Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-19
REV. SAM JONES ON woMAN's WORK
CONTINUED from last week.

CONTINUED from last week.
Brother Thomas, do you believe
that every Christian woman in the
town belongs to Woman's Christian
Temperance Uniion?" No, sir Well,
how can u Christian woman keep from
Joining?' ANSWER: Some of them are
old, and some of them don't think
about it. But they are racking around
to the theaters and card parties almost
every day, and can't go to Woman 8
Christian Temperance Union meetings
once a week. Why, some of you min
listers are running your legs off hunting
up some of the old sisters that belong
to your church and trying to get them
to come out, but you can't get them to
do anything of the kind. Yet they
trot out here three times a day to my
meetings. They are playing off on you.
An old sister has neuralgia or rheuma-
tism, and she cant get out to church
at all, but when Brother Jones is
preaching in town, she will go to all
the meetings. Yes, trot and pace and
lope to get here. Some of you old rheu-
matte and neuralgia sisters come out
here and go to roost on these benches
before sundown-set on them from
nine O'Clock in the morning till ten at
night.
do you near to say, Brother
Thomas, q woman can be a good Chris
tian and keep hands off of a good
thing?' Brother Thomas answers: I
believe there are honest Christian wo-
men in this country who don't belong
to the W. c. T. u am not talking
about honest women. l am talking
about consecrated Christian women
that will keep hands off of a good thing
that looks to the sobriety of a commu-
nifty and the glory of God. Now listen.
have but n conception of religion,
and that is a Christian that stands up
and says: L am in for every thing that
honors God and lifts up the world, and
against everything that drags down a
human SOUL If this is not religion
then l don't know what it is. When
l was in Monroe, La, l preached
against the saloons, and organized six
hundred women and put them to work,
aud in five weeks from that time | re-
ceived a telegram, saying: We voted
the saloons out of this town by q big
majority You don't know what YOU
can do, sister; you have not tried to do
anything. Thank God for the Wo.
mans Christian Temperance Uunion.
Il believe in woman suffrage more
than do in woman suffering. If there
Is anybody who ought to be out fight
ing the devil and whisky it is ,wo.
men in this town. A woman called on
the at the hotel the other day and sent
up her card, and when | walked into
the parolor l saw as fine a face as I
ever looked into. She said to me: Mr..
Jones, life is becoming intolerable. I
am afraid of my husband. He comes
home debauched. every night in the
week | am afraid of him, and nv
life is miserable
Now men,will stand by one another:
why won't women? Men will vote for
one another and help one another, and.
on, want to see you good women
stand together when a woman is suf.
fering 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 whisky out of
this city once. The whole thing went
dry, but the old, red nosed scoupdrels
who work the machine counted whisky
Ill., l believe they did, didn't they.
brethren? ANSWERS, 'Yes.0 tell YOU
| want to work up a sentiment here
against the devil and his gang That
VIII cause you good women to organ.
ize and unite together. You want to
and ought to go to work. If we had
live hundred Christian women in this
town belonging to the Woman g Chris.
uan temperance Union who would
pray n work. l believe that in twelte
months from today the gamblers would
CO. the shameless houses would disap-
per, and the saloons would be driven
out of your town forever.
II love to see a oma with a white
ribbon IN. There is no emblem I like
better to see than one of those little
white ribbons, A woman once pinned
n on the lapel of my coat, and l
have been loyal to the w. C. T. U.
ever since. l have been speaking and
working for them all over this country.
and want to say, sister, you don't
know what you a do until you try.
These devils in this town don't want
you to organize, and they don't want
you to go to work. Brother Jones, l
would have Joined them long ago, but
there are some clauses in the constitu-
ton and bylaws l don't like Sister,
you're a 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 a woman
of Character-a Woman uho standS for