The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-12
A WORD TO PAUL PRY.
WaycrOss People Think He Ought to
BE Converted.


BE Converted.
Waycross Ga, May 10-Editor Morning
News: l have just read the effusion of
Paul Pry" in to-day's issue, and feel
astonished that man living in beloved
Savannah, surrounded by such grand
Christian and moral influences. could give
utterance to such language as he uses
against the Rev. Sam Jones. Why, Mr..
Editor, does he do it? Is 1t because he
desires the Queen City of the South to
slunnber in the nire and filth of sin, of
every grade and type; the debaucheries
that appear on every hand engulfng the
rosy checked children with which Sa
vannah is blessed; fast hurting into the
abyss of despair, hundreds of the sweet
boys and girls who are now the blessing
of so many homes? Is he aware of one
grand fact, that Sam Jones comes talks
and works to save the people from eternal
ruin, and that he has the happy faculty,
Under Gods guidance, of being the savior
of life unto life, of more people than any
other preacher in our South land? Such
expressions as Paul Pry" uses are ex-
ceedingly hurtful to all who read them.
He calls the meeting to be held in Sa.
vannah IAN ecclesiastical circus" re-
.
God grant, Mr.. Editor that this circus"
will prove blessing in Savannah as it
has in Waycross. Many hundreds have
testified to the grand work here of Mr..
Jones, and many hundreds more
have blessed the day that he was
called, or rather sent, to Waycross. The
elite of our town. Methodist. Baptist and
Presbyterians, have heard him at every
service. The grand man-Dr. Brough ton
haa k.alr 1T lit.
and battling for the same cause, and as
the proof is clear that God approves their
work, then, the little, unsophisticated, ig-
norant ranters of South Georgia had bet
ter shut up quickly, and get in the pro-
cession themselves, or they, too, shall be
cut off quickly" and that without RENE
dy. oh! heaven grant that the shades of
Fleming, Jackson. Lawton. Mcintyre and
other noble, sacrificing Christians may ap-
pear and guide Savannah in this crisis,
and that the DEVILS cohorts may be
driven forever from the beautiful city!
He further says that such talks as Sam
Jones gives "upsets all the reverential
ideas, veneration and respect they had
been taught TO bestow upon their pas
tors" This 1 deny. / have heard, and
seen Rev. Sam Jones, here in
Waycross, and have seen
hundreds of the best boys and girls
you, Mr.. Jones'" They love him now,
and they love and respect their pastors
more than they ever did. If Paul Pry"
will only get some religion in his own
soul then may his eyes be opened and
he can see the truth as II is. The day
is coming when many thousands, and tens
of thousands, will bless the day they
lived to hear Sam Jones, and when
he gets home to heaven he will no doubt
have more stars in his crown than many
others who have been considered his peers
In rhetoric or the science of etiquette
Now, Mr.. Editor, we people of Waycross
feel a love and veneration for Savannah,
and we want you all to have such bless
ings as we have had the past week. One
sermon Of Mr.. Jones on last Monday night
plain practicable full of pathetic warn
ing, brought 500 or COO men and women TO
the open declaration that hereafter they
would obey Gods laws What do these
little fellows In Savannah fear Mr.. Jones
so much for? We know the good people
OF Savannah do not fear him or his say
ings; It is only those who defy God, and
are friends of the devil that hate Mr..
Jones' Yet he will come and he will
talk, as only Sam Jones can talk, and
the good he will do Savannah will be In
estimable. God in his mercy and wisdom
raised up a Bonaparte to so weaken the
tyrant government of Europe that the
shackles must be struck from the limbs
OF white Slaves" has raised up only one
Sam Jones in America TO point out the
way for striking the spiritual shackies
from the souls of millions of the people of
America And we warn men not to fight
against Sam Jones, less happily they be
found fighting against God.
A Trinity Methodist.