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REV. Sfl~M JONES’ SERMON AND SAYINGS;
GARTERSVIhIiE AND GRARTVIhIiE REAR NW
By Gordon Noel Hurtel.
C : rtersvilb . G.t., S pt emb' r I s .■ (Spe. i.al.)
I'r ■< n thou .nd people thronged the
BtF' of (.'art, r.-vilm and crowds filled the
t.i.. • naclo this morning to hear Rev. Sam
Joie preach on the (losing .lay of one of
the r. iti. i religious revivals ever witness
ed in this state.
Jlr. Jones delivered one of those master
w ■ > . n c. . . • . -
a . >f human hearts to tears. No joke,
t. ■ 'ash of humor, no .’.ang tell io:u his
lips e he h. Id sp.-ii-bouml (lie great c. n
co :r e of people for one hour and a quarter
. v ■ ■ . .1 .. . ol good
wo and Tin ni.lq
wii i greets hits k .11 humor When hi wit
n. cats itself gavt place to the sob and
t' .for wone n and hard men of the world
Went like c hildren as he spoke.
■ . i ' ■ ■ ■■■ ■ 1 arm din
one of his imp.i. io: <d bursts of pathos.
d. . : sailing in calm
W.i rs bmi'.ii i ej. idle.-,- blue skies. Oil.
my frietnds. you know not of the three tires
t:l sometimes almost consume me. '1 he
del : first tie I to ■ curve me eUt. and 1 had
not t re.ol to put into the mouths of wile
a:.d a.dr n; lie tried ' > llaPh rme w.lil
the a< I ; 11. l I lulls of the pe-pl": h,. tried 10
ma.ign me with the tongue of scandal; he
tri'd to buy me while thousands ol dollars
pas 1 thiem: ,my bauds, and now, oh my
r, 11, would iay Hi; tand on the
bed .de all iron of my he n t."
■i gin him, Sam.” eri-d out a gray
haired man in the ainlhmee.
"Aye, until the bitter end," vrl'd out the
evangelist in words that echoed in the
elow hill, whi
form quivered .and th'- tears robed down
his cheeks.
Women buried their laces m their hand.-*
Hirai w pt and strong men were convulsed
wit it sobs.
\\ ..ere was the Sam Jones of flippant
juke and met ry mood, 1 wondered.
The Flow cf Humanity.
r: id' s the regular passenger trains with
ew; i coaches, which were crowded, tin ro
wcr. excur.-.on trains on both railroads
from both directions, containing from six
l 0 coach. tnd in i no ol th. mw t
there searceß standing room. Thousand,
alight'd from tile trains and
eitm-r took eat mays or walked to th"
■ . .... I'-or two or three hours the
pro pal streets of Cartersville were a
How of humanity.
Around tlw tabernacle there were over
2.oth carriages, buggies and wagons and
ai> "t 3,000 horses. People had ridden into
Cari.-rsville for many miles ai d were camp
ing in tile woods Hundreds ol tm in had
a: Saturday night and camped out
until morning and sonic of them had be n
camping there all the week.
la the great crowd were old women who
totter..! as they walked, young women in
lav flush of beauty and y uth, old men
who e palsied limbs trembled on the verge
of th. grave, young men unto whom lit :
was is yet a promise of ambition, and little
cliddr.n’ toddled at their fathet's knee or
slum red u >o<n their mother’s breast.
I: fore tue sermon there was a song and
music service. Led by Professor John
| Hillis the choir of 300 voices sang several '
l revival hymns. Mrs. Anmo Jones Graham
nd Jis; K wen i rl'.irm 1 < wo
■. ■ HHi j ■ i
j ‘‘Loved by Grace." Air. i'r.'iiK Roland, of
Atlanta, gave a solo on ti." Holin. A quar
let, compos' 1 .! of Professor Hi lis, Mi. L, 11. ,
Gilreath. Airs. A. B. Cnnyus and Alts.
G. urge it. Stuart sang “Ever he Faith: al."
Mr. Jones bi.l, all th.- visitors to Car
tersville a hearty w. iconic. Tim revival
had lasted eight and at each of the
till'., daily services the tabernacle had
been crowded.
With every seat taken, with people sit
ting down in t:m aisles Upon the straw,
i with thorn ill' I ', s'.Hiding mi and thou, amis
going regret fnily away. th. great ivi'i.:;-
list began hfs discourse which i.rmicht
tears to the eyes of many who had come to
lil Lie'll
The Great Sermon in Full.
Mr. Joins select'd as his tex: the fol
lowing from the third chapter, tenth verso
of Philippines:
“That I might know Him and tho powt r :
of His resurrection, and tin- fellow: hip of |
His .sufferings, being made conformable ,
j unto 11 is death."
.His s.rmon was as follows;
“Wi; have in Hie text the aspirations j
and the supreme desire breathed forth of
Hie greatest man in all hisiory, for when
1 look at this man Saul of Tarsus, St. Paid
the divine, from the standpoint of glo
rious. grand manhood I can scarcely find
his peer in all history. St. Pau) was great
in the three essentials "f gi aim . He ;
was first great in head—he had a .dear, '
strong, vigorous mind that sought truth I
in all of its relations; a man with ew ry j
fa 'ulty in perfect .inrnmny with every ;
other faculty, perception, conception, |
memory, judgment, re;.son, imagination,
and . very faculty of his great mind in as
full play as tit.? machinery of a locomotive
engine. And then he had a great la art,
pouring his sympathies like the gusli of
a river through every avenue of his great
mind; ami then lie was great in the other
essential of greatms. lie was great in
aehiew tuent. ile had ace.'inplislted some
thing in Hie world in wit.eh lie had lived.
The more a man knows and the more a.
man fecks and the more a man .Im s, Hie
gn 'ter is that man in the sight of GM |
and the angels; and St. Paul was great in i
these three rssentiak-. With a mind vig- !
mulls and strong, with a heart broad |
enough to take in a universe, ami with
muscles and biood and mind ami body vig
orously at work from sunup to sundown
every day, making lite world better, no
wonder lie could say, as his eye:; swept
tile past, '1 1 a.ve fought the good light,
1 have finish'd my course, I have kept i
the faith. Hene.'forth there is laid tip for I
me a . town of righteousness which the I
Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me |
in Hint day; and not unto me only, but l
unto all them t in', love His appearing.
"When a great man like that stands up I
and bre.'ilhe.s out the supreme desire of |
his soul, his supreme wish, i am going to |
1 hear what that desire is. St. Paul express- I
I cd his supreme desire in the words of our
text today.
"In the first words of the text he says.
‘That J might know.’ Bretlircn, there never ,
was a day so dark in the ages of tin- past I
when nun who were men were tmt groping ■
out after God. There never was a day |
when man looked at himself and his stir- I
roundings and environments and looked
THE WEEKLY C ONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1898.
upward without wanting to know some
tniiig of th.- great eternal God. He wants i
to get closer to God and to know more of i
G id. In the darke.si history ol this world 1
lijuiauity his been anxious along these j
lines. As we go back clown the vista of
time about 4,000 years wo see. humanity ;
. ' : . ... i..... . iri n g i n the
wilderness and tin; byways of earth, lost '
to G id, lost to higher knowledge, lost to
pridi , and as they thus grappled with :
envirotirncnt and groped in the darkness
there was a. day when all humanity gath
ered together in one seething mass of ig
n.jranec, of sinful men and women, and
in that great seething multitude the su
preme wish was to se ■ God. and they all
looked up as one man and t ried: ‘(.'ll, i lod,
thou live and reign ? Dost til oil gov
ern men? Oh. God, speak! I.et us know
that Hum dost lite. I.et us know that we
are not orphans wandering through this
■world lost to time and chance.’ And as
they looked in the darkness above them
a voice shouted nut of tin- clouds, saying:
‘J am!' And they caught it up with glad
refrain and said: ‘Our Father Ilves and ,
reigns above us. We are not orphans lost j
to time and eham-e. Glory to Thee, oh j
God!’ Ami so humanity lived for a thou- !
sand years longer .satisfied with this rev- [
l.ition, but the day came when the < hil- |
dreli of men, again groping in the darkness
ami despair, said to themselxcs; 'We will I
gather again ami cry out to our God and ;
see if He still lives and reign* above us;’ i
and tile great multitude of human beings I
gathered again and looked tip into the
darkness of the clouds ami cried to know
if God still liv'd ami reigned; and as they
open' d tli' ii' ears, from the darkia-ss abov"
them a voice shout'-d back ami said: T
am that I am;' and ttrny cried exultantly:
'Glory to His name. Ho has spoken to
us more than He did to our fathers before
us. lie still live;, tnd reigns’’ Thank God
that in the <l.i rkest a ■ i•« of this world
tiny Iw heard the \ ijee of God and
felt the pulsation of His great, loving
fatherly heart. You may say what you
please, th" children of a great King can
not be satisfied long with suppression. « >h.
my! how we haw pined away Imre
in Cartersville; how we have hung
ittr hearts upon the willows; how
we haw said to emh other as
we met one another on the street, ‘Has
God forgotten us? Hive the days of
good t:i t. and righteous enjovment passed
away from us?' And wo grew anxious
and gathered up here in this old taber
nacle and cried tint > God and he has
spoken to ns in words of sympathy and
kindness and pardon and today we start
out ,witli fresh courage to tight life’s bat
tles. to go tliroiip.h life’s |>i!:.>»im ago and to a
V. ■ ar a crown in the bright .and beautiful
world beyond. Thank God fir every im
petus wo get toward heaven; thank God
fur wry iiaqmlse that makes its low God
more rand low nu n more. Thank God that
He has ev r mrnle a tr ack in Cartersville
am! that Ho bis has spoken to us in
words of symnatby and I wo- to us, the
wayward children of men. Ries ■ d bo God.
amid all our sinfulness and our follies and
our waywar'lness. He has nut His arms
around its and spoken to us from His lov
ing heart and told Us that wbenw r onr
fathers and mothers forsake ns lie will
take us tip.
“If You Would Know Christ.’’
"But the world grew restless again and
th' tint" eiofie in tb.ir lives when they
must know more of God. and just in the
fulness of time, when humanity was most
ex'leetant and eager, the Lord Jesus
Christ stood forth among men and they
grouped about Him. and directly one in
the multitude said, 'Be quiet now, lie is
going to speak’ And T t< 11 you, brethren,
the greatest day this oM world ev r sa w
v lien Hi" Lord J - l.'hrist opened
His liixs and began to t ill. to His brethren
and to tell Us the things that the world
was dying to know and to impart unto us
the knowledge that xwiild make us wise
unto salvation, if J would know who Christ,
is and what Cliri t is 1 would go to His
own lips and b urn tile lesson. Aou may
talk about the historic Christ, wito was
born of the Virgin -Mary; who suffered
under Fontius i’il. a : who was craeiti'-d;
who died ami ruse again, but tiiat is the
mere repeating of Im : *ry in its occurrences
among the children ol men. it you would
know Christ you should not go to the man
who has written Inc I" st life of Christ
and ponder monji ol 1 irk,
IC r Study Him in H mt' aeulous pov., r, or
it ■ ■ itieroglyplii< pa - or in th<
streets of Jerusalem you should go to His
own lips and learn ol him. Some men
studv the miracles m Ca’ist and say. How
could Hl- do works like that? It is a very
superficial mind tlia' sniggers th i ■■ M
fri nd, . wo ler it id stagger and
turn into infidelity when yon see my divine
Lord bi .ding the sick woman and re.slormg
sight i" the bi no? Do you wonder at that.
Come with me a li'ii" f'lrthcr and lets sit
down and listen to Giirist talk wondetlul
words of lite. Every word that Jesus ever
uttered fairly glistens and glimmers and
burns under Hie pa of tin m '.i’.dug
in it. But if you thii k in. works arc won
derful and His words are wonderful, 1 tell
you you will cease to wonder at. Lis
works arid words .!’ you will step up and
put v<mr Tie.art against the heart of < hrist
and your forcin io gains: th" f'li’elwad of
Christ and think like C'nrist thought. r l nen
you will sav. ‘These work.., and th' Se words
are but the mere bubbles on the groat
ocean of a. life like this.’ Wh.it hum inlty
needs above all is to crawl up with its
heart of sin and sorrow and lay its heart
next tc tiie heart of t' tr si and Ev' like
Christ loved mid feel iil" t’lirisi felt, and
have th< thoughts of Christ infused into
its mind, and then, imb-ed. will all these
things ravel their problems and moun
tains will melt uw.‘> and rivers will give
back and oceans will vase io lie barriers;
ami we will walk and run, and blessed bo
God, where, there are chasms we will
mount as on wing, and lly along, and
witli our minds infused with th,
of Christ We will Ir gin to think of better
tilings.
“A man can never do rie.’it until lie
thinks right. A man who turns his happi
ness on the priiC of eotton who lets the
price of cotton determine and seltie wheth
er he is gloomy or happy, miser.ible or
peaceful, I am .-urr.v for that fellow. Ilb ss
• bid. a man can get eitough religion to ct
to the point where he don’t know wlmtlter
tie re is any cotton in ibis counti’y or not.
Looking on on" side of Hit tpiestio”. 4
grant von that voir may get m set able
along these lines, but oh. my God, pitch in
from the othei side iml do your best;
and the Lord Cod Ims never forsaken a
mi'ti here or hveafter that done bis best.
When the world shall think right about
tb.'so r’dngs. th nK <l"d. bankruptcy and
wrick and rain will be banished from the
earth and as the children of God we shall
realize what Christ meant wlien II" said
that if a man f.irsikes ids father ami h's
mother and his 'and ami his home to bo
My disciple, lie shall have tin hundred
f 'ld and more in tins world and life ■ v ’-
lasting in the world to conic. I used to
1i" ir the preach rs quote that t-xt and
sav it wasn't sei hut bices' d In God 1
have seen it and t'-t'-d b and know it to
b.. true. When I lei't Cartersville twenty
six rears ago and went down on this little
Dasi is and R'ekntart cireuit I left a little
'■■'bin hoim- mi’ but thank God now I
have a tiimisaml homes in every state in
this union better than any home T over
|,.f’t. t left :i kind and good stepmother
one of th" best mothers in heaven tod v -
but thank God 1 hive found a (hop. tnd
mothers in every state in the union as good
and kind as fiho} con'd be to me. I left
a few fri'-n.ls in Cartersville who were my
friends, but God Almighty has given me
ten thousand friends for every one that
I ]ef ;- I Ind. It Is the trut h. Oh, brotht r,
oh, my brother, God Almighty will giv you
a hundredfold more in this life and 1 verily
believe ev rlastimg life in the world to
come. We need to think right about those
i things, and if w- think right W" will do
right, and lining rfght we will walk arm
in arm witli God and be guaranteed heaven
every day.
Jesus Spoke, “I Am the Way."
: “Tlte reason we can't preach Christ bot-
| t. r is beiaum- w< think ami speak of Him I
as tin : I lilehein ISOO years ago; ,
: as the Christ sitting on the Mount pt'' :ieh- .
: ing the : rirmn that we so love to hear; ,
we think of Him yonder in the garden
; of Gethsemane, or hanging there on Uie
| cross, but. oil! brother, the days shall
■ come in our lives wlien we don’t have to
think about. Him as the babe in the manger
' or suffering on the cross, but as the ev r- j
1 abiding God in my own heart, revolutioniz
, ing my life, inspiring my thoughts ami
1 guiding my footsteps. If we preachers had
! Christ as we ought we could hold II im
I up, and He has said 'lf 1 be lifted up I !
| will draw all men to me.’ Oil, brother in
I the ministry of Jesus Christ, are you hold
i ing Him up as an indwelling, abiding Savior
j in our own souls? Hut listen. He opened
; ills mouth, and as He opened His mouth
| Hie gtJat multitude was .-.tilled. They
looked and listened. And Jesus said, ’i
am;' and they caught it up ami said, ‘Our
fathers heard that shouted from th. skies)
thousands of years ago. He is going- to I
fiord the whole subject with light. Lis
ten,’ and Jesus spoke and said. ‘I am I
the way.' Olt, what an announcement to ,
an "Id, sinful world that had groped
in the wilderness for four thousand years.
At last, it is awakened to find the way
to God, the way to truth, the way to
heaven, j hank God that th" .lav ever came
into this world when humanity had a
way out of sin. away out of folly, a. way
out of weakness, away from hell, away
th t leads to the pearly gates on high.
i ' And J.sus said further. '! am the
truth.’ I am sorry I ever told a lie in ’
my lil-. I am sorry there is a liar tn
this country. I .mt sorry that the father
of liars, the devil himself, lias ever mad"
a. track in my town or in my state or in
'tv country or in my world. Blessed b"
(tod, if the truth makes a. man free you
can turn m- loose and get out of the way
a "I then- are no mountains rH can stop
me. no rivers that can check me and no
o"'an t bat • t.n drown me. Many times I
haw bad men to ask me if I was not
afrai.i to stand up and say tilings as I
'l“. but. brother. 1 am trying to preach
the truth, ami as long as man preaches
the truth tiie truth can trike eat" of itself
and the man both at the same time. Talk
ing .-iliout being a freeman, if getting <lrunk
and raking up devilment is to b.. a free
man, then I want, to Siay in jail all my
life. Liberty is the privilege of doing right.
I.s enso m. ins ran can ,),> v rong if von
will pay th" penalty. That is the difference
i” ! «’i ■ n lib.-rty and law. Look al old
John Bnnyan. They thought thev had him
a prisoner and locked up. but he got
bis prirelnncnt path nil together and
V, rote his ‘Pilgrim’- I’regress'’ down there
in that dungeon and when the last nag"
was finished God Almighty made the doors
lly open and old Bunyan has been thin"
around Hm world for four hundred years
Pul man like that in jail? Bless' your
soul, brother, the Lord was just fattening
him up for race. He was just whetting
<him up for « lons* journey.
“God Almighty never failed a man AVe
fail one another and deceive each other
but God will nev'f fail us. God never
made a fish with fins until lie made -tn
ocean to put him in. God never ni de a
lord with wings until be made art atmos
phere for it to fly; in. and God never plant
ed the instincts of li:’e immortal n ottr
soul until He had built a heaven for our
souls to dwell in.
“And Jesus also said: 'f am the bre id.’
nit. what a glad announcement to a world
: like this. Come ano eat and he hungry no
I more forov r. Let every t'amlshimr mortal
I drink .and lie thirsty no more. Thank God
I for a Christ like that.”
SAM JONES AT GRANTVILLE.
The Evangelist Hurled Some Hot Shot
at Sinners.
Grantville, (la., September 22.—(Special.)—-
Sam Jones turned his galling gun loose
on 2,(100 people hero today, lie shook up
Grantville and tiie surrounding country
with oil" of bis old-time “hot shot" talks,
tile kind in which he says lie "skins ’em
and shows ’em what dirty dogs they are."
His morning talk was a constellation of
aphorisms, those gleaming truths ('iothed
in rich humor, lie just "dug tip stumps
to get room for the sowing of seed," as Dr.
George 1a t hrough expressed it.
Two of his apt and forcible illustrations
were:
"If you use a currycomb on a sore-back
horse he will k.ek before you can get to I
him. If the horse is sound, he will just ,
lean up against the currycomb. If the i
currycomb I’m using makes you kick, it is i
because your back is sore.
“Some oF yon folks remind m.. of tiie old ;
cow full of ticks. When you go to pull |
one off shr will jump around, as much ;
as to say, "ir ay. those ticks alone, they ;
are my ticks.’ You are full of ticks—tlte I
ticks of self-conceit, the cussing tick, the I
home-made wine tick, th" political tick I
and all sorts of ticks ami when some- I
body wants to do you the kindness to pull I
them oft s'ou back your cars ami say: ‘Let i
my I teks alone.’ You want them :. ■
on you ami drag you down to hell, just. !
because they are sticking to your thick
hide."
Sam’s Barbed Javelins.
From .Mr. Joms's talk this n .-"il-i-/ on !
tile text, " This one thing I 'lm" 1 lint ■ )
culled the following barb d javelins, cd- 1
luted as a collect ion ol sparkling apho
i*ms in homely phrases;
"God Almighty will never conqu- r t.h<* .
world by Chris: witli tlm gang taat it. is t
at the work for Him m-w.
"There is not a citureh member in Geor- ■
gilt who will go to the altar and lay all I
lie has upon it.
' say 100 milch w don’t wan and 1
mean too much w don't .sty. We hav
God and the angels and Christ and yet I
we droop and languish.
"A .Methodist pi' ielter ol' Lexington. ■
Ky., said to me that lie hod t 'tight in tlte ,
late war and tor the southern •«• ml’cderaei !
ho had walked hundreds of miles barefoot
ed, slept on the snow ami laced bullets.
As it soldier in Christ’s army he had done
nothing. What are you doing tis a soldier
of tlte cross?
“A soldier was Son runnmg from a bat
tle field and an oflieer asked him. 'W bl
are you running?’ Am! he celled liaek,
■’Cause 1 can’t lly.' Some of you pie
want angel's wings to lly out o; il.ni..;. ;•
wit h.
"In Christ’s army Hie most of yon are
nothing bitt home guards. Yon just want,
to draw the rations while tin ot.-nr fel
lows do Hie lighting. Tlte church of God
Almighty is til'd up with such as v ot.. ;
soldiers who are pretty for a dress parade,
but when the firing begins* you say. T
ain't going to get hurt. I'm just a soldier
dry so.’
"There ear be no victory without a light. I
no light without an issue, no issue with- ,
out an alignment. The trouble roday is ’
there is no line of Battle between the |
church and lite world.
"The time has come when Christians I
must get on God’s side in lite light and •
sinners on the devil’s side.
"You old devil you, making wine and
‘brothering’ the preachers at camp meet
ing. you think you are safe 'cause you got
religion forty years ago. |
“No man ever accomplished anything un
less he was in earnest. The fellow sitting I
I
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t
on a stump may think he is moving sixtj
miles an hour, but he is on the slump."
"You .in- on the road to heaven like th,
old nigger on tiie slow mule, who when it'
was asked if he hud passed a. m tn on .
horst, said: '1 spe> is 1 done meet rims
evefbody, but J. ain’t p issed nobody yit.'
"Wako up ami get mot" e.i rm .-t m-s it
tlte pulpit and in the pews, and you wii
see things move.
"Love is the source of earnestness, if ;
farmer isn’t in love witli farming, the gr.is;
will get his cotton, the buzzards will
his mule and the sheriff will get him.
"Sonic of you farmers coni'; to town ant
sav to a little merchant: 'I waul you t<
run me.' He’ll ran you a mile a rnliiiLi
before your crop is laid by.
"Yon farmers grumble about being hart
up. wlien Tlte Constitution publishes i
■ story about a Georgia negro who bong .; :
I farm on , tei.lit, paid for it, amt now own.-
t it.OOit acres ol' land atai. lias $3,0(10 in tin
i bank. Tlte matter with you is. you art
I broke down in tin- I'incs like a pig,
I “A little Methodist in Pensacola, Fla.
I found that place an ‘open town,' and lit
I told the mayor if he didn’t ele .n thing. tt|
lie would pul, him in lit" p'-ni: "tn in ry. I' :■
mayor and chief of police were lev; im
I blackmail from tie wniaky sellers ,t.
! gamblers. Tiie little Methodist pn t t
appealed to lite law, and the mayor tat
away and th' chief of poll"' is in tit
I'halng.'ing. That shows what earnestn-ss
will do. Tha.t preacher is the bull of t o
I woods.
Preachers Please the Devil.
"A he;'.p of pr pleast 1
| and when they do it it is goodby. J ' tn
v.ilh them. Sti'"i fellows have at th"ii
i churches a quartet, a duet and a ser
! monetle.
! "Tiie devil do-'-m’t have to go among t in
j tiers to find helpers. He can get al. he
| wants in the church's.
j "It takes a powerful lot of religion .o
I shout when you sc,, a. fellow doing some
thing you tried to do yourself and failed,
"People in the Christian churches are
| hobnobbing with politics and veiling for
i democrats, rcpitldit uis or l'"ps. I in
j ganging by trysell. The liquor <!■ ti
i ers assoeiation of Georgia made
I the saloon men contribute to the il' inocr.it-
I ic campaign fund and I ain't a democrat;
I would rather be a dead dog than \ote
! for a republican, and I ain't fool eno ;gh
| to be a pop."
"You blear-eyed fool, yelling for a whi.d’.y
party, you tell your wile io bur; you in
thill clothes when you die, for it’s go 11: to
be hot w hero r ou are going.
"1 hear yon taditng about your gr id
denmer.it ie prlm iplcs. you simlin-h. d;
.volt wouldn’t know a principle if you re
to meet it in tie- road with a red 11 .g
sticking out of it.
i "There is many an old woman in this
countrj’ wi h an inch bruin and a ten-loot
tongue. The; can sit in tim pa rlor and k
a skillet in the kitchen. They will go imine
and sav, ’Husband, I don't |k. Hm r.'.i.v
S im Jones talk' d about tin d' lnoerats ' If
jnu keep your mouth shut, sis. th. y w .a't
know you were hit.
"Some of you ehur. h members are so
cold that before I’d shake hands with you
1 would eateli hold of a dead fish’s tail.
"if till the hogs in Hits state had bristles,
hair matte; ses would be given a\\a-.
“The poor woman who says site can't
do anything until she asks her husband
about it is a fool or else married n dog.
"Tlim-e dt'.des in their live lor their gals,
who they love almost to death, can put tin-,
blush of shame <>n the cheeks of s nno
Christians who prose.-s to love the Lord."
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