The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-16

The Baocalaureate Sermon By Rev.
W. H. Pinkerton-Children's
Day Services.
THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION

iarBe anu interestou ooEBroknsAon
was present At the Broadway Method
list church last night. After reading
the paragraph from the seventh Chap
ter Of Luke which closes with the
words: But wisdom is justified Of
all her children" DR.. Briggs re-
marked that the subject Of his dis
course was 1.-THE Church and the
Nottingham. but he regretted that
IL would be necessary for him to refer
once more 10 the controversy over the
town COW. II would be qualification
to him. he said. II every family in
the city were able 70 keep COW, but
no unselnsh citizen ought TO be will
ing to keep COW Of somebody else's
expense. The purpose Of the ordinance
was to prevent the COW from being .
public nuisance. II the city did not
want the ordinance that was the city's
business but in defeating It the coun-
Gil would place Paducah far behind
other cities Of The same class. He then
read letters from the mayors Of the
following cities and towns: Danville,
ILL.,, population 1884; Warsaw, Ind,
population 8,9s7; Lafayette. Ind,
population 1915; Sullivan, Ind,
population s.iis; DelAvsn, Wis, pop
ulation 2,224; Fort Atkinson, Wis,
population s,o4s; xenia, o., popula-
tion s,697; Piqua, o., population 49,
ia; Bloomington, Ill population 49,
2s7; Lexington. Ky, population 49,
90 Q; Owensboro, KY, population 49,
1879.
In every case the mayor stated that
his city or town had adopted the or
dinanoe. that the people were delight
cd with IL and would not under any
circumstances 60 back to the old plan
Of allowing cattle to run loose In the
streets. In one case IL was stated that
there had been objection to the sdop-
tion Of the ordinance until . fire
alarm having been turned in Just after
nightfall, the engine hurrying TO the
fire had run into bunch Of cattle
asleep on the streets, wrecking the
engine and severely wounding several
firemen. The people had then unani-
mously declared that the cattle must
be kept out Of the streets.
At this point In the discourse the
speaker turned to the consideration
Of what appeared to him to be far
more serious matter. In the public
criticism Of his sermon il had been
declared: First. That the church
cared nothing for the poor and was
Indifferent to the rights Of the work
ingman. This he felt to be an unpar-
donable Misrepresentation. Jesus lived
and died the friend Of the poor and
the church had followed in his foot
steps. II had been declared, secondly,
that this indifference to their rights
was the reason why the masses did
not go to church. But the truth was
II the masses stayed away from church
it was simply because they wanted to.
1t had been declared, thirdly, that IL
the churches did not show more inter-
est in the workingman they would be
still further deserted. But this he re-
garded as threatened boycott, un-
worthy of the workingmAn. The gos-
pei was bread for the worlds hunger,
If the world turned away from it, so
much the worse for the world. It was
balm for the worlds healing; If the
world abandoned it, again so much the
worse for the world There was far
worse danger tina cattle in the