The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-30
Sam JONES' WARNING
r,cKLED PUBLIC OFFICIALS,
LIQUOR DEALERS AND GAM
BLERS.
Pol ICY SHOPS TO STAY SHUT.
,,,y,oR. SOLICITOR AND JUDGE
HANDLED WITHOUT GLOVES.

Godliness Profitable in All Things,
5,e EvangeIist's Subject-He De-
,uced Men Who Practice and
r.,hold Evil, I'm Vigorous Lam
-,sge-VVhy the People IndOrse
mis- Trtterances-Savann Is Going
.o see BETTER Times, He Says, when
.be DEVILS Gang Is Ousted-The
,,,aDreIist to Close His Meetings
Tonight.
r7afore an audience as large as any that
.-- Greeted him since he has been in
..,.annah, Rev. Sam Jones preached a
mon last night replete with all the
I'D. ,1ities that have made his sermons
n .iaue. and himself famous.
-1f. text was Zech. KIP: Turn you to
d.. stronghold, We prisoners of hope;
...., to-dav.do 1 declare that will render
4onble unto thee"
was a strongly religious sermon, but
,le evangelist made each of the separate
b.sds into which he divided the text, the
,5fale of running comments on persons
o,3 things. as caustic or humorous, as
+n. occasion demanded, as in any sermon
that he has yet preached here.
NE began with a short address in
which ne announced that the series of
meetings. would close tonight, and ex-
,r.ssed his regret for it. He said, 1T is
with mingled feelings of sadness and
9r.titude that l look twenty-four hours
ahead othe close of these meetings, and
want Won all to be here tomorrow after
no5n at o'clock. You merchants give
YOUR clerks, or at least a part of them,
he opportunity to come.
# had a marvellous service this after
noon. The building was fun of women,
and trust good shall abide in this city.
had all classes and conditions, and ages
here. and when asked for every woman
ast thanked God for the hour, and prom
.sed that she would try to be a better wo-
man. almost every woman STOOD up.
eff YOU women would be good the men
world be better. You can't be good, sis,
and monkey with that wine; you can't be
Dious and have a waxed floor for dancing
IN YOUR house; and just think, if you can,
If that old sister over there being pious
with deck of cards. It's like a sober feb
low. off drunk and got the jug with him.
Won women must be better if you do live
i'm savannah. or if your husband does have
s-aota0 or il YOU do live on Bull street.
Tbe miuionaires wife can go to hell like
a shot out of a cannon if she don't live
night Just like you poor folks, No, sir,
id isn't a question of how much you've
got
The evangelist again impressed upon mis-
audience that not only will tonight be
The last of the meetings, but that the
services will begin earlier than usual, the
| song service at 7:30 o'clock, and the
. preaching at s. Then he repeated the
text This text" he said, comes to US
In the form of an exhortation; it is call
| from God for sinners to turn from their
evil ways and not alone that, but also
10 seek the stronghold where can be
/ found refuge and help.
Now my Bible tells me that goodness
is profitable in all things. believe 1t pays
TO do right. and that it's bankruptcy to do
/ wrong. The devil may seem to prosper
1 for q season, but it's all seeming. DO you
/
ening knew what he was being fattened
or he'd never eat another grain of corn
4 AS soon as he's fat enough to kill that
ends his eating. Well, the devils got a
lot of fattening hogs in this town, and
as soon as they are fat enough he'll kill
| them for hell. There are the rich and the
big, and the sinners. Don't you know
talk the truth? When God Almighty runs
lis willapus wallspus on things i tell you
hey fatten out nightly. tell you
believe godliness pays"
After relating the story of man who
Quit a good position rather than work on
Sunday but who afterward secured an
other position even better than the one
that he had thrown up, he said, "Savan-
nah's got some of the best men God ever
made and some of the best women that
ever walked the continent, but the trouble
Is you're out of fashion, and too few
and scattering, What you need in this
own among the average Methodist and
Presbyterian, and Baptists is conviction.
You elect a great, big, old liquor dealer
Mayor Of this town because he's got
money, and there are men in this town
LAT hold Office, that if you take away
their money, couldn't be dog-pelters, and
you know it.
The wicked flourish like the green bay
''ee but, my God! look at the poor peo-
PIE of this town. 1 tell you the DEVILS
got a lot OF big fattening hogs in his pen
ana Won razor-backs can't even get few
oorns
There's only one kind of dollar that
nt to put in your pocket. or the bank,
INTO real estate, and that's the kind
FAR You can look God in the face and
ay Uats no dirty shilling And think
." YOU county officials fettening on the
5amnlers in this town! Amt that-why,
'ood Lord'' the evangelist continued
feahng out in his Indignation, "Pd
9lh'r have mine from highway robbery
IAN put such money as that in my
NOW, let me say right here, If these
".' shops open Monday l want all you
p' and preachers to call an indigna-
E" meeting and demand that they be
l OUT Of town or that your perjured
.11'als resign office" This statement
greeted with cheers. and when Mr..
neg asked all in favor of such action
stand up, the whole house rose as a
1''t Get up, Mr.. Reporter" said Mr..
look out for yourself and see."
Continued Mr.. Jones. 81 believe
"' maxim, 'Vox populi, vox Del The