Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-23
REV. SAM. P. JONES.
Bishop GaIIOway's Address at Flu.
neral of Rev. Sam. P. .I0neS.

''l am here not to eulogize the dis
tiuguished dead, but to lay a flower
upon the grave of personal friend,
and pay grateful tribute to the
memory of most remarkable man.
| have come 'to weep with those that
weep A great State has lost its
best known citizen, great Church
Its most popular and powerful
preacher, the nation its most noted
evangelist and the cause of public
morality one of it's mightiest and
most fearless champions. 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
its 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 a
genius without eccentricity, great
personality without peculiarities,
unique without being erratic, won-
derful orator without the graces of
orstory, marvellous preacher with
little concern for the rules of homi-
letics, and philosopher without the
aid of pale guide, and students
lamp.
"He lad all the gifts, without the
cultivation, of great philosopher.
What he lacked in learning was made
up in the keen penetration and clear
discernment of a 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
equalled his acquaintance with men
had he known the history of the
human heart as well as he knew its
great motives and subtle passions
he might have commanded a 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 utterance.
And upon that his fame will rest
and his influence abide. His pre-
eminence was as a preacher. God
anointed him to be a prophet in
Israel, and clothed him with power
seen but few times in a generation.
He might have succeeded at the bar,
but his throne was the pulpit, and
his mission the redemption of his
fellow men.
"And 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
penitential tears he started, and the
high purposes he inspired, and the
reforms he instituted, and the con.
verted souls he led to his Lord be
must go down to history as one OF
the most conspicuous figures of the
last half century.
SPRINGS OF HIS POWER.
| "Were called upon to state in 9
few words the qualities that gave
Igreatness to this master of assemblies
and enabled him to sway with tn,
wand of magician the vast thous
ends that crowded to his ministry
l should say they were his philoso
phical insight into the secret springs
of motive, his power of lucid anC
luminous statement, his rare genia
humor, the breadth and wealth of hi
genuine love for humanity, and tn
marvellous qualities of his wonderful
: voice-all under the domination ant
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
"He said more quotable thing
than any man of his generation
There are few homes in which som
saying of his is not repeated. H
y had genius for proverb- making.
81 believe that one secret of hi
strange power as a preacher was tn
fact that all his appeals were directl
to the human conscience. His theor
was that the conscience was on tn
same level whether in philosophe
or a child-whether in a scholar @
an illiterate. And that the messag