Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
SAM JONES' SAYINGS.
QUAINT SENTENCES FROM SERMONS
PREACHED NEAR BALTIMORE
BY THE EVANGELIST
FROM GEORGIA.


BY THE EVANGELIST
FROM GEORGIA.
In speaking Of the love ofhusband
and wife Mr.. Jones dwelt at some
length upon the question of divorce.
Nothing is so undermining the
great citizenship Of this country"
he said, /" than the multiplied reasons
and multiplied facts of our divorce
laws. A man who runs after the one
girl whom he thinks the finest in this
world gets married, and then in q
few weeks goes to judge and says
that he cannot longer live with her
because of what he calls incompati-
bility of temper. That man ought
to be shot. That's what he ought.
Every application for divorce ought
to be a capital offense, l do believe.
You needn't laugh. If you'll make
1t a capital offense and execute every
body who breaks your law, Pll prom
ise you that In twelve months there
will be more married happiness than
the world ever knew before.
They tell me that out in South Da-
kota they are issuing marriage H.
censes with divorce coupons attached, +,
so that man who gets one fhe don't
like his wife can just tear off a coupon
and try again.
! tell you, brethren, this question
of divorce is cutting away the very
foundations and disrupting the So
ciety of this country. The most in
conceivable, unthInkable thing in the
world to me is that my wife or me
should ever dream for moment of
such a thing as separation. When
ever there's divorce hinging you
can just gamble that there's bad
egg there. And nine times out of
ten both eggs are bad. have no re-
spect for either the divorced woman
or the divorced man unless know the
reason why. III were walking down
a street with my wife and she were
to say to me that man coming up
the street had once been her husband
I'd just take to the woods; that's
what I'D do. l won't run with that
kind.
To me husband and wife is most
holy and blessed relation. The old
hardshell' Baptist who said that a
man needed a good wife, a good home
and a good cow in order to get to
heaven was philosopher profound.
The man who hasn't got them has a
tremendously poor chance of any,
thing better.
In the course of my life have for
twenty-seven years walked with the
dear wife Of my bosom like crutch
beneath ME. In my lameness and
weakness have ever leaned on her.
And hear me, brother, it's mighty
hard for the devil to get a man who's
got good wife, and if the devil does
get one like that he won't get much.
The only basis for marriage,
friends, is love. It's no commercial
matter. Some have tried it on that
line and busted. Methodist preachers
culinary any gang in this world,
but l have never forgotten one who
had a princess in his humble little
parsonage. / told him what a gem
she was and he said: Il got her on
purpose. / had two older brothers
who married for money and prof
tied by their experience. l never
got nickel with her, but got the
grandest little woman in the world.'
Just huntin' pure gal > that's what it
Is, brother. The boy who gets that sort
Of gal' is a millionaire compared
with the man who has married for
no oney and got nothing else.
Life in a cottage is blessed COM
pared with life in mansion where
love il naught and society demands
all. A society woman can't make
anything happy. She Is the most
heartless thing out of hell. Society
will eat the heart out Of a woman
just as whiskey eats the blood out of
a mans veins. To such woman
children are nuisance, and hus-
band Is thing to keep away from.
Sam Jones has met society women,
and he don't like any of them, ] tell
you. They poke at you a little, old
cold, stiff hand that reminds me OF
nothing more than dead fish's tail.
No life; nothing in 1t. l can 60
down to Baltimore, pick out the
society people, dive down into their
lives for the past dozen years and
show you spectacles and sights to
make the devil himself hide his black
face under his wing and howl in ter
ror. You can all envy those people
If you care to. You can get in their
hides, but Sam Jones won't. They
are miserable gang.
To me there is no better evidence
Of Gods approval than a handful of
children. 1 might stop to inquire
why so many Of the wives Of this
country have no children. Hear
me, brother, there Is no worse class
Of criminals than the woman who
would rather say pretty poll' to
a parrot or nurse poodle. They
are nine -tenths animal that's what
they are.
I know Pm on delicate ground
here, but.the other preachers Won't
20 into 1t, and Pm 'obleeged to-
They may call me blackguard, q
mountebank, a Yahoo, but / tell you