Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21
Rev. c. c. FARRELL, Pastor Meth
odist Church Augusta,
Scores Loose Fashions.


| saw them, 1 thought that down in
dear old Dixie such things were not
known. When 10, 1 found the fash
ions had beaten me home-that | had
taken a slow boat.
81 saw public 'love-making' and
loose conduct between the sexes in
public parks and on public streets
and again 1 thanked God that there
was a spot down in dear old Dixie
where such things were not seen. But
day by day, l find in Augusta and
A. tlanta, wherever 1 go, that the
same loose spirit is travelling around
the world"
DR.. Charles C.. FARRELL, pastor of
St. Johns NJ. E. Chuch, South, so
told his congregation Sunday morn
ing. The pastor handled his subject
of present day immortality and evils
in plain, unglossed manner. He de-
cried the present fashions and asked
pointedly what is the world coming
to?
The pastor of St. Johns took as his
subject, ga revival or revolution"
basing his text on the idea that only
great moral awakening that shall
arouse deep, moral convictions will
be able to arrest the evil tendencies
of our times and check the wild rush
toward folly and extravagant and eX-
treme fashions; the excitement OF
making money fast and other perlls
that threaten our life today.
"Revivals of religion in a broad
sense have always made great epochs
in history, Bible movements record
ed in the Bible and also critical
epochs in church history. The move
ments that grew out of great revivals
affected were more permanent than
the rise and fall of dynasties and ma
tions had done. English and Ameri-
can history in 200 years differed
from the French and German largely
while Prussia had her Frederick the
Great, France her Voltaire, England
had her Wesley and the moral awak-
IL.
English and American types OF
Democracy have come. from these
moral awakenings under Wesleyan
Endland and Edwards and others in
America. Great revivals such as this
had changed revolutions into prog
ress and had saved nations from the
wild terrors such as the French rev.
olution knew and such as Russian
Bolhsevism had produced" said DR..
FARRELL.
Four Signs of Revolution.
The pastor pointed out four signs
of revolution in the present day.
1. Political reaction that is on us,
recoiling from the spirit of idealism
and humanity that so unified and
aroused the nation when we faced
the common foe. The Congress had
souandered that hour for the Amer
ican people.
3. We are in the back wash of the
war with its crime and immortality:
it's moral uncertainty and its defiance
of ancient standards of right and
wrong.
8. Spirit of commercial speculation
that is abroad in the land threaten
ing to unsettle the moral stamina of
the nation. Fortunes made overnight
are almost as demoralizing as game
of chance itself.
4. The fashions of the day are too
full of folly and are so extravagant
and extreme, the spirit of reckless
frolic and needless rush after amuse-
ments, are threatening to sweep
away all standards that would check
the mad desire for some pleasure
which would break the gray monot-
ony of life.
Loose Conduct.
1t was then that DR.. FARRELL told
his congregation of the daring open
"love-making" and loose conduct be-
tween the sexes that he had witness
ed during a tour of Italy and Euro
pean countries in 1912.
"The magazine writer's are telling
US that in England the gay young
girls of certain classes, without moral
convictions and fretting over the
scarcity of men arising from the