The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-08-02
DR.. DANIELS SERMON
WAS CALM AND MILD
LITTLE on VICE OF
CITY OF COLUMBIA.
DweIt on Home Influence-Large Con-
gregation Heard Address in Wash
ington Street Church.
Columbia State, August 1.

Columbia State, August 1.
In his sermon last night at the
Washington Street Methodist church,
DR.. J. Walter Daniel, presiding elder
of the Columbia district, made few
references to the moral status of Co.
lunlbia. Dr.. Daniel had previously
stated that the sermon he delivered
last night would be the same as the
one he preached in Lexington last
Sunday afternoon, in which he was
quoted as saying that :Columbia, the
capital of the proud State of South
Carolina, is the wickedest city south
Of Philadelphia.
DIR. Daniel said last night that he
knew nothing of the moral conditions
IL Columbia. He had been told, how
ever, that the finest house of lire
pute south of Philadelphia was locat-
el in Columbia" He said further
that he had heard that hundreds ot
the demimonde walk the streets OF
Columbia, casting their dark shadows
into the homes of the city.
No mention was made in his ser
mon to the number Of debauched
young men and young women in Co.
lumbia nor to the young men who
came almost every day to his. home
and confessed that they had lived
lives of shame.
Statement Made.
The following statement as to the
report of DR.. Daniels sermon in Lex
ington on Sunday afternoon, July -,
Lexington, S. c., July 80, 1910.
eve, the undersigned citizens Of
Lexington, testify to the fact that we
were present at the Methodist church
On last Sunday afternoon and heard
the sermon of DR.. J. W. Daniel of Co.
lumbia on the subject of The Home
and It's Influence during the course
OF which he referred to Columbia as
being the 'wickedest city south OF
Philadelphia We further testify that
we have read the report of the SER
mon, which appeared in the State Ct
Monday, as sent in by its Lexington
correspondent, D. R. Haltiwanger, and
We find the same to be eminently cor
rect. (Signed):
"W. D. Dent, County Auditor,
Rice B. Harman, Pharmacist,
III. NJ. Wingard, Merchant,
"B. D. Clark, Coroner."
A very large congregation, which
almost filled Washington Street Meth
odist church, heard DR.. J. Walter
Daniel last night
Beginning his sermon, DR.. Daniel
said that if his audience expected
him to say anything sensational they
would be disappointed. The newspa-
pers alone had made his sermon at
Lexington appear sensational.
COlumbia's Morals.
Pausing few seconds, DR.. Daniel
continued, 81 know nothing of the
moral conditions in and around Co.
lumbia, but have been told that the
handsomest house Of i'll fame South Of
Philadelphia was in Columbia and
that hundreds of courtesans and de-
mimonde walk the streets of ColuEl-
bia, casting their dark shadows into
every home If this is sensational I
am going to continue to preach it, if
all the newspapers in Christiardom
print it."
DR.. Daniel said that he had pre-
viously preacher this sermon in Green
Street Methodist church and at Lex
ington. He closed by asking his con-
gregation if it had heard anything
sensational.
D. R. Haltiwanger, the States cor
respondent at Lexington, heard DR..
Daniel preach last night.