The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-05
SALVATION EXPLAINED
BY METHODIST BISHOP
Rev. Richard ]. Cooke
breaches Twice Before
Missoula People.
AT LUNCHEON TODAY
Chamber of Commerce to
Entertain in Churchman's
Honor at Noon.
AT LUNCHEON TO-DAY

Bishop Richard J. Cooke of Helena
the head of the Methodist church in
North Dakota. delivered two sermons
to large congregations at the First
Methodist Episcopal church yesterday.
How Men Are Lost and How Men Are
Saved" was the subject of the sermon
given at the morning service. Last
evening the bishop spoke on How a
Nation May Lose It's Soul"
At noon today the Missoula Chamber
Of Commerce will give a luncheon at
the Palace hotel, at which Bishop
Cooke will deliver an address on ma
tional and Community Cooperation"
The luncheon is open for both men
and women and will begin promptly
at IL o'clock.
Violation Of Sabbath.
Bishop Cooke approached his sub
1ect yesterday by reference to the
value of the loyalty of the people of
today to those of the coming genera
tons. He said that the future of the
state of Montana depended upon the
willingness of the people to live close
to God and practice righteousness.
Speaking as a publicist and not as a
preacher, he said that the attitude
taken by the men who violate the Sab
bath Is not one of disbelief but OF
heathenism and that due respect to
civilization of the United states should
cause them to observe the day.
To cover up evil designs, said Bishop
Cooke, men have only to assume the
role of an unbeliever. The people who
scott at the theology of the church
know nothing, he coAtinued.
People think God too good to punish
his children; they scott at fire and
birthstone, saying that it is only en-
blematic, said the bishop. But the
Bible was not written, he said for the
discussion of a few learned men. 1t
was written for the people.
mo one knows what it is to be lost
except the one who experiences it and
his knowledge extends only to present
experiences" statd the speaker, and
told. as an Illustration, of a beautiful
woman he had once seen being taken
on board train by her husband for
transfer to a hospital for the insane
He gave description of the scene of
parting when the mother was taken
away from her children. Everything
making for a good home was there, he
said, but the woman was lost Her
brain was gone and she was lost to her
home, her husband and her children
The Ten Commandments.
IF you think the Ten Command
ments are out of date said the speak
er, Just feel the pulse of the universe
and you will find that the Ten Com
mandments are still doing business at
the same old stand.'
To illustrate how men are lost
Bishop Cooke told of how the sheep
the coin and the boy of Bible lore were
lost. The sheep was lost by nibbline
away from the herd. going from one
bunch of sweet grass to another unit
1t fell over the precipce and was
eaten by the jackals. This, he said
was how many men and women Of this
world were lost. The men wande,
from the home to the poolroom, the
saloon and other places of vice until
they are lost. The women leave the
home for an undue number of social
affairs and are eventually lost to that
home characterized as the center OF
souls hope by the speaker. No place
he continued. is so forlorn as the home
without mother; and where she Is
there is always home
Dropping Out.
The coin got lost by droppine
through the fingers of woman. But
said the bishop, it's real loss was when
1t dropped out of circulation. Men be-
lleve sometimes that they are self suf-
ficient, that they can live by them
selves. Let them try it," dared the
speaker. You will lose life if YOU try
1t and go down into the depths of
saVagery." Man cannot devclop with
out society, man is built for society
lie cannot drop out of circulation
without being lost. he said
The story of the boy who was lost
was the story of the prodgal son
GOD came to the bow while he wac NJ