Samuel Porter Jones (1847-1906)--"or just plain Sam Jones," as he preferred to be called--was the foremost southern evangelist of the nineteenth century. With his high-spirited, often coarse, humor and his hyperbolic style, he excited audiences around the country and became a key influence on Billy Sunday, "Gypsy" Smith, and scores of lesser known evangelists. A leading political activist, he played an important role in the selling of a new industrialized South and was thus a clerical counterpart to his friend Henry Grady.
In "Laughter in the Amen Corner," the first scholarly biography...
Samuel Porter Jones (1847-1906)--"or just plain Sam Jones," as he preferred to be called--was the foremost southern evangelist of the nineteenth ce...
