The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
What Others Say.
Sunday School Times.

| OuHuuy SCHOot IHHeS.
Temptation, to well-disposed
young man, is more likely to come
with force from good men than from
bad men; from church-members whose
standard is lower than it should be-,
than from men of the world whose
standard is known to be a false one.
So long as it is understood by young
man that there is sharp line of distinc-
ton, on moral questions, between HIM
self and certain others with whom he
is brought in contact, he can brace
himself up with firmness against any
Invitations of theirs TO turn into paths
of doubtful propriety. But when q
young man finds that his Christian
companions generally take it for grant
ed that it is altogether proper to pur.
sue course that he has been accus-
toned to view with suspicion, then he
is in peculiar danger of being swayed
in his judgment away from the high
est staadard without realizing his peril
at that point. Indeed, as a practical
matter, Christian young man never
has more need Of being on his guard
lest he lower his standard of thought
and conduct, than when he is with
Christian associates whose standard is
not at all points higher than his own.
There is sickly sentiment obtain
ing i'll some quarters that the church
must afford amusement and entertain
ment to the young people in order to
hold them. The singing and the SER
vice must be as nearly operatic and
theatrical as is allowable in order to
hold the crowd. On this subject E. P.
Marvin, in Ecclesiastical Amusen,ents,
says:
1t used to be held that Jesus and his
work furnished ample resources to
meet the loftiest aspiration of saved
soul. That sort of sentiment is now
thought not to be up to ~ i,nes.n
Sad as it may appear, Judging from the
new order of things, Jesus is not equal
to the occasion. A little amusement
must be thrown in. In order to keep
the people from the theater and opera,
our churches must be made semi-thea-
ters and semi-operas. The royal ordi-
nance of preaching retires before the
popular ordinance or entertainment.
| Interior.
IF boy, freed from the restraints
Of home, uses his liberty at college to
make fool, scamp, or u loafer Of
himself, he ought to be dismissed from
: college in short order. 1t is an outrage
on diligent and serious-nlinded STU
dents, to have such fellows put into the
same classes with them; or to have
the professors time, which ought to be
given to those who are anxious to
learn, taken UP in efforts to coax or CO.
cree the unruly ones. But, better than
the corrective Of dismissal, is the pre-
ventive suggested by the Nation.
"If parents think their son is un-
equal to the temptations to which the
inevitable freedom of college life eX-
poses him, the proper remedy is not TO
commit his morals to the care of q
poor, hard worked professor, who is
already staggering under the weight Of
his didactic load, but to keep the youth
at home. a youth who needs watch
ing, who can not be trusted to walk
the street alone is best and most effec-
tiyely watched by his father and moth
er. Their espionage is the only espi-
onage which will not demoralize him,
and their remonstrances OH his man
ners and excuses are the remon-
STRANGE, most likely to prove effectu-
al"
MAX MULLER ON RELIGIoN.-Pro-
fessor Max Muller was not long ago
entertained at dinner by the Glasgow
University Club. In reply to the toast
of his health Professor Max Muller said
some who had heard his Clifford lee
lures in Glasgow were disappointed,
because they were under the impress
sion that the object of the lectures was
to PROFOUND new relisiou This was
not the sense in which he interpreted
the will of Lord Clifford. Instead of
propounding a new religion, Professor
Muller thought that the best plan
would be to eXpound the old religion,
to show, not so much what religion
should be, but what it had been.
What was wanted was not new relig-
ion, but renewed religion, more espe-
, clally when he considered that Europe