St. Tammany farmer., 1909-03-27
existed in favor of lynching is chang

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Warner, was not because the poll
ticians did not want the money, bu
because they were afraid to take i
on account of public sentiment agains
it.
81 think the church fails to recog
nize that long period Of training ha!
resulted in the spirit of right" con
tinued DIR. Warner. "We are nov
4 organizing along the lines of preven
tion of pauperism. The church has
always done this and does it to-day
The church maintained hospitals anc
schools until the State was Christian
lied to such an extent that it saw il
was right and then the church yielded
the burden to the State. When the
State is able to walk alone the church
takes its hands off. ="
"A revival of religion can occur in
an insurance Office just as we'll as in q
church. The status of men has been
raised as the direct influence of Chris
tianity.
TALKS OF SOCIALISM.
"We have got to recognize in the
world now that Christianity has a
great battle to fight. You ought to
be thinking about something, not talk
ing about it, but thinking about it.
The development of socialism is both
alarming and an encouraging thing.
All these problems that make think
ing men sweat drops of blood are
are working out for good. They are
signs of progress, but they have far
to go. You cannot afford to step
aside from movement that engages
the serious attention of large mass
of our fellow-men. There is no subject
so vague as socialism. | do not know
exactly what Socialism teaches to-day,
but any subject that attracts so much
| attention from Christian men should
be read. At least there is a great
spirit of unrest, and it's solution you
will find in Christianity. If labor on
one side and capital on the other would
only learn to say one part of the
Lords prayer "Give US this day our
daily bread" and not ''Give me this
day my daily bread" it would go
great way towards a solution.
DR.. Rice of Rayne Memorial Church
was the first to take advantage of the
five-minutes talks called for. He dis
cussed the various changes of the
ethics of Christianity through various
ages and stages. He said that men
were realizing there were certain re-
sponsibilitles they could not evade.
That the time was to follow when it
would be not, What must do for
my neigabor," but tWhat may / do
for my neighbour
Christianity CLAIMS Too MUCH,
Judge E. D. Saunders was then call
ed upon for few remarks. He said,
in part;
."The danger of Christianity to-day
is, because, its advocates claim too
much for it. We do no eat or drink
because we are Christians. We have
not advanced so far and learned so
much because we are Christians. We
have made these advances because we
are human beings endowed with hu-
man intellects. We have advanced
and improved in morality because as
human beings we have made use of
the faculties we possess. While I am
not member of the Christian Church,
| think church makes mistake
when it leaves it's province and deals
with things that should be handled by
other bodies of the community.
eff you give Christianity the credit
for doing all the good in the world then
you must charge it all to the wrong.
tits sad fact there is more suffer-
ing than happiness in the world, more
suffering than enjoyment. If Chris
tianity is to take credit for the good
it must bear responsibility for the
evils that surround us to-day To-day
there is tendency to take the church
outside the limits required of it. Then
l discredit it in another way. We
are doing things and teaching things
that were done and taught long before
Christ was born. The Greek philioso-
piers taught and educated the citi-
Zens."
''The germ of the hospital dates far
back of Christ. In Roman civiliza-
ton was great social advancement.
1t did not originate with us: it came
down through the ages, from the
Babylonians and Chaldeans. But the
spirit has been long in generation, and
in late years 1t is producing results.
Christianity comes to-day in the ma
ture of an impostor by claiming things
in which it had no part. Whenever it
does this, it weakens its attitude" !"
"My idea is entirely different from
DR.. Warmers. | think the church
shows an impatience if it NEEDLES
with political or social movements.
The church should meddle with the in
dividual only, and through him make
our society sound. The church to-day
is discrediting itself by it's doubt of
the principles of socialism.
''lf there is any movement in keep
ing with Christianity, it is socialism.
l do not adopt all the principles Of
socialism, but they will finally be
adopted, and it requires time. To me
the essence of socialism is sound to
the core. It is the spirit of brother
hood"
DR.. WARNER REPLIES.
Several made replies to the views
of Judge Saunders, and finally DIR.
Warner was asked to say a few words
in reply. DR.. Warner said that Judge
Saunders is not yet good Christian;
that he had come too late and had not
heard all of his address.
Il did not claim that the church
originated all the good, but that it
stimulated it. he said 'I also said
that it should work through the indi-
vidual. In this / think Judge Saund-
ers and | agree. / thought | said a
good word for Socialism. +"
DR.. Warner referred to the great
progress of surgery.
Judge Saunders interrupted to ask if
he was aware that instruments exact
ly like some of our modern instru-
ments had recently been found in the
bodies of mummies 5000 years old?
DR.. Warner said he hadsnot heard
of this, and Judge Saunders gave his
authority.
DR.. Warner then related some in
stances of the superstitions of the
Chinese as an evidence where, as he
claimed, learning had existed but had
not been used.