The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07
THE WORLD IS NO BETTER
SAM JONES SAYS HE SEES NO M
PROVEMENT IN TT.
Talks Of Skeptos and Says Indifference
to the Soul and the Future Is Worse
Than Skeptcism.

New Orleans Times Democrat.
Sam Jones few through New orleans
yesterday.
He few up from Texas, where he has
been stoilnug the devirs citadel, and then
shot over toward Georgia, where he will
rest for a season among tho gracefully
soped and picturesque goober hills Of his
native State. He is looking well but
worn, and n spite Of his long Siege with
the forces OF evil. and the telling effect
the sklrmlsh has had on his system, he
is stiu mp 20 the lighting point, and 10
as much Inclined TO show his teeth as ever,
But he takes no rosy view Of things.
The picture is scarcely brighter now than
1t was. The fact is, the world is not a
whit better than It was. The tendency
seems to be- the other way, according TO
the way Sam Jones sees the situation. But
he would not say so much about the mat
ter. He was not inclined TO talk. What
he said was after the fashion OF saying that
has made him famous as an evangelist and
preacher. II was sharp, quick and TO the
point There was no mlnclng Of the words
and no attempt al refinement OF dlctiou-
no elegance In metaphor and smile. It
was the short. blunt way that Sam Jones
has Of saying things
"The world Is no better than II was"
he said, with curious twinkle OF the eye.
1.-THE same old gang seems 70 be ~ power.
can see but little difference IN the yonnd
when / hrst got here or course. II mas
changed IN some ways; But can nor say
the world Is any better
Their be fell upon the skeptic
Aud there probably came trecplng back
10 him the spirits OF Paine; and Voltalre;;
and Renan ara Huxley ana inseTsei ma ma
another IN building the hlmsy fabric OF
moderB philosophy.
TRUTH he said. with irony aud disgust.
But sEeptic does not means this now.
Skeptic means fool But men are, not
sReptlcal now. They are beyond this In
their drift toward the bad. They arc
Indifferent.
"indinerence Is worse than skeptleism.
wherever a man becomes skeptlcal he is
getting uneasy about his soul He IS get,
ting gloomy, getting worried, and sad, ana
fretful about the hereafter. But the Eel
I %Sy WI" ihndlTfenee is death ! = am taxing
about spiritual Indifference Indifference to
spiritual obligations, ard things OF that
sort The world does not bother itself
enough about these things to get into a
doubting or skeptical mood"
So he said the world was in bad way.
He did not take much stock In the sug-
gestlou that religion, as preached in this
age, would probably slip mp notch or two.
he did not believe that the high water
u.bbfh Igi , uey ~ hs','
He did not look tor any OF the reaction
arv forces which other men had discussed.
The world had fallen Into a gloomy rut
one could hnd little save Indifference, high
~ low, and Indifference and the faith con'd
not thrive together. Men are stolld sto-
zeal and all that sort OF thing. when Il
comes 10 the matter Of lntrospectlon and
self Analysis, peerlng into ones inner
most self 10 order 10 get n glimpse OF that
sublimer something which lives after one
| falls upon the quetus.
~, sam Jones is seeing things darkly. ss
| through glass. The Situation has n smoky
] cast. He was surveying things inGiner-
! entity ~ Fabachers. where be had gone Ia
/ eat n bite while on a rush from one depot
/ 10 another. He was In the city for only
/ short while ayriVlng about and leaving
before going 90 his home In Cartersvlle