The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-22

when there was any marching7or fight
ing to be DONE Another kind marched
Another kind fought, and fought sure
enough. We have all kinds of soldiers
in the church There are some people in
the church who only have their mouths
in.
Somebody told me that there was a
church in this town that paid the choir
more than the preacher.
Imagine John the Baptist out ON the
banks of the Jordan with an organ and
choir
Il believe in music do. But don't
like the way we run it sometimes. There
is a class in the church who won't miss
a meeting, but the first shot that hits
you, you hollow. They say, I got shot
and amt a-gwine back any more The
Lord God will never take this world
with those He's got in it now. They are
all towards. Go to a business man af-
ter a contribution; he says: Jones, we
amt doing a. thing. Business is dull
dull, dull. Go to them and tell them to
come to- meeting-'JOneS, l am just SO
busy 1 can't turn around. I don't have
any time Just stand there and lie both
ways.
"Lor' me, there's a whole train load
of Christians in Atlanta that are head
over heels in business. Well, if was up
to my neck in business as some of these
fellows, and made no more money, Ia
quit.
There are lawyers in this town who
think that if they don't go to the court
house every day, justice will be defeat
There are doctors the same way, who
think that if they don't stay at their
office all the time, the city will break
out with ScOurge of smallpox, cholera
and yellow fever. Poor little fellows;
they must impress the people that they
are somebody. The world needs every
man, but it don't need him much.
IF you think the world could not get
along without you, you're a fOOOl.
have been around this town this morn
ing a-hearing the Christians lie. Did
you know that SO out of 100 of the Meth
odists, Baptists, Presbyterians, will
will shoulder their guns and go to the
front, but when the first shot is fired,
they'll run everytime? Say to the
preacher, you will go in to the battle
and fight with all your TanSOmed power.
We'll, Brother Jones, I'll call my board
together, and if they are willing, L am
There's heap of people in this town
who will stand to one side and say GO
il, Brother Jones, I'm with you
1.-THE very minute man takes fiat
footed stand for Christ, they say he is
cranky.
will go to the war and face a thousand
bullets and come home and run from
public opinion.
Some of our bravest confederates are
the weakest before public opinion.
II have seen some preachers so afraid
of newspaper criticism that they would
spend half the night trying to keep
something out of them. Afraid of criti-
cism. Why don't they go at it like old
Fitzsimmons and Corbett?-Iike two old
mules with their business ends together
one trying to help the other over the
fence. A thin-Skinned preacher. can
take a buck shot in my mouth and blow
it through some of them. I have fought
a good fight. That means I won't take
any advantage.
"A fellow says if Sam Jones had said
to my face what he said tonight, I
would have knocked him down. Well,
you fool, 1 said it to your face. I said
it to you on the side your nose is on.
Does that grow on the back of your
head?
IF the Capital City club don't like
what 1 say about them, they can just
send their president or secretary or any
body else down here and I'll give them
all the time they want. won't take but
20 minutes in the end, and when they
strike the ground they will be hitting
at a mile a minute, and if they start for
the club they will run four blocks past
it before they can stop.
I'VE can put whisky out of Atlanta if
we will fight.
IF we ever start another prohibition
fight I am going to be here.
Il know we can whip the fight. We
can take this tabernacle and in 81 days
we can run the liquor out of this town
by 5000 majority"
When Mr. Jones uttered this senti-
ment there was a spontaneous burst of
applause all over the vast audience
something that has never been known
to occur before during these meetings.
After quiet was restored, he continued:
81 had rather have IA Newfoundland
dogs around my table than to have
people who think 1 am going to debauch
my table with the 'cOndignity' or per-
banity of champagne.
eff man who drinks calls himself a
gentleman, then 1 don't want to be
one"
Il DON'T come from a female voice in
the audience
'I hope each one here this morning
will be able to say that I have fought a
good fight and whipped