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SPIRITUAL LAZINESS AND CHURCH GOING
The why men—and women, too —don t go to church
question is getting a great deal of agitation all over the
world.
That there has been a growing laxnoss in church at
tendance in all Christian countries admits of no doubt
and enterprising magazines and newspapers are endeavor
ing to find out the roasons for it.
Most people put the blame of their negligence in
church going upon the preachers and pastors, but the
preachers and pastors see other causes. The vicar of an
English church, writing of this matter, says.
"A clear majority of grown people in all classes, rich,
middle, and poor, neither attend the church not take any
active interest in religion. Intellectual reasons may ac
count, perhaps, for five per cent, of the cases, but not for
more. For the rest, their attitude is not one of positive
opposition or disbelief or doubt, not even of avowed in
difference, but of sheer negative neglect. The causes of
this neglect are partly the accidents of household occupa
tion; most households include no domestic servants, etc.,
. . . but, beyond this, the neglect is due to simple, un
adulterated rlackncss. ... I appeal to any parish priest
whether it is not his experience that scientific or intel
lectual movements arc far less formidable enemies of re
ligious observance than the bed, the arm-chair, the pipe,
the motor car, the bicycle, or the golf clubs. It is not
mental alertness, but physical relaxation, which is the
church's worst opponent. There is a real slackening of
moral fibre among all classes, . . . and with this moral
slackness goes a spiritual laziness. A large propoition of
the people do not come to church simply because they can
not pray. Worship is too severe a tax on their spiritual
capacity. . . . This laziness is not observable only in
matters of religion It prevails with all educational op
portunities Very few boys and girls continue any form of
study after they leave school, and crowds attend a foot
ball match whilst a mere handful can be attracted to an
organ recital or lccturo.
Yet, after all. this arraignment comes back at the
churches How could this state of moral laziness and
spiritual heaviness have come upon people except through
the fact that r.-ligious influences censed to extend them
selves and reach out after men in the various changes
and complexities of modern modes of living?
With the average man of prominence and worldly posi
tion membership in a church is a matter of good form; a
mere part of the respectable position he assumes and has
little or no bearing upon his conduct as a citizen or a man
of business.
The churches have become social clubs. In many cases
their support is gained from men who make their money
in ways that would be very difficult to harmonize with
Christian idealß, and. in consequence, the sturdy and life
giving principles for which Jesus Christ's life was spent
are not exerting the influence we should expect to see
them exert among those who profess belief in Christianity
The church members themselves often feel that their*
duty is all but complete in contributing to the churches
from their pocket-books. They do not take their churches
into their lives nor take their lives to their churches. Re
ligion is not a way of living but one of the side interests
of life—a sort of grace note added to the main motif of
existence.
We look upon the agitation of the question of church
going as a sign full of promise. It shows an awakening to
the need of Christian living and a realization that the
people and the churches have both drifted far from their
anchorage in life itself. * , t -
February Hth, 1914.
Highest lemprrnluro tor.ord, 76 In
1900.
Lowest temperature record, 9 In 1K99.
I/wett thl* mornln*. 27.
Precipitation yeatarday and Inal nlghi,
M. normal o 18.
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I .oral Forecasts.
FREE TOLLS CONTROVERSY
One of lha popular subjects bt <!«•
bate In the high arhoola of lha coun
try today la the question of whether
cuaatwlaa ahlpplng ahould ba |torn It-
I ted to paaa free through the Panama
; t'anal. The question lenda Itaelf ad -
I inlrahly to the forum of dlaciibaton,
! alnca tha laaua la a preaalng nn4, an<l
j alnce there are an many anglea to It
out of whlrh arguinenta ran lie drawn,
and where no orator neoda to druw
“the Maple of hla oratory finer than
the thread of hla argument."
Thera am many point a about the
I whole nltuatlon that need clenrlng up,
! one of the moat Internatlng being why
| the flrat nrltleh proteat practically
conceded the right of tha United Statea
Ito exempt coaatwlae traffic, while the
eecond note of proteat denied th/<
right. Maybe the elate department In
I VVaehlngton and the foreign office In
I.ondon underntnnd Ihla change of
front, hut If they do, no Inkling of the
why of It hn* ever reached the public
In either country.
But the whole l*aue a* to the ex
emption of coaatwlae traffic la not an
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
SAYS CLOVER BTREET IS IN
DEPLORABLE CONDITION
To the Bdltor of The Herald.
Sir:—Pleaae allow me apace In your
paper to Bay a few thlnga with ref
erence to nn article which appeared
In thla paper under (late of Feb. Bth.
The writer In hla article of above
dale expected und really whb dealroua
of being replied to, but up to thla
time haa not received any. So In
conaeouence of theac facia I am again
addreaalng myaelf to the Honorable
Board of City Council of Aiiguata, fla.
Gentlemen: —In my article of Feb
ruary Bth, I wrote you through the
medium of our dally paper anent the
condition of Glover atroet, and In said
article | endeavored to point out to
you some very pleualblo reaaona for
my writing you and now I am asking
you why you have not replied to my
srllele* Waa It because you nre not
cognizant of the fact that Glover
street la still in existence? Or waa
It because the writer was so Insig
nificant In your estimation until a
microscopic Inspection failed to reveal
his presence? However, gentlemen,
he that ns It may. I wish to say a
few things further to you In this issue
which I hope may prove beneficial to
you. In the first place It seetna to
he a very hard matter for council to
appropriate a sum for the repairing
of (Hover street —a little short street
where "Honest Tollers I.lve" and peo
ple of respectful citizenship,—hut at
the same time It seems that It was no
trouble to appropriate several thous
and dollars for the erection of a hand
some bridge across the canal at Fif
teenth street.
Hut wait a minute: What wns this
done for? Why, as a simple reminis
cence of the death of one of the Ti
tanic's victims. Now X heartily agree
that It's at right to commemorate the
deHth of our hravn heroes, such as
Archibald Butt, and Dennis Cahill (the
latter of whom I may speak later),
but listen: while all this money was
being spent for the erection of this
handsome thoroughfare, the citizens of
Olover street, especially the women,
were plodding away through the slop
py mud and water to reach the cotton
mills, there to stand In wet shoes
amid the whirling of speeding machln- I
ery and toll from early morn until
long after the sun had hid hts face
behind the western hills. And why do
these people have to suffer these ln
oonvenienoes? Why, the answer Is
simple. The elty Is too strained In
her finances to spare the funds to re
pair the street on which these people
live.
Again: Out of many Instances that
could be mentioned, I am refrained
from Jnentlonlng but one cither at
this tune and In this 1 wish to point
out the one great truth. That Is we
often cater to something that does us
no honor —for Instance the entertain
ing of our very dist' gulshed guest,
the Hen. .Mr. Tuft. You will remem
ber that great preparations have been
made In the past for his entertain
ment. Why on one occasion you went
so far as to make an—"nuff sed!" And
while this was being done the same
honest toilers who live on Glover
street, after they had finished their
day's work and on returning to their
homes at night were oftentimes forced
to take the same dose they had taken
the morning before. On many occa
sions these same people on reaching
their humble place* of abode would
nave to remove their shoes and dry
their feet before preparing the even
ing meal. Gentlemen, these are faeta
that are Indisputable nnd why should
we try to evade the truth when It In
Itself Is mightier and stands out more
bold than the Reek of Ages?
Now In conclusion I wish to say
that I will not only consider It graci
ous of you In replying to this article,
but assure you It shall he a very great
pleasure on my part to answer you
ond lti advance I will say very court
eously speaking that 1 have some
things to ‘ell you that perhaps, while
It may not he handed to you on a
stiver waiter, you may find something
In the dish that will be good for your
digestion If taken as prescribed.
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
International one—an Important do
mestic problem hinges on It Does
tha United States want to give a sub
sidy of from 18,000 to SIS,OOO to each
coaatwlae ship that passes through the
canal? Thoae who answer "yea" as
sert that It will make freight rataa
lower nnd that thla will be reflected In
prices to the consumer. The oppon
ents want to know, In rsjolnder, what
effeet It can have on a d»xen of or
anges whan the added freight would
amount to ll.to a net register ton. or
about fifty cents a cargo ton. They
say that If fifty cents a ton be added
to or taken from the price of manges
the difference will never appear in the
ctmaumer'a price, since that would be
only a oent for every forty pounds of
oranges
There Is nowhere else In the litera
ture of the question such a plain and
elemental rilscuaalnn of the whole aub-
Ject, with both sides fairly stated, as
there Is In the "Panama Ganal" by
Frederic J. Haskln, which this news
paper Is now distributing, and a copy
of whlrh ought to be In the hands ol
every high school student In the land.
JUDGE SPEER
EVEN A JUDGE SHOULD BE
TREATED FAIRLY.
fF*rom The Miami Herald.)
At safe distances, newspapers,
show a disposition to jump on Judge
Emory Speer, against whom charges
of misconduct In office have been
filed and who has appeared before an
Investigating committee of congress
that will determine whether a report
recommending that Impeachment pro
ceeding be commenced against the
jurist, be made.
8o far as the proceedings have
gone the matter stands just about as
If a Justice of the peace had taken a
charge against an accused person un
der advisement.
Usually, under such circumstances,
the accused Is not held as guilty of
the charges, not at least, until the
case Is brought before some compe
tent tribunal, although It must be
said that many people regard charges
agalnßt a person as all sufficient, and
rate him guilty whether or no.
Tho congressional committee, hav
ing the Speer matter In charge, has
heard only one side of the case, with
tlu- exception that It allowed the
judge to make a statement, and has
not Intimated what its report to tne
house of representatives will be. He
has not yet been formally charged
with misconduct, yet many .papers
have him tried and condemned and
are anxiously awaiting his punish
ment
Wouldn't h he a fair thing to the
old Judge, who has served his country
In an honorable position for many
years, to give him a fair chance to de
fend himself, give him at least the
showing that we give the petty crimi
nal, and not condemn him until all
the facts have been looked into and
he has had an opportunity to give his
side of the case to the public? There
Is almost always another side, and it
Is not at all possible that all that has
been said regarding Judge Speer Is
true.
Give the man a show for his white
alley.
While the question of the adequacy
of the fortifications of the Panama Ca
nal are being discussed at home and
abroad, it Is Interesting to look back
over the dispute in the congress of the
United States over the question of
whether it should he a neutral or a
fortified waterway. The principal ar
gument of those w r ho claimed that It
should bo neutral was that the treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain permitting its construction ex
pressly stated that it should be neu
tral. They saw’ in any other course a
repudiation of our treaty obligations
to Great Britain, and argued that
Great Britain would resent Its fortifi
cation and rightly so, and that we, as
a nation, would prove that our inter
national obligations, solemnly entereJ
Into .bind us very lightly.
In the face of all this the policy of
fortifying the canal was entered upon,
THREE YEARS ON THE WATER
WAGON.
(Kansas City Star.)
Three years ago Mr. S. G, Blythe of
the Saturday Evening Post, known
more familiarly to the world as
"Sam" Blythe, climbed laboriously on
the water wagon. After he had
grown a trifle accustomed to the mo
tion he told the country about It. He
hal no sermon to deliver. He merely
had decided that drinking wasn't do
ing him any good. So he quit. For
one thing he didn't hanker after tak
ing the chance of being carried off
in his youth and beauty by some mal
ady to which alcohol predisposes the
human system.
Now. three years later, he reviews
his experiences In an article In the
Saturday Evening Post. Of course,
his health is better. He weighs 185
pounds, instead of 250, He Isn't
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FORTIFYING THE CANAL
and there were those who listened In
tently for several years for sounds on
the International horizon indicating n
British protest ngainst the fortification
of the canal. But months and moons
went their course undisturbed until
Great Britain decided to protest
against the exemption of American
coastwise shipping from the paynrent
of tolls—and then Great Britain de
clared that the United States had a
perfect right to fortify the Panama Ca
nal. and to exercise all rights over It
from a military standpoint.
The story of the fortification of the
canal as told by Frederic J. Haskln, In
his new book, "The Panama Canal" Is
the best portrayal of the work and the
policy of fortification that has y.t ap
peared. and is worth twice the price of
the whole book to the man who wants
to know. Yon are Invited to come down
to the business office of The Augusta
Herald and see for yourself.
gouty or decrepit, and the doctors
can't find any sign of Bright's dis
ease.
But the thing that really has im
pressed him most is the amount of
extra time he has had. He used to
spend all his leisure with convivial
friends. Now he finds that a lot of
the conversation doesn't, sound as
clever as it used to before he was
confining himself to ginger ale. He
has read more books In three years
than he did In the ten yeers before.
He has had time to hear music and
look at pictures and to do all sorts
of things worth while that he never
did before.
But still he doesn't lecture the
other fellow who wants to drink mod
erately. He says it's none of his
affair what the other fellow does.
But his plain statement of unemotion
al facts is likely to make an impres
sion on that other fellow.
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tain is supplied by Mr. W. W. Morton, Washing
ton Road —all of onr Butter Milk comes every day
from tiie farm of Mrs. Jas. Hammond, near Belve
dere—these parties have been supplying us for
several years. At the request of two of our Phy
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dren, we supply their little patients with Butter
Milk, when they need it—otherwise we have it for
sale at the fountain only.
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Augusta^Herald
January Circulation
DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD.
The circulation of the Dally and Sun.
day Herald for tha month of January,
1914, was as follows:
Jan. 18 10,<»i
Jan. 17 11,083
Jan. 18 (S).10,410
Jan. 19 10,383
Jan. 20 10.891
Jan. 21 10,844
Jan. 22 10,489
Jan. 23 10,810
Jan. 24 11,099
Jan. 25 (S). 10,320
Jan. 28 10.610
Jan. 27 10,527
Jan. 23 10,502
Jan. 29 10.63*
Jan. 80 10,501
.... ... ......11,053
Jan. 1 .....10,410
Jan. 2 10,480
Jan. S 11,047
Jan. 4 (S).10,418
Jan. 6 10,425
Jan. 6 10,426
Jan. 7 10,464
Jan. 8 10,432
Jan. 9 10,440
Jan. 10 11,045
Jan. 11 (5).10,385
jnn. 12 10,418
Jan. 13 10,525
Jan. 14 10,524
Jnn. 15 10,492
Jan. 31 ... ... ...
Total January, 1914 328,807
Dally average 10,608
Tne Augusta Herald, Dally and Sun
day, hat a circulation In Augt-sta ap
proximately twice at large as that of
any other Augusta newspaer. Adver
titers and agencies Invited to test the
accuracy of these figure* In comparison
with the claims of any other Augusta
newspaper.
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