New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1921-12-05
HON. JOHN LOT
AS CITY JUDGE
But Needs His HaySeed Uncle in
Time Of Trouble

Charles l.. Goodell at his last after
noon meeting, a meeting for men
only at the First Baptist church yes
tcrday afternoon, The sermon might
Just as tittingly have been announced
as Looking After Number |, or The
Hon. John G. Lot and His Haysccd
Uncle" Rev, Henry W. Maicr was in
charge OF the meeting. Rev John l..
Davis, Rev, Dr. George w, c. Hill,
Rev William Ross and Rev. A. b.
Taylor occupied the platform, NJ. f..
Hoglund sang a tenor solo. Owing to
the mass meeting opening the Amer
can education week, at the pala,
theater, the meeting was not larger
attended.
The Hon. John c. Lot
This is the time for Christian men
30 go out and do business for God,
Sell your goods, bring back orders,
don't come in With PROMISES he
said The text was announced. And
Lot sat in the gates of Sodom.' In
the gates of Sodom was where mat
tiers of local jurisprudence We're set
tied. Lot probably was an alderman,
or maybe the city Judge. 1t was in
the gates of the city where the wise
men and councillors sat The late
Mr. Moody in speaking of Lot sitting
in the gates of the city called him
The Honorable John G.. Lot
Looks After No. T.
This is an age of matcrialism,"
said the Rev. Or. Goodell. Things
rather than principles prodominate
Lot had no initiative. While he stay
cd with his uncle Abraham. things
went fine. Lot was the father of al
the men who look after Number l.
He said, The best is good enough for
me, and those who come after can
take what's left When Lots herds
men and Abraham's herdsmen could |
not get along very we'll together and !
they found they would have to sepa-
rate, Abraham told Lot to take his |
choice. SO Lot went down and pitch
ed his camp in the Jordan valley.
The place he left for Abraham was
so rocky that if was almost necessary
for Abraham to have the noses of
his sheen sharpened once a month to
get down between the stones to eat
the grass.
A Distinctive Conjunction
"But-there occurs here a disiunc
Sodom were wicked and sinned he
fore God exceedinglv.' That is the
most unfortunate sentence in the
whole story. The man who has no
God in his heart is damned from the
heginninq He will NOT need anv bo1 !
hereafter he'll have hell enough here
on earth. It looks sometimes as
though the devil helms the thief and
the libertine. but sometimes God
helps the policeman and the law
breaker comes to the end of his rome.
Putting 1t Tn To Father
"Iiot pitched his tent toward So |
DOM Had he pitched his tent fac
ing the west toward Abraham's camp, |
where he would have seen Abraham's |
fires and the smoke from his offerings
to God every day, instead of pitching
his tent toward the south where he
faced the city, Lot would have been
saved considerable trouble. But one |
day Mother Lot came to Father Lot
and said. John, don't YOU think we
have money enough now to move into
the city? The girls are getting big |
and they say they never get anywhere
away out here in the country. They
won't have an opportunity to marry
into the best families unless we move |
into the CITY, Then the girls got
after him too. You know what han
pens when the women in the family
get after father. Same thing with
Lot
Left Tho Farm
80 Lot sold the farm, or else
turned it over to the farm superin- |
tendent and moved into the city He |
bought a corner lot and built a fine |
house. He became a prominent citi- |
zen, went into politics and got to be
Judge and a member of the board |
of aldermen.
The Haysced Uncle
The first war mentioned in the |
bible began on this spot. The reason |
why there are wars between nations
is because there is hate in the indi-
Vidual hearts and the way to stop
wars is to get hate out of the human
hearts. The war came, Sodom was
defeated and Lot and his friends
were taken captive. Then it was he
thought of Abraham and tried to get
someone to take a message to the old
hayseed uncle out there on the farm. |
Many time when nephew in the
city gets into trouble he sends for the
old hayseed uncle on the farm whom
he wouldn't let have his side bed |
room any other time, and says. Tn
in trouble, please bring your bank
book