The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-10
SALOON MEN CAUTIOUS
ONLY ONE ARREST FOR SELLING
 WHISKEY SUNDAY.
Rev. E. E. Cobbs in Sermon at St. John's Church ns"l"red Civic Righteousness Can De Broughe
 About by S4laAels.

Whiskey dealers were more cautious Sunday in selling liquor in Montgomery, owing to the new law governing the dis pensing of fntoxicants.
 It cannot be said that no liquor was sold in Montgomery, but the front doors of the bar rooms were closed and if liquor was sold, 1t was decidedly more under cover than has been the case in Montgomery on Sunday for some time.
 The police were under strict orders to enforce the new law, which provides for heavy fine for the first offense and a revocation of license for the second of- fense. Only one arrest resulted. Harry Hood, a bar tender for the Galatas res- taurant on Commerce street, was arrested Sunday night about o'clock by Patrol men Wells and Mahler. His trial is set for Wednesday before Recorder Airing ton. It is understood that the validity of the law will be tested by Hood.
 Dr. A. L. Andrews. president of the Min- isters' Union of Montgomery, when seen yesterday, said that the union had taken no action in the matter at its regular weekly meeting except that Police Chief Gerald had been seen and urged to rigid ly enforce the law.
 In connection with the new law. Rev. E. P. Cobbs, rector of St. Johns Episco- pal Church at the morning service Sunday pECdCtCu ClO4uCiLAy Oh SANAS ANt6hNOOAo- ness"
 The young rector contended that the righteousness of the city rested entirely in the hanos of it's citizenship, and that the police regulations were only minor considerations. The key note to the dis course was that without the aid of the citizens the law officers are unable to properly enforce the governing laws; that the morals of city cannot be worse than the citizens.
 MT. Cobbs said in part:
 Tt is not without significance that St. John in his mysterious vision, saw the living picture of the city of God And 1t is because men and women who are true to almost every other responsibility in life, are too often found undertaking and ignoring their duty to the city and to State that I want to speak of this, the great Christian city. And this negligence comes largely through ignorance of the true conditions which surround them. They little realize that the most profound, most persistent, most vital forces that work for good or for evil-for victory or for despair-are the forces that are in the hands of the city; and this thing we call the city Is no inanimate, dead machine, but it is the corporate body of living men and women, and therefore is to be made righteous and Christian as well as the and if the city be given over to Iawlessness and to sin-God save your children, though they be nourished with the tenderest, purest love of the family, and taught in the most sacred, most holy faith of the church.
 '"The vision of the City of God'-the hope of the Christian City'-demands from us here and now what We may call civic righteousness. and civic righteous ness is only the righteousness of a true man in relation to the duty he owes to other men.
 we, too, have a right to ask not mere- ly support, but leadership from those of the church. But alas! the picture is too common The men who could and who ought to work for the righteousness of the city quietly withdraw into the seclu- sion and comfort of their own homes and sigh because the city is so evil, and when from the pulpit protest is heard against the increasing lawlessness and open sin of the city, men say that the minister Is overstepping his limits. Let politics alone and let him whisper on always the soft platitudes and pleasing words.
 May God save the city from such citi- | zens! May God save the church from such ministers, and give us men who shall support and lead In every movement for the righteousness of the city.
 ''What js the city? Who is the city? Are not even you her citizens. Who made her laws? And who shall enforce her commands? Until every good man re- eIizes that 1t is his duty and his privilege in so far as he may be able to see that the laws are enforced, we shall continue in our present pitiful condition. and we shall look in vain to the officers and to | the poIIce for enforcement of laws. the 1 in frip cement of which is winked at by | our leading men.
 "3,It there is one sure way to enforce | ,av That is to get the common senti- | nent of the city behind 1t, and unless | that common sentiment of the best men | and women is going to express itself and l to takA the lead. We shall look in vain | for any paid officers to enforce the law.
 ..NGv brethren, the city is yours; the | dutv of making 1t righteous and faithful | Is a responsibility which is not changed. though you deny or ignore it.
 ..You cannot, perhaps. do away with all | ain and misery In the individual life by | making the city holy and righteous. Some | men will always find occasion for sin. But | iu the name of GOd-and in the name of | humanity. and in the name of those whom |
 rfa nd f,f |