VOL IV
LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCT. 31 1890.
NO. 36
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You have heard jour friends and neighi
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. .Wing about it u, that when once given a
trial. Dr. Kite's New Discovery ever after
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vr. j. M. L.awiug's UrusUre.
-Nevy(!a teems to be getting
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uor or Lieutenant Governor, both
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tiou of whoe successors to till the
vacancies no provision is made in
the State constitution. A Jew town
constables' is all that is necessary
to run the fag end of a State like
that. Wilminqton Star.
Once a colored preacher was con
ducting a Methodist class meeting
and some one played him a trick
He took away his hymn book and
put a dime song book in its place,
When the preacher began he said
'Bred'ren, let's sing de seventy
sixth hymn." And he looked over
his spectacles. to see it all had it.
"As I was walking down the alley
1 met a gal her name was Sally.
"Bred'ren, I made a mistake, it
was the BixtyfSeventh hymn.
"Shoo fly, don't bother me,
For I belong to Co. D.
"Bred'reu, bless if some one ain't
taken away de Methodist bymn
book and put a Baptist hymn book
in its place,'' Ex.
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It is-surprising that people will use a com.
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A CHILD KILLED.
Another child killed by the use of opiate
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The Rev. Samuel P.
Jones.
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What is
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Castoria is the best remedy for children of
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Conway, Ark.
Castoria.
" Castoria U so well adapted to children that
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" Our physicians in the children's depart
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enoe In their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
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merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
United Hospital and Dispensary,
Boston, Mass.
Allxn C. Smith, iYer,
The Centaur Company, TI Murray Street, New York City.
10RE than a vear &&q. when it
was proposed by a member of
the Evangelical Alliance, of
Wilmington, to invite this eel
ebrated Evangelist to hold a
meeting in this city, I distinctly
declared that I could not co operate
with him. Dr. Hoge said the same,
and I think at least one other mem.
ber of the Alliance agreed with us.
In my relations as a public jour
nalist, when Mr. Jones was after
wards preaching in Charlotte, I
.. .1 :i: ...
uaijuy uiuiciseu uis puipit mau-
uers. This was before he had been
invited to Wilmington, and I closed
my article by saying that I hoped
he would never come to Wilmtugs
ton, In my day. Let it be iememi
bered that he was invited here by
his Methodist brethren, aud not by
the Alliance, as was Mr. Pearson,
and indeed, he was called here
agaiost the protest of at least two
members of the Alliance. I was,
hence, uuder no obligation to co-opt
erate wuh him or even hear bimj
bat at the request of the Methodist
pastors of the city, I went to hear
him twice. I heard him and bsve
read the reports of his sermo&s as
given in the city papers, aXd ac
cording to promise, will iiow give
my estimate of the man and h"s
work.
Bat before proceeding to discuss
the man and bis methods, let us get
at the real issue before us. I dc
not object to Sam Jones as an Ev
angeliet, or a Methodist Evangelist
if he were a Baptist I could not
co-operate with him. I honor him
for hi 8 fierce and fearless denuaei
ation of sin, and I am in hearty
sympathy with him as a tempen
ance reformer. Forty years ago, in
paper of that day, 1 announced my
self, when a boy, as an uncompro
raising prohibitionist, and 1 have
never from that day to this swerved
a hair's breadth from that principle.
Understand me on another point
I do not callm question the piety
of Sam Jones, nor impugh his mo
tives. Many of his doctrines I can
not endorse: for instance, ho tells
the people to join the church before
they profess to be converted and he
seems tc me to preach salvation by
works with a stronger emphasis
than any man I have ever known.
That he was able to benefit some
bard cases by his peculiar style
whom the pastors had not reached,
I readily acknowledge, though Mr.
Pearson reached mauy more than
he, without his slang and vulgarity,
and for all the good he did in Wil
mington I, for one, am profoundly
grateful. I think it is just, howev
er, to consider other agencies m
the meeting, besides those of Mr.
Jones personally, which contribut
ed largely to its results. In the
first place, Mr. Stuart, an able and
spiritually minded minister, preach
ed several days before Mr. Jones
came ; then there was brought to
bear the moral - power of several
hundred godly men aud women
who had been praying for weeks
for Gods blessings upon the meet-
uccV.utK very respectable ac- was likely I would be arrested for
4T T W,l g0d A,terature, (slanderiog that damnable club.'
nis power of il narration iv.,.r...K! , ...
vj. i.muauit; .eciueu rn wet nmta a f.i
iug, and added to this, we must
take into the account the gracioas
influence of the staging, nnder the
leadership of Messrs. Excell and
Bowden, which was admirable all
these factors must be taken into the
account in estimating the spiritual
forces of the meeting.
But to the man Sam Jones is of
spare figure, medium height, has a
rather handsome face, a good fore
head and a very fine eye. His voice
is singularly good, and he speaks
with much deliberation. Wneu he
makes a good hit he pauses to note
the effect and twirls his moustache
or scratches the back of his head.
He is about 42 years old.
Beyond all question, he is a man
of rare ability his published ser
monp, as well as the effects he pro
daces show that. I should call him
a genius certainly, he has a genius
for putting things. His grammar
is sometimes at fault, and his pro
nunciation not" always correct ; but
and
skill in using anecdotes are equal to
those of any man I haye ever
known. H6 knows how to think
tco, clearly vigorously and with
M,UUkCU ongtuaiiiy. tie did not
strike me as specially fluent, but
ne nas great tact in choosing his
'vordf, and he knows how to put
them into strong, pungent, striking
sentences. He hits the mark he
aims at every time and there is no
mistaking his meaning. He did not
impress me as being intellectually
oroaa ana deep ; bat rather acute,
vigorous and versatile. He is cer
tainly one of the most leniarkable
men I have ever seen and well wor
thy of the careful study of all pub
lic speakers. As a lecturer he would
be superb, and as a boon compan
ion delightful. His nersonalir.v i
more manetio and powerful than
that of any man I ever heard of like
mental stature.
To call him a great man would be
to revolatioaize my couceptious ol
human greatness. There may have
beeu great men with an egotism as
stupendous as his, but there never
was one iu which this quality was
as transparent. Certainly, in all
the calendar of saints history shows
not one whose self-appreciation was
so colossal.
The truth is, the man is badly!
spoiled : his great success and the
unstinted adulation he has received
have turned his head. He assumes
the roll of dictator at times : on
one occasion, turning to the preach
ers he said : You fat, lazy rascals,
why were yon not here at the early
prayer meeting, trying to save souls,
instead of takiug your morniug
nap ?" Oa another occasion he said
"I expect to be at the judgment and
to hear the excuses of some of the
pastors of this city for not helping
m this meeting-" The intimation
pected to be at the general judg
ment, but to be a sort of associate
jastice with the Almighty in pro
nouncing sentence and would enjoy
the condemnation of those of ns
who did not see fit to join iu his
meeting. Such arrogance would be
unbecoming in the Apostle Paul,
much more in Sim Jones.
His wit and humor are of a high
order aud his slang seems absolute
ly irrepressible, and often mauifests
itself most irreverently. For iu
stance, one night after he had
preached and perhaps, a hundred
persona bad come up and given him
the band, and the preachers and
workers had gone among the enqui
rers aud were earnestly talking with
them, and after Dr. Creasy had of
fered a ferveut and melting prayer
and when great solemnity prevailed,
up jumped Sam Joues and begau to
tals saying, among other things,
"You ueed give yourselves no con
cern about your Uncle Jones, he can
tote his own little skillet." Instead
of pointing sin -sick souls to the
Savior to obtrude his own little per
sonality in such flippant slaug,
seemed to me little short of sacri
lege. He was somewhat less stnut
ty here than in Charlotte , but he
said enough iu Wilmington to outs
raje propriety, common decency,
aud good morals.
I was soundly abused aud vilified
in some papers and by piivate cor
respondence for styling Sam Jones
a vulgarian and a blackguard. Even
the distinguished son of North Car
olina, Dr. John E. Edwards shot an
arrow at me from away over in Va.
After a fuller acquaintance with
him, I am sorry to say I cannot
withdraw those charges ; ou the
contrary, I must add to them one
still more serious, thai of profanity,
aud if the utterances I submit be
low do not make good each of those
charges, I am ready to be branded
a slanderer of my brethren
"If you jump on your Uncle Jones
you have got a government job on
haud." "I love to see a man that
stands independent of rules, ety
mology, seed. ticks, and possum
skins." sGet up on your hind feet.
"Shoot off your little old mouth,''
"you old fool," "you old liar," "you
old flop-eared houad," "you coum
temptible puppies,'' "You lousy
calves," "whining piga;'7 "X heard i
vonte with him, as he used it ofteu.
"If you get between me aud the
club I will knock tbe filling ont ol
you." "Get up and tWl God you did
not approve of Sam Jones you lit
tle blear-eyed tool." "Oh, shucks,
I have got the dead wood on these
things," meaning by things, the
doctrines of gracp. 'Tbe pastor
that aMows his mernhnrs rn en
whiskey i not worthy to be the
pastor of a litter of puppies." He
called some of the most respectable
gentlemen or v illimngton "Pnsil
.unimous pole cats of bell." "Pole
cats of hell? a brand new style of
sweating, he used certaiuly aa mauy
a three times, aud of some of onr
citizens he said that if a buzzard
should get sceut of them he would
lly straight up half a mile to get
away from the smell.
These are samples of the elegant
utterances of Sam Joues iu the pul
pit, aud they are by no means the
worst things he said. Tbe Messen.
qer one ot our city papers promised
tbe public full stenographic reports
of all Sam Jones' sermons.
On two occasions I asked the ed
itor why he had left out some of bis
utterances once when he preached
to men only aud once wheu he had
300 ladies before him. His reply
was as follows : "Doctor, I just
couldn't do it. My paper goes into
families where there are women and
children." This editor got out
special eumoH or nis two 8ermon
to men and most excellent sermons
they are too ; but some of the dirty,
smutty thingB tbe preacher said are
uot there. I do most sincerely be
lieve that the tendency of all such
language, no matter when uttered,
i3 to debauch public morals, and
that it will be many a day before
this city will get over the evil efN
fects of such baneful talk. Sam
JsflgS'' pVtosJa jhe mQnr
the childreu of Wilmington. A lady
of my own charge told me she had
to correct one of her children for a
profane expression, when the child
replied : "Why, mamma, that's
nothing to what Sam Jones says."
Another lady told me she was read-
iog aloud one of Sam Jones' ser
raons, when next day srie heard a
little boy use one ot his ugly ex
pression!?, and when the child was
reproved, he replied, "I thought I
could say what the preacher said.''
Still another case in another town
where Sam Jones preached was that
of a boy who called his brother "an
infernal hound'1 and made the same
excuse that Sam Jones said that in
the pulpit. An ungodly man said
to me a few days since. "We wicki
ea men can jearn plenty of cuss
words frem the Devil without go ¬
ing to the pulpit to be taught new
oaths. Another man who sometimes
swears said to me yesterday "If I
wanted to curse a man blue, I
weigbt ot hi great name to it by article as he exhibits in rebuking
telling jokes m the pulpit and mak- j wickedoess. He comes to a pUce,
ing the people laugh. Talmage has i deals out wholesale abuse for a few
encouraged it somewhat, but I am
glad to say that the great evange
lists, Moody, Wharton, Pearson and
Hutson have no such vicious hab
its.
Foreigners say the special vice of
America is irreverence, aud I am
afraid there is too much truth in
the charge. I do not think T mk-A
raise aysertiou when I say that
the consummation and rlower of tb is
evil plant is seen in the pulpit man
ners of Sam Jones. He is the most
irreverent mau 1 ever saw. I am
not alone in this opinion, as will be
eeu from the followiug from Dr.
Primrose of thia eitv.
"1 tid, Brother Jones, I don't
mean to rj officious. I don't pre-
sutne to discuss your methods, but
there is one thiug I want to say by
way of pioteat. It otfemJs the ears
of mauy pious people to hear you
use the iiauie of God flippantly. I
do not mean iu inpas-iioned appeals
to God or man, bur thus for exam
ple : 'My Loid, wait till your Uucfe
Jonea comeis.' 'Iu the nanm of God,
wuat tio i care for your endorse
ment.' Now our catechism teaches
that the third commandment le
quires the holy and leverent use of
all God's names, titles, attributes,
ordinances, words and works. 1
would not let my little boy imitate
you. 1 suppose you thiuk Joues b!az
ed up in anger- After a moment, he
said : "Brother Prim'ose, I appre
ciate this moie than anything that
has happened. You are right, and
I am wrong. It was thoughtltas,
and by God's help 1 will stop it."
Sam Jones is criminally careless
in his assertions, even wbe i char,
acter is involved. He declared that
not one in five of the pastors of the
city dared to be faithful in preach
ing against the liquor traffic. I am
glad to say the record of each of his
uays ana is gone. 1 remain here
and most meet the consequences of
my ntterances aud I kuow what it
will cost me. Already some of his
admirers who have been my friends
are cool in their manner towards
me. 1 shall be sorry to loso their
esteem, but if delivering my con
science on this subject causes me to
r - - i .
juiim tneir regard, so be it. God
has put me hero foi the defence of
hi truth and I must do my duly,
no matter what it costs. Fiatjusti
tia, ruat Citlum.
I believe that tbe seutiment of the
bet Christian peon'e of th srafa
will su-tain me Nay more I be
lieve taat it wont be long before
these very men who uow aro angry
with n e will see that I have been
fighting the cause ot truth and
righteousness- I believe that many
Methodists agree with me, and I
kuow tht one of the niont dittin
guished of the ounger preachers
of that church, lately a popular pa.
tor iu Ailmiufiton, X. C-, pro.-oses
at an early day to publish atnoturea
i'i the Christian Adi-nr.it
pulpit mannrra of Sam Jones Dr.
Paul Whitehead, whom 1 know per
sorely to bi oue ot the ablest and
most honored of Methodist; minis
ters of Virginia- said ot Sam Jones'
reflectun on him : "1 would rather
he would love the Lord Jesus Christ
enough not to wound him iu the
house ol his friends by such impru
dent and uncharitable remarks
about miuisters. But this is only a
specimen ot the improprieties per
petrated in well nigh every sernaou."
But be that as it may, I know I
am right and shall not fear to speak.
I had rather
"Stand up alone with consciuiu pride
Than err with milllous on my side."
Mathildjak Jtm br$n. wou
THE RESULTS OF THE 1IEETINO.
wouldn't want any stronger words
than Sam Joues uses. 'Pasillaai
mous pole cats of hell' is good."
We have certainly fallen upon evil
timea when our children and wick
ed men learn new forms of profani
ty from tue pulpit. God never
made two forms of profanity one
for Sam Jones and one for other
people.
And what shall I say of the in
sulting slurs cast upon Wilmington
and her people, especially when he
said that the aristocracy of Wil
mington would not be allowed to
sweep out the kitchens of the aris
tocracy of Baltimore. I have lived
iu Baltimore aud know many of her
best people, and dare assert that
tbe best people of Wilmington are
equal to any ou the face of the
earth. If he meant bis words to be
taken seriously, he knew he uttered
what was false ; if be said it in a
spirit of bravado aud designed it to
be taken as a sort of a joke, it was
a silly joke and none the less in
sulting, and I, for one Wilmington
uian, am ashamed that hundreds of
our citizens quietly sat aud heard
their neighbors and friends insulted
without protest, but actually laugh
ed at what they knew was a slander.
This tendency to degrade the
pulpit began years ago in the North.
Henry Ward Beecher gave the
1 have no data that will enable
me to speak with certainty ou this
point. I do not suppose so mauy
people ever attended h meeting in
North Carolina before. Fifteen
hundred persons gave htm the hand
which simply meant that they
would try to do better. Probably
300, possibly 400 professed convers
siou, inaDy of whom were from the
country. The indications now are
that, while three times as mauy
people attended this meeting as that
of Mr. Pearson, not more than ont
third as many will join the chnrcbe.
Public opinion is greatly divided
here as to Sam Jones. Many good
people would not hear him at all
hnndreds weut ouce and got enough
and never went again. Mauy de
nounce him and bis methods, while
others denounce those who would
not work. They are getting warm I
on both sides and the prospect now j
is that tbe whole town will ie set
by the ears over Sam Jones. That
euch a state of strife fchould exi-t
immediately after a great ieligiou
meeting has closed argues that
ther e has beeu wrong, serious wrong
somewhere, and thia wrong I lay
upon the pulpit manners ot Sam
Jones that i9 the ouly issue I make
with him and bis friends It h not
a matter of taste it iu vol veai sues
far graver than that it is a ques
tion of morals. Sam Joues said we
had no issues in Wilmington that
stagnation was the next station to dam
nation with him. Well, we have an
issue now one distinctly joined as
to tbe right and wroug in pulpit
manners and the probabilities ot a
very considerable stir iu this com
munity. That thia article will not
tend to allay the excitement I do
not doubt, but shall not deplore if,
after tbe storm, the skies are clear
er aud the water purer.
I was . requested by one of the
city editors to give my opinion of
the mau in his journal, but I pre
ferred to wait till the meetiug had
closed, and to express my opinions
in the columns of the iournal for
which I rite regularly.
The boldness with which Sam
Jones denounces tin is greatly ex
tolled ; but I venture to say that it
takes aa much courage to write thia
A Coucl Way.
rwocratc stumters in the West
have adopted a simple i tt ve-.v ef
fective mode of campaigning. They
carry with t'jern a bag of samp'ei
of tbe mces3arie8 ot life for woimn
and men, each sample t aviijg three
tags attached to it, on whrcb are
marked the price thereof under the
Hd tariff and uuder the new tariff,
and what would be tbe price of them
with no tariff. Ihes samples,
wrtb the attached tag, they expose
on a table, preach from the text
thus laid down, and challenge tbe
Kepublicaus to reHite one word
they fay. Te, women folks, it it
siid, examine the samples aud tags
critically, and wheu they get Lorue
tell the men that a dollar would go
much further toward the support of
the family under Democratic law
than under the Republican hich
tariff. Alexandria Gazette.
TUE FIKST STEP.
PfcrhHpa you are run down, can't eat
cm t blfatj can't tLink, taa't do anything
lo your satiita'.-tion, ani you wonder wbat
ails you. lou cbould heel tue warning,
you' are taking tbe nrst step inte Jfervou
i rostrauoTi. iou Def-d a .yrve Ionic auri
ii. Klectrie iJitter.s you will find the eaot
remedy for featuring your nervoua systom
to its normal, healthy vendition. Surpris
ing results follow th'; use of thu greut
.Nerve Tonic and Alterative. V'our appe
tite return.,, gooo diction is restored, aDd
the Liver and Kidneys resume healthy ac
tion Try a bottle. Price 50c. at Dr. J. M
Lawing'a Dru Store.
A very excellent and intelligent
citizeu of the county, a Republican,
wan in this office the other day lo
pay bis subscription and inciJeot
ally remarked that he had lately
been watching the course of public
affairs very carefully and was done
with the Republican party. He is
a modest farmer aud does not wibh
to attract attention to himself and
therefore asked that his name be
uot mentioned. We mention the
circumstance, however, and in do
ing eo recall the fact that in no
campaign within the past twelve
years have so many old-line Repub
licans deserted the party as have in
tbe campaign now drawing to a
close. Statesville landmark.
CAN'T SLiSP XlfcHTS
Ii the complaint of thousand suffering
from Asthma, Consumption, Coughs, etc.
Did you ever try Dr. Acker'-, English Re
medy? It is the best preparation known
to'- all Lung Troubles. Sold on a positive
guarantee at 25 cents and 50 cents. 1'or
sale by Dr. JM L-twing, Drugget-
ADVEETISE in the Courier. Rate
are reasonable. Try it one year and
see if it does not pay.