Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-01-03

Sam Jones' Lecture.
GET THERE AND STAY THERE.

Rev. Sam p. Jones, of Georgia,
the noted evangelist, whose reputa-
tion as a hum0rist has extended over
the length and breadth of this coun-
try, delivered at the Academy of
Music, in Richmond, Va, on the
night of the 10th of December, his
famous lecture, "Get There and
Stay There"
From the moment that your
Uncle Sam" stepped upon the stage
until he left it about an hour and
a-half thereafter, his audience was
kept in one round of laughter. His
subject admitted of much good,
common-sense doctrine being eX-
pounded to his hearers, but the pill, +,
If such it can be called, was far
from being bitter one, as Mr..
Jones sugar-coated it thoroughly
with anecdotes and jokes.
There was a dearth of vulgarity
or anything pertaining to sacrilege,
and yet many jokes were gotten off
that had any one but Sam Jones told
them would have been thought i'm
modest and inappropriate. Many
of his trite sayings depend princi-
pally on the manner in which they
are said, and to print them in cold
type, where it is impossible to re-
produce the mannerism that ac-
companied them would be only fall
styling Mr.. Jones and doing him a
great injustice. His originality is
his great power. The speaker was
introduced by Rev. DR.. w. j.
Young. Of Park-Place Methodist
church, in a few words.
- am seldom introduced to an
audience these days." the lecturer
began, "that do not think Of the
old colored woman whom l once
met. She weighed 200 pounds, and
she came to me one day after / had
preached a sermon to negroes, and,
shaking my hand, said, God bless
you, Brother Jones, you certainly
does preach like a niger. Iou'se
got white face, but, thank God,
you'se got black heart She
meant well, but can't say that l
liked her manner Of expressing her
self.n
HIS FORMER VISIT HERE.
81 recall many pleasant days spent
here in Richmond, and although it
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 absence,
and ! am more than glad to he with
YOU once more. am glad, too, tc
see such an audience IA this on sc
bad night. | don't know a mar
that lives that I'd brave sucf
weather to hear unless it be myself
NV subject tonight is one of pc
culiar interest to Methodists, Bap
lists and Presbyterians. The Bap
lists and the Presbyterians are In
terested in getting there, and the
MethOdists are interested in staying
there. a Baptist is always afrait
of never getting there, but this d0e'
not disturb the Methodist. lit
knows he's there, but he is Away
afraid that he won't be able Il
stay there.
The expression get there is truly
An Americanism, and nothing u
more expressive of the America
people than is this saying. ] Nigh
talk to you of getting there socially
[ but then it would do no good, for
YOU did get there that way yo'
would not get far. You've all seei
: a dude. reckon they are as plen
) tiful In Richmond as elsewhere
Well, amt he a miserable creature
-emblematic of nothing but SO
ciety gone to seed. Do you know
that a dude is just pimple on SO
ciety, denoting that its blood Is on
of order? You've noticed PIN
ple on your face when you got up II
q the morning. All Of you have ha'
). them, and all of you have 'squasheu
4 them. Well, when you nav
.souashed' them 1t reminds me- OF
dudine. A boy was once walkinl
down the street with his tatheI
when they met a dude. The Itti
fellow asked his father who mao
: that creature. When he receiVe'
the reply that God did, ne elacu
lated, 'Umph, God likes to nav