The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-29
AT THE TENT.
Great Crowds Gathered There, and Hun
dreds Answered the Call.

dredS Answered the Nali'
Sam Jones preached his last SER
mon here Monday night. 1t is safe
to say that the largest wave Of
religious feeling that has ever swept
over this city rolled over it last
week. The congregations have been
the largest ever assembled az CO.
lumbia, and were composed of all
kinds and classes of people. Dur
ing all the week, with three servi-
ces a day, and with all the pro-
miscuOus audiences, not one occa-
sion has arisen for official super
vision. Men that have not entered
Il church for years, were regular and
attentive listeners. At the close of
each sermon great surge of feel
ing manifested itself, and hundreds
of men and women have come out
boldly before the great congrega-
ton, acknowledging their recogni-
ton of and allegiance to God. Two
saloon-keepers have quit the bust
ness, hardened gamblers have been
converted, and we sincerely trust
that Columbia will be better, more
God fearing, God-serving city here
after than it has been heretofore.
"Sam Jones pulpit manners" say
the critics, lack dignity sadly"
Dignity" retOrts Sam "is the
starch of a shrOud. The more dig
nifty fellow has, the nearer dead he
is. [ expect to be as dignified as
any of you when l get into my
coffin"
He complimented the choir and
the accomplished and accommodate
ing organist, Mrs. Z. B. Kelly; said
Maury County was the peer of any
county he had ever seen, and he
had been from ocean to ocean, from
the gulf to the lakes; he had never
seen more attentive or better be-
haved audiences than here, nor had
he ever partaken of more perfect
hospitality than had been extended
to him by Columbians. We had
the best city officers and corps of
policemen he had ever seen. AS he
said, Columbia is truly the top of
the pot"
Though Sam Jones had gone, the
pastors of the various churches of
the town continued the series of
meetings up to Wednesday night.
The gentlemen had their prayer
meeting every morning at 8 o'clock
at the Baptist church; the ladies
! gathered at the First Methodist
church, at the same hour, for prayer.
Services were held each night at the
Methodist church. Rev. Mr.. Thomp-
son preached Tuesday night, and
Rev. w. T. Waynick Wednesday
night. The membership of each
denomination in town has been in
creased since these series of meet
ings started.
Mr.. Jones received one thousand
dollars for his nine days work here
Mr.. Tillman, the musical director
received $50, and Mrs. Kelly, the
organist, $50.
Some of His Proverbs and PARALLELS.
Red liquor and christianity won't
stay in the same hide. AS one
comes in the other goes out.
You don't believe what You don't
see. Did you ever see your back
bone? Some men believe they have
a backbone when it is nothing but a
cotton string run up their backs.
Sow whiskey, reap drunkards
Fill town with bar-rooms, make a
generation of drunkards who be.
come fathers of drunkards, whose
children are drunkards, and thus
the world is swept on and down tC
hell.
don't know whether am ortho-
doX or not; but you preachers car
tend to the orthodoxy after | an
gone. You will see these preachers
in their pulpits next Sunday witt
mud on their horns. They will
show you what orthodoxy is, anC
clean you up too.
If you see my style don't exactly
suit you, and the grammar anC
rhetoric and logic are little butch.
cred, why, am just endeavoring tC
adopt my style to my crowd; dom
forget that, and I'll find your level
before / leave you.
Take one of those old demijohr
fellows and carry him to heaven as
he is. When he would awake next
morning the first thing he would
want would be drink, and if there
was low place in the fence he
would jump over it, repair to the
nearest bar-room, and be back agar
before breakfast.
Now, / have said a great many
hard things, so called: and great
many of those things have been ap
piled. don't apply things. Irun {
sort of wholesale shoe establish
ment, and just make shoes for the
public; and every man puts on those
that fit him, you know. That's m!
line. I'm never personal.
The Lord knows l would rather
have fifty old maids on my hanC
than have a sOn-in-law like some Of
you have got.
If you will let me, I will cut tn,
last ligament that binds you to