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Life and Sayings of Sam Jones.
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ered the funeral oration, who came, as he said, 4 ‘not
to eulogize the distinguished dead, but to lay a
flower upon the grave of a personal friend and pay
grateful tribute to the memory of a most remarka
ble man.”
Surely if the estimates of a man’s contemporaries
will establish that man’s place in the records of
the future then this exhaustive work with
its full reproductions of the words said of Sam
Jones by representative thinkers of the country,
may be regarded as a passport to his place in the
history, not only of the South and the nation, but
of the times in which he lived and worked so faith
fully and well.
Sayings of Sam Jones.
While we have perhaps failed to dwell on all the
strong details of this most excellent work, we can
not resist giving a few of the characteristic “say
ings,” which are chosen with literary discretion,
as well as with a view to further emphasizing by
them the character of the man whose life’s history
is given, not in fulsome eulogy which might well
be pardoned as coming from his wife and his
friend, but by a statement of facts the force of
which needs no amplification to impress the reader
or thinker.
“If I had a creed,” said Sam Jones, “I would
sell it to a museum. Creed shows itself in the
laws of the last few hundred years. It was over
creed that men fought, not over Christ. Ortho
doxes are what has ruined the world.”
* * * “The roar of commerce, the click of
the telegraph and the whistle of the engine have
well-nigh drowned the voice of God,” was Sam
Jones’ protest against the spread of commercial
ism.
The subject of finance and “tainted money” is
also touched on by this virile thinker, who said:
“What you should want is an honest dollar, honest
ly earned. The kind of dollar that a man can put
into his trousers pocket, put his trousers under his
pillow and let the eagle on the coin turn into a
nightingale and sing him to sleep!”
On the Temperance question we quote the follow
ing telling aphorisms:
“Every barroom is a recruiting office for hell.”
“Sow whiskey and you’ll reap drunkards.”
“Christ won’t stay in a house with a cellar full
of whiskey.”
“Bob Ingersoll—and I never call his name with
out feeling the need of a disinfectant—says whis
key is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best
friend. He is good authority on that side.”
Clippings From Ancient Press.
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A SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT THE THEATER.
(From The Gaza Gazette.)
Between two and three thousand people were
killed yesterday afternoon by Samson, the noted
blind prisoner, who pulled down the Philistia thea
ter upon himself and all the others who were gath
ered there.
Some of the best people in the city, including
many leaders in society, were killed and the whole
city is in mourning. A great company of people
had gathered at the Philistia to celebrate the de
livery of Samson into the hands of the Philistines.
Sacrifices were being offered unto Dagon, our lead
ing god, for having heard our prayers and deliv
ered this terrible man into our hands. The city was
decorated in honor of the occasion and the elite of
the country had gathered to enter into the rejoic
ing.
It was decided to bring Samson from the prison
and take him to the Philistia so that he could be
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seen of all people. When he came some pointed
out that his hair had begun to grow long aain,
but little attention was paid to this. The great
man, bent with his imprisonment, came into the
theater led by a little boy and when he stumbled
and fell down a low flight of steps and lay sprawl
ing on the ground, the crowd yelled with delight
and was more than amused at the blunders he made
in his blindness. Three thousand people were look
ing upon him and shouting at him in derision. He
heeded not the ribald jests that fell upon his ears,
but stood looking with a blank face in the direc
tion from which they came. He spoke to the boy
who was leading him and the little fellow moved
him a few feet further back until he stood between
the two main pillars that supported the theater.
He reached his arms around them and lifted his
sightless orbs upward. There was such a look of
intense earnestness on his face that silence fell on
the multitude. His lips began to move and some
of the thoughtless ones cried out, “ See, he is pray
ing, ” while others said, “It is too late now to prav,
He ought to have done that before he had his h°ir
cut.” From the front row of spectators a boy
shouted out, “Give him another hair cut!”
A shout of laughter greeted this thrust from the
boy. It was the hit of the day and while the build
ing was filled with sounds of mirth, the blind pris
oner bowed himself, his arms twisted around the
pillars, his muscles swelled until tbev looked b’ke
bars of steel, the roof creaked and lifted, the pil
lars broke, the top of the building with its human
freight swayed and tottered and in the midst of
wild shrieks of terror from the multitude. it fell
in with a crash that was deafening. A great cloud
of dust arose and the cries of wounded we v e
heartrending. The news of the collapse spr°ad like
wildfire and soon rescuers were at work. are
still bringing out the dead and wounded as fast as
possible. A thousand dead have been taken out
and two hundred wounded. Just how many more
are beneath the ruins cannot now he stated.
The whole citv is in mourning, the onlv silver
liniuo* to the cloud being that Samson, the terror,
is dead.
The Dollar and the Penny.
At a relirinus revival in Fmnoria. Kan., wHch
closed recently. the attention of the Rev. Dr. Mun
hall. the evangelist, was called to the large number
of pennies in the offering. One niriit the preacher
held up a silver dollar and a copper penny and
gave a conversation held by the two coins.
“You noor little red cent, you: yon don’t amount
to anything. I’d hate to be yon,” said the big
dollar.
“I know I’m not very big.” replied the cent,
“but the children like me and I can buy a good
manv things.”
“Huh! Yon can’t buy anything at all.” said the
dollar. “Just look at me: big and bright and
shinv. I can buy a whole lot more than you can.”
“Maybe so,” said the little red cent, meeklv,
“but I go to church a heap often er than you do,
anyway. ’ ’
Heavens!
“Is Mike Clancy here?” asked the visitor at
the quarry, just after the premature explosion.
“No, sor.” replied Costigan; “he’s gone.”
“For good?”
“Well, sor, he went in that direction.”—Tit-
Bits.
Curate’s Little Girl—My hen has laid an egg.
Vicar’s Little Girl—My hen has laid two.
Bishop’s Little Girl—That’s nothing. My father
has laid a foundation stone. —London Sketch.
Track Through the Bible.
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giance to God, and they also were excluded from the
land.
It would seem as though the people were moving
on their own part in an attempt to find their way
into the land. Their endeavor to go in one direc
tion, changed through the opposition of Edom, would
seem to indicate the absence of the guiding pillar
of cloud and fire. During this time Aaron died.
It was a solemn and impressive ceremony. The
robes of his office were transferred to his son. He
then died and was buried amidst the lamentations
of the people. The transference of the outward
symbols of the priestly office taught the truth that
the priesthood was greater than the man. In these
final days of exclusion, Balaam was hired to proph
esy against the people of Jehovah.
C. ON THE MARGIN OF THE LAND.
The third and last section of the book of Num
bers is devoted to the second numbering of the
people, and their preparation for coming into pos
session of the land, from which they had been ex
cluded for forty years. In a study of this division
there are discoverable two movements. The first
chronicles historic facts in their sequence; and the
other an insistence upon Divine government by
the repetition of certain laws with new emphases
and applications. There is a marked continuity of
purpose, notwithstanding the change of persons.
Two men only of those who had come to the margin
were allowed to pass into the land. The time for
the passing of Moses had come, and in all God’s
final dealings with him there is manifest a great
tenderness. The final account of his death is re
served for the ending of the next book. In this,
however, we have the story of how he publicly ap
pointed his successor. When the call of God came
to him to ascend the mountain, and view the land,
and be gathered to his people, the final passion of
his heart was that which had so long sustained him
in the midst of all the trying circumstances of his
work as leader. He thought of the great congrega
tion as the congregation of Jehovah, and prayed for •
the appointment of a successor. Thus there was ”
granted to him the satisfaction of knowing that the
one who succeeded him in leading the people, was
the man of God’s own choice.
After a repetition of the laws concerning the
great religious observances of the people, we have
the account of a war directly connected with the
sin of the people, resulting from the influence of
Balaam. In the battle Balaam was slain. Even
here the imperfection of the people was manifest
in the desire on the part of Reuben. Gad, and the
half tribe of Manasseh to settle on the wrong side
of Jordan. Moses failed in judgment in allowing
them to do so, out of which failure trouble arose in
after years.
The book ends with a list of the journeyings of
the people during the period of their exclusion, and
a repetition of laws with special reference to set
tlement in the land. Through all the book there is
manifest the forward movement, not of men, but
of Jehovah. It is a revelation of the sure procedure
of God toward the final working out into human
history of His purposes for the world.
Lady (to master of a hennery)—“And so you
have an incubator—very nice, indeed but I am
afraid that artificial chickens can never taste as
the natural ones.—Translated from Fliegende Blaet
ter, for the Literary Digest.