Sam Smalls Brother

" Sam Smal], Evangelist! " The proverbial philosophy of " Old Si," the venerable plantation darkey, who gave to the world through the medium of Small's pen maxims of worldy wisdom, clothed in a verbiage of irresistible humor, has found a permanent place in humorous literature. Great surprise was shown when it was announced that he, having been converted under the ministrations of " Sam Jones," would become an evangelist. At first thought, a humorist in the pulpit seems incongruous. Is it really so? Ho doubt the mere buffoon attempting to turn men's hearts to solemn truths would meet with only contetnpt. But truth is not hidden in ■ gloom. Genuine humor frequently illustrates and fastens in the mind bits of wisdom ihat would otherwise pass unheeded. In lus eulogy of Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Dr. Parker says: " Whenever he carne among men, he brought June sunshine and music, and made even desponding and surly men feel that a fuller and warmer summer, ' the Kingdom of Heaven,' itself was 'at hand."1 Tbat is genial christianity. Mr. Small belongs to a witty family. He has a brother cocuected with Armoy Knox's and " Fat Contributor's" Texas Siftings, which has had phenomenal success in tlie fleld of humorous literature. Mr. Frank A. Small is the present representative of that popular paper in Englaud, and, like his distinguished brother, he takes a deep interest in the welfare of other people. Under date of 48 Porten Road, Kensington, W. London, Ener , Sept.27, 1887, he writes : "While at Yalding in Kent yesterday, I met Prof. S. Williams, Head Master of the Cleaves Endowed school. In the course of conversation about America, Professor Williams remarked that Warner's safe cure had been of great benefit to his wife, who had been much troubled with a disordered liver. Warner's safe cure (an American preparation) was all she had taken, and she had experienced none of her old trouble for some months past. Mrs. Annie Jenness-Miller, editor of New York Dress, and a very popular woman in the fashionable world, says in her own magazine for October : " Warner's safe cure is the only medicine I ever take or recommend. In eyery instance it gives new energy and vitality to all va y powers." This distinguished woman also says that for ladies this great remedy is " peculiarly effective." Sam Small is likely to succeed as a moral teacher. When we remember how near together in human nature He the fountains of laughter and of tears, the deep effect his discourses must have on the masses can easily be imagined. " Why did God make so much outdoors? " exclaimed a little girl. We know not. He has made it and we should grow in it, broad, charitable and genial, judging everythingby merit, not by prejudice.