The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-10
Methodist Church
AT Beach Filled TO
Hear DR.. Cooke

Bishop Richard ) ceoke. whose
home Is ii Tennessee but sho during
the PAST sevasai ysars nas been sta
TONED a seattle WASH. and Helena.
Mont and eho il universally recog
nizea a. one of the most powerful
ministers 81 the Methodist church.
preached here last night 10 as large
an audience as could be accommodate
ea 10 tha Community III E. auditor
ium tie has a very pleasing appear
aaee has the paiee Of a trained orator
and Is ~ times sirikiugly dramatic IN
his delivery
For the Scripture lesson Bishop
Ccoke read the familiar Lost sheep
Parable end this also proved 10 be
ghe text OF ais discourse lie began to
develop the logical conclusions Of
what proved 70 be- a very effective
aud powerful sermon b describing
tie said that the leaving or the going
away from the place where person
belongs as regards chat particular
feature OF life. damuation and that
when he retained 20 his proper moor
ings THAI Was salvation The coming
back. he said. constitutes redemption.
There are sofe heads than brains in
the world and for that reason every
belief had It's following. no matter
how Fidiculons it might be but he in
sisted ihat there was but one author
.tatise Voice and that was OF God aud
that his was the only ore with power
10 open the gate and order the way
for mankind lie showed how per
sons could be lost 20 the church or to
the family o. 10 the home or 60 any
other alignment 20 which they be-
loneed He said the sheep in the par
able had simply nibbled and nibbled
itself away until it was lost 20 the
others and insisted that many men
and women became lost 10 the better
things OF life in, the same way He
called attention TO the fact OF people
become lost 90 the church by simply
neglectmg 10 go to the services for a
time for some excuse or another. He
denied that men were totally depraved
or that any man was under the wrath
OF God Of that any child was damned
1t birth He feeiingiy referred To the
sad havoc OF divorce had brought to
society resulting in disgrace, destruc-
ton Of homes and all kinds eli suffer
ing. chief Of which he named the de-
sertion and bereavement OF innocent
children He aptly said that these Of
ten came as the result of nibbliug
and nlbbing away until finally the fa-
Their or the mother had lost their way
from the home and as an instance
cited the bridge playing wife, who
was away when the husband came
home weary from his days labor and
found ne one 10 make home. lie
paid an eloquent tribute to the moths
err who was at home ana said there
was no place in the world that could
be a home without one He said that
unity. the clmging together and tbs
corporation with those to whom We
belonged. is salvation lie told an ef-
fective story OF how in Alaska th'
wolves hunt the big and powerful
moose and by sticking together il
packs and by maneuvarinss known
only TO themselves, finally get one o
the moose separated from the Others
mhen it becomes easy 10 attack ano
destroy him This demonstrated tht
necessity and value Of united action
+ He said the strength of tho churcl
was the member the strength Of tn
member the church, thes Iength g
the home the father aud mother ant
1.-The strength OF the father and mother
+ the home
Bishop Cooke aa.G that lost LAM
and the lost moose had simply drop
ped cut OF the places in which the
belonged and were no longer fune
lticning in their society They ha
dropped out of circulation and wer
mo longer filing their purpose in life
Just so men drop the association an
1.-THE corporation ion which God ha
intended them aud theY gre lost TO a
great thoughts and dreams and act!
They are put 10 touch with life as
should be and lose an power OF align
nent with the spiritual he declare
that liza man goes out from The worl
oi civilization into the forests, he vi
become beast, he Viii lose hi
power Of thought aud speech and vi
go about mumbling that which is III
ineligible lie gets on lower plat
form than is intended for the huma
he Is q wild beast and viii never az