The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-11-16

some concrete lnStanceS-One Where
a superintendent hadbeen employed in
a community which had had trouble
with it's school and where the super
intendent had succeeded in bringing
the people together, but where the
only difference had later arisen be-
" cause the superintendent was q Bap.
list and the most of the patrons Of the
school were Methodists; and Of an
other instance where there was the
same state Of facts except that the
superintendent was a Methodist and
most Of the patrons were Baptists.
~. But, said the speaker, there had
never been an evil that God had not
found an anidote for. He believed
there was an antiseptic for the evils
Of which he had spoken. Gods an
tiseptics-the speaker said he hoped
he would be pardoned for the word,
but that he used it for want Of a bet
ter one-difered from human anti
septic in this particular; that the hu-
man antiseptic stops the diseases,
while Gods antiseptic rot only pre-
vents the diseases, Or stops them, but
recreates and renews that which has
been wasted by the diease.
The speaker said that he believed
Gods antiseptie for that to which he
had called attention was human So
eiety. With all due reverence the
speaker said that he did not believe
that God could save. humanity from
bis place on high, or even from his
presence in the soul he could not do
it until be took that spirit Of his and
put it in the human body. The re-
jnyenative force for mans spiritual
and moral life was not by the spirit
released but by the spirit inearnate-
the touch Of human heart with human
heart, through human body with hu-
man body.
Can you come into close, intimate,
sincere, honest, earnest communion
with man or woman In the eviron-
ment Of the social funetionq The
speaker gave some concrete instances
showing that one could not. The go
ing to a reception and pumping the
hands Of a dozen people in the line
Of the receiving party, or the reeelv-
ing Of some cake in one hand and
cup Of chocolate in the other, either
Of which would be inviting "were
'tother dear charmer away were
among some Of the personal exper-
fences he mentioned The barriers Of
convention were there, he said. So
ciety in Newberry was not unlike So
ciety in Spartanburg. Society in
Newberry and Sportanburg was not
only divided and separated by the
barriers of conventiality, but it
was separated into parallel and hori'
zontal strata-the man at the bottom
who had to labor all the time and who
had a wife who had to cook all the
time, and the man at the top who
stood at the top, not always because
Of the element Of manhood and merit,
but frequently because Of some Of
the accidents Of fortune, which gave
a fortune to him or possibly to his
father. The speaker said that the
mere presence of human beings was
not what was needed. He said that
the loneiiest he had ever been was IN
New York, on Broadway. What We
wanted was an antiseptic-something
to take US out Of ourselves, TO put
US in contact with our fellows, with
out these barriers Of conventionalitv
which social life had built up. In
this connection the speaker said. that
he wanted to say to the ladies that
he believed they were responsible for
the .afectation which domonated the
social life Of today.
God intended society as a preven-
tive, as an antiseptic. Fraternalism
could not do it all, but it could do
good deal. F.
The speaker then took up the order
of Knights Of Pythias, telling Of how
it was founded by an unassuming
clerk in one of the government de-
partments in Washington during the
latter days Of the War Between the
States-not to help the North, not
to help the South, but for the broth
erhood of man. This government
clerk and his associates met in a lit
tie room, and they were few in num-
Der. It was great in its conception,
he said, and especially great on ac-
count of the environment.
How was the fraternal order to
break down the barriers Of the socie-
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