The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-24
"CASH AND CREDIT"
DISCUSSED BY DIR. JOHN ID. JORDAN
AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
capital AND LABOR"
PLAINLY SPOKEN WORDS ON THESE
PRACTICAL SUBJECTS.

and Order AgftattOn-Hoast for
Lawyer Who Abuses Witnesses in
Order to Clear His Clientele Has
DIR. Jordan's Pity-Habit of Perpet-
uaI Debt Described as the Road to
Ruin-Young Men Should Avoid 1t
as a PestiIence-MutunI Respect,
Concession and FOrbearance Be-
tween Capital and Labor,
Despite the heat of last night a large
congregation listened to the sermon that
Rev. Dr. John D. Jordan preached az the
First Baptist Chuch on Cash and Credit;
Capital and Labor" 1t was plain and
simple exposition of some we'll recognized
sociological and economical truths.
The text was from Romans, 1873: "Owe
no man anything, but love one another
The text expressed, said Dr. Jordan, the
manner in which those who are church
members and consistent Christians should
shape their dealings with the world and
with their fellow men.
He prefaced his remarks on the subject
by some in reference to the topical SER
mons he has been preaching and to the
agitation now in progress in Savannah
for the suppression of some of the most
widely recognized and deeply deplored vio-
lations of law that go on in this city.
DR.. Jordan said that in his recent SER
mons he had attempted to speak advised
ly and temporarily, cherishing no bitter
ness or animosity towards any man, but
at the same time honestly and canddly,
in love.
81 quite realize" he said chat if need
ed reforms are to be accomplished, it will
take time and labor and earnest and CON
secrated effort. 1 apprehend that faith
full policemen will be criticized for plac-
ing on the docket those who violate the
law, and that honorable citizens will be
arraigned for testifying against them in
the Court House. You may be sure that
a lawyer has poor case who feels him
self called upon or obliged to adopt such
course, who feels that he must villify
the states witnesses in order to serve
the interests of his client
Il pity the lawyer who has to adopt
such tactics; the lawyer is entitled to our
pity who can find nothing good TO say
in behalf of his client and feels that he
must resort to abuse of good citizens,
who have brought his client to the bar
of Justice
Then DR.. Jordan turned to the discussion
OF the double subject of the evening. He
said that one of the most hurtful forms
of life-activity of the present day was
what is known as the general credit sys-
tenn. The habit of being persistently and
always in debt is one of the heaviest
weights that any young man can carry
IN the race to attain SUCCESS. Il will
blight and ruin the brightest prospects
and prevent the rise in the world of any
young man who permits himself to be
hampered by it,
There is no reason for it," DR.. Jor-
dan declared. II honor the honest and
hardworking man as he deserves to be
honored. indeed the man who does not
do his appointed work in the world
whether with his hands, his brain his
tongue or his capital, does not much de-
serve to be honored. If a man is to be
OF any value to the community in which
ne lives he must work-he must have
some honest and reputable way in which
to employ his thought and his energies
There is an old proverb that An idle
brain is Satan's workshop L think it
will become proverb equally true that
Idle hands are Satans tools for work.
ing mischief The man who gets the
most out of this life is the man who puts
the most into it,"
The leading characteristics of the
French and Scotch people were discussed
and the conclusion deduced that it was
the necessity under which the Scotchman,
living in country of few natural ad-
vantages, labors, of having to work and
work hard for his daily bread, that has
given him the thrift and honor and up
rightness that to-day are recognized char
acteristics of his nation, while the
frenchman, whom a fertile soil and a
smiling sun relieve of the necessity of
much hard work. has lost in the process
of time some of the sterner manly vir-
tues.
"A young man." said the preacher,
can't fall into a much wors habit than
that OF continual debt. If he persists in
1t he is digging his own grave and pre-
pairing his own eventual ruin and dis
grace
There are men holding positions of
trust. who sometimes will take the money
which they are paid for the goods they
sell for their employers, place it in their
own pockets and charge the amount of
the sale to the purchaser, replacing it
before the end of the month and pretend
ing that the purchaser has paid the bill.
There are others who will take money
from their employers tifls, with the in
tention of replacing IL. without their en-
poyers' permission or knowledge-take
money merely to spend in some idle pleas
ure, to carouse or to speculate. l tell
you. the man who is guilty of such prac-
tees is dishonest and dishonorsble, how
ever good his intentions may be. He is
thief already in the sight of God, as
he will be in the sight of man."
DR.. Jordan made a strong plea for
strict honesty and strict economy and
bitterly denounced the practice of some
Young men of borrowing money on their
salaries, at exorbitant rates of interest.
He condemned with even greater strength
the practice some young men haye Of
borrowing money idly and just as idly
forgetting to repay 1t. No good could
come of indulgence in such criminal weak
nesses, and the man who INDUCED him
self in them would live bitterly to regret
his weakness and folly.
The rest of the sermon was devoted TO
The proper relation that should exist be-
tween capital and labor The principal
was laid down. said DR.. Jordan, in the ad-
mention of the Savior Thou shalt love
my neighbor as myself"
have neither respect for nor SYM
pathy with the employer who keeps his
employees steadily grinding away from
morning until night. who is constantly
demanding extra effort. who has no con-
sideration for their wants, feelings or as
Prations He Is a thief because he de-
nands more than he is willing TO give in
return; he Is n murderer because he
makes mis- enaDloVea wear ont their lives