The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-08
ON LIES AND LIARS
REV. BAsCOM ANESONY PREACHED
AT TRINITY CHURCH.
SOME SHAMS OF THE DAY.
HE WHO DOES FALSE PLUMBING IS
A LIAR IN LEAD.

FaIsehOod in Architecture Is Ex-
hibited in Lath Houses Covered
with Cement That Masquerade as
stone Mansions Quoted Judge
BarrOw's Words in the Abe CO.
hen Supersedeas Case-NO False
Theory Ever Abides.
Rev. Bascom Anthony preached a
pungent sermon last night, puncturing
the bubbles of some of the shams that
are common to the day. His text was
taken from Proverbs, 20 and II: THE
bread of lying is sweet to a man, but
afterwards his mouth shall be filled
with gravel" From this theme he dis
coursed on lying and some forms of it
that are seen every day in business
and in the home.
who is a liar?" asked Rev Mr..
Anthony. ANY one who by word. look
or act seeks to make an impression
contrary to fact is a liar, whether he
succeeds in misleading or not he re-
piled.
ITO speak or act falsely is to recog-
nize ones own weakness and inferior
ity. The merchant who has honest
goods at honest prices is under no
necessity to deceive. It's the man who
can't meet him in quality or price that
lies, and by so doing, recognizes his
inferiority.
Refuge of RascaIs.
'Falsehood is not only the hiding
place of the weak, but the refuge of
fhea -o1I A 1s.,, L., .rvsI1
do false plumbing and disease and
death come to those who relied on him
liar in food stuffs finds his way
into the factories and behind the coun-
ters of the stores, and nations
digestion is ruined. You buy lard
and at the breakfast table the biscuit
will proclaim your grocer liar, and
advertise itself by it's odor as tallow
and cotton seed oil.
This falSeness has crept into our
very architecture, and some of us are
made to live in lie. In our desire to
appear something we are not we re-
produce ourselves in our houses and
build out of sappy laths and cement
seeming stone houses. But nature
will have none of it and will soon tear
its seemingness away and expose its
humbuggery to every passerby, saying
II you want to see a stone house go
N~--N- AOCNA
Buildings Are Liars.
What beautiful stone do we find in
many of our buildings! Only give ma
ture a short time and she will make
manifest the true and the false, and
will show that much we have
thought was stone, was, after all
only tin and paint. Its sham archi-
lecture created by a sham spirit that
builds sham houses for shams to live
in. Better build you a log house.
Twill cost less, last longer, be better
and is not lie, nor will it beget a
lying spirit within you.
This falseness this lack of reality
shows itself in our speech. A modern
philosopher has declared that the form
of mans speech is a surer index to
character than his face. He who is
artful and adroit speaks in adroit
words in which it is hard to entrap
him. He who strains after pompous
and high-sounding words is as his
words, and he who is simple and hon
est and has no desire to appear in any
false light, uses words easily under
stood. / believe this to be true, if it
is hard on some of us preachers.
The Truth Wanted.
1--WE want no falsehood anywhere if
we would be happy or fulfil our des-
tiny" said Rev. Mr.. Anthony. Truth,
hard and unpalatable, is better than
gilded falsehood. Spains rulers made
her believe the United States was an
easy victim, but the thunders of our
cannon drowned that falsehood France
builded herself on a lie and the reign
of terror came to show her that grim
reality had not fed the earth. The
judge on our bench spoke wise words
when he said that adhering to the
uttermost letter of the law to the hurt
of the spirit If it was the basis of mob
rule. A mob is grim and horrible but
it usually is not lie. We have laws
that are no more enforced than if thew
were not in existence. These laws, or
the machinery for their enforcement,
is, one or the other of them, lie The
one that is false shall pass away That
which is true will abide
Nothing False Abides.
mo false thing ever abides. Christ
declares of heresy, I am the truth
and he says the devil is the father of
lies and that he has come to destroy
the work of the devil.
eff you would speak truly" said
Mr.. Anthony, you must live the
truth. John Milton says: He who
would write heroic poem must first
live a heroic life. l am not one who
has disgraced beauty of sentiment by
deformity of conduct, or the maxims
of the free man by the actions of the
slave, but by the grace of God 1 have
kept my live unsullied. / take God
to witness that in all those places
where so many things are considered
lawful l have lived sound and an
touched from the profligacy and vice,
having this thought perpetually with
me, that though I might escape the
eyes of men, l certainly could not es-
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