The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
EDUCATIONAL CRIMES OF DAY Is Subject of Dr. Mason's
 Address. WoMAHs MENTAL NFERIoRITY Education of Her Lost Step With
 Times Building of Methodist womaas Cei- NIese h sentsomery Pointed ost as snver Lining to The
 Clouds.
WoMARs MENTAL MFERI0RITY

Dr. J. NJ. Mason, Pres1ding Eider or the Montgomery District of the Meth odist Conference, preached powerful sermon of uncommon interest at the Dexter Avenue church yesterday morn ing. His text was chosen in Job xxi, l, and was adapted with engag- ing metaphor to the educational crimes of the day. chief of which is the con- stant widening of the intellectual gap between manhood and womanhood.
 In strong language pr. Mason drew q severe indictment against the eduea- .tional tendency of the times-the en- eergetic upiift of mans intellect while the efforts for wonan's mental welfare are losing in proportion yearly. His argument was to show that the small rift In the lute, if we may consider the present state of affairs such will by and by make the instrument A hollow sounding reed. We have studiously labored for the adornment of womAn- hood and the beautlfying of her nature but the education of her has lost step with the times. He issued a careful warming that disaster must follow in the wake of such conditions and intel iectual uplift of the mother, the sister and the daughter is the only stop to the fearful decline.
 The building of the Methodist wo- mans College in Montgomery was pointed out by Dr. Mason as a sign of silver lining in the clouds. He Is chairman of one of the leading com mlttees in connection with the college construction and spoke with authority on the energies and persons who have led to the da,ision to build such an in- stitution.
 Why. then, should I think upon a maid, for what portion of God Is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?" Job xxxi, l.
 Cry of Church.
 After citing the necessity of woman's education and the neglect of men to furnish the facilities and institutions, Dr. Mason made the significant state ment: We want shrewder men in the professions, more skillful men in the mechanical trades, more accurate men in the counting rooms Almost every Conference and synod and convention in Christendom Is stressing the same thing and thus Is widening the breech between cultured manhood and so- called cultured womanhood until the circles of their thought have lost the tangent point and the circles of their sympathy are out of touch"
 The sermon of Dr. Mason follows:
 Why, then, should I think upon a maid, for what portion of God Is there from above7 and what inheritance of the Almighty from on highT'
 .agtAs the sermon which propose to preach is not textual but topical, I dare believe that in unfolding the topic suggested by the text, I am not doing violence to that scripture, uttered by our Divine Lord. when he said Every scribe which is instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven, is like unto a man that Is an houSeh older, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old"
 Hid away in the heart of what Is probably the oldest of the books in the canon of Holy Scripture. I have found this text. May the Lord direct in such a presentation of the thoughts suggest ed by 1t, as will be most for His Elory
 I am not concerned today with those questions which are sometimes dis cussed as to the authorship and authen- ticity of the Book of Job, nor in that other often discussed theme as to whe. ther or not 1t is a record of an histor- 1cal character whose experiences of suf- 1ering and affiiction are presented in dramatic form, nor as to whether or not there was a man by the name of Job. Were these matters before us for discussion, l am free to admit that I have my decided convictions upon each of them. But today. 1t Is enough for me to know that for possibly milIen- iums the inspiration drawn from the patience of the man of Uz, has reinforce ed the faith of many of Gods children in the dark hours of the night. when affiiction, personal, social. domes- tic, financial and other, has torn and lacerated the quivering human spirit, until either the Man of Galilee in per- son. of the Man of Uz in spirit, has brought the reinforcement which, like Butcher at Waterloo, or Ewell at Bull Run, has turned the tide of threatened rout into glorious victory. For like Abel, first of the martyrs. "Job, being dead, yet speaketh." for Job in Uz joins hands with Jesus in Gethsemene and to- gether they minister to universal hu- man experience.
 There are many side-lights thrown by the Book of Job upon questions that are ever old and yet ever new, for our Holy Scripture, like its Divine Author has adapted itself to all the needs of all humanity in all the ages. So much by way of introduction.
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