The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-09

GREoATIoN.
Rev. Dr. Anderson lectured to men
only at the First Presbyterian church
/ Sunday afternoon, the congregation
being a fairly large one. and listened
| attentiveIy to the remarks Of DR.. An
| derson, which were IN part as fol-
| lows:
~ wish TO call your attention to the
| reaSonabieness of this meeting. 1t IS
| entirely reasonable for men to get to-
| getheE and talk about these things,
! and anyone who thinks it is not rea-
/ sonable is mistaken. If this was Mon
/ day afternoon or Monday evening, anc
you were called together TO decide
some business enterprise or the needs
/ of commerce. or any other business
! issue in order to get it started, ft
would be entirely reasonable. Well,
we need to do it in religion. 1t is
reasonable in my mind that We should
do it.
81 wish you could have been with
me last November year ago in the
Music Hall in Cincinnati, on the plat
| form of the Presbyterian Brotherhood
Convention. There were fourteen
hundred and twenty men there, ali
men, / was one of the guests of
honor. Looking around l saw nice
| looking man walking around there as
| If he had the thing in charge and
asked him what church he had charge
| OF. He said, Il am cattle man."
| And l looked around and saw another
well dressed little man; he was a
! lawyer. And / met great heads OF
commercial corporations there, con-
trolling millions of dollars, but they
were there
1T is really best for men to serve
God. Here is the question l want TO
ask you. How many of you men be-
lieve that your mother or your father
ever prayed for your Gentlemen, on
the ground of that solemn action,
challenge your attention this after
noon, and I want your candid, patient,
careful attention. Before speak
am going to read the familiar pass
age found in Exodus. twentieth chap
ter:
No other God.
And God spoke all these words
saying, l am the Lord thy God which
have brought thee out of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. Thou shalt
have no other Gods before me. Thou
shalt not make unto thee any craven
| image or any likeness of anything that
is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth. Thou shalt not bow
down myself to them nor serve them,
for l the Lord thy God am a Jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the faith
ers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that
hate me; and showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments. Thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord thy
God in fnts I ard will Of
hold him guiltless that taketh His
name in vain. Remember the Sab
bath day, to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labor and do all thy work.
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of
the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt
! not do any work, thou, nor thy son,
nor thy daughter. thy manSerVant, nor
thou HatdserVant, nor thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates.
For in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that IN
them is, and rested on the seventh
day; wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honor
| thy father and thy mother that tiny
days may be long upon the land which
| the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou
shalt not kill Thou salt not commit
adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou
shalt not bear false witness against
/ luy uelSuBOf. InOu SnaiJ not CONet
\ thy neighbours house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his
| manServant, nor his maidservant, nor
! his OK, nor his ass, nor anything that
| is thy neighbours
Bob IngersolI.
Colonel Bob Tngersoll said, IF l
/ had been a God I would have made
/ happiness and good health conta-
/ gious; l would have made these things
/ to be inherited Colonel Ingersoll
/ spoke without knowledge. This pass
| age says 1 am a jealous God, visiting
1 the iniquity Of the fathers upon the
/ children unto the third and fourth
| generation of them that hate me, ana
! showing mercy unto thousands of
| them that love me, and keep my com
mandments.' Colonel IngersoIl. you
did noJ know what you We're talking
/ about Happiness is to be inherited
/ and it is a great thing TO have good
/ blood DO YOU believe in good blood
/ Do you believe in having bIooded
| stock? / don't know what you people
4 in Florida think about it, but 1 am In
| a section where they believe in blood
| ed stock At AVondale Farm there
are some magnificent specimens of
| horse flesh, and there are some of the
! finest heads Of full-bIooded Jersey
cattle Blood tells in cattle: I won
| der why 1t doesn't tell in MANI
| Men, l challenge you tC hear what
| God says: visiting the iniquity-the
! Injustice and Sin-Of the fathers