The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-10-26
BISHOP GALLOWAY'S TRIBUTE
TO REV. SAMUEL P. JONES.

Jones, at Cartersville, Bishop Gallo
way said:
"1 am here not to eulogize the dis
tinguished dead, but to lay flower
upon the grave of personal friend,
and pay grateful tribute to the men,
ory Of a most remarkable man. have
come ito weep with those that weep
A great State has lost its best known
citizen, a great church its most pop
ular and powerful preacher, the ma
ton its most noted evangelist and the
cause of public morality one of its
mightiest and most fearless champ
ions. In the strength of his years
when his sun was at the zenith before
his powers had begun to fail or his
voice to lose it's charm, this great
man in Israel has been summoned to
his rich reward.
"What strange paradoXes were
wrapped up in that masterful man
and his brilliant career. He was It
genius without ececntricity, great
personality without peculiarties, uni
que without being erratic, wonder
full orator without the graces of Ora
tory, a marvellous preacher with lit
tie concern for the rules of homile-
ties, and a philosopher without the
aid Of a pale guide and a student s
lamp.
"He had all the gifts, witheat the
cultivation, of great philosopher.
What he lacked in learning, was made
mp in the keen penetration and clear
discernment of student Of human
nature. If limited in his familiarity
with history, he knew the forces that
make history and determine destiny.
"Had his knowledge of books
equaled his acquaintance with men---
had he known the history of the ll.-
man heart as well as he knew its great
motives and subtle passions-hc
might have commanded much larger
place in the story of his times.
"He had many rare qualities and
attractive virtues, but one great gift
the gift of commanding utterancc.
And upon that his fame will rest and
his influence abide. His preeminencr
was as preacher. God anointed him
ta be power in Israel, and clothed
him with a power seen but a few
times in generation. He was not
called to WELD pen, but to be II
voice crying in the wilderness. He
might have succeeded at the bar, but
his throne was the pulpit and his mis-
sion the redemption of his fellow men.
HAnd what a master of assemblies
he was! Measured by the multiplied
thousands that crowded again and
again to hear him, and by the dead
consciences he awakened, and the
penitcntial tears he started, and the
reforms he instituted, and the CONVEX
ted souls he led to his Lord, he must
"own to history as one Of the most
conspicuous figures of the last half
century.
Springs of His Power.
"Were I called upon to state in a
Few words the qualities that give
greatness to this master Of assemblies
and enabled him to sway with the
wand Of a magician the vast thous-
anus that crowded to his ministry,
should say they were his philosophi-
cal insight into the secret springs Of
motive, his power Of lucid and lumin-
ous statemert, his rare genial humor,
the breadt'; and wealth Of his genuine
love for humanity, and the marvellous
qualities of his wonderful voice-all
under the domination and inspiration
of the Holy Spirit.
He said more quotable things than
any man Of his generation. There
are few homes in which. some saying
Of his is not repeated. He had a gen.
ius for proverb-making.
ct believe that one secret of his
strange power as preacher was the
fact that all his appeals were direct
ly to the human conscience. His the
Dry was that the conscience was on
the same level whether in a philoso-
phcr or child--whether in scholar
or an illiterate. And that the message
needed to arouse the one. could not
fail to awaken the other. Therefore,
like st. Paul, he felt himself a deb
tor to the Greek and the Barbarian,