Sam Jones

JONES

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 11/17/2004 at 13:44:05

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, November 8, 1906

SAM JONES, the famous evangelist, died last week, and his death removes from
the scene of action a man whose life work resulted in great and permanent
good to the world. His earnestness, his evident sincerity and his plain,
commonsence way of putting things, made him a favorite with the people. No
one ever was in doubt to where SAM JONES stood on any question confronting
the people, and many of his quaint and blunt sayings have passed into
Proverbs.

Many years ago SAM JONES was engaged in a great union revival meeting at
Plattsburg, Mo. One of the visiting ministers asked him one day why he did
not use better language and refrain from so many "slang" expressions. "My
dear brother replied Mr. Jones, "I am a fisher of men. I judge the efficacy
of my bait by the results I get when one of your soft spoken, namby-pamby
little preachers can show a bigger string of fish than I can I'll try his
kind of bait."

For a quarter of a century SAM JONES was a prominent figure in the pulpit,
and on the lecture platform and if life is measured by what men put into it,
instead of what men get out of it, then SAM JONES' life was a success.

-- COMMONER.
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