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Show JONESISM- Some Striking; Sayings from Sam's ' -' Sermons. ' ... "BUT." Do you notice that when we.talk about people we never use the copulative conjunction con-junction ? We use the disjunctive "but." You ask about Brother A., and the answer an-swer is, "Well, he's good, but he don't pray in his family." "How : about . Brother Bro-ther B. ?" "Well, he's a good man, a very good man, but he seems to . like his dram." You can take this disjunctive conjunction "but" and chip character all to pieces with it in a minute. You can just take any fellow in this town nearly ; and say all about him. "He's a good and kind.'' Then commence to "but" him, and the first thing you know they -butt him'off the bridge, and that is the last of him. - - MONEY AND COMMUNISM. "Yes," you say, "Jones is preaching communism." I am not. I tell you this to-day, there isn't a man in this country that fights communism more than I do. I have no sympathy with this low-down rack of God's creation going around here doing nothing, and - wanting everything that everybody else has, and I have got no sympathy with the fellow that has got a big pile of it and won't give any away. That's the way I feel about it. I have found out that money is like a walking-stick;' walking-stick;' One will- help you along if you are lame, but fifty loaded on your back will break you down. That's so, and the matter with some of you people is that you are loaded down with money. Money is like guano ; if you will put it on thick it will burn up everything. And so, money, if you load it on too heavily, will spoil a man. The richest man the world ever saw was also one of the best. . Abraham could have bought out Vanderbilt, and scarcely have missed out of the bank the money of the check he drew to pay, Van-derbilt's Van-derbilt's estate, and yet he was one of the best men on earth. It is not so much the money as the sort of fellow that has it. GLAD THAT'HIS CHILD DIED. If I have anything special in reference to my wife and children to be grateful for, it is this : I have no child that ever looked into my face when I was not a consecrated Christian man. ; God gave us one when I was wrecked and wayward and Godless. That little child lived and looked into nyy face when I was Godless and profane and wretched, and God took her to heaven. . I shall live a Christian as long as God gives me a child to look in my face, and when I get to heaven I will fall down and beg pardon of that sweet little angel that she ever saw me when I wasn't a Christian. Tears. VARIOLOID PIETY. There is a varioloid type of piety. They just put you in a bed a day or two and you were out before anybody found out you were sick. . The varioloid type of piety has taken possession of this country ; but it ain't catching. But you get one of the old-fashioned, confluent cases of small-pox, and everybody will catch it that goes into the. room. This varioloid type of religion that you see nowadays ain,t catching, but you take an old-fashioned confluent rash, and when a . man has got it, the first thing you know his wife will get it, and it will break out over the family, and the whole family will be consecrated to God. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Globe-Democrat. c |