Kansas City journal., 1898-03-07
COMMUNICATIONS.
That New God.

Ever since the time of Adam
Said to be the pioneer
OF the biped called human
On our little mundane sphere
Man has had a God to worship.
Love, to honor and adore.
But We walked up Monday morning.
Found the God head was no more;
Found that Christ, our loving Savior,
And the Holy Spirit. too.
Had departed-gone and left US,
And | wonder what we'll do.
No. 1 do not wonder either.
For the preacher who lost God,
Told US in his Sunday sermon
With a mighty knowing nod,
That we'd have to get q new one.
Make US one to suit our creeds:
One who's up to modern notions
Just adapted to our needs.
Not God like all our fathers
Loved 10 worship and obey,
But a really modern new God
We can worship tif We pay).
Not God. who through all ages.
Has inspired to noble acts.
But genuine scientific
New God based on real facts"
We're not told just how to make him,
Nor where we're going to get the stun.
But the preacher throws some hints out
Possibly they are enough
So we'll try to make a new one.
Every fellow for himself:
Make God not universal"
Set him right up on the shelf;
One that We can modify,
Move him when We want to sweep:
Or throw him out and get another
II We fnd he will not keep"
One who cannot hear our prayers"
But make US work little more.
Il am rather sorry, for this feature
Had enough to do before.)
Well. I've done my August duty.
Right in February. too.
But am afraid I'll have hot time
Fore ! get entirely through;
For I've got down where the preacher
Says the devils still on deck
Before We all get new Gods finished
He'll make US trouble. l expect.
was beginning to feel sorry
That tried to make God,
Till l read down where the preacher
with another knowing nod
Tells me I'm no small potatoes.
We're almighty men, says he.
(And / think he has a reference
To himself as well as me.)
Well. after all, I'm somewhat sorry
The dear old God is obsolete
The God the people so long worshiped.
Kneeling humbly at His feet.
Praising Him in times Of gladness,
Pleading with Him in distress;
Learning from His Word the secret
OF all human happiness.
For II God is gone. the Bible.
With its teaching, all Is wrong:
With its story of the Christ-life
And its books OF sacred song.
Christ Himself an old impostor
Didn't do bit of good.
Didn't furnish in His teachings
Any thought for human food.
Hold on! what is this I'm reading
In the column Just below?
Maybe there is something in II
That a person ought to know.
It's the story Of Hawaii.
A far-off island of the sea;
How a poor boy. Oborkiah,
Taught Of God and liberty:
Taught a people, who since Adam.
Lived and acted like wild beasts.
Not to fight and slay their fellows.
Using human flesh at feasts.
So where'er the works Of Jesus
Have been heralded on earth,
Men have, somehow, learned to love Him.
Found His words OF marvellous worth.
All, my brother. you're mistaken!
The God Jehovah is not lost.
The people do not need a new one
Who teaches that should count the cost
Tell not to widows and to orphans
There is no God to hear their cries:
That Christ the sympathizing Savior
Cannot dry their weeping eyes.
Do not take Him from the children;
Suffer them to go to Him.
Till you find a better pathway
You can safely lead them in.
All the world is growing better
For the lessons that He taught.
Though 1t may be true that sometimes
Truth has been with error fraught.
A. ". STUBB
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