The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-07
SAM ONES PHILOSOPHY.
If the Railroads Stop Running He Can
Walk.

If the Railroads Stop Running nc Ian
Walk.
A congregation that filed the tent
and overfoWed the outside came out at
night to hear the sermon by Rev. Sam
Jones, says the Atlanta Constitution.
The service was begun by a prayer Dy
DR.. Holderby, and the Schumann
ouartette sang two beautiful pieces
ttAbide With Me" and "Where Is My
Wandering Boy To Night"-neither OF
which could have been more beautiful
or touching than they were, as sung
by the quartette. Miss Pierse also
sang a solo that showed all the beauties
of her wonderful voice and was even
more enjoyable than her solos alway 8
are.
1t will not be possible to give any
idea of the sermon, as those who have
ever heard Mr.. Jones will know. IL
was in his well known style, and full
of bright, pithy, witty things-thlngs
that would sound different even to MIR.
Jones himself if they were put into
cold type. His text was announce as
Home" a word that occurs very ire
Quently in the Bible.
He said that every word had a soul
and a body, and this word, with a very
small body, had a very big soul. From
home all life radiates and in home all
life centres.
''There is great discomfort in this
country today and things look pretty
dangerous, but I would not be hurt If
it did all burst. 1 have got no money
in any bank. If the railroads stop run
ming I can walk, and I have two or
three shoulders and a ham i the
smoke house. What must save the
country at last is the home. 1t should
be the brightest, 'happiest, cheeriest
spot on earth. A mans character Is
shown by what his home is; if it Is a
tumble down home it shows a tumbel
down man. A mans place is without
his home, a woman's is within it. 1t
does not take much money to make a
good home. I have cen n that cost
$500, and I have sat down in a very
costly home where the silver and china
cost 81, 500, and there was just Is cents
worth of something to eat. never so
wanted to eat silver. It was a plum
fraud on the universe. A girl ought to
play on a cook stove as well as on a
piano. Many a woman has driven her
husband to drink by the biscuits she
gave him for breakfast-biscuits as
hard as rocks, and about 8 o'clock he
would have to take a drink or there
would be the devil to pay some where.
A young girl gets up about 9 o'clock
and calls Sally and she ties one corset
string on the bedpost and Sally takes
the otheE- and pulls until the girl is
&c more like God almighty made her
than if a Chinaman had whitfield her
out of soft pine"
He then dwelt in strong terms On the
indelicacy of the decollete dress, say,
ing that the woman instead OF leading
in modesty was leading in its opposite.
Incidentally Mr.. Jones touched on
the old parties, the demagogue, the
old man stood firm for the faith once
delivered to the saints, and thought
that this meant that men need religion
and can get it, and if you get it you
can't lose it, and if you lose it you
never had it. He also paid his respects
to progressive euchre and wine sup
pers, to the skeptical and agnostical
small lawyers and pill-rolling doctors,
whom he said were "jackassical."
Much of his sermon was directed to
the individual who disagreed with him
and who was usually addressed as
bud" sometimes ISIS" and some
times, you old dog" and you hound"