The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-08
EVANGELIST
JONES' LECTURE
InciSive Discourse on Character
and Characteristics.
HIGHEST TYPE OF SOCIAL LIFE
Is In Plain Country Homes, Where Parents
and Children Dwell In Peace.
A GENUINE is A SCARCE ARTICLE.
No 0iriIer Cssspool This Side Of Perdlton Than
American Politics. Says Mr. JOnes---what
the Rsa Trouble In This Country Is.
Is In Plain Country Homes, Where Parents
and Children Dwell In Peace.
A GENUINE is A SCARCE ARTICLE

Sam p. Jones. the Evangelist, ad-
dressed a large audience in Infantry
hall last evening, and while at times
his hearers were convulsed with laugh
ter, there was much in what he said, in
his rather peculiar style, TO provoke Sc
rious thought. Mr.. Jones cannot be call
ed polished in his diction, in fact his
language at times very closely borders
on coarseness. but he generally makes
a point that everybody can under
stand. He very truthfully remarked
my illustrations are not elegant, but
they Illustrate
His subject was Character and Char
acters." but Mr.. Jones termed ii How
TO Get There and How to Stay There"
and as soon as he had been introduced
by Rev. T.. T. Root, the Georgia Evan
gelist launched out into his address,
speaking with great ease and holding
the closest attention. He commenced
by saying that there were two classes
who would be interested In his subject
the Presbyterians and the Methodists
The Presbyterians beat the world get
ting there and staying there, but the
Methodists beat the world getting there
and coming back the next morning.
Mr.. Jones said: Il have seen the
American life from California to Maine
but the highest type of social life upon
which my eye has ever looked is that
plain, quiet, country home/where the
father and mother. the boys and girls
1xpa IN nd ri lf
night the family before retiring have
family prayers and Gods old family
prayer elevator comes down until they
are lifted up 10 the throne of grace. II
is out of homes like this that came the
boys that made the history Of this
country worth writing, and II is out of
these that they must come
"a genuine man is the scarcest arti-
Gle i'm the world today. God made one
man and one woman.There' not a very
much larger assembly now. The wife
that thinks, What n good man I've
got" has only a pair of breeches wad-
ding around. The tune of America is
pitched TO the dollar. The only way we
preachers can get good collection is
TO go i'm and convince those hard-fisted
old deacons that they're goin TO get
two for one and they'll pitch in and
plank down. America has centralized
her life on the dollar and some time
well all lay toes up on dollar worth
4S cents. There is no dirtier cesspool
this side of perditiop than American
politics today. You ask Don't good
men go into office?" Yes. but did you
ever see one come out good? Two Con-
gressmen up for trial now. III the peo-
pie knew what God Almighty does
about the others. more'n half of Con-
gress would be up before Christmas,
and Congress would have TO adjourn.
",rhe church of God has hobnobbed
with dirty politics until God Almighty
has almost said good bye TO IL. It's
paralyzed. We preachers are trying tn
hold our own, that's all. l think the
Devil will get most of us, but he won't
get much that's one satisfaction. Chris
tianity In earnest is getting too near
played out. IL don't mean anything.
There's too many old deacons in the
hole when you point your pistol at II.
The only way To do is TO fire They'll
come out a humpin' and swear they
weren't In there but their hide II be full
of shot just the same. I'm sorry for a
preacher that is trying to do anything
with the gang he's got.
Mr.. Jones concluded by saying that
the trouble In this country is that the
boys want good time and the girls
want 10 be pretty little things. The most
dangerous thing in the world for a
woman is to be pretty. But | don't
think any OF YOU need 60 be too uneasy.
Young man and young woman, stand
by your mother. The test OF your life
is your devotion To your mother and
the grandest young man who could
live would be the one who could sag
II never put cruel foot on the heart
Of my mother"