The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-11-14
WHAT THE CONFERENCE MEANS
TO US

on fT1Oay Oh next week Inere VIII
be held here in Lancaster our first
County Conference for the Common
Good. 1t is going to be a great sue
cess from the standpoint of interest,
for a number of excellent addresses
will be made by men whose love for
South Carolina and whose work for
her upbuilding have been both loyal
and enthusiastic. We all want to
efficient lives and at the same time
we want others to so live. We have
not only ourselves to consider, for
we cannot live unto ourselves alone,
but our duty to our fellowmen must
also claim our thought Many of us
have been gifted with talents which
have been denied to our neighbors,
or perhaps some one among our peo-
pie has found a new and better way
of doing an everyday task. Instead,
therefore, of boarding these bless
ings and enjoying the benefits of
them only as they are applied to our
own selfish purposes, how much bet
ter that we should come together and
make our friends and neighbors also
the beneficiaries of them.
1t is only by coming together and
comforting on problems which con-
Germ us all that we arrive at the right
solution Of these problems. The
good of one is inseparable from the
good of all the people, but until this
idea of brotherhood takes fast hold
upon the hearts of men we cannot
hope to make of life that wonderful
and beautiful thing which now exists
only in our imaginations.
Wrong thinking is responsible for
much of the discomfort and intoler-
ance of today. The people think mar
row thoughts because their education
has lacked scope and vision. They
have merely been trained within cir
cumscribed limits, and have not
caught a glimpse of the vast world
which lies outside their little realm.
a present day philosopher has said:
Men mean to do right but their
PERCEPTION of the truth is obstructed
by the walls which custom and
have built around them.
The message of our times is to raze
these walls and so clear the ground
for the better day" Another writer
has said: I'VE are learning how to
be brotherly-how to stand up for
each other"
This idea is after all only the law
of Christ. Bear we one another's
burdens" The Conference for the
Common Good must as its name
suggests, be helpful in its purpose,
and the success or failure of the
movement to reach all our people
depends entirely on the attitude of
the people towards it, If the men
and women of Lancaster county
really wish to come to common
understanding OF their mutual in
terests they will meet next Friday
and listen to the words of men whose
wisdom and insight into the needs
of today are clear and true and who
are terribly in earnest about wanting
to help humanity
We plead with our people to CO.
operate with us to the end that we
may know each other better. Our
understanding OF each others needs
depends upon our meeting and
knowing one another and exchang-
ing ideas. A blessing is in store for
II who come together in the spirit
of love, determined TO get from the
conference some new thought OF
perhaps fresh inspiration for their
every day tasks. Let's make next
Friday a get together" day, a day
when the town people extend their
limits to include the people of the
whole county, when the county will
be represented here by every earnest
man and woman with interest in each
other and a desire for mutual help
fulness.