Show SAM JONES The eccentric SAt JONES whom the Sun describes as a slim wirylooking southerner south-erner with a swarthy complexion and a little black moustache is in New York delivering a series of prohibition sermons The old doctrine of poor paypoor preach doesnt appear to apply to Sits case for he charges only 10 cents admission and he must oe as entertaining certainly as Bon IXGKHSOLL who gets 1 Bon is smooth if illogical but SAM is a holy terror making mak-ing it sizzling hot for sinners He biteth like a serpent and stlngeth like an adder Here are a few of his expressions from one of his harangues Theres many man who takes a disordered liver for a pure heart The fashionable minister is without sympathy sym-pathy He says to the members of his congregation congre-gation I you believe as I believe you will be saved i you dont you will be damned and I dont care much which 1 I know as well as I know that I am living that I never can make the sort of a husband that I want my wife to have unless Goi helps meThere There are thousands of 351 prohibitionists in New York but on the 365th day which is election day they dont show upI up-I dont believe in towing the good ship Zion ten miles out from shore and then standing on deck and shouting Say all you sinners onshore on-shore that can swim come aboard This kind of evangelizing is very fetching fetch-ing probably quite as much so as the pyro technical methods of Brother TALMAGE produced with new and startling stage effects t as they say in the theatre bills It is of 0 human sort and if at first it strikes the hearer as somewhat profane it reaches the common mind and gets in its work At least that seems the easiest way to account for the immense throngs who go to hear this Mississippi backwoodsman preach |