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VOLUME 11.
—THE—
PARKS BLOCK,
48 BROAD STREET,
T 1 OM E, aA.
We are now in our new store which is
one of
The Finest Store Houses
in the South. With ample room, im
proved shelving and counters, with all
rhe modern improvements of
A MODEL
Dry Goods
Establishment
Indeed, it will pay you when in Rome
to visit and go through our store, as but
few Dry Goods Stores south of Baltimore
will be found equal to ours. We have
six hundred feet of counters and twt n'y
six hundred feet of shelving for display
ing our brand
new stock
We are the only house in Rome carry
ing a full and complete stock of
FINE —
Dress Goods,
Silk; Notions, Hosiery
Trimmings, Millinery, Cloaks
Wraps, Woolens, Jeans,
Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
II sits, Etc*.
We can 9how you w a NEW STOCK in
every department.
OTYTHING NEW!
l*P jsojp
‘dJVM gfid goods—no wet goods.” “Don’t
—Tfthis.” You will remember we had
n stock in the Great Flood l ist
-.Tpril, which we have closed out, ex
cepting a few lines of goods which we do
not oiler for sale in our regular stock,
but have a department cut off up stairs
special for the sale of these damaged
goods at most any price you may name
As it is certainly a very grat advantage,
and no small satisfaction, to a customer
to know when he is buying his Dry
Goods that they are all
m IBS!STUB
we again state that our stock is the only
Strictly New Stock of
Fancy and Staple
DRY GOODS,
in every department, in Rome. Our
stock is the largest—our departments the
most extensive—our styles the latest —
our goods the host—(no trash nor shoddy)
—and our
Prices as LowSELowest
and with our many advantages we are
prepared to sell you your Dry Goods,
Millinery, Hoots, Shoes, Clothing, &0.,
Ac., at Trices not found elsewhere in this
market. Please call and examine our
goods and prices.
Yours very respectfully,
H. B. Parks Sl Cos.
i. cans, jl hi,
LATE OF
Cartersville
Is with this house and will be very
glad to see his old friends and customers
vviien they come to Rome, even if they
do not wish to purchase anything.
W. I. Heyward,
attorney-at-law.
Office near corner Main and Erwin Sts
1 Mate of Mercantile Law.
A large assortment of Clocks, including
the Ithiea Calendar clock, at less than
halt the price of those peddled tinough
he country at Turner & Baker.
THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
ft. M. PATTILLO
BUYS
COTTON,
DEALS IN
CKAIIT,
GENERAL GROCERIES,
BAGGING,
TIES,
HAY,
STOCK PEAS.
Farmers’ Supplies a Specialty,
Cor. ERWIN AND MAIN STREETS,
CARTERSVILLE.
30-8 m
Bartow Leake,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
JELLICO,
Poplar Creek,
Coal Creek,
GLEN MARY
BARREN FORK
COAL.
BEST GRADES OFCOAL ONTHEMARK
ET. CHE A BEST RATES.
TERMS CASH.
“Dick” Jones 7
CARD.
READ IT!
TO MY FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC-
I take this method of informing my friends
that I have recently established myself in the
FANCY GROCERY and GENERAL MERCH
ANDISE BUSINESS on West Main street, next
door to Norris & Jones’ warehouse. My goods
are fresh and have been bought for cash, thus en
abling mo to sell them low. Would respectfully
ask all of my friends to call and see me. All I
ask i§ a trial and I will convince you that I
mean business and will treat you “fair and
square.”
Hioh.ard I*. J ones,
CARTERSVILLE, - - GA.
September 23, 1886.
The Sam Jones Female College.
Georgia, Bartow county.
To tbe Superior Court of said county:
The petition of John H. Wikle, : ;C. H. Smith, R.
M. JPattillo, Ik H. Jones, W. C- Baker, W. H.
Howard and John W. Akin shows that petition
ers anil such other persons as they may associate
with themselves desire to be incorporated for the
period of twenty yeais, with the privilege of
renewal at the expiration of that time, under
the corporate name of “THE SAM. JONES FE
MALE COLLEGE.” The purposes of said cor
poration is to he the education of the young.
The business of said corporation is to he conduct
ed in Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga. The
amount of capital stock of said corporation is to
he the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, with the
privilege of increasing the same at any time or
times to any sum not exceeding the sum or one
hundred thousand dollars. Each shaft: of the
capital stock of said corporation to lie of the par
value of fifty dollars. Petitioners pray that this
court confer upon said corporation all the pow
ers and privileges necessary to the successrul
and proper management of the business for
which said corporation is chartered, and all the
powers granted to corporations of this State by
the code and laws of Georgia.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
JOHN H. WIKLE, and
JOHN VV. AKIN,
021-lm forlm.—s6.B7 Petitioners’ Atty’s.
TAX COLLECTOR'S NOTICE
Of Bartow County.
I will be at the following named places on the
days mentioned below for the purpose ofCollec
tmg State and County Taxes lor the year 1886.
Rate per cent.—ten dollars on the thousand.
dSEJ I tfflfii."' “I November 11, >0;
Allatoona—October 20; Novembers, 15.
w a ,u P Po ree K~.°f !tol>er81 i November 2,12.
p,nL r i I n~ < V < ; tl ! ber22; November 1,13,
1 me Log—October 25; November 6 22
r t n C V"i° Ctfll)er , November’s, 23.
CassviHe October 29; November 5 27
K dfsi W n t ,° f i >< ’ r2B; November 10, 20.
J , < t ß ' M ? ro ”“^ ove mber 19.
McCanless’ Mill—November 29.
coufd 1 ThiE? tllC time off as Late as 1 possibly
uromntlv ( !iTf? ery .„ tax Payer will pay up
dates havetvr f,lB \ Wlll he issued after the above
dateshaveexp red. B. A. BARTON.
T. C. B. C*
PMtOfflMT* 111 ° mCe I,OW neXt d °° r l °
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 4, 1886.
CANDIDATES,
For Sheriff.
We are authorized to announce the name of
W. W. ROBERTS as a candidate for re-election
to the office of Sheriff of Bartow county, with
John A. Gladden as his deputy. Election in
January, 1887.
We are hereby authorized to announce the
name of A. M. FRANKLIN for Sheriff of Bar
%>w County, and J. W. Williams, of the 17th
District, as his Deputy. Election to be held.on
the rtrst Wednesday in January next, and if
elected promise a faithful performance of the
duties of the office as heretofore.
July 20, 1886.
We ari authorized to announce the name of
ED. B. FORD as a candidate for the office of
Sheriff of Bartow coudty. with J. J. Murpbey,
of the Sixth district as his deputy.
For Cleric Superior Court.
We are authorized to announce the name of
BAILEY A. BARTON as a candidate for Clerk
of Superior Court of Bartow county.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. F. M. DURHAM as a candidate for re
election to the office of Clerk of the Superior
Court of Bartow county.
For County- Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. H. W. COBB for re-election to the office
of Treausurer of Bartow County.
We are authorized to announce the name of
A.G. B. VANDIVERE as a candidate for the
office of Treasurer of Bartow county.
For Tax Collector.
We art authorized to announce the name of
MR. JOSHUA BRADFORD, of Pinelog, as a
candidate for office of Tax Collector of
Bartow county.
I hereby announce my name as a candidate
for l'ax Collector of Bartow county. Election
first Wednesday in January next, if elected, I
will faithfully and honestly discharge the duties
of the office, and will not ask to be favored with
a successive term. Respectfully,
JAMES L. MILHOLLIN.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. J. F. LINN as a candidate for Tax Col
lector of Bartow county, Georgia.
For T ax Receiver.
We are authorized to announce the name of
WILLIAM W. GINN as a candidate for Receiv
er of Tax returns of Bartow county.
We t.re authorized to announce the name of
ALBERT SMITH as a candidate for Reoeiver
of Tax Returns of Bartow county.
We are authorized to announce the name of
NAT DUNAHOO for the office of Tax Receiver
of Bartow county,
For Coroner.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. JOHN B. ROWLAND for re-rlection to
the office of Coroner of Bartow county.
We are authorized to announce the tame of
MR. WILLIAM VAUGHAN as a candidate for
the office of Coroner of Bartow county.
We are authorized to announce the name of
JAMES H. HARRISON as a candidate for Cor
oner of Bartow county.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. JAMES F. PATTERSON, (FRANK) as a
candidate for Coroner of Bartow county.
Barn’s Slow!
Has gone out of reach, and S. D.
VANDIVERE has come back to
stay, and can sell you anything you
wish in the Furniture line at bottom
prices.
S. L. Vandivere
Makes good Carpets at low prices a
specialty. Don’t forget it when you
want to buy one or two or three.
IF A POOR MAN
Like President Cleveland could afford
to give S2O to the Charleston sufferers
any man can afford to buy Furniture
at Vandivere’s prices. Call and ex
amine his stock and prices.
If Ii Don’t See
What you want when you come to
Vandivere’s Furniture Store, you
may rest assured that it is in the de
pot or on its way from the best
markets.
HEW SOME I
SEWING MACHINES
Makes the best stitch, runs the light
est, wears the longest, gives better
satisfaction, and more of it than any
other machine for the same money for
sale by S. L. VANDIVERE.
NORTH GEORGIA
Cheap Furniture House.
S. L. VANDIVERE, Proprietor.
m - CARTERSVILLE.
NOTICE to tbe STOCKHOLDERS
OF THE
Sam. Jones Female College.
"\7"OUR ATTENTION IS CALLED TO THE
JL following resolution adopted at a meeting
of the Board of Directors of said College on the
19 t h of October, 1886:
Resolved, that ten per cent, of the par value of
each share of the capital stock be and the same
is hereby called for, to be paid to the Treasurer
on or before the 20th day of November, 1886.
2nd, That the Secretary be ordered to notify
each subscriber by mail of this call, and that the
Chairman be ordered to have a notice of this
call inserted in each of the county papers.
JOHN H. WIKLE, Chairman.
Frank J. Taylor, Secretary.
Cartersville, Ga., Oct. 22, 1886. 028 St.
POUTZ’S
HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERf
NO Bans win die of Colic. Bon or Lung if*
ver. if Fontz’s Powders are used in time.
Foittz's Powders will cure and prevent Hog Cholekj
Foutz's Powders will prevent Gapes in Fowl*'
Foulz’s Powders will Increase the quantity of miU
and cream twenty per cent., and make the butter firm
imij BW(*6t,
Foiitz’s Powdrrs will wire or prevent ulmoat *vkhy
Disease to which Horses and Cattle are subject.
Foutz’s Powders will give Satisfaction.
Sold everywhere.
DAVID TOUTS, ProprietOF.
a.-TTMQBE. KD.
The Coaraut office Is now next door to
postoffice.
SAM. JONES
HIS WONDERFUL WORK IN
CANADA CLOSED.
Tlie Most Sangruine Expectations
of His Friends More Than
Realized—The Grand To
tal of Attendance Ful
ly One Hundred
and Eighty
Thousand.
THE STARTLED AND DISTURBED AT
THE BEGINNING CHANGED THEIR
MINDS AND CAME OVER TO THE
SIDE OF THE EVANGELIST.
The Closing Scenes, Testimonials and
Speeches.
Toronto Globe 28th inst.J
Sam. Jones left Toronto yesterday
morning. He had been here just three
weeks, but was as well known to the peo
ple of Toronto as if he had lived here for
years. Although the tremendous
amount of work he has done since arriv
ing here has almost monopolised his time
and prevented him from mixing socially
with the church people of the city, many
of the latter have nevertheless conceived
a warm attachment for him. There is a
strong personal magnetism about the
man that prejudices one in bis favor from
the start, and those who intended to dis
like him, actually found themselves de
fending his slang phrases and his bad
grammar as soon as they had heard a ser
mon or two. The meetings were a
SUCCESS FROM THE FIRST
day, though there were many who doubt
ed that such would be the case. Of the
twenty night services that have been
held in the Mutual street rink there has
not been one at which the congregation
participating did not fill the great build
ing to overflowing. The Rink holds at
least four thousand people—five thous
and have frequently listened to Sam.
Jones inside its walls; and the evening
meetings alone therefore have seen a total
bulk of attendance of 80,000 at the lowest
estimate. Sam. Jones has addressed the
majority of these great evening meetings
himself, but Sam. Small, his faithful fel
low-worker, has acted as a substitute for
him there on six or eight occasions, and
Sam. Jones has then gone off to the Met
ropolitan and addressed between two and
t’lree thousand people there. In addi
tion to the night services there have been
between fifty and sixty others, held
either in the Rink or at the Metropolitan
Church, the average attendance at which
has probably not been below two thous
and, making another total of at least
100,000, which, added to the figures giv
en above, makes the
GRAND TOTAL OF ATTENDANCE
at the meetings of the Georgia evangel
ists about 180,000, or about one and a
half times the whole population of the
city. Of course this enormous figure in
cludes many who attended several meet-"
ings, but cannot include any who attend
ed all, inasmuch as two meetings were
frequently in progress simultaneously.
At the lowest estimate, therefore, it is
probable that fully three-fourths of the
adult population of Toronto have listened
to one or both the Sams.
They bear away pleasant remembrance
of Toronto, and they leave in Toronto a
pleasant remembrance of themselves,
aside from the great good they have ac
complished.
THE FAREWELL MEETING,
To have seen the interior of the rink at
the final service yesterday nobody would
have thought it was being held in the
hours of the early morning. A crowded
evening meeting may be evidence of a
good many things other than enthusiasm
and zeal, but such can hardly he said of
a gathering which necessitates leaving
home soon after 8 o’clock in the morning.
Considerably before 9 o’clock the Mutual
Street Rink was packed full of people,
the vast majority being ladies, and of
these again a very large proportion being
young people. The platform was as full
as every other part of the great building.
Rev. Dr. Potts presided as usual, and
among the pastors supporting him were
Revs. Hugh Johnson, (Secretary of the
Executive Committee), Dr. Sutherland,
E. A. Stafford, Dr. Stone, M. Benson, J.
VanWyck, G. J. Bishop, Dr. Griffith, B.
Longley, J. Hunt, J. W. Savage, S. J.
Shorey, J, E. Dyer, J. M. Wilkinson,
Dr. Shaw, J. M. Kerr, C, Langford, J.
W. McCallum, R. Boyee, T. Milner, J.
W. Jollitfe, T. Cullen, J. W. Barkwell,
T. Woolsey, and others.
Mr. Wm. Gooderham also sat on the
platform near the chairman. The half
hour between nine and half-past nine
was spent in singing a number of spe
cially popular hymns, for which jequests
had been sent to Prof. Excell by indi
viduals in the congregation and choir.
The chairman then read several letters
that had been received asking for special
prayers from various people.
Rev. E. A. Stafford mentioned the
of a man who was of such drunken
habits that a separation from his family
had been arranged. Ho had been con
verted as the result of a visit to the rink.
Rev. Dr. Potts told of several contri
butions which he had received. A poor
woman sent her week’s wages, $lO, for
Sam. Jones’ orphanage. Mr. Dalon con
tributed S2O towards the testimonial to
Messrs. Jones and Small. Mr. Gooder
ham sent a sum of money, amount not
named, to be divided between Messrs.
Jones and Small and invested for the
benefit of their wives. Then he had re
ceived a five dollar hill for the orphan
age, and two dollars for this morning’s
collection. One from a Congregational
minister. “I shall want a little bank if
this thing goes on,” said the Doctor.
Rev. S. J. Shorey and Rev. J. Van
Wyck led the congregation in prayer,
and Rev. Dr. Griffith read the Scripture.
Rev. Dr. Potts announced that the Ex
ecutive Committee would at the earliest
possible moment publish a full statement
of the receipts and expenditures in con
nection with the meetings.
Rev. Hugh Johnson, Secretary of the
Executive Committee, presented a reso
lution of congratulations and thanks to
all of those who assisted in the meeting.
REV. HUGH JOHNSON.
In support of the resolution Mr. John
son said he was both glad and sorry be
cause of this hour. I am glad of the
work that has been done. It has exceded
our most sanguine expectations. lam
sorry because this is a farewell meeting.
I am sorry because thousands are only
just now waking up to the fact that these
good men are a tremendous power for
good. There have been criticisms of this
work, but all who have come near enough
to see have recognized that it is a work
of goodi Many at the beginning were
startled and disturbed, but they have
changed their minds and came over to
our side. There is only one animal that
has not the privilege of changing his
mind. No fair-minded, earnest man has
opposed the work, while tens of thousands
of
THE BEST PEOPLE
all over the land united with us in spy
ing, “God bless you.” In parting with
our dear B other Jones whom I Darned
to love in Chicago, i, seems like parting
with a brother. 1 say this, there is not
an honest heart amongst us who would
not if he knew him feel as I feel, just
like hugging him. As secretary of this
work he wanted to thank Mr. J. W.
Walker tor his assistance in keeping the
list of names handed in at the meeting
in a book. The workers were nearly all
Methodists, but they h,.ve done a general
work for the
WHOLE OF THE CHURCHES.
He would only like to voice the expres
sion of a friend of his who gave S2OO to
this work, which was—“ Brother Jones
has set more people thinking on the sub
ject of religion than any living man.”
By the help of God they would continue
this great work. He thanked the broth
ers who had helped him in his church.
Revs. William GxMierham, Manley
Benson, Dr. Briggs, Dr. Dewant, Dr.
Slone, J. E. Starr, E. A. Stafford, Dr.
Sutherland and Dr. Potts all spoke in
support of the resolution of thanks as well
as in support of the following resolution
of confidence:
RESOLUTION OF CONFIDENCE.
Moved by Rev. E. A. Stafford, second
ed. by Rev. Dr. Sutherland, and resolved,
“That in this last hour of our happy in
tercourse for the present, with our
brethren, the Reverends Samuel P.
Jones and Samuel W. Small,
we desire to assure them of our unab iteu
confidence iu their work, and of the
abiding affection with which we have
learned to regard themselves. We are
deeply grateful to Almighty God for so
ordering their visit to this city, and so
directing their earnest efforts that the
result has been a wonderful quickening
of religious interest in the community,
and a public declaration on the part of
hundreds and thousands of a purpose to
lead anew life, and a handsome increase
in the applications for membership with
every branch of the Protestant Church
in the eity.
We would emphasize our sense of the
effectiveness of their ministry because of
their strict fidelity to the great evangel
ical truths of the Gospel, driving sin
home to its legitimate consequences, and
defining clearly the line of separation
between the Church and the world, and
exalting the religious life high above the
plane of mere feeling.
In these respects the ministry has
been made poweriul by an unfaltering
conviction of the truth of what they
have preached, and it will prove a sub
stantial help to every man, earnestlv
waging the teriible conflict against s If
and sin and the subtle powers of dark
ness. We cannot use too strong. lan
guage in declaring to them the high
sense we feel of the value of thmr labors;
that we shall hold them in affectionate
remembrance, and shall earnestly pi ay
that the power of the Holy Ghost may
rest upon them more abundantly in all
their future ministry, and that in due
time we may again have the privilege of
being joined by them in this city in work
for the Great Master whom we serve.
In speakingon this resolution Rev. Dr.
Stafford said:
REV. E. A. STAFFORD.
lam glad to be able to state to you
that no other collection will be asked in
relation to the last item in this resolu
tion. A speaker had said that you wish
ed t see Brother Maxwell leading
choirs in heaven, f earnestly hope to
gee* him leading choirs in heaven, and
I pray that lie may lead choirs on earth
tbr many years to come as efficiently as
he had led the choirs here. I want to
say some words in reference to Bro.
Jones and Bro. Small. Before doing so
L think it well to repeat what has been
said by Bros. Jones and Small a good
many times. We are bidding these good
brethren good bye. We shall not look
upon their faces for some time again.
The blessed Gospel remains with us—
churches with earnest, affectionate, and
faithful pastors, and strong warm
hearted membership iu Toronto — to as
sist all desirous of pursuing the good
way. I shall not attempt to characterize
the man who hy patent shall henceforth
be known as Sam Jones, I can only say
that.
IN ALL MY EXPERIENCE,
having heard the Spurgeons, the Tal
lin ages, the Beechers, and the Parkers, I
have never met a man who could so
thoroughly expose the dens of iniquity
in the human soul as the Rev. Sam Jones
has done. I have never before seen vast
audiences swept and moved as they have
been in this rink. I have never heard
such tremendous indictments against the
iniquities of the age that are reaching up
their hands and trying to get into fellow
ship with the Christain Church, as I
heard from this platform from the lips of
our beloved brethren. Our churches
and pastors will for many a day feel
their hands stronger by reason of those
faithful denunciations. Some one says
Bro. Jones is too much on reformation
and too little on the Divine side. Well,
Bro. Jones is
A PECULIAR MAN.
When he gets hold of a chain he seems
to think h : s work is not done until he
gets every link out. He not only wants
to work until human nature is so con
stituted that sin cannot possibly appear
again. He not only wants national pro
hibition, but a hrohibition by human
nature itself, against the evils that de
stroy mankind. (Applause.) But if
any of you think Bro’her Jones is run
ning too much on the human side, and
running toward a Unitarian reforma'ion,
put him up to preach “In Christ Jesus,”
and if he does not exalt the glorious cross
until the sky is no longer visible, they
can’t understand human language. I
have been specially associated with.
BROTHER SMALL,
and I want to say that scores of jieople
have spoken to me again and again about
the reviving effect and the abiding influ
ence of his sermons. In those master
pieces of classical oratory we have had a
model set before us, the effect of which
will not be lost for many a day. I bf
lieve Sam. Small has captured Toronto.
(Applause.) He wrote thousands of au
tographs yesterday, and in order to com
ply with many other requests for his au
tograph, he has made <ne his power of
attorney— (laughter)—"o give his su o
graph to ten thousand people. I have
engaged a young man to write those au
tographs—(laughter)—and you will find
him on a schooner in Lake Superior. I
feel the solemnity of this farewell occa
sion. My heart has been profoundly
moved, not only this morning, but dur
ing the progress of these services. I feel
that l am a better man because of these
meetings. I feel as if for years I have
been going about the world looking for
two of my brothers, and now that I have
found them I shall not let them go out
from my notice. I farewell with
DEVOUT FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE
to God for having brought these brethren
here (applause),—with a feeling that we
shall gladly welcome them again. God
bless and keep you brethren. (Ap
plause.)
REV. DR SUTHERLAND.
Rav. Dr. Sutherland seconded the res
olution. He said: —I am profoundly
grateful to God for the privilege of tak
ing part in the services, and especially in
this service this morning; and with all
my heart I concur with the sentiments ot
the resolution so appropriately and so
earnestly moved by my good brother
Stafford I don’t think anything needs
to Le added to that resolution, and I
would not take away a single sentence
from it for the world. Now, I have had
opportunity from time to time of enjoy
ing these services and taking some
in them, and amongst other things 1 have
this feeling in me, and it is to thank God
for a Gospel that’s got
SOME BACKBONE IN IT,
for during some of these meetings I
could not help calling up in my memory
a good deal of what passes under the
name of evangelistic preaching that is
the weakest, most mtlk-and-w itt ry sort
of stuff that ever this world vvas blessed
or cursed with —I don’t know which to
gay. There seems to me to lie special need
in this day of a Go*pel there is no diffi
culty in understanding. It is possible
for men to lose themselves in metaphysi
cal delusions, and deceive themsehe
with a vveak, mawKish, sentimental sort
of stuff about religion, and otheis may
be bewildered by the same; but there is
no mistaking or misunderstanding a tmn
who comes to you and looks you square
ly in the eye and says, “Quit your mean
ness and go to work’for the Lord”—(ap
plause)—and, atter all, that’s the sum
and substance ot our Gospel teaching.
Thank Gcd for this earnest, direct and
sound sort of teaching. Thank God we
have had it. There’s more importance
to be attached to this than many people
think or understand. Look at it a min
ute. A Gospel minus repentance; a
faith without trust; a conversion with
out information ; assurance of acceptance
by God, by logic ra’her than the spirit!
What could it all end In but
ETERNITY WITHOUT HOPE?
We have need to put these matters strong
ly and plainly and explicitly, so tha' ev
erybody can get bold of them. What
will be the outcome of all these wonder
ful gatherings; this great moving
th o ighout the city, and the Province,
and the Dominion. I am per-uaded of
two things; first, that we will bear up
two strong, earnest brethren by constant
prayer for them that their work mly be
successful wherever they may be, and
that here in this city every man, woman,
and child will unite to carry on, by God’s
blessing, this work that has been so mar
vellously begun.
The resolution was carried by a stand
ing vote, the entire congregation rising.
Other ministers spoke and the
REV. SAM. JONES
then rose and said : Brethren, I have just
five minutes left. I was wishing for them
to go on for a little while longer so I
could just say good-bye and be g me. But
they have left me a few minutes, and I
want to say just a few things. I assure
you 1 have not made up my mind what
1 will say, but I have found out this
much, a full heart in coaneetion with a
tongue that can talk can always say
something. My heart is full; my heart
is full. About five years ago last June I
came to your city. It was in the middle
of June, I believe. I came here with
my summer clo lies on and the first
thing I had to do was to buy me a suite
of winter clothes in the middle of June
to keep me warm. I did not mingle with
you as a people. My wife was with me,
an invalid at that time, suffering intense
ly. I did not mingle with you in the
Sunday School gathering, the Inter
national Convention, but I want to say
to you, I came here this time in October,
and the moral, and social, and religious
influences have been such that I have
needed no heavv suit to keep me warm
while I am here in October. (Applause).
I am glad in my heart I met Brother
Johnson, secretary of this meeting, in
Chicago. He came there
A WARM HEARTED FELLOW,
and he put hi? heart right down beside
mine, and talked with me, and he told
me, “We warn you ? n Toronto.” We
discussed the matter, and I said we will
try to be with you in October, and ac
cording to the arrangements with me,
worked up by those other brethren, I
came here on the first of October, as you
know. Three weeks ago to-night I came
to this city. I wr.nt to say to you in
these three weeks I have shaken hands
with a great many people. I want to
say to you some ot the most pleasing
moments I have spent here at all have
been at your orphan homes. God will
honor a city that will take care of the
orphan ones like you have done. I have
b”en out 'o the Home for Incurables.
Dr. Pott?, I believe, himself told me he
had been President of that insiitution. I
said: “Brother Potts if you get to the
door arid they don’t let you into heaven
because you are a preacher, or because vou
are a Methodist, I think if you tell St.
Peter you were President of that Home
for Incurables he will take you in on
these grounds (hear, hear), because l be
lieve it i the most Christly work I have
ever'seerT! ri7T'Ur?rrry , -thl? children,
but how natural it is to push our old
grey-headed fathers and friends to one
side amid the roar of commerce, and the
rushing of the engines, and the click of
the telegraph in this country. It simply
means, “Grey hairs get out of the way.
Your days arc passed.” I want to say ot
that Home of the Incurables, “God bless
that ins’itution and susrain it.” (Ap
plause). Your orphans’ homes, your
public buildings, your public men, are
AN HONOR TO ANY CITY
in the world. lam glad to have been in
this city to have seen these things. lam
glad of the privilege of having preached
in your Central Piisou. I went there
Sunday morning and talked to the in
mates of that prison, and they listened
with tears, many of them, in their eyes.
When I said, “All of you that would give
your hearts to God and be good, stand
up,” the whole of them stood right up.
Who will dare to say their hearts were
not touched? I want to say that the big
gest rascal* in Canada are not in prison
at all. (Laughter). They are going
around loose. lam glad of the happy
privilege of saying that your pris
oners are kindly treated. The warden
of that prison is a magnificent man, a
warm-hearted, noble fellow’ he is. (Hear,
hear). So far as I saw. it is as nett as
most of the hotels I have stopped at in my
rounds. I say to you all, “Y<u are hu
mane tJ prisoners and the young and the
old.” And I said to your warden. “Be
sure and go to the Georgia Convention of
the Prison Reform Association, be sure
and go down. I want your voice scat
tered around our Southern country. I
want the counsel of a man that runs an
institution like this.” Coming
FROM PRISON TO PULPIT
is a long leap, but I want to say of the
preachers in this city I have met, that
they are warm-heat ted, genial fellows.
You will go a long way before yon find
a cleverer set of men than the preachers
in Toronto. I believe, however, above
all things a pastor should be a man. 1
say I like a preacher who is a man and
gets up close to men and knows men.
Lord Jesus, let us preachers see that the
higher we get in our pulpits the further
we get away from our Bible and breth
ren : the minister of the Lord let him
live close to man as well as living close
to God. The great wmrk of preachers is
just to go around and
WORRY PEOPLE INTO SALVATION.
I tell you, brethren, if you let them
alone the devil will get them. When
you see a lazy muie tap him up and work
him every way you can. Remember,
God tells us preachers to preach the Gos
pel and not defend it. He tells you to
preach Christ and not try to prove that
he is divine. Preach Heaven and don’t
try to prove there is a Heaven. (Hear,
hear.) I tell you brethren, preachers
must make heaven and hell and the cross
and all these things the starting point in
stead of the objective point in their ser-
moos. Thai’s it. I'm sorry for (lie
preacher that has maOe out his case that
Jesus Christ was a divine person, when
lie ceases to preach. You see he ends
where I begin. Brothers, Dm s rry tor
the preacher at the end of an hour’s ser
mon who has just proved that there is a
heaven and a hell. I start out with thai
proposition. What a waste ot time and
blessed oppo'tunities and privileges to
get to
THK STARTING POINT.
I never spent an hour of my life in the
pulpit trying to prove there was a heaven
ora hell, or that Christ was divine. The
common conviction of humanity accepts
these tilings as propositions. Let’s stand
on them arid preach them. Another
thing l want to say is this; I have met
socially a great many members of your
church, and the iiaest set of Christian
workers I ever met are here in Toronto,
(applause), and I want to say as to the
great mass of the people that 1 have seen
only one drunken man since I have been
in this city, and that poor unfortuuate
one I saw in my own room.- I am glad
to be able to say that after three weeks
mingling with the people in this city I
have not seen a single drunken man on
the sidewalks of the town, I have heard
some oaihs, but they have been uttered
invariably by what you would call third
rate people; and I want to say to you
that 1 shall tell the people of the United
States that Toronto in Canada is nearer
being on a dead level with the command
ments and the Sermon on the Mount than
any city 1 have ever seen in my life.
Weil I tell you I’m very sort - }' to leave
here. I feel in my heart that I could
just live here forever and be happy
among such a people. God bless you
all, and your families, and your pastors,
and I want to say a word to these news
paper men. I like them all. A finer set
of gentlemen 1 never mingled with. 1
have never seen any reporters more fair
as to what has been going on, and I have
never seen any dispositions on their part
to make light of or do any injustice to
anything that has transpired here. I
just want tosay to you boys,
IF THE DEVIL GETS ANY OF YOU
after helping in these meetings like you
have been, he’ll make you pay for it (ap
plause), for he’ll be very mad with you
l hope not one of you will ever live
longer an irreligious life if you are do
ing so, but will all give your heart to
God and be religious. I should like to
meet you in heaven aud t ilk to you about
the reports of these meeiings. I believe
the editors of the papers of this town
are kindly disposed to religion, and I am
glad of it. I thank all the editors for
what they have said editorially in my be
half. They have shown themselves fair
minded men. I trust they’re all Chris
tians. Now one more word. I warn
you all in the future to rid yoursi Ives of
ihisfeaiful curse of wili-key. The 240
barrooms in this city are so many fester
ing sores upon your social life. You
have all these orphans’ homes and homes
for the friendless and incurable, but if
you will put on, these festering sores
from your sight, it won’t be long before
you won’t need any orphans homes or any
other homes or asylums. Any commu
nity in this world can take care of itself
if it will
JUST KEEP SOBER.
Now. I am not here in the interests of
politics or parties. I only know Mayor
Howland as a Christian m n, but I know
r <iis—you won’t get a grander man In
this city to fill the position than Mayor
Howland. I believe he is one of the fin
est Chri-tian characters I ever met wirh
in my life. I have no interest in this
matter. I say simply this, the officials of
your town are but the objects JjcJWfi up
on the surface of your body politic. Now
look’ee here. The devil’s been running
things long enough for him to take a
back seat for a while. Don’t it look that
way? I believe it will be done that way
in Toronto, and then not only will Queen
Victoria be Queen over your city, but
God will be King. I want to say that I
feel very grateful to you for your gener
ous kindness. I reckon I should feel
even more so if I had a bigger he irt than
1 have. I want to say that when Brolher
Johnston wrote and asked me what 1
would charge to come here, I said, God
helping me, I have money enough to buy
A RETURN-TRIP TICKET
there, and I’ll buy one, aud I did buy
one, and I’ve got it now. I told him I
would not make a contract. I never
have and never will make a contract to
preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Soon
er than do that I will starve and make
out I died of typhoid fever. (Laughter.)
That is a great deal of money, $2,500.
That is to be divided among four of us,
with families dependent on them. If I
-7%fHseen afteF moii and liaVe'hlMS'
a contract for five lectures and made
$2,500, and I would have spent all the
rest of the time at home. So you see
that it is not chink that is running your
uncle Jones. (Laughter.) I started out
preaching the Gospel for S6O a year; and
I thank God 1 preached the Gospel for a
few years before anybody charged me
with
MERCENARY MOTIVES.
I want to say this —that whatever money
may .come to me over a living and the
comforts of a home I shall try to use it
to God’s glory. You cannot put a man
where I am without there being great de
mands on him. I could not get along
without money in my work. It takes
grit, grace, and greenbacks to run an
evangelist. (Laughter.) I want to do
all the good that I can, and when you
help me beyond what I think is right for
my family, the balance will help to do
good to somebody else. Money shill
never get in the way of my consecrating
my life to God. (Applause) I never
expect to love money better than I love
God and souls. I don’t want to live to
see the day when I shall. God help me
to be faithful to my duty. A gentleman
came to my room and pulled out a con
tract with an opera company, to sing for
$250 a week. He has got religion and
was on his knees here the other night.
Many a lawyer in this country not with
a national reputation has made $25,000 in
a single speech. And while you think
we are geLiing immense pay
JUST LOOK AT OUR DUTIES.
With the profoundest gratitude I say I
thank you for your kindness. You are
a generous people. I think I shall pray
for you morning, noon, and night for the
rest of my days. God bless Toronto —
and every man, woman, and child in it.
You who started anew life go on; you
who are Christians carry this work on.
In conclusion let me say:—Religion is
better and better to me. 1 am going to
be faithful unto death. May God bless
every pastor, and every church, and ev
ery individual in this city, now and for
ever. (Loud applause.)
CARRYING ON THE WORK.
In spite of the wet weather last night,
the programme arranged by the execu
tive committee for carrying on the work,
and announced at Tuesday evening’s
meeting, was carried out, and special re
vival services were held in the ten lead
ing Methodist churches of the city, un
der the leadership of the different pas
tors. Special reference w r as made in the
prayers offered tor the welfare and con
tinued successful wot k of the two evan
gelists. Most of the services were well
attended, and will oe continued every
evening for several days.
Public Opinion.
[To the Editor of the Globe.]
Sir—l am but expressing the feelings of thous
ands of my fellow-citizens in thanking you for
the faithful reports, given through your paper,
of the services neld in the Mutual-street Rink.
Though many have been the tirades of abuai
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made (through ignorance, it is hoped,) upon a
work which God has greatly used and blessed;
n ,. U ,? dau^ and aml ha ’ e it by
sending the tidings of great joy” to those at a
distance who would otherwise have been mi able
to participate. For this, us one o mMy Twish
to tender you my heartfelt thanks.
A Christian’,
Sir—lt would be amusing, if the interests of
immortal souls were not at stake, to observe, how
the devil blinds the eyes, hearts and understand
ing of many men in Toronto against the aeeent
ance of the good news of salvation through
Jesus Christ. The flimsiest blind we hare had
yet is tliat Sant, Jones smokes. Sam. Jones ami
his colleague have been hero now nearly three
weeks, and daring tha' period the truth lias
been presented in a fearless and loving wav to
the vast audiences attending the services. Those
who havetakon an active part in these services
know that the Lord has wonderfully quickened
and refreshed his own people and brought in
many to the clear light. Now. the question in
my mind is this: If Sam. Jones the snooker lias
been so blessed in his labors amongst us how
much more would God use him if he did not
smoke. Let the men of Toronto wake up to the
fact that Mr. Tones does not ask them to take
himself into their hearts and homes, but the
Lord Jesus Christ the Redeemer of a sin-cursed
and suffering world. Ido not suppose when we
all appenr before God there is a man in Toronto
who would care to put up the plea that he re
jected a loving and compassionate Saviour be
cause Sam. Jones smoked.
A Sinner Redeemed.
Sir—l desire to thank you and express my
gratitude to the publishers of The Glolie, and in
doing sol also express the sentiment of thous
ands of hearts throughout Ontario, for vour
kindness in giving so accurately to your wide
spread readers the thrilling and heart-search
ing sermons preached in your city by the Revs.
Sam. Jones and Sam. Small. God 'bless those
men of God and give them great prosperity in
saving souls. We in ihe country have to bo
satisfied when wc cannot wait on their ministry
to hear fiom them through the press, and so
long as you devote a portion of your paper to the
fiublishing of such good news as those evange
ist have been proclaiming in your city, so long
will the religious portion of the community in
this Dominion acknowledge their indebtedness
to you for the great privilege of reading those
evangelists’ discourses. Hibernian.
Erin, Ont., Oct2s.
Sam. Jones’ Aphorisms.
We are in no position to help or hurt the
church until we are insideof it.
The trouble with the church is that it is a vast
hospital; it takes all the well ones to take care
of the sick ones.
You can help your preacher, instead of ever
lastingly calling on your preacher to help you.
Nobody ever went to sleep indifferent to relig
ion and waked up in heaven,
Tnere is nothing better in heaven than religion. •
Our actions of to-day arc the thoughts of yos
terday.
If you live in impure thoughts you will be im
pure in your lives.
A truthful woman is the grandest adornment
of a home.
Secrets have ruined many a girl.
I want I* see our young girls grow up better
women than our mothers and wives are.
A child is loved bv God, because it has no
opinions and wants to learn something.
The man who wifi break one of God’s com
mandments habitually and continually, if you
will turn him loose, will break them all.
Profanity is more or less a profession of your
loyalty to the devil.
Many a man in this town is going to hell as a
Sabbath-breaker, and goes about bragging
the time what a good Sunday we have her
Toronto.
You show me a man who keeps the Sabbath
day holy, and I’ll show you a man that’s a Chris
tian all the week.
Dishonesty in the church is really crippling
the church more than anything else.
It’s got so now that if you steal $5 they will put
you in the gaol, but if you steal SIO,OOO they’ll
call you colonel.
I believe a blackleg gambler is a gentleman
oeside a church member who speculates in
stocks and futures.
A church that can’t do anything but keep itself
straight is a failure.
I never heard yet of a committee asking for a
preacher that is popular with God Almighty.
It takes prayer, study and thought to get up a
first-class sermon.
It t ikes a first-class preacher and a first-class
hearer to get up a first-class sermon.
Find me a man preparing himself to henrJ4*fr
gospel, and lean show you a man tiiat, is'goiinr
to be benefltted by the gospel.
It takes a cold pew to make a .o!<l pulpit.
Run into Lea yon barefooted and bareheaded
JsAtb ,, r Ufkn miss it on account of anything ia the
world.
Don’t get into anybody’s way with your natu
ralness, but try to be yourself wherever you go.
When a heart is chuck full of terror, there is
no room in there for the truth.
The infidelity that hurts is the infidelity of the
man who makes out he’s ou God’s side, and then
won’t live up.
If we’re right we can’t be hurt by the truth,
aud if we ain’t right wo ought to be hurt right
eously.
MANHOOD.
Dr. Hawthorn in the Conflict.]
Where there is true manhood, there is
the ability to be virtuous and happy
without material riches.
There are some persons who are com
pelled to do without wealth. They were
born poor, as it was ordained from before
the foundation of the wor'd
should die poor. It is not a very conclu
sive proof of virtue in such peisons that
they are content with their poverty.
It is no credit for a lazy good-tor-noth
ing tramp, that be can say, “I am re
signed to my poverty.” Of course he is
resigned. There is not enough manhood
in him
'"Everyday we meet with strong healthy
tnen, begging from house to house, who
hope to commend themselves to charita
ble people by pleading resignation to a
life of beggary. The meanest and most
hateful feature of their condition is that
they are resigned. There is a broad dis
tinction between such a resignation and
that of the man who is content to subsist
on charity because disease or war or
something else has deprived him of the
ability to support himself.
All that wealth can do for a man is to
make him comfortable, respectable and
influential. But many men have made
themselves comfortable, respectable and
influential without wealth.
We have in our mind two men, who at
one period of their lives were lich. One
of them was distinguished for his mental
culture and Christian integrity. In los
ing his fortune be did not lose respect
for himself, or the respect of others. He
was the same upright, genial, happy,
kingly man in his adversity, that he had
been in his piosperity. He was admired,
honored, and loved by all who knew
him. Only the shadow was lost. The
substance was in him and could not be
taken away.
The other man, lived without virtue,
without self-respect, without faith, and
without God. When he lost his money
he lost his all. There was nothing real
and abiding within himself on whit h he
could fall back for comfort and happiness,
when his outward possessions were re
moved. Goaded by the agony of despair
he abandoned himself to a career of loath
some dissipation. To-day he sleeps in a
suicide’s grave.
He is a fool who despises money; but
he is a greater fool who suffers his res
pectability and happiness to depend upon
nothing but money.
Money is a blessing only to those who
know how to use it wisely. Money
should be used to develop sources of
strength and happiness within ourselves.
We get the highest benefits from it when
we make it serve us in the education of
our tastes, and our hearts. He is the
wise man who has used his riches in a**"
way to make him independent of riches.
He hs attained to the noblest manhood
who carries in his own brain and heart
treasures that would render him happy
even in the deepest poverty.
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