Gave the Preacher a Pointer

1895

"Of course," says a traveling evangelist, "I get a good deal of advice from the local brethren, but it was down in Georgia that I got the queerest 'pointer,' if I may use the expression. I had scarcely registered at the little hotel and brushed the dust of travel from my clothes when the chief deacon called on me. 'I suppose, brother,' he said, 'that yoe mean toe preach the flowery path toe destruction, and the narrer way toe the blessed land, and all the hard times it is gittin there, don't yoe?' I answered that it was likely that I might expand a little in that line. 'Waal,' he said, 'I want toe tell yoe right now that it won't do at all. These here fellers round here is so doggone lazy that they'll jist take the easy road. Understand?' " — New York Tribune.

Rome (Georgia) Regrets Losing Dr. Jones

New Jersey, 1907

An extract from the Tribune of Rome, Ga., shows in what high esteem the people of that place hold the Rev. C. O. Jones, who has been called to the pastorate of the First M. E. Church, this city. The article refers to Dr. Jones's farewell service last Sunday, and is as follows:

"One of the most affecting services ever seen in Rome took place Sunday morning at the First Methodist Church, when Dr. Charles O. Jones bade the members farewell after laboring for a year as their pastor.

"His theme was 'Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness,' and the eloquent speaker was at his best. His words deeply moved his hearers, and when the closing song, 'God Be with You Till We Meet Again,' was sung there was scarcely a dry eye in the house. Dr. Jones and his family leave for his new field, Trenton, N. J., tomorrow, and the best wishes of all Methodists and all Romans go with him.

"At the farewell service there was not a vacant seat in the house and many members of other denominations were present."

—Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, N.J., Dec. 7, 1907, p. 7.