The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-23
SEEDS OF ANARCHY
ARE BEING sOwN IN SAVANNAH
EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
A VIOLATION OF ONE LAW
LEADS TO AND ENCOURAGES THE
VIOLATION OF ALL OTHERS.

the saIoonkeeper, Who Keeps
Open His Bar on sunday, and the
Spirit of the Assassin of President
Mckinley, Says Rev. Ed f. Cook.
1t Is "A Question of Interest With
BOth-In Both Cases Disregard OF
Law the Controlling Impulse-Mi-
nor Violation Leads Imperatively
/ to the Greater-Grand Jury and
the OglethOrpe Club Scored.
TT may surprise you to hear it, but
! the seeds of the anarchy that inspired
| the assassination of the President are
| being sown in Savannah this very day
| They have been sown every day since
| my residence in the city began"
This statement was made last night
| by Rev. Ed. F. Cook, in the course
\ of an eloquent and impressive sermon
| delivered at Wesley Monumental
! Church. The preacher referred to the
violation and open disregard of the
laws of the land displayed in the sale
of liquor on Sunday. He said that the
| spirit which dictated the violation of
| this law could not be differentiated in
kind from the spirit of anarchy, which
! inspired the assassin of the President
| to perpetrate his fiendish crime.
Mr. Cook was continuing his discus
! sion of THE Lessons of Experience"
| began in a former sermon. The text
was from Genesis, 30:27: And La
ban said unto him, pray thee, if
| have found favor in thine eyes, tarry;
for l have learned by experience that
the Lord hath blessed me for thy
sake"
Experience is a good teacher" said
| Mr.. Cook, but many of us are not apt
pupils. Those who fail to learn the
lessons of experience miss some of the
most valuable lessons of life. Exper-
| fence teaches the higher wisdom, shows
| the nature of God, shows the individ-
ual how to perfect his own life, shows
| the nation and the community how to
| form and maintain a wise and stable
| government"
Mr.. Cook said that Jacob had learn
| ed the folly of sin by the lessons of
| bitter experience. He had seen that
sin was not profitable in himself and
| he had seen the results of sin he dis
| covered in his own person return to
| him in the treatment he received at
| the hands of others. He had seen his
own treachery and his own ingratitude
return to him. in the treachery and in
| gratitude with which others treated
| him. He had to flee from home on ac-
count of his sins, and it was on his
journey then that he had revealed to
| him the cleansing and Transforming
| power of Gods grace.
He saw ladder that assembled from
earth to heaven he saw angels ascend
ing and descending and more than all
he was brought face to face with the
Eternal God Himself He made a COW
enant with the Most High, and as he
had learned by experience the folly of
sin, so by experience he learned the
| mercy and the peace that come with
the grace of God. He saw himself
| transformed.
There are many sweet lessons that
can be learned from this history. but
| ii seems to me that the sweetest of all
lessons is that of the Transforming
power of Gods love upon the sinner. 1t
is the lesson that should be learned by
the church to-day" said the pastor.
Mr.. Cook said that, despite the fact
that Laban was not good man and
had treated Jacob with treachery and
|
| yet recognized that through Jacob God
had sent him material blessings, and
when Jacob sought to leave. he begged
| him to continue in his employ.
ooh, my friends" said Mr.. Cook,
1--WE want in the church now that sin
certify and character and uprightness
that will make the world say. larry
with u.s. for we have learned by ex-
perience that the Lord hath blessed us
for thy sake"
He said that nobody could overesti-
mate the value to a community of the
presence and influence of a few good
men within it's limits For their sake
God would avert the storm and the
flames and the pestilence. Men of in
iquity may despise them, but others
will learn to know, not only from the
Word. but also from the lessons of ex-
perience, that the Lord has blessed the
community for their sake Thought,
transformed into action. when it is in
spired by conscience and right, is bet
ter than all the sermons that can be
preached. Many a divided home, where
the father is doing all that he can by
precept and example to bring the chill
dren up the wrong way, is saved from
destruction by the influence of a good
woman's life.
II want to ask you a question. Do
you suppose that good can come do
you suppose that God has blessed a
community because of the presence
there of the proprietor of the gilded
bar, of the music halls that throw out
their temptations on our principal
streets. of the gambling hell. where
youth is enticed to ruin? Do you
| suppose that the mothers of this city
can say of these persons and those who
advocate and practice corruption in
politics, They have learned by exper-
ence-God has blessed them for their
| sake?'
But, Notwithstanding these men of
sin, who are strong in evil doing, who
defy the law. who. spew out of their
mouths the names of those who dare
to stand for virtue and the truth,
there have been and are men in this
city for whose sake the Lord has bless
ed it, Don't you know there are moth
ers who, when they meet Brantley Den
| mark on the streets of heaven. will be
able to say that the Lord has blessed
them for his sake?"
Mr.. Cook mentioned also the names
of Mr.. Samuel b. Adams, of Mr.. w. b.
Stubbs and of Rev. Bascom Anthony
as men for whose sake the Lord had
blessed the community, to whose in
fuence and example and aid in time
Of need thousands of young men could
] nOipt that which had aNypd THAR