Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-10

Then I would manage the shooting my
self. And as for being careful about
going out evenings, what Is this town
thinking of that 1t will continue to
license and legaliZe an institution that
makes It's honest citizens advise new.
comers to stay at home for fear of as
sassination? No. shall 60 about my
work just as If lived In the most law
abiding community In America. And II
ain murdered by the whisky men
want the people Of Milton to under
stand that the citizens are as much to
blame for the murder as the saloon
men. For q community that will II.
cense such q curse ought to bear the
shame of the legitimate fruits Of It"
The trial Of the man with the hare
lip had been postponed for some legal
reason. and Philip felt relieved some.
what. He dreaded the ordeal Of the
court scene. And one or two visits
made at the jail had not been helpful
to him. The man had refused each
time to see the minister, and he had
gone away feeling hungry in his soul
for the mans redemption and realiz-
ing something of the spirit Of Christ
when he was compelled to cry out.
"They will not come unto me that they
might have eternal life" That always
seemed to Philip the most awful fea.
ture of the history Of Christ-that the
very people he loved and yearned after
spit upon him and finally broke bis
heart with their hatred.
He continued his study of the prob
lem of the town, believing that every
place has certain peculiar local char
acteristics which every church and
preacher ought to study. He was
struck by the aspect Of the lower part
of the town, where nearly all the poor.
er people lived. He went down there
and studied the situation thoroughly.
1t did not take very great amount of
thinking to convince him that the
church power In Milton was not prop
erly distributed. The seven largest
street, we'll up in the wealthy resi-
dence portion and not more than two
or three blocks apart. Down In the
tenement district there was not sin
gle church building and only one or
two weak mission schools which did
not touch the problem Of the district at
all. The distance from this poor part
Of the town to the churches was fully
a mile. a distance that certainly stood
as 4 geographical obstacle to the
church attendance of the neighbor-
hood, even supposing the people were
eager to go to the large churches,
which was not at all the fact. Indeed,
Philip soon discovered that the people
were Indifferent in the matter. The
churches OIL the fashionable street in
town meant less than nothing to them.
They never would 60 to them, and
there was little hope that anything the
pastor or members could do would
draw the people that distance to come
within church influence. The fact OF
Tue ulullcl NuS luS oCNCb ShuiShSo Va
different denominations in Milton had
no living connection whatever with
nearly one-half the population, and
that the most needy half. Of the place.
The longer Philip studied the situa.
tion the more un-Christian 1t looked to
him and the more he longed to change
1t. He went over the ground again
and again very carefully. He talked
with the different ministers and the
most advanced Christians in his own
church. There was variety Of opin-
ion as to what might be done, but no
one was ready for the radical move
which Philip advocated when he came
to speak on the subject the first Sun
day Of the month.
TO BE CONTINUED.