South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-02-04
DR.. EDWARDS APPEALS
FOR SAVER LIVING
Desire for Speed Curse OF
Generation, Says Meth
OdiSt Pastor.

\ ringing appeal for more mod
crate form of living was made by
Dr Loren a. Edwards pastor 81 the
Methodist Memorial church at the
evening services al that church last
night.
The entire discourse was in sub
stance. speed" and Dr. Edwards
said. The characteristics OF our
DAY. OF our nation and our genera
ton is speed. He asked that If
there vas anything which was more
apparently the primary object OF
living than going fast. he would
Ike TO be told what it was.
The subject OF the evening ser
vice was Driving Like Jehu.' and
the speaker compared the ride OF
the ancient Biblical character with
the mechanical and social speed Of
today He Said that there were
people today who could well remem-
Der the time when il not only took
days and weeks. but months and
months 20 cross the ocean. Today
our liners cross within the week.
and il is no longer a pleasure TO
ride over the waters Take the
trains. 60 or 80 miles an hour is az
longer desired. We must now go TO
New York ian Is hours. or across the
continent i'm few days.
And the automobiles have in
creased our mania. Today we buy
car and promise not 60 exceed the
speed limit of the law. OH no. We
won't run over 20 miles an hour.
5ut soon We see the other fellow
and wonder why he doesn't travel
faster. and glancins at the speed
ometer We find We are going 80 or
40 miles an hour
To-day We haven't time for the
letter. We must telegraph. Nor can
we find time to walk down town: we
must telephone, and when out on
the ocean we must receive reports
by wireless"
THE speaker did not hesitate in
his description of the nations mode
Of living and said that even an edu-
cation we are affected with our
mania cit is hard now 10 keep a
student IN high school four years.
lie wants tC learn everything i'm six
eeks
"Eteryw il is the motto.
Speed zap. hurry up. get it through
quick. More and more speed is the
constant demand. it is becoming the
PRIMARY object of our daily efforts.
o. has become "A perfect frenzy.
And as speed dominates i'm all
Things OF life. it seems to enter into
our morals Fast living generally
tends to things unChristian like and
with the youth Of our generation il
seems TO be the definition Of
speed"
The speaker told Of many per-
sonal instances with which ne had
come in contact. He stated that
time and time again i'm the summer
months ne had sat ON the veranda
OF his home ON Lincoln highway
w and watched young girls not
out of their teens hail machines
occupied by young men and ask TO
be taken for "a tide Time and time
again, he said. he had watched them
get in and go for a ride. for what he
had heard them call "a time and
again and again ne had known these
same times 10 have brought sorrow
and anguish into many home.
And" said the speaker. 1T is char
acterisuc Of youth. when once to
have started an injurious habit to
indulge in il with all the vigor of a
Young life.
"But beware of this speed. warn
ed pr. Edwards Think Of it's
often fatal results When once you
increase the speed of an automobile
10y two. YOU increase the space to
stop 10 IN by four and So with your
morals When once YOU increase
them by two YOU quadruple the
danger hy four
Tie closed his sermon with these
words. There is only one brake