The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-10-25
LIVE TOUCHES.
Giyen To A Sermon Preached In
Brooklyn Recently.


Fred,,-has no patience with or liking
for REV. Earle, of affinity" notori-
ETY. 1t has truer name, but the News
leaves it to the reader to fifty name
1t. Read the following from the New
York World.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle and his af-
finity and the Sunrise Club occupied
third Of the sermon of the Rev. DR..
Frederick F. Shannon. Of Grace M.
E. Church, Seventh avende and st
Johns place, Brooklyn, last evening.
A congregation of 500, to whom the
trend of the sermon was a complete
surprise, listened in interest, and at
the conclusion many OF them went for
ward to congratulate their pastor. The
minister found text on which to
hang his dissertation on affinities
in John / II II: And the world pass
eth away, and the lust thereof; but
he that doeth the will OF God abideth
forever" From this he took the theme,
The Abiding Man." and he said in
part:
When we recall the affinity cases
and the sunrisers with which New
York Is cursed, we have reason to be
doubly thankful for the truth ex-
pressed in the words, The world pass
eth away and the lust thereof. And
the sooner these inhuman freaks pass
away the better it will be for society
Society owes 1t to itself to assist them
In passing away as speedily as possi-
BILE. They are warts on the social or
ganism which ought to be cut out
root and branch, to preserve the
health Of the community.
When such monstrosities as Fer
dinand Earle and the Sunrise Club
come from the depths to blacken the
surface Of the social sea they are not
entitled to the humane treatment
a coat Of tar and feathers; they need
millstones hanged about their necks
tn hold them down in their native
blackness. And say this because they
impress me as being about the only
element in society whose case is ut
terly hopeless There is hope for the
drunkard and the murderer and the
gambler and the fallen woman, but
these artistic assassinators Of the
home. these exponents of free-loveism
tbs foul-minded libertines, who sco-f
at legal marriage; these biped vultures
who perch in the tree Of civilization
and croak at the common decencies
of life, these broad-minded ladies' and
gentlemen who are martyrs because
of the narrowing restrictions Of law
and order-why, they seem to belong
to Byron's freed inheritors of hell.
for whom there is neither social, men,
tai, moral nor spiritual redemption
Il do not know where the Sunrise
Club got its name, but after reading
an interview of one OF its members l
am inclined to think that the name
was suggested by the probable prac-
tice Of the club itself-breaking D
about sunrise in the morning. after
a night OF unspeakable orgies and
brutal dissipation. 1t is said that
as an organization the Sunrise Club
has no principles, but all ~ mem-
bers are men and women of pronounc-
ed indiyidualities.
Well. don't suppose the club has
ever been accused of having any e
cent principles. and as for the mat
ter Of its members being men and wo-
men of pronounced indivtdualities, the
devil himself has a pronounced in
dividuality; but he is too much of
gentleman to stay where he is not
wanted Now 1 do not believe that
eNponents of the doctrines Of the
Sunrise Club are wanted in America
certainly not by its decent people;
but as these undesirable citizens are
already here. would modestly sug-
gest that Uncle Sam perform a whole
some missionary work by building
kind of national pig-sty on some
lonely island aud then give them free
transportation thereto with full knowl-
edge that such colony would soon
die OF its own filth"