The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-23
A THIEF DISGUISED
REV. SAM JONES DENUNClATToN OF
THE PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER.
DIFFERENCE IN METHODS
DISTINGUISHES PROFESSIONAL GAM
BIER AND THE PROFESSIONAL
PICKPoCI<ET.


and Disgrace the Earth-Warm
Roast for Chief of PoIice-San
Jones Says He Needs No Protec-
ton and Doesn't Want It-Let PO-
IIcemen Attend the Tabernacle
Meetings-A FOrcefuI Sermon,
Preached From the Texts ''The
Wages of Sin Is Death"
Rev. Sam p Jones preached to q con-
gregation of seven or eight thousand men,
women and children, that packed the
Park Tabernacle and its surroundings last
night 1t was sermon that was bluntly
forcible and eloquent, that teemed with
expressions entirely characteristic of the
speaker and that went right to the point.
1t was upon the text: 1.-The wages of
sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
lifeI through Jesus Christ, our Lord" 1t
was as Mr.. Jones announced in its incep-
ton, a sermon sternly practical, intended
for the comprehension ana the considera-
ton of thinking men in every walk Of life.
1t was not for what Mr.. Jones is wont to
refer as "trundle bed trash,' but for
men, full grown and in the
ried home the alternate breathless inter-
est and Soud applause with which the au-
dence received it and the numbers that
at the conclusion of the services, throns-
ed the space that was cleared in front
of the platform, expressing their peni-
tence, promising reformation and good
works and bowling their heads in prayer
| and contrition. sobbing, convicted in their
own hearts, Disguised with their past life
and showing 1t, but with the light of a
newborn hope shining in their eyes, am
ply and fully attested.
II am going to talk to you tonight,
prefaced the evangelist, ION an exceed
| .ngly practical subject. The majority of
you who listen to my voice are men who
work for wages and the wages you are
to receive are the great thing in life to
you. The accounts of strikes that fill our
newspapers show the differences that are
constantly springing up between employ
er and employed; every morning there
are lurid columns of description of trou-
BILE growing out of this perpetual point of
| difference Most of them spring from the
lack of a proper understanding of the
conditions of employment.
sideration in any contract of employment,
and if they were asked by the employe
and answered by the employer, many of
the disagrements that otherwise result
would be avoided. They are first, What
kind of work do you want me to do? and,
second What will you pay for it,? Nine
tenths Of all labor troubles could be avoid
ed II there had been a clear understanding
with which 10 begin.
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worked for wages, that you have never
been employed by anyone. that you are
responsible for what you do in the world
only to yourselves. You boast that you
live under the freest government on
earth, where every man is privileged to
work out his own destiny.
l. But in a very important sense you are
all engaged in labor and you all serve
a master, you are all working for wages
and there is a payday coming. Who is
your spiritual and moral master? Are
| you serving God or the devil? God has
| said, No man can serve two masters,
He that is not for me is against me-. If
| you are not serving God, then you must
| be serving the devil"
Now which are you doing. Let's get
down to business, for this is a business
matter. Does the devil want men and
women to do his work on this earth?
Yes. What does he want them to do?
| Why, he wants some to sell whisky, he
wants some to drink it, some to lie, some
| to steal some to gamble, some to be vul-
| gar and degraded in their life, practice
and characterize do the things that will
blast and ruin your happiness in this life,
| drag you down into the mud, blast and
doom your character here and damn you
| in the end
mot only that, but he has got thou
sands of men in this community who are
doing his bidding. Thousands of them.
| They are standing behind counters and
dishing out liquid damnation to the young
men of this town; they are standing in
front of the counter and making it. All
over this land men are making, selling
and drinking whisky; 1 tell you tonight,
l would rather lie down on a track and
let the biggest engine in this state run
over me and crush me from head to foot
before 4 would make or sell or drink a
drop of it,"
THE devil has men gambling. There
isn't more harmful, debasing character
in this community than the professional
gambler, for he not only robs the Door
fools who allow themselves to be caught
in his glitering net but he teaches them
to rob their employers When a man gets
/
a thief The difference between a gamb-
Ter and a picpocket is that the gambler
| is willing to let you sit down and watch
while you are being robbed, and the pick
| pocket rather objects to your knowing
what he is doing.
"Oh, lbs the devils work, and when
| public officers, sworn to enforce the law,
! are content to sit down and smile while
1t continues. they brand themselves the
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! that ever disgraced and cursed God S
world" The statement was followed by
great outburst of applause. 1t seemed
TO alarm a dog outside the Tabernacle
for he howled dismally. Its enough. +"
continued the speaker, as the applause
subsidized. ito make the very dogs howl. -
! Then the rapturous appreciation of the
audience broke out again.
There are policy shops oil over the
city; there are gambling dens of every
kind everywhere, and yet the officials of
this town are as ignorant of their exist
ence as IL they never existed. They can't
find EN-. Why. / would just as soon take
my old pointer dog, punch out his eyes
and wax up his nose and put him out in
the field TO hunt birds, as to set the police
force of this town to hunting for some
thing they don't want to find"
Look at the chief of police. He's got
his men penned up at the barracks ev-
cry night that l speak in this house. on
the preteNt that they are needed to prevent