Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-21
BREEZY sam JONES.
A Characteristic Talk at Emory Grove
Camp Meeting
IN A STORYTELLING MOOD

He Advises All Christians to Get Together
Against Satan.
On Tuesday morning of last week,
Rev. Sam Jones was in a merry mood
at Emory Grove Camp, Md, and the
good stories which he told in the course
of his sermon and the humorous illus
trations and quaint expressions which
he used kept his audience smiling most
of the time.
Il know perfectly WE'LL" he said,
'that some of you object to some of the
things which l say here this morning.
Lord bless you, l am glad you do. 1t
shows that you still have some life left
in you. All the dynamos in Baltimore
can't put life into corpse. And if you
show that you don't like what I am
saying, it let's me see that you are still
kicking.
Il can hear some of the solemn-faced
sisters saying, You gave us such nice,
serious sermon last night, Mr.. Jones,
that | expected to enjoy myself this
talking has spoiled it all Last nights
sermon was a serious one, but it had it's
place and it had it's effect. This morn
ing l want to reach everybody, and l
am going to talk down to the level of
everybody, SO as to reach the gang in
the easiest way. But defy any of you
to say that you can't find some serious
thought, some vein of philosophy, run
ming through all my illustrations.
RAP AT SOLEMN SERMONS.
The best way to serve fodder is to put
it down on the ground SO that all the
n 1c hn 10 III
goat and the long. necked giraffe
preachers today. They talk over the
heads of the crowd. Who listens to
solemn sermon on justification by
Faith p Why the long faced sister in
the front bench is thinking all the time
of something that she must do when
she gets home and the pretty girl yon-
der is dreaming OIL don't know what
you call the creature in this vicinity
he with his hair separated in the mid
die, with toothpick shoes and tooth
pick brain-she's thinking of him, and
not word does she hear about 'justi-
fication by faith"
THEY'RE ALL FIGHTING YOU"
The method of fighting the devil by
organizing all the forces of Christianity
l.
mon.
when was preaching out in Spring
field, ILL.,, not long ago." said he, "a
minister came to me and asked me il l
did not think the world was getting
worse instead of better"
"'Arn't there more saloons?' he
queried.
YOU'RE right replied.
"'More gambling hells?'
EYES,
"'More shameless houses
Yes
"'More of the devil everywhere p
YOU'RE right again. my FRIEND l
replied. That's because the devil has
got all his people into splendid work
ing order. If you strike blow at one
saloon, you hit them all. If you make
war against one gambling hell, all of
them are up in arms. If you try to get
rid of one shameless house, they're all
fighting you. The unification of every
Christian force is absolutely necessary,
I said to him, in conclusion, before we
can even get fair whack at the DEVILS
legions.'
STRENGTH IN UNITY.
every one of you knows what a
splendid thing a big steam engine is.
Did you ever think that it was simply
one great big lot of iron magnificently
organized and put together? Now you
see that lot of scrap iron out there I'M
der one of those trees. That's iron and
it's heavy, but all that you would have
to do to get rid of it would be to get
niger and a wheelbarrow.
"Faith and Good Work ought to be
the motto of every one who wants to
work for God. You can't get along
without both of them. It's like being
in canoe pulling for a certain place.
Let Faith be the right oar and Good
Work the left oar. Ifyou pull on Faith
alone you'll spin around and around to
the right and you never will get to the
place where you are going. The same
way with Good Work alone. But if
you pull straight ahead with both oars
you're sure to make your way to the
City of God.
- A YARN ABOUT A MULE.
"The trouble with most Christian
people is that they are like the mule
which an old darkey was beating to
make him go faster. The old coon
thumped and dashed him, but the mule
never increased his three mile an hour
gait.
".Why don't he go faster when you
beat him p some one asked.
! "'Well, you see, was the reply, hes
got mighty tough hide and a power
full short recollection
"And that's what's the matter with
most long-faced Christians. They've