Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-13
BEATING THE TOWN LAWS.
SAM JONES GETS DowN TO BusI-
NESS IN EARNEST.
a Characteristic sermon by the Geor-
gin Evangelist ut the Great
Revival Vow Going ON in
wReo-Red Hot Talk.


lngs services the WiEWam was uot
packed 80 tightly as It was last night
but it was comfortably filled, aud the
crowd looked as n Il wanted 10 be
drubbed IN a systematic manner.
Way over in the northeast corner
sat a hundred or more negroes, who
Looked quite as if they were going to
be drawn over the Goals. and as they
thought Of this distinction. their white
eyes closed Ike oyster shells, and their
great thick lips new open. making
yeritabie picture Of Rasmus when
contemplating an onslaught upon a
big red watermelon.
Excel and his big choir began the
song service early. and made such an
impression on the congregation that It
caught the refrain and made zion
hump herself until the colored con
tingent' caught on and their feet pat
ted n Few hoe-downs. Several shouts
OF glory" rang out before this sery-
ice was over.
Jones began his remarks by saying
he always hated 20 be bothered with
little things You people ought TO
get out in the woods with a looking
gloss and take a look at yourself and
Just see how little sou are. Hear that,
bud? You're on your Journey home"
bud and the sooner you go there the
better. You come here and refuse TO
pay a cent for your seat and gas that
you sit on and see by. Beat your way
to church Now don't go away and
say you'd come here II Sam Jones and
George Stuart were preaching for
money. Don't go away and lie on us
that way. you old devil. II l was IN
this business for money. there's 100
towns ln Texas that would give me
800 a night for leoturlng. Now when
the usher comes by, II you don't put
in something. and the man beside you
don't. why you can just make up your
minds that a pair OF hogs have gotten
together daughter.
His text would be taken from about
the last words Of Saul: I have fought
Il good aght have finished my
course. I have kept the faith
saul NA AI HAH vas AHNAH AAA' 81 anu
est character IN either sacred or pro-
fame history. saul had made a grand
victory. and that was the kind that
paid. a bloodless victory didn't
amount 10 much; the conquerlng OF a
weak foe didn't make one great
warrior.
The North. as he had said up there,
didn't have anything to crow over
II the South had only a known that
It had crippled up so many OF those
Fellows 1t would have rallied one more
time and just a cleaned EN- on the
face OF the earth Gaughter). The
fact was there couldn't be a fight
without issues. Waco didn't have any
issues. True, you had a little NUM-
cipal spat here week ago. but now
an Of you-go to the theater and dance
han and saloon together
And that old ball-hcaded bloat out
there yelled out God, turn your guns
on Satan In Waco" and II Cod did that
he would shoot your old fashionable
wife the first one daughter. You
Baptists and Metholists and all OF you
have about 30 per cent Of goats. and
yet you preachers can't ell goat
from sheep,
Is that not so. Whallngg"
Yes" responded that gen .leman.
Isn't It very SOP" Uaughter)
you have all got goats With whisk-
ers on EN-,
You have men here who ore all right
on some questions. hut All wrong On
others; wouldn't dance, but would
drink. God bless your little muley-
headed, nea-bitten souls you're not
worth killing, II they had an election
in his county tomorrow and he was to
just slip his photo IN the Lallot box.
they would know how TO count IT,
They would count 1t for Prohibition.
Most protesting Christians were Will
ing to quit every mean thing they saw.
The trouble was they were blind.
didn't see anything. therefore didn
quit anything Gaughter1 He
wouldn't go TO society TO get his wife
II he wanted to get married 100 times.
It reminded him of the fellow that mar
ried three times, once FOR money. once
for beauty. and once Tor intellect. and
said he got the world. the flesh and the
devil IN those three wives. unughter)
A good many preachers were afraid to
say what they wanted to, FOR fear the
world would say they were trying to
initiate sam Jones He supposed
when Peter was jailed. s,Ine people
said. "oh. be was trying so initiate
John the Baptist" daugater) stand
up for the right Get over IN the right
side. and then don't stand tAere like a
post, go to work. Preachers these days
had lost their authority. IN the DAYS
and times OF John the Baptist, men
spoke with authority Most preachers
We're so thin-skinned. they armed their
tail and ran, "You little cusses. what
are you 'frnld Of newspapers for II
there's anything that 1 enjoy. IT'S a
warm time with the editor. II a Waco
editor can say more mean things abou,
me than can about him. Just san in.
bud Hear me; the editors Kept saving
they made be untf calied 'em one
time and asked EN- 10 maze another
Q-aughter). No" they answered
haven't got any more Of lat kind Of
dirt" Great laughter). Shell ne woods
I'd rather have a fight and get licked
than to not have a fight at an. SHOW
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