The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-29
MUST HAVE MOTIVES
Sam Jones Tells "How to Get
There and Stay There"
AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE
Filled the ToIer TO Hear Noted
Lecturer.

The renowned, the witty the ininitable
Sam Jones last night faced just such an
audience in Wichita as was an assured
fact before he got here. Original. unique
caustic capricious, a keen and unerring
student of all the foiables Of human ma
ture, impressive, irrisistable-this was
sam Jones as the vast audience saw and
heard him last evening at the Auditorium
in his famous lecture, Get There and
Stay There
The noted Georgia orator, evangelist
temperance advocate, and platform lee
turer, last night faced the largest audi
ence which the Lyceum Course has ever
brought together in its six years history
IN fact, this was perhaps the largest
audience ever gathered in the Auditorium
for any public paid entertainment, save
only sousa's band, at the opening of It
Every seat was sold below and every de-
sirable one in the galleries. Manager O.
A. Boyle introduced his ilIustrious guest
and star of the evening with just word
or two, thereby exhibiting rare good
taste, and the opening sentence of Mr.
Jones response was typical OF the man
and was as follows:
Il am seldom introduced to an audience
but it brings to memory a former occa-
sion when I was preaching to a large
congregation of coIored people in the far
south ;and when I was through a good
and big, fat old nanny, weighing prob
ably 800 pounds dressed. came waddling
Up to me and told me everyone liked me
and liked to hear me preach, winding Up
by solemnly declaring that mine was
nearest like colored minister's preach
ing than anyone, and though I had a
white skin. certainly had a black
heart"
He said his subject was always especi-
ally interesting to two classes, namely.
the Presbyterians and the Methodists, as
the Presbyterians always had great
trouble in getting there, but once there,
they stayed; while on the other hand the
good Methodist hod no trouble in getting
there, but his staying powers were
proverbially poor and he was usually
back before breakfast next morning. The
Methodist knows he has got religion but
IS always fearful of losing it, while his
Calvinistic brother. usually has a little,
but is always fearful maybe he hasn't.
He said II like the practical man. be
he farmer, merchant, preacher, profess
sional man or Christian. When I was q
years of age I knew a whole lot and had
a lot of theories. But now I am 81 years
old and I find that when I was q I was
as big fool as the rest of you young
fools. No man is ready to walk alone
until he is 80, and though I was a middle
aged fool, too. I am praying that the good
Lord will deliver me from the worst of
all cases-an old fool. I once heard of an
old fool widower at TO- who simperingly
told of how he expected to marry again,
when everyone knew he had to rub every
Joint in his body with Wizard oil every
morning before he could get out Of bed.
You poor fools who are now boasting OF
your aged youth and all you have &C
cumulated, you will not be dead and in
hell a year before some other old fool
viii have married your widow and be sit
ting on your front porch.
He said had the fool killer done his
duty he would not be there lecturing last
night. He said he was lecturing over in
Missouri recently and took occasion to
speak Of the grand prosperity which had
come and some old fool got up and
squeaked out: Il want to tell you there
amt no prosperity hit me yet" 81 told
him I didn't wonder, it IS might hard for
prosperity to hit nothing The biggest fool
in Kansas is he who will argue against
a fact, and I would rather have one good
fact and pitch my tent over and Ground
st than to have thousand theories. /
celebrated my silver wedding once, and
for the first time in my live donned a
swallow tail coat and was morally afraid
all the time I had the thing on hind side
before, and was all the time trying to
shake hands with myself"
He said that even churches had theor-
iese. For instance, the Baptists believe
in taking man any time and souzing
him in all over, while the NJ. z. people
believe IN souzing the kid while young
bue he said he had known an NJ. E. kid
thus souzed TO grow up to be a grand
good. upright man and a Baptist grown
man 70 be converted and likewise be a
noble citizen; but he also knew an N p
kid to be thus early fixed and serves
time in the pen and also a Baptist grown
man to be converted their way and they
afterwards had to hang him. SO he had
lost faith in all theories. He said along
this line: Give me the man who says
and does something and not the one with
theories. Why, I would rather be alone
and have practical sense than to be in the
majority with theorists. and I would lie
wrecked here and damned hereafter il ]
followed some Of the theories lately pro
claimed in Wichita and would be in he'd
before my feet were cold"
He told how one man had remarked q
him I hope I may never live TO see my
wife's second husband" on the other
hand be once knew an Trishnan who de-
ciared that there was only one man who
would ever regret his death and that was
the man who married his widow lie
said that St. Paul had the right idea
when he said that he wished only 10 he
content with whatever lot the Lord had
given him. and then he warned fathers
that II their boy was any good he had NJ
need OF fathers aid, and Il he was IL
good every dollar given him would be q
his wrecking But worse vet was 70 good
daughter. for she would certainty marry
seine no good youth and bring him homt
70 papa 70 take care OF.
He had warned his own daughters. be
said that If any one Of them ever
brought home a tintype dude ike that b.
would spit on him and drown him. ore
trouble though. with drowning such a
thing was ia the fact that the poor
thing head vas bound q float Then 3.
told CT how a Estle boy ani bis paua
we're walking along the street ana thss
met dude end the assonished ittle bos
vas told that was a dude ard Re asked
''AS hat Is dude. papa e. and r. was toli
( as best possible whst K was and he ask
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