The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-06

iSlatlon- 1t has become so COMMONPLACE
as hardly TO be a scandal that party man.
ayers calculate the price of purchasable
voters ana levy contributions to meet
what they call Legitimate expenses.
Big men make combinations that crush
an weaker rivals, organize trusts that
TOD the people, and are called financiers.
IN raVenous greed they are the sharks of
the business world, and. as to conscience.
'ney are the successors of the Barbary
pirates, who scourged the Mediterranean
some generations gone. If they succeed.
they enter the charmed circles of our i'm
mortals. million dollars covers a null
titude of sins, and many millions are of
the essence Of nobility. Thousands of
people, finding to support them voices
not few in hireiing newspapers. count
ed II unpatriotic that a minority in the
Legislature of Louisiana refused a bride
OF twenty-five millions, and cursed the
only men who struggled TO save the viz
tue and honor of the state. So high is
money, so low is honor
HOW can there be honesty in business,
purity in politics, righteousness in gov
eminent, or true virtue anywhere, while
money is the essential element in our
Ideal of human success? How can it be
Otherwise than that our politics should be
corrupted, that legislation should be pois-
ohed, that government should be de-
pauched under the tremendous stimulus
OF an all-abounding idolatry of god?
How can it be otherwise than that a fatal
paralysis should strike down social
and civil virtue? How can il be
otherwise than that the Church of God it.
SELF should be paralyzed in her forward
movement for the salvation of the race
when the money of this great nations holy
cd
lust and ambition"
Mr. Cook quoted Matthews6: 1920: Lay
not up for yourselves treasures on earth.
etc, out lay up for yourselves treasures
IN heaven" etc, He showed how the mas
Ter refers in this to the use of money.
warning against the accumulation of ricGn-
es for riches sake, that they may be con-
sumed upon the lusts of the flesh. but d.
rected thet even the money that man can
make should be invested in the eternal
kingdom.
Mr.. Cook said that every dollar invested
In the development of character.
mat every dollar invested in education.
that every dollar invested in the spread
of the gospel, that every dollar invested in
the uplift of humanity is so much riches
stored up in heaven.
Inc speaker concluded the discourse by
saying we must provide the money for
the maintenance and spread Of the great
kingdom of Christ. God has provided
the plan. His plan as revealed in the
Word is the payment in His kingdom of
one-tenth of ones income and the free
Will offerings prompted by gratitude and
love. Mr.. Cook urged a faithful study Of
the scriptural plan and a contemplation
by the church of The conditions resulting
from che neglect thereof His final words
We're an earnest appeal to the church to
accept Gods challenge:
Bring ye all the tithes into the store
house, that there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith, saith
the Lord of Hosts, if l will not open you
the windows of heaven, and pour you out
a blessing, that there shall not be room
enough to receive it," Matthew, BIO And
in the strength of this promise 10 go
forth for the conquest Of the world
through a revival of the religion of Jesus