The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-07
CHAUTAUoUANs AT ACTON.
The Camp Decorated in Honor of the Day
DR. Payne's Lecture.

The Camp Decorated in Honor of the Day
DIR. Payne's Lecture
To-day will be closing day of the assembly or
lecture course at Acton Park, and tomorrow
camp meeting will begin In spite of the assur-
arces, made with all the power of asseveration,
that Sam Jones would be on the ground on sun
day and deliver two sermons on that day, the
truth must be told, no matter what the effect
upon the gate money. Sam Jones will not be at
Acton Park and has made no unconditional
promise-the only kind it is said that will hold
him, he is in such great demand-that he would
be there Those who know. say he will not leave
Loveland. but will put in there all the time at
his disposal. Sam Small, however, will come in
his stead. and give two services tomorrow, and
DR.. Payne, OF the Ohio Wesleyan University,
viii also be present
Yesterday was Reception Day for Chautau-
quans." The cottages were decorated with flags
and evergreens, and presented very Fourth-of-
July appearance. In the afternoon the Chau-
tauquans, to the number of seventy five, formed
In procession, and after marching from the plaza
down the main avenue, preceded by the Greens
burg band, to the public square, entered the tab
ernace.
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Wesleyan University, Delaware. O., lectured on
''Shams." He said that sturdy, old iconoclast
Carlyle, naively remarks England has seven
teen millions of people-mostly fools" The
statement is rather broad one. No people in
history have ever been in danger of suffering
martyrdom by reason of their surplus wisdom
There has always been capital opportunity to
do large business in humbugging, and IL must
be admitted that business has usually fourished
The reason is not difficult to find Shams are
cheap. We are initiative beings, and follow
each other like flock of sheep.
The lecturer described the elegan. woman of
society as she sweeps along SO fearfully and won
derfully made. large part of society's customs
were characterized as neither founded in sense
nor fruitful Of good. Sham even invades the
domestic circle, that should be freest from the
follies and falsities of lfe and the home is ruled
by fashion rather than by sense, and love ceases
10 be Their power that God intended it should be.
The speaker next spoke Of educational shams.
he said the spirit of Young America is impa-
tent of delay It does everything by patent
methods and lightning processes little study
spread out exceedingly thin over superficial
curriculum; hasty rush through some special
course and the eager hand grasps diploma tes-
tifying to culture which its possessor knows
nothing about. and palming off title as an edu-
Gated man. These educational grinding mills
abound all over the country and are dubbed by
the high sounding names of college, university
and the rest The whole process is delusive.
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educational express trai3, and set him down on
the heights of knowledge cultured man in
twelve months nor ia many years. The Chau-
kauqua movement seeks TO take the common
people, and lift them up to more commanding
heights of intelligence, and stimulate them to
constant intellectual endeavor lt is in no sense
substitute for the high-schoo academy and
college, and never Was intended to be-
Society Is full of professors. from the vagrant
dancing master who styles himself professor of
the Terpsichorean ART and teaches your chill
dren bad manners and worse morals, to the pro-
lessor Of chimney sweeping. Three thousand
doctors are turned out every year from our med
zeal colleges and lawyers enough to bring in the
millennium to morrow If it is to come in that
way. Ministers and teachers abound who make
merchandise of mems minds and souls as others
do of their bodies. What q relief it is to kr ow
that genuine man In any Of these worthy pro-
LESSONS, who builds upon solid foundations, ex-
erts an influence more far-reaching and permanent
than whole brigade of charlatans among sham
reforms and reforrners; demagogues advocat
ing a. thin disguise of communism IN
der the euphonius name of labor REFORM
oivtl-serviee rsformers writing pretty platitudes
Tor party platforms about elevating this arm OF
tho service, and then damning the man who IN
dertskes TO carry itsout in honest faith There
are temperance reformers who sling their honied
words at the drunkard and the drunkard maker
and then look TO see this Goliath fall as though
hit by genuine stone. The time has come
when We must cease our sham fight with this
most fearful enemyof society, that seeks TO sub
vert the very foundations Of the government and