The age-herald., 1900-04-22
THE WORLDS NEED
Sam Jones, the Georgia Evangelist,
 Talks on Brotherly Kindness

From the Des Moinec Qowa) Leader.
 An educated fool is the foolest fool on earth" declared Sam Jones, the evangelist from Georgia, in the course of his lecture on "Character and Characters" at the auditorium. MT Jones was just as witty and just as full of eccentricities as on other occasions when the people of Des Moines have heard him. His southern dia- lect is just as broad and rich as when he delighted people with it in his series of meetings in the big tent on Ninth street three or four years ago. He talked for the benefit of the Iiowa Methodist Hospital association to an audience of perhaps 3OO people.
 "Yes I tell you that an educated fool is the foolest fool of 'em all," declared the speaker "It allus makes me mad to see these little doctahs an lawyahs an preachers. To sum it all up we preachers an doctahs have got the two leading pro- fessions, an yet we all the the time bring up the rear in the procession of progress. Yes, sah, we're allus at the rear end O the line. Am to tell ye the truth, we preachers are the hindermost of all. Why, these little doctahs an lawyers go around assumin' that they've got possession or the sum O human knowledge, an that all they don't know aint wuth knowin'. An yet men an women are dyin' ev'ry day, an the worlds full of sinners, an the doctahs don't know how to stop 'em from dyin', an no noah do the preachers know how to stop the sinnin'. Noaw, ma friends, yo're all right, but yo' won't know it all-not near all. The doctah that don't know anything but medicine or the preacher that don't know anything else besides Gospel-well, they're good little people, but the ain't much of em
 Temperance is the great regulating force al %Axx. in oil If pays; in store, or the shop, or the bank, or the office. I don't care how hard things go with man down town, if he's only got a cheery, comfortable home an fiahside to go home to-then he's all right. But a fussy wife-a long-tongued woman-the Lo'd deliver me from long-tongued woman. An a great big bear of a husband why, nobody but brute would fuss with women an children. I thank God that I like my wife; yes, sah, l rely like her. Not long ago I went home to her after trip, an I says, Laura says I, I think a mighty lot of you; deed I do in all my goin's round I don't see but mighty few people I like any better'n you Other day l was talkin' to a great big chap that has way of explodin' like a keg of powder at home ev'ry now an then. I told i'm he ought to stop that; it was bad for his wife an children, an for himself o, I know he says, but I've got a bad temper, an sometimes I go off a bit with it; but it's alluS ovah in a minit
 " Yes, says I, an could stick match in a bar'l O powdah, an it'd all be ovah in second But thed be fo' men, two melwls, an dog dead.' It's all ovah in mint, but in that mint the's been wound put into a woman's heart that'n stay there as long as she Hves-an' the brute of a man goes away and thinks it's all ovah.
 An then the's brotherly kindness Give me a man or woman with a great big heart. That's why I despise society; 1t takes the heart out O women. I tell yo' society womans love for her poodle dog Is on the notion that she has an over weenin' affection for her husbands rela- fions. A woman that looks on children as nuisance is bad woman at heart
 An. don't give me any O yor stingy lit- tie fellers. I'd rather be a liberal gambler than stingy Methodist. Why do I say that? Becos if yo' gain jest convert that liberal gambler to the Lord Jesus Christ, you'll have good 'un; but the stingy Methodist-why, he's already been con verted, an he ain't any good, anyhow.
 We need a brotherhood of brotherlv Kindness. Universal charity, charity in its fullest, best meaning, is needed in this world. The philosopher ain't yet been bon that's been able to tell whether the most uncomf table condition is to suffer from the bangs O hunger or from the pains caused by eatin' too much One-half the worlds got more'n 1t needs an the other half has dyspepsia from eatin' too much That's what's the matter with us. An yet the ones that's got mon they can use an mon thea need-why, these very ones are reachn' out all the time tryin' to get mo- It's all wrong. Did ye eveah see a shroud with pocket in it? Mo- sahi they don't make 'em that way; yo kain't take nothin' along with ye. Universal charity and brotherly kindness should be the keystone of the arch of character"