The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-18
DR.. Pierpont Made "a Most
Interesting Address On
Hygienic Questions.
Mr.. J. n. SHERRILL, IN a SHORT
TALK, CORRECTED A MISLEAD-
ING IMPRESSION MADE BY AN
INCOMPLETE REPORT OF HIS
ADDRESS DELIVERED SUNDAY A
WEEK AGO.

The meeting of the Sunday club a
the Y. NJ. C. A. Sunday afternoon wa:
very enjoyable one
The music by the Navy Yard orches
ira was excellent, and Mr.. Abraham
Diaz, with the cello, made an unex
pected and pleasant addition to the
music
DR.. ]. H. Pierpont's address upor
Physiology and Hygiene" was in
tensely interesting and very practical
He gave a brief talk on the con
struction of the human body and Iait
down simple and practical rules fol
caring for this delicate machine
He stated that he considered il
criminal for parents to allow THEN
boys and girls to grow out of child
hood without having been instructed
in the matters pertaining to sex anC
said that much of the misery anC
many of the deepest sorrows of many
lives were due to ignorance that par
entS should not have allowed to exist
Following the address DR.. Pierpont
offered to answer questions that migh1
be in the minds of his hearers, and
in this way many other points were
brought out. He then stated that any
one might come to him privately and
have the benefit OF expert information
on any of these matters.
Mr.. Sheriff. then stated that he
wished to call attention to a false
impression in the minds of some
session of the Sunday club.
In this report there appeared two
statements which were not correct re-
ports of the address.
THE paper stated that / said:
; If one was to compile a single vol
ltnle. printed in the same form of ex
preston composed of Tennyson's
poems, Shakespeare plays and Ma,
cauleyis History. then he would have
volume much like the Bible
Il really said:
s. The Bible contains various forms
of literature, poetry, history. biogra
ply, personal letters, etc. The Gus,
tom which We follow, of printing all
these various forms or literature
alike, with no. distinction between
poetry and prose, has robbed the BIZ
BILE of much of its natural literary eff.
feet, and has made it harder TO under
stand, and in illustration / said: III
We should take our ihraIy of Tenny.
sons Poems, Macanley,s Essays, ETC.
and print them all as prose, bind them
in one volume, chop them into chap
terS and verses, we should then have
done to our library what has been
done to our Bible
Il am quoted as having said:
IS The old plan of accepting each
and every incident related in the Bible
as facts without contradiction, Or any
Interpretation, must be discarded, I'M
der the findings of those who have
made a serious work and profound
study of the Bible as a work of liter
ature'
81 said:
9 The Bible presents a progressive
revelation of God to man. The earlier
books sometimes commend practices
that are condemned by later ones
The crude Mosaic laws were super
ceded by the perfect laws of Christ
" The Bible should not be laid aside
as false because it is inac cHrate in
geology. biology or other purely sci
entific facts. 1t teaches religion, not
science. In religion only does il
claim supremacy. We must use our
Judgment in interpreting and under
standing our Bible