The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-18
GAVE ELKS A DIG
SAM JONES HAD ANOTHER SAY
ABOUT THE b. p. o. Els.
THEY RUIN BOYS, He SAID.
A SERMON TO YOUNG MEN ON CHAR.
ACTER AND ASSOCIATION.

An Elk Who Doesn't Drink, Mr..
Jones Said, Is Like Fool in the
Baptist Church Who Doesn't BE-
Iieve in Unreasonable Declares
That He Is Now on to the Ellks.
Evils of Evil AssOciations-savnn
nah and the whisky Traffic.
Gambling Scored, and Policy Held
Up 10 the COIored People ms Some
thing TO Be summed.
The rain did not keep the people away
from the Park Tabernacle last night.
Though the storm came just before the
hour for the meeting, the crowd was
there in spite of it, and the Tabernacle
was filed and the usual fringe was on
the outside.
After the song service had proceeded
for half an hour, Rev. John D. Jordan
suggested to the congregation that it
show little more liberality when the
collection was taken. DR.. Jordan seemed
to have found the evangelistic manner
contagious, for he delivered himself
about like this:
nace, for the convenience of those who
sit behind them, TO pull off their hats,
that is, If they are not bald-headed."
That got nearly every womans hat off in
double time, and the speaker continued:
do you know you have been giving at
the rate CT about one-half a cent apiece.
] know there are some in this congrega-
ton who have given s. or $40 toward the
erection of the Tabernacle, but the col
lections at the night services the only
ones when they are taken up. have been
poor. They don't average more than
half-cent apiece for the crowds. Give in
proportion to your means and to your
meanness, and you will give largely"
1t would seem from this that the meet
ings are not very profitable to Mr.. Jones
and Mr.. Stuart. The plan is to pay the
incidental expense for the conduct of the
Tabernacle and the meetings from the
collections. the evangelsts getting the
balance. The night congregations have
probably averaged 5000 people, and the
money the evangelsts have received, aft
ef deduction of expenses, has been about
$40 each night.
Mr.. Charles D. Tillman, Mr.. Jones mu-
sic conductor, sang the solo Sometime
among the collections in The Revival. the
book of religious songs that he has COM
piled.
Mr.. Jones opened with an announce
ment of the services for to-day. "There'l
be the regular service tomorrow morn
ing at 1890 o clock" he said. but there
wifi be none 20 morrow afternoon. Te-
morrow night, though, we will be in bus
mess at the same old stand. Saturday
night is the DEVILS own night, and l want
to set up with him. Sunday morning all
the pastors in the city will conduct SER
vices at their own churches, and l hope
every church will be crowded Sunday
afternoon there will be a service here in
the Tabernacle, and Sunday night I'm
goin' to entertain a stag party. Then
there'll be blood and hair smeared about
and the ground'll be tore up. That's go
in to be a meetin' for men only.
want to see 5000 men change their lives
on Sunday night, and I want every good
woman in this congregation TO pray that
they will do So"
Mr. Jones said that he wanted partic-
ularly to talk to the young men in the
congregation. but that he wanted the old
er men to listen. too, for what he had
10 say was intended for their good and
tions,' he declared. fix the character CT
a man. and his character fixes his des-
tiny. There is a sermon i'm that very
sentence. l want TO preach especially to
you " ung men, and may God sanctify
every word 1 utter for the good OF young
men and old.
t.Heredity is a well-esta blished princi-
Pile. Traits of character that are shown
by the PARENTS can be transmitted to
he ~ at ,p1x he. "a
but the bad, can be so transmitted, and
that such is the case is the saddest fact
in this life. All would like TO transmit
their virtues TO their children, but who
would want to transmit their vices? The
boy of the cIunkard is half a drunkard
when born. If his mother is a drunkard,
then he is a whole drunkard when born.
1t is as tue that children inherit the
vices of freir parents as 1t is that they
inherit their features. lying woman
need not be surprised at the vice when it
exhibits Itself in her son, and a drunken
!, father may expect to see the love of
drink develop in his offspring"
Il declare that I think it no shame to
inherit the sin of lying and stealing. The
sin is not yours; it belongs to your fore
bears. You come by II honestly. and do
not see the sin in it for you. But there
Is place where patrimony ends and vo-
lition begins. III give you an illustration
of what ! mean. An illustration is easier
for most people. TN take and be under
stood where an argument will fall fiat.
Suppose, when my father died, he left me
saloon He didn't. I want you to under
stand, but for the sake of the illustration,
we Will suppose that he did. l have traced
the Jones family all the way back to
Adam, but I've never yet found a record
OF one that kept a saloon. There have
been plenty of them mean enough to drink
liquor, but there's never been a single one
low enough to sell il. Suppose, as l was
saying, that my father had left me that
saloon. That would have been an inherit
ed sin. But l wouldn't have had to run
81, would 1? II ! he'd. that would have
been voluntary, and | would have been
low and mean enough. The thing for me
TO have done would have been to roll
every barrel of liquor out of the Joint and
smash II in the street. Then | might
have opend up dry goods store"
'l've got no patience with people who
are always laying the blame on their
prosecutors. It's like some sanity old
creature getting up In church and saying
that 1t wasn't me that sinned, but the
flesh. Suppose some chap should so be-
fore a judge with any such story as that
when lie hal been hauled before him for
murder. 1T wasn't me that Killed m
hut the flesh Why, the Judge would
say: Here Mr.. Sheriff take this fesh
OIL. doors and hang IT, II is 80. ~