The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-04-12
RAPPING SINNERS.
SAM JONES DELIVERS a CHAR
AcTERIsTIc DISCOURSE
Before a Large Audience in New
Orleans.

Sam P. Jones, the evangelistic
humorist, or the humoristic
evangelist, according to which
ever religion you follow or say
you follow, amused great many,
entertained considerable, enlight-
ened number and possibly con-
verted a few of those who COM
posed the rather large audience
half filling Washington Artillery
Hall last night.
The Reverend Mr.. Jones was
billed to deliver a discourse on
"Sawciety,'' but his hearers
were favored with number of
extra discussions for one price Of
admission for Mr.. jones' strong
humor flayed into other necessary
evils besides that Of "sawciety,"
and the admixture of politics,
philosophy, religion and plain
every day life kept the Georgian's
conversation going for an hour
and a half and when he got
through it was ten to one that
his audience could have stood
another hour and a half without
turning a hair.
In fact the magnetic evange-
lists discourse had so many
ramifications that he kept his
audience on the tip-toe of ex-
pectatancy as to just who or
what he would jump on next, and
as he never spares the truth, and
lays his convictions down in
rather scarifying plenitude to
good and bad alike, he held his
hearer s interest until the last
word dropped from his lips.
''It's no harm to kill a dude, I"
remarked Mr.. Jones; 'but it S a
sin to kill a human being. A
dude is society gone to seed; a
dude is a pimple on the skin of
society indicating that the blood
is bad. Did you ever see a man?"
he asked = Well, | did once; and
every time | looked at him he
got bigger and bigger and | got
smaller and smaller until ] had
to get up and 60 out for | was
afraid | wouldn't haye anything
to go out with. How l do rever-
ence and admire a man And
they don't make 'em in society
My friends, the finest type of So
cial life is in the plain, the sim
pie country home; where all are
earnest, helpful, kind toward one
another; where all is fresh and
pure and honest. The greatest
men this nation ever knew were
from these simple homes and the
greatest names which will be
written down upon the pages OF
the future history of this country
will be those which were given in
homes such as these. And the
greatest man is that who can look
back and say that. he never
trampled upon the heart of a
mother nor caused it a moments
pain, for the love of mother j:
the purest, dearest, most precious
and undying of all that we have
And it is sentiment which makes
love and reverence for this moth
er; a man without sentiment il
his heart is a candidate for hell
he has no love in his heart To-
his mother.
''Religion isn't doing it,all il
this world the preachers haven
got the bockbone; these preach
ers who preach to hear them
selves talk; who are the righ
bowers of the old Nick, thcugl
they don't think it; who preacl
about this and preach about that
and don't know what they ar
telling their flocks. Some da,
they'll die and then the dew
will take 'em and ride 'em u
and down in hell and prance 'er
about and show 'em off, and say
See this nice, new little peache
I've got?' But those poor fellow
had hard time before they wen
to hell. They had flocks to man
age, something like the team Q
the man who wanted to haul M
wood for me. / asked him wher
ms team was and he said dow
the road apiece. We went dow
there and saw a mule, billy
goat, a humble bee and skun'
all hitched up together. A kicker
butter, singer and a stinker
Hold on there, said /, 'ho'
you goin' to haul any WOO
with that team-you've got Ell
got 'em hitched up. together a
right enough, but you can't max
'em pull And that's just what