The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-20

forerunpers to prepare the way befor
Him? Does He not clearly teach tha
truth is designed thus to win its way
to make its conquests silently? to ed
vance, step by step, from one degree o
excellency to another?
'First the blade, then the ear, afte
that the full corn in the ear" Tn,
little mustard seed, cast into the soil
already prepared for its reception, al
ready containing the nutriment, shall
shoot out its great branches and aftorc
shade and shelter for the birds of tn,
air. The leaven placed in the prepared
meal diffuses itself throughout the mas.
and brings the whole under its power
These are some of the illustrations useC
by the Great Teacher to set forth tht
progressive and aggressive nature O
truth under normal conditions. The
secret OF its failure to accomplish it
mission iu this manner is, I think
! clearly disclosed in this pregnant utter.
/ ance Of Dr.. Strong: 1--WE have in
herited from our Latin fathersa vicious
duallsm, running through our life, 6
line Of cleavage dividing it into the
sacred and the secular" There ia oul
trouble. There is the source of what.
ever is problematical in all the spheres
Of life. Acquisitions of every kind
under such an Inheritance will neces
sarily engender strife.
| l remember to have read, about three
years ago, in some newspaper, a decla.
ration to the efec THAT South Carolina
played the fool every thirty years !
was. then very much impressed with
the. charge. There is a deep p philosophy
underlying that observation. That
kind Of thing is not bounded by State
Ines-that is not system peculiar to
South Carolinians. Ie is ouly another
way Of stating the fact that every gene
ration has its own problems to solve,
its own difficulties o confront, its own
issues to meet, It's own evils to adjust,
It's own battles to fight, its own history
to write.
Idoubt not that it has always been
thus in the worlds history, unless it
be in such periods as these when the
masses wore too sensual and degraded
to he competent to raise an issue.
I have read nf the visit of the wise
men to Jerusalem in search of Him
who had been born king of the Jews.
Their inquiry was startling to the ruler.
Violent measures were resorted to, that
no rival claims to the throne might
ever rise. Thirty years later the open
conflict came. You all know the sc.
ouel, in part. Generations have come
and gone; empires have risen and
fallen; and through all OF the shifting
scenes Of history, there has been too
constant realization Of the poets vision:
| Truth forever on the scafold, wrong forever
Oh the throne"
But the potency of truth has been seen
in the completion of the vision:
"Yet that scafrold sways the future, and
behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping
watch above his own"
By an education, distinctively and
positively Christian in every particu-
lar, Truth may be euthroued, aud all
the blessings of peace may be secured,
and the onward and upward march of
civilization will not be attended with
strife and bitterness.
The hope Of the permanency of our
institutions and Of she perpetuity of
our government-the key to the salts
factory solution of the problem which
must Inevitably and copstautiy,arise is
to be found, not in that imposing mis-
representation of Liberty enlignten-
ing the world" but in that more mod
estaud yet more expressive monu-
ment of'the Puritan Pilgrims standing
at Plymouth-this statue Of Faith,
pointing with one hand to heaven. and
holding in the other an open Bible,
surrounded by tour figures represent
ing Morality, Liberty, Religion and
Education, procfaims the one true and
sure method by which any people may
achieve a glorious destiny.
Fired by these motives, and guided
by these principles, may it be our high
purpose and our firm determination
and our praiseworthy effort to contrib
ute our full quota of strength and wis
dom to the realization of such q des-
tiny, and thus:
"Ring out q slowly dying cause.
And ancient forms OF party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes Of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
"Ring out false pride in place and blood,
Ring in the love Of truth and right,
Ring In the common love Of good.
"Ring ort old shapes Of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars Of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
"Ring in the valiant man and free:
The larger heart. the kindlier hand,
Ring ont the darkness Of the land,
Ring In the Christ shat is to be.".
THE ADDRESS BEFORE THE LITERARY
SOCIETIES.
The address before the literary socie-
ties was delivered by the Rev. C. S. We'd
der, D. D., of Charleston. He was intro
duced by President Holland and after
few pleasant Introductory remarks, in
which he captured his audience, he pro-
ceeded to tell us about books in pleas
ing and interesting manner. He is lover
Of books and, Judging from his address
last night, is familiar with his subject. He
spoke for little more than an hour with
out notes or manuscript. It was most
excellent address and no synopsis Of it
can do the speaker justice. We give be-
low q few thoughts from the address
picked out here and there, but to be ap-
preciated the address should have been
heard. a..
Dr.Vedder is pastor of the only Hugue-
not Church in America. There is no diff
ference between this Church and the
Presbyterian except that they use' the
iturgical form of service-the same form
that Is used in Switzerland. The form OF
government is the same as the lPresby-
terian Church. They have the same con-
fession of faith as composed by Calvin,
himself, in the forty original articles. In
bis Church, in Charleston, they use the
same form of service that was brought
over from France by the founders of the
Church 203 years ago.
DR.. Vedder is a most delightfully."-
genial and pleasant old gentleman, and
we confess to having fallen in love with
him almost as soon as we met him. He
was classmate IN college of DR.. Cozby of
our town. He is a native OF New York
but has been in Charleston for upwards
of thirty years and pastor of bis present
church twenty. eight years. He celebrated
his silver wedding some three years ago
and is accompanied on his visit to New
berry by Mrs. Vedder. He was chaplain
in the Confederacy, and has been chap
lain of the Confederate Home in Charles
So, fa- &r,o~k1 ,,oo~,