The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-08-06
How 1t Looks to a Preacher.

How 1t Looks 10 a Preacher.
4 Senator Pat Harrison who went
TO the National Democratic Con
vention at San Francisco with
the 20 votes of the Mississippi
delegation in his pocket. started
by casting the entire first vote
for Hon. John Sharp Williams
for presidential nominee. He
then switched 10 Gov. Cox. OF
Ohio, and stood pat" from that
time until the anti-adminiStration
forces. augmented By the "weiS. -
came 10 his support and finally
landed Gov. Cox as the nominee.
That the action of Pat and his
colleagues did not meet with the
appreciation of the moral and re-
ligiouS element of Mississippi
voters is evidenced by words
which fell from the lips of Rey.
u. Il. MacCafferty, preacher in
charge of the Methodist church
at Starkville, in his sermon de-
liyered from his pulpit Sunday.
July 11th.
While The Weekly is thor
oughly satisfied with the nomi-
nation of Gov. Cox, il cannot re-
frain from observing that the ac
ton of the Mississippi delegation
in standing for Gov. Cox first.
last and all the time presents ugly
features of inconsistency with the
Stand by the President proteS-
tationS of Senator Harrison and
his companion delegates that
they will find difficult TO explain
TO the mass of voters of Missis-
Sippi. The Rev. MacCafferty
took as his subject I'D Rather
Be Right Than be President. "
and said:
Christ in His teachings covered
the whole sphere of human activity.
The difference between individuals,
and even of nations, Is largely one of
education. If you were to take an
American-born babe of Anglo-Saxon
parentage and place it in the heart
of Africa it would grow up to think,
speak and act like the natives that
surround it.
/ A similar thing would take place
in its life if it were placed among
any other people. The /. w. VS.,
some of them it il stated, would do
away with marriage and make woman
common property. Many of these
men have great intellects and have
covered broad fields of knowledge,
but they have left Christ out of their
learning. An American Christian
gentleman honors his mother. wife
and daughter with faithful and low
ing service. He has given Christ the
pre-eminent place in his education.
Science cannot lift men up. Science
cannot preserve nations. Many
learned nations are now covered with
the accumulated dust of the centuries
their power has passed, their glory
faded. and all the history of their
greatness that remains is written up
on few tablets that have been dug
up from their buried ruins. They
left the true God out of their edu-
cation.
We need Christians in every walk
of life. To see how bad we need it,
let us look in on our San Francisco
convention. There a man standing
pleading with eloquence for plat
form on which all good men and
women could stand and for a candi-
date free from the taint OF rum, for
whom they would delight to vote.
From hundreds of voices there came
cries of Down with Bryan" Why?
Because he stood up for a righteous
platform and a clean man to run it.
He advocated nothing that was
wrong. The Commercial Appeal
time and again rang clear on the
whisky question and pleaded that the
convention in San Francisco come
out boldly and squarely for pro-
hibition The convention, however
was afraid to offend the whiskey
element. Our own delegates to the
convention acted very strangely to
many of their fellow citizens that
watched with sad hearts their acts.
We cannot understand where they