The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-08-16

turies of time, the slow Influence OF
environment, drill, training and SOU
husbandry, continued tirelessly, alone
can develop picked and powerful
stock that results In great civiliza
. tion. For the warming of America we
have the history of the Hebrew com
monwenlth. In the beginning they
were race siftcd and chosen for Their
strength and beauty, their self reli
ance and Independence I'm choosing the
ism i'm an era of idol worship. Then
for 800 years they were shut apart
between the sen and the desert No
marriages with other peoples were per-
mittcd. Trade relations were largely
cut off. Their education became in
, tcnSive. Slowly they fed the fires o.
Intellect and morals. Slowly they dc
vclopcd II race of poets and drcamcIE,
with vision. Slowly they developed
| their jurists and. statesmen. In an at
mosphcrc made warm and genial men
of prayer and faith wrote their psalms
and hymns.
Like a Great Dam.
III was aS If great dam had been
erected to reservoir the life through
the waters that were slowly ucCumu.
l"ting, and finally. when Jesus came
the divine flood broke through and
strcamcd forth into ull the earth to
bless mankind. Self love In Moses
made possible Il world love at the
hands Of Jesus and Paul Had Moses
and Joshua and their followers mixed
their bloudS, brought in Egyptians
with their fetish Worship. Philistincs
with their animal worship. BabylonianS
with their hcStial.Sm. little Palestine
would have been melting pot out of
which would have come mud. but not
marble; clay, but not silver: brass, but
not gold.
Methods Suggested.
So terrible il the problem that many
thoughtful men would like to see i'm
migration prohibited for nnothc gen
Grafton. until our institutions can as
simulate III" people we now have. But
this IS lik" SAYING that man must
stop eating for II year because he al
ready has many poisoned cells and ma
li"n tissues In his body. In such a
crisis the physician and surgeon act
promptly, cutting out the evil growth
with IA kuif" nnl cxpclling the excess
"l irod ana by exercise bringing up
the masses of rat. all in thc hope of
saving the life. Many physicians urge
tn" most drastic measures possible, so
that within II generation lO.OOO,VD
out of our lnUWO,GOu may bc with
processes of death. having been pre-
vented from handling forward their
passions, diseases and crimes to ours"
their descendants. During II long con-
r"rSati"n over this problem Charles
Sturgeon In TN" study of his great
tabernacle in London once said, Great
are your lakes. Michigan and Eric, but
| if Europe is allowed to continue To
| empty into them II Niagara of ilth the
tim" Will come at lust wlI-ir ii- springs
will h" poisoned and tn" fountains give
| forth disease and death"
Growth as the Cure of Social Ills.
| Huxley once wrote an essay on $50.
| "ial Diseases und Worse Remedies" 4"
! This author believed that certain forms
Of social sympathy bred peril to the
! stat" through seeming kindness, but
real crriclt! toward the Individual.
| Forgetting the warning, our generation
| through blind optimism Saunt"rS vnvlv
! along liI"'S pathway. eating and drink
| il@ and forgetting that tomorrow the
| nation itself may die. When all the
! dark facts nr" spread out IN" average
man cN"'aimS. "Dh, well, we will out