The age-herald., 1899-09-24
SAM JONES AT
 THE AUDITORIUM  Noted Evangelist Will be Here
 Tuesday Night. HIS BEST ECT J RE Will Be Delivered For the Benefit of the South Side Baptist
 Church-A Rare Treat
 In Store
HIS BEST LECTU R E

l livery of his best lecture next Tuesday 1 night MT. Jones comes to Birmingham to lecture for the benefit of the Southside
 Baptist church, and it is safe to say that
 the spacious building will be filled when he
 makes his appearance on the stage Tuesday evening.
 1 As his reputation as an orator and hu- i morist is well known in this oty and sec 1 ton, extending notice of same at this time
 would be superfuous. Suffice 1t to say that 1 those who go out to hear him will be de- ! liEhtfully entertained and besides, will i Eep a good cause. The following are
 few press notices of the famous evangel- l is''
 ''The reception given to the lecture of i Sai.. .o..,a .4ar.-.uay Hall last night WIS | enthusiastic and demonstrative in the ex-
 treme. The house was crowded, and the audience fairly punctuated his address with loud and prolonged cheers. The lecturer,
 who introduced by the Rev. A. w.
 Lamar, spoke substantially follows:
 ." Tt is a source of enjoyment to meet
 with friends, to enjoy the hand grips of | confidence and love. The commendation
 given me by Brother Lamar was not quite
 good that of old coored woman,
 who once said to me: God bless you, you l breaches more like nigger than any white i preacher l ever heard; you've got a white
 skin, but, thank God. you have got black heart" From her qleart she meant kind ness to me.
 
 l and Money" These are two great forces in 1 this nineteenth century This world is ! great battlefield with money on the one 1 side and manhood the other; the war 1 Is going on with the prospect in favor of l money It is my purpose to discuss their relations. Manhood stands for character and money for property. Money seems to 1 have the odds in its favor. There Is a l great deal of money in the country. God l never made but one man ond one woman. l Everything that wears pants is a gentle l man and everything that wears dresses is 1 a lady. We put gold above God. Noble, l true, well-rounded manhood is almost an l impossibllity. Greece centralized her whole l life in literature, Rome focused her whole | life in law, America centralzes her whole 1 life in the dollar. Some of these days l America will turn her toes upward under l dollar with 5S cents. Our national and | social life is based the dollar. You l can not get to congress nor into social life | without it. If a man wants his daughter
 to marry. if the fellow who wants her has money. it is all right If a man is in l hotel and pays his bill. he is all right. If | an angel is there and does not pay, he is l all wrong. QIere a lengthy account fol- | lowed. .)-Galveston (Texas) Daily News. Sam P. Jones. the famous evangelist of ;, Georgia, last night in the First Methodist | church, delivered 10 audience which | filled the auditorium above and below to I l and Stay There" The expectations of the l audience were realized. It found Jones | true to his reputation, speaker most in- l tensely original. rugged in thought and | expression. with earnestness of convic- l tion and sentiment and an aptness of il- 1 lustration which lend charm to his address. | Although Parson Jones Is universally re- l garded as a religious speaker, and although l much in this lecture touched upon religious 1 subjects the address last night could l h ardl ha l was rather an appeal for that higher man. l hood and womanhood which depends not l on religion but upon character. and is em- l bodied in the fulhlment of that code of ethics which is recognized If not followed, l by every undeformed human mind Chris l tan or infidel and which is summed up l in the eleventh commandment, Do unto others,' etc.
 How to get there on true manhood char l acter and honest work was the subject of l the body of the address. A number of es- sentials to the fulflment of the condition 1 were given. There were the cultivation of | the spirit of life, the spirit of enterprise, l the spirit of faith, the spirit of courage, the spirit of patience and the spirit or l brotherly kindness. Throughout the illus tration and discussion of these. as in all l parts of the lecture. the speaker changed so often and so rapidly in sentiment, from l the serious to the facetious, from the dra- matic to the ridiculous, that the audience
 
 grave to applaud draw a hushed breath. | Many portions of the lecture were intense ly dramatic, some of the incidents related were pathetic, and the Wit and numor- which in many places were a sheath Tut cutting irony-were rresistlpe.-NeWs- Tribune, Duluth, Minn.
 Rev Sam Jones' lecture last night in the house of representatives was attended py all classes of people, and the house was hacked, there not being standing room IIie Young Mens Christian Association His subieot was 'Character and Characters He spoke two hours and II Is safe to say 1 that no one was disappointed In tneir ex- pectations of the "Rev. Sam That he Is I A man of great originality and force of , | character there can be no doubt, while | there is great room for adverslty or oplh- 1 ion as to his method or manner Of speaking | to his audience. No one can be found who l will say that he was not highly entertained. 1 He strikes from the shoulder, and calls 1 spade a spade, but when one hears hlm in fun and sees his applications and illustra- | tions, he does not appear near as much Tn the light of being rough and inelegant in speech as the garbled extracts which from time to time appear in the papers repre- sent him.-Democrat, Jackson, Miss Manhood vs Money-The Rev. Sam Jones possesses a combination of wit and pa thos equaled by few men in this coun- try, and his lecture last night was just such as only he is capable of delivering.
 He gains the close attention of the auditors
 from the beginning, and never loses 1t un- tiI the end. What he says is good, but the
 way he says it is indescribabe. He will
 lecture again tonight at the same place
 on the subject, Norfolk as She Is, and as
 She Ought to Be-"
 Some of his choice sayings: God never
 made but one man and one woman, and
 they are nearly as scarce now. l don't
 think much of man if you can scare, hire
 or borrow him. I never tried to pray for
 but one politician in my life, and then my
 prayers would not go higher than l can
 spit A politician ought to be easily saved.
 because the devil don't want him. I don't
 want to fight anyhow. I'm going to live
 peaceahly if can, but if fellow jumps on
 mel promised my wife to take care of
 her husband. l would rather be rascal l