The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-07-26


Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church, in his sermon, which dwelt
upon local conditions. 1t was a
vivid presentation of what is said to
be the real condition of the city from
moral standpoint.
The two great vices which cause
all the sorrow in the world were de-
clared to exist in this city and the
blame for the prevalence of these i'm
moralities in Spartanburg was placed
at the door of the church, members
by Mr.. McAulay.
The minister said that a part of
the church members were asleep; that
some of them were typical Rip Van
Wrinkles when it came to the moral
welfare of the city.
Others, he. said, were dead, and
as much enthusiasm and fighting
blood could be aroused in one of the
corpses in Oakwood cemetery as
could be aroused in the heart of many
of the church members when it came
to the matter of having cleaner
Spartanburg.
A third class of church members
who are to blame for the existing
evils are the selfish church members,
who turn up their noses and sneer
at the serpent just so long as it keeps
way from their own front doors,
just so long as one of their sons or
daughters is not poisoned by the
snake.
The last class of church members,
he said are to blame for the vice in
the city, are the criminally careless,
who make no concerted effort to
put the ban on all evil and who go
about their own business day by day,
forgetful of the temptations that lie
in the paths of their neighbor's chill
dren and their own children oftimes
he said, they suddenly realize their
carelessness when one of their loved
ones suffer. This class was illustrat-
ed by an example cited by Mr.. Nc
Aulay which came under his obser-
walton in another city.
"When young man goes out into
the streets, he goes out into the very
jaws of hell" he said.
Dissertation of the Sabbath day is
the primary cause for these evils,
according to the theories advanced
by Mr.. McAulay, and he scored the
Sunday newspapers, drug stores and
"the good, pious Christian folks" who
demand their papers and their soft
drinks on Sundays.
"The good, pious amen corner
church members demand their neces-
sites on Sunday and hence prevent
the clerks from worshipping as they
would were it not for the fact that
they have to work. They insist on
having the necessities, such as ko-
dak films, gasoline, cold drinks and
cigars.
"We get up a Seventh Day Adven-
tist before the courts and convict him
for working on Sunday, when, if the
Sabbath is desecrated, it is not by
the poor, laboring Seventh Day Ad-
ventist, but rather by the leading
members of some Of the churches in
the city of Spartanburg.
The Drink Holes.
81 am told that there are six drink
holes in the city o. Spartanburg," he
continued. "They are not worthy
of the name club We don't need
a dictagraph, we don't need Burns
detectives to know that they are kept
open on Sundays. I am told that on
certain Sunday no less than 157
Spartanburg men entered one of
these drink holes, took a drink and
came down.
81 was coming up street the other
night about 10:30 o'clock, having just
gotten in the city on a late train
when I saw an officer of one Of Spar
tanburg's churches strolling along in
front of me. / watched him, as he
did ont seem to be out in order to
make weather observations, and sud-
denly he darted up stairway lead
ing to one of these drink holes. Such
men as these ought to get out of the
church. They ought to let those who
are working for the moral advance
ment of the city know where they
stand; they ought to get off the
fence; they ought not to disgrace the
church rolls.
"In Spartanburg, am told we
have tho UanohIipr hollis whor, ,,,op
ey is won, where money is lost every
night by the leading business men Of
the city. And occasionally one Of
them goes far wrong"
Mr.. McAulay said he had been told
this and he believed it.