Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-10
WILL MAKE WACO "POP, /"
BROTHER STUART SAYS HE AND
SAM WILL DO III.
Immense CONGREGATIONS Gather I'm
The shed 10 Hear the Evan
ReIiat-Rev. sum Jones TO
Arrive There To-day.



Hpecial Dispatch.
Waco, Tex. April "a crowd
estimated all the way from
p5O0 to 5000 people assembled In the
hall by the time Mr.. Stuart, Sam
Jones' right bower began TO preach
last night
Mr.. Excel had preceded him some
thirty minutes and was putting
in good time instructlng his big choir.
Mr.. Stuart took his text from ST.
Paul beginning, Therefore pray for
me, brethren" etc. That text was the
key note to all religion. without pray
er one might as well throw up the
sponge. But It was mighty hard to
get the world to take this view OF It.
Just read it, "rherefore. brethren. crit
iolse or advise" and every mothers
son and daughter would just be In
their elements.
He had Travelled with Brother Jones
for over 1--WE years. When he first
started out to labor with Sam he ven-
tured to give him some advice He
pald: II would not use that calomel IL
lustratlon II were you" but they had
not gone down the street far until
finely dressed man came up and said
he heard the calomel story and liked 1t
and was coming to meeting next day.
That's a case Of where wanted to Ash
way out in clear water and catch
perch. while Jones wanted to hang
around the bnnks in the mud and
catch n sly old cat. Great laughter)
hut he did the work and didn't need
any advice either.
Mr.. Stuart then switched from pathos
10 satire, and from cold, cutting sar-
cnsm to tears and pity. carrying his
audience in tears or laughter as he
pleased. His climates In depicting
ldude doggerel and common sense were
true to life, and were thoroughly
"amened" by the brethren and many
Others. lie advised woman to use her
mouth little, to guard II we'll but to
pray In secret like killing rattle snakes
tGreat lnughter)
At the close OF the preaching all who
would try to lead better lives We're ask
I'd 10 come forward and give the
preacher their hands, and several hun
dred came forward and gruspcd the
hand of Sam Jones' right bower.
Sam Jones himself win put In his
Initial appearance tomorrow.
The rainstorm and cold wind that
were SO perceptlblo in Waco this morn
Ing interferc1 with the attendance
The appearance of the great sheds
WINS quite different, with the $50 peo-
pie there contrasted with the crowd
OF $500 people who were lummcd In the
same place last night
Mr. Stuart, however. was present,
and Mr.. Excel seemingly never felt
better In his life. After song and
prayer, Mir. sunrt snid he Ind the
fortune OF God. ia prench 10 both
great and small CONGREGATIONS, and by
the grace OF GOA he oftep di1 hcttcr
in his own estimation. nj lenqt Win
small CONGREGATIONS thon he did win
larpe ones no roma n scr,ntrr,1 chan.
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Eresauon alternately between smiles
and tears; sunshine and shadow The
devil evidently tried hard to put fool
ish notions Into Peters head when he
was waiting for Jesus In the upper
chamber