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VOL XXX11. ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907 - No J7
Tie Sunday School and
the Temperance Cause.
Enthusiastic Meeting of the
County Sunday School Workers
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Address of Rev, C. Brown Cox, of Burlington, De
livered Before Sunday School Workers.
It pays to stop to think.
The temperance movement, like
all great moral movements, was in
augurated through and has been
attended bv much sensationalism
and fanaticism. The overly zealous
still seek to meet the issue with such
weapons.
But after a half century of this
earnest, though 'comparatively in
effectual campaign, the temperance
question is settling down to a scien
tific basis, and the friends of tem
perance are meeting the issue with
lesB sensationalism, but with truer
wisdom a id greater effectiveness.
To decry the evils of intemperance
is futile they are acknowledged by
all. A weakling might have stood
in the path of the San Francisco
conflagration and have bewailed the
awful devastation which it wrought;
but men and womeu were fighting
for life and property, challenging
the onward sweep of the flames, and
contriving ways aud means for the
prevention of such future disaster.
My purpose now is not to enter
tain nor to enthuse, but, if possible,
to instruct. It is well to be thor
oughly grounded, and to formulate
your scheme of reform upon princi
ples fundamentally correct. True
and lasting reform cannot be achiev
ed by artificial means, but must be
based npon a correct theory of the
nature ani constitution of man,
since these determine largely his
social, moral, intellectual and re
ligious tendencies.
Two great laws or principles un
derlie human nature and determine
its manifestations and tendencies.
These are heredity ana environment.
As principles, or laws, they are fun
damental and supreme; and God
has ordained that through them
shall be accomplished man s salva
tion or hie doom.
Our present problem is a study of
the relation of these fundamental
principles of human nature, heredity
and environment, to human charac
ter, thought, and conduct, with es
pecial reference to the question of
intemperance. In this brief study
we cannot give ample consideration
to any phaze of the subject, and
shall therefore content ourselves
with emphasising in brief the well
attested i esults of the researches of
the great master minds of modern
times.
"Heredity is the law through which
the in ividual receives from his
parents by birth his chief vital
forces and tendencies his physical
and spiritual capital." "Heredity is
that biological law by which all be
ings endowed with life tend to
repeat themselves in their descen
dants." It is "that property of an organ
ism by which its peculiar nature is
transmuted to its descendants.
Each child bears within him signs
of his parentage, not only in his
bodily organism, but also, with
equal clearness, in his mental and
spiritual constitution. This ances
tral influence is so prevailing that
characteristics of the child aud all
his tendencies, if i.ot dctei mined
before his birth, are ut least so
clearly delined, that fur him to go
outside the lines laid down by his
ance-try will be very Uitlicult.
I make no effort to prove this
law. It is not a new discovery, but
has been recoguized throughout, all
time. It is called into pioinineiice
now because the deeper study of
man, under the new system of
thought, has furnished overwhelm
ing proof of the operation of the
law, and has vastly broadened its
scope. All thinkers admit its ex
istence and realize that every ad
vance in the Btudy of man is but
cumulative evidence of its inexora
ble operation.
Like produces like, is the law.
The offspring receives the impress
of the ancestor. The law hoKls
not only with reference to the spe
cies, but also as to the race, the
family and the individual.
It is true, furthermore, tnat not
only are general characteristics
transmitted, but it is agreed that
acquired characteristics are trans
mitted, though the opposing schools
differ as to the manner) in which
Lthis occurs. Moral excellency in
the parent tends to repeat itself in
tho child; moral degeneracy in the
parent pitilessly imposes its curse
upon tne unblamable and unsus
pecting offspring. If any law is
well. established, it is the law of
heredity as manifested in the tians
mUsiou of qualities and tendeno.es
that lead to vice aud crime. A large
proportion of the dangerous classes
have received from vicious ancestry
qualities and tendencies, which,
with their environment, they are al
most if not altogether powerless to
resist.
All men are at first invariably
what others make them. Our pa
rents determine the time aud place
of our birth. Their virtues and
their vices reach down into our lives
and bless or curse them . Disease,
habit, moral and intellectual tenden
cies and qualities, vices and virtues,
all are in the stream of heritage
which comes from our aucstry. It
is a stupendous fact ibat the past
is at word in the present, its power
reaching down to us, modifying
every human life, touching every
individual's thought and will, aud
more than all other forces coloring
hK-tory.
And now let us consider the her id -ity
of the tendency toward iu tem
perance. No one maintains that
intemperance itself is transmissible;
but that the tendency to intemper
ance the condition which makes
intemperance easy almost natural,
is transmissible, is universally ac
cepted. Elam says: "The most startling
problem connected with intemper
ance is, that not only doss it affect
the morals, health and intelligence
of the offspring of its votaries, but
that they also inherit the fatal ten.
dency and feel a craving for the
very beverages which have acted as
poisons oft their systems from the
commencement of their being."
Moral says: "I have never seen
the patient cured of his propensity
whose tendencies to drink were de
rived from the hereditary predispo
sition given him by his parents."
habitcal vice noticeable a mono
children.
Elam says again: "an acquired
and habitual vice will rarely fail to
leave its trace upon one or more of
the offspring, either in its original
form or one closely allied" "the
habit of the parent becomes the all
but irresistible instinct of the
child."1
But the most terrible fact which
confronts us is that the vice of in
temperance in the ancestor becomes
the disease of mtemperance in the
offspring.
Specialists are agreed that "ine
briety, though the result of vice is
a disease, with clearly defined symp
toms, and that it is often the result
of inherited tendencies."
Dr. A. Jeffrey, in Revue Seien
tifuque, declares that Alcoholism is
a disease. He says "in the crea
tion of these new morbid aptitudes,
I this hereditary predisposition which
! dominates almost all pathology, al
i coholisni stands preeminent, doing
! more harm and counting mor vie
j tinis thaa tuberculosis. Alcoholi.-ui
j not only affects the individual, but
' its effects are continued to his df
icenilauts. One cannot be, with
! impunity, the son of an alcoholic,
j Alcoholism begins with the father,
i and Btrikes down the children; and
generally its action continues, until
in the fourth or fifth generat'ou, it
bus destroyed the family. But be
fore this dual result is reached, the
ulcoholics and their deccndanls are,
according to circumstances, hurled
iutoidiseas?, ma'neis or crim, fill
ing our hospitals, asylums and jails.
ALCOHOLISM, A DISEASE.
Hence, we stand face to face with
the appalling fact, that alcoholism
in our day is not only, perhaps not
chiefly, a hurtful vice, but it is a
devastating disease. Generation after
generation has consumed its ocean
of alcohol, until alcoholism as a
disease has fastened itself upon the
race. Many yearn for the yood o'.J
dayB, when without restriction ca:'
man uiewd his own intoxicants and
" Wh'W -i
Neiv Asheboro Graded School.
all imbibed liberally and at will
Perhaps those were good old days;
but tuuir pleasurable vice has been
handed down to us as a dreadful
disease, whose ravages are appalling
and against which we must oppose
every known remedy, for tne sike of
the 'ife, Health, happiness aud lofti
est ideals of the race.
Alcoholism is a disease, aud is de
scribed by Elam as "an impulsive
desire for stimulating driuks, un
controllable by any tu.ttives that can
be addressed to tne understanding
or conscience, in which self-i. terest,
self-esteem, friendship, love, reli
gion, are appealed to in vain; in
which the passion for drink is the
master passion, and subduej to it
self every other desire and faculty
of the soul." Moial eas: "In such
cases there is 'a complete abolition
of all mural sentiments."
Elam ays again: " Theoretically
considered tnis impulsive tendency
may not lie absolutely irresistible,
but I'Kactica lly, it isalirost if not
altogether so."
Therefore any wiVe and adequate
remedy for the evil of intemperance
must bn based upo i coirect peno
logical principles.
ENVtHOXMENT.
Let u turn our hit-niiou now to
ta- other fumiHin-utiil principle.
M hi starts life wun a vital capital
stock furnished Him by his aowctry.
From the moment of his birth, in
deed eveu heto:e bin birth, another
law. the law of environment, begins
its work and continues it while the
life exists. A man's tendencies or
aptitudes are determined before his
birth; a man's character is the re
sult of his birth-stock as shaped
and developed by the law of envi
ronment. Environment is the "sum of the
influences and agencies which affect
an organism from without." It in
cludes all the forces and agencies
outside of the individual himself,
which in any way affects him, such
as climate, type of civilization, so
cial, political and religious condi
tions, education, ideals, etc.
And powerful as is the law of
heredity, its operation is affected by
the law of environmeat.
Environment may either accentu
ate or deter the tendencies given by
heredity. The offspring of vicious
ancestry, being placed in evil sur
rounding, will almost inevitably
follow his evil tendencies; while the
same offspring placed in elevating
surroundings is less likely to devel
op his evil tendencies and will de
velop them to a less degree. It is
equally true that the offspring of
upngnt parentage placed under ia
vorable surroundings will maintain
the standard of uprightness; but if
placed under evil surroundings will
sink to a lower standard if charac
ter.
Now in this principle lies the
hope of advancement and reform.
Ibis is the principle upon which
the redemption of the race must be
achieved. Doleful 'ndeed would
life if ;f man were doomed to the
nnhimlered operation of the law of
heieditt; Out tne la of envir n-un-.
it spans the sky of human life
llhuM Imiw nt premie, ' revi-Hiii'g to
tij.m tlie possibility bettering his
condition in far us Uo is able to
control his environment.
But greater than this, aud fraught
with larger hope for man, is t ie
admitted fact that environment
; eacta upon heredity. As the forcef
f environment develop or dwarf
WELL KNOWN SUMMER RE
SORT BURNED.
Three Persons, Young l.ady and Two
( liamberiiialils Perish.
Charlotte Sept 9. Cleveland
Springs Hotel near Shelby was com
pletely destroyed by fire which start
ed early Monday morning. Three
persons perished in the flitnes.
Theywre Miss Smith of Ellenboro
N. C and two unknown negroes
employ! iiy Mm htel. Tn- lo-is is
esnuiated to b; uluut $'.o i) i. Jwith
$10,000 i isuranc. I'ne fire was
cins'd fv lighni't- striking the
kitchen-ituout lz:l.r jlonday morn
i .g.
Tiie Cliari.iHL- 'jiti .-r HiMtroyed by
j Flrt.
The Cau-lotttf O mrvor bu-lding
una plant were Uuiiged bv tire ear-
1 iMoudv mirning to tne am mnt of
j.i,wu. 4.ue ure uuiuaKu on ine
land floor to which, the fire was
liinfiued. ihe ispaper depart
ment on thefiist floor and 0ae
ine.it Were utile dtiiinged except by
Wdiei aud diSanaiigiuuut.
Geo. Wilson a dtaf aud dumb boy
who was asleep in i hniluiog w.s
found on the thrd fb r a c -rpse f
ter the fire had bt-eu deiii.iguisni-d.
The States best cuizeus us well as
ty newspaper fr,teruity w.-r? deeply
oucerned on hearing of the teri.ius
conflagration in the Observer build
iug Monday iaornug, but were con
soled uy tne fact lunt this, oue of
tUe State's b.-t pipers will continue
publicjatioj without mteruption.
E;jual i.) tuis, us well us . t ier oV
easioas anaut'etn -uts have been
made by tli in na,enient for irsue
ing the paper until i be plant c.tn
be put to running again. The Ob
server is to be congratulated upon
possessing a force of men' who un
daunted by the serious accident, ben t
every energy toward issueing the pa
per to it's patrons despite the incon
veninces encountered.
The Observer has the sympathy
and best wishes of the state.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
O. E. Kearns has sold his home
at High Point to J, F. Harden, of
j the .North State Telephone Co.
Lust week at Salisbury, City En.
igineer J. D. AlcAnulty was convicted
i of inauslaiighter and given the min
; lnniin sentence of four months in
: to be hired out for killing Uobt.
Owens, Superintendent of the coun
j ty pest house.
! At a meeting of the Guilford
i county board of Education held last
I Saturday $4,000 was appropriated
i for the erection of a modern school
j building at Springfield, near High
Point; $000 and $500 was appropria
I ted for buildings at Jamestown and
j Friendship respectfully.
j W. J. Oliver, of Knox ville Ten u,
: has been awarded a contract for
dump carts to be nsed in the con
i cT.ict.ion of the Panama dmal to
tne amount of over half a million
I dol art.
The eo'uei-'s by 'be sn itg
r.ass iMm the '.xfir(t Orphan
Asylum are of inm.-ii.tl f'X-V-lh nne.
They give pleii'o e to in r kOi e.
They are worrh imn than the
i'lice of admission. I'ley are in
i ne ;n'erest tf orph.me wor't. At
in- Giaded Sohoei Auditorium
'ib'av night, Sept. l.'.
Enrollment Out Numbered that of the State Conven
tion Profitable Meeting Resolutions.
The largest Sunday School Con
vention ever assembled in the county
met in the Methodist Episcopal
Church in this place on Tnursd'iy
and Friday of last week. Almost
every township in the county was
repieseuted, and many visitors were
piesent. Amoi.g the" 'utter were
Rev. C. Biown Cox, of Burlington;
r.. rilair, of Guilford College;
Mrs. E. K. Michanex. of Gnpnwh.irn-
Dr. S. B. Turreutine, Presidiug
Elder, of Greensboro District.
The convention was called to
order promptly t half past ten
o'clock Thursday morning by Prof.
J. M. Way, who has been president
of the Association for the past three
years. At this session there were
no less than 150 delegates present.
After the reports of the olliceis
were read, the convention wan or.
ganized and delegates assigned to
uomes.
In the afternoon session ih Pri.
mary Department was discussed.
x ne report ot tne Secretary for the
past vear was read, and an uhle dis
cussion on "Methods" by Mis. V. C.
UUDUulUlU t.liicll t,uc liiUoilaled
the use of the blackboard.
The evening sssiou, ulthou-h
sliglnly marred by a heavy lain and
wind olurui. Was me must. ir..titihlH
or. the convention. J he organized
class work was discussed under two
heads: The Baraca and Philathea
Glass-e, the former being discussed
by Dr. C. C. Hubban and the
latter bv Prof. J. M. Wav. Th
especially interesting and instruct
ive feaii're of this session, was the
verv able, learned and mmet ad
dress by the Uev. O. Brown Cox, of
Burlington, whose pa pr op pears in
full elsewhere in this issue.
KANDLEMAJf HEADED LIST OF PLED
GES.
The forenoon session on Fridav
was more' largely attended. There
being over 200 delegates present.
The program consisted of a verv
able discussion on th- "Preparation
for Teacbiug" by E. Moffitc, follow
ed by a soulstirriog address on the
Application of the Lesson" by N.
R. Kichardson. At this session
pledges were taken for the County
work. Nearly every township re
sponded liberally, Kandleman lead
ing with a contribution of $75.00
and $297,00 in all was raised. The
election of officers closed the aessiou.
HOME DEl'ARTMEVT DISCUSSED.
The session after dinner was de
voted to the work of the Home De
partment. Miss Martha Reddinsr.
Secretary of this branch of the or
ganized work, nmdv a very encour
aging report. Dr. IlubbarJ discuss
ed iu detail every phase of the home
work, which was followed by a bene
ficial open dijeussi.iu. At this
time the convention was.-divided
and Mrs. E. K. Mielianx, with Hie
primary teachers of the county.
organized a rnin.iry Union witn
Mrs. V. D. Stedman as President
and Miss Esther Ross as Secretary.
1 he last i-essn'ii on I'liil.iv iveninir
was well attel I d by the jn-ople
in Asneboro. After mi excellent
program of iiiusi,- by the ch .ir, hi
which Mrs. K rliart I rend-red a
beautiful solo, I'of. ,J. J. S.;.r:
boro Snpt. of the A.-heb no Graded
School, made a timely addnsson
"The ilroader Onllo.ik of the Sun
day School." Dr. Turreutine fol
lowed with a learned effort on "The
Relation of the Sunday Sch-ioi to
the Church." The convention then
adjourneu.
Judging from the 254 delegates
enrolled, the excellent reports of
the oflicerF, and the general interest
manifested by all present. This
was the best convention ever held
in the county and the organization
is much stronger and more effective
than ever before iu its history.
The following officers were elect
ed: President E. Moffitt, Asheboro,
N. C.
Vice President Dr. W. J. Sum
ner, Randleman, N. C.
Secretary Miss Dora Redding,
Randleman, R. F. D. No. 3.
Assistant Secretaries Geo. Smith,
Liberty; Miss Berta Ellison, Frank-
linville: Miss Linnie S hamburger,
Hills Store; Miss Ocia Bedding,
Progress.
Home Department Secretary
Miss Martha Redding, Asheboro,
j i . Vj.
Primaiy Secretary Mrs- W. D.
Stedinart, Ashcboio, X. C.
Secretary of Organized Class
n-in u. neosier, Asueuoro,
N. C.
Central Executive Committee
'Dr. C. C. Hubbaid, Chairman,
Worth ville;: Chas. Beasley, Ran
dleman; E. O. Yoik, Central Falls;
Wiley Waid, Asheboro; Prof. J. J.
Scarboro, Asheboro.
EXECUTIVE COM JIITTTEE.
Trinity Township J. W. Blair,
Arch dale.
New Market Township Mrs. B.
F. Ridge, Edgar.
Randleman Township Dr. W.
I. Sumner, Randleman.
Providence Township J. W..
Pugb, Esq., Millboro.
Liberty Township Geo. Smith,,
Liberty.
Columbia Township M. E..
Johnson, Hamseur.
Fraukliuville Township C. H.
Julian, Franklinvillf .
Asheboro Township J. O. Red
ding, Asheboro.
Back Creek Township J. C.
Bulla, Asheboro, R. F. D. No. 2.
, Tabernacle Township S. M.
Delk, Cox.
Concord Townhin f v Map.
gan, Jackson's Creek.
Cedar Grove Township Z. A.
Lewallen, Asheboro.
Grant Townshin .T .T Aiun
Kemp's Mills., ' . '
Coleridge Township L. E.
Brady, Cole's Store.
Piney Grove Township J. P.
Phillips, Arch.
Biower Townshin T. tp
Erect. ' '
Richland Townshin Prnf n P
Garner. Seaffrove. R. TV NV 1 .
Union Township S. N. Allen,
Aconite.
New Hope Township J. M. Var
ner, New Hope Academy.
Resolutions wsre adopted by the
convention expresning the appreci
ation of the body of the untiring
efforts of the retiring President,
Prof. J. M. Way, for the upbuild
ing of the Sunday School work in
the county.
DEATH OF ALVIN WINSL0W.
Sad Death at The Home of Mr A. VI-
tilow Monday Morning-.
Monday morning a gloom was
cast over Asheboro bv the inteli
geuce of the death of Alvin Winslow
which occurred at the home of his
father early that morning.
Mr. Winslow had been in ill health
for several mouths, having contract
ed consumption in the mines of
Mexico. He returned 1'roin Mexico
about five month-i ao. The de
ceased was 33 years old. his birth
jday being fuiir days before his
death- He is survived by his
Ins father, nintlieiy u.e I rother J. T.
Winslow, and two sisteis, Mesdames
. Alattie Lowe, and Ida I'm i lips, all of
wJioom live iu Asbi'boro. The de
ceased bus it host of nii'iuis Ashebo
ro and Ituudolph Co inty wno offer
sympathy to the b. '!; v -d family iu
! their deep sorrow. The funeral" was
j conducted at the M. K. church Tues
i day moruing. A Lrge number of
I friends from every section of the
county attended the funeral.
F.ducaUoua! Rally.
There will be a big Educational
Rally at Randleman next Saturday.
Hon. Ashley Horn and others will
make addresses. A large crowd is
expected.
The business bouses in Asheboro
will close every morning from 9:20
until 10:30 that everybody may
have the opportunity of attending
the levival now in progress at the
M. E. Church.
n V Rrnlnn W..A ,'11
spent yesterday in Asheboro.