Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-17
REMAINS OF JONES !
ARRIVES AT HOME
Special Train Due at Carters.
vile Tuesday Afternoon.
FUNERAL SERVICES THURSDAY

Revs. George Stuart, Walter Hol-
comb, j. A. Bowen, French e.
oliver, Geo, Duval and other Min.
listers Will Conduct Services.
Stevenson, Ala, Oct. ia spe-
cial train will arrive in Gainesville
with the remains at / p. m. Tuesday
and funeral services of the late Rev
Sam P. Jones will be conducted at
the Gainesville Tabernacle Wednes-
day at 2 p. m.
Reys. George Stuart, Walter Hol-
comb, ] A. Bowen, French E Oil
yer, George Duvall and other minis
ters will assist.
On account of the public interest all
over the south, Mrs Jones and
daughters have changed the date for
the funeral from Wednesday after
noon till Thursday, at p. m. The
remains Willie in state at their Car
tersville home
Sketch of Rev. Sam Jones.
Rev Samuel Porter Jones, one of
the greatest and most unique evange-
lis,s in the country and sometimes
known as the Mountain Evangelist, 3"
was born at Oak Bowery, in Cham
bers county, Alabama, on Oct. 16,
lS47. Had he lived until Tuesday he
would have been 50 years of age.
L.
and Nancy (Porter) Jones. His faith
er, having married fer the second
time, came to Gainesville in 1858
and here young Sam Jones spent his
youth and young manhood He was
not particularly bright student and
his parents took him away from
school and put him under the private
tutelage of Mrs. William H. FELTON,.
1t was his ambition to become a
lawyer and he studied for the bar,
being admitted in 1863, when he was
p years of age.
Close confinement in the office and
the application required in the work
he cut out for himself, soon under
mined his health, and he became a
victim of nervous dyspepsia. The
failure to secure relief from medical
treatment drove him after while to
alcoholic excesses.
Before long he was forced to aban-
don his practice, in which he had
never made a pronounced success,
and became day laborer. One oc-
I1yIi hn
up, was that of driver of a dray in
the streets of Gainesville. Under
the favorable opportunity that this
close communion with the humber ell
ement of the people gave him, the
mingling with the fiotsam and jetsam
of humanity, he was studying the
great problem of man and laying up
vast fund of information that en-
abled him to know and touch the
hearts of men.
The conversion of Sam Jones from
the life of sin and debauchery into
which he had been gradually sinking
deeper, dates from his fathers death
in 1872. The old gentleman gathered
his children around him and bade
them goodbye, comforting them with
the assurance that he would meet all
of them one day in Heaven-all ex-
cept one.
The lesson went home to the heart
of the wayward young man, and the
next Sunday he accompanied his
grandfather, Methodist minister, to
church and before he left the church
he had made confession before the
whole congregation and preached such
an exhortation as Felton's chapel new
er heard before nor since.
Sam Jones marriage occurred in
Kentucky when he was % years of
age. He returned with his wife to
Gainesville, Ca, and they have
made it their home ever since. Be-
fore her marriage Mrs. Jones was
Miss Laura McElwaine of Eminence,
Ky.
short while after Sam Jones' con-
version in 1872 he entered the North
Georgia conference and began the re-
ligious and evangelical work in which
he has attained such noble success.
He was Methodist pastor for five
years. Then he became agent for
the Methodist Orphans home in De-
catur.
Sam Jones was noted for his Wig
orous, unceasing advocacy of prohi-
bition. Whenever a prohibition cam
paign was to be fought, in Georgia.
Alabama, or wherever he could lend
his assistance, Sam Jones was on the
spot and fought with determination
and unfinching spirit.
In 1898 he gave up his work at the
orphanage and started out as an evan
gelist. His great record in revival
meetings throughout the country is
well known. His first big meeting
was in Boston, where he won the
hearts of the northerners by his
great work. His largest meeting of
recent years was in Cincinnati. His
last meeting in the south was at his
home town, Gainesville, where two
weeks revival was held in Septem-
iber
Among some of Sam Jones dis
tinctive works, which are noted for
their unconventionality and for their
lucid clearness, are Sermons and
Sayings by Sam Jones, !" Music Hall
Sermons" Quit Your Meanness, y
''St. Louis Series; )" "Sam Jones' Own
Book" and "Thunderbolts."
Deep Waterway urged.