you
haven't anything to play it on. Half of
you we're raised as poor as niggsrs. Poor
se.proud fools. Putting on airs. Now
You are a dandy crowd on saw. ciety,
amt y0n. Baltimore has saw.ciety, and
they have something to back it up. Why,
Baltimore saw-ciety folks wouldn't let
you sweep out their kitchens
have the greRtest contempt for shams.
It's sort Of false teeth with plugs in
'sm.
Some one said to nae once: "If you
don't let up on these ssw-cisty dudes,
Jones, they will kill you" Well, If |
don't die until Pm killed by them,
Methuselah will be a babe beside me.
Saw-ci ETY. dudes, dontoherknow; 80
cents sheep skin slippers, IS cents wasp
net hats Walk into my parlor, said the
spider to the fly. But it frequently
occurs walk in lemons and get squeezed.
Turning to the preachers be asked: Why
don't you say amen II a man comes TO
my homo to clean sewer, and if /
couldn't help him I'd say amen.
| never make war on petticoats. But
SEINE Of the women of this town are
continually having their mouths at work
with SANDER and tattling. If they could
leave their mouths at home, they would
get along better and have less to say
whsn they 20 around tho settlement.
But if they left their mouths at home
they would have nothing left but the
place where their mouths ought TO be.
Mr. Jones told of how q correspondent
raised . howl in q Georgia city by writ
ing two letters on society to a northern
paper, and then said. But couldn't
fellow raise Cane here il he'd write
letter or twoi Yes. he could raise two
Canes. Ny, my, he'd raise a whole
canebrake.
He declared there was no greater adj
vocsts for the purity Of home than him
'slf, and these psrtumed, Psrtipatetic
diamond studded bucks, with toOth-pick |
hoes, who invade home for lecherous
,urp oses should be made to feel the ven
yeance OF On outraged husband or parent.
He was very severe on progressive |
,uchre. He said / am told that pro-
,ressive euchre has all the paraphernalia
Il a faro. A prize is put up and awarded to
he winner. What is that but gam bling
sometimes you award q $2J vase OF q
) souvenir speon. One old sister with
er progressive suchrs party, iss perfect
yclone for hell IT ! were the judge OF
be court, should have the Gr9nd jury
ndict al progressive euchre players for
gambling. The men, even tho Ugh they
,e members Of the church, would send
o Jail, and the women wsuld severely
q nrimond