The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-03-12

words may Ewrite masterpieces; but
she hath poisoned the milk of her
babe.
"The mind of a woman dwelleth by
nature upon the small point; it fitch
into the cradle and on the forefnger,
but not into the hatbrim of man."
1 am not going to elaborate any OF
the points to be drawn from these
texts at this time, though they carry
many things that might be said to ad-
vantage. Read them, think on them,
they may do you good. I hope they
will. They contain great many
truths.
1 was reading a story the other day
of a town which once contained the
aristocracy of the community and the
wealth as we'll, but in which condi-
tions had changed in many respects.
1t spoke of the good old julep days
and the king's-grant prosperity which
once characterized the community and
the inhabitants thereof. They had all
got religion, however, and believed
that when you danced, for instance,
your feet took hold on hell. That you
showed the evidence of a fallen ma
ture. That virtue had gone out Of
you. That there was not girl or a
respectable woman who had ever
danced minuet, or waltzed with a
mans arm about her waist. There was
something wrong or contagious either
about the arm or the waist. Then this
statement is made and that is what
l am trying to lead up to: "But when
your aristocrat becomes poor and re-
ligious in his pride, he is one of the
narrowest-minded moral skin1ints in
creation. This was why there were so
many well-born, bony, unmarried,
chaste, poor-spirited, women in the
town. 1t also explained in part why
all the men drank, played cards for
money and went fox hunting in des-
peration. The poor creatures instlne-
lively revolted against the lockstep
of such inhuman respectability Right
eousness is a terrible thing when a
conscientious fool enforces it. And If
nine-tenths Of us did not backslide, the
world would dwindle down to few
childless ascetics on each continent
and lust the devil walking to and fro
with all the natural instincts to tempt
them back to life" The point that
struck me is that there are so many
conscientiously righteous people Il
went say fools) who are trying to
enforce righteousness upon the people
and who themselves know nothing OF
it from experience. Some one has said
that the severest form of indignation
was righteous indignation because it
can be INDUCED to any extent con-
scientiously Now, don't misunder-
stand me, because I believe in right
eousness. but the make-5elieves, who
are always talking about the unright-
seousness of the other fellow, and try
ing to regulate him, when the beam is
sticking way out from they eyes. What
about such? The reformed drunkard,
for instance, becomes the most intem-
peratA man in the community in try
ing to reform everybody else, and he
goes at it with such extreme measures
that he rarely accomplishes anything.
I believe in temperance, in modera-
ton in speech and action, in giving the
other fellow credit for the same hon
esty of purpose, and the same pure
motives, that I claim for myself. But
in this day anybody that does any
thing or attempts to do anything will
have his motives questioned, and If
he doesn't agree with the other fellow
he is either a knave or a fool or
both. We need to preach federation.
We need to instil the doctrine that the
fellow who happens not to agree with
us may be just as honest as we are
and probably little more so. That is
the sermon and that's the lesson.
We need in this day broadminded-
ness. No one must imagine that the