The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-12-08
Sam Jones' Savings.

truths he has given utterancc TO were
marshalled together they would make
a splendid volume. Here are a few
OF his wise sayings. Every n con-
tains a point. Be sure the point
don't stick in you.
II ! had the creed | would sell it to
a museum. Greed shows itself in the
prosecutions Of the last few hundred
years. 1t was over creed that men
fought, and not over Christ. OrthO-
doXcS are what has ruined this world.
He has either a mighty long head or
a mighty short creed who believes on
ly what he understands.
Many a fellow is praying for rain
with his tub the wrong side up.
Repentance is the first conscious
movement Of the soul toward God.
A woman is naturally a very sharp
trader. and very few women have any
conscience when it comes to trade.
She will sell an old pair Of trousers
for than her husband gave for
them. and then brag about it.
Thank God this old world has new
or seen the time when it did not take
: ITS hat of and make a decent bow to
: 4 good woman.
Let me d to you: If you can't
hclp but one family in town let that
be the family which needs the help.
! have a profound contempt for folks
who are always helping these that
don't need any help.
! believe the greatest mural mon
iStrosity in tic universe is an lmpiouS
woman. | understand how men can
be wicked, and turn their backs on
God, and live in sin: but the greatest
moral m0"nstroSity is the woman with
the tender arms OF her children
ar0und her, their eyes up to hers with
innocent love love, and that woman
deSpiSing God in her heart
Religion is like the measles; if it
!goes in on you it will Kill you. The
trouble with a great many Christians
in this city is, religion has gone in on
them. Keep it broke out on hands,
feet and tongue.
Every day ought to keep good com
pany. There is not an angel in hea-
ven who would not be corrupted by
the company that some Of you keep.
The back door of q church ought to
be opened up once in a year, to give
all who have not lived up to its rule a
chance to pass out.
Theology is a good thing. 1t is a
good thing to stuff with Sawdust like
the skin of a fish, to put in a museum
as a relic Of antiquity.
In a Georgia town Il number Of girls
married men to reform them, now the
town is full of little whip-pOOr-will
widows.
The greatest raScalS are those who
are ScrupulOuSly honest. If | see a
man walk across town to pay a nickle,
l watch him.
Whiskey is a good thing in its
place, and that place is in hell. If |
get there | will drink all l can get
but l won't here.
You don't believe what you don't
understand? Do you understand why
some COWS have horns and some are
muley?
| have known women too poor
to own a pair of shoes, but | never
knew one too poor to W a looking
glass.
Let's quit singing the Sweet Bye
and Bye and sing the Sweet Now and
Now.
If you tell me what you love and
what you hate, l will tell you your
character.
When you find a mar that is first
class at some one thing, you will find
him pretty good for every thing else.
The capacity Of a woman for MAX
ing everybody about her uncomfOrta-
BILE. cannot be calculated by any
known process Of arithmetic.
The matter OF church doctrine is an
accident. If my mother and Broth
err Witherspoon's mother had snapped
babies he might have been a MethO-
| dist preacher.
The Christian who will do things in
| New York that he would not do at
home. is q very poor Christian.
1t takes less sense to criticiSe than
to do anything else. There are a
great many critics in the asylum.
| don't think much Of dignity. My
| observation is that the more dignity
a mar has the nearer dead he is.
There is more religion in laughing
| than in crying. If religion consists
of crying l have the best boy in the
| world.
If the devil ever puts his feet upon
a woman once, she never gets up any
more.
The biggest fool Gods eyes ever
looked upon is the woman who stirs
the teddy for her husband.
If my daughter only had n dress
that should be a whole one. If it
lacked anything at all | should cut it
off at the bottom and net at the top.
They will put you in Jail for steal
ing a mans money, but you car be an
average church member and steal a
mans character.
1t is worth something to a man to
belong to a good family.
Old sinners are not satisfied with
US unless we live better than they do.
A man is not a sinner because he is
an infdel: He is an infidel because he