Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-10-21
ON ONE SIDED PEOPLE

~. Sa't0S "OIfISOIuSTy VI W'unedPOIIS
Spoke Before the Ladies of the
State Federation and a Large Audi
ence at the Presbyterian Church.
DR.. James Montgomery of Mime
apolis lectured last night at the
Presbyterian church before the state
Federation of Woman's Clubs, and a |
large number of auditors who respond |
ed to the general invitation to the |
public to be present. DR.. Montgomery
was introduced by Mrs. A. L. Woods !
who presided over the meeting and for
about two hours he entertained, in
structed and amused his hearers. DR..
Montgomery speaks eloquently and
easily, has fund OF anecdote, the
ability to present his character
sketches appealingly, and blends seri-
GUS, humorous and pathetic with such
skill that he grows never dull or tire
some.
DR.. Montgomery lectured last night
on one sided people. His observations
had taught him that many people were
one sided, physically and mentally.
That is to say, one trait, as one fea-
ture, would be developed beyond all
others until the result would be a
condition of one sidedness. He took
up the several classes of people, those
engaged in religion, education, labor,
society. In the, religious world he
paid his respects in an amusing
fashion to the one sided men in the
pulpit-those men who were undoubt-
eddy good and earnest, but lacked the
proper seasoning Of common sense and
discretion. For example, the minister
whose sermons were hours long, and
whose one sidedness led him to see
only that on Sunday morning and even
ing he must harrow up his auditors
with interminable discourse. He told
of the little boy, sitting in the middle
of the church, who began to cry when
the minister reached the end of his
first hour of discourse and stopped to
take another breath. "Oh, Mamma"
exclaimed the little fellow, bitterly
crying, 'the preachers. filling up
again."
Passing from this. he pictured Sun
day afternoon in the home of the one
sided good man, who permitted no
noise on the part of his little Willie,
who was perpetually enjoined to re-
frain from noise because it was Sun
day. Willie must sit DULY on a chair
for three or four hours and then he
would be allowed to go to bed. Il am
not saying this to scold you. Willie
observed the father, but because
love you. If you are a real good boy
and sit on your chair for three or four
hours without making bit of noise,
; you will go to Heaven and every day
> is Sunday there Papa" observed
Willie, eff l am real good boy and
go to Heaven, and be good all the
week like this, can't I go down to
He'll on Saturdays and play with the
devil a little while" Here was an
other case of one sidedness, and the
rebuke of the boy was justly earned by
the father. who was a good man, but
lacked the proper appreciation Of the
necessities of youth and pictured
Heaven as place where life would be
) one long, interminable WEAKNESS for
the boy.
Another case. A rainy evening, in
which the good father and mother
| babe the little daughter to go to bed.
She was afraid of the rain and the
thunder and the lightning, but her
mother tucked her in bed. "You must
not be afraid" she admonished her
| ''for you know God is here" The lit
| tie one went to bed, but soon tripped
down the stairs with her face alight
J with a new suggestion. Mamma -
) she said. "you go up there and stay
with God and l will stay down here
: with papa" Another case of one
| bluGuuSSS, NuiCu WOulu nave LuS CAllu
see Gods protection only in the voice
of the thunder and the flash Of the
lightning.
) He told of good men who were i'm
, practical because they were one sided
They lacked breadth and development
The preacher who had gone to visit
ing character and liberality. But all
J education was valueless unless IL
taught two things: What shall
eat? Where shall stay?" Any edu
cation that did not solve these two
, problems was failure. He told Of
! one sidedness in education, and allud
Led TO his experience with fractions
1 LOT the school teacher, aptly named
{ the penitentiary and spoken with the