The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-31
THE MEETINGS OVER
SAM JONES PREACHED HIS FINAL
SERMON TO 1900 PEOPLE.
LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE.
STARTED BY THE MINISTER'S AND
JOINED BY HUNDREDS.


the Brunt of the Fighting-The
Evangelist Thanked Those Who
Had Helped Him During His scrv-
ices Here and Said he Carried
Away Nothing hut kindly
Thoughts of Ssvannnh-Preached
"a Sermon Almost without Slang.
Left for CartersviIIe Last Night.
The series of evangelical services that
have been in progress in Savannah for
the past eighteen days have been marked
| by many remarkab bic happenings and
| formed the background of many remark
abfe scenes. The scene witnessed at the
Tabernacle last night surpassed in mn
pressiveness anything that had preceded it.
1t was a great gathering, remarkable
from every standpoint. In the Table ~acle
every available foot of space held It's in
terested occupant. Men, women and chill
dren We're crowded close together, until
the auditorium looked one vast sea of
heads and faces. Along the isles and in
any spot not filled by the benches, the
prudent ones of the audience placed the
chairs they had brought with them to the
services in order TO assure their obtaining
seats. For twenty feet outside the walls
Of the building there was dense mass OF
people, maintaining perfect order, preserv-
ing perfect quiet, listening and straininS
their ears to catch every word that fell
from the lips of the remarkable man they
had come to hear.
There were 1000 or 1900 persons in the
audience comprising white and black,
| rich and poor, the wise and the otherwise,
as Dr. Jordan denominated them. Every
class of Savannah people was represented
and every shade of religious or political
opinion. The sermon addressed to that
J vast multitude must have had many diff
fering effects upon its members, but in
enc respect every listener was like every
other-he heard in perfect quiet, or broke
the stiffness only with applause or laugh
| ter.
The usual preliminary services were
gone through with rather hurriedly, DIR.
| Jordan urging very eloquently and forci-
bly, upon the congregation to manifest by
! the size of their contributions their APP
| probation of the good that had come to
| Savannah. Some few minutes after 8
o'clock Mr.. Jones began to speak. The
collection was still in progress at that
time.
II don't see any reason" said the evan
| gelist why we can't do two things at
| the same time In Texas they can do
three-whittle. whistle and rest.
II could not leave this town without
saying word for the Salvation Army.
have travelled in forty states of this coun-
try, and everywhere 1 have seen the good
that is being done by this devoted band.
You think you can sit up and say they
are nothing but crowd of hoodlums, but
1 tell you they are doing Christly work
in rescuing the perishing and comforting
| the dying"
Mr.. Jones told a story of a girl, Sal
walton Army officer, whom he had heard
speak in the streets of Northern city.
She had recounted the experience through
which she had recently passed in Du-
buque, where she had been arrested for
leading the singing on the public streets
and conducting the services in which the
Salvation Army was there engaged She
| had been placed in Jail and there she had
| stayed for thirty days.
in the jail there were forty other
| prisoners, forty dirty, miserable wretches,
stepped in sin and iniquity and debsuch-
| cry and seemingly lost to hope. She had
| sung with these creatures and had prayed
! release came she had won the hearts of
them adj and converte ed them all to Christ
and better life. She stood there before
me and told this story to the audience
that gathered around and said she was
| glad to bear any suffering for the sake
of the Christ And said to myself: Sam
! Jones, there's more religion in that girls
little finger, than there is in your whole
body Help the Salvation Army you
men of means and influence In Savannah,
| and when you get a chance give them a
quarter or hah dollar or a dollar. in
| stead of a kick
"And 1 want to say something for the
Y. NJ C. A" The speaker read some sta
| tistics of the work OF the association in
Savannah and then continued: Whenever
anything l think is good for boys is
started in my town, tell you I'm going
| to get in. 1t don't matter so much what
we leave our boys when we are gone as
IL matters what sort of boys we leave 1t
to. If your boy is honest and sober and
upright, don't you work. about what you
| are going to leave him; he'll make a liv-
ing. anyhow. And he, If he's just a we'll
dressed foolish dude, it don't much mat
ter what you leave him, anyhow. because
it's Just going to help him on his way to
perdltion.
Reminds me Of a Teller who came up
\ to another and told him that old Bill
johnson had just died and left a million
dollars to the saloons.
'Sho enough?" said the other Teller
little incredulous.
"'Well, he left 1t to them Indirectly
said the first. He gave 1t TO his sons and
his sons-in-law and they can be trusted
to give II to the saloons You see the
pint, don't you?
Maybe some Of you out therell say
But my boys are all girls Well, you got
Just as much interest in raising a good
crop of boys in this town as anybody
else. Your girls are going TO marry some
of these days, bud. It's bad enough to
stand your own boys meanness. but when
you got 10 put up with and for some
body else's why that's the worst ever
you help the Y. NJ. c. A. along The
only work II can do is to help men to
lead better and cleaner lives and to raise
up In the city boys to whom you can
leave your money without fear that you
are leaving II indirectly TO the saloons.
| Put up a Y. NJ. c. A. building that will
be q credit to your town and you men
that con afford IT, give literally TO its
erection. You young men who have pro-
tossed repentance and conversion since
these meetings began YOU join the asso-
citation and take part in its work.
Rev. w. A. Nisbet. president OF the
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