Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-11
SAM JONES' LECTURE
BE Has Quite Z Good Audience Despite
The Pouring Rain.
GET THERE AND STAY THERE.
with rhis ~ Ills Theme the Noted Evan
eciist Discusses Religion. Busisess and
Politics In an Interesting Way.

Rev. Sam r. Jones. Of Georgia, the
noted evangelist, whose reputation as a
humorist has extended over the length
and breadth Of this country, delivered
at the Academy OF Music last night his
famous lecture, Get There and Stay
There" There were about 800 people
present despite the pouring rain.
From the moment THAI ''your Uncle
Sam" stepped upon the stage until he
left II about an hour and half there
after his audience was kept In one round
OF laughter. His subject admitted OF
much good. common sense doctrine being
expounded 20 his hedrers. but the pill,
II such & can be called. was far from
being bitter one. as Mr.. Jones sugar
coated It thoroughly with anecdotes and
Jokes.
There was n dearth OF vulgarity or any
thing pertaining 10 sacrilege. and yet
many Jokes were gotten off that had any
one but Sam Jones told them would have
been thought immodest and inappropriate.
Many Of his trite sayings depend princl-
paily on the manner in which they are
said, and 20 print them in cold type,
where IL Is impossible TO reproduce the
mannerism that accompanied them would
be only classifying Mr.. Jones and doing
him a great injustice. His originality IL
his great power. The speaker was intro
duced by Rev. DR. w. J. Young, OF PARK
Place Methodist church. in few words.
IL am seldom introduced to an audi
ence these days" the lecturer began
that | do not think Of the old colored
woman whom I once met. She weisheu
200 pounds, and she came to me one day
AFTER I had preached sermon TO negroes
and. shaking my hand. said. God bless
you. Brother Jones. you certainly does
preach like a niger You'se got a white
face. but thank God you'se got a plach
bert She meant we'll but L can't say
that liked her manner OF expressing
herself
HIS FORMER VISIT HERE.
81 recall many pleasant days spent here
I'm Richmond, and although II has been
some years since my visit to this city
have carried the memory Of those days in
my bosom during all those years OF alb
sence. and / am more than glad to be
see such an audience as this on 80 bad a
night. / don't know a man that lives
that I'd brave such weather to near I'M
less 1t be myself.
MY subject tonight is one of peculiar
interests TO Methodists. Baptists, ana
Presbvterlans. The Baptists and the
Presbyterians are interested In getting
there. and the Methodists are interested
in staying there. A Baptist is always
afraid Of never getting there Dut tnls
does not disturb the Methodist. He knows
he's there, but he is always afraid that
he won't be able to stay there.
1.-THE expression get there is truly an
Americanism, and nothing is more ex-
pressive of the American people than is
this saying | might talk TO you OF get
,irg there socially. but then 1t would DO
no good. for if you did get there that way
you would not get far You've all seen
a dude ! reckon they are as plentiful in
Richmond as elsewhere. Well. amt he
miserable creature ?-emblematic OF no.
thing but society gone 10 seed. DO you
know that a dude is just a pimple on
society donoting that its blood is out of
order? You've noticed a pimple on your
face when you got up in the morning
All Of you have had them. and all OF you
have 'squshed them. Well when you
have 'squshed' them II reminds me OF a
dudine. boy was once walking down
the street with his father when they met
dude The little fellow asked his father
who made that creature. When he re-
ceived the reply that God did, he ejacu-
lated, 'Umph. God likes TO have fun as
well as other people Now, ! tell you
that God no more made the dude than he
made the gambler the barkeeper. and
other sinners They are simply perver-
sions OF humanity. ApplauseD
II have seen the social life from the
White House to the cabin, and | say TO
you that the society Of the plain country
house in which live a plain, religious. In
dustrious father. number Of ruddy-com-
plexioned girls, and several strappng
bOys-that home where nightly, after sup
per. the old. worn Bible is taken from its
shelf and the father. with his family
around him. reads by the light of a burn
inc lamp a chapter to those he loves. and
repeats the same thing each morning be-
fore an early breakfast tell you, that
is the society l crave. 1t Is out of such
homes that have come all of our great
men, men who have had their names
heralded abroad. men who have reached
the topmost rings Of the ladder of fame,
and IL is out Of just such homes that the
great and llustrious men of the future
will come. II is this genuine home, where
true manhood stands above everything.
that produces the true type Of manhood.
THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.
again, l might tell you how to get
there financially. Money Is very much
like a cane to a lame man-one VIII help
him along but fifty piled on his back will
paralyZe him. I never saw one Of those
old fellows who had accumulated as much
money as they could spend and were still
trying TO get more but what l was
forcibly reminded of fly in barrel OF
molasses. He was there alright. but there
was so much molasses around him that
he was a mere insgnihcance. Genuine
manhood, | tell you. is scarce. There Is
an over-production of everything else in
this country but man. God never made
but one man and one woman, and the
crop is Just about as scarce now as IT was
then The greed of the age is the nations
curse. America has centralized and vocal
lied her whole life into the silver dollar,
and one Of these days you will lie with
your toes turned up and tied together,
and beneath nothing but IA silver dollar.
worth IS cents. This spirit OF get
all you can and keep all you get
is the curse OF this age. Money makes
everything so that has hair. and makes
many "A bald-headed one go too. Q.augh-
teri You see an old man who has got
plenty OF money and refuses 10 give any
thing for charity or religion, saying that
he is saving IL for Sallie and the children.
That's all mighty nice. but the old fool
won't be dead and in hell two years be-
fore somebody else will come along,
marry Sallie, and enjoy what he has
made. Oh I've seen 'em lots of times.
You needn't pin your faith TO woman
after You are dead. They'll marry again.
Q.aughter).
Il might tell you how to get there po-
htcally. IL l was mad with a man and
wanted to ruin him for this world and
'Ae next, I'd get him political office.
You say that many an honest man goes
nto politics. OF course they do, but how
they come out? You may take a hog
I'd wash him clean. then let him wallow
pa mud-puddle and he'll be just as
fty II not dirtier than he was before
7!itlcs is dirty cesspool, and il has
tten 50 now that you don't know who's
.ected.
is FOR WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
This morbid desire for Office il awful.
Right here In Richmond everybody has
got some office-Mayor, councilman. Sun
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