The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-21
THE SELF-cENTERED MAN. |
REV. BAsCosI ANTHONY SHOWS UP
SOME OF HIS WORST TRAITS.

ent RcspectabiIity, to the Fact
emit and Moulding Their Lives to
Suit Present Needs-An Eloquent
Discourse Upon Two Ways of
Character BuiIding-kae Is Happy
Who Builds for observation-disclosures
ment Cannot stand Against Poltti-
cal Corruption.
Rev Bascom Anthony preached a pow
erful sermon at Trinity Methodist Church
last night his theme being the advantage
that accrues to man from life moulded
in accordance with his own will, and a
life moulded in accordance with the Di-
vine will Incidentally, Rev. Mr.. Anthony
paid his attention to vote sellers at cleo
| tons.
His text was from James, 413-l5 'Go
to now, We that say to-day or tomorrow
we will go into such city, and continue
there a year, and buy and SELL and get
gain:
Whereas, We know not what shall be
on the morrow. For what is your life?
1t is even a vapour, that appeareth for
| little time and then vanisheth away.
r|or lIldL y6 ought 10 say, IL the LOU
will, we shall live and do this, or that.
| Rev. Mr.. Anthony began by saying
/ that there are many men who start ont
in life without any definite purpose. The
architect the civil engineer, the artisan,
| all have to carry out long courses of
study before they can fit themselves for
their occupation or be prepared to create
| the masterpieces of their hand or brain.
Yet, Notwithstanding this fact, many men,
when they begin to fashion that which
is of all things the most delicate and
most wonderful, life and character, throw
away the teaching of the ages and the
experience of those who have fought and
| won or lost the battle before they were
born. From this introduction Mr.. An
| thony turned to the discussion of the
| proper and the wrong ways for a man
to begin and worS out the eternal struc-
ture of his character
The methods, he said. were two, in ac-
| cordance with the Divine will and in ac-
| cordance with the human will. The first
| was perfectly and securely safe, leading
| to peace and content on earth and a
! glorious heritage hereafter; the other
was doomed to failure in the inception of
lis trial, leading to earthly unhappiness
! and eternal sorrow.
GLOW poor is the guerdon of him who
builds his character according to- the mar
row compass of his own understanding
and lives his life within the four walls
| of his place of business. He may succeeR
he may accomplish that for which he has
| striven and attain that his heart desires;
! wealth and fame and the things of this
earth may come at his bidding, but in his
Utmost soul is the cancer worm of discon-
! tent. How rich the reward of him who
! fashions his character and moulds his
| 1ifa with fha nroppntS of
| the Word of God revealed! For him hap
| piness, now and forever and peace, not
| the peace of men. but the peace of God,
| that passeth all understanding.
at is narrow world that surrounds
! the man who is self-centered His own
! little business, his own little aims and am
! bitions a narrow stretch on either side
! the accustomedft BAN lsf his daily life,
would compass it ALL But for the man
! who places his trusx in God and who
! builds not for timed but for eternity, this
old earth itself is but a small part of his
kingdom. 1t stretches up into the highest
| heavens and takes IN ali the heavenly host;
! it embraces, the createds intelligences that
| sang together when1 the morning star
! hymned The gladeintelligepce of the birth of
| the world; yea, even. GOD Himself is en-
| braced in the broad domain, the inf1nitude
of time and space that is for the man
who places his trust in Him"
More even than, this. He IS an heir OF
| God and joint heir with Jesus. cur Lord.
! in the glorious kingdom beyond the stars.
! With him the narrow span of human life
/ is nothing, for ten thousand years hence
! will be but the beginning Of the inherit
| ance upon which il is promised he shall
enter"
self-centered life said Mr.. Anthony.
! is essentially little life. TIE man who
has neither hope nor expectation Of any
thing beyond the grave builds poorly end
meanly here. The man who d.scards the
divine assistance, who shapes his life in ac-
cordance with his own plans, can produce
but one result, evil, and come to but one
end, the bad.
"Why. my friends" said the speaker, 81
looked down upon a scene around the
Court House last Tuesday that proves al
that have said. 1t was not scene at
which a clean and honest man, not called
there by duty, would care to llnger. II
was a scene to make the people blush.
81 am told, on good authority. thai 'fe'e
were men in that company, on thai cay.
men in good positions, drawing salaries of
from $50 to 500 per month, who sold their
votes for so much cash. They were living
in and for the present, without one thought
of the years TO come, or the high and holy
| trust they had TO execute"
''They forgot that hundred years ago
our fathers gave their lives that they
might exercise the privilege, hlood-bought
and blood-bap ised, that they battered for
a ness of pottage They forgot the years
10 come, when corrupt governmont, en-
feebled by political debauchery, shall tot
tar to its fall. They were traitors TO every
thing that was good and pure and holy
ard righteous. They ought to be branded
wi the brand of infamy and dashed from
one end to the other OF the city thar they
dssecrate with their pres They are
not men. l have more respect for vote
selling negro than for them, for the negro
has been lacking in opportunities.
HAS self-respect died amorg us?'' que
ried Mr. Anthony, in trumpet tones. Has
all sense of decency and morality vanish
ed from our community? Is it possible
that the laws of esd shall be violated and
the laws of man laughed to scorn without
a sir gle man raising his voice in FRO est?
I God forbid.
This state of things is not ascribable
to one man. You can't lay It at the door
of one faction The cause lies deeper far
than this. The grand jury ought to be-
gin at the bottom and lay its scourge upon
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