Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — SAM JONESISMS. [ARTICLE]

SAM JONESISMS.

Thoughts From Recent Pulpit Discourses by the Georgia Snakewaker Some of you little sinners are sitting around here waiting for salvation to strike you as it did St Paul. Showbird waiting to be hit with a cannon ball. God adjust His ammunition to the size of the man he is after. Mustard seed shot will do for. Sow billiards, reap fools. Sow cards, reap gamblers. Sow whisky, reap drunkards. Sow germans, reap spider legs. The dude looks as if he was melted and poured into his pants. There’s many a 'fellow with a whitewash brush trying to clean up a little before he goes to God. Many men think the people don’t know that they are gamblers, but they do. You wear fine clothes’ and look like a gentleman, and think people don’t know what you are. But you don’t find the town full of greenies, you big old fool you. Some men are feeling all right, because all their boys are girls; but the first thing that you know the devil will pack off a drunken son-in-law on you. He couldn’t do anything worse than that if he had a thousand years to work up a bad thing. There is not a man in Chattanooga who doesn’t have family prayers that has got as much religion as a goat

The Gee ■ lub on the 4th will sing a number of their best new songs a* well as some of |he immortal old-time patriitic pei*e* a stirred the continental to | es raler, and that away* awaken the livelest and healthis emotion* tpr country and home.