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GOV. GLENN PLEAsEs.
Sunday Services Also Give Pleas
ure to Great Crowds.

| people who had congregated in the
huge Chautauqua tent, with their
varied selections.
The main attraction of the even
ing, however, was the address of
former Governor Robert B. Glenn,
of North Carolina, whose speech
sounded the very keynote of the
Chautauqua movement, namely, the
| instruction and uplifting of the
public. The discussion of the Civil
War was a calm and dispassionate
statement of facts, without prejudice
to either side, but, instead, reflect
ing great credit upon the honor and
bravery of the men who opposed
each other.
| His account of the reconstruction
days following the war depicted
few of the horrors greater than war
| that resulted from the reign of car
pet baggers and INSCRIPTIONS
scoundrels, who, under the guise Of
| loyalty TO the government, had
masked their cowardice, and who,
| following the fall of the Confed-
eracy, stepped forward and seized
| the opportunity to rob the widows
and orphans and exploit the land
which they had called their own.
Neither property nor the honor OF
the home was safe from the de-
l al do Of
vultures until the women of the
North and the West assisted IN
bringing about a change in the con-
ditions which existed for the next
few years following the war.
| But the portion of his speech that
appealed most strongly of all was
| that which depicted the splendid
| advancement that has been made by
| the Southern States in the last few
years; how mills and factories have
been built; how the products of the
| soil have been increased; how the
| hand of industry, applied to the ma
| tural advantages of the land, have
made it produce 80 per cent. of
| the entire cotton yield of the world;
how it leads in the production of
sugar, rice and many other crops.
| The new South has indeed taken its
proper place in the grandest country
| in the world. But the speaker, while
sounding the praises of this, the
greatest country in the world, also
sounded. a note of warning. While
| Christian churches. for all purposes,
| were able to collect three hundred
and fifty-six millions of dollars dur
ing the year 1912, the amount ex-
pended for alcoholic drinks amount
ed to four billion, three hundred
and sixteen million; (stop, reader.
and contrast these figures ara think
what they mean; 1856, 100000 for
the upbuilding of the cause of
Christ, and S4,316, 100000 for the
tearing down of that cause.t AS
| the result of his personal investiga-
ton, involving visits to the slums
of Chicago, New York, Philadelphia
| and other cities, where he had gone
with detectives attending him, to
protect his life, he had found that
ninety per cent. of the fallen men
had started the downward course in
| life through drink, and that seventy
| five per cent. of the women who
| had fallen, had made their start
through the same cause, starting
| with the social glass of wine.
The combined losses of the wars
of the world do not begin to reach
the grand total that alcohol takes
each year, and yet our local, State
and National governments are Ii
censing this evil, and putting it in
the very mouths of the men and
women, while parents stand by and
see their brave md manly boys,
the pride of their homes, their pure
and spotless daughters, become its
victims, without raising a voice of
protest. Gov. Glenn also condemned
the present manner in which women
and girls dress as being without
II odesty and calculated to rouse the
vicious passions of both sexes; like
WISE. too, he condemned such dan
ces as the turkey trot, the tango,
and bunny hug, which he declared
| to be indecent and unbecoming and
which were the dances of the low
est dives in the cities, where ruined
creatures abandoned themselves to
lives of sensuality.
The services yesterday afternoon
and evening were attended by the
| largest crowds of the Chautauqua.
| They were held under the auspices
of the churches of Cambridge, and
the crowds in attendance at the
two services ,gere estimated to be
in excess of $500. In the afternoon,
Rev.Dr. Perry preached an eloquent
sermon upon Biblical Economics,
showing that if man really had
religion he would not take advan
tage of his fellow man; that the
grace of God would be sufficient to
make him a Christian the six week
days as well as a church attendant
upon the seventh, and if he did
mot practice Christianity during the
week; if he did not live up to the
principle Of brotherly love,h was
nothing more nor less than hypo-
critic.
DR.. Cadman, of Brooklyn, who
preached at night, from the subject,
"My Peace I GIVE Unto YOU" I'M
doubtedly delivered the most elo-
quent sermon ever delivered in Cam
bridge None except those who had
the good fortune to hear the SER
mon can ever realize its beauty; its
sublime teachings; the splendid SIM
plicity with which the speaker made