The Monitor-register., 1896-01-31
can't get them to do anything Of the kind.
Yet they trot out here three times day
to my meetings! They are playing off

on you. An Oiu blSI0r HAB u6uraiGlA OF
rheumatism, and she can't get out to
church at all, but when Brother Jones is
preaching in town, she will 60 to all the
meetings. Yes, trot and pace and lope
to get here! Some of you old rheumatic
and neuralgia sisters come out here and
go to roost on these benches before sun
down-set on them from nine O'Clock in
the morning till ten at night!
"'Do you mean to say, Brother
Thomas, a woman can be good Christian
and keep hands off of q good thing p
Brother Thomas answers: 4 believe there
are honest Christian women In this
country who don't belong to the W.. G.
T. u I am not talking about honest
women. l am talking about consecrated
Christian women that will keep hands
off of good thing that looks to the
sobriety Of community and the glory
of God. Now listen. have but one
conception of religion, and that is a
Christian that stands up sud says: 4 am
in for everything that honors God and
lifts up the world, and against every
thing that drsgs down human soul.' If
this Is not religion then / don't know
| what it is. When I was In Monroe,
La, preached against the saloons, and
organized six hundred women and put
them to work, and In five weeks from
that time I received telegram, saying:
we voted the saloons out of this town
by big majority You don't know
what yon can do, sister; you have not
tried to do anything. Thank God for
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union!
II believe in woman suffrage more than
do in woman suffering. If there is any
body who ought to be out fighting the
devil and whiskey 1t is you women In this
town. A woman called on me at the
hotel the other day and sent up her card,
and when l walked into the parlor saw
as fine face as ever looked into. She
said to me: 'Mr. Jones, life is becoming
intolerabf6. I am afraid of my husband.
He comes home debauched every night in
the week. l am afraid of him, and my
life is miserable
"Now men will stand by one another;
why won't women Men will vote for
one another, and, oh, want to see you
good women stand together when a
women is suffering like that! It's the
business of every one of you, and have
come to your city to help you work out
the problem. You all voted whiskey ont
of this city once. The whole thing went
dry, but the old, red.nosed scoundrels
who work the machine counted whiskey
in. 1 believe they did, didn't they,
brethren? ANSWERS, 'Yes.') l tell you
l want to work up sentiment here
against the devil and his gang that will
cause you good women to organize and
unite together. You want to and ought
to go to work. If we had five hundred
Christian women in this town belonging
to the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union who would pray and work,
believe that in twelve months from to.
day the gamblers would 60, the shame
less houses would disappear, and the
saloons should be driven ont of your
town forever.
II love to see a woman with a ribbon
on. There is no emblem l like better
to see than one of those little white
ribbons. "a woman once pinned one on the
lapel of my coat, and have been loyal
to the W. G. T. U. ever since. I have
been speaking and working for them all
over this country, and I want to say,
sister, you don't know what you can do
until you try. These devils in this town
don't want you to organize, and they
don't want you to 60 TO work. Brother
Jones, l would have Joined them long
ago, but there are some clauses in the
constitution and bylaws l don't likev
Sister, you're good old soul, but you
are weak minded. If you haven't any
more heart or sense than that, you'd
better not go In at all. like to see q
woman of character-a woman who
stands for something In the community.
l want you women to go out of this
meeting and get five hundred consecrated,
praying women to help run the devil and
whiskey out of this town.
"Now / am going to close this service,
and l want every woman in this audi
ence, who is member of the church and
will go to work and will join anything
that looks to the downing of evil and the
building up of the good, every woman
who will say, Brother Jones, 1 want to
see Little Rock cleaned out of the evil,
and will work and help with all my
might to stand np." The entire AUDI
ence stood.
No other speaker commands such
prices or brings In SO much money out of
the pockets of the peopl as our Brother
Samuel. 1t seems as if they liked to
give to him. We wish we knew his
secret for we are free to say they have
never given overmuch to usi He has a
way of telling people the most unpalate.
able truths with 30 much good-natured
candor that they cry for more. The back
bone of all his teaching is contained in
his favorite expression: "Quit your mean
ness" He makes no distinction between
religion and morals. He believes that
Christianity is tbs best method of behav-
ing ones self that the world has ever
seen, and no matrer how much Of "a
coldness it brings over the meeting" he
is forever referring to the sugar that was
sanded before the dealer called his clerks
together TO engage in family prayer.
Beginning in poverty Rev. Sam Jones
(for he is licensed preacher in the
Methodist Church South) has become
rich man and does OF mind saying SO in
the midst of q discourse. Hs has
founded orphanages and schools In his
home town at Cartersville near Atlanta,
where he invests his money. He and
Mr.. Moody seem to have been moved to
similar use of the abundance that the
public has seen fit to place in their hands,
and doubtless there are no more Christ
like institutions on the continent than
those founded by these two greatest
evangelist of the century, Union Signal.
The camel is beast of great strength
and endurance. Nothing hurts 1t until
the proverhial "last straw" is added to
its burden. The human digestive system
is very mach like camel. It is really
astonishing how much abuse It W ill stand.
Sometimes. however. something Horsa