Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-12
REV. SAM JONES ON woMANs' WORK

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REV SAM JONES ON woMANs' WORK.
Brothers and sisters, somebody
asked me one day: Brother Jones,
haven't you got a grudge against some.
body?" Yes, l have,'I said. What
is it2' WELL l said, wife and l have
talked about it and cried over it and
prayed over it many a time. The hard
est tasks and trials we have ever had
with our children was because we
would not let them do as other folks
let their children do. These society
people as they call themselves) have
made it so hard for wife and me to
raise our children right, that l have a
grudge against them; and l am going
to tell them of it every chance l get.
Is not that right?' l was preaching
one day in my W town at the taber.
nacle, and l said in my sermon, Il
want every parent in my town to pitch
in and help me raise my children!' and
they looked back at me, as much as to
say, How can we help you?' And
then l said, All you parents pitch in
and raise your own children right and
then my children can't get into bad
company and be led off. If we would
form a children raising trust, and all
parents raise their own children right,
then there would not be any bad ones
TO lead others off. Don't you see how
it works?'
"Sister, let me look you in the face
this morning and say the blindest wo-
man in the world is the woman who
conforms to the things of this world.
tell you what | want to see in this
city: Wives and mothers all united to-
gether In a common effort to bring
purity into this community and save
the town. l wish we could make il n
fad in society to fight the devil instead
of entertaining him If it was fashion
able in this town to read the Bible.
when some of you sisters got together
one of you would say, L read ten chap.
tiers in the Bible today; another, Il
read twelve and another, 4 read ff
teen!' Another old sister very fashion
able) would say: I just read all the
time; haven't slept a wink or eaten a
bite all day for reading
Now listen to me right along here
for a minute. How many members
has the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union in this town all told?
Answer: Sixty Now listen: How
many of them are regular attendants
and workers. (Answer:t'Twelve.0 No
wonder the saloon keepers and gam.
blers have it all their own way in your
town. 1t is dominated by saloons and
gamblers and shameless houses, and
twelve women i n the town are regular
attendants and workers in the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union But all
the same you women will go to church
on Sunday morning and sing, I'm on
my journey home Sister, you can
sing it very well if you are pointing
downward, but l want to see how you
are pointing when you sing it. Hear
me! You have got to pay the bill some
way some time-you have l tell you.
a fact: | know Methodist steward.
and know him personally and we'll,
who paid one hundred dollars to his
church, and when times got hard he
cut 1T down to fifty dollars, and before
the close of that year his on, in q
drunken spree killed a man, and his
father had to mortgage his home for
eight thousand dollars to keep his son
from being hung. That was a hard 90.
Let me tell you, mothers, listen: Since
came to this town a young man, a
fon of a mother here, came to nv
room and said: i am ruined in char
1cter. l have gambled away money
that don't belong to me; | am wrecked
and ruined And yet, mother, you
are doing nothing for the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. | tell
you, some of these days you will pay
deal for this neglect. There isn't a
woman in this town that ought not to
belong to the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. If l were a saloon
keepers wife or daughter, l would 20
at C and join and be the best men,
Der they had. Perhaps her misguided
husband might be saved from a bust.
ness that's damning the world. Twelve
temperance women in this city, with
the town ruled by whisky and the
devil! Twelve women: Isn't q woman
that belongs to the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in this town called
a crank? ANSWER; 'Yes.0 Have you
ever been called q crank, Brother
Thomasp Ito the pastor mo answer
If you have not it is because you are
of no account | never knew a man
or woman in the church that was any
account that people didn't call them
cranks; and, sister, if you have never
been called n crank, it's because you