Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-07
REV. SAM ?. JONES Interests the Ohautauquans With
 Three Select Lectures IN HIS ORIGINAL STYLE Says Grover Cleveland Is Un- purchasable-InterestinR
 Programmes.
IN HIS ORIGINAL STYLE

| SHELBY SPRINGS, Aug. 4.-lSpeclal Cor- | respondence. l-At 9:30 this morning Dr. l Sanders gave the second in his series of | lectures, his subject being "The Bologi- | cal Basis of Mental Growth" 7" Mind eludes | identification by our senses, yet it's mani- l festations are abundant. Bioplasm is the | physical medium through which it makes | itself manifest. A mere lipe marks the boundary between mind and matter, but narrow as is that line no mans acumen | has yet been able to cross it. "In tue l sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'' is | pot only curse imposed for sin, but an | eternal biological law which cannot with | impunity be violated. It is not sufficient 1 for Knowledge to be kept in contact with mind; it must become constituent part. l When mind absorbs matter there is growth; when mind organizes this matter into fac- l ulties there is development. A healthy ratio must exist between growth and devel- | opment, for if one is excessive the other 1 will be correspondingly deficient. One may | not remember all he has learned, but l if the naturalization has been thorough l he Las undoubtedly been benefited. Pre- | cocity is abnormal and is apt to be danger | ous. How often early promises of genius | vanish into failure as the penalty of the I violation of biological law. Growth of 1 mind depends upon the potentiality of the l primordial cell and upon education. The l teacher who applies biological laws should | feel profoundly impressed with their mo- l pore sano" is sound biological and | psychological law which must be kept al- l ways in view. Dr. Sanders fittingly closed | his address with Hamlet's noble soliloquy,
 .tWhat piece of work is man," etc.
 1 Y At II 80 the excursions from Selma, An niston and intermediate points, as well as | visitors from the neighboring villages, hay | ing arrived Rev. Sam P. Jones lectured in | tue open air upon "Manhood and Moneyo | 1.-the two great contending forces of the | speech he must talk about gold buggery | and silver diggery. Avarice is at the foun- ! dation of every sin. Hell itself is nothing | but seifishness on fire, and it's I wonder to me some of you old brethren don't catch by natural combustion. | A great many of you say, 'tI'm obliged to | live" Well, that's lie. I'm obliged to do right. Put God above gold, character | above chattels, manhood above money. | God never made but one man and one
 as they were then. There is many woman | In this country who thinks she's we'll mar l ried when the poor thing's an old maid | yet, for she's got no husband. good l many people are laying up treasure in | Heaven at the rate of 25 cents a year, and l then the old fools will never get there to l enjoy it. The curse of the world is little | people. Gods eyes never looked upon a | grander sight than royal, brave, noble, | true hearted, genuine man. Nancy Hanks | is a much higher bred animal than Sullivan and Corbett. like thorough bred horses. | 1 wish we had more thorough bred people. | The young folks are after having a good | time, the old fclks are after the dollar and l the devil is after the whole thing, and he | generally gets it, too. Let every mother | work upon the plan that she will wish her l sons to marry duplicates of their sisters l and Ter daughters duplicates of their l brothers.
 I don't know of but one politician in America who Is absolutely unpurchasable | and unbulldozable, and that is old Grover l Cleveland. Pa rather run with rascal | like democrat than a fool like popuiite. | I'd rather be rascal than 6 fool, for you can reform rascal. Pm a prohibitionist and my platform has but two plauks. Pm everything for whisky. If God Almighty | can be king and our boys can be sober, 1 don't care who is governor nor who is | president. We Methodists and Presbyteri- | ans can't do nothing with our dead mem- | bers, but you Baptists and Campbellites l might float lem out It takes an expert to l tell when a man's dead but when woman | quits talking you may know she's gone to | the land of pure delight and will never | come back. Manhood and womanhood in l their perfection should be the ideal | of our boys and girls. A fellow asked | me the other day sif I believed all the | niggers would steal. 1 told him no, | didn't believe all the white folks would. | If anybody asks me to stand for him l say: | "Shucks, but am a-layin' down myself" | My lectures are like train, you can cut | lem in two anywhere and put on the ca boose and they are made up.
 At 3:30 o'clock a concert was given in | the assembly hall. Besides the orchestral | music there were two songs by MT. Wise, l whom Mir. Weston introduced as Hthe mocking bird of Selma, ,o and a very amus-
 ing recitation, F. Hopkinson Smith HOne. Legged Goose," cleverly rendered | by Miss Willodesn Frazer of Union l Springs.
 The afternoon lecture of MT. Jones was I upon ''The World as It Is and as It Ought l to Be-" These two conditions are as far | from each other as the east from the west. l To make the world what it ought to be, 1 morally, is the agency to which one must I look. If the preachers of this. country | would stop talking so much about the .-ASweet Bye and Bye'' and spend a little l more time upon the "Dirty Now and Now," it would be good thing. It sorter throws dampness over the congre. I gation to preach ethics to you, but you'd better catch it here than hereafter.
 l q. Common sense is the most uncommon thing in this country. Whats hurtin'
 unadulterated,. simple, downright igno- 1 rance, That the rich are gettin' richer l and the pore poorer, is half truth, and a
 half truth is the whoppinest lie in the l world. That the laws of the land are all I made in the interest of the rich and
 agn the poor is another great l big whoppin' lie. The difference
 in men is organic and not in the faws.r No man should vote who cannot read | and write the English language correctly. We'll never rise in citizenship until we
 l rise in intelligence. The secret of raising
 | family of boy .S to use plenty of prayer and hickory. Some people think it's no
 I harm to fly into passion which is soon
 | over, but in, one minute a man may say a
 word that will stab his wife to the heart