The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-11-02
IN MEMORY OF
SAM P. JONES
ASSEMBLE AT RT-
MAN AUDIToRIuM-MosT RE-
MARKABLE TRIBUTE
Paid by People of Nashville to the
Great EVangelist-Eloquent Eulo-
qiOs Pronounced by r. Lin Cave,
Senator Carmack and Others.

NO more maSnlncent tribute mas
ever been paid to the memory of any
man, citizen or soldier, by the people
of this section than the expression of
love and honor to the life and charac-
ter of Sam P. Jones, which they voiced
at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville
on Sunday afternoon. The number
was limited alone by the capacity of
the building in which the exercises
were held.
Senator E. w. Carmack was the ora
tor of the occasion, and the Senator's
eloquent tribute to the distinguished
dead was in part as follows:
Senator carmack.
Ladies and gentlemen: There
needs no excuse for the appearance of
layman to participate in the exer-
cises of this occasion, for Sam Jones
belonged to all the people, and the
scope of his influence was as wide as
the whole field of human life and &C
tivity. And so l have come to pay
my brief and simple tribute to the
memory of one whose death is an af-
Fiction because his life was bless
ing to mankind.
"The world has often made heroes
of it's own worst enemies, has called
him greatest who has done most to
multiply its sorrows, has builded its
monuments to the destroyers and not
to the savers of men. The time Is
coming when men will find some other
standard for human greatness than
genius linked with selfishness and am
bition, when the worlds memorials
will be wrought for those who have
served it best When that time comes
few men will have or deserve higher
monument than Sam Jones.
There can be no nobler epitaph
written above the dust of any man
| than to say that the world is better
for his having lived; and only the
records of eternity can reveal the mag
nitude of the work that Sam Jones has
done for his fellow men.
with mental gifts that would have
won him distinction in any field of
endeavor he chose to devote all his
powers to the service of his Master
and of mankind. He fell, self-devot-
ed victim in the midst of his labors.
= We often say that the days of martyr
dom, when men died by the stake or
the fagot for conscience sake, have
a martyr as any of old. His own Will
bound his limbs to the stake OF duty
and his spirit kindled the flame in
which his body was consumed. Be-
cause he had no patience, no sympathy
with evil, the thoughtless or malevo-
lent have charged him with want OF
charity. But he laid down his life for
humanity, and greater love hath no
man than this 1t t. a strange aberra-
ton of reason that finds a want of
love for mankind in a hatred of every
thing that is injurious to man. That
was the only hatred that ever found
its way to the heart of Sam Jones.
There has been much speculation
as to the secret of his marvellous sue
cess as an evangelist. In the early
days of his fame 1t was freely predict
ed that he would prove a nine days
wonder. whose popularity would wane
with the novelty of his style; but
though he never changed his manner
, or his methods, he steadily grew anc
increased in power, and death founc
him not yet at the zenith of his great
ness
) THE real secret Of his success la!
in the fact that Sam Jones, the preach
, err, never effaced Sam Jones, the man
: He never made himself an intellect
D ual hermit whose mind lived apar
from the world and busted itself onl,
! with ethical distractions. While tn
!. basis of his nature was spiritual, n
. was intensely practical, intensely hu
man. While careful reader OF hi
sermons could not fail to see the dee
= thought Of powerful mind, he prepai
ed himself for his work not so muc
by secret meditation in the close
as by keen observation Of what wa
2 going on in the world. His missio
: was that of wise and faithful con
mentator on the daily doings of mel
n He sought to enforce the lesson ths
2 to be a good Christian you must be
v good man, you must lead a good lif'
i, In his phrase, quit your meanness, h
{, summed up his conception of pract
= cal repentance. Cease to do evi
= learn to do we'll might have been tn
: text for every sermon he preached
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