Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-08-02

family OF W~aTEeHSVllle -. w., SpeLs
the week end with Mr.. and Mrs. R.
L. Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Satcher are
visiting Mrs. Satcher's mother, Mrs.
Dock Long, Of Saluda County.
These Are Inseparably Akin
AS your "commenter" strung
beans on the porch, she also rumi-
mated.
There. seemed nothing more to do
or to say to the reluctant voter-the
die seemed cast, the last thread spun,
and words and ideas and energies
were all used up-"wha's gwine be,
is wha's gwine be" so far as the e.
lection is concerned and why not
cease to beat the air, why not rest
with a big R?
But as the beans dropped into the
pan, nominations tumbled out of my
head and out in the cornfield rang
clear and true an accompanying mel
ody. As I cast about for a shook" to
hang the attention of u readers
upon, that would last until the
last day Of August, there came clear
ly across the breeze-swept corn,
"Talk about 'igion, faint Nothin but
Lowell" There was my "hook", the
oldest and best of hooks and n the
world has been hanging on from all
eternity!
If ones "ligion" is nuthin' but
love-" why surely ones politics ought
to be that too, for your politics is I'M
doubtedly the fruit of your religion.
The more real wide-awake religion
one has and the more %altruistic n
grows under the spell of the ''ligion"
that is nuthin but love-" the more
will rise up to grasp every opportun-
ity to give it expression, and the
more apt we are to see the impor-
lance of speaking our minds in the
coming election, because real red
blooded Christians do their duty.
You scott at the mere suggestion
of saying religion and politics in the
same breath. You say, "What has the
love that comes down from God to
do with politics? Politics is a seeth-
ing mass of se~lfishness and lying and
SANDER" We yield-you are right,
but that is because the devil has got
ten into it, and because Christians
let him get in. Eden became as bad
as South Carolina politics, and push
ed the Pennsylvania type pretty
close in no time after he dragged his
Shiny trail across its gateway. He
broke up that Eden and it looks as
if he has succeeded in pulling the
wool down over the eyes of so many
of the Lords sheep that it will take
a long time to get in sight of that
other Eden we are straining our eyes
to see.
All he wants us to do is to do moth
ing. There is no greater service you
can render him than that. A passive
Christian is a delight to his heart.
Just do nothing and keep him grin
ming and winning!
After all that has been written
and printed and said there are scores
of men and women who carry about
with them an air Of superiority be-
cause they do not "take any interest
in politics." They take the claim that
it lowers the dignity Of Christians to
be mussing up their sanctfty and hol-
liness by dabbling in the political
ouagmire. That sort Of sanctity and
holiness did not come up from heav-
emily seed.
Many people believe that religion
and politics are Numerically op-
posed, but they have to get over that
if we are not going to turn this state
over to the devil in toto.
If we do not exert ourselves to put
into office men and women of sound
Christian character, born of God and
with visions and ideals based on the