The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-07-10
AT THE LAKE.
The '95 Ohautauqua Assembly Under
Full Sway-Prof. Herron's Advanced
Ideas-News and Notes.


was quite suspicious. All the summer
school talent for the season and the
platform talent for the first two days
had arrived on the grounds. many had
driven in from the country around and
from the city and pitched their tents,
during the day and with the transients
from the city an audience OF three or
four hundred was present in the audi
forum to hear the entertainment.
Supt. Hager presided in his usual
happy vein and the invocation by Rev.
A. E. Thompson, formerly of Yankton
but now Of Medina, Ohio, was a thank
ful, ~trustful, earnest plea for Gods favor
Ing grace.
Mrs. Laura Andrews Rhodes Gang de-
hghtfully "Csme with me" and was 60
heartily encored that she returned :even
more acceptable in that fireside treasure
"Sleep, my darling, Sleep Her accom-
paniast on the piano is Miss Jones of
Vermilllon.
The annual address OF President Will
hanson was brief but pointed, a fine
summing up of the purpose and success
Of the Chautauqua and breathing the
spirit of both immediate and ultimate
success. He stood ready to meet any
criticism by a candid showing up Of the
methods of the management.
''THE CHRISTIAN STATE"
Next followed the lecture Of Prof. Geo.
D. Heron, Of the University, Grinnell,
Iowa, on "The Christian State" Prot.
Heron has succeeded in drawing down
upon his head more adverse criticism
than perhaps any man on the platform
since the days Of Tom Pane and before
adverting to his address last evening it
might be we'll to give the Aberdeen
News criticism Of a lecture he gave in
that city last Sunday evening": 1.-THE
church membership Of the city are in
dignant today because they were induc-
ed to forego their usual Sunday evening
services to listen to a union" s~ocialistlc,
%anarohistic, populistic h~arran9ue ia the
NJ. E. church by Prof. Heron, Of the
d~olefulness in Grinnell college. At first
the local populists e~ndeavored to secure
the grain palace for the "union services
but the management was aware Of the
fact that the professors intention was to
deliver a political %harrangue and SO in.
sisted that the use of the building
should be paid for at the regular rate OF
SIS. An effort was then made to get the
M. e. church free Of cost, and this was
accomplished through misrepresenta.
ton, willful or otherwise. Presiding
Elder Akers, a gentleman who has the
courage Of his convictions, who always
says what he thinks. and who is admired
by everybody for bis candor and for bis
hatred of hypocrisy in every guise, took
the professor to task in the midst Of his
lecture for his sacriligious utterances
and at its conclusion took occasion to
dress him down privately. Instead OF
making converts to populism, as the in.
~tention evidently was, the professor only
succeeded in disgusting the people OF
Aberdeen by his subterfuge. The incl
dent will probably have the effect of
forcing home the fact that fair dealing
and populism are not on terms of ever
distant acquaintancsshiD. 1t will also
teach the ministerial association, prob
ably, that it cannot toy with pitch and
escape detlement."
Whether the above criticism is on the
lecture he delivered here last evening
We know not, but presume not as the
fundamental propositions of his lecture
last evening we're all right and incontro-
vertible. Prof. Heron may not be
temperate in expressing them and he
may criticise in harsh terms, the
church, the state and the existing order
Of things, but he is right, is on the right
track and in his zeal probably thinks the
milleeial condition he 50 ardently de.
sires are nearer at hand than fossilized
conditions and customs would warrant,
He is simply advocating the millennium
and thinks the final break up which will
usher in that period is at hand, aver to
the extent Of leading socialists and an.
archists are being converted to faith in
Christ and the immediate coming of bis
Blessed reign throughout the inhabitants
aud nations Of the earth. Here the pro
lessor is over sanguine for the credulity
Of a worldly minded people hence the
storm Of opposition and criticism he pro-
vokes. His position is this that individ.
uals and nations controlled too UGH by
~selishness are not righteous. The state
Is but the exponent and instrument OF
the people collectively. The religion OF
a people should be expressed through
their government as we'll az in the
church; but today religion though
preached in the church is not carried in.
to practice in the individual or the state
in the industrial, economic, political o,
| other venues of ~society and oovornman%