Now, I am as frail a man as lives. I have my
faults, I have my weaknesses, but I have won
the love of my dog. When I go home from a trip
my dog Hero runs to meet me. He climbs up on
me and kisses me like a dog kisses a man, and



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says : 'If you want to hunt to-morrow, I will go
with you and find birds as fast as you can shoot
them.' I say: 'Hero, why do you love me so?'
He wags his tail and looks up and says in his way ;
'Because you are so good to me.' I have won
the love of my horse. I go down to the stable
and he lays his face against mine and talks to
me in his language, and says: 'I am so glad to
see you back. If you want a horseback ride, have
Joe put the saddle on me and I will give you every
gait that a horse ever went.' And I say to him :
'Dexter, why do you love me so?' And he says:
'Because you are so good to me.' My brother,
if you do not love God, who has been so good to
you all of your life, you are lower down than my
dog or my horse. God's goodness to you is enough
to melt a rock."

Jones went to hear a lecture on sociology, and
gives the following description of the lecture and
what he said to the lecturer afterward : "He told
us all the ologies — biology, geology, and zoology
— and how he did capture that crowd! This
was his peroration : 'Now, ladies and gentlemen,
in view of these facts of biology and geology and
sociology, the man that believes that God created
this world just six thousand years ago, and that
on the finishing day of creation he picked up a
little piece of mud and blew on it, and a living,
perfect man walked off and stumbled over an
apple and fell in a barrel of whisky, and is
reeling off to hell — a man who will believe that



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now will believe anything. 