Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-10-31

%NVM Reform Sss DnIHS therefore sr retains part q
the original matter and seeks to add completeness
to 1t by a more comprehensive wording: Absent
in the original document
The process. or means employed, to bring about
the change may be OF such a nature as TO divide
those friendly to The amendment. This fact appears
on the face OF all reform movements.
Properly speaking on the necessity for change,
or amendment, is first presented and followed by O.
declaration reciting the way to do it, which constl'
tutes the line OF procedure, or slogan for final
action.
Thus political party, or parties, are mande.
Religious creeds formed, and ecclesastlc power
established. We remark here, that while the Chris.
tian world recoganizes Chret as the Son OF God and
their councillor, when an attempt was made to re-
duce to writing their 'creed" resulted in forming
three hundred and sixty five "creeds' and the fact
in less degree follows in the POLITICAL or civil life,
for while arrangement as to reform being neces'
sary when an effort was made reciting athe way to
do it" seven distinct political parties sprung into
the political arena. While all agree on the need Of
an amendment disagree on the way to get it, Here
then we find the dividing line first the ethical edu
cation Of society which divides itself into two dis.
tinct elements OF unsympahetic antagOnisc interest,"
to wit: The upper, or wealthy class, moved by
selfish motives to resist prohibit the lower or
power class from their right to enjoy their ethical
conception, and while the upper class maintain the
right to profit by both elements Of social ethics, de-
nv the right to the lower class. This fact has ever
been the yeast that caused the rising up OF social
discOrd. Let us look at this fact for minute. The
idle dominant in the so.caed upper class ethics is
that they can mix up with the lower class for the
qualification OF their passions and still their moral
character remains untarnished, while on the other
hand every precantion s used to bar ont the lover
class from social recognition. Thus we see
leveling along the brute line. The upper class de-
sending and the lower class without the recognized
power OF ascending. This fact has ever presented
itself in the social order and still remains and will
ever remain as proof that Of superior intelligence
will ever use his knowledge for personal qualification
ct the expense Of the Ignorant lower class in the
social, or civil order.
ssReform'' and sRelormation'' at the point Of .
more ''complete amendment and the progress Of
Amending" but on close analysis we are compelled
to observe that the line Of diuvgence is extremely
thin for as matter Of fact the whole matter involv-
ed implies degree Of intelligence equal to the oc-
cason in both cases, for be IL remembered, an
amendment is something added TO that which already
is and the 'prOCess Of amending does not effect
the-remaining quality. am convinced that the
word 'RefOrm" carries with it the idea Of pro.
gress toward improvement Of ones moral nature and
may be applied with equal force to . nation as to
an individual the fact remains that the old is not
destroyed but subject TO destruction Therefore the
act done may be referred to as the sRefOrmation,'
as we say the "Martin Luther reformation" and
90 on. Words after All are but garments q
thcUghts by which one mind ccnveysits impressions
to another. When We speak 81 . man as reform
ed man the Thought conveyed il that the man has
Topped OF 4 bad habit for good one In exchange;
and when we speak 81 . reformation We refer to the
means, or method employed to bring about the
change. This then is Crahbs idea Of the difference
between reform and reformation.
There always existed difference between the
moral character Oi an individual IS : member Of
society and che society whole consequently it is